After reading and watching The Road, I liked that the father considered the bunker a crypt and that it would be their doom if they stayed there (although differing reasons from the book), also this seemed to be a reoccurring theme in the Fallout series as well.
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After reading and watching The Road, I liked that the father considered the bunker a crypt and that it would be their doom if they stayed there (although differing reasons from the book), also this seemed to be a reoccurring theme in the Fallout series as well.