- Title: Fallout – The End
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Adapted from the post-apocalyptic video game series, the opening episode of Fallout gives us the end of the world and then what comes next. After a brief introduction to the world before nuclear annihilation, we jump to the late 23rd Century to spend most of the episode with Lucy (Ella Purnell), the daughter of Vault 33’s Overseer Hank MacLean (Kyle MacLachlan), and her life within 50s-style fallout shelter. While keeping specifics to a minimum, we know that the vaults were constructed to continue humanity’s survival (although we get allusions that there were more nefarious purposes as well).
Lucy’s wedding day bring a groom from another vault, or so the she thinks, only to discover the guests are raiders from the surface world. In the slaughter that ensues, Lucy’s father is kidnapped leaving all kinds of questions for the remaining inhabitants of the vault who, other than Lucy, seem more than fine with locking the doors and ignoring the outside world. Lucy, however, decides to journey out in the post-apocalyptic landscape in search of her father despite not knowing where to start.
The opening episode also provides less backstory for the series other two main characters in the cowboy turned Ghoul (Walton Goggins) we meet before the bombs are dropped who shows up at the end as a bounty-hunting mutant. We also get recruit (Aaron Moten) getting promoted to the rank of squire for the military cult obsessed with finding old technology. Both are now in search of a missing scientist who may hold answers for all three characters and they key to changing the world.
The most relatable character, it makes sense for so much of the first episode to focus on Lucy who can introduce us not only to the life withing the vault but who we can discover the outside world with through her eyes. However, the character that most ties together the various threads of the story is not Lucy but the Ghoul, although it will take a bit for that to be explained.
