This is a blueprint that future game adaptations are likely to emulate.
One of the show’s greatest strengths is its writing.
A few of them also reference the games but with a fresh spin.
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Here are the best quotes from the first season, ranked.
10"Well, maybe not, but I’m gonna make myself welcome."
The writers also hand him many of the most darkly humorous lines, like this one.
He has a ton of cockiness, borne of his relative invulnerability.
This line also speaks to his willpower and confidence in his own abilities.
Howard doesn’t ask for permission: hemakeshis will reality, something he demonstrates time and again this season.
It’ll be fascinating to see where his character goes - and perhaps changes - in future seasons.
9It is a knights duty to better this fallen world."
- Maximus
Episode 2 was a pivotal one for Maximus(Aaron Moten).
“You don’t deserve that armor,” Maximus says, before donning it himself.
This quote from Maximus is well-phrased and could easily become iconic.
(One can imagine it on a tattoo, for example.)
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8"You come from a world of rules, of laws.
This place is indifferent to all of that."
It’s a dog-eat-dog world, where being in the right is no shield against murder and mayhem.
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7"If you only let the bad guys use it, the bad guys win."
She expresses this directly in this quote.
She’s referring to violence, saying that the forces of good must also use it when necessary.
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6"I ain’t torturing you, sweetheart, I’m using you as bait."
It’s an action-packed scene, boasting great camerawork, memorable creature design, and solid performances.
The cherry on top is Howard’s quip that he’s not deliberately tormenting Lucy.
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He’s just risking her life to get the monster’s attention.
It also reveals a little about his character.
Thus, he’s not a true villain, but simply the quintessential wasteland survivor.
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5"Flesh is weak, but steel endures."
Perhaps theFalloutwriters unconsciously drew on this inspiration.
In other words, theFalloutquote sounds hardcore, while also having an interesting origin.
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4"War never changes."
This line crops up multiple times in the games.
In fact, it’s the opening line of the first game’s narration, memorably uttered byRon Perlman.
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“War never changes” refers toFallout’s cynical view of human nature.
Though times change and society takes on radically different forms, humanity’s essential selfishness and brutality are eternal.
The quotes refer back to the conflicts of the past as well as the battles to come.
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3"Theres a lot of money in selling the end of the world."
- Lee Moldaver
Another gem of wisdom from Moldaver, this time about those who profit from doomsday.
However,the line also has broader significance, both in the show and the real world.
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Indeed, people have long used the threat of apocalypse and calamity for their own ends.
After all, in the face of annihilation, even the most extreme acts are justified.
Yet again,Fallouttouches on a depressing and all-too-real part of human nature.
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She’s determined to continue to do what’s right, even when it’s not in her interest.
Indeed, it’ll be interesting to see how this line plays out.
It might turn out to be ironic.
Will Lucy become a Ghoul too?
Could she become a villain?
Or will Howard redeem himself and become a hero once more, thus making him like Lucy?
1"Everyone wants to save the world, they just… they disagree on how."
Fortunately, the show compensates with several great interactions between Lucy and Maximus, who cross paths here.
Generally, conflict arises not because people are evil but because they have differing visions of the good.
This applies to the show, as well as real life.
Maximus, for example, does this when he leaves Titus to die.
