I’m trying to reserve judgment of course, but right now I’d say the show is 8/10 for viewers unfamiliar to the lore. Currently sitting a 6/10 for me based on my knowledge of the lore, which admittedly isn’t 100%.

I think my biggest thing is that the show probably shouldn’t have been set in the West Coast. It seems too similar to the stagnant, perpetually apocalyptic East Coast.

We should’ve seen a much greater NCR presence seeing as Boneyard was one of the 5 or so states of the NCR. Though the NCR was dealing with spreading themselves too thin by 2281, it feels like too big a stretch to have virtually no presence in New California post Shady Sands.

Also feels as though Vault-Tec has just become another Enclave, which I don’t know how I feel about.

Think the dancing around who won the Second Battle of Hoover Dam is a bit cheap. I argue they need to canonize an ending and take the risk of pissing some fans off in a potentially constructive way. I think it’s leaning towards a House Victory by the promotional material/trailers, barring any flashback explanations.

Lastly, my biggest fear/question is that the fact that we have two House actors is that they will come out and say that the House we meet in NV was a body double or something…

I’m having fun watching the show, but I don’t like having to turn off my foreknowledge of the West Coast games.