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Fallout: The Television Series

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It was a bit anticlimactic as finales go. It was a perfectly fine episode but didn't end the season on a bang. It felt like just another episode, maybe a penultimate episode.

I'm glad it was a faction as big as the Enclave that bested House, wandering wild deathclaws or raiders would not have been able to destroy Vegas.

Edward ending the Legion with his death I suppose shows his pride got the better of his convictions. Or his brain tumour messed with his mental state.

Still some untold stories like why are the Kings feral ghouls? Did anyone try and use the pet deathclaws at the Thorn to fight the Enclave ones?

Hopefully season 3 offers more conclusions. I quite enjoyed this season but it was all set up.
 
Steph would have needed to be thawed out three decades ago, popped out a baby and then gone straight back into deep freeze.

Talking of which, and this might have been explained in season 1 and I've just forgotten, but how do they explain how people like Hank or Betty or Steph just show up out of the blue in the vaults?
As others have surmised it appears the answer is transferred from another vault. In fact, in the case of Steph, I assume Hank had it planned out more or less as follows: Stick her in another vault (since she wasn't management) and then transfer her over later. Whether the delay was part of the plan or caused by some complication is yet to be determined.
6-8 episodes either leaves characters underdeveloped, making it hard to create attachment or they concentrate on a tight little group to do it right which can cause other problems such as insane plot armor because you can't lose any of this small group.

Fallout does it well enough with their 8 episode seasons and so far the writing has held up very well with their short seasons.
Eight episodes works for this show. Any more and I think it'd end up bloated. As it is, it's like two movies in a longer series.


One question: At the end was House offline because the Ghoul dropped the communicator or was he just playing possom because Lucy and Max were in the office?
 
One question: At the end was House offline because the Ghoul dropped the communicator or was he just playing possom because Lucy and Max were in the office?
Neither. His screen always says that when he isn't actively using it to communicate. It says signal lost in the same way a monitor will say no input detected when you turn a computer off. Signal lost is just no signal being transmitted to that screen directly.
 
I've been wanting to watch this show since its premiere, but hadn't had the time.

That changed today, though, because I needed something else, Podcast-wise, to keep myself entertained at work besides TV Podcast Industries ' Penny Dreadful coverage (and Fridays are my Prime Video day).

I accidentally started watching the second episode of Season 1 first without realizing it, but was able to shift over to Episode 1 pretty quickly, and was actually quite happy with what we got for the Premiere.

I'm not usually one for things that aren't direct adaptations of stories I'm already familiar with, but I was pretty quickly drawn into the story because it felt like it could've come from a game in the series.

On the casting and character front, the only actor whose previous works I'm more than tangentially familiar with is Xelia Mendez Jones, who plays the character of Dane, although I did really like Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins as well.

I'm excited to see where the story goes next, and it'll be interesting to find out how the show keeps characters like Lucy's brother and Dane involved given that they're separated from the rest of the 'action' at the moment.
 
Wow, there are some big names in the cast, I'm a little shocked that that's the only person you're familiar with.
 
I haven't seen anything that people like Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins, and Kyle McLaughlin have been in.
I never even heard of Ella before Fallout. Goggins I only knew from Justified ( which I didn't see but I was at least aware of it ) and Ant-Man 2 ( some of which I saw on tv ).
But someone not having seen anything with Kyle MacLachlan is shocking to me!
 
For me, I was mostly familiar with Mclaughlan (Though I've never seen Twin Peaks oddly. One of my mates raves about it.) Goggins, I'd seen in a few things. Purnell, never (Since seen a couple of things with her in and she's been great in all of them)
 
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