Gonna paint your wagon
Gonna paint it fine
Gonna use oil-based paint
'Cause the wood is pine!
PONDER-OOOOOOOOOOO-SA PINE! Oooooo-oooh!
I was very disappointed the actor didn’t try to imitate Rene Auberjonois’ speech pattern.
The raiders Moldaver was using could have been hired for the purpose. Lord know there are plenty of amoral people in the wasteland willing to do almost anything for caps.
Moving parts like wheels going around axles still need lubrication? Fallout tech is weird, in some ways more advanced than ours, in some ways less.
I got the impression that the robobrain was Bud Askis and yes, he probably is aware. And may no longer be sane at all.
“Brain-on-a-Roomba” was the character’s name in the closed captions, wonder if that was used for the average viewer? It does seem appropriate.
Hank was an “executive assistant”, the male equivalent (more or less). The lowest-level office staff from Vault-Tec is running vaults 31-33.
Ooo… I missed that detail!
Yes. In fact, Roger was foreshadowing and sort of a teaching moment for Lucy about Ghouls and mercy killing.
Possibly. Certainly the were very good friends. No sign of how vault dwellers view homosexuality or bisexuality (probably varies with the vault). I don’t think wastelanders would care. Of course, not all close friends are also lovers. Perhaps it’s one of those things for the audience to draw their own conclusions.
Lucy had a line in an earlier episode which I don’t remember exactly where she says something (to Maximus) along the lines of so… you use old pre-War tech to find pre-War tech so no one can use it? and Maximus responds with when you put it like that is does sound weird. But yeah, otherwise it’s not entirely clear who these people are and what they do.
Also… do they have any women? Otherwise the only way they keep existing is by recruiting, and it looks like the sort of set up where they want them very young so they can indoctrinate the boys. And if what they want is boys um… what about Dane? How “boy” do you have to be? Maybe they’ll expand on this in season 2, maybe not.
In appearance he’s very much an homage to Howard Hughes. I’ve never played the game, but I’d suspect he is also a Howard Hughes in other ways (that is, competent and actually able to create things himself instead of hiring talent and taking credit when he isn’t looting and plundering a company he bought).
^ There
In the game, Mr. House determines on his own that nuclear war is inevitable and sets up an anti-missile system to protect Vegas from a direct blast, and artificially preserves his life by sealing himself in a tube from which he uses computers to control the protectrons that run the Strip. His long-term goal is to establish a functioning economy in Vegas, reestablish a manufacturing industry, and build spaceships to escape to another world, much like the Enclave had been planning on doing. He’s very much a Howard Hughes type. The game came out in 2010, before Elon Musk was widely known in the popular consciousness, but I have a feeling they’ll blend a little of Elmo into his character in season 2.
As of 2281, he looks like this;
ETA: Apparently there’s a mod that replaces Mr. House with Elmo.
Needs more stutter.
I mean, EVs don’t need oil changes, and you’d think a car with a miniaturized nuclear reactor would essentially be a really fancy EV.
Veronica, the BOS companion in New Vegas, is lesbian and mentions that the Brotherhood doesn’t approve of her sexuality because reproduction is essential to keep their population stable. Of course, that was before the Prydwen came west, so things may have changed. Arcade Gannon, an ex-Enclave scientist in the same game, is a gay man, and Caesar’s Legion approves of male homosexuality because ancient Rome. I don’t recall gay issues coming up in any of the other games.
Eccentric, self-isolating billionaire hiding out in his Vegas hotel? Yeah, that’s Howard Hughes.
the funny thing is the games inconsistent itself since 2 had a somewhat tortured development and had some continuity problems with the first and the BOS game after
Sure. The game lays parallels on rather thickly.
Howard Hughes standing in front of an airplane he owned:
Robert House standing in front of a robot
2010 was the same year Elon had a cameo in Iron Man 2, so he was pretty well established in the public conscious, but more as a “real life Tony Stark,” than “crazier Howard Hughes.”
At the end, Coop says he’s trying to find his family. But does he actually just mean his wife, since his daughter was with him when the bombs fell? Or did he somehow bundle her up into a random vault or a cryopod?
Also, the fact that Janey wasn’t with her mom when the bombs fell leads me to believe that Vault-Tec was willing to be the first to drop bombs but actually did not do so. If Barb knew it was coming, there’s no way she would let her daughter be on the surface and not safe in one of the “good” vaults.
I assume he rode off to whatever vault his wife was in and they took the daughter but did not let him in as they were divorced.
I did wonder how he ended up with even partial custody, considering he’s a former actor who got Red-Scared out of the industry, and she’s a high level executive in a corporation that basically owns the US government.
100% this is what is going to happen. I also think they might crib from FO4 and have there be a twist when he does find her.
Even today, having children hinders a female executive even as it benefits a male one. It could be that with her job duties she didn’t have sufficient time to devote to child-raising and joint custody made the most sense.
Just because they’re divorced doesn’t mean they’re bitter enemies, lots of divorced people work together and cooperate with raising kids.
According to her own description of her motives, the entire reason she’s working at Vault-Tec is to make sure that her kid gets in a “good” vault, and she’s so certain about the inevitability of the war that she’s willing to trigger it herself to make certain that she’s well-positioned to survive it. I don’t see her sharing custody in that situation.
She’s Hitler-level evil. I sure to God hope they’re bitter enemies.
Meanwhile, denying Cooper a Vault slot could easily come down to “it’s just policy”, a proven mantra for bureaucrats like Bud’s Buds and everyone else in the MANAGEMENT* caste at Vault-Tec. (The fact that it could hypothetically be Barb’s policy is beside the point.)
Vault-Tec wouldn’t give up a valuable cryopod slot, or even a normal living suite, in one of their “good vaults” to a Commie critic who isn’t even a family member any more. (Which still leaves the mystery of how Moldaver found a way to preserve herself into the 23rd Century.)
*MANANGEMENT capitalized because it the only thing that matters… at least according to Bud and his allies.
Which begs the question as to why those raiders were so cartoonishly over the top crazy. I suppose they could have been hired for that very reason.
Please no. That’s been done to death.
I liked how Lucy mentioned how she threw acid in an innocent man’s face, making a point of how even someone who is intentionally good natured as Lucy can be driven to do crazy things by the Wasteland.
Cool use of the Fallout hacker screen when Norm was breaking into Vault 31.
I may need to bust out the old XBox360 and revisit Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas.
Todd Howard says they screwed up the date of when Shady Sands was nuked and that it happened after the events of New Vegas. No word on how it managed to migrate several hundred miles south of its canon location, though.
Who knows how big of a weapon Vault-Tec used to cook Shady Sands? Maybe big enough to relocate the wreckage intact by hundreds of miles. And also the crater. I mean, we’ve never set off a nuke bigger than 60 megatons. Who knows what happens beyond that level? It could be like magic, man.
(Actually, my theory is that everyone was fast travelling but that part didn’t get onto the screens. Everything is where it’s supposed to be, they just didn’t show the weeks of walking, just like the game.)
He never said they screwed up the date, because the show never says the date shady sands was nuked was in 2077. It is a timeline it shows “the fall of shady sands” as happening in 2077 and then the timeline continues and the next event is just a drawing of the nuke. While it might seem confusing it is clear that they are two separate events.
We don’t know that Vault-Tec was actually the folks who triggered the nukes - there were a number of parties who could have done that. Could be that Vault-Tec was planning their mischief for a particular date and someone else started the party early. In which case Barb would be caught unprepared. Maybe this was supposed to be the last outing with Dad before Janey and Barb were going to move into a “good vault”?
I’m sure Hitler’s mom loved him. Even evil has relatives. Some evil people can be surprisingly affable in real life.
It’s not like Cooper Howard was the purest of souls, either. Sure, on a certain level he was a nice guy, but that doesn’t mean he was a saint. He sure gets a lot darker and more amoral over the centuries.
The Ghoul may not be Hitler-level evil but he’s not good, either.