Hail, Caesar! Lastly,we’re getting nearer to New Vegas Fallout season 2. Whereas season 1 ended with a transparent have a look at the long-lasting location from the 2010 sport, the present’s writers don’t appear to be in a selected rush to get there. We did not get to the post-apocalyptic den of hedonism in episode 4, however we had been launched to one in all Fallout: New Vegas‘s iconic factions: Caesar’s Legion — for higher or worse.
[Ed. note: Major spoilers ahead for Fallout season 2, episode 3.]
Seeing the Nice Khans have arrange store in Novac within the season 2 premiere was thrilling. Certain, the Khans are a third- or fourth-tier faction, at finest, in New Vegas. Clearly, although, the sport’s inspiration is on full show. Episode 2 teased the introduction of maybe probably the most iconic faction within the sport, Caesar’s Legion. Lower to episode 3, and we really meet the faction.
For these unfamiliar with New Vegas, the Legion is the faction you are likely to run into probably the most. They’re mainly a military LARPing as Julius Caesar and his males, wanting to rule over the Mojave Wasteland. And in pursuit of that purpose, they are going to undoubtedly hunt and kill you, do you have to wind up on their dangerous facet. At the least, that is how they was once as one of many most-feared teams within the Mojave Wasteland, standing other than the others roaming the desert, clad in soccer pads repurposed as physique armor and decorative warrior helmets that made them look much more regal in a sea of soiled rags and rusty armor.
Theoretically, introducing the Legion needs to be a serious second for Fallout season 2. The faction even will get its personal title card at the start of the episode. Not solely is the group a key participant within the story of New Vegas, however two of the sport’s potential endings see the group taking energy over the area and ruling it with a bloody iron fist whereas violently rebuilding the town of New Vegas of their picture — which incorporates enslaving or murdering anybody who opposes them.
Virtually instantly, we’re introduced with a Legion that’s simply as bloodthirsty as they’re within the sport, with a Legate (second-in-command to Caesar) beheading a lady in entrance of Lucy (Ella Purnell). And whereas that motion is clearly a risk, it is instantly underwhelming when the Legate unmasks himself to disclose Macaulay Culkin. Sure, the Dwelling Alone child.
Look, Macaulay Culkin guidelines, however seeing him below the masks of the Legate instantly injects an pointless little bit of humor into what needs to be a tense second. It is a enjoyable little bit of casting, however that is the place the may and hazard of Caesar’s Legion must hit house. And whereas Fallout loves to combine its silliness with the brutality of the Wasteland, it is right here that, as a New Vegas fan, I really feel the ball was dropped.
The Legion, whereas nonetheless massive, is a shell of itself. After the demise of the earlier Caesar, the faction cut up into two factions battling one another for supremacy. It is a pathetic consequence for what was one of the vital thrilling teams within the franchise.
Against this, we meet two surviving members of the New California Republic within the area on this episode, surviving regardless of the Legion slicing them off from their battalion and leaving them stranded. The timeline for the NCR’s downfall on this space is murky. We don’t know when the Legion got here for them and whether or not that was earlier than the earlier Caesar died. Whereas the Legion cannot cease preventing with itself, these two older troopers refuse to surrender their trigger. And whereas The Ghoul trades their location to free Lucy from the Legion’s seize, it is merely a ruse to additional make the Legion look silly.
Because the Legion prepares its armies to tackle the final two measly NCR troopers within the area, The Ghoul ignites the civil conflict that is been brewing between the 2 sides. We do not know the ultimate consequence, however once we final see the Legion, they’re killing one another in a large gunfight that overtakes their total encampment.
If that is actually the tip of the group and never one thing to be revisited in future episodes, then it was an enormous waste. It might have been higher to easily not characteristic the Legion than to eradicate them after making them appear like inferior warriors.
Fallout season 2 is simply that: the second piece of a bigger story surrounding the characters launched in season 1. And whereas going to New Vegas had me thrilled as a fan of the sport, the conclusion is setting in. Fallout: New Vegas is merely the backdrop for season 2, relatively than the story of it. Whereas I’m having fun with seeing acquainted areas and factions, the occasions of that sport are lengthy over. All that’s left is the aftermath.
Sadly, which means a fairly weak ending for a once-great faction like Caesar’s Legion. Nonetheless, I stay hopeful that the present will not utterly draw back from what followers love about New Vegas — past Novac, the Khans, and the Legion, we have additionally met Victor the Securitron robotic. It is simply unclear how it’ll be tailored and whether or not it’ll matter. That is scary, as somebody who holds that got here near my coronary heart.
When Fallout lastly arrives in New Vegas, I don’t know what to anticipate. And whereas earlier than this episode, that may have been an thrilling feeling, now that I see what’s change into of the Legion, I am afraid.
