Fallout Player Notices Subtle Detail With Major Prime Video Show Implications
The Fallout TV show has really been an exciting new direction for the post-apocalyptic franchise and the stories it's currently telling are a really interesting look at America before the bombs dropped in 2077.
Even better than that, Todd Howard and the good people at Bethesda have already confirmed that we are to consider everything that happens in the show canon, which has already given us some genuinely crazy revelations.
For example, we now know that the iconic Vault Boy logo was directly inspired by Walton Goggins' character Cooper Howard, who served as the official spokesperson for Vault-Tec before the war.
The reason that came about is because of his wife, Barbara's, senior leadership position within the evil megacorporation, and it seems like her nefarious connections could go a lot deeper than first thought.
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Over on Reddit, one user shared a pretty stunning post detailing a moment they encountered towards the end of the Broken Steel DLC for Fallout 3, and it could have huge implications for the show's future.
Essentially, they spotted a piece of dialogue near the end of the Presidential Metro, in which the AI M.A.R.Go.T. (Metro Authority Rapid Governmental Transit system) states, "I was installed and activated within the Presidential Metro on April 14th, 2065 and switched on at precisely 5:20am."
The reason this is interesting is because it lines up (almost) perfectly with a line said by Justin Theroux's Mr House in the most recent episode of the show.
He says, "The date of the end of the world may not interest you, Mr. Howard. But the date the data coalesced might. April 14th, 2065, at 5:17 a.m."
Now whilst some people took that as a prediction on when the bombs will drop, the first part of that quote suggests it's something else entirely. The fact that it lines up to within 3 minutes of the activation of the Enclave's AI on the Presidential Metro is far too much of a coincidence to ignore.
The comments were full of praise for the spot, as well as putting forward their own theories about how Barbara Howard may be in the thick of things.
"Insane catch. I think this confirms Barbara is with the Enclave," one comment read.
"Crazy find indeed. It is not a far fetched theory now in my opinion that Barbara and the birth of her daughter has nothing to do with the convergence in House calculations. She might be with the Enclave, but the birth of her children has little to do with it," a second said.
Another added, "Holy s**t. I take it back, they've done more homework than I thought. And yeah, another person posted the exposé from 76 but thanks to this conversation we've known for a while that the Enclave screwed off to the Oil Rig months before the war happened."
Whatever they're cooking up, the fact that the writers got involved enough in the lore to use this brief moment of dialogue is pretty incredible. Fingers crossed the payoff is as exciting as we want it to be.