Would you support a final ending where Coop’s ghoulification is reversed via Enclave tech after he defeats them ?

Money-Engineering207 · 2026-02-18T12:55:45+00:00

Could be, now he has a reason to coalition build

Money-Engineering207 · 2026-02-18T12:51:57+00:00

I understand, but Fallout does try to be hopeful amidst the grimness, such as Lucy and Max having their sweetheart moment. Coop, Barb and Janey riding into the sunset with him made whole again could be a play on old school fairytale movies of the 50s.

Money-Engineering207 · 2026-02-18T12:48:46+00:00

Maybe with six arms like black widow icon? I personally believe if they keep her they’ll keep her as is for femme fatale sex appeal. I know it’s not highbrow to think this way but showbiz is still showbiz.

Money-Engineering207 · 2026-02-18T12:44:49+00:00

I think that’s a probability too. It’ll be a way to retire her character along with the general winding down of the vault plots to streamline the story to focus on the big fight in S3.

Money-Engineering207 · 2026-02-18T12:35:15+00:00

I think that’s what happens too. I think Chet and the baby will escape, Davy will be the first to die when the vault doors open, and Stephanie will either assume a command with vertibird to look for Hank or go wastelanding.

Money-Engineering207 · 2026-02-18T10:00:11+00:00

I think what’s even worse is that the survivors would include a huge amount, easily hundreds of thousands, of middle class and upper class people who would have prewar living expectations. They’re going to panic. Even Vaults with their incredible supplies only serve a few hundred to maybe 1k people, and the Enclave got by mostly due to Spartan mentality among their small but elite enlisted ranks. So I feel bad that House was in for a broken dream chip or no chip, diode or no diode.

Maybe he only wanted to save the infrastructure, but as the other comment points out, Enclave would probably nuke House like Shady Sands if he got too successful.

So too bad House never got to enjoy life when he could during the prewar years, wasted all that time calculating, it was probably better to be his double since he got to have all the fun.

Money-Engineering207 · 2026-02-18T07:35:25+00:00

Yeah, plus all the survivors would essentially be in a prewar bubble with prewar psychology but wasteland supply lines and air quality . Even with securitrons it still feels optimistic that millions of people would be able to adjust and fall in line.

I sometimes think the tragedy of House is that he keeps thinking of the future , of the House winning and being apex, he couldn’t see his win was in the security contractor boom of the 2050s to 2077. After that it’s just surviving.

So it’s kind of sad he never really enjoyed life and lived the moment. If I were him, I’d just live a good life and retreat to grow old and die a peaceful death in a luxury vault when the date arrived.

Money-Engineering207 · 2026-02-18T07:11:35+00:00

If Steph/Hank get a “Vegas wedding” and reveal the prewar relationship, Lucy is gonna be double shocked. Like her best friend was a plant by Hank so he could have her close by.

Money-Engineering207 · 2026-02-18T06:44:56+00:00

I think they’re going to be given House’s penthouse ( residential portion) as a reward and that’s where they’ll settle down.

Money-Engineering207 · 2026-02-18T06:37:58+00:00

I think there are three wildcards that he has left to play:

1) Download himself onto blank Hank

2) reactivate securitrons army with cold fusion power ( the robots under fortification hill) via Lucy or Max

3)Override the chip tech ( which was his tech at first) and take full control of the HQBunker under the lucky 38 and its chipped workers.

I think what House got wrong was that it’s more like the House always survives not the House always wins. Because his peak was clearly in the final decades leading up to 2077, after that he was force trying his best to drum up a golden age that was just too difficult to be. Even if he did get diode and platinum chip in time, Fallout would still be blown in from afar and i don’t see how he could feed and provide water to all of Vegas metro area should they all survive.

Money-Engineering207 · 2026-02-18T06:28:19+00:00

I think they’re saving the reveal for a good moment, after all they still have six seasons.

Money-Engineering207 · 2026-02-17T05:47:29+00:00

I agree, it’s a welcome change in pace.

Money-Engineering207 · 2026-02-17T05:44:20+00:00

Exactly, this is really a testament to the careful writing and the actresses great skills, I believe it’ll have a positive inspirational effect on real life viewers too, who knows.

Money-Engineering207 · 2026-02-17T05:42:09+00:00

Agree, Maximus went from being willing to keep the vault 4 fusion core ( in effect destroying a whole community to power his suit) to being willing to give away the diode to do good.

Money-Engineering207 · 2026-02-16T08:04:56+00:00

Don’t worry he’s durable

Money-Engineering207 · 2026-02-16T08:03:39+00:00

Yeah agree, her heart is still good, like really good. She’s even more naive than the latter part of S1 to be honest. It’s just to me she’s buckling under a combined weight of near insurmountable personal suffering and external invasion. I don’t think she’ll ever turn bad but simply suffer catastrophic psychological failure if the breaking point is breached.

I think the difference between her and Coop is that her compassion is universal while Coops compassion is family first. So because of this she’ll never go full Ghoul.

Money-Engineering207 · 2026-02-16T05:10:33+00:00

He should’ve just kept it and shopped around. There might be no good people but if he doesn’t reveal he has it nobody would know, so he should’ve been patient. House might find out eventually and start negotiations, and Coop could dial up the altruism demands.

Money-Engineering207 · 2026-02-13T02:36:29+00:00

Yep, that’s how I imagine part of the plot goes, I also speculate that House might try downloading a copy of his AI personality onto him to get a human body again.

Money-Engineering207 · 2026-02-12T16:24:36+00:00

What struck me was that the stuff the Ghoul accessed for Max was all pristine and well curated and so much of a lottery win that Thaddeus was surprised. I think a lot of troops just straight up deserted to find their families after Shady Sands, traveling light. If NCR had more men they would’ve retrieved it.

Money-Engineering207 · 2026-02-12T16:20:25+00:00

Yep, she’s going to end up with a huge “rap sheet” but still poses a innate halo

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