It was used as a template to create new chips.
And one more: the Legion civil war was about who was named as the next Ceasar, but then the Legate destroyed the note and said “it was me!” and…everyone just believed him and stopped fighting?
I don’t know if I was letdown exactly. I do believe that a season finale should have some sort of satisfying conclusions even while leaving a lot to be continued. If everything is just a set up for the next season and the next season the audience is going to get fatigued. It’s not like we can binge watch the entire completed show.
ETA: at best season 3 will come out in 18 months.
I am also confused because the first episode showed us Warday and the daughter was with Cooper and it was implied the wife was gone (presumably in her vault). When did the daughter go to the vault? And why would Cooper not be with her? I guess there is room for a story there but it feels more like a retcon than a plan.
I’m also confused by that. After reading this thread, I must say I feel fortunate to be unencumbered by familiarity with the game. Except for the “war day” conundrum above, I really haven’t been stumped by the plot, premise, or setting. There are a lot more individual plot lines than I’m used to, but they are easy enough to follow if you just tamp down your inner detective and wait for the show to eventually connect the dots
Hank knew he was implanted with the chip, Lucy and Hank were on that balcony overlooking the bunker when the ghoul saved Lucy and gave her a gun, we see her look at the chip, then we cut to Lucy and her dad walking outside with a lingering shot of Hank’s neck cut. And Lucy tells him that he will tell her what she wants and then she will make him “the dad she thought he was”, but he wipes his own mind first.
The purpose of doing that was to deny Lucy the ability to interrogate him and find out what the Envlave’s plan is.
And I assumed his other agents were already mind wiped, programmed with new instructions, and sent out.
Hank said that it was intended to introduce a little humanity to RobCo’s plan of turning people into robots, so I’d guess the machine can still control people, but it’s not focused on politeness and such.
Cooper takes his daughter and runs from the birthday party - presumably to get to Vault Tec and give his daughter to his wife.
He isn’t getting let in because he’s been charged by The House Committee on Un-American Activities, Vault Tec isn’t gonna let a Pinko in to one of their vaults. But they’ll let him deliver his daughter to her mother, who isn’t accused of any wrongdoing.
More specifically, the personality modification part of the new chips.
The way that the chip zombies were pleasant, personable, and inclined to teamwork. If you remember the first chip zombie we saw in the flashback of the destruction of Shady Sands, there was no personality at all – just a human automaton blindly carrying out orders.
Hank McClean makes a point of explaining that Robert House wanted biological robots, simply because they’re self-repairing and can use society’s normal infrastructure to sustain (whereas electromechanical robots need a fairly high and widely-disseminated technology infrastructure for widespread and pervasive use). House didn’t care about personality or society or culture, because he was a bit of a robot himself, according to Hank. A supremely high-functioning anti-social genius with no understanding or use for interpersonal relationships beyond their utility.
Hank innovated using the brain of a nice person to program a nice personality into the flesh robots, at the Enclave’s orders, to create pliant and sociable slave citizens for the Enclave’s future state. Obviously, before going into the freezer in Vault 31, since he decapitated a pre-war congresswoman to do this.
Or he pulled her out of her own freezer once her worked the head exploding kinks out of his chips.
Did she know that the President was part of the Enclave? If she was Enclave herself, she may have been in the vault under Vegas.
Good point. Maybe so, assuming she would have been allowed into the precious cryovaults. She was clearly an enemy of everything Vault-tec and the Enclave was working towards, but perhaps some sharp operator realized her personality could be useful even if she as a person wouldn’t be.
As to her possible membership in the Enclave… maybe, since this is a work of fiction and 4d chess and plot twists are as likely as radroaches. Occam’s Razor doesn’t require it; everything we’ve seen so far could also be fulfilled by a well-meaning but completely-duped patsy.
Her head looked pretty old, and “kill me now” implied many years of suffering, not just a week or two. She certainly wasn’t pulled out of cryo by Hank after his return to NLV.
Well, she wasn’t young in the flashbacks, but she was wearing makeup, which wouldn’t work in a tank of biogel.
The only other canon instance of a severed head being sustained alive is in the Fallout 4 Nuka-World DLC, where the founder of Nuka-Cola sought immortality and gained it only as a severed head in a cryo-preservation tank, connected to computers to allow him to communicate.
The subtext of that story is that he was already advanced in years, and got no older in cryo, even if he remained conscious the whole time.
(And yes, he also asked for death. The decision is the player character’s to make and carry out, albeit with a power switch, not a crowbar.)
I don’t know if a person (or part of a person) stops aging if they’re sustained in non-cryogenic biogel. The brains of the Think Tank in Fallout New Vegas’ Old World Blues DLC are older than normal human lifespan, as are the Robobrain denizens of Vault 118 in Fallout 4’s Far Harbor DLC . But it’s hard to tell if their erratic behavior and wildly eccentric personalities are the result of aging, the brain extraction and preservation process, or just who they are.
…whut?
If I woke up like that…a severed head in a jar in a dark room with wires coming out of me….I’m not going to be “okay” with it no matter how long its been. I think most of us would be saying “kill me” within minutes—it wouldn’t take YEARS to get there.
The way that the camera adds some pounds, I’d imagine decapitation adds some years. I wasn’t sure if that was meant to be “she has aged” or “her head was chopped off and she’s only partially preserved”.
I don’t think that’s obvious.
I meant in the sense of “this head has been detached for a while,” not that the woman was old. Her skin and eyes didn’t look like a head that came out of cryo a week ago.
But of course, we’re dealing with make-believe technology, so it works in whatever way the story demands. In which case…
Yeah, I’ll agree my statement was too strong. I think she was been a head for a long time, but it’s isn’t obvious.
What’s throwing me is that there hasn’t been anyone there for centuries and Hank is the one who came in and got everything running, plus he has definitely been unfreezing folks to experiment on them. That said I don’t think that particular senator would have even been welcome in a vault tec or enclave secret vault.
I don’t think there was anyone left at that point who was in a position to disagree with Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin about the matter.
We don’t know. The bombs fell over a 2 hour period and the vaults started closing soon after (e.g. Vault 111 from Fallout 4 in a matter of minutes, presumably slower for inland ones)
A mixture of already being assholes, time, loss of humanity to start. And drugs, mostly Mentats. There’s a cut ending where the rampage through the wasteland and it’s one of the biggest downers.
Furthermore Mobius, who seems like the only insane one at first but optionally becomes the most moral (still some screws loose) was on a cocktail of Psycho and Mentats when he recorded his supervillain rantings and stole your brain. When he was sane and moral he intentionally sabotaged the Think Tank to prevent them from escaping Big MT by wrecking their navigation and putting them in a recursive state to limit the damage:
The Courier: “You reprogrammed their names as part of recursion loop? What, to trap their processors?”
Mobius: ‘trap’ is a rather harsh word. Like ‘excrement.’ Not an inappropriate word, but still - rather harsh. But… yes, I did… take some liberties with their programming. It’s all right, they don’t remember. I certainly didn’t until you said “trap.” And then I said “excrement.” And then…"
The Courier: “Why did you trap them?”
Mobius: “The Radar Fence to keep the Think Tank hemmed in wasn’t really enough. They keep testing things, they would have found a way to disarm it. I suspect I have Plan Cs in place, but I may have coded myself to forget them, just in case… they’re probably very dangerous, lethal, or worse. So I had to do something else to keep them occupied here. Or as you like to say ‘trapped.’ I prefer to have several plan Bs in case the As fail.”
“Attention, Lobotomites: STOP MILLING ABOUT.”
Well, there was that one Legionary in the tent with him, but Lacerta* knifed him before taking up the wreath.
My theory is that both of the ersatz Caesars were already killed in the outbreak of open hostilities provoked by Ghoul’s sabotaging the one side’s ammo dump, so there was really only one claimant at that point. And everyone was tired of fighting each other, and jumped at the opportunity to begin fighting anreal enemy.
*If you remember, Culkin’s character was the Lacerta Legate before seizing the Imperium for himself.