Well, it’s finally here. We officially have the first full-length official trailer for the upcoming “Fallout” season 2, and it looks awesome. There are deathclaws, Dogmeat and plenty of destruction to go around as a war begins to brew in the wasteland of the Mojave Desert.
We have already gotten some hints about what’s to come from season 2. Back in August, Prime Video released a first look at “Fallout” season 2, followed by a teaser trailer just days later. That teaser trailer gave us our first look at iconic elements from the Fallout games, including Caesar’s Legion, Radroaches and more. It also revealed that season 2 would premiere on Prime Video on Dec. 17.
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‘Fallout’ season 2 trailer breakdown: Vegas, baby!
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First, we start with some greaser-looking ghouls, who later in the trailer we’ll watch Lucy destroy with a shotgun to the face. But we also get a look at some iconic Fallout creatures, including a possible Mirelurk sighting at around 0:09 and then a stingwing sighting a few seconds later.
Then we hear the voice of Thaddeus (Johnny Pemberton) cut in, as he is talking to Maximus (Aaron Moten). The two were our two Brotherhood of Steel point-of-view characters from season 1, and Thaddeus is pointing out (pretty accurately) that there are no good people in the Wasteland. When Maximus brings up “That girl I met,” meaning Lucy (Ella Purnell), Thaddeus says, “I would be a good person too if I grew up in some cozy little impenetrable home.”
Speaking of Lucy, she and the Ghoul (Walton Goggins) are hunting down her dad, Hank (Kyle MacLachlan). “I’m going to bring him to justice,” she confidently states, leaving you with the sinking feeling that that’s definitely not going to happen.
But Lucy and the Ghouls’ hunt for Hank isn’t the only throughline of this trailer. It’s clear that a war is brewing in the wasteland, as an ominous voice so kindly points out at around the 1:09 mark, as the screen cuts to black. But a few moments before that, we see the Ghoul run into what seems to be a New California Republic soldier, asking him to join their fight.
So we know now to expect the Brotherhood of Steel, Caesar’s Legion (they appear later in the trailer) and the NCR. But it’s unclear who is fighting whom. In fact, they may be fighting within their own ranks. Kumail Nanjiani arrives in the trailer to inquire about a potential civil war within the Brotherhood’s ranks, a storyline I’m now eagerly anticipating. We also see Macaulay Culkin at the 1:54 mark fighting against one of Caesar’s Legion while dressed in similar garb. Is he part of the faction? Or merely in disguise? We’ll have to watch to find out.
Beyond the war in the wastes, we know we’ll be spending some time in the vaults. Or at least with the vaultdwellers. While we see people still inside Vault 33, there appears to be a mass exodus along the coast from the people of Vault 31.
That could be a flashback, though, as we know currently nobody is running around Vault 31 other than Norm (Moisés Arias) and Brain-on-a-Roomba aka Bud Askins (Michael Esper). Plus, we get flashbacks of the Ghoul’s past as Cooper Howard and his wife/Vauit-Tec executive Barb (Frances Turner), so we know to expect that the past will matter as much as the present.
But, of course, the headline of season 2 is that we’re headed to New Vegas, and at 1:44, we see Justin Theroux as the city’s leader, Mr. House, on a television screen behind the Ghoul. At 2:10, we then see Thaddeus, Maximus (in power armor), the Ghoul and Dogmeat all together in New Vegas, meaning the gang gets back together at some point. Lucy is also with the Ghoul and Dogmeat in this trailer, possibly at the same time as Thaddeus and Maximus, but I think it’s earlier in the season. Regardless, at some point, Maximus is going to have to kill a deathclaw with his power armor, and that’s going to be a moment to watch this season.
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