Edited title. Sorry folks I do not have a week early access to the season finale.
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Here's a list of tons of leftist movies.
It’s been forever since I’ve watched any shows, but suddenly I’m intrigued
Overall it's very worth it and even, dare I say, based.
It is finally canonized that American capitalists in collaboration with the US Govt deliberately start the nuclear war for profit and an excuse for human experimentation.
It is implied this happens again because the NCR were too liberal to fight it and just rebuilt liberal democracy.
The Brotherhood of Steel is depicted as turbo-fascist zealots.
The Enclave have only really been teased as of the penultimate episode of season two.
Finally, and I cannot stress this enough, the show is worth watching entirely on the strength and aura of Walton Goggins' performance as The Ghoul.
Also the most recent episode is really starting to lean into the sort of major consequential, wacky, and morally grey sorts of choices the games hinged on.
Not so minor spoiler for S2E7
Lucy is faced with the question of whether it would be ethical to use invasive irreversible mind control implants to pacify the LegionHe is constantly aura farming every time he's on camera. The guy is extremely talented.
his performance in this is basically "what if uncle baby billy had all his skin melted off by a nuke, but grew a bigger brain in the process" and it fucking rules
Recently binge watch Justified and this motherfucker made me like a guy with a swastika tattoo (he does get it removed eventually)
Obviously fantastic in Justified.
He also played a trans woman on Sons of Anarchy, I didn't watch a lot of it (my partner did) but the character was surprisingly sympathetic and well done.
(He and the creator have said if they could do it over again, they should have used an actual trans woman.)
Am I the only one disappointed with his performance? He's a great actor. I love him. He's doing whats required for the show, with this big tropey caricature, but I don't think its particularly "good"
Ah, so it’s nonfiction? I thought this was going to be an escapist treat
Also the second time around it is heavily implied that Shady Sands was nuked by the uber-libertarian House because why compete in a fair market when you can just nuke potential regulators.
"I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards!" type shit. Of course chuds will still find a way to delude themselves over it since it seems like the only thing they can't recuperate is literal Swastika Arm Band NSDP imagery (though some still display it anyway because nothing fucking matters anymore).
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you think Hank is working for House rather than the Enclave?
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Yeah Hank feels more House than Enclave by farspoiler
possibly, his radio conversation when he first got to the big Vault-Tec HQ could have been trying to reach house but it was pretty ambiguous so could have just as easily been the enclave or someone else,However House was (in FNV anyways) was always primarily concerned with Vegas, and didn't necessarily want to destroy the NCR if they left Vegas untaxed and under his control, so imo blowing up Shady Sands in California seems more like an Enclave move than a House one(The enclave want to destroy all other power structures in the wasteland to become hegemon in north America at least, while House seems content with an 'independent Vegas')
Also in the last episode during Barb's flashback young hank circumvents Betty to sit in on the meeting with House's body double where he first presents the mind-control chip and is diligently taking notes, which seems more like the move of an Enclave spy trying to get as much info on what House is up to to pass up to his superiors than of someone already working for House
And the reveal at the end of this episode that the senator lady's(who was implied to either be enclave or a dupe for them) head was running the mainframe seems like another connection between Hank and the government/enclave
That said Hank's vibes are more business than government, I'll guess we'll see next episode or season
In new Vegas house wants to keep the ncr around in order to extract wealth from its citizens. It doesn't make sense for him to destabilise the wasteland.
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I must have missed this line - do you remember what was said that made you conclude that? What scene was it in?
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The NCR is nuked by Hank via Houses mind-control chip. I wouldn't say it's heavily implied, but it's a possibility
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Yeah I mean it was directly stated multiple times that it was Hank. I don't recall anyone mentioning House wrt that.::: spoiler spoiler
As I said: He uses houses chips.
All of the acting has been quite enjoyable. I’m loving the actors who play Norm and Betty, they sell me so well on their respective B plots.
Oh absolutely. I just have a huge crush on Goggins for some reason, he is captivating. But yes every single actor deserves recognition for how much clear love for the world they all obviously have. Lucy is fantastic, Maximus is perfect poor little guy and his volcel pledge. Thadeus the squire turned ghoul trying to buddy up to Goggins. Everything about this show is perfect. Even tons of fan service with nods to the first two. My big question now is:
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Is the supermutant a recurring character or possibly a character we have already seen as a human?
Jokes aside, this thread is making me want to check out the show which had I'd otherwise ignored so heck yeah.
Oh definitely watch it. It's by far my favorite current airing slop. And not just current, easily one of the best shows in the last 10 years, and I would argue ever.
The Boys is good in terms of social commentary but this just feels timeless. Obviously aided by it being rooted in the immediate post soviet collapse of a certain alt history. There is just, at risk of sounding pretentious, a sort of je ne sais quoi in the way it captures and distills the themes and moral quandries of the games while at the same time pointedly skewering capitalism and liberalism that really tickle me.
It's qualityslop
I'll check it out!
If you like watching things for the sake of Walton Goggins then I'd recommend you check out the righteous gemstones
Was actually thinking of watching that for that very reason lol
He's very good in it, though he doesn't really get much of a spotlight until season 2. The show itself is alright too.