Fallout 2x5 | Full Length Reaction

I don’t know if this helps or not with timeline but https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Lucy_MacLean the wiki has various timelines for locations from the series. (From what I’ve seen w/o spoilers)

That epsiode is a huge turning point and it left me quite a bit shocked honestly. So much questions and theories popped up in my head, so I'm sorry, if this gets a bit long...😱 Pre-episode talk: I'm with Meesh, Stephanie doesn't care about her baby at all...😅 I wonder what Chet makes of the shocking (for him at least) reveal that Stephanie is from the surface. He is right now in a place where Lucy and Norm were last season - he realizes his whole life was a lie...🤔 Stephanie wants Hanks keepsake box. You've seen a keepsake box before. Barb was packing Janeys keepsake box in the flashback in episode 2 (I think), were she couldn't fit Janeys Teddy in it... This episode: If the F.E.V. is involved in phase 2 of the Vault experiments, I have an inkling where this might go. I don't go into it to avoid spoilers from the game lore, but if it is, it gets dark...😨 I wonder what the timeline is in this episode. Lucy and the Ghoul arrived at broad daylight at the gate to the strip. After they entered it is dark, even though we could see that the "Lucky 38" is not far from the gate. After they escaped through another gate to Freeside it is suddenly broad daylight again, yet the casino can be seen and the deathclaws, too. So, are these gates magic portals? 🤔😄 When Barb and Cooper arrived at the hotel Hank can be seen talking with two of the assitants that Norm thawed in Vault 31, the redhead and the guy with the glasses who felt sad because the mall was gone...🤔 I think Hank transported the cold fusion for Barbara in his briefcase, thats why he is handcuffed to it and was told he is a possible assassination target. I think the snakeoil salesman didn't explode because he wanted to participate and maybe that was key. Hank needed to get to a certain frequence to wipe the brain of a person, but all others (as far as we've seen) resisted against the manipulation and their heads exploded, but he didn't, he wanted his brain to be deleted...🤔 I have a wild theory. I may be way off here, but I think Barv is Janey or Barb. More likely Janey. We didn't see Barbara or Janey in their cryopads, so I'm not convinced they're still in there. What if they got out like 80 years ago or so and vanished with the rest of the missing Vault-Tec personnel? The name reminded me in season 1 of Barbara (Barv=Barb), but I thought we would never see Barv and Ma June again, so I discarded that thought. But maybe Janey got out a long time ago, took the name Barv and lived her life in the wasteland? The hair would match, the skin color would match...🤔😅 The fake shop salesman that Lucy killed, set the prices over the top high, which is why Lucy stole the drugs instead of paying for them, she couldn't afford it. The powerfist was a bonus. We start to see the next changes in Lucy. She goes deliberately into the backdoor of the shop (not by mistake as she said to justify it), she steals and she kills a man (albeit not on purpose). Please don't let Lucy turn into a villain (🙏🏻). She will change, but not to be a villain ( I hope...🙈). I think she begins to realize that the Ghoul was right when he said "You're me, just give it a little time." That moment has come. She begins to lose herself and becomes someone new. The Ghouls betrayal (as understandable as it is) destroyed so much of what was left of the old lovable and trusting Lucy. And she put all her repressed emotions into that hit with the power fist in the end. The Ghoul was visibly shaken by what he did, because he actually liked Lucy, but he is trapped in a lose-lose-situation and voted for his family. You can see how fond he became of Lucy when he actually called her "Lucy" for the first time, not Ms. McLean, vaultie or the like...😥 Another theory: I think when Hank wanted Lucy to go home, he didn't necessarily mean Vault 33, because that is where phase 2 of the experiment will happen. It could be a bunker where she is safe and far away from the experiments, somewhere that Hank thinks of as their new home...🤔 Claudia could be Norms salvation. She didn't get mad at him despite he used them and destroyed their promised career. As you said, they seem to like each other. Maybe the others ban these two from their group or they can escape...🤔 There are some discrepancies with the date of the end of the world. House calculated it for April 2065 and then corrected it to March 2065. But it was said that the world ended in October 2077, so either his calculations where flawed or someone (maybe Copper) threw a wrench in the plans. Maybe the show retconned that date? How could Janey be a little girl in 2077, when all this is happening before 2065? Again the timeline...🤔 [EDIT] Okay, timeline was cleared up, turned out I missunderstood Robert House. [/EDIT] House seems to think Barbara isn't solely working for Vault-Tec, makes sense since Hank wasn't either. But if not for House, for whom? I have an idea, but again, can't say for spoiler reasons...😅 I believe Cooper got sh**faced because he sees his whole world crumbling down around him. Surrounded by mad people, a wife that sells the end of the world, a billionaire possessed with the possibility of eternal life, revolutionarys who want him to kill that billionaire and a long lasting war with China that they're on the verge of losing. Everything stopped making sense...🤔 As I said, lots of food for thoughts on this one, can't wait for your next reaction...😊