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Cybsled

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Given the dead Caesar has the same outfit as FONV Caesar, presumably it is the same guy.

I do agree the "no ending matters cause they all died after you played the game lololol" is fucking dumb - Todd just needs to grow a pair, say "X is canon", and go from there. They picked a canon ending for FO3, not sure why they are so coy with FONV and FO4.

As for Anchorage, I think they're going to use it to introduce the deathclaw (a preview showed a deathclaw in Anchorage). While that seems anachronistic, it really isn't. As far back as Fallout 2, the game suggested deathclaws were developed BEFORE the war. The Enclave has also been obsessed with deathclaws since the introduction of that faction. Fallout 76 even went a bit further to explain WestTek FEV research on animals and how deathclaws were promising weapons, but an inability to control them made them a liability. I wouldn't be shocked if we see a deathclaw in Anchorage and it has a control device on it.

My theory: Coop goes to Las Vegas and meets House (the one we see in the show using the control devices). Coop sees the device and immediately knows what it is, which leads us to the flashback to Anchorage where he first sees the device being used on a deathclaw (and maybe "chinese communist invaders"). This simultaneously introduces the audience to the deathclaw and coop's familiarity with the devices.
 

Gravel

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This might be why I'm not particularly enjoying it.

I played Fallout and Fallout 2 in the 90's and loved them. Played Fallout 3 and 4 on release. Played New Vegas. Played 76.

I couldn't tell you a fucking lick of "lore" because it's either been to long or it just wasn't good enough for me to make space in my brain to remember. So all these little easter eggs about shit like Mr House mean fuckall to me (I couldn't tell you who Mr House is). I don't remember the ending to any of the games. Hell, I'm not sure I remember any quests except for the main one in Fallout 2 was to get a G.E.C.K. or water chip or something.

So as a standalone, the plot of this show isn't really impressing me so far. It's funny, in the "previously on" shit for episode 2 it showed everything that happened at the end of season 1, and while I remember the set pieces, I couldn't for the life of me tell you what actually happened. It just wasn't interesting enough apparently.
Yeah, so reading the comments about this latest episode, I'm going to reiterate my above post. The problem with this show is they're relying on fans of the IP with easter eggs (see, it's those things you remember!). This does absolutely nothing for someone who doesn't remember or know this shit.

The Caesar thing just seemed like something out of a slapstick comedy and meant nothing to me. It just seemed out of place and bizarre with no context. Same with the NCR thing. I recognize the NCR as a concept, but I don't even know what the purpose was. The purpose seems to have been to establish the Ghoul doing "bad things" for a good outcome, but since I don't have any ties to the characters he kills it means nothing to me.

The Brotherhood stuff was equally confusing. Although I think this is more because they haven't done enough to show me why I should empathize with them. Or maybe I'm not supposed to, but in that case, why show it at all? If I'm not attached to either side of the conflict, why do I care if they go to war?

And that's it, that was the entire episode. The problem then becomes as someone without any attachment to the games, this is all meaningless. They haven't taken the time to build these locations and factions, they just throw them in willy nilly. And then the people who eat up the games are apparently annoyed with every scene because it doesn't follow the games close enough (or conflicts with various endings). All around it seems like a failure.

Why can't anyone write a second season of a TV show worth a shit anymore?
 

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Yeah, so reading the comments about this latest episode, I'm going to reiterate my above post. The problem with this show is they're relying on fans of the IP with easter eggs (see, it's those things you remember!). This does absolutely nothing for someone who doesn't remember or know this shit.

The Caesar thing just seemed like something out of a slapstick comedy and meant nothing to me. It just seemed out of place and bizarre with no context. Same with the NCR thing. I recognize the NCR as a concept, but I don't even know what the purpose was. The purpose seems to have been to establish the Ghoul doing "bad things" for a good outcome, but since I don't have any ties to the characters he kills it means nothing to me.

The Brotherhood stuff was equally confusing. Although I think this is more because they haven't done enough to show me why I should empathize with them. Or maybe I'm not supposed to, but in that case, why show it at all? If I'm not attached to either side of the conflict, why do I care if they go to war?

And that's it, that was the entire episode. The problem then becomes as someone without any attachment to the games, this is all meaningless. They haven't taken the time to build these locations and factions, they just throw them in willy nilly. And then the people who eat up the games are apparently annoyed with every scene because it doesn't follow the games close enough (or conflicts with various endings). All around it seems like a failure.

Why can't anyone write a second season of a TV show worth a shit anymore?
Think I may have found your answer at least for this show.

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Enhance...

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As for Anchorage, I think they're going to use it to introduce the deathclaw
Ah, now that could work, as you said the audience hasn't been introduced to designed bioweapons (vs mutated creatures). Hell, let's go full cheese - Coop meets Barb soon afterward (who's just a mid-level Vault-Tec grunt) who says "Vault-Tec doesn't deal with monsters", the invalidation of that statement being what gets later Coop to agree to kill House.

I disagree on the timing, however - I don't think the audience actually knows New Vegas is ruined yet, so The Ghoul and Lucy finally getting to the city and seeing it is fucked will be how episode four ends, with episode 5 being a mirror episode as Coop hits Vegas pre-war while The Ghoul and Lucy see what New Vegas is like now, with the endings being Coop meeting the real House and The Ghoul seeing TV screen House is still around.