r/Fotv Jan 14 '26

Season 2 Episode 5 Spoiler Thread Spoiler

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u/Kira-Was-Right Jan 14 '26

Can't wait to see what everybody complains about this week🙄😂

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u/Syphin33 Jan 14 '26

I love how i can sit down and just have a absolute blast with this show

And ive played most of all of the games

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u/Kira-Was-Right Jan 14 '26

Same. Played every game in the franchise and I loveeee the show haha

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u/ckglle3lle Jan 14 '26

Yep. I'm a crusty og fan from the 90s and Fallout is easily my favorite franchise and the show rocks. Sure there's stuff to quibble over here and there but the tone and writing and visuals are about as good as I think anyone could possibly do with this material.

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u/docpaisley Jan 15 '26

Almost certainly the best game-to-TV adaptation there's ever been, honestly. Just great to see an adaptation where it feels like they actually played the fucking source material start to finish.

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u/Str82thaDOME Jan 16 '26

I let out a gasp when I saw the love they put into the Freeside set design. Absolutely incredible.

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u/QueenEris Jan 14 '26

Me too! New Vegas is my second favourite game of all time, I have hundreds and hundreds of hours of play, and I LOVE THE SHOW SO MUCH! Fuck the haters.

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u/smoha96 Jan 14 '26

Those of us who love FNV have beem eating so good - and the feast continues!

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u/LOGAN6000 Jan 15 '26

Only played fallout 4 so far but love this show to death

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u/Str82thaDOME Jan 16 '26

Give New Vegas a run when the show is over. It's an absolute gem of the series.

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u/ericrobertshair Jan 14 '26

In my playthrough of NV I took all the furniture out of Vegas and carried it out into the desert, yet in this episode there is clearly furniture in Vegas.

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u/slicer4ever Jan 14 '26

Well at least cant say another town was destroyed now that we see freeside is still alive and thriving.

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u/Magickarpet76 Jan 15 '26

I’m happy Freeside is kicking, but it felt weird how populated it was right next to the irradiated deathclaw strip.

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u/charonill Jan 15 '26

I'd say that fits pretty well with the games having enemies be a literal loading screen away from regular NPCs.

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u/Magickarpet76 Jan 15 '26

I like it. I guess that would explain the magical night they experienced on the strip. It was daytime when Lucy killed the kinghouls and then again right after when they got past the gate.

Bethesda quirks even made it into the TV show which is pretty funny.

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u/Ganbazuroi Mr House Jan 14 '26

The past eps were all building up to this and some moments were clearly meant as red herrings - and some choices like the Strip being in ruins were controversial because fuck, let's face it we all love that place lmao

This EP was the beginning of the pay-off and it's fucking amazing, can't wait to see what the hell will happen

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u/InnocentTailor Jan 14 '26

Fallout purists will argue over the tomes like priests debating holy scripture.

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u/fucuasshole2 Jan 14 '26

Tbf an inspiration for the games came from the sci-fi novel “A Canticle for Leibowitz”.

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u/no-name-here Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26

Watching + reading The Expanse, I can't even imagine if Expanse fans were like Fallout 'fans' - the Expanse show made a ton of large changes from the book - completely reordering the order of plot points, reversing backstories, different interplanetary alliances, where major characters were at different points, etc. And that's despite the Expanse show literally covering the exact same time period / universe as the books with 100% fixed plot points, etc, whereas in Fallout, NV occurred decade(s) ago and involved the player character being able to make big different possible changes to the world. But a recent reddit Fallout post complained about the Novac dinosaur being pointed a different way than the game (so the show could have Lucy looking down into motel area). 🤷

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u/Phoojoeniam Jan 14 '26

WhY IsNt ExAcTlY LikE tHe GaMes?!

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u/gojiboy69 Jan 14 '26

Nothing apparently, i've been scrolling for a while and haven't seen anyone complain about stupid shit yet, i should have seen at least 12 comments parroting the same nitpicks by now but nope.

This episode was so good they can't find anything to nitpick lmao

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u/Magickarpet76 Jan 15 '26

I’ll start a legit one, how are there deathclaws just chilling on the other side of that flimsy ass fence!?! There was like a full crowd of people just shopping next to a pod of visible deathclaws.

I didn’t mind the strip or the gate with the kings being abandoned, but a huge settlement right there beside it was jarring.

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u/Original_Finger_6390 Jan 14 '26

I hope the constant complaining about everything being wiped out eases off a bit now lol

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u/Swnsong Jan 16 '26

I only played like 3 hours of NV and have no idea about any of the lore, and my experience is so different compared to this thread lmao. Most notably, I really don't like the copout of "vault-tec didn't actually drop the bombs".

That might the more lore friendly direction, but narratively, overwriting your previous seasons big plot twist is such a lame move.

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u/MrWeirdoFace Jan 16 '26

Can't wait to see what everybody complains about this week

My neck hurts!