a big twist thats insane/absurd halfway the show. Some reviewers seem to love it, and some seem to hate it.

They are aliens or something awful like that. Ep 3 had some hints at weirdness

goggins doesn't loot the corpses - goes out for the cool hero exit when in reality he has nothing on him right now and it would have been a great callback to the video games

the vault:

they don't do nearly enough the vaults and raiders

how is it possible that another vault they were physically connected to wouldn't have more robust communications and more regular interactions and trades?

like i get wanting to keep them separated to keep things like crop blight and disease contained during breakouts as well as keep their own autonomy, but as they are literally connected, they certainly should be communicating often enough that if the neighboring vault had collapsed then people

like are you telling me those raiders gained access to 32, stayed there for months just to communicate with 33 and wait until 33 had a marriage proposal - something which clearly doesn't happen very frequently and then all they do is kill a bunch of people what's clearly a poorly planned out and executed situation, take a few hostages (which they didn't need to do, they already were in control and didn't need to negotiate anything) ask the leader to choose the hostages or his daughter, but then he seems to choose his daughter but then the hostages are let go anyway

then they just take the dad and set off a bomb for reasons?

and then when they have follow up scenes showing the cleanup and aftermath, they don't even address the bomb or even try to explain what happened

it makes zero sense for the raiders to invest that much time and risk their own lives just to get a nice meal and then leave, they could have had the nice meal all the same without the murder

and they make a point that the vault life is so much better than life up above, but then decide to leave, importantly, leave empty handed, they are not carting out goods and food with them, they are leaving without each carrying bags nor backpacks

so it's clearly all about capturing the dad and there's clearly some backstory there, but no way you're telling me a group of surface people go through all that effort, lose the lives of several of their colleagues to do so, and then only take the dad when they were literally in a position to take everything they wanted, they could have even taken over the entire vault

just makes no sense and it's stupid

brotherhood stuff is great, i like how we don't know for certain whether he sabotaged his friend (but likely it was him) and just everything about them makes sense and is presented reasonably