Did anyone catch how Bud’s smarmy assistant mentioned “Future Enterprise Ventures”?
Bolding mine.
I was mildly surprised after the first season was careful to avoid the hint of anything Chinese about the “reds” and “commies”.
What I like about this show is that while (from what I read) they are keeping a lot of plot points from the games, you don’t need to be familiar with the games. I like the show. I’ve never played the games and, frankly, couldn’t give two shits about the games (I don’t play games). I’d never know if they deviated and could not care less.
I didn’t want to really believe the idea of deathclaws in the Alaska campaign, but I suppose it’s not too explicitly a retcon, since they were always supposed to have been a pre-War US military bioweapons program.
And yeah, I was terribly sad to see how Vegas had deteriorated. And the fate of the Kings. Especially the King himself.
I think early on there wasn’t enough information yet and a Chinese army invading Alaska would have instantly been painted as bad guys. After what we saw in the first season it is clear we are the bad guys so the Chinese are not portrayed painted in a bad light.
Same with my wife.
I’ve played every game (except I think Fallout 3, or at least I didn’t play much of it), so I get a lot of references (but not all, since the earlier games I played almost 30 years ago). I even played Wasteland way back in the day on DOS (which was the spiritual successor). I’m enjoying this show in a different way than my wife is, but we’re both enjoying it a lot.
I keep waiting to see if Hubology will get referenced in the show, but I doubt it.
.”indiscernible language”? Whut?
Anyway
The weirdest thing with the opening was…. why would they leave a perfectly good vertibird behind?
Interesting thing is… I have no idea where the BOS storyline is going. Quintus I’m sure survives. Does he essentially take over the other chapters? What does stealing the cold fusion macguffin mean for any of these characters?
Quintus being alive leaves things up in the air, but the BOS is in full civil war and they don’t have the cold fusion macguffin any more, so it seems they are pretty screwed.
Once the shooting settles down (perhaps for an extended “rearm, reload”), someone’s gonna talk to someone else and figure out that no one still in the fight made off with the MacGuffin, at which point it turns into a fugitive pursuit story
Too much bad blood at that point, and there wouldn’t even be any of what little trust they had in each other left. Nah, Quintus might come after the MacGuffin, but not the brotherhood. The rest would neither talk, nor believe each other. Hell, the dude who played Shao Khan in Mortal Kombat can’t even really talk any more.
In this particular scene the Chinese weren’t shown in any sort of bad light - they were the opposite side in a conflict, yes, but they weren’t cruel and didn’t kill Cooper. Didn’t help him, either, but hey, they’re at war. So maybe that’s why it was OK?
It’s safe to say the only reason they didn’t do that was because they were too busy being in large bloody pieces.
Taunting before drawing and pulling the trigger isn’t the mark of a friendly confrontation.
They were obviously about to execute Cooper (war crime?), but that monologue was not that bad of a “taunt”, was it? Picture the same speech but if they were going to take him prisoner.
You’re forgetting how outright stupid these guys are. The show has made it clear that basically everyone but Quintus in the brotherhood are pretty dumb. Even the other leaders were very consciously shown to be pretty basic to outright idiots.
All they will need is one person (probably Quintus) with slight charisma to rah rah the remaining members and that chapter can rebuild. The far flung chapters will probably hidey-hole out of necessity and if word that “the Commonwealth” is coming for them gets out they’ll hunker deeper.
Honestly, the way the shot lingered on those squires, I expect the next time we see this Brotherhood it’s a literal child army led by Quintus.
I’ve never played the game but watching the show as just a show, it appears to me that the Legion and the Brotherhood have been removed as major players as much as the New California Republic. This lets the story be more about the individual quests of a handful of characters and not some tedious political struggle among warring factions.
I am so disappointed that we won’t have scenes of political factions debating like sci-fi C-SPAN, much as you see in the Star Wars prequels.
/s
Judging from some of the griping on r/fallout, that’s apparently what some of the “fans” want.
Those deathclaws were terrifying, bigger than i remember from the games. Powerfist! should have ragdolled Cooper a bit further to be accurate, but fun to see none the less.
Watching the latest episode now. Anyone else realize that “Luck Be A Lady” was the version sung by Alan Alda’s father, Robert Alda?
So the never played the game viewer checking in.
The story has definitely picked up to being more interesting to those of us without game knowledge.