In the first ep when we see Cooper in the filming studio, he was filming "the man from deadhorse" and he didn't want to kill the man. He fought against it - He wanted to arrest the man as he was 'a good man'. Watching it now, he sees what he WAS (a good man) and now he is the villain - he's UGLY and STRONG, but he lost his dignity. It also shows that he was 'acting' with Lucy - he could never have shot her - he doesn't have a trigger finger (you see him trying to 'fake shoot' at the TV and his glove doesn't move. It's a really layered moment and one of my faves! GREAT REACTION!

Loved your reactions to all episodes so far, but that comment about fussball-tournaments turning too competitive really made me chuckle since i thought the exact same thing when i first saw that scene, but until now i haven't seen a single reactor think the same thing, so thank you for that laugh 😂

Welcome back. Nice matching shirt-mug combo. 🙂 Very interesting subtext this episode. The Ghoul trying to prove to himself that you have to sacrifice your ethics to survive by 'breaking' Lucy. Only to have it reversed on him, and then on top of that, seeing himself at the point where he first compromised his own ethics by shooting the villain in the movie. Always remember in this show - things have reasons, even if they're not obvious. The Mr Handy has a caduceus on its side and took her to the first aid room. He was the medbot for the super duper mart following his original programming to heal before the new organ-harvesting hack. You've already seen Lucy toughen through the metaphor of the finger. Keep an eye out for the fate of Lucy's original finger. And always remember - Ass jerky don't make itself. 😏

The Super Duper Mart in Fallout 3 is your first major "dungeon". The loot you get there helps boost you through a lot of exploration afterwards. Remember that robots like Mr. Handy are simple intelligences following their programming to the letter. They aren't true A.I. Mr. Handy re-attached a finger for Lucy because someone made that a priority to tranquilizing her. You'll have to ask the machine's last user about his directive priorities, lol.

When the lady in Filly mentioned her having all ten fingers... that was definitely a foreshadow. And then when she has the dead finger put onto her she gained a piece of the wasteland. And yes he put the finger on her so she would be in mint condition.

In the last scene, I think he's telling himself that he's "ugly, strong but no dignity." He didn't even want to kill the man in the movie, but now he's a ruthless mother f.

I think the current assumption is that since the show takes place after all the games, the medicine in the vials the ghouls take to keep from going feral is a recent invention. Pretty cool to think that medical advancements _that significant_ are still being made in the post-apocalypse.

We've seen attempts to use chems to stave off turning feral since Necropolis in Fallout 1, and a few other times since.

Congrats on 1K.

I’m fine with the anti-feral chem. We still don’t know WHY ghouls go feral, it’s possible not all of them do… the chem could easily just be some combination of StimPak and RadAway that repairs the damage to the brain temporarily. There was a doctor in Fallout 3 working on an anti-feral drug.

Hey, great to see you back ❤

Steph and Chet are not related in anyway, say I from the future. Lucy's high luck stat scores again. Lucy levels up and gets herself an armored vault suit. Love Norm, he is getting answers.

The surprise on my face when I first saw Coop "of mice and men" that ghoul, this show is so good. Edit: props to snip-snip, he stole the show.

I am fine with the anti-feral chem. The show needs some form of explanation and not everything will fit 100%. It could be whatever the one ghoul took to become a ghoul. The one potential continuity error, however, I just noticed during this interaction was that the Ghoul pulled his gun on Lucy to force her into the SuperDuperMart and it appears he was using the trigger finger she bit off.

Imagine needing that drug for 200 years, in a society with no digital currency, and the primary unit, a bottle cap, is itself both huge, and not worth much. He can't just stockpile caps; that would be nearly physically impossible. So he has been just doing bounties like 24-7-365, for 200 years, barring when they buried him alive.

You wonder if Roger is as old as Cooper? Roger said it's been 28 years since he first started showing signs of becoming a ghoul. Cooper was probably in his 40s in 2077 when the bombs went off, now in the time where he is the ghoul it has been 219 years. I think there is something more with Cooper/the Ghoul and what has been keeping him going so long. No, Stephanie and Chet are not related. Steph is from vault 31, and yes, she seems to have an agenda. As it's been said from other commentors on other channels, Snip Snip is a medical Mr. Handy, and he is just running his program from primary to secondary. He first heals then because the two humans who run the Super-Duper Mart probably hacked his programming, he carries out the secondary function. About that chemical, I am not sure this isn't a red herring because it isn't in any of the other games that I know of. As far as its makeup I'm guessing that it has RadAway, RadX, possible other chemicals along with extracts from either human or non-feral ghouls' adrenal glands.

"She's not very smart, is she?" Because she didn't know about something she'd literally never seen or heard about before, save one quick thing that wasn't explained to her? Wow.