Ryujin
Legend
I'll start by saying I know absolutely no lore from the game, but here are my takes.I binged the rest of the show last night. So amazing!
I have questions and quibbles:
- How did Moldaver survive for so long? She didn't appear to be a ghoul, nor did she appear to have been cryogenically frozen. Is there some other way to extend your lifespan in the Fallout universe?
- How were there still working lights for the cold fusion generator to turn back on in the destroyed skyscrapers? (I presume that was downtown LA? Aside from the Hollywood sign, about the only landmark I recognized was LAX's Theme Building.)
- Cooper has kept himself alive because he's searching for his (ex-)wife and child? I had assumed that Cooper turned into a ghoul because he was exposed to the radiation from the bombs - given he was riding away on a horse with Janey, that means that Janey should either be dead or also a ghoul. Unless he somehow managed to get her to a vault, where they gave her RadAway but didn't let him inside?
- I'm sure I saw various people walk past the same long ruined building multiple times. I'm not sure if it was meant to be the same building (as in it lay on the main route people were taking back and forth) or just a convenient ruin that they kept reusing.
- We never learn how Wilzig knew Lucy's name. (Or how he was in contact with Moldaver.)
- I presume that Norm poisoned the raiders. It seemed like both Betty and Steph were manipulating him into doing it - I presume because the raiders were a complication in their plan.
- Also, who cleaned up Vault 32? Did Bud the brain-in-the-robotic-jar unfreeze a bunch of his buds and get them to clean it all up before freezing them again? Would Betty and Steph have known about what happened in 32?
- I'm guessing that the shadowy figure at whom Barb glanced up is the same person that Hank has gone to see in New Vegas?
- I'm super-confused by Vault 4.
- If ghoulification is something that can happen due to radiation exposure, how did the snake oil salesman turn Thaddeus into one with his "medicine"?
- Speaking of ghouls, the whole sentient but can go feral thing reminds me of Warm Bodies.
- I assumed that she was in cryo and just got out earlier. She developed the cold fusion tech, so would have been in one of the "good" vaults. she didn't liek the plan, so escaped?
- They probably set them up in the event that they finally got the cold fusion reactor running.
- Might be that the ghoul serum was a first attempt to preserve people, long term. I bet Cooper go tan experimental dose, before the war.
- Could be because there's a limited number of such locations. Might be because they were travelling between the same places.
- He was almost certainly in cryo, along with Moldaver and MacLean. Maybe that's it, or maybe it was just a slip?
- Norm seemed surprised when they were dead. It was likely the Vault 31 bunch that did it. Certainly set up plausible deniability for them, that he first brought it up.
- They have robots, so could have been that. Or it could have been the Vault 31 bunch from 33.
- Seems plausible. President/CEO of VaultTech would be my best guess.
- Vault 4 was presumably "one of the good vaults." Level 12 would be where they were cooking up mutants to wipe out the surface dwellers, so that there's a barren surface to repopulate.
- The ghoul serum would be what does it, not radiation, though I imagine radiation will eventually cook you into quite a mess with enough exposure. Two hundred years of exposure is rather a lot. I would hazard a guess that the serum is what also keeps them form going feral.
- A hell of a good movie. And I'm not a RomCom kinda guy.