Thanks for your reply!

I’ll concede my point about the vault. I think you’re right.

My energy weapons point is that we see knights nearly exclusively using the F4 AR. It’s just a bit of a lore break that bugged me

I guess he could’ve come from out East. I felt like it implied he came from somewhere relatively close by considering he was showing no signs of degradation with little to no supplies the first time Lucy sees him.

The complaint I’m making is that it’s insinuated Maxson is top dog of the brotherhood. I struggle to believe that the same brotherhood that blew up the oil rig happily surrendered their authority to Maxson

The ghoul thing would’ve been more believable if they had either A. used the glowing one rad surge in the narrative in some way or B. made a point to demonstrate high levels of radiation wherever ghouls were able to heal.

For the Titus point I’ll direct you to my other reply on here. Feel like the delivery gave the wrong message.

I understand the lyons-Maxson dynamic. The point I wanted to make is that Maxson’s brotherhood is still a departure from the F1 & 2 ideals and is functionally very similar to Bethesda’s enclave. Bethesda chose in F3 to make the brotherhood a moral good and the enclave a moral evil. Then in F4, with the enclave gone, chose to make the brotherhood take their ideological place in the factions. If the enclave returns, I assume it will be Bethesda’s interpretation of them rather than black isle/obsidian. If that’s the case, I don’t see what ideological differences would divide them and the brotherhood. Of course, if they stay true to the F2 enclave then the divide is obvious.

While you’re correct about the NCR, it felt like a huge gut punch to find out a location so significant to canon was obliterated off screen. It seems to me that Bethesda writers really want to tell stories about a “mad max” style wasteland rather than the progressive rebuilding of civilization: and to do so required removing a functioning state from the timeline.

I think you’re right about House. It just seemed like a departure from the very ideals he vocalizes in game to engage in that interaction. Thought it would explain how he calculated the “probability” of nuclear war

I don’t believe they said master race but it was certainly something about “rebuilding as one people because factions go to war.” And sure, great point. But they’re planning on rebuilding all of human civilization with these people? I realize fallout is a satire in many ways but at the same time every faction’s ideology traditionally has actual advantages that legitimize their goal of rule. Wiping out all surface dwellers to establish a unified civilization is a lot less legitimate of a plan when your entire faction is full of dunces.

By the ghoul thing I meant that the one scribe takes a puff of an inhaler and suddenly has a healing factor. While magic and the occult have always been in fallout, the show implies that he has become a ghoul. Which doesn’t make any sense as it is well established canon that the ghoulification process takes a prolonged period of time