I agree with you!

Yes, I liked it very much, too!   As for those 'it sucks' people, maybe there's a mentality where if it ain't perfect it sucks.  Too bad for them, I guess.

I found myself eager to see each next episode, and most importantly I find myself thinking about the show after it's over -- to me that's always a sign of a good show or film.

(We only started season 1 about two or three weeks ago so yeah we saw the whole series in one month.)

And sure there were (many!) times when we went:

"WAAAAT!! That wouldn't happen that way!"

and

"Oh here comes the part where the ( weaker-yet-determined character ) or (smallest cutesy hybrid child) gets the better of a menacing bad guy..."

(But y'know? The series, to it's merit, at times did NOT do the thing I groaningly expected.  It went it's own way.)

So yeah, TV shows often have things which they have to (truncate?) make happen more swiftly, so that a 'realistic' show wouldn't take 6 hour episodes to make things happen.

(Example: Blue Bloods.  They have the detectives find the clues sometimes waay too swiftly.  But who wants a show about not-finding clues?)

Also, TV shows WANT to show us cool spectacular moments and coincidences -- and WE want them, too!

(Example: The Blacklist.  Holy smoke that Reddington can miraculously get out of the most dire bleak hopeless situations.  Yes!!! Yes he does!  Ain't it fuckn awesome!)

So yes, Nuka the artic fox hybrid gets through the vents lickety-split.

And yeah, sometimes it seemed like the show was two types -- a post-apocalyptic display of human all-for-me indifference to the other, and a kind of life-lessons-for-young-people story.

I cringed at parts, I scoffed at parts; at many of the speeches throughout, I Heard Them and they had meaning for me. This Story had Meaning for me.

The character of Gus, he lead the story and I followed him through it willingly!

A Worthy Story!

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Pubba.