Flashbacks were the strongest parts of Fallout’s first season. While it was a joy to follow both Lucy and Maximus across the wasteland in search of a purpose, the emotional foundation of the show sat on The Ghoul’s shoulders. Whenever the show decided to take us back long before the bombs dropped and into the shoes of Cooper Howard, I was seated.
His personal story is devastating as he becomes the face of Vault-Tec believing that it will be the only way to ensure the safety of him and his family if the worst transpires. To watch him begin the show as a fervent optimist with a hate for the capitalist systems he’s forced to work within to a man staring the inevitable apocalypse in the face right as his wife betrays him is heartbreaking, but such good television.
Fallout Season 2 Is Definitely Taking Us To New Vegas
Now, hundreds of years later, he’s on a mission to find his family even as addiction pulls him down into despair and the skin flakes off his radioactive body. It’s hard not to root for Cooper after everything he’s been through, despite him leaving that name behind a long, long time ago.
New Vegas was teased at the end of the first season in one of the final shots, and many factions and events associated with the iconic locale have already been mentioned. It felt like the show was slowly but surely building up to its presence, and now we know it will be playing a major part in the season to come. But how exactly will it look and feel when held against Obsidian’s beloved RPG? My guess is that we’ll be seeing plenty of it in flashbacks.
So many of the sets are hand-built and packed with detail, something that this show has done a fantastic job of expressing so far. I’ll always prefer this practical touch over green screens.
Recent leaks from the set show a number of familiar locations from the game, including the Lucky 38 and Ultra-Luxe casinos, meaning the show is pulling imagery and names directly from the game instead of putting its own spin on things.
It might do just that, but much like HBO’s The Last of Us, it knows the most important thing is to create a feeling of familiarity and then pursue expansion from there. It looks real snazzy, and the first season was excellent, so I’m willing to trust them with this one.
The season finale unveiled some of the big players responsible for ushering in the end of the world, and how many of them were willing to work together and eradicate humanity if the end result was forcing people into vaults and increasing their profit margins.
It was a perfect way to explore the anti-capitalist message that has always been part of Fallout’s DNA, and how the billions of human lives such a decision will influence means nothing when weighed against the prospect of deeper and deeper pockets.
I’m getting a lot of Fallout 2 vibes from some of the leaked set videos, too, which is no bad thing.
And I bet most of these big players were living it up in Las Vegas, visiting its luxurious dens of gambling and debauchery to make deals and party just before the bombs began to drop. Perhaps we will see Mr. House in the flesh, alive and well, before we return to the present day, where Lucy and Maximus find his consciousness trapped in an oversized computer.
And I Can’t Wait To See What Surprises It Has In Store
I’m also curious to see how the past and present versions of New Vegas are contrasted with one another, and whether these sets imply that large parts of Vegas survived the apocalypse or were potentially even spared by higher powers who saw it as a continuous source of profit.
We shouldn’t be shocked that Sin City, a monument to debt and regret, is able to survive a world-ending event orchestrated by a small group of people who care for profits more than human life.
But this will only make our main characters bringing this city to its knees all the more satisfying. Lucy’s father has his eyes on New Vegas at the end of the first season, so there is justification to believe he has a contact there who will put his plans in motion.
Fans are going to be thrilled about the role New Vegas is set to play throughout Fallout’s second season, but what I’m most excited about is stepping back in time to watch a selection of doomed characters try to pursue a semblance of good in a world that is already doomed, all while the evildoers twiddle their thumbs in plutocratic anticipation.
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