The preview for episode 6 is making me think Coop's wife isn't actually a willing figurehead for the end of the world, but a pawn of someone else (probably the Enclave). Maybe She leaks some info to Coop, namely the FEV, which Coop then leaks to Moldaver, but instead of exposing this to the world, Moldaver uses it for her own gains. Moldaver created the Cold Fusion tech, and then Vault Tec bought it from her. I think Moldaver is going to come back and be revealed to actually be a big bad, and not a misunderstood good guy like she was at the end of season 1.
I think the shitpost about Cooper being the Courier is real, and it's Todd's ultimate dab on New Vegas creators and fans.
Ehh, then it would cement the series as in a different continuity. The Courier is just a regular wastelander, Raul refers to them as a smoothskin and there's zero mention whatsoever of them being a ghoul.
It would also completely change how the Courier and House interact in New Vegas. I wouldn't be upset if they decide to just do an alternate universe with Coop as the Courier, but it would absolutely mean this isn't the same universe as the games.
It's the standard one or two hours of plot painfully spread out over an entire season of show. Anime filler pace.
I also think that changing the release format to a weekly one is hurting its appeal to regular audiences who don't care about constant New Vegas memberberries, judging by the online comments I've seen and the very anecdotal data from people I know. I get the impression they'd rather binge-watch the whole thing in a couple of days and be done with it; expecting them to care about a non-existent plot when the writers don't give a fuck about it is sincerely asking too much of them. Speaking for myself, it makes hate-watching it harder, too. I'd rather drunkenly watch the whole thing in a lazy afternoon or two, make a way-too-long shitpost about it, and forget about it until next year. I don't have the energy to point out all that's wrong with the narrative on an episode-by-episode basis, despite the fact that the writing has gotten even dumber than last season's against all odds. It's 2026, Amazon, get with the times. Speculation about retarded writing is pointless when there's almost nothing to speculate about.
There is incredibly little forward plot progression.
Rorschach wasn't racist. He's right-leaning, but he never even expressed racial bias. I know this because when Rorschach was confronted with a black psychologist, the only thing he mocked the psychologist for was that he was fat and cared more about treating Rorschach for the glory of it rather than genuinely understanding Rorschach.
And the Ghoul was stated as being in the grave when New Vegas' events would have happened, and no one in the Mojave recognise him as the Courier, and it's all but said that Cooper has no idea that the events of New Vegas happened (he doesn't even know that House got killed/disappeared until Victor told him). And this would make no sense with the Courier's dialogue options if he's actually been looking for his family this whole time and is fully knowledgeable of pre-war era.
The ghoul being the courier is a weird theory to me, unless you want to make up some variant of the Fallout 1 multiple Vault Dweller theory and somehow tie the Ghoul into various parts of Courier 6's past, which wouldn't even matter since Courier 6 didn't become notable to anyone outside of braid faggot until after getting shot. It seems like a theory that got made up purely to get mad at.
I don't think the Ghoul being the courier is a real theory, I see it more like a joke at the show and how Cooper seems to have been present at every key moment of Fallout.
