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"Since when was the Church an Army?"
"Since most of your history. You've been living in a Blip."

I love that they went there.

She was transported against her will to a setting vastly different from the one she came from. I say it's close enough.

I just finished Velma Season 2.

I actually like this one a fair bit more than the first Season. Some of the jokes were really funny, the wokeness was less aggressive, and there were great references to the original show.

I'm actually hoping for a third season now, though that seems unlikely due to critical reception from the first Season.

Can someone explain to me why these protests are happening on Campuses?

Is it that College kids are the only ones naive enough to think they can influence global affairs on the other side of the planet, but they're too lazy to travel to City Hall so they just set up protests at their own Campus?

Or am I missing something in that educational institutions actually have some sort of influence over government decisions, so protesting the Colleges actually makes sense somehow?

Yeah, Johnson is very much a snake-in-the-grass. He likes to go in front of cameras and talk about how he puts his personal beliefs aside to represent his people and do what is best for the country, making himself sound like an entirely rational icon of everything a politician should be. But his actions belie his words. He never actually makes any sincere or productive efforts to further any cause that does not align with his extreme religious views, and the furtherment of his personal security and power.

I feel like Fallout works better as a TV show than it did as video games. The worldbuilding and storytelling was always the strong point of the games, with actual gameplay being clunky and often tedious.

I enjoyed the show, though some of the game elements didn't translate very well. In a world where stimpaks are a magical cure-all that is commonly available, it doesn't really make sense that so many people are bleeding out from stabs and gunshot wounds.

The stuff in Vault 4 left me very confused at first; I had to read a summary of the episode before some parts clicked. It didn't help that they were simultaneously exploring the Cult of Shady Sands and the Mutants, when the two were actually unrelated. But mostly the exposition describing the Mutant's past just wasn't handled in a way that was clear to me.

I do feel like the big reveal of the origin of the Vaults came a bit too soon. They could easily have pushed that back to Season 2, giving us something to look forward to. Now I have a hard time imagining how they'll keep things interesting moving forward, but hopefully they'll figure something out.

Original Intro

New Intro

Deadly weapon which you are somehow allowed to carry onto planes.