#fallout speculation

I think Lucy saving his life with those vials when he gave her every reason to leave him for dead or shoot him really bothered him. I think her goodness and selflessness not only reminded him of the man he used to be before the war, but also challenged his worldview.

I think Cooper was under the impression that he HAD to kill all those bounties and he HAD to adapt to be just as cruel as the unforgiving wasteland but Lucy being that good and surviving all the way to the observatory challenged that belief.

Lucy MacLean is proof that you CAN be kind and still survive, and while yes she did shed her naïveté, she held on to the core of who she is and her inner goodness and that’s gonna bother Cooper the more time they spend together in season 2.

Conversely, I think Lucy is gonna be on a mission to prove that maybe the Ghoul isn’t some irredeemable evil monster and that there’s still a bit of that kindhearted cowboy she grew up watching on the Radiation King.

While Cooper is trying to corrupt Lucy into a cynical wastelander like him, Lucy is going to be fighting back and reminding him of the pre-war values he once held so dearly and reminding him of his humanity.

It is truly going to be a joy to watch this push and pull of morality as their morality tug-of-war plays out over the season. Season 2 is going to be an absolute sight to behold y’all 🥹🥹🥹

Barb Howard compromising her morals, giving into the banality of evil, and sacrificing the world to save her family even if she become the opposite of everything her ex-husband believes in as her metaphorical descent into inhuman monster-hood foreshadows/parallels his literal one: unique, amazing, perfect storytelling, 10/10 no notes

From lucks_eterna on Twitter.

(Update 22 Jan: in orange below)

Fallout - Season 2, Episode 6

What if the cryo tubes are empty because Barb and Janie never made it to the site? What if Vault-Tec, knowing that Barb betrayed them, prevented them from making use of any of their cryo facilities?

I now believe that Barb and Janie are in a specialized cryo chamber in The Enclave. (Remember Barb telling Cooper that she wanted them to be in the best place? After watching her meetings in this episode, you better believe she knows that that is not vault-tek!)

Wilwig works for The institute but is being manipulated by The Enclave. Same thing with Barb; she's working for Vault-tek but is in fact owned by The Enclave.

Worst yet... What if they used them in experiments, or killed them!?

What will this do to Cooper Howard when the truth comes out?

Would he give up and go full-on feral? Or would he embark on an epic hero's quest to bring all those responsible to Justice?

Now remember; I'm not saying that I believe this is what happened. I am just stating a possible reason for them not being in the cryo tubes.

Unfortunately, I do have to believe that if Vault-Tec had Barb warned / threatened so quickly when she started to second guess herself, that they would quickly have known of her betrayal and taken some action against her.

So it's not vault tech warning Barb through Wilzig, it is actually The Enclave.

In the past, I believe that Cooper handed off the cold fusion to Wilzig. I believe it is his hand that we see in the car. When next we see the cold fusion it is still in Wilsig's possession.

In the current timeline, Cooper is about to come back into possession of the cold fusion. He now has the chance to do with it what he should have done the first time... Give it to Robert House.

Anyway, that's my current thinking on everything.

😓

Winners...

Right.

You know, it's odd...

...But if I had been entrusted by my very influential and powerful company to oversee the delivery of something to be sold to a very influential and powerful man and then, just for funsies, I decided to fuck over that company and that man by drugging my fellow employee, stealing the delivery, and giving it to someone else who could potentially charge me with multiple felonies,

I wouldn't be so chill about it.

I wouldn't be joking with my husband who technically committed the crime for me.

I wouldn't be sipping champagne and shooting the breeze with the coworker I stole the item from.

I wouldn't be taking a leisurely stroll to my getaway plane

And I sure as shootin' wouldn't smile and be so cavalier with no way to escape or protect myself if the room suddenly filled with G-men and all the phones started going off like a slot machine payout.

I dunno...

spoilers ahead

Also please note: this is absolutely not spoiler free! In case that's not already obvious! Its also ship discourse free and is only looking at current plot points and my half-assed speculation about what might be waiting in store for us in s3.