Opening scene was one of my favorite scenes from the show so far.

My predictions...we will see a mind controlled death claw vs power armor and the the vault 31 escapees will somehow become super mutants and the villains for season 3. The trailer and previews seem to suggest this.

Finally got a chance to see episode 2. Really liked it but wish they would have advanced the plotlines a little more. It seemed very short, though that may have been all the ads (felt like a couple after every scene and really liked the experience) and my kids interrupting.

HalifaxAg said:

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My predictions...we will see a mind controlled death claw vs power armor and the the vault 31 escapees will somehow become super mutants and the villains for season 3. The trailer and previews seem to suggest this.

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I like these predictions. Them stumbling into some forgotten FEV from the Master would be an interesting development.

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His friend is a b****, though. I can't stand that look she gave before walking away, after Maximus literally killed a man trying to kill him. There was NOTHING wrong with Maximus dropping him.

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I don't interpret that look as disappointment in Max for killing the guy. I interpreted as a "Dude, doesn't it suck that you just had to kill a 'brother' who tried to murder you in a ring of cheering soldiers? And everyone is celebrating that you killed him? Nobody is mourning his death and nobody would have mourned your death. Didn't I tell you this place is so ****ed up? Can't you see it?" Look

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Lathspell said:

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His friend is a b****, though. I can't stand that look she gave before walking away, after Maximus literally killed a man trying to kill him. There was NOTHING wrong with Maximus dropping him.

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I don't interpret that look as disappointment in Max for killing the guy. I interpreted as a "Dude, doesn't it suck that you just had to kill a 'brother' who tried to murder you in a ring of cheering soldiers? And everyone is celebrating that you killed him? Nobody is mourning his death and nobody would have mourned your death. Didn't I tell you this place is so ****ed up? Can't you see it?" Look

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Not when also adding the walk away. I take that as a look of disapproval followed by a walk-off.

Besides the little nitpicks, I'm fully invested in this season. They seem to be picking up where they left off, as far as quality and faithfulness to the IP. That's all I ask.

Waiting a week for each episode sucks.

Spoilers from this week's episode in this post.

They are doing such a good job with this season. I love how they are working more moral quandaries into the episodes, like this week's "do you save the ghoul children if doing so will cause a massive civil war?" and last week's "who gets the last stimpac?" I sense the lesson we'll keep seeing from these decisions is "no good deed goes unpunished" in the fallout universe.

The legion civil war was a very fitting evolution for what the future held for that faction after New Vegas.

Camp Golf was perfect. Victor was great. Seeing the securitrons is great. The fan service has all been fantastic.

I wonder if Thaddeus was knowingly or unknowingly working for House…

Spot on! So far the show has continued to get better

Are we certain Paladin Xander is dead? It sure looks like it, but kind of sucks we don't get more with him.

My only complaint is Lucy seems to have regressed from her character growth from last season. I felt we saw her finally adapt to life in the wasteland, but then we see her make the same mistakes she did in Season 1, by going off on her own in an unfamiliar place, leaving behind her only ally and certified badass. I didn't like that decision from a character perspective.

It's funny, but I'm actually preferring Maximus' character arc, this season, compared to Lucy's. In Season 1, it was the opposite.

Dwight Yoakum's drummer on the Nashville NYE broadcast is a ghoul, I'm convinced.

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Are we certain Paladin Xander is dead? It sure looks like it, but kind of sucks we don't get more with him.

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Best theory I've seen is that he's a synth since he's from the Commonwealth. That would make his interaction with the kids being abominations much more interesting (similar to the Paladin Danse storyline).

BenTheGoodAg said:

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Lathspell said:

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Are we certain Paladin Xander is dead? It sure looks like it, but kind of sucks we don't get more with him.

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Best theory I've seen is that he's a synth since he's from the Commonwealth. That would make his interaction with the kids being abominations much more interesting (similar to the Paladin Danse storyline).

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FO4 Spoilers
That's an interesting theory. After we first heard the Commonwealth mentioned, I was wondering if we would get synths and the Institute. Granted, that all comes down to what ending they chose as canon for the world.

Lathspell said:

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BenTheGoodAg said:

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Lathspell said:

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Are we certain Paladin Xander is dead? It sure looks like it, but kind of sucks we don't get more with him.

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Best theory I've seen is that he's a synth since he's from the Commonwealth. That would make his interaction with the kids being abominations much more interesting (similar to the Paladin Danse storyline).

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FO4 Spoilers
That's an interesting theory. After we first heard the Commonwealth mentioned, I was wondering if we would get synths and the Institute. Granted, that all comes down to what ending they chose as canon for the world.

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I doubt he's a synth just because that would be a lot of explaining to do for casual viewers and it would yank their attention in a new direction away from everything else happening this season. If there had been any hints about synths elsewhere in the season, it could make sense. But there's just been zero setup.

+ House's mind control tech kind of covers the same ground in a different way. With synths, the tension is "Who is a synth, secretly working for the bad guys?" With the mind control tech, we may soon find ourselves asking, "Who is under the influence of mind control, secretly working for the bad guys?"

That almost noped me out of the game in the very first few clips when I started

Last couple lines of episode 3 were hilarious. Really enjoying this season.