#frederick sinclair

[breckstonevailskier]

Frederick Sinclair's true colors were shown during the TV series

Among the other named business oligarchs we see in attendance at the Vault-Tec meeting in the final episode of season 1, besides Robert House, is Frederick Sinclair. He's representing Big Mountain.

Those who played the Dead Money DLC for Fallout: New Vegas will recognize Sinclair, as he's the guy who constructed the Sierra Madre Resort & Casino at which the DLC's events take place.

However, some fans have felt that there's a discrepancy between how Sinclair is depicted here vs. the image of him we are given from reading terminal entries and looking at murals around the Sierra Madre.

For instance, Dead Money and Old World Blues have it stated that Sinclair is just a client of Big MT, whereas the TV series has him serving as Big MT's representative at this meeting.

Another point of contention is how Sinclair's physical appearance and personality in the TV show is very different from how it is depicted in Dead Money. In Dead Money, Sinclair is portrayed as a suave man of average weight with brown hair and a mustache (albeit only on pre-War murals), and has a much more youthful and regretful personality. But the TV series makes him older, portly, and very crass.

We have remarks made by Dead Money's project director Chris Avellone where he felt that Sinclair's physical appearance on-screen "didn't really mesh with his appearance in the Sierra Madre."

However, I'd argue that we're not seeing any retcons at all, and nothing about Sinclair's presence at the meeting contradicts what we learn about him from Dead Money. In fact, if anything, his presence in the show informs a lot of the backstory we learned in Dead Money.

Sinclair's foreknowledge:

One thing that is clearly noted from reading terminal entries and a few journal entries, is that Sinclair clearly believed that a nuclear war was imminent:

Now that we know he was at this meeting to collaborate with Vault-Tec, we understand why he felt this way: much like Mr. House, he had foreknowledge. That's why he built the Casino like a fortress. That's why he invested in technology like the Vending Machines, the holograms, and the Auto Docs.

Sinclair and the Cloud:

Sinclair almost went broke in the process of procuring the Vending Machines and the holograms for the Sierra Madre. To compensate, he permitted Big MT to conduct some experiments in the Villa. One of the experiments that Big MT did at the Villa was put an airborne toxin in the Villa's shoddy ventilation system, and then pump it out to see what would happen. This put several construction workers out of commission due to the effects it had on them, and is ultimately the source of the Cloud. To deal with the problem, Sinclair negotiated with Big MT to procure hazmat suits for the workers to go in and try and find where the Cloud had originated from. Unbeknownst to Sinclair, the hazmat suits were intentionally designed poorly, such that the users were exposed to the Cloud and also found themselves getting trapped in the suits (and could only be freed by having someone else cut them out with a Cosmic knife). These two experiments combined are what led to the construction crew becoming the Ghost People who inhabit the Villa.

While terminal entries in Old World Blues suggest that Sinclair didn't know about the Cloud being a Big MT experiment, the TV show makes me think that actually, he DID know. When the executives begin tossing out ideas for vault experiments, listen to the second idea that Sinclair pitches: he proposes a vault where psychotropic drugs are pumped into the air supply (which was ultimately implemented in Vault 106 out in the Capital Wasteland). That's an experiment that's very similar to the Cloud experiment, which involved an airborne toxin being pumped out of a ventilation system. Perhaps Sinclair knew exactly what the Cloud was, and its true origins, and this discovery was still fresh in his mind at the time of the meeting with Vault-Tec.

Sinclair's relationship with Vera Keyes:

Sinclair's depiction as an old and crass businessman does change the nature of his relationship to Vera Keyes. If the Sierra Madre murals of Sinclair are taken at face value...

...he comes off like a middle aged man in love with someone close to him in age, who was very heartbroken by finding out she was an unwitting accomplice to Dean Domino's plans to rob from him.

But with his depiction in the show, his relationship with Vera looks a lot different. Instead of being this middle aged man pining for a woman close to him in age, he's an old man who's obsessed with a young starlet at least 40 years his junior (information on Vera suggests she was in her late 20s when the Gala Event took place, and Sinclair looks to be in his late 60s/early 70s).

Him being an old man also makes a lot of sense when one considers his relationship to Dean Domino. Dean Domino was probably in his early to mid-60s in 2077 (going off Barry Dennen's age at the time that Dead Money was being developed), so close in age to Sinclair. It makes it more believable that Sinclair would've readily trusted Dean regarding Vera and the Villa construction, and thus be blinded to the truth that Vera was Dean's accomplice in the scheme to rob the vault, and also not be aware that Dean was profiting from Mr. Yesterday's scheme to cheat Sinclair by intentionally constructing the Villa with subpar building materials.

There's also these lines from Dean's dialogue regarding Sinclair and Vera that make a lot more sense when you know Sinclair is an old man:

"Ghost in name and image. Still a looker, though. Got to hand it to Sinclair, sure can pick 'em. Well, or get picked. Whichever."

"Vera was a big star, back before the Bomb. Not the best actress, but… well, she had other talents. Nice voice, nice legs. For some reason, Sinclair... he built this place... she caught his eye. Once he was hooked, that was it, had to have her. So made the introductions, and guess what? He builds this place for her, like some kind of Cleopatra obsession. Wasn't always a deathtrap."

And:

Courier: "Why did you need [Vera]?"

Dean: "Because she could get closer to Sinclair than I ever could. Sinclair was already puppy-eyed, so all I had to do was the introductions. She smiled, fluttered her eyes, showed a little leg ...and he built this whole place for her. Made her the key to his vault, like a joke, cause of her name. Her fake Hollywood name. Except Sinclair didn't know I'd been there first. I could twist her whatever direction I wanted."

With that age gap in mind, coupled with his foreknowledge of Vault-Tec's plans, it also makes a lot of sense why Sinclair would build the Casino like a fortress, as he came to value Vera more than anything else in his life. He probably viewed her as the one thing he didn't want to lose when the Great War broke out. It's also understandable why he'd be so devastated to learn about Vera's betrayal and turn the vault into a death trap for her and Dean, though eventually came to regret this (and ultimately died trying to undo the trap).

Additional thoughts:

Regarding the discrepancy in Sinclair's involvement with Big Mountain, I think it's safe to say that he might've actually invested a lot of money into buying a controlling stake in Big MT in order to get them to install the Vending Machines, the holograms, the Auto Docs, and all the other technologies that went into the Sierra Madre. That's my explanation at least for why he'd be the person sent to represent Big MT when Vault-Tec reached out seeking to collaborate with them on the vault experiments.

My opinion as to why the murals depict Sinclair as a young man is because he's rather vain. He was pretty suave way back when, but whereas House has largely retained his good looks up until 2077, Sinclair is now old, balding and fat.

It's worth noting that Cooper Howard has an indirect connection to Sinclair and Dean Domino, as he once starred in a movie with Vera.

...and considering a number of Season 2 set leaks have established that we'll be seeing flashbacks of Las Vegas before the Great War, I think there's a strong chance we'll get to see Cooper interact with Vera and Dean. Dean was very much present in Las Vegas at the time, as evidenced by some of his dialogue and the pre-War posters of him that can be found on loading screens and at a few locations on the Strip in the main game. So maybe Cooper will get to interact with the two of them as they were before Vera died and Dean became a ghoul.

And if they canonize Dean surviving Dead Money (which happens if you didn't bruise his ego while recruiting him), maybe Lucy and Cooper will get to interact with him when they get to New Vegas as his ending slides suggest that that's where he goes after he leaves the Sierra Madre.

I think that Vault-Tec invited Big MT to the table because they also wanted access to the same technologies Sinclair was installing in the Sierra Madre. The Vending Machines and the Auto Docs are pieces of technology that would definitely be useful to have in a Vault, especially when the Vaults are supposed to be self-sustaining.

[dloeza]

[artbyblastweave]

Frederick Sinclair is a really interesting foil to Mr. House. I mean you start digging into this and it's just parallel after parallel after parallel. Start at the high level. House sinks inordinate amounts of resources into saving the city of Las Vegas - not the people, but the city- from nuclear destruction; as long as the stage endures, he can get anyone to wear the costumes. Sinclair sets up an entirely new "community" totally off-the-grid for the sake of protecting one woman, plasters that place with her likeness. House is a visionary with a 200-year action plan to rebuild society in his image, bootstrap space exploration, and construct an interplanetary empire; Sinclair sank everything he had into building the most secure facility possible for a woman who he knew was terminally ill anyway, just to ensure that her last few years lived in the aftermath of the nuclear apocalypse would be as comfortable as possible- there's a fundamental pessimism baked into what he was doing. Both House and Sinclair relied heavily on automated defensive systems and cutting-edge, esoteric technologies to accomplish their ends, but House built his power base on proprietary robotics and computing technology, much of which he personally designed- an outgrowth of his policy of never widening his circle any more than he absolutely has to. Sinclair, in his naive techno-optimism, outsourced his utopia, grabbing flashy third-party technologies like a kid in a candy store- opening a backdoor for the Think Tank to poison his city and ultimately getting everyone at the Gala Event killed when the holograms malfunctioned and went berserk.

Their management styles are inverse. House allows countless abuses to occur under his aegis because he subscribes to a libertarian-when-convenient philosophy where he doesn't much care what the little people do as long as he gets his cut and they don't rock the boat too much- a hands-off approach that fosters resentment amongst his subordinates, lets the White Gloves and Omertas get up to untold levels of fuckery while Freeside languishes and Benny conspires against him. Sinclair, by contrast, had a sincerely-held utopian-straight-edge safety-first micromanagement approach built into the very bones of the casino, he appeared to genuinely give a shit about the safety of the construction crew on the villa, and he was well-liked by nearly everyone who had any direct contact with him- and yet untold horrors also went down under his aegis, because his myopic focus on building the vault for Vera let Dean Domino and the Think Tank run circles around him, good intentions be damned. Their respective interpersonal dispassion and obsession are on display in how they react to betrayal. House's tone never rises above exasperation when it comes time to clean house of Benny, the Omerta Leadership and the White gloves; he treats them as problems to be solved, gears that are slightly out of alignment; By contrast, when Sinclair learns that Dean and Vera have been playing him, he channels the monomaniacal energy he previously directed towards protecting Vera towards the goal of building the perfect poetic-ironic death trap for her and Dean.

There are some other parallels in their personal lives. For one thing they both trusted a pastiche of a 40s lounge singer a lot more than they should have. They both tried to digitize, immortalize their girlfriends- and the discrepancy in how they went about it is telling. House's recreation of Jane isn't terribly robust, and in terms of House's overall project she's an afterthought. She's more a sock-puppet than a person, a sanded-down copy of a woman who died forever-and-a-half ago, forever agreeable, never saying no. Convenient. Only the most superficial visual elements preserved- an illustration of her face on a robotic chassis. Sinclair was obsessive in recreating Vera, preserving her likeness. It's all over the villa, her hologram is everywhere, her voice is everywhere. The terminal in the lightwave lab in Old World Blues reveals that he was still obsessed with getting her hologram right even after the love curdled into hate. All of it a monument to the real woman, and yet in all of it the real woman is still lost, buried under the mythologized projection. He didn't respect the real person enough to let her know that she was dying. A total failure of preservation from the opposite direction. (Except in the suites, where you can hear her very authentic dying pleas.)

You find both of them in their basements. House only looks a little better than Sinclair, but he's got much more of a voice in the narrative. He took steps to make sure he'd be around to tell you what he thinks about everything, fine-tuned the voice with which he speaks to the world, the face he presents. It matters to him that he gets to tell his own story. We find out a lot about House, from House; but for the kind of figure that he is, a shocking amount of what we learn about Sinclair comes from other people, people who knew him or wrote about him. The only image of him you can find is a downplayed element of a larger mosaic. The two documents you find that're written from his perspective have been buried for 200 years, and they're yards from his corpse. And the more recent of the two is an apology. I mean admittedly at the point where he wrote that apology Sinclair was personally turbofucked regardless. If the cloud didn't get him the holograms would have, or the radiation, or, or, or. You can read some level of ego into what he did in the face of that. But however futile it was, he died in the specific way that he did because he recognized that he'd done something awful, and he was trying everything he could think of to correct it. Somehow I find it very hard to imagine House doing either of those things- admitting fault or putting skin of his own in the game to make it right.

[cakbanedraws]

Tales of Sierra Madre

[katrinahood]

Frederick Sinclair here is a well-to-do Scotsman who is the father of my MOTP player character, Katrina Sinclair.

[bellonathedragonborn]

I’m playing Dead Money again and I really want to know something…

WHAT possessed the Tv show people to make Sinclair an old chubby guy who was in on the end of the world as a rep for the people he bought stuff from???

Why’d they do him so dirty. He was a humanitarian that was to trusting. Then the show does THAT.

[thecouncilreturns]

why is there such a lack of House and Sinclair content PLEASE I’m begging writers and artists to make more for those two

[breckstonevailskier]

Hank isn't going to New Vegas. He's going to Big Mountain or the Sierra Madre. My money is on Sierra Madre. The scary part about Hank is that he seems like our player characters dad James, in Fallout 3 at first glance- but deep down that man is Father Elijah. It only seems fitting he'd have his grubby little heart set on the Sierra Madre's replicators and weaponizable gas clouds. I hope Christine, Dog/God and Dean Domino are there to make that difficult for him.

They made a point of featuring Sinclair during the roundtable meeting, and House making a dig at him over the state of the Sierra Madre, so they've certainly laid the foundations for Hank to go there. (Plus, Cooper might know Dean; he did work with Vera on a movie according to the poster for Under the Covers.)

And the Cloud certainly seems like the kind of weapon that Hank would want to use to ensure the eradication of Wasteland life in the name of Vault-Tec's goals.

It will be revealed that the Brotherhood of Steel has been fully infiltrated by Caesars Legion and the Elder is a former Frumantari.

There's already hints that this could be the case. The red and gold Brotherhood insignia does bear to mind the red and gold banners of the Legion. As does the fact that only a handful of Brotherhood characters don't have Roman-sounding names. And Elder Quintus does say a few things that could be indicative of him being a former legate:

His words when dispatching the knights. "Our mission comes from the highest clerics in the Commonwealth. It is believed that a denizen of the Enclave has escaped. And that he has with him an object... of profound potential... to harm our nation or to save it. Each knight in this legion will search a section of the Wilds for this target." I don't recall there ever being a Brotherhood chapter that proclaimed themselves to be a nation state akin to the NCR...but the Legion would consider themselves one (since they controlled Arizona).

His leeway towards Maximus allowing Titus to die and assuming his identity does admittedly bring to mind some of the Legion's views on promotion (in particular the incident in Vulpes Inculta's backstory where he was promoted by Caesar for an act of insubordination that others wanted him crucified for).

"We once ruled the Wasteland… and yet power is taken, not given. A lesson you seem to have learned. So, if what you say is true, and you can lead us to the relic, then together, you and I, we will take power. And with it, we will start a new Brotherhood. With me as its head, and the likes of you as its sword. Your entire life, you've been looking for a home. Build one with me."

Vulpes could still be around if he didn't die amidst the Second Battle of Hoover Dam. We don't know the full details of the Brotherhood's takeover of Filly and how they went about it, but it could've been carried out using similar tactics to what Vulpes used to carry out the Nipton Lottery.

The NCR is still around (obviously) and they're still maintaining an embassy on the strip and the brass cares less about Shady Sands than they do Hoover Dam and that's the major disconnect between the top and bottom. The NCR is one bad interaction with Freesiders away from falling apart completely.

This would explain the anti-NCR graffiti visible on the Atomic Wrangler billboard in those leaked set photos.

Thaddeus becomes a Super Mutant instead of a Ghoul. Time will tell if he's a smart one or a dumb one. We've never seen anyone use FEV like that. I'm betting he'll be a super mutant like Virgil, same mind and very aware of how cumbersome his existence is- I don't think he'll be stupid like a commonwealth super mutant. But time will tell if it makes him crazy like Tabitha or Lily- or worse, Dog/God. It's also a toss up to see if he remembers who he was before. Maybe not at first but it comes back to him.

The only reason anyone thinks Thaddeus might be becoming a ghoul is because that's what Maximus thinks, and it's been shown Maximus isn't exactly book smart.

With Lucy and Cooper headed for the Mojave Wasteland, I could see them encountering Thaddeus if he's fled to Jacobstown.

Since we know Novac is part of season 2 the question remains if there are two former NCR snipers taking shifts in Dinkys mouth. Probably yes and introducing those characters is where we get the exposition that will get us up to speed about what happened with Caesars Legion and the NCR.

Of the Novac characters, Boone is almost certainly going to make an appearance.

Hopefully also Arcade Gannon will be around. Not to pigeon hole him into being our favorite gay guy in the video game post apocalypse but Murray Bartlett as Arcade Gannon please! We deserve to forget Zachary Levi was ever involved. Really all I ask is that he's there and he's played by someone who is actually gay.

If we're going to see more of the Enclave, in particular the results of their experimentation on dogs at the facility Wilzig fled from, Arcade would be great for expositing to Lucy and Cooper about the Enclave's work with harnessing control of deathclaws for use as battle creatures.

I don't think Norm is going to let himself be frozen. I think he's going to convince Bud or Betty to let him out. Either Bud with his bad bio med gel or Betty with her desperate need for a new water chip- they're going to send him to fetch a GECK and some Bio Med Gel. Maybe she'll force him to take Bud with him. This will give us a chance to see Julie Farkas potentially, because just like the Courier, Norm will discover the best place to learn what to do for Bud and to get a GECK is from The Followers of the Apocalypse.

@gabriellerudessa has noted that Bud was likely bluffing about Norm's only options being "freeze yourself or starve to death". There has to be more to Vault 31's facilities besides just the cryo pods (it's unlikely Bud was immediately pulling his execs out of the freezer and into the frying pan without first giving them a few days to thaw out to room temperature, and he likely was thawing a few of the others out to act as an entourage to escort people like Hank, Betty, Steph, etc. to their new homes in 32 and 33). Norm could figure this out and call Bud on it.

Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins said we aren't going to see the plot twists of season 2 of Fallout coming...

So here is a small list of plot twists/devices I'm anticipating for season 2:

Hank isn't going to New Vegas. He's going to Big Mountain or the Sierra Madre. My money is on Sierra Madre. The scary part about Hank is that he seems like our player characters dad James, in Fallout 3 at first glance- but deep down that man is Father Elijah. It only seems fitting he'd have his grubby little heart set on the Sierra Madre's replicators and weaponizable gas clouds. I hope Christine, Dog/God and Dean Domino are there to make that difficult for him.

It will be revealed that the Brotherhood of Steel has been fully infiltrated by Caesars Legion and the Elder is a former Frumantari.

The NCR is still around (obviously) and they're still maintaining an embassy on the strip and the brass cares less about Shady Sands than they do Hoover Dam and that's the major disconnect between the top and bottom. The NCR is one bad interaction with Freesiders away from falling apart completely.

Thaddeus becomes a Super Mutant instead of a Ghoul. Time will tell if he's a smart one or a dumb one. We've never seen anyone use FEV like that. I'm betting he'll be a super mutant like Virgil, same mind and very aware of how cumbersome his existence is- I don't think he'll be stupid like a commonwealth super mutant. But time will tell if it makes him crazy like Tabitha or Lily- or worse, Dog/God. It's also a toss up to see if he remembers who he was before. Maybe not at first but it comes back to him.

I don't think Norm is going to let himself be frozen. I think he's going to convince Bud or Betty to let him out. Either Bud with his bad bio med gel or Betty with her desperate need for a new water chip- they're going to send him to fetch a GECK and some Bio Med Gel. Maybe she'll force him to take Bud with him.

This will give us a chance to see Julie Farkas potentially, because just like the Courier, Norm will discover the best place to learn what to do for Bud and to get a GECK is from The Followers of the Apocalypse.

Hopefully also Arcade Gannon will be around. Not to pigeon hole him into being our favorite gay guy in the video game post apocalypse but Murray Bartlett as Arcade Gannon please! We deserve to forget Zachary Levi was ever involved. Really all I ask is that he's there and he's played by someone who is actually gay.

Since we know Novac is part of season 2 the question remains if there are two former NCR snipers taking shifts in Dinkys mouth. Probably yes and introducing those characters is where we get the exposition that will get us up to speed about what happened with Caesars Legion and the NCR.

I think we'll also learn something interesting about the background of No-Bark Noonan. I think their Nightkin problem has only gotten worse given that Utobitha is gone and that will be our first super mutant encounter as an audience. No-Bark clearly has some kind of background or experience (or head trauma that effects his vision) that makes him able to see people using stealthboy easier.

I think as a joke/trick someone will suggest they take a shortcut up through the quarry and that will be our first deathclaw encounter.

I have more thoughts but those are the ones that stick out most.

What do you predict for season 2?

[sesiondemadrugada]

The She-Creature (Edward L. Cahn, 1956).

[willstafford]

Wasted Talent

WITHNAIL AND I The REP, Birmingham, Tuesday 14th May 2024 Bruce Robinson’s film from 1987, which he wrote and directed, quite rightfully became a cult classic, with its depiction of decadence and squalor at the end of the 1960s.  Now, Robinson adapts his own screenplay for the stage, bringing to my mind two initial questions: Will the fans be satisfied?  Will newcomers get it? First and…

[breckstonevailskier]

Bud even swallows. They both look hella uncomfortable. For all Bud preaches about his tri-vault idea, and everything about Vault Tec… The little we seen of him as Brain on a Roomba with Norm he DOES SEEM to care a bit about the cryopods and the other Vaults. Bud seems so despondent as the other give their ideas… Maybe dawning on him that all this is really happening? Maybe horrified with the others ideas, while his, as we see with Lucy, did result in an overall very healthy society, as far as we can compare to other Vaults?

Bud definitely doesn't look very comfortable in these images. I definitely get this impression that while he's okay with the idea of the vault experiment, he doesn't really approve of the ideas being tossed out by the others at the meeting, which just come off like sociopaths who want free rein to use people as their personal toys. Whereas his tri-Vault scheme is going to be focused on turning its residents into the right kinds of people to eventually recolonize the surface when Reclamation Day comes (and I think we'll see Lucy embody this in season 2).

Then we have to consider the way Bud thinks of his junior executives as the closest thing he has to children (as he put it earlier when speaking to Cooper). And the fact that he's senior enough in Vault-Tec's hierarchy that they made him the face of the Vault Seller's Survival Guide videos. Which means Bud is also senior enough to know about how Vault-Tec's going to throw most of their valuable employees under the bus when the Great War actually begins (as evidenced by the Vault Salesman from Fallout 4, who was denied entry into Vault 111 and became a ghoul). The cryopods were probably Bud's way of preserving people that he cared about, but whom Vault-Tec were happy to dispose of.

On the subject of Barb, I think we're going to see in season 2 that there's a sharp contrast between her and Hank MacLean. While Bud and Barb are people who go with the flow in order to survive, Hank is very much someone completely indoctrinated by Vault-Tec's philosophies and very much believes in them.

Just rewatched the meeting scenes that Coop hears in the episode 8 for another thing and some things that I hadn't noticed before:

1- When Mr. House makes the joke about Sinclair not being able to turn a profit managing a casino, Barb doesn't laugh, at most seems to give a small grin and look down in a way that me, as a woman, easily notices as "fucking uncomfortable". Something we do when we have to appear agreeable in a situation that's risky to keep ourselves safe.

2- Barb doesn't look up at whoever is in the shadows out of nowhere, she receives a message on her Pip-Boy. HER, not Bud. What's the main difference between them? She has a daughter. And that's the argument she starts to talk about the Vaults. There's an uncomfortable move of her shoulder when seeing from the back, before she starts attracting attention, and once everyone's eyes is on her, she gives a deep breath and starts talking. During this WHOLE SPEECH about asking ideas to the others, Bud gives a bigger smile, but Barb's are all... Tight-lipped and short lived. She's walking a tight-rope. Needing to give a rehearsed speech that seels someone's else words, and the only thing that seems to be hers is about "minimize risks" (We may not know her division or rank, but she's clearly not top of the ladder).

3- When she wrapps her speech, after the "perfect conditions for humanity, whatever you wish, no one needs to know", where it's clear they captured the others... BOTH HER and BUD exchange a heavy look. Not a look of triumph. Not even determination. Bud even swallows. They both look hella uncomfortable. For all Bud preaches about his tri-vault idea, and everything about Vault Tec... The little we seen of him as Brain on a Roomba with Norm he DOES SEEM to care a bit about the cryopods and the other Vaults. Bud seems so despondent as the other give their ideas... Maybe dawning on him that all this is really happening? Maybe horrified with the others ideas, while his, as we see with Lucy, did result in an overall very healthy society, as far as we can compare to other Vaults?

4- And Barb them delivers the "by dropping the bombs ourselves", just... Direct to the point. Not triumph, nothing. The rest of her delivery is the same, just her eyebrows move while looking directly at the screen, not even seeming to look at the other in the room (looking directly at the watcher?) as she did before when giving her speech, almost not blinking, almost seeming as if keeping her eyes more open than needed... And as she's leading into the "war never changes", she does seem to try and give a small smile but it fails and it really looks to me as if she's trying really hard to not cry. Why, I don't know. But she's holding herself. Considering what we saw before of Barb... At this moment, I think we have a woman that saw the terror of not knowing if her husband was alive, started working at VT (we don't know since when she has been working there), got into the known of WHAT VT was planning... And lost all hope. And just tried to do her damn best to make sure to keep at least her daughter and husband safe, even if selling her soul in the process of parrotting the words of the people above her that were making the decisions that would lead to the end of the world some way or another.

[perfettamentechic]

29 giugno … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

[breckstonevailskier]

Cooper Howard, Corporate Sellout

Gotta pay the bills somehow when Vault-Tec has damaged your reputation.

For those of you who are Jonathan Nolan fans, that's Amy Acker playing Cooper's assistant (Root from Person of Interest). She's another face in the long line of actors from POI to show up here on Fallout after Michael Esper (Jason Greenfield) as Bud Askins, Michael Emerson (Harold Finch) as Siggi Wilzig, Michael Mulheren (Captain Lynch) as Frederick Sinclair, and more.

[cakbanedraws]

Continue again, still WIP

[slenderfire-blog]

She is a Friend of Dorothy's

While reading McCartney Legacy Vol. 2 (Kozinn/Sinclair) I noticed this title among a list of demos John recorded in the late 70s, one I wasn't familiar with before:

Demos to roll off the Lennon production line during this period included 'Real Love, "Now and Then, 'Free as a Bird, "What Ever Happened To?' and 'She Is a Friend of Dorothy's.

I had a dig around and found the demo on youtube:

Lyrics:

Come to the underground Sure know her way around TV pretty elegant Art deco decadent Hot lips and no shame All fun and no game She is a friend of Dorothy's She is a friend of A friend of Dorothy's(she shows it) A friend of Dorothy's(yes I know it) A friend of Dorothy's(who's allways she?) Whoever she is? Queen of the discotheques Sheik of Arabesque France jeans and nasty boots Red hair and yellow roots Frederick's of Hollywood Forty second and bloody good She is a friend of Dorothy's She is a friend indeed A friend of Dorothy's(yes I know it) A friend of Dorothy's(she shows it) A friend of Dorothy's(who's allways she?) Whoever she is? Trust in God and she will provide She keep you satisfied So long babe! Keep dancing! She is a friend of Dorothy's, She's a friend

I would LOVE to have seen rock critics try to explain that one away if it had been released.

[q35mm]

'Farewells can be a time of sadness. Letting go... difficult. As a guest of the Sierra Madre, you know that truth more than anyone. Frederick Sinclair believed one's life could be made anew every day, that fortunes were more than the wealth in your hands. Love. Life… family, those to care for, and those who will care for you. To those who know these joys, the Sierra Madre holds little they don't already have. Out in the world, beyond these walls, that is your chance to begin again. I hope you'll return, in happier times. Until then, the Sierra Madre... and I... will hold you in our hearts.'