The following article accommodates major spoilers from the Prime Video finale Fall“Beginning.”
“War. War never changes.“
Nothing is more directly relatable Fall than this famous line, first uttered by Ron Perlman within the introduction to the 1997 isometric RPG that began all of it. Not Vault-Tec. Not Nuka Cola. Even the show’s everlasting thumbs-up animated mascot, Vault Boy. Tell gaming veterans “war never changes” and the primary image that involves mind will probably be this Fallgonzo, post-nuclear, retrofuturistic anti-paradise.
On Prime Video Fall In the series finale, this line was beautifully re-contextualized from the brand’s tagline to a moment wealthy in tragedy. In a pre-war flashback, we see Walton Goggins’ Cooper Howard snooping around his wife Barb, a high-ranking executive at Vault-Tec. She hid a secret from him with devastating consequences: she is revealed because the architect of a nuclear war that will bring humanity to its knees, spearheading a vast corporate conspiracy to finish the world and rebuild it in Vault-Tec’s image. In its concise plot logic, it evokes humanity’s tendency towards bloody conflicts. “War never changes,” he says.
For Cooper, that is a painful betrayal and the primary of many moments that send him down a dark path towards the barbaric nihilism of the Ghoul. And so 200 years later, watching death and destruction at Griffith Observatory, the Ghoul repeats the phrase that has haunted him for hundreds of years: “War. War never changes.”
I meet Goggins in a London hotel the day after the show’s early premiere in London. Just like last night, when he pumped up the crowd in the first episode before the projector spun like a circus announcer, he bristles with enthusiasm. We sit down to talk about his time on the pitch Fallincluding its killer finale.
GQ: Even though it’s the identical person 200 years apart, in Cooper Howard and The Ghoul you essentially play two different characters. I’m wondering if it was a challenge for them to navigate: someday you are one guy, the subsequent day you are one other guy. Have you separated?
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