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 So this show is adding more to the overall series lore than I expected. I better understand why some fans of certain/earlier games are upset. Wondering why the New California Republic isn't a bigger presence in the show? Apparently some time shortly after [[Fallout: New Vegas]], that society went down in bombs as well. It's a bit of a punch in the gut for things like that to happen, but in several ways it makes sense for the series. It sidesteps the need to choose a canon ending for New Vegas by making it not have lasting effects. And for Fallout as an ongoing series it makes sense that it's stuck as a world of junk and radiation rather than having major ongoing successful society within the continental United States. Maximus doesn't even think of 2077 as the big war, since to him the end of the NCR was the end of society.
+So who bombed the NCR? Left vague intentionally so it could be one of several factions from New Vegas? Oooor we see the Brotherhood of Steel in the area in the immediate aftermath, and we know they're not above wiping out areas they deem too dangerous. Did Maximus accidentally go on to worship the people who took his world away?
 The Vault 33 stuff remains pretty interesting, too. As I've said before usually in games we deal with the Vault briefly and then move on with our lives, but here we see the people left behind slowly coming to learn how... staged things are in the way Vault-Tec set them up, with apparently all of 32's and 33's overseers being from 31; and the carnage of 32 being cleaned up before most residents of 33 could see it. It also recontextualizes Hank McLean as one of the "bad guys" or at least "manipulative forces", since he too was an immigrant from 31 who became overseer.
+I don't think I realized until about now that Cooper Howard is probably named for Todd Howard.
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 : '''The Trap''' ''[[2024]] [[April 10]]''
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+(First watched 2024-04-12) The continuing 21st century stuff is actually pretty compelling. From the games of course we knew Vault-Tec to be a pretty messed up company, but here we see it presented as a company who is actively working against world peace because their products wouldn't sell in a peaceful world. And Cooper's wife clearly knows about the experimental vaults, which is why she thinks it's so important to get her family into one of the "good vaults". In the first episode we were presented with a divorced Cooper, so I imagine the familial Vault-Tec conflicts will lead to that.
+So this Moldaver survives to the late 23rd century, but doesn't seem to be a ghoul... mysteries. There are cryo-pods, but she didn't seem like someone fresh from pre-War days either.
+Vault 4 had Maximus's power armor that they left hidden. He didn't seem surprised to see it there, so did they tell them where to go pick it up or what?
+The Ghoul just sewed his finger back on and considered that good enough... maybe ghoul transplants/reattachments are just that easy.
+New Vegas theme played when Lucy saw the New California Republic flag. Which reminds me: the composer of Fallout 3/NV/4/76, [[Inon Zur]], has also worked on TV and film, but they didn't use him for this show? I wonder why.
+So the strange stuff going on on level 12 of Vault 4. Is that suggesting that some of the wasteland's weird creatures like mirelurks (or whatever those things on the video are) are creations rather than just nuclear mutations? Certainly seems more realistic than just mutations making things more humanoid over a few centuries, but until now that was just how broad the suspension of disbelief needed to be.
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 : '''The Radio''' ''[[2024]] [[April 10]]''
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+(First watched 2024-04-13) So 21st century Moldaver was working on advanced energy technology, which Vault-Tec bought and buried. Safe to guess this is what's in the head, maybe it is just a "USB stick" after all.
+So the quack doctor was slightly less of a quack than anticipated. His cure did work... even if it resulted in Thaddeus becoming a ghoul.
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 : '''The Beginning''' ''[[2024]] [[April 10]]''
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+(First watched 2024-04-13) You maniacs! You blew it up! So Vault-Tec actively made sure the bombs dropped all along. Yikes. From the games they seemed carrion-eaters, but now they're the mass murderers. And it was Vault-Tec again in the person of Hank McLean that took out Shady Sands. So it wasn't part of a war with another faction or anything. Looks like next season they'll be visiting New Vegas, which is more of a mess than we last saw it. Since it wasn't the NCR entirely being bombed that's no longer a direct explanation, but I'd buy that the capital being blown up left the rest of the NCR in disarray allowing places like New Vegas to collapse. I guess we'll see.
+I've seen fans of 1/2/NV say this series puts the canonicity of those games in modern Fallout in question... but I don't see that. I mean, I don't know every detail, and I doubt every detail was perfectly maintained, but this show seemed MUCH more heavily connected to the events of those games than 3 or 4. I think they just... don't like what became of the places and groups they'd grown an attachment to.
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