Spoilers, obviously.

I liked it a lot, but the depiction of the brotherhood was INSANELY bad, from the erasure of paladins and scribes to add “clerics,” incense and branding rituals, the “my lord” shenanigans, the utter lack of energy weapons or, ya know, actual squads used, ever, and the toleration of beatings and hazings in the group absolutely obsessed with brotherhood and kinship.

I also really hate the idea of VT starting the war when we’ve had suggestions it was China in response to the Gobi campaign since forever. Killing peace talks? Absolutely. Starting it? No, shush. And why the hell was a vault able to cause a massive nuclear detonation? For that matter, why is Shady Sands inside the Boneyard when its entire story is being built on new ground with sandcrete and farming on territory with nothing there before? And the whole “the NCR moved its capital off screen” thing they’ve come up with in interviews is real goofy, and feels like trying to have their cake and eat it too in terms of “destroying” the NCR and being able to just bring it back intact later.

The depiction of ghouls as able to shrug off bullets and the “vials” was also a little annoying when that’s absolutely never been a thing and some ghouls have been isolated from trade networks for centuries totally unable to get this stuff without going feral, but is easier to overlook because it was executed well and can just be ignored in the games.

So yeah, lot to like and I was very happy overall, but they made some BIG mistakes they need to clean up, and certainly not repeat when they’re going to New Vegas.

The vials could have just been to slow down or stop a ghoul in the process of turning feral. But no, it had to be a do it or die drug.

Surprisingly good.

The vials could still just temporarily halt the feral. The question is, why would some ghouls need it but others not?

As for the Shady Sands, the best I can come up with is the “fall of Shady Sands.” this refers to the capital and it being social-economic decline because of the leadership sucking; meanwhile, the Shady Sands at the Bone Yard is a different settlement that just adopted the name.

We will have to wait and see for New Vegas, but I strongly recommend not having the NCR win.

General consensus seems to be that a House ending is likely, but things go wrong (ergo the lights being off in that shot and the end credits showing a crashed vert and disabled securitrons in the streets). I don’t think there’s a way around the Shady Sands thing ultimately, they’ve already exploited writing excuses to say that wasn’t even the NCR’s capital anymore, they can’t then also say “that was actually shady sands 2, and neither was the capital.”

The “Shady Sands was not the capital” is not an in-film thing but a behind-the-scenes response. So they could ignore the statement

A statement made is a statement made, particularly on something that generated this much fan confusion and curiosity, you backtrack on it, consequences to the validity and fan investment in your world are just as bad as overruling content in the games or show.

Sure, but does it make sense to have behind-the-scenes statements hold the same value as officially published content?

They gave an explanation now, it would be weird if they contradicted their own explanation in season 2.

Good I am not hallucinating thinking this is the fourth "Is the Fallout show bussin or floppin" in the last 24 hours. Also decent show. Good binge while going on Riader hunting spree