Fallout: The Television Series

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    We watched episode 2 last night. I'm damn glad the dog's still alive but disappointed about Emerson's character. I can't believe Lucy is Gwyn from Prodigy!
     
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    I have one episode to go. It silly violent fun like the video games. I'm enjoying, but doubt I will ever watch it again. I will watch more if they continue with another season though. It made me laugh a lot.
     
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    Vera Keyes is mentioned on one of Howard’s movie posters.

    She was a pre-war actress created for New Vegas’s DLC, and also mentioned briefly in one of Fallout 4’s DLC
     
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    https://www.ign.com/articles/the-bi...n-answer-our-burning-questions-about-season-1

    I was actually specifically going to ask you about that
    Shady Sands timeline conversation. And you say that nothing in New Vegas is retconned. I think the rub, to kind of TLDR it, is that "The Fall of Shady Sands" happens in 2277, which is four years before New Vegas. So are people just misunderstanding what "The Fall of Shady Sands" means or something like that?

    Howard: All I can say is we're threading it tighter there, but the bomb falls just after the events of New Vegas. That's when Shady Sands blows.

    So basically, "The Fall of Shady Sands," it doesn't mean a nuke, necessarily?

    Howard: Correct.
     
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    This reminds me, if we see XC404 or Cooper's horse die on screen, I'm gonna be pissed.
     
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    A video about the settlement of Shady Sands for those who want to know a little backstory.

     
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    I somehow missed the announcement of a TV series as I love Fallout 3, New Vegas, and 4.

    Watched two episodes so far and I'm loving it.

    The transformation of the awesome cowboy into the Feral Ghoul was interesting and so scary!

    Michael Emerson is amazing in this, as he is in everything else.

    I'm glad the poor dog didn't die. :scream: ;)

    I'm enjoying Lucy's story more than Maximus's at the moment, though it's early days. I remember enjoying the Brotherhood of Steel in the games back in the day though so was very intrigued.

    So far, the show has everything the game did. The retro-futuristic look, the wasteland, and even the quirky humour.
     
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    I remember starting a couple games of NV by teleporting my brand new player to where the Brotherhood storyline started, or to Nellis. Those places became the character's backstory- he was 'from there' instead of the courier, and I'd mentally invent some reason he had to venture into the wasteland...
     
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    This might just be the video version of the interviews released yesterday. I can't watch it ATM


    Edit: it is, but it seems to have more questions answered than in the article.
     
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    We watched episode 3 last night. Because of something in the beginning of episode 1, I was pleased they brought it back around so that
    Cooper Howard's "thumbs up" because the Vault-Tec mascot guy.
     
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    One thing that isn't clear to me: but did the inhabitants of the Vaults (except obviously whoever was in charge and that Vault which they showed was welcoming refugees from the outside) thought that there were no survivors outside and they were practically the only ones left on Earth?
     
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    No.

    32 and 33 definitely knew there would be survivors. Their entire mission was to cultivate a perfect society and then emerge from the Vaults to bring peace and order to the barbarians who would be living on the surface and rebuild the USA.

    It's part of Lucy's mild crisis upon learning about Shady Sands/NCR... her entire life was a lie, they didn't need the Vaults to come and rebuild the world. People had already done it.

    I was thinking some more about what to me would be the only real "continuity error" in the show and I REALLY don't see it as any sort of real issue... in spoilers.

    Ok so the graphic should "Fall of the Shady Sands" in 2277... but then a line with a nuke picture. That would imply to me the nuke happened AFTER 2277.

    Show takes place in 2296, so we do have to take into account that 2277 was 19 years prior and both Maximus and Lucy lived there when they were young, Lucy being roughly 4-5 and Max probably aroundish the same age? The timeline is a bit screwy though... Birdie mentions she was 11 when the nuke happened... the actress is 47 in real life, but that doesn't really matter. If the blast happened in 2282, a year after NV, that would put Birdie in her late 20's by the time of the show... I can buy that.

    So if Lucy is in her very early 20's, that tracks with her age. Now also, compare what we see of Shady Sands... in Max's flashback, there's alot of wreckage. When we see "the shithole", it's a literal hole in the ground with essentially nothing there.

    I don't think Hank's total destruction of Shady Sands occurred immediately. 2277 was the beginning the fall, and there was probably so war leading up to the... nuclear option. The very fact that the BoS was there, who were literally at war with the NCR at this time, might suggest some of that destruction was BoS, not Hank. Hank eventually dropped a nuke on a nuke on the remnants and wiped it off the map.

    Either way, by 2281 (New Vegas), it's clear the NCR is in rough shape. Shady Sands should well have been in decline by then.

    So, i'm going to say that Lucy was 5 when she was in Shady Sands, and she was back in the Vault before it was destroyed (obviously). So I can say Lucy was 5 in 2281, which then makes we 20 by the time of the show... I think entirely reasonable. Lucy would have missed the real heyday of Shady Sands, as it was in decline since 2277, but then got finished off 2282.

    So yeah. I think Shady Sands existing in 2281 still tracks... it may have been in rough shape already... but to also have been destroyed just slightly after NV.
     
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    Great news about the second-season pickup. :techman:

    That was pretty awesome first season. It's tense while humourous, and a brilliant soundtrack. I remember a lot of the music from this adaption playing in the old games when I was wandering around the wastelands.
     
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    Loved it.

    Did anyone else half expect when the minute men music started playing for preston Garvy to show up claiming a settlement needed help?
     
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    Remember the golden rule.
    Thou shall always get side tracked by bullshit every god damed time.
     
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