For what it’s worth, in the end credits for one of the episodes we saw a pod (similar to House’s pod from F:NV) with a fairly lifeless arm hanging out of it.
More Easter eggs than the White House lawn, but I won’t bore the non-game-players by regaling them with it.
It seems that the narrative is going to split focus, playing out in both Colorado and Vegas. (Although I wonder if the Vegas subplot is going to become “Escape from New Vegas”, because the closing credit graphics sure makes it look like the Legion won the confrontation with the NCR and owns the place now.)
I did crack a little grin at Caesar’s line about the Legion taking Vegas and building him a palace.
I know I always killed him in the game.
When House was talking about all the ways his body was killed, my first thought was “every time my Courier killed him, he looked alive and pristine to me.” So I guesss the body in the biobed was just a puppet of sone kind, replaced or refurbished between murders? Seems on-brand for this version of House; body doubles all the way down.
I thought one of the ways House mentioned was with a golf club, which would have been a severely on-the-nose callback to the game (specifically, an in-game achievement for killing House with a golf club, which do appear in the game as a viable melee weapon). But looking back, I don’t think that was actually said. A crowbar got mentioned, though.
Just me wishing too hard, I think.
The golf club (and achievement) is a reference to Bioshock. (19 year old spoilers) House and Andrew Ryan are similar characters in a lot of ways, and your character is basically a classically conditioned meat puppet who unwillingly and unwittingly is sent to assassinate him, when he realizes he decides to go out on his own terms with a golf club. Also both voiced by guys famous from Star Trek.
I honestly think the pre-war storyline was uneven and uninteresting this season except for scenes with House in Vegas….and it feels like they are having to really work to make sense of things they established in season 1.
Also, Norm seemed set up to have a real interesting story this season….and he just didn’t.
So, mostly good season….but not nearly as interesting or fun as season 1.
I mean, just look how many different plot lines they were trying to follow;
- Lucy and Cooper searching for Hank
- Hank’s experiments
- Max, Thaddeus, and the Brotherhood
- Norm and the Vault 31 crew
- Vaults 32 and 33
- Cooper in the past
EIght 50-minute episodes just isn’t enough time to give all of that solid coverage.
Did Cooper take the cold fusion mcguffin from House?
No, it’s still in the generator behind the book case.
When Lucy and Max went into House’s penthouse (the computer room) and watched the Legion march down the Strip, the big screen momentarily flickered to show House’s face instead of the “Disconnected” message, which means that the Lucky 38 (and House’s consciousness) are still fully powered and House is just hiding for now.
Remind me about Liberty Prime-1.
The original Liberty Prime was a pre-war US Army/RobCo/General Atomics project to build a huge humanoid warbot. In Fallout 3, it’s the decisive weapon that gives the Capital chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel its complete victory against the Enclave in the District.
It got destroyed by an orbital kinetic energy strike from a pre-war battle satellite as it was beginning its assault on the master base of the Enclave in DC, Adams Air Force Base (this universe’s equivalent to Andrews AFB). This was the beginning of the Broken Steel DLC for Fallout 3.
In Fallout 4, the Commonwealth chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel (a chapter which started out as an offshoot of the Capital chapter) salvages the wrecked Liberty Prime, restores it, and uses it again as the decisive weapon in its fight against its primary nemesis in the area, the Institute. (If the player sides with the Brotherhood.)
As far as lore to now is concerned, Liberty Prime was a snowflake: completely unique and totally irreproducible. The idea that this renegade California chapter found the plans for another Liberty Prime and believes they could credibly implement it felt a little deus ex (literally) machina to me, but we’ll see how it plays out. (Their success might be baded on the undiscovered treasures of Area 51. The eastern chapters of the Brotherhood never had such a pre-war trove fall into their hands like that; in both games, their success in activating Liberty Prime was based on the player character’s completing several quests to retrieve lost technology or the like.)
Yes, I vaguely remember if I did not die in, Fallout 3, the DLC or something picked up with a big robot. Was that it?
Indeed, that’s the same robot.
I don’t know if I’d call it an “offshoot” considering it’s the same group. At the beginning of the 4th game its a small expeditionary force from DC (3 people as I recall) and then a larger force comes including the de jure leader of the whole DC thing, Maxson. You later learn that it’s I think the third expedition, the first arrived and return and the second was wiped out except one survivor who is hunkered down awaiting orders/rescue.
During 3 there was the then-goody two shoes main BoS and the schismatic Outcasts, Maxson united them all and, and some time between 4 and the show made contact with the west coast factions, now DC is the legal, acknowledged head of them all, though as we see there’s some discontent.
It’s unknown if the Chicago-area group from “Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel” is involved, and the maybe-Texas group from “Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel” (confusing names, I know), though I think the latter game is considered non-canonical.
All in all this was kind of a lame ending because it wasn’t one. It was 90% COME BACK NEXT SEASON! and almost no resolution of anything. The only story that sort of got an ending was Lucy’s relationship with her Dad.
Also making Barb “see she’s really one of the good guys” was kind of lame and undid something interesting from last season.
And on a more push up my glasses level of nitpicking: it was convenient that all the Bud’s Buds and Rad Roaches killed each other in a locked room except for the one person Norm liked.
There was a lot to like about this season but this “ending” let a lot of the air out of my enthusiasm.
I’m going to go on record right now and say that either season 3 opens with an homage to the opening cinematic of Fallout 2…. Or that scene happens within the first three episodes.
Alright, I just realized something.
At the very start of New Vegas, before he shoots you in the head, Benny says:
He’s talking about your delivery of the platinum chip and you getting ambushed.
But based on what we learn from House, this is also true about the plot of New Vegas as a whole.
The Courier can choose who they give the platinum chip (and by extension the New Vegas Strip) to, but that’s a problem if Bethesda wants to return to the area in a sequel or a TV show. Vegas, Hoover Dam, and by extension Nevada and the West - the implications to who comes out on top in FNV are widespread.
Unless it turns out that the game was rigged from the start… By the Enclave, as it turns out. Whoever you gave the army of robots to had them trashed by deathclaws.
One of the more famous memes from a New Vegas mod let’s you not give the chip to House, in a particularly goofy manner (see the end for a rather crappy perk you get out of the deal)
Lucy and Maximum in the 38 seemed a lot like a Fight Club reference. No explosions (yet).
The suggestion that multiple people have secret mind control chips seems like the Fallout 4 paranoia over synths, except this one might actually be a threat. Maybe I missed it, but was Hank **re-**creating the prewar miniaturization, or how do they have sleeper agents with undetectable chips?
Also doesn’t seem economical for VaultTec to have two empty pods. It’s going to be a long walk to Colorado. 8 days/198 hours constant to Grand Junction, and that’s today with intact roads. Though finding a working Chryslus Highwayman would be a possible way to drop fan service. I’ll bet something will happen to keep the characters together though.
An unexploded Highwayman. Those things are touchy when gunplay starts.
I agree with others who felt this was a bit of a letdown to conclude the season.
And I’m left with questions that I feel like were answered, so maybe I didn’t follow closely enough:
- What was the result of Lucy destroying the “mainframe” aka the Congresswoman’s head? I thought this was a critical part of the mind control chips, but it didn’t seem to have any effect on the Legion guy who was still following Hank’s orders.
- At what point did Cooper’s wife move from the Las Vegas pod to Colorado? Why did she assume Cooper would be alive to find her note? Why did seeing the note convince Cooper she was still alive?
- Hank pushed the button to activate other “sleeper agents” and it…activated him too? Did he know he had a chip? Was it one that was already implanted, or had Lucy just implanted the chip meant for her? And what’s the purpose of activating sleeper agents if it just makes them forget everything?