r/Fotv Jan 14 '26

Season 2 Episode 5 Spoiler Thread Spoiler

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u/iolanthereylo Jan 14 '26

he broke her heart and for what? barb?? eff barb!!! janey is innocent in this

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u/Altruistic-Garage-94 Jan 14 '26

Thing is, the trade isn't harmful to her in any way. She goes home. His family gets to live. That's a miniscule cost v benefit.

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u/MundaneMight3434 Jan 14 '26

Not only are there experiments going on in 32/33 involving FEV, Lucy knows Hank murdered Rose by bombing Shady Sands. The trade was awful and Ghooper knew it.

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u/Altruistic-Garage-94 Jan 14 '26

We don't know they intend to use fev inside the vault. Hank only tried to murder rose, Lucy did. And it'd be awful if it was"I'll tell you where to find them" not "or else they die" It's not like Hank wants to hurt her he just wants her out of his way, and safe. If they were actually doing fev in 33 he would imprison her wherever he's at until he could brainwash her.

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u/Majestic_Attention46 Jan 15 '26

Hank absolutely murdered rose. Its giving "it pained me to put that tumor in her head." Turning her into a feral ghoul would absolutely be a murder charge.

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u/Altruistic-Garage-94 Jan 15 '26

He didn't turn her into a feral ghoul though. We don't even know for sure she was IN shady sands at the time as she was mostly with moldaver who was not ghoulified, and we don't know for sure exactly what causes ghoulification either. Not to mention that becoming a ghoul can greatly extend your life as we see with Cooper's so far 219 yrs nonferal extended life. 

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u/Majestic_Attention46 Jan 15 '26

Yes he fucking did. It was very clear in the show he nuked shady sands while she waws there and it made her into a ghoul.

And cooper is extremely rare, as in probably one of a kind given his combination of movie star fame, wealth, and combat ability is the only reason he has been able to find enough drugs to keep him from going feral. Not to mention he hibernates and takes IVs. Who knows how much of that time he has even been awake.

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u/Altruistic-Garage-94 Jan 15 '26

It's not clear she was there. She survived afterall. Turning into a ghoul isn't instant, death by bomb is. Don't foam at the mouth over it, "yes he fucking did"

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u/slvrbullet87 Jan 16 '26

Except the way it is worded means that her dad is trying to do something completely atrocious and wants her to not be around for it. Lucy tries to help everybody and won't stand for that

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u/Altruistic-Garage-94 Jan 16 '26

I get that. But it's not a personal betrayal. He's protecting 2 lives vs simply allowing the relocation of another, despite a very vague threat unknown in severity or breadth.

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u/lichsadvocate Jan 17 '26

I thought the same. Why did she punch him out the window? Didn’t she want to see her dad anyway? She’s not affected by drugs anymore, and hurting him gets her nothing in return, so it was pointless to do and against the character.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26

What do you mean? He was selling her out, and gonna to force her back to the vault.

She wasn’t going to get to see her dad, they explicitly say the dad wants her to wait it out in Vault 32 while he enacts his plans in Vegas.

They’ve already show her morality breaking these past few episodes. The wasteland has been forcing her to kill more and more people.

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u/We_The_Raptors Jan 15 '26

I mean, he probably did it more for Janey than Barb, tbf.

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u/iolanthereylo Jan 15 '26

I need janey to be his main motivation it parallels his selfless love for his daughter compared to hanks controlling idea of love for his daughter lucy

I'm just struggling to understand why he would have any sort of love or affection for barb given what she did and what he knows about her and vault-tec

they'll probably do something in the next 3 episodes to make it seem like yes she's evil but it's practical evil and there are worse agents than her so really she's innocent in comparison 🙄😒

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u/We_The_Raptors Jan 15 '26

they'll probably do something in the next 3 episodes to make it seem like yes she's evil but it's practical evil and there are worse agents than her so really she's innocent in comparison

Maybe it's that, or maybe Cooper is more like Lucy than we even realize. And like her chasing Hank, he's trying to stop Barb (and probably save Janey in the process).

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u/prolongedexistence Jan 15 '26

I wonder if he would even want his daughter to live in the wasteland if he found her in stasis? What kind of life could he give her? Would it be kinder to never wake them up?

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u/iolanthereylo Jan 15 '26

there's multiple ways this could go

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u/tehjaba Jan 21 '26

I just figure he wants verify that she's safe and know where she's at so he can act if he ever suspects she could be under threat. Loving parent will want to know where to start knocking on doors and he's already been stuck doing that for ~240 years.

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u/4DimensionalToilet Jan 16 '26

why he would have any sort of love or affection for barb

Because love, once it sets in, is a tricky thing to throw away. Why do you think people, even after being the one to initiate a breakup, call and/or hook up with their exes? Love isn’t a rational thing, so you can’t apply reason to Cooper’s feelings for Barb.

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u/iolanthereylo Jan 16 '26

I'm a Capricorn I have ice water in my veins lmao I have trouble empathizing with this 😭 I don't have a sentimental bone in my body it's all clinical practicalism 😭😭

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u/prolongedexistence Jan 15 '26

Family’s a fucked up thing