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I love the detail and the feel of the show but I fear that were already getting into Nolans known problems. Season 2 has so many open threads that none of the stories are getting their proper time. When maximus is a main character, yet he's had how much screen time? It's down to like 15 minutes every other episode. He desperately needs to tie some threads together and finish them off or it's going to get so big that it'll take 10 years to finish the stories because each one is getting about 20 minutes per season.
How many stories are currently going on? Lucy, the ghoul, maximus and Thadeus, norm and vault 31, the legion, Hank, 32/33, Robert House, and now enclave, and super mutants. That's 10 right there and that's only assuming that the NCR and BoS are either dead or meaningless now, which is highly unlikely. So there's likely 12 open threads, and arguably more if you include chet and Steph being seperate from vault 32. And sure some overlap for a while but eventually they separate again. This is the same problem Westworld had, it just got too convoluted and fizzled out. I hope that doesn't happen with fallout but every episode this season makes me think it's more and more likely. They need to kill off a bunch of characters within the next 2 episodes to bring the story back to being manageable. And yes, they have to be killed off, they can't just team up and combine threads. It would be hokey and not very fallout to just tie the threads together like some kind of avengers team up to bring it back down to 3-4 stories.
I also have a problem with that. Sure in the games you'll have a bunch of open quests, but how many are you going to do at once? 2 or 3 in the same area maybe? And Hank has felt like a longer quest line than almost any main quest in any of the games.