#REALLY enjoyed the snake oil salesman in this ep tho i thought he was weird at first but he grew on me like a toe fungus

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also yeah sorry I kind of do have an issue with the sort of double fakeout of vault 4, I'm definitely not against the idea of a vault like that where they can maintain a genuinely fairly peaceful society despite the way the vault was designed, but idk I feel like it's a weird move because it means that Lucy's blind optimism towards vaults is right, even if she still learns about the concept of the vaults being experiments. so she's kinda had the seed planted but she hasn't actually learned anything because in the end the people in the vault really did mean them no harm, even if their origins weren't what she thought they were. but they implied SO HARD that the vault was evil in a bunch of different ways - I thought we were gonna find out they were drugging Max's food or some shit, not to MENTION the part where they all drank from a bowl of blood of some kind at the weird cult thing - and it was all for nothing because they were actually just nice. like again I'm not against this as a vault concept especially in a game (as a gamer you go in expecting the vault to be as fucked up as all the other ones you've seen, you see some shit and maybe even start shooting only to discover your initial impression was wrong) but I don't really care for the way the plot twist untwisted, even if as a fan of the franchise I would have seen it coming if the vault just was evil. the only vaults we've seen are 33 and 32! the average viewer doesn't necessarily know that all vaults are experiments on unknowing subjects, and I really can't imagine this was the best way to find out. maybe I'd've called it predictable if they had to fight their way out or something instead but idk, as it is they spend the better part of the episode building up how ominous and scary this vault is and then when they finally have Lucy restrained they just... explain that well yeah the vault was built this way but we don't do that anymore and then they fake it out AGAIN with the fake execution and THEN they don't even REALIZE max has the fusion core!!! so that also amounts to nothing (until they get out of the vault- I didn't have an issue with how they handled it after it was clear they got away with it, I just don't think max necessarily SHOULD have gotten away with it, or at least it seems like someone ought to have made the connection)