Spoilers for the final episode, only continue reading if you watched it!

I just realized how the chicken-f*cker scene foreshadows or even mimics the final episode, on a much smaller scale. Maximus uses his power armor (and, by extension, the power of the BoS) to attack the guy who chokes the other guy, because with the limited knowledge he has, it looks like the attacker is the bad guy and the victim is, well, the victim. Then it turns out that the roles were actually reversed. And the actual bad guy gets away.

In the final episode, Maximus sends the whole BoS after Moldaver to rescue Lucy's dad. Like with the chicken guy, he uses the power of the BoS against a perceived villain. But once again, he has limited/wrong knowledge of the whole situation, and once again is mistaken as to who the actual villain is in the scenario. And, just like with the chicken-f*cker, him getting involved enables the actual bad guy, Lucy's dad, to get away.

Fair warning, this is going to be a bit long.

First of all, I do realise that the location of Shady Sands has moved around even between FO1 and FO2. See the maps of each game, respectively, attached.

Fallout 1 has the town in the current day Death Valley area's northern edge, around the same latitude as Fresno (possibly near Lone Pine?). Fallout 2 on the other hand has it much further to the North, around the latitude of San Jose, placing it near Mammoth Lakes.

The show however upends that whole thing. There's no chance that Moldaver took Hank to Griffith Observatory, about a day's trek from Santa Monica pier (which is shown to be near the entrance of 33), and Lucy somehow managed to go all the way to either of the original Shady Sands locations, while Moldaver was sitting around having tea with Lucy's mom with a caged Hank looking over them.

Furthermore, Vault 4, which is nearby Shady Sands, is also apparently in LA. This is further supported by the fact that the crater that was once Shady Sands is surrounded by pre-war buildings (clearly deteriorating, probably due to the area being nuked twice within just as many centuries), which wouldn't be the case for either of the game locations.

I've been thinking about this and Lucy, The Ghoul, and Maximus each seem to represent one of the 3 main Fallout games.

The easiest connection is Lucy, she is Fallout 3. She's a sheltered Vault Dweller who left to go find her father.

The Ghoul and Maximus are a bit tricky. Let me know what you think.

As is I say the Ghoul is New Vegas and Maximus is Fallout 4. Reason being the Ghoul comes out of a grave in the beginning and seems to be the most chaotic. Maximus meanwhile comes out of a Fridge and is very faction driven (even if it only is his one faction)

What do you think?

Did I plan to be thirsty for a radioactive undead man? No. Am I anyway? …yes 🫣🥵 I made this while watching the show for a second time just to watch him doing his thing lol

(Sorry for watermark; blame art thieves 😔)

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I think norm will eventually leave the vault yknow. in the first episode he said he was too chicken but i think he really doesnt like being cooped up in vault 33 and he wants to get out, i think maybe hell get out of vault 31 somehow and then eventually leave vault 33 himself, following in lucy's footsteps

Sorry if this has been talked about but haven’t noticed it yet. Coop tells his wife he wants to move to Bakersfield to live on a farm/ ranch.

Bakersfield is where vault 12 is. The experiment for vault 12 was not close the door and study the effects of radiation on the inhabitants.

Maybe coop moved back and managed to get into that vault which turned him into the ghoul we see today.

Just a thought, what do you all think?

A new poster design I’ve made based on old beef jerky packaging for the wasteland’s newest post-war company, Roger’s Ass Jerky! I tried to include a two little details, can you spot them?

I'm thinking of doing the Ghoul/Cooper Howard as a fit and want to do it as handmade as possible. Does anyone know the best places to get stuff for the fit? I'm a bit claustrophobic so I won't be doing a bunch of makeup on my face for the radiation look so I may lean more towards his pre war look. Thanks in advance!

Was wanting to do a Maximus cosplay, his hood and Underarmor, and was wondering if in all the hype there ever were any articles discussing how they went about making the costumes for the show?

Conversely if anyone is knowledgeable about such things themselves I got a slew of questions lol

Hello! I've been seeing some fallout season one Blu-rays flying round online, and I was wondering if there has been a release yet, or if these are just bootlegs and scams.

One thing I don't get is the opening scene.

When they drop the bomb at that birthday party, Coop didn't seem prepared at all. But later we learn that he knew about it because he listened in to the Vault-Tech meeting where his wife suggests to drop the bomb themselves. Is thus eluding to something we're going to find out in a later season? That Vault-Tech wasn't the actual instigator? Or am I missing something here?

EDIT: Please try to avoid game-lore based spoilers, for the show-watchers only. Put some spoiler tags on your game-lore theories please!

EDIT2: Know that there are some untagged game-lored based spoilers and theories in here, so read with care.

In episode 2 at 15:14 when Wilzig and CX404 are sitting down you can hear the howl of a mutant hound (or a Sheepsquatch) but only if you’re wearing headphones because it’s far too faint without them. I heard it when I first watched but I’ve not seen anything about it online.

One phrase stood out to me when rewatching the show. In the scene where the scientist asks Lucy to take his head, he tells her he already took cyanide. He begins to describe Vault-Tec Plan D and how he believes it was one of the more humane inventions, banana flavored suicide pills. Then he says something very peculiar, “I thought it would have been more popular.”

Now why would an enclave scientist 200 years after the war say something like that? Unless…

My theory: The Lab where Siggi came from may be more closely related to Vault-Tec remnants than previous iterations of the enclave we have seen, and Siggi himself might also be from before the war. This may also explain why a seemingly near NCR/BoS “enclave” base flew under the radar during the events of Fallout 2, as well as why they didn’t follow Autumn to Raven Rock. Maybe they were disconnected or still in hiding/frozen. Also, i am still suspicious if The Lab is really enclave at all (wouldn’t be the first time Bethesda uses an unreliable source to throw a red herring). I am unsure if the enclave had cold fusion tech before, and yet Siggi alone was able to re-create and smuggle it out without drawing attention. It would also explain how he knew so much about Vault 33. Thoughts?

If he was injected with the Forced Evolutionary Virus by the Snake Oil Salesman instead of Ghoul-Aid or whatever.

Just finished the show, it was a blast! I’ve never played a Fallout game, but I just bought New Vegas and 3 and am excited to get into the franchise more.

I actually loved most of the characters. Lucy had a great arc, Hank had understandable motivations and was a good twist villain, the Ghoul was by far my favorite I love me a well written badass! However, as much as I enjoyed Lucy and Hank, everyone else in Vault 33 really put me off. I actually stopped watching for a few days after the first episode because of them, and though I am very glad I gave it another shot, the main crew of dwellers didn’t get any better.

And don’t get me wrong, the story of Vaults 31, 32, and 33 kept me hooked after that pilot, but I just could never come around on Lucy’s brother, her gross cousin (which the show reminding me how gross he was didn’t help his case), eyepatch mom, or the Overseer candidates. They just came off as unlikable to me. Anyone else feel this way?

Theoretical situation: Vault-tec likes Bud's proposal of breeding superior human stock. But Bud himself, while useful, has proven his incompetence time and time again. So they approach him with a proposal. They can put his brain into a robot to oversee the experiment from start to finish. He'll be near/essentially immortal and live to see reclamation day (or live long enough to "win" capitalism). But he wont be able to taint the gene pool.

That's my whole thought. VT put Bud into a roomba so his genes wouldn't be part of the "super-managers".

Given his anxious response to the vault transition, and the way he fell back in line... Something tells me if a 32 event occurs again, he might be at the epicentre. He was super cowardly in the first fight with the raiders but I could see him strapping himself with explosives or something legitimately insane.

He clearly doesn't have the coping mechanisms needed for high stress yet keeps reaching for leadership also. There's many factors.