This text incorporates spoilers for “Fallout” season 2, episode 1
All of us knew that Mr. Home (Justin Theroux) was coming for “Fallout” season 2, however we weren’t prepared for the affect he’d make instantly … particularly as a result of he is utilizing instruments that he completely would not have entry to in Bethesda’s “Fallout: New Vegas” online game. The RobCo tycoon is launched in an early flashback sequence, embarking on a surprisingly hands-on mission to check a chunky mind management chip on a hostile building employee. The scene is spectacular and establishes Robert Edwin Home as a calculating, conniving villain in a manner that matches his theme as a control-obsessed tycoon and the closely implied chief instigator of the nuclear apocalypse.
Viewers who’re accustomed to “Fallout: New Vegas” might discover this flip of occasions considerably stunning, although, as a result of Mr. Home is not what you’d name a thoughts management fanatic within the sport. In reality, the one character within the “Fallout” franchise who makes use of mind management implants which will make the check topic’s head explode is a far much less distinguished character. In “Fallout 3,” the participant might encounter an unnamed scientist identified solely because the Surgeon, who experiments on tremendous mutant and ghoul brains on the Crimson Racer trike manufacturing facility. It seems that “Fallout” season 2 has lifted this comparatively minor nook of the online game collection … and based mostly on the eye the season premiere offers to the gadget, it actually appears that the standard aspect quest thoughts management chip from the video games can be a really main plot gadget within the live-action adaptation.
Hank MacLean may turn out to be the present’s major thoughts management professional
Curiously, Mr. Home stands out as the inventor of the mind management chip, however based mostly on the season 2 premiere, plainly the gadget’s function on the present is much extra tied to a different character. Lucy MacLean’s (Ella Purnell) villainous father, Hank (Kyle MacLachlan, who lately spoke to /Movie in regards to the “Fallout” workforce understanding fan issues in regards to the present), demonstrates proficiency in utilizing the chip inside the post-apocalyptic timeline and ends the episode with the intention of refining the know-how additional. It seems that after his season 1 function because the secretly amoral Vault 33 overseer, Hank is now increasing his villain sport to mad scientist antics — perhaps even successfully turning into the present’s model of the “Fallout 3” Surgeon character.
It stays to be seen whether or not Mr. Home himself continues to be occupied with thoughts management tech within the post-apocalyptic timeline of the stellar “Fallout” season 2. Maybe the flashback merely depicts a short, pre-apocalyptic experiment that he’ll quickly abandon in favor of a extra calculating and fewer instantly invasive method to guiding humanity, very similar to the trail embraced by his online game counterpart. Or hey, it might at all times be that the “Fallout” present is planning to take some surprisingly daring liberties with one among its best-known characters.
“Fallout” season 2 is streaming on Prime Video.
