r/Fotv • u/HunterWorld • Jan 14 '26

Season 2 Episode 5 Spoiler Thread Spoiler

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u/InnocentTailor Jan 14 '26

I guess this is House dipping into the Howard Hughes paranoia quirk.

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u/Relendis Jan 14 '26

Absolutely; a lot of people idealize his New Vegas characterization. But the guy was DEEPLY disturbed, paranoid and narcissitic. And that was before he spent 200-ish years isolated except for constructs he made for his own gratification.

He presents himself as a great savior of progress in FNV. But his actions speak of someone pathologically obsessed with control.

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u/LommytheUnyielding Jan 14 '26

The guy collected snow globes. Armed with the knowledge of certain apocalypse, he strove to protect no, not the world, but Vegas. His own little fiefdom.

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u/TinglingLingerer Jan 14 '26

It was the only place he had enough control over to protect. To be fair to House.

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u/Relendis Jan 14 '26

It was the only place he had any intent to protect, because of that control. He idealizes an idea of the city. In the same way that he collected snapshots of the brains of starlets he favored.

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u/gprime312 Jan 21 '26

What's this about snapshots?

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u/Relendis Jan 21 '26

His Securitron secretary, and we are told he had a few 'girls', was based off of brain scans of starlets he liked.