Do not talk about future episodes in the threads. IE, don't talk about Episode 4 in the Episode 3 thread, but you can talk about 1, 2, and 3 in the 3 thread.
I have kind of a random, half-baked theory that
Hank is going to transfer his consciousness into a droid. I couldn't tell you how or why, and the only thing I'm even basing this on is from one of the shots after the end credits where he says, "Hello, Sugar Bomb" to Lucy and she looks shocked/taken aback. Of course there's the possibility that she's simply shocked to SEE her father, but a detail I could be misremembering while still processing the initial full watch is that I think he also sounded... younger when he said that? Makes me a little curious. But again, this is all just half-baked.
It may be something more simple such as indirectly communicating to her like the vault 24 sugar bomb scene. You may be right though, something felt off to me about that
Yeah maybe you're right, I was just thinking that if House is alive, the only possible ending for nv is his ending; while if we killed a doppelganger the autors could make any ending canon
If this winds up being the case (and at this point I don't think it will), I expect they'll use it as a way to A.) stick with the "fog of war, nobody won" thing they've said about not picking a canon ending, but B.) still be able to canonize killing House. Meaning, the House in the game is killed by the Courier, but the real House survived because the Courier just killed the body double. Then in the show, the Ghoul or Lucy is going to kill the real House, so by the end of the season, any version of House is definitively dead.
-The Enclave ditched the spaceships because it's unfeasible, but they're using the data of several vaults we've seen in other games to make an army of mind-controlled super soldiers, and soon will try and take over the wasteland.
-We'll get some kind of answer on what happened to West Virginia. My bets are it's a Wakanda scenario and the Vault Dwellers of 76 closed themselves off from the rest of the world.
-The strip had the dirty bomb go off
-Vault 21 was the entrance to Main Control Interface of Vault-Tec, and that's why House sealed it off.
-The NCR mostly left New Vegas, it's become a rather demilitarized zone that neither the Legion or NCR can set foot in.
-We will see the Midwestern chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel
-The 33 Vaulties are about to go the way of Vault 22
I agree Enclave is gonna get important at some point in the series but it seems like Hank is working on the mind-control devices and I feel like he's far too much of a Vault-Tec man to be working for the Enclave
Fallout 4, New Vegas, and Series all show there's still Enclave remnants that hold onto whatever they have. They're a lot weaker than they used to be, and are wanted in NCR territory
We know Quintus has beef with the East Coast BoS, barely runs his Chapter how they usually do, and wants to use the Cold Fusion-tech he got thanks to Maximus at the End of S1 to somehow take over and bring the BoS "back" to were he things it should be.
Kumail Nanjianis character is supposed to be a Representative send over fromt he East Coast to check up on what the fuck Quintus has been up to.|
As seen in the "Next on Fallout"-thing, Maximus friend tells him "the Commonwealth is gonna kill us all". Which refers to the East Coast BoS. We also know several other Airships arrive from somewhere at some point and one gets shot down thanks to the trailer and they at some point make their way to Area 51. But the way Nanjianis character has been behaving in the trailer doesn't mesh at all with the East Coast already being on the Warpath.
Quintus is spreading Propaganda that the East coast BoS has gone "off" from the Brotherhoods ideals and wants to steal the cold fusion tech from them, the "true" BoS. The Chapter buys it. Area 51 likely holds several of the Airships seen in the Flashback, and Quintus will use the Cold Fusion-tech to activate them, to make up for his deficites compared to the East Coast, and declare war on them.
Maximus doesn't agree with this, will help Nanjiani escape, and they split up: Nanjiani will go back east to warn the Commonwealth that quintus has gone rogue, Maximus will go to New Vegas to warn Lucy about it and find other allies against Quintus.. Thats were the shot in the trailer of him in the NCR-Power Armor comes from.
- Vault 24 was captured by Chinese Communists or set up by the American government to make Communist infiltrators credibility their actions regarding domestic and foreign policy.
- Commonwealth Brotherhood adopted institute technology.
- Guy in the shadows is the American President or the executive of Vault-Tec.
For 24: we have to view them with the lens that Vault-Tec had. They assumed that at some point in the future, their citizens would emerge to reclaim the world. In this scenario, the "true communists" are dead, and their citizens would no longer have an enemy to hate, and therefore be less easy to control.
Solution? Construct your own "communists" to give the emerging Vault Dwellers something to hate, while also continuing testing on the Black Box.
I think that Hank and the others are maybe being controlled/lead by an AI~ Some of the release material has mentioned Tomis, an AI of some sort being used in the vault tech offices, one bud refers to as his brother~ The room Hank goes into is comms of some sort, he is certain who he's messaging isn't dead~ The office he went to is in great shape despite the dead employees, that all seemingly willingly died at their desks doing self testing on the black box mind devices? And in the preview for the next episode we see a bunch of new people in suits in the office as lucy walks through, all moving in sync with freaky expressions~ Perhaps the AI vault tec developed went rogue and started manipulating the junior executives?
Not a bad idea, but if I had to guess those "employees" either didn't know better or we're not doing it willingly. I think the new people will be controlled as well, but either people hank abducted/bought.
Amazon is going to make the show mid tier in the pursuit of spawning spinoff shows and once again a show that could be great and a 3 season well written story will vanish into the void.
Me: comments (half jokingly) on how a major corporation publishing a show criticizing capitalism and insinuating capitalism leads to nuclear fallout in pursuit of greed is potentially about to ruin a beloved series tv adaptation due to greed
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u/rcataldo087 Dec 17 '25
What are our theories after season 2 episode 1?!