The new series from the creators of ‘Westworld’ has already closed its season 1, but this has only just begun
April 16, 2024, 7:30 p.m.
Updated April 16, 2024, 9:38 p.m.
The new series ‘Fallout’ is not a television version of any adaptation of any game in the franchise, but the success of Amazon Prime Video is set in the same timeline as those, so its big twists and revelations can be very shocking for fans who know the history well. Over the course of eight episodes, we follow Lucy (Ella Purnell), Maximus (Aaron Moten), and The Ghoul/Cooper Howard (Walton Goggins) as they uncover the mysteries of Vault-Tec.
Warning: SPOILERS from here on…
When the outsiders attack Vault 33 at the beginning of the season, each goes on their own quest, but their paths converge at the end, when the MacGuffin becomes something much bigger that will affect the future of the series for years to come. The so-called “Great War” that created the Nuclear Wasteland has long been thought to have been caused by the conflict between China and the United States. Now it is revealed that all of this was a lie and that communism was nothing more than a red herring. Through flashbacks in which a pre-Ghoul Cooper spies on his wife, Barb (Frances Turner), we discover the truth.
Vault-Tec was not only aware of the inevitable nuclear holocaust, but was directly responsible for it. We learn that they dropped the bombs on a meeting with Vault-Tec and other powerful corporate entities in what could very well be a meeting of a pre-war Enclave. Also We discover that Lucy’s father, Hank (Kyle MacLachlan), is not who he says he is. Instead of being born in a Vault, he was born 200 years ago, before the war even started, and worked as a high-ranking employee at Vault-Tec.
Family secrets
Hank participated in that atrocity and Lucy learns he was also responsible for the explosion that destroyed Shady Sands, the community that raider leader Moldaver (Sarita Choudhury) and her mother, Rose (Elle Vertes), helped build. Killing her mother would have been sin enough, but in addition, Rose became a Ghoul, so her daughter takes her out of her misery, but Hank puts on power armor and escapes. she. As soon as the Brotherhood of Steel arrives, Moldaver’s forces are completely decimated. and she is mortally wounded.
Luckily, he manages to make use of Dr. Wilzig’s (Michael Emerson) breakthrough in cold fusion energy, the most important invention in history, so, even with his mortal wounds, he turns on the reactor. Moldaver and Maximus watch as the lights of Los Angeles come on for the first time in centuries. And although the entire community has been murdered by the Brotherhood, by turning on that reactor, Moldaver has given a new generation the potential that no one else has had in decades.
When Dane (Xelia Mendes-Jones) arrives with the rest of the soldiers, he mistakenly assumes that Maximus is the one who killed Moldaver, so he is declared an official Knight of the Brotherhood of Steel, something the character has been dreaming of and fighting for. during the events of the entire series. We also know that The Ghoul did not want any kind of reward for delivering the cold fusion matter to Moldaver.but information about the Vault-Tec members who were cryogenically frozen, since his wife and daughter could still be out there.
The road to the second season
Lucy also wants answers and knows that following Hank can lead them to those ultimately responsible for this vault conspiracy, although neither she nor the Ghoul realize that the frozen members of Vault-Tec are right next door. We will learn that Norm (Moises Arias) and Chet (Dave Register) have been working on the investigation and that the Dwellers of Vault 32 were not murdered by Moldaver, but rather killed each other in a plague of violence and madness. Us the mystery of the poisoned assailants remains, but it seems pretty clear that Stephanie (Annabel O’Hagan) is behind it.
Elsewhere, Norm manages to sneak into Vault 31 to find the supervisor, but learns that it is run by a Mastermind of Vault-Tec executive Bud Askins (Michael Esper), who is supervising frozen executives who found shelter earlier. for the bombs to fall. The last scene leaves us in a cliffhanger that sets up a new location for a second season, when Hank walks past a Deathclaw skull (fan snack), towards a large desert city, New Vegas, the setting of the 2010 game of the same name.
Fans of the game will find an element to take into account, the television series is set in the year 2296, 15 years after the events of the game ‘Fallout: New Vegas’so just as we found the New California Republic destroyed, New Vegas will likely appear different, especially if Vault-Tec’s henchmen are in charge.
In some way, Hank’s journey leads us to the next phase of the corporation’s plan, which we will surely have the opportunity to witness in the next season. Let us remember that ‘Fallout’ is the new series of Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, creators of ‘Westworld’, which was canceled on HBO Max after four seasons without an end; Let’s hope they have better luck here.
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