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I know Westworld fell apart, but the same folks doing Fallout also did Person of Interest, which had one of the strongest conclusions I've seen from a TV show. So there's a mixed track record involved but reason for hope they stick the landing here.

#fallout 2024 #fallout tv

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Getting overly wrapped up in shipping wars or on people shipping the "wrong" thing is silly, reducing all of your enjoyment with a TV show to shipping is silly... but so is acting like caring about a character's relationships and how they play out and if they play out in ways that are true to their characterization can't ever be a part of "legitimate" character analysis lol. That's a part of character writing! That's a thing that writers of TV, books, movies, video games, etc. spend a lot of time thinking about, planning out, wanting to make convincing. It's not a wholly separable thing. A big part of how "characterization" is defined is through characters' relationships with other characters, and that includes romantic and sexual relationships.

If people are doing the last activity from the first sentence there, and you're dismissing it as "just caring about shipping," then you are the one who is being silly and shallow in that situation.

#romance #canon romance writing and fandom shipping are both about love stories #but serve very different goals! #even when they overlap they serve different goals

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I killed a lot of people, Eve.

I know.

#killing eve #villaneve #wlw art

[mswyrr]

Giving her his back was acknowledging she had the right to kill him if she wanted.

That's why he made her walk out ahead with her back to him when he was being an asshole.

He reversed it by letting her have his back and the choice of what to do with him.

#vaultghoul #fallout meta #cooper howard #lucy maclean #fallout 2024 #fallout tv

[mswyrr]

I was re-watching fallout (as you do) and in the beginning when Lucy is introducing herself, she says she loves taking walks and watching movies with her dad - who we now know is a biiiig fan of Westerns, and a certain actor in particular. It cuts to the TV:

Now wait a minute. That looks kinda familiar 🧐 ... Coop, is that you?

Then in episode 3 we get this:

can confirm what we all were thinking is true: Lucy watched Cooper Howard movies with her dad 😂

I can't wait until she finds out lol

#omggg #lucy maclean #cooper howard #fallout 2024 #fallout tv

[mswyrr]

lucy gray baird

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #lucy gray baird #fanart

[mswyrr]

there’s so much pathologizing over why enemies to lovers is a popular trope (something something the normalization of abuse something something) when the simplest and less moronic answer is that narratives thrive on irony and reversals, and there’s no greater irony than characters going from hating each other’s guts to loving each other unconditionally. raw thesis-antithesis-synthesis.

#enemies to lovers #it's about the Drama and transformation

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Here's the full glory of the "I'm not like other ghoulfuckers" post

"Hotter ghouls with better morals" 😂 this is comedy gold

#some anti bullshit

[mswyrr]

"Hotter ghouls with better morals" 😂 this is comedy gold

#some anti bullshit

[mswyrr]

obsessed with their failmarriage

#fallout 2024 #cooper howard #barb howard #fallout tv #fanart

[mswyrr]

They don't mean Barb to be an unsympathetic figure but rather a tragic one - that was my interpretation of the season and esp of them giving her the first "war never changes" line (which Cooper then echoes) and this explanation of that choice supports that for me

And then having Cooper echo it 200 years later - she despaired first and then he did too

#barb howard #cooper howard #fallout 2024 #fallout tv #fallout meta

[mswyrr]

#katniss everdeen #the hunger games

[mswyrr]

The video games to prestige TV pipeline has now given me not one but two sad girl dad cowboys with a talent in the arts

#joel miller #cooper howard #fallout tv #fallout 2024 #the last of us hbo #I bet you Cooper can sing too - the type of goody-goody cowboy his character is based on #like Gene Autry and Roy Rogers #always sang

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FALLOUT 1x02

#fallout tv #fallout 2024 #maximus fallout

[mswyrr]

The Fallout show was brilliant for ensuring that each member of its primary trio experienced their own personal "End of The World." For Cooper it was the great war, for Lucy it was her marriage day turning into a bloodbath, and for Maximus it was his hometown being destroyed.

Each of these characters come from different "worlds" but all were made into something new by their own apocalypse.

#fallout meta #fallout 2024 #fallout tv #maximus fallout #cooper howard #lucy maclean

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The most annoying people ever: DNI if you ship Lucy with the ghoul. that’s immoral. How could you like that Bad Man? 😭

Lynda Carter:

#lmfao #cooper howard #fallout 2024 #fallout tv

[mswyrr]

D/s vaultghoul scenario, what if Mr House has made a rule that a ghoul can't enter the Las Vegas Strip without being leashed? ... you know, see how he likes the role reversal 😏

Most ghouls are there for sex work and this realization (that people see them and think she's a pimp) is very unsettling to her - not the least of which because he finds the entire scenario unexpectedly delightful as a way to needle her.

And then at some point when they need caps he suggests he could work for it and once she realizes what he's offering she's like "no, you're my responsibility and...(involuntarily gripping the leash tighter) nothing bad is going to happen to you!"

He would be annoyed at her hysterics over a little honest sex work (this wouldn't be his first rodeo) but it's really cute how possessive she's being.

#vaultghoul