Amazon Prime Video’s Fallout received critical and fan approval and currently sits with a 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The series is set in the future, many years after the Fallout video games have taken place. We certainly got big lore updates involving Vault-Tec and its creation and now, we have questions for Fallout Season 2.
We expect to get answers about Norm’s fate, The Brotherhood and its acquisition of cold fusion technology, as well as further background on the lead-up to the bombs dropping. However, we have other questions that we hope are answered in Fallout Season 2.
Moldaver the Flame Mother
A major character introduced in the show (and seemingly killed off) has so many unanswered questions that this whole article could be about her. However, the biggest questions about Lee Moldaver (Sarita Choudhury) are how she survived 200 years into the future and what made her the Flame Mother.
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Moldaver possesses a critical point of view on humanity outside of Vault-Tec. She tells people the truth about Vault-Tec after her own companies were bought out by them. She has intimate knowledge of the operation behind the vaults, though potentially not everything.
Cooper Howard (Walton Goggins) learned the truth about what the Enclave was up to in the season finale, will he pass that knowledge on to her? How did she know these other details about Vault-Tec? Was she offered a Vault space in 31, even though her name isn’t on the list of Bud’s Buds? If not Vault-Tec, who put her into cryosleep? There are just way too many questions regarding her appearance in 2297.
During the series, we meet inhabitants of Vault 4 who are partially made up of people from the surface. Namely people from the destroyed Shady Sands, which Moldaver seemed to be a large part of. These inhabitants worship her almost as a deity. They believe she will save them all and call her Flame Mother. Why, though? We want to find out how she earned that nickname. We hope the show will continue her story, even if in the current timeline she’s dead.
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Thaddeus the Ghoul?
On The Brotherhood of Steel side, we saw Maximus (Aaron Moten) bullied and later betrayed by member Thaddeus (Johnny Pemberton). In his last appearance, he realized he had turned into a ghoul thanks to a snake oil salesman with a penchant for chickens. Given the nature of The Brotherhood, he ran away into the Wastelands.
Fallout Lorecast has a theory that he’s not actually a ghoul but a super mutant. The serum that he was injected with – it could be a form of FEV (Forced Evolutionary Virus). In the games, quick healing isn’t a trait of ghouls but it is one of mutants. Though FEV hasn’t been seen in a serum form before, this could be another fun addition to the show and Fallout lore.
Though they somewhat ended on good terms when Maximus let him go, will Thaddeus come back as an antagonist? A potential ally? Or will they just forget about him till the end of the series? Since he is beginning his transformation, there’s a lot of potential for him to return in some capacity. It would be interesting to watch either way.
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Mysteries of Vault 32
The series introduced a set of Vaults under the direct management of Vault-Tec – Vault 31, 32 and 33. Lucy (Ella Purnell) feels a sense of duty to bring her father back after he is taken and leaves her brother Norm (Moisés Arias) behind to go find him.
After the attack on Vault 33, Norm starts to question everything and dives into his investigation. This leads him to Vault 32 to attempt to learn how the raiders, led by Moldaver, got into the vaults. With his cousin Chet (Dave Register) by his side, the two stumble upon the horrors left behind by its inhabitants. They learn that Vault 32 found out ‘the truth’ and murdered their overseer before killing themselves and each other.
At the end of Fallout Season 1, Norm learns the truth. Vault 31 inhabitants are Vault-Tec employees who are released from cryogenic sleep over the centuries to manage the other two vaults to fit their purposes. They plan to repopulate the world after they “wipe the surface clean”.
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This discovery begs the question, why didn’t the inhabitants of Vault 32 share this with Vault 33? Another thing we would like to find out is why didn’t the Vault-Tec employees in Vault 33 know what happened to 32 for over two years. Even the silly brain-on-a-roomba of Bud Askins (Michael Esper) didn’t seem to know what happened. It’s strange they were not in contact more often.
With Vault 32 becoming reinhabited by Vault 33 members (and at least one from 31), it will be interesting to see if they happen to find out what has transpired without Norm telling them. We still don’t know how the original inhabitants found out. We’d like to. Though speaking of Bud Askins and Vault-Tec employees…
Bud’s Buds
With the reveal of Vault 31 consisting of Vault-Tec employees, adorably referred to as Bud’s Buds, we see the names of those released from cryogenic sleep and others still in stasis. Many of the released names haven’t been seen or at the very least not referred to in Fallout Season 1 of the show. So, where are they? Did the others die and Bud’s brain hasn’t made note of it?
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Barb Howard (Frances Turner), Cooper’s wife, insisted she worked so hard at the company so she and her family could be in one of “the good vaults” that manage others. Her name nor her daughter’s were on the list in either category. We’d like to know where they ended up if they didn’t get into Vault 31. Also, why didn’t they end up in Vault 31? She was Bud’s right hand so it would make sense for her to be somewhere in the system.
With Cooper, now a bounty hunter Ghoul convinced that his family is alive, it stands to reason that we’ll get an answer. There are theories that they, or even just Howard’s daughter Janey, are in New Vegas.
Who Is in New Vegas?
In the last episode, we see Hank McLean (Kyle MacLachlan) in a power suit outside of New Vegas. Cooper believes that Hank will run to the person “pulling all the strings”. In the video game, Fallout: New Vegas, the re-established Las Vegas is home to Mr. House (Rafi Silver), seen in the television series as the executive representative of ROB-CO. Given his inclusion in the show, it’s almost guaranteed we’ll see him somewhere in the bowels of New Vegas. However, that may not be the person Hank is running to.
Theories have included that Barb Howard could be the one truly in charge in New Vegas. There’s also speculation that Janey, who has potentially grown up since being released from a pod, is the one running New Vegas following her mother’s footsteps. We certainly won’t know until Fallout Season 2 is out but the excitement of Cooper reuniting or at least truly learning of his family’s fate, has fans waiting with bated breath for the answer.
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What theory has been your favorite? Do you have any predictions for Fallout Season 2?
You can watch (and rewatch) Fallout on Amazon Prime Video.
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