The Ghoul of Fallout TV: How They Crafted the Perfect Character for Fallout Fans
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- Опубліковано 24 кві 2024
- Let's explore the fascinating character of The Ghoul from the Fallout TV series, portrayed by Walton Goggins. In this video, we explore why this character resonates so strongly with both new and long-time Fallout fans, examining his background, his role in the series, and what makes him so captivating. From his archetypal significance to his impact on the series' narrative, discover what makes The Ghoul a standout character.
⚠️Warning: This video contains spoilers for the TV show and potentially for the games. ⚠️
Whether you're a veteran fan or new to the Fallout universe, this video is for you!
The Naive, The Fool, and The Salty.
Can you imagine the horror and pain he felt while he was transitioning? His insides and outsides mutating and/or sloughing off as part of his flashback would be harsh, but a lot of people don't seem to understand what the Ghouls have been through, and the stuff they're made of to remain functional.
Another vibe I got from the scene where The Ghoul cut Lucy's finger off was that he was very intentionally juxtapositioning the way she bit his finger off like a savage (what she thinks he is at that point) vs him pulling out his knife and meticulously cutting off her finger to further rub in that the two of them are not so different.
What I love about the Ghoul is there's no question he's Bad Karma, but every act has a point and a purpose. He's not cruel for fun.
As a disenfranchised former conservative veteran Cooper Howard resonates with me and a bunch of my military buddies sooooo damn much. Not in the we want to be him sorta way, more in the we know that character development because we went through a version of it. We witnessed what we believe in evaporate because it was smoke and mirrors all along
I've heard people say that the ghoul saved dogmeat because it was a remnant of his pre-trauma good guy-ness. I've also heard it said he only revived the dog because he could use him to track the target. I think it was a combo. He used the practicality as a justification within his grey moral code to still be a "good person." Because he has no reason to be good within his current framework.
With the finger scene, she was talking about the golden rule before that, "do unto others as you would have done to you", in my opinion, he was showing her the reality of what she had just said. She took away a finger and he did to another what was done to him
You sound like a radical leftist who completely understood the project that was fallout. 😂😂😂 great video.
As a traumatized person with anxiety and CPTSD, I really appreciated the scene that showed Cooper's reaction to finding out about his wife. It felt like I was watching a real man going into that hell spiral of mind, the room spinning, fuzzy vision, can't focus or speak, dry mouth. Goggins is a master class in respectfully portraying trauma.
That finger scene was the first time he had respect for her. Up until that point she was putting up a mask to him, then she got angry and fought back. She showed her real fighting self to him- and he can respect that. Its not much respect. but its better than before.
The reason the Ghoul cut off her finger is because she was constantly saying “do unto others as you would have them do unto you (golden rule)”
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I've been talking about this with my wife, and I think the Ghoul really personifies one of my favorite George Carlin quotes: "If you scratch a pessimist you'll find there's a jaded optimist underneath."
The Ghoul might also be truly the KINDEST character in the entire show. Good puppers.
This show nails the tone. I'm starting to realize that simply looking at tone separates a lot of the bad live-action adaptations from the good ones.
Prolly the thing i like most about cooper that no one talks about is how he plays a Hollywood cowboy in his prewar life, but is such a spaghetti western archetype post war.
Ghoul: “It’s not my dog.”
I interpreted the cutting fingers scene as a confrontation of moral beliefs: Lucy is the naive optimist who views people as innately good (at this moment in the story anyway) and the Ghoul, after all the shit he has witnessed, believes people are truly wicked. It would make sense for him to call it an “honest exchange” as he believes that he triggered Lucy’s primal instincts.
Most of the reason the Ghoul works so well is the casting. Walton Goggins had always killed everything he's been in and has still been slept on somehow. I remember him most from The Shield and Justified.
I saw the Lucy/Cooper dynamic described as "Level 1 Lone Wanderer and Max Level Courier" and that really works for me. Such a good show!