The Fallout showrunners break down Lucy’s decision in the Season 1 finale, explaining how it paves the way for the next season.
The final decision of Lucy in Fallout sparked more than one question in the public’s mind. Appreciated TV series taken from the post-apocalyptic video game saga of the same name, it introduced a first cycle of episodes set in a world where civilization has been wiped out by a nuclear war. Survivors on the surface had to live with the consequences of life in the Contaminated areawhile the most advantaged were able to hide in the valuables Vault deluding themselves that they can rebuild America. In one of the final scenes of the first season, Lucy (Ella Purnell) decides to follow The Ghoul despite their turbulent pasts. Why did she make this decision, leaving Maximus behind? An answer, albeit indicative, comes from the showrunners.
Fallout: Why does Lucy follow The Ghoul and what can we expect now?
Graham Wagner And Geneva Robertson-Dworetshowrunner of Fallout, tried to make sense of the decision Lucy made near the end of the first season. Once the truth about her father is discovered through Moldaver’s stories, the young heroine is in crisis, which is why she decides to accept the Ghoul’s proposal (Walton Goggins) to follow him on a new adventure. The showrunners motivated that decision in an interview with GQ, also anticipating what this turn of events says about what will happen in the second season. Lucy is hurt, deceived by one of the most important people in the world to her. After learning the truth about the surface world and her father’s role in all that destruction, Lucy wants more answers and above all she wants to make a difference. According to Wagner, it is important for audiences to evaluate more than one interpretation of history, both what happened in the Wasteland and in the pre-war world. Robertson-Dworet, however, focuses on Lucy’s choice:
What exactly are yours precise motivation is something we’re very excited to delve into in Season 2, but I would never underestimate Lucy’s curiosity as a motivation that comes from deep within. Even though she sets out to find her father in the first episode, she also wants to know what’s outside that door. At the same time, over the course of the season, she learned that everything she thought about the world, about her bunker, was wrong. She was deceived. And she learned this in the most emotional way possible in those final moments. The Ghoul seems to know much more about this world than she does. There’s a certain amount of “I want to understand, I don’t want to go home.” In a way, it’s a mirror image of the first episode.
Graham Wagner underlined in turn that he would not take Lucy’s curiosity lightly as the driving force behind his decisions, but neither would he Ghoul cynicism. Robertson-Dworet, regarding the Ghoul, also added:
“War never changes” has always been for him the greatest symbol of cynicism in the ending. When he hears Barb say that, when he was Cooper Howard, he doesn’t agree with that philosophical idea. But when he becomes The Ghoul and looks at that wasteland, he really means it, so that’s a big change. We’re excited to follow this new path in season two.
