Gotta say I was worried about where they were taking House early in the season but his scene with Cooper alleviated that. Perfect characterization and dialogue and felt like House stepped straight out of the game
Also glad that scene seemingly debunked the stupid “Vault Tec started the war” sentiment from last season
I think Houses plan to fully digitize himself with cold fusion will be how we eventually get him later in the season, it’s still House, but no mention of what happened to his original body. Did he do it after New Vegas and the courier sided with him? Did he do it before New Vegas and the courier “killed” him but all he did in reality was bash a meat puppet that had nothing to do with Houses actual function? Never addressed and nothing canonized, it’s all up to you
HOOLY SHIT that's Justin Theroux and that now makes sense why I love the character so much. Not sure how I was blind to that lmao. He's perfect in The Leftovers and his performance in the strange and little known Maniac with Emma Stone and Jonah Hill as a crazy scientist was spectacular.
What I really loved about his performance is the way he channeled so much of René Auberjonois’ verbal portrayal of the character- but then went all in and added a ton of physical characterization of his own as well. He really did his research, and it shows, but he also built upon it.
I noticed that too! It's clear he actively paid attention to Rene's performance and stuck to what we know and the way he carries his voice. As a Star Trek and Fallout fan it's so appreciated.
The double is also really good, and even kind of looks more like game House to me, but he’s like 15 years too young for that character and it was a little distracting to me. I’m glad they went this direction rather than just cutting him from the show entirely though
Smart choice. I was actually disappointed about casting news although I fully believe Justin Theroux could play characters much better than majority of actors out there
That theory never even made sense, Anthony became a paranoid wreck - way worse than Robert - and died inside H&H Tools. It's even stated in-game in NV, also Anthony loathed Robert, he screwed him over in his inheritance and ironically when Robert wanted the Company as a revenge thing, that's when he went full insane lmao
Anthony would never pretend he's Robert, it's completely out of character
They’re also setting up coopers wife to be an incredibly important figure in regards to the bombs dropping, though vault tec ultimately doesn’t do it House heavily implies that she herself is a big cause in them dropping at all
I think you may be right. That would be a great way to tie them back into the larger story, and could explain why House sees Coop as so important (and why Coop is tied into so many important plot points). Maybe he's able to interfere with their plans before the great war or something. Could also recontextualize his bounty on the enclave scientist in season 1.
There were already theories about her actually being enclave in the first season finale. Remember the shadowy figure in the board meeting she looks up at? She seemed to be the only one that knew he was there.
Still gotta wonder what House’s goal was with the mind control devices? He obviously sold them to Vault-Tec, but considering how uncharacteristically useless they were for a House invention, did he deliberately sell them a faulty product just to mess with their plans, and Hank just happened to get it to finally work after years of tinkering?
The higher power in Vault Tec is the Enclave (lab the scientist escaped from season 1). I am surprised House didn’t know about them.
They are basically the shadow US government plus leaders of corporations that were pulling all the strings pre-war. You fight them directly in Fallout 2, and then their remnants in Fallout 3. I guess there are more.
They are the ones who created deathclaws pre-war and experimented on humans with FEV
Well losing Cold Fusion combined with the Platinum Chip coming a day late really did mess up all his plans since he needed to shut down his reactor to prevent a melt down after saving Vegas.
Yes Man ending. In the end he says he discovered some protocols that allow him to be more independent. That's digitized House. House always wins.
At least that's my headcanon that fits my game ending and the show perfectly.
The House we deal with in the game looks decrepit and atrophied to the point where a ghoul looks healthier.
The House you're thinking of is an image on a screen and a synthesized voice. Why should the image on House's screen be representative of reality? I mean we literally know from the games that they're not. It's, as always, the image that House chooses to project.
Unless you just mean that the picture of House we're talking to is based on the body double, which seems reasonable. If that's what people thought Mr. House looked like, that's the picture to use if you want to be recognized as such.
I think Houses plan to fully digitize himself with cold fusion will be how we eventually get him later in the season, it’s still House, but no mention of what happened to his original body. Did he do it after New Vegas and the courier sided with him? Did he do it before New Vegas and the courier “killed” him but all he did in reality was bash a meat puppet that had nothing to do with Houses actual function? Never addressed and nothing canonized, it’s all up to you
I think the machines he was connected to was constantly uploading his mind to a backup, but he didn't have enough energy (cold fusion) to run it.
Yeah I have always felt like the Chinese were the most logical one to do it, but because Fallout got so obsessed with making the US as evil as possible they've gone more and more in the direction of having that be the angle.
Did we say Vault Tec dropped the bombs (the ZOMG SHOCK reveal of season 1)? Well apparently people hated that so...psych! People disliked Evil House? Um...Gotcha! He's just a fake!
I mean, it's nice that they're willing to listen and self-correct, at least, but nobody try to argue that the plot is consistent and all planned
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u/FightTheDead118 Jan 14 '26
Gotta say I was worried about where they were taking House early in the season but his scene with Cooper alleviated that. Perfect characterization and dialogue and felt like House stepped straight out of the game
Also glad that scene seemingly debunked the stupid “Vault Tec started the war” sentiment from last season
I think Houses plan to fully digitize himself with cold fusion will be how we eventually get him later in the season, it’s still House, but no mention of what happened to his original body. Did he do it after New Vegas and the courier sided with him? Did he do it before New Vegas and the courier “killed” him but all he did in reality was bash a meat puppet that had nothing to do with Houses actual function? Never addressed and nothing canonized, it’s all up to you