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Fallout Season 2 wrapped up with Episode 8 and I got to say even though I enjoyed the ride this season gave us, I cannot stop thinking about how messy the whole thing felt by the end, like there were just way too many things happening all at once, they also kept jumping from one scene to another just to keep up the hype and none of them got properly closed which left me feeling kind of unsatisfied but also satisfied at the same time for what actually happen, its weird. I get it Season 3 is already confirmed so they do not feel the pressure to wrap everything up but damn, when you got Norm disappearing into thin air, the Brotherhood doing whatever the hell they doing, the Ghoul on his own mission, Lucy and Maximus stuck in Vegas with no clear direction and Steph sending that Phase Two message to Colorado it just feels like too much shit left hanging in the air, Im sure its annoying for many but I get it, this is going to be a two part season where three will finish what season 2 started. The whole Macauley Culkin situation was weird too because they promoted the guy like crazy and he barely got five minutes of screen time as the new Caesar felt like a marketing trick more than anything else and I hope Season 3 gives him more to do or else what was the point, was he really needed or just HBO trying to pull attention with a known actor to bring more people for episode eight. The action scenes were solid though that fight with Maximus in the power armor against the Death Claws was sick and seeing the NCR sniper moment was a nice throwback to New Vegas for those who played the game but again it just sets up more questions instead of giving us answers and its frustrating when you wait the whole week for it, specially since it was the season finale and I was hoping for more closure than what we actually got.
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Getting into other topics because as I mention there was a ton happening at the same time, there is Macauley Culkin and the Legion deciding who is the new Caesar after their civil war ends and homie just eats the note that said the Legion should end with the old boss and kills the only witness so now he is the new leader marching towards Vegas that is such a classic Ceasar move by the way, its a quick scene that sets up the big battle coming in season three between the Legion and the NCR and I like how they are building towards that showdown even if it feels rushed right now. Then we got Cooper meeting Mr House who is back online thanks to that cold fusion thing and House is dropping all this data about how he was screwed over by the Enclave and how everyone ends up working for him eventually which is such a House thing to say, the whole conversation felt very much like the game where he gives you missions and acts like he owns everything in Vegas which technically he does. House gives Cooper a Pip Boy with his consciousness inside it so he can guide him to the secret vault under Vegas where his family is supposed to be and I thought that was pretty clever even if it felt a bit convenient for the plot, now Cooper has this AI companion for season three which should be interesting to see how if that duo ever work out but got dropped real quick. Maximus fighting the Death Claws on the strip was probably the best action sequence of the entire episode even if it went on a bit too long in my opinion, he gets out of the power armor after it stops working and tries to fight them with just a pool cue and a roulette wheel as a shield which is both badass and stupid at the same time but it works for his character who has always been about being a true knight, also a bit cliche considering they are in Vegas, not just another dumb soldier in armor following orders. The townspeople taking bets on whether he will survive was very Vegas and added some dark humor to the scene even though you know Maximus is not going to die because he is one of the main characters, then the NCR shows up and saves him with that sick sniper shot and I literally gasped when I saw the ranger because I was not expecting them to bring back the NCR in such a big way after the Ghoul left them behind I really thought they were all dead.
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Probably the most fucked up moment of the episode is when Lucy gets to the "main frame" and realize her dad has been using Congresswoman Welch head to program mind control chips for the Enclave which is so messed up, the whole scene where Welch is begging Lucy to kill her because she has been alive for 200 years as just a head hooked up to computers was disturbing and sad at the same time and Lucy just screams why everyone wants her to kill them. Hank then explains his plan to chip everyone in the wasteland and turn them into docile followers with the perfect personality type which sounds like something straight out of a dystopian psychopath nightmare and its crazy how far he was willing to go to create his version of a perfect world, even his own daughter was going to get chipped until the Ghoul showed up and shot Hank in the ass which was hilarious to watch. Lucy has the chance to kill her dad but instead she chips him and tries to make him confess everything except he wipes his own memory with a remote control he had hidden and now he is basically brain dead just standing there with no thoughts or memories. The whole father daughter relationship has been the emotional core of the show and ending it this way was brave from Hank to be honest, he basically suicide and at the same time the situation left me feeling empty because there was no real closure just sadness and loss which I guess is the point that it crates this feeling of sadness towards Lucy. The Steph situation at the end where she reveals she is Hanks wife and activates Phase Two for the Enclave was one of the biggest twists of the episode even though I kind of saw it coming after all the hints they dropped throughout the season about her past, finding out she was married to Hank before the bombs dropped and has been working for the Enclave this whole time makes you rethink everything she did in the vaults and how much of it was planned versus just survival. The flashback showing Cooper and Barb leaving Vegas and talking about going to Colorado was important because it connects to the postcard Cooper finds in the empty cryo tube later telling him his family went there and now we know that is where the Enclave research facility is located so everything is pointing towards Colorado for season three.
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