@@IanM-id8or Maximus isnt in charge. Sure he may have been elevated to Knight via mob rule, but that Elder Cleric would be the one "in Charge" and I dont see him "improving" things with the brotherhood. all he will / would do is run it as he wanted, and that sounds like NOT for the better. and in a general sense, the promise waas kept. the brotherhood did go and attack the group that stole Lucy's dad. so while it wasnt how they agreed on how it would happen, ""Maximus calling himself Knight Titus" was not in a position of authority with the Brotherhood so assigning other Knights to help Lucy wouldnt be capable. but the Brotherhood did attack the group that took Lucy's dad, so in a round about way, the promise was fullfilled.
The shift in tone in Lucy’s voice when she delivers her final “okey dokey” gives me chills, especially with the swelling dark and foreboding score in the background.
Don't know if you noticed it since you didn't mention it during the reaction, but the last scene where Hank is crossing the desert it's New Vegas he's heading to. It was spelled out more in the credit animated montage (which you should actually have watched since they all had lots of easter eggs and clues for each episode). Season 2 will definitely cover New Vegas. Also don't know if you knew, but the Fallout TV Series is Canon to the Games timeline. The TV Series occurs 9 years after the events of Fallout 4 and 15 years after Fallout: New Vegas.
@@cpob2013it does but it's not surprising. Todd Coward has been trying to wipe all of the original Canon from the fallout lore and write his own for years now
oh don’t continue this stupid thing, the fallout show was made by hundreds of people and the fallout canon is spotty as hell to begin with. this isn’t some personal vendetta of Todd Howards, only ten year olds think that way
Another fun fact since we're all doing those in the comments today apparently, the vaults pitched in the meeting Coop listens in on are all vaults from the lore of the games, whether they're ones that can be explored or simply previously referenced in the lore through terminals etc
Did anyone else notice this? I think the Ghoul drops his accent when he talks to: 1) The dog 2) Hank Which indicates that he's not insane, he doesn't *think* he's the character from his TV show, but rather he's *playing a character* in order to survive, and he drops the act either when nobody else is watching, or when something really matters to him.
Maybe a weird thing to say, but thank you for posting this series when you did. I had surgery on Monday, and you guys helped distract me through 3 days of misery.
Maximus isn't so much being given a chance, he's being manipulated. He owes that Priest his life, from the Priest's point of view, he just crafted a loyal desciple.
the cleric gives it away when he says "violence is merely a tool"... maximus is a tool. he sees maximus a young strong loyal soldier with issues trying to prove himself... a tool he can manipulate to get the job done
He's also being given an opportunity now that he's been accepted by the elder and fellow scribes and Knights into leadership after having his perception of the Brotherhood to be proven false, to now mold the Brotherhood into that honorable vision he saw as a kid. It's a really great twist as he was all prepared to bail up to that point.
One crazy detail: they use the video game sound effects all over the place even if it's not realistic at all, like when they pull out fusion cores from their clothing, it makes the fusion core inventory sound.
Don't forget, as shown in E1, Coop and his wife were divorced, so he was no longer eligible to go into her vault. If he is asking about his family, then more than likely she was prepared to snag her daughter when the bombs fell. Previous Fallout lore states the Chinese were responsible for the bombs, so the scene where she states they could just drop the bomb themselves could have just been to show how far they were willing to go.
I bet it will show that during them trying to run away, a vertibird drops in with Enclave and they take her and knock him out and he escapes to some shelter like a cave but gets irradiated
I guess that part of "who dropped the bomb" will not be explicitly confirmed anytime soon; but a lot of theories and elements seem to point in the direction that Vaultec MAY be the ones to blame. So far, some of the elements used to back this fan theory (that I find interesting) are that in some chronicles of the final day, the times when the bombs fall don't match (it's still unclear if this is because the game didn't put much thought into it, first; or the times don't match on purpose), that in Episode 1 you don't see typical smoke trails associated with ICBMs or missiles heading to a target and that most significant impacts (and even the first explosion of Episode 1) show craters forming and the floor going up... this means the bombs exploded underground, not in the air (as it would normally be used in warfare and in a regular attack). Again, all these elements could be clues hidden in plain sight... or oversights/exaggerations of the designers to make cool scenarios and visuals that have no other hidden meaning. In any case, we the audience are left to wonder if that phrase just means resolve... or we just got a partial confirmation of a big piece of lore they are adding/revealing in this format.
Two things 1. I really like how in the end Lucy and Maximus both technically got what they wanted (finding her family and becoming a knight) but it turned out to be the opposite of what they expected or wanted out of it.. and 2. I wonder if holden recognized the city at the end as the destroyed new Vegas strip
Seemed so far that Holden hasn't played New Vegas, which is unfortunate cuz this is the primary setting of the early games and New Vegas! (Not to mention NV being really good)
I think an important detail to note from the first episode is that Coop/Ghoul was reduced to doing kids parties but they also mentioned he’s paying alimony. Eluding to a divorce and it could be possible that his wife took in his daughter and not him. Or I have a feeling Coop might have been let in but didn’t like that management was pods and not as he sold it. He could’ve been thrown out and that’s how he tuned into the ghoul (long exposure to radiation). I think it’s also possible his wife is in 31 where Norm is.
Another thing that comes to mind is because the bombs fell while Cooper and his daughter were outside a vault, then it implies that it wasn't Vault Tech who launched the nukes since Barb wouldn't have done so without first her daughter being in safety. So meaning Vault Tech had the means the drop a bomb but that it was still either China or the US government who did it first
@@leeneufeld4140 This. And people often seem to miss the shadowed figure looking down on the meeting at Vault-Tech HQ who Barb looks at before refocusing the discussion. Who he or she is, we don't know. But we can assume that person and the upper management of all of those companies are in New Vegas.
@@GeraldH-ln4dvIt's unlikely that senior management are in Vegas, that's the domain of House who was at the meeting with the Mustache, there was a control vault that was supposed to co ordinate all the vaults but I believe in the lore something happened there destroying it leaving the vaults independent. Shady sands was built on top of a vault by the inhabitants working with surface dwellers. So Hank essentially destroyed a vault Tec settlement but had no idea as he had no one to co ordinate with other that the 2 connected vaults.
Vault 31 was for the middle management vault experiment. Upper management is most likely in New Vegas. The daughter being with Coop at the birthday party makes me wonder if Vault-Tec actually dropped the bombs or if the wife saying "...drop the bombs ourselves", is to make you believe they did. If she was upper management, I would believe she would have been aware of when the bombs would drop and would have the daughter with her at that time. Her and Coop were divorced/separated at the time in the first episode so I wouldn't think she would have knowingly green-lit dropping the bombs if the daughter wasn't with her.
Yep, Bud's Buds were "up and coming" execs, not the top execs like Barb. My thought on "who dropped the bomb" is that while Vault Tec was certainly willing to do it (they were that evil), this issue probably indicates they didn't. No way Barb would have let her daughter be out in the world if she knew Armageddon was coming.
If vault tec didn't drop the first bomb, I bet that their willingness to do so did. Cooper probably told Moldaver what he learned, and that info could have made its way to China, who probably has its own post war contingency and wants to speed up the process so that they get the upper hand.
It's certainly suspicious that Barb would not have her daughter with her if she knew the bombs were going to drop. The lore has always kept it vague as to who actually dropped the first bomb, and I hope it remains that way. As per the Fallout 2 intro: "The details are trivial and pointless, the reasons, as always, purely human ones."
Its canon that China is who nuked the US in the Fallout universe and the show supposedly is also canon and follows the games' timeline. So it would be China in this too. Which explains why Coop's daughter wasn't inside a vault when the bombs fell.
Just got to say that I'm really impressed how these videos are edited down from an hour long episode of a show, to just about 20 minutes. And still it feels like I've just rewatched the whole series with these two! 🤯
Great adaptation. The tone is spot on. It feels like Fallout the whole way through. Season 2 has me incredibly interested since the writers have to directly tackle the events and variety of possibilities from Fallout New Vegas and I'm keen to see what they pick and choose to address from that game. The best adaptations enhance existing content and provide a new perspective.
My bet is that he threatened to expose her in exchange for full custody and I imagine they had a VT strike team on call to grab her when the bombs fell and they probably left him for dead when they rescued the daughter at the bottom of that hill he was riding down.
The Brotherhood in this series seems to have combined with Caesar’s Legion from Fallout New Vegas, which explains the naming convention for the members.
I've heard it suggested that perhaps Maximus is none too bright on the INT side of things but his LUCK is beyond maxed. Makes his story all the more entertaining when I keep that in mind.
I predict that Coop took his daughter to a vault after the attack and is told she can come in and be saved but he can't. So he let's her go in a real tear jerker of a scene. Clearly Coop and the wife fell out before the bombs since he was doing pony shows to pay his alimony.
Which makes me wonder... Did he drop the daughter off, become a ghoul, come back some time later, and find out they're not in the same location, somehow? I'm trying to figure how where he could've dropped her off, mid-nuclear apocalypse, where she could then later be moved somewhere else. Either that or maybe Vault-Tec came after her afterwards and tore the two of them apart. Or maybe they just told him that they could cure any rads she had and make sure she was safe and so Coop just gave her up.
@@MysterClark So what you're saying is, Coop fought his way back only to have someone tell him that his princess has been taken to another castle? It's the Fallout/Mario crossover I never knew I needed! But for real, I can totally see that all playing out. We've seen in the opening of Fallout 4 that Vault-Tec has a list of who is and is not permitted in each vault before the bombs drop, with armed guards strictly enforcing it, so I'm sure the daughter was on a list and Coop was removed from it, or something along those lines.
@MysterClark what I want to know is why mom let her out of her sight on bomb day. If you are going to end civilization, don't do it on the day your kid is doing birthday parties with Dad.
@@JeffKelly03 You know, now that you mention it, Hank was looking pretty Bowser-esque at the end of the show. Just needs that Death Claw skull for a helmet and to shoot the fire instead of using it for flying.
Well now we know where all the messed up vault experiments came from. The code for the cold fusion was the first Fallout games release date. Lucy had mentioned that she thought she could feel the sun on her skin as a kid, she was actually right. Lucy mentioned that her vault had an epidemic and everyone had to isolate. This was most likely a scam by Hank and Betty so no one would notice Hank leaving to find his wife and kids
The props in the show looked so good and correct because Bethesda gave the production team access to the 3d assets from the games. They likely used those to 3d print prototypes to figure out how to make the props for the show to look similar, but work irl too.
Please tell me you paid attention at the end and noticed that the city Hank went to was New Vegas. Also, you might want to rewatch the series with full subtitles enabled, it shows the name of whomever is speaking as well as the dialogue they are saying. Certain conversations, (The Vault-Tec conference room convo.) become much more illuminating if you see who is saying things.
Interesting tidbit, the TV show and games were confirmed by the showrunners and Todd Howard (Bethesda Games Director of Fallout 3 and 4) to exist in the same universe. In the games, it was always alluded that the wasteland came into being due to a nuclear war between China and the U.S.. For years, fans speculated on who dropped the first bomb, but this episode introduced a new element to that debate, Vault Tec.
yeah, though I actually think the show is evidence that Valut-Tech didn't do it, but they were willing to and possibly planning to. I think the Chinese beat them to it. There is no way she would have let them drop the nukes without her daughter safely in a vault already. It is clear it caught even Vault-Tech by surprise in the end
I've always speculated from the timeline that Robco was involved in the bomb drops, because they had acquired complete control of the software running the launch and detection systems over the few years prior. It plays better in the timeline because the time from launch detection of China's missiles to initial strikes is off, and it aligns better with the timeline from the US's own launches being the triggering even with China's launches actually being retaliatory. Basically I think it plays out this way: Robco spends a few years acquiring software vendors who have access to the launch and detection systems. This consortium triggers a launch intent when things are alligned Robco's access to the system allows them to insert false launch detections into the US system. US forces respond to these launch detections, going up the chain trigging POTUS to issue order for retaliation strikes. US Lauinches its missiles China detecting the US launches responds with launch order of their own, the missiles crossing and hitting spots in the US. There are key things that make me think this, once was the Chinese Submarine, the submarine launced its missiles, but at no point in the Lore while the response system was working that the submarine missile launches near Boston recorded, this seems to indicate that if there were any they would have happened AFTER the strikes while people were in panic and so much was already going on. Additionally A chinese launch story alligns too well with the propaganda of the period. China is an easy scapegoat for the real villians (this industrial consortium) to hide behind.
Most of the representatives at the meeting were featured or mentioned in either Fallout: New Vegas or its DLC. The exception being the guy from West-Tek, their facilities were shown in F1 and 76.
i think yall missed maximus' entire motivation. his entire life hes looked up to the brotherhood and wanted to help them in any way he can, but suddenly its been revealed that what he knows about the brotherhood is nothing like how they actually are at all. he now has the choices of 1:abandon the thing hes looked up to his whole life for the sake of good morality or 2: join them and become the thing he doesnt want the brotherhood to be ngl the vault 32 stuff just felt like fleeting emotions that he only ever felt when lucy was there.
The end bit though, where he's credited as killing Moldaver elevates him into a greater position in the Brotherhood. He could now do what the Elder offered in re-shaping the Brotherhood but now without the Elder since he has the respect of all his other brothers because of it.
@@Toidal thats very true, i do hope they go that direction with his story honestly. the way they were both focusing on lucy bothered me a bit but i can see why they come to that conclusion
I think they did a great job of setting up the future seasons with this one. In some ways this felt like the tutorial part of the game and it sets up the future while explaining the history and how we got here.
Well to be fair, it's not ONLY that Maximus experienced a more free, more luxurious life outside with Lucy, but also Titus REALLY shattered some of the delusions that Maximus had built up about the Brotherhood. Ever since he was a child he saw the Brotherhood as this great savior organisation and Titus was like lifting the veil completely. I don't doubt that Maximus may have had misgivings before; he was sent out with Titus, but Titus was the final smoke screen. Also it's a tough choice because Maximus KNOWS that if he even attempts to try and back out he going to be killed instantly as a traitor.
8:50 - When Holden said he was "fresh out of The Flintstones." My reaction was " Nah, more like 8-10 years earlier, so about the time Kyle was working with David Lynch on Blue Velvet or Dune."
Shady Sands was founded by the people in Vault 15. So according to Hanks actions, it's not just Vault Tec that needs to restart civilization, it has to be management from Vault 31. A nice detail in the earlier episode, you can see the ruins of a Vault at the bottom of the Shady Sands crater. My theory is that he easily gained access to Vault 15 with his management Pipboy, and overloaded their reactor to blow up under the town.
Oh, that could maybe explain the lush greenery in the Shady Sands flashback. If they used a G.E.C.K. and upper management was not happy. That's even more ruthless, to nuke your own people... I like it.
I have a theory, that when Hank came to get the kids that he posed that same question "Them or her" to the wife (her referring to Moldaver as it's incinuated that they're lovers) and she chose Moldaver who was locked in a bunker or taken. I have a feeling we'll get a flashback in season 2 showing this and as Moldaver was seemingly a leader in Shady Sands, she was well known and "somehow" survived the blast, which is why she's known and worshipped as the Flame Mother.
Don’t know if you missed it but in the first episode when cooper is performing at the kids birthday party one of the dads wonders why he’s there and the other says “what else? Alimony.”, and based off the last scene I wouldn’t be surprised if the divorce was messy and she didn’t let him in or didn’t let him know where the vault was.
Wilzeg pointed out in ep 2 that Lucy may not want the same things if she becomes a different animal entirely. Lucy wanted to get her dad back. She does but ends up pointing a gun at him. Max wants to be a knight. He gets it but doesn't want it anymore. The ghoul may be different. He turned into a different animal long ago but still wants the same thing. Maybe, anyway. We don't know why he wants to find them. Reunion of revenge?
in second season Norm will be saved by Betty, who sends him away from Vault 33 to find a replacement for the water chip. Norm will want to be accompanied by Chet and along the way two other companions will be added: Thaddeus and the chicken-loving doctor/charlatan
Absolutely loved the series as well, it was nice to see your guys reaction as a whole. I to have sunk many hours into the games. Didn't play 1 or 2. But i can remember when fallout 3 came out there was nothing else like it and i fell in love with the lore and have played every single one ever sense. Keep up the amazing work you guys do. Much love from Upstate New York
A perfect finale to an incredible first season. I think Barb and Vault Tec were prepared to drop the bombs, as a fail-safe, if peace negotiations didn't go through, why waste resources and money on bombs if they don't need to?
Remember, in the first episode, it's public knowledge that Coop had divorced his wife, and the rumor was he was doing kids' parties because the divorce had ruined his career. Vault 31 is very close to where coop and his daughter were performing. The vault was for vault-tec employees and their families... not their ex-husbands, especially ex-husbands who were the public face of the company and turned their back on it.
One thing I was confused about at first when watching the last episode was that Coop/Ghoul talked about a fault in the welding and literally one-shot every knight in his armor, when he had problems with Maximus in an earlier episode. What I and probably many other had forgotten at this point was that they talked about that fault in episode 1 and that Knight Titus actually got his suit fixed.
The ghoul has a variety of ammo that he uses. You can see in this episode he loads the gun with an armor piercing bullet, so he must have been expecting to deal with the brotherhood. When maximus fought him it caught him by surprise and he may not have had any armor piercing ammo at the time.
I imagine 2 things about that, 1st we saw him playing with some kind of armor piercing bullet when he talked about the welding issue, so maybe he didn't have the right ammo with him at that time. He also saw that Maximus was a rookie and couldn't use the armor at its full potential, so I think he was playing a bit with him, he wasn't really a threat. I also remember Coop saying to Bud (in the past) how West Tech was responsible for the death of many of his brothers in arms because because of that issue, so it's not something they added for the last episode.
Moldaver was actually an NCR leader, not a raider. They attacked the vault after Shady Sands for different reasons. My biggest problem with the ending here personally is that Moldaver seemed to have a loving relationship with Rose, their mom. So why when she attacked the vault would she just let them go hog wild and potential kill her lover's kids. And you can't say she didn't because she specifically married one of them to Lucy. Kinda a plot hole in my opinion especially with them showing her prewar being intelligent. I personally loved the series though even with the few inconsistencies and plotholes. Glad you guys reacted to this so quickly, really enjoy your commentary and reactions. Can't wait for season 2, which was greenlit the week this show came out.
Watching these reactions was a great reminder to start New Vegas. I've played a little bit of 3 and 76, but the only game I've really been able to stick my teeth into was 4. I've been meaning to get back into 3 and NV since this show dropped but just never did haha
I don't really know if finally it was the US who dropped the bombs. Yes, it's the wife said that they would do it, but if they did, she would have been with her daughter to protect her. Or maybe things got out of control with the war and both became ghouls Dx and then Cooper went with her daughter to the wife's vault and they accepted her and not him? And then the mother went to another vault to try to cure her daughter and that's why the ghoul doesn't know where they are? Or maybe the daughter was a clone all along Dx and the mother took the original to a vault in secret. Idk, all theories. But it's somewhat difficult to even especulate because we don't know how the series nuclear bombs works... and I mean, the sound wave should have been almost inmmediate IRL and not so slow as shown in ep. 1. And with so many nukes dropping so close, realistically, they should have been dead.
Remember we still don't definitively know who dropped the bombs first: USA, China, or Vault Tec. Just because they were willing to do it, doesn't mean they did. There was still a very tense global situation with the top two nuclear superpowers in a hot war with each other over the last sources of oil on Earth. If Barb is still alive, she is likely in Vault 0, or whatever they name the central control vault (Vault 0 is from a game Bethesda officially removed from canon - Fallout: Tactics). That is probably the "special vault for management" she was referring to when talking with Coop. The question is whether they used cryo in a similar way to Vault 31, and if they did, whether Barb has been thawed out yet.
Given they introduced Mr. House in this episode, and ended with a shot of New Vegas, I'd be pretty shocked if the "good vault" isn't somewhere on the strip. Probably not the one that's under the Lucky 38, but another secret one somewhere along the strip.
I hope we get more of eps like this one in the next season. The wild and wacky wasteland works great in the games where the main story is less of a draw, but I much prefer a more central storyline with wild and wacky elements for a tv show.
Since you have recently watched Die Hard as well as Mr, & Mrs. Smith, I vote that we combine the two and watch Twelve Monkeys!!!!! I feel like Jen would love it, as well as Holden (if he hasn't seen it)
Just a surprisingly amazing show. I expected it to fail, sort of like the Borderlands movie, but they seemed to have a really good combination of comedy writers and dramatic ones to hit the right tone to make it succeed.
Highly recommend checking out some ShoddyCast "The Storyteller" Fallout lore videos with Jen to introduce her to the lore. They’ve got an entire series, with each episode diving into different aspects of Fallout’s rich backstory. It’s a great way to explore the world and its history.
I'll second that recommendation. The production quality of the episodes are top notch and his voice is one of the best voice over voices you'll ever hear. RIP Jason Damron
One thing I thought of... I've been skimming back through the season looking for Coop's daughter. If she was frozen, she could have been thawed at any time in the past 219 years. She could be any age from a little girl to an old woman. We have no way of knowing if she was thawed or how long ago if she was. Fallout 4 sets this precedent. I'm betting she's someone of importance in New Vegas.
2:49 Is that the right-hand signal? I can't help but imagine the Knight with the pistol to Maximus's head, when he sees the Clerics hand signal, he pulls the trigger. He looks up, 'Oh, wait...um...was that the right-hand signal? I thought that was the 'shoot' signal. .....umm ...My bad!'
DEFINITELY looking forward to season 2 if New Vegas is the setting. Especially with Mr. House being the RoboCo leader at the Vault Tec meeting in the show....be interesting to see what their Canon will be...I have playthroughs where I sided with House...and some where he's "no more".
My theory about Moldaver is that she is a synth. Not only that, but she is one of several created by a primary Williams synth, who was created by the Institute decades before the events of Fallout 4. With her intelligence and charisma, I could see her convincing sympathetic humans and fellow synths to escape the Institute with the resources necessary to start up a remote synth fabrication operation. I believe that the original Ms Williams, as a renowned scientist, had her consciousness and memories scanned by C.I.T., the forebears of the Institute, in much the same way as Nick Valentine did, and was recreated as a synth without regard to her origins or potential, merely as an experiment to be relegated as a tool without agency. Much like her original human self, the Williams synth’s copies all had the goal of bettering the lives of the people of the Wasteland, and each would take on new names and develop unique personality traits as a result of their individual experiences. We haven’t seen the last of the legacy of Williams in Fallout.
No. I think Moldaver was part of the upper management group who went to one of the "good" vaults in New Vegas and she escaped from there. I think it's a pretty sure bet that the Enclave is in New Vegas, too. That's how she and Dr. Wilzig are connected.
@@GeraldH-ln4dv The Enclave base that Wilzig escaped from is in the Sierra Mountains. Moldaver hated Vault-Tech and was fighting against them, so it's highly unlikely that she was anywhere near their facilities. Coop called her a millionaire, and she was a brilliant scientist, so she probably had access to cryostasis elsewhere. How she got wind of Wilzig is as yet unknown, but maybe we'll find out next season.
@@leeneufeld4140 I could totally see her being frozen against her will as she was the lead in researching cold fusion. Operation Paperclip comes to mind.
A lab in Livermore, Ca proved cold fusion is possible. Still years away from a viable power source, but they are one step closer. The French are also working on it.
The lab at Livermore wasn't doing cold fusion. It was just good ol' actual fusion. They are NOT the same thing. Cold fusion has never been demonstrated. The two scientists years ago who claimed to have discovered it failed to reproduce their results and no one else could either so it was a mistake.
Did you notice the assistant that brought Cooper to the office was Overseer Betty?
The code Hank gives Moldaver is the release date of the original Fallout 1 game.
Maximus actually fulfilled his promise to Lucy. Instead of five or six knights in power armor, he brought the entire Brotherhood.
specifically that chapter.
Well, kind of. *They* actually brought *him*
I think Maximus is in charge now, so maybe the Brotherhood will improve
@@IanM-id8or Maximus isnt in charge. Sure he may have been elevated to Knight via mob rule, but that Elder Cleric would be the one "in Charge" and I dont see him "improving" things with the brotherhood. all he will / would do is run it as he wanted, and that sounds like NOT for the better. and in a general sense, the promise waas kept. the brotherhood did go and attack the group that stole Lucy's dad. so while it wasnt how they agreed on how it would happen, ""Maximus calling himself Knight Titus" was not in a position of authority with the Brotherhood so assigning other Knights to help Lucy wouldnt be capable. but the Brotherhood did attack the group that took Lucy's dad, so in a round about way, the promise was fullfilled.
The shift in tone in Lucy’s voice when she delivers her final “okey dokey” gives me chills, especially with the swelling dark and foreboding score in the background.
It felt very Westworld, which is maybe not that surprising since Jonathan Nolan also produced that.
Don't know if you noticed it since you didn't mention it during the reaction, but the last scene where Hank is crossing the desert it's New Vegas he's heading to. It was spelled out more in the credit animated montage (which you should actually have watched since they all had lots of easter eggs and clues for each episode). Season 2 will definitely cover New Vegas.
Also don't know if you knew, but the Fallout TV Series is Canon to the Games timeline. The TV Series occurs 9 years after the events of Fallout 4 and 15 years after Fallout: New Vegas.
I really wish they made it a separate canon. Nuking shady sands sucks.
The NCR will rise again!
@@cpob2013it does but it's not surprising. Todd Coward has been trying to wipe all of the original Canon from the fallout lore and write his own for years now
oh don’t continue this stupid thing, the fallout show was made by hundreds of people and the fallout canon is spotty as hell to begin with. this isn’t some personal vendetta of Todd Howards, only ten year olds think that way
@@silentassason hopefully one day you grow up and join the rest of us normal people in the real world
Another fun fact since we're all doing those in the comments today apparently, the vaults pitched in the meeting Coop listens in on are all vaults from the lore of the games, whether they're ones that can be explored or simply previously referenced in the lore through terminals etc
This is one of the best seasons of TV in the last few years. Didn’t let me down and even left me surprised. Hope season 2 is just as good.
Not many reactors would release an episode a day for their viewers so kudos to you guys. Great job! Enjoyed all 8!
Did anyone else notice this? I think the Ghoul drops his accent when he talks to:
1) The dog
2) Hank
Which indicates that he's not insane, he doesn't *think* he's the character from his TV show, but rather he's *playing a character* in order to survive, and he drops the act either when nobody else is watching, or when something really matters to him.
He also seems to at the very end when he says "You coming?"
Maybe a weird thing to say, but thank you for posting this series when you did. I had surgery on Monday, and you guys helped distract me through 3 days of misery.
Maximus isn't so much being given a chance, he's being manipulated. He owes that Priest his life, from the Priest's point of view, he just crafted a loyal desciple.
the cleric gives it away when he says "violence is merely a tool"... maximus is a tool. he sees maximus a young strong loyal soldier with issues trying to prove himself... a tool he can manipulate to get the job done
He's also being given an opportunity now that he's been accepted by the elder and fellow scribes and Knights into leadership after having his perception of the Brotherhood to be proven false, to now mold the Brotherhood into that honorable vision he saw as a kid. It's a really great twist as he was all prepared to bail up to that point.
Came here for Lucy's mother reveal and was not disappointed.
One crazy detail: they use the video game sound effects all over the place even if it's not realistic at all, like when they pull out fusion cores from their clothing, it makes the fusion core inventory sound.
Jen was genuinely stunned by all the revelations in this episode . . .
Don't forget, as shown in E1, Coop and his wife were divorced, so he was no longer eligible to go into her vault. If he is asking about his family, then more than likely she was prepared to snag her daughter when the bombs fell. Previous Fallout lore states the Chinese were responsible for the bombs, so the scene where she states they could just drop the bomb themselves could have just been to show how far they were willing to go.
I bet it will show that during them trying to run away, a vertibird drops in with Enclave and they take her and knock him out and he escapes to some shelter like a cave but gets irradiated
It's never been definitively stated who dropped the bombs. My money has always been on the Zetans.
It also could be Vault Tec and she simply planted the seed. She doesn't have to be the one who pressed the button or scheduled the attack.
I guess that part of "who dropped the bomb" will not be explicitly confirmed anytime soon; but a lot of theories and elements seem to point in the direction that Vaultec MAY be the ones to blame.
So far, some of the elements used to back this fan theory (that I find interesting) are that in some chronicles of the final day, the times when the bombs fall don't match (it's still unclear if this is because the game didn't put much thought into it, first; or the times don't match on purpose), that in Episode 1 you don't see typical smoke trails associated with ICBMs or missiles heading to a target and that most significant impacts (and even the first explosion of Episode 1) show craters forming and the floor going up... this means the bombs exploded underground, not in the air (as it would normally be used in warfare and in a regular attack). Again, all these elements could be clues hidden in plain sight... or oversights/exaggerations of the designers to make cool scenarios and visuals that have no other hidden meaning.
In any case, we the audience are left to wonder if that phrase just means resolve... or we just got a partial confirmation of a big piece of lore they are adding/revealing in this format.
Two things 1. I really like how in the end Lucy and Maximus both technically got what they wanted (finding her family and becoming a knight) but it turned out to be the opposite of what they expected or wanted out of it.. and 2. I wonder if holden recognized the city at the end as the destroyed new Vegas strip
that’s how character arcs work, everything before an arc is based on a “false belief.”
Seemed so far that Holden hasn't played New Vegas, which is unfortunate cuz this is the primary setting of the early games and New Vegas!
(Not to mention NV being really good)
@@dissolution9843 He mentioned that he has played it in this very video. Although whether he finished it or not, is unclear.
And Stephanie, the one eyed woman just appointed overseer of Vault 32 is from Vault 31 as well. Her tube is there somewhere.
When Lucy said she thought the sun was real when she was younger it’s because it was.
I think an important detail to note from the first episode is that Coop/Ghoul was reduced to doing kids parties but they also mentioned he’s paying alimony. Eluding to a divorce and it could be possible that his wife took in his daughter and not him. Or I have a feeling Coop might have been let in but didn’t like that management was pods and not as he sold it. He could’ve been thrown out and that’s how he tuned into the ghoul (long exposure to radiation). I think it’s also possible his wife is in 31 where Norm is.
Another thing that comes to mind is because the bombs fell while Cooper and his daughter were outside a vault, then it implies that it wasn't Vault Tech who launched the nukes since Barb wouldn't have done so without first her daughter being in safety. So meaning Vault Tech had the means the drop a bomb but that it was still either China or the US government who did it first
31 is for junior management. Coop's wife is more likely in New Vegas.
@@leeneufeld4140 This. And people often seem to miss the shadowed figure looking down on the meeting at Vault-Tech HQ who Barb looks at before refocusing the discussion. Who he or she is, we don't know. But we can assume that person and the upper management of all of those companies are in New Vegas.
@@GeraldH-ln4dvIt's unlikely that senior management are in Vegas, that's the domain of House who was at the meeting with the Mustache, there was a control vault that was supposed to co ordinate all the vaults but I believe in the lore something happened there destroying it leaving the vaults independent.
Shady sands was built on top of a vault by the inhabitants working with surface dwellers. So Hank essentially destroyed a vault Tec settlement but had no idea as he had no one to co ordinate with other that the 2 connected vaults.
I think "you'll never find out"... "Oop hes gunna find out" Is the funniest bit the entire series (So far. Can't wait for season 2!)
Vault 31 was for the middle management vault experiment. Upper management is most likely in New Vegas. The daughter being with Coop at the birthday party makes me wonder if Vault-Tec actually dropped the bombs or if the wife saying "...drop the bombs ourselves", is to make you believe they did. If she was upper management, I would believe she would have been aware of when the bombs would drop and would have the daughter with her at that time. Her and Coop were divorced/separated at the time in the first episode so I wouldn't think she would have knowingly green-lit dropping the bombs if the daughter wasn't with her.
Yep, Bud's Buds were "up and coming" execs, not the top execs like Barb.
My thought on "who dropped the bomb" is that while Vault Tec was certainly willing to do it (they were that evil), this issue probably indicates they didn't. No way Barb would have let her daughter be out in the world if she knew Armageddon was coming.
If vault tec didn't drop the first bomb, I bet that their willingness to do so did. Cooper probably told Moldaver what he learned, and that info could have made its way to China, who probably has its own post war contingency and wants to speed up the process so that they get the upper hand.
It's certainly suspicious that Barb would not have her daughter with her if she knew the bombs were going to drop. The lore has always kept it vague as to who actually dropped the first bomb, and I hope it remains that way.
As per the Fallout 2 intro: "The details are trivial and pointless, the reasons, as always, purely human ones."
Its canon that China is who nuked the US in the Fallout universe and the show supposedly is also canon and follows the games' timeline. So it would be China in this too. Which explains why Coop's daughter wasn't inside a vault when the bombs fell.
@@trashsplashtuckerI dont think it is ever confirmed who dropped the bombs
Just got to say that I'm really impressed how these videos are edited down from an hour long episode of a show, to just about 20 minutes. And still it feels like I've just rewatched the whole series with these two! 🤯
As soon as you started this series, I have been waiting for the reveals that Vault Tec dropped the bombs and Lucys mom reveal. Jen did not disappoint.
Great adaptation. The tone is spot on. It feels like Fallout the whole way through. Season 2 has me incredibly interested since the writers have to directly tackle the events and variety of possibilities from Fallout New Vegas and I'm keen to see what they pick and choose to address from that game. The best adaptations enhance existing content and provide a new perspective.
My bet is that he threatened to expose her in exchange for full custody and I imagine they had a VT strike team on call to grab her when the bombs fell and they probably left him for dead when they rescued the daughter at the bottom of that hill he was riding down.
The Brotherhood in this series seems to have combined with Caesar’s Legion from Fallout New Vegas, which explains the naming convention for the members.
I've heard it suggested that perhaps Maximus is none too bright on the INT side of things but his LUCK is beyond maxed. Makes his story all the more entertaining when I keep that in mind.
I wonder if the old guy was the knight that found Maximus and that is why he is giving him chances?
I predict that Coop took his daughter to a vault after the attack and is told she can come in and be saved but he can't. So he let's her go in a real tear jerker of a scene. Clearly Coop and the wife fell out before the bombs since he was doing pony shows to pay his alimony.
Which makes me wonder... Did he drop the daughter off, become a ghoul, come back some time later, and find out they're not in the same location, somehow? I'm trying to figure how where he could've dropped her off, mid-nuclear apocalypse, where she could then later be moved somewhere else. Either that or maybe Vault-Tec came after her afterwards and tore the two of them apart. Or maybe they just told him that they could cure any rads she had and make sure she was safe and so Coop just gave her up.
@@MysterClark So what you're saying is, Coop fought his way back only to have someone tell him that his princess has been taken to another castle? It's the Fallout/Mario crossover I never knew I needed!
But for real, I can totally see that all playing out. We've seen in the opening of Fallout 4 that Vault-Tec has a list of who is and is not permitted in each vault before the bombs drop, with armed guards strictly enforcing it, so I'm sure the daughter was on a list and Coop was removed from it, or something along those lines.
@MysterClark what I want to know is why mom let her out of her sight on bomb day. If you are going to end civilization, don't do it on the day your kid is doing birthday parties with Dad.
@@JeffKelly03 You know, now that you mention it, Hank was looking pretty Bowser-esque at the end of the show. Just needs that Death Claw skull for a helmet and to shoot the fire instead of using it for flying.
Well now we know where all the messed up vault experiments came from.
The code for the cold fusion was the first Fallout games release date.
Lucy had mentioned that she thought she could feel the sun on her skin as a kid, she was actually right.
Lucy mentioned that her vault had an epidemic and everyone had to isolate. This was most likely a scam by Hank and Betty so no one would notice Hank leaving to find his wife and kids
Thank you for uploading all these so fast to UA-cam!!
Great reaction and commentary!!
thats eeeeexactly the expression i expected from Jen to make, after her predictions on the previous episodes
easily one of the best adaptations ever, its up there with invincible and the penguin
The props in the show looked so good and correct because Bethesda gave the production team access to the 3d assets from the games. They likely used those to 3d print prototypes to figure out how to make the props for the show to look similar, but work irl too.
Please tell me you paid attention at the end and noticed that the city Hank went to was New Vegas. Also, you might want to rewatch the series with full subtitles enabled, it shows the name of whomever is speaking as well as the dialogue they are saying. Certain conversations, (The Vault-Tec conference room convo.) become much more illuminating if you see who is saying things.
i love how technically you werent wrong about Lucys mom being "alive" 😱 Also the music the choose to play during some of these scenes is a choice
Interesting tidbit, the TV show and games were confirmed by the showrunners and Todd Howard (Bethesda Games Director of Fallout 3 and 4) to exist in the same universe. In the games, it was always alluded that the wasteland came into being due to a nuclear war between China and the U.S.. For years, fans speculated on who dropped the first bomb, but this episode introduced a new element to that debate, Vault Tec.
yeah, though I actually think the show is evidence that Valut-Tech didn't do it, but they were willing to and possibly planning to. I think the Chinese beat them to it. There is no way she would have let them drop the nukes without her daughter safely in a vault already. It is clear it caught even Vault-Tech by surprise in the end
I've always speculated from the timeline that Robco was involved in the bomb drops, because they had acquired complete control of the software running the launch and detection systems over the few years prior. It plays better in the timeline because the time from launch detection of China's missiles to initial strikes is off, and it aligns better with the timeline from the US's own launches being the triggering even with China's launches actually being retaliatory.
Basically I think it plays out this way:
Robco spends a few years acquiring software vendors who have access to the launch and detection systems.
This consortium triggers a launch intent when things are alligned
Robco's access to the system allows them to insert false launch detections into the US system.
US forces respond to these launch detections, going up the chain trigging POTUS to issue order for retaliation strikes.
US Lauinches its missiles
China detecting the US launches responds with launch order of their own, the missiles crossing and hitting spots in the US.
There are key things that make me think this, once was the Chinese Submarine, the submarine launced its missiles, but at no point in the Lore while the response system was working that the submarine missile launches near Boston recorded, this seems to indicate that if there were any they would have happened AFTER the strikes while people were in panic and so much was already going on.
Additionally A chinese launch story alligns too well with the propaganda of the period. China is an easy scapegoat for the real villians (this industrial consortium) to hide behind.
18:09 no reaction to New Vegas? ... wow. Ok
Really great series, can’t wait til season 2
The scene with all the CEO’s talking, the RobCo CEO is Mr. House from New Vegas.
Most of the representatives at the meeting were featured or mentioned in either Fallout: New Vegas or its DLC. The exception being the guy from West-Tek, their facilities were shown in F1 and 76.
8:21 Presenting the REAL Monsters, Vault-Tech
17:45 That's why I love Maximus 🙂 Most of the time he just tells the truth but he still gets advanced up the chain ♥
i think yall missed maximus' entire motivation. his entire life hes looked up to the brotherhood and wanted to help them in any way he can, but suddenly its been revealed that what he knows about the brotherhood is nothing like how they actually are at all. he now has the choices of
1:abandon the thing hes looked up to his whole life for the sake of good morality
or
2: join them and become the thing he doesnt want the brotherhood to be
ngl the vault 32 stuff just felt like fleeting emotions that he only ever felt when lucy was there.
The end bit though, where he's credited as killing Moldaver elevates him into a greater position in the Brotherhood. He could now do what the Elder offered in re-shaping the Brotherhood but now without the Elder since he has the respect of all his other brothers because of it.
@@Toidal thats very true, i do hope they go that direction with his story honestly. the way they were both focusing on lucy bothered me a bit but i can see why they come to that conclusion
I think they did a great job of setting up the future seasons with this one. In some ways this felt like the tutorial part of the game and it sets up the future while explaining the history and how we got here.
Well to be fair, it's not ONLY that Maximus experienced a more free, more luxurious life outside with Lucy, but also Titus REALLY shattered some of the delusions that Maximus had built up about the Brotherhood. Ever since he was a child he saw the Brotherhood as this great savior organisation and Titus was like lifting the veil completely. I don't doubt that Maximus may have had misgivings before; he was sent out with Titus, but Titus was the final smoke screen. Also it's a tough choice because Maximus KNOWS that if he even attempts to try and back out he going to be killed instantly as a traitor.
Kyle looked fresh out of Twin Peaks, or perhaps even the original Dune movie!
8:50 - When Holden said he was "fresh out of The Flintstones." My reaction was " Nah, more like 8-10 years earlier, so about the time Kyle was working with David Lynch on Blue Velvet or Dune."
Shady Sands was founded by the people in Vault 15. So according to Hanks actions, it's not just Vault Tec that needs to restart civilization, it has to be management from Vault 31.
A nice detail in the earlier episode, you can see the ruins of a Vault at the bottom of the Shady Sands crater. My theory is that he easily gained access to Vault 15 with his management Pipboy, and overloaded their reactor to blow up under the town.
Oh, that could maybe explain the lush greenery in the Shady Sands flashback. If they used a G.E.C.K. and upper management was not happy. That's even more ruthless, to nuke your own people... I like it.
Max’s song So Doggone lonesome is great because it’s about a man missing his love
I have a theory, that when Hank came to get the kids that he posed that same question "Them or her" to the wife (her referring to Moldaver as it's incinuated that they're lovers) and she chose Moldaver who was locked in a bunker or taken. I have a feeling we'll get a flashback in season 2 showing this and as Moldaver was seemingly a leader in Shady Sands, she was well known and "somehow" survived the blast, which is why she's known and worshipped as the Flame Mother.
Don’t know if you missed it but in the first episode when cooper is performing at the kids birthday party one of the dads wonders why he’s there and the other says “what else? Alimony.”, and based off the last scene I wouldn’t be surprised if the divorce was messy and she didn’t let him in or didn’t let him know where the vault was.
Wilzeg pointed out in ep 2 that Lucy may not want the same things if she becomes a different animal entirely. Lucy wanted to get her dad back. She does but ends up pointing a gun at him. Max wants to be a knight. He gets it but doesn't want it anymore. The ghoul may be different. He turned into a different animal long ago but still wants the same thing. Maybe, anyway. We don't know why he wants to find them. Reunion of revenge?
in second season Norm will be saved by Betty, who sends him away from Vault 33 to find a replacement for the water chip.
Norm will want to be accompanied by Chet and along the way two other companions will be added: Thaddeus and the chicken-loving doctor/charlatan
You should definitely stream your wife playing Fallout 4.
Short and simple! My favorite reaction duo! You guys help me get through the day
Absolutely loved the series as well, it was nice to see your guys reaction as a whole. I to have sunk many hours into the games. Didn't play 1 or 2. But i can remember when fallout 3 came out there was nothing else like it and i fell in love with the lore and have played every single one ever sense. Keep up the amazing work you guys do. Much love from Upstate New York
A perfect finale to an incredible first season. I think Barb and Vault Tec were prepared to drop the bombs, as a fail-safe, if peace negotiations didn't go through, why waste resources and money on bombs if they don't need to?
Remember, in the first episode, it's public knowledge that Coop had divorced his wife, and the rumor was he was doing kids' parties because the divorce had ruined his career. Vault 31 is very close to where coop and his daughter were performing. The vault was for vault-tec employees and their families... not their ex-husbands, especially ex-husbands who were the public face of the company and turned their back on it.
This was a phenomenal series, and I really hope you guys get to the Punisher soon!
And the Ghoul knew the flaw in the armor when he went around with Maximus but didn't use it.
12:22 gotta love the Dodgeball reference.
One thing I was confused about at first when watching the last episode was that Coop/Ghoul talked about a fault in the welding and literally one-shot every knight in his armor, when he had problems with Maximus in an earlier episode. What I and probably many other had forgotten at this point was that they talked about that fault in episode 1 and that Knight Titus actually got his suit fixed.
The ghoul has a variety of ammo that he uses. You can see in this episode he loads the gun with an armor piercing bullet, so he must have been expecting to deal with the brotherhood. When maximus fought him it caught him by surprise and he may not have had any armor piercing ammo at the time.
I imagine 2 things about that, 1st we saw him playing with some kind of armor piercing bullet when he talked about the welding issue, so maybe he didn't have the right ammo with him at that time. He also saw that Maximus was a rookie and couldn't use the armor at its full potential, so I think he was playing a bit with him, he wasn't really a threat.
I also remember Coop saying to Bud (in the past) how West Tech was responsible for the death of many of his brothers in arms because because of that issue, so it's not something they added for the last episode.
And i don't know if you noticed but that city hank was looking at in the end is new vegas.
Moldaver was actually an NCR leader, not a raider. They attacked the vault after Shady Sands for different reasons. My biggest problem with the ending here personally is that Moldaver seemed to have a loving relationship with Rose, their mom. So why when she attacked the vault would she just let them go hog wild and potential kill her lover's kids. And you can't say she didn't because she specifically married one of them to Lucy. Kinda a plot hole in my opinion especially with them showing her prewar being intelligent. I personally loved the series though even with the few inconsistencies and plotholes. Glad you guys reacted to this so quickly, really enjoy your commentary and reactions. Can't wait for season 2, which was greenlit the week this show came out.
Seeing New Vegas at the end was a standout moment for me.
Btw the “code” is the date Fallout 1 released in the 90s October 10, 1997. 😂
I know it's a big undertaking but Walton Goggins in Justified is a treasue.
Watching these reactions was a great reminder to start New Vegas. I've played a little bit of 3 and 76, but the only game I've really been able to stick my teeth into was 4. I've been meaning to get back into 3 and NV since this show dropped but just never did haha
Let’s get ready for season 2
15:14 And as the accent changed the "role" of the Ghoul fades, and the man that is Cooper returns with "where's my fucking family". Love it.
And now let's binge watch The Punisher!!!!!!!
If you pay a fallout game before season 2, you should play New Vegas because that's where season 2 is gonna be based, it looks like.
"Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter."
I don't really know if finally it was the US who dropped the bombs. Yes, it's the wife said that they would do it, but if they did, she would have been with her daughter to protect her.
Or maybe things got out of control with the war and both became ghouls Dx and then Cooper went with her daughter to the wife's vault and they accepted her and not him? And then the mother went to another vault to try to cure her daughter and that's why the ghoul doesn't know where they are?
Or maybe the daughter was a clone all along Dx and the mother took the original to a vault in secret. Idk, all theories.
But it's somewhat difficult to even especulate because we don't know how the series nuclear bombs works... and I mean, the sound wave should have been almost inmmediate IRL and not so slow as shown in ep. 1. And with so many nukes dropping so close, realistically, they should have been dead.
Sweet just in time. I can't wait for season 2.
Remember we still don't definitively know who dropped the bombs first: USA, China, or Vault Tec. Just because they were willing to do it, doesn't mean they did. There was still a very tense global situation with the top two nuclear superpowers in a hot war with each other over the last sources of oil on Earth.
If Barb is still alive, she is likely in Vault 0, or whatever they name the central control vault (Vault 0 is from a game Bethesda officially removed from canon - Fallout: Tactics). That is probably the "special vault for management" she was referring to when talking with Coop. The question is whether they used cryo in a similar way to Vault 31, and if they did, whether Barb has been thawed out yet.
Given they introduced Mr. House in this episode, and ended with a shot of New Vegas, I'd be pretty shocked if the "good vault" isn't somewhere on the strip. Probably not the one that's under the Lucky 38, but another secret one somewhere along the strip.
Can’t wait for season 2 and Fallout New Vegas. Was just announced that season 2 production is delayed due to LA wildfires.
this season was epic!
Season two was supposed to begin production like, within the next week or two, I believe, but has been put on pause because of the LA wildfires.
It had already started filming. A few weeks ago, Walton Goggins posted a pic on social media of him getting his ghoul makeup applied.
I hope we get more of eps like this one in the next season. The wild and wacky wasteland works great in the games where the main story is less of a draw, but I much prefer a more central storyline with wild and wacky elements for a tv show.
Since you have recently watched Die Hard as well as Mr, & Mrs. Smith, I vote that we combine the two and watch Twelve Monkeys!!!!! I feel like Jen would love it, as well as Holden (if he hasn't seen it)
Boom!!! Caught this video 2 minutes after y'all posted! I'm a badass! Lol
****Did you are New Vagas at the end? The closing credits?!
Just a surprisingly amazing show. I expected it to fail, sort of like the Borderlands movie, but they seemed to have a really good combination of comedy writers and dramatic ones to hit the right tone to make it succeed.
It is all Canon the tv show and the game, that is why it felt like the game. Because it is a story that coinsides with the games.
NEW VEGAS, BABY!
8:12 Mr House from Fallout New Vegas, we might see him.
Highly recommend checking out some ShoddyCast "The Storyteller" Fallout lore videos with Jen to introduce her to the lore. They’ve got an entire series, with each episode diving into different aspects of Fallout’s rich backstory. It’s a great way to explore the world and its history.
I'll second that recommendation. The production quality of the episodes are top notch and his voice is one of the best voice over voices you'll ever hear.
RIP Jason Damron
I realllly like this episode a day format!
One thing I thought of... I've been skimming back through the season looking for Coop's daughter. If she was frozen, she could have been thawed at any time in the past 219 years. She could be any age from a little girl to an old woman. We have no way of knowing if she was thawed or how long ago if she was. Fallout 4 sets this precedent. I'm betting she's someone of importance in New Vegas.
Filming of Season 2 has already started, but currently delayed because of the fires. I expect Fall 2025 or Early 2026 release.
2:49 Is that the right-hand signal? I can't help but imagine the Knight with the pistol to Maximus's head, when he sees the Clerics hand signal, he pulls the trigger. He looks up, 'Oh, wait...um...was that the right-hand signal? I thought that was the 'shoot' signal. .....umm ...My bad!'
Ok, now let's go with THE PUNISHER!!!
I don't know if anyones said this but you have the best Intro ever
Holden - "I wish cars still had character like this."
Check out the Aptera.
DEFINITELY looking forward to season 2 if New Vegas is the setting. Especially with Mr. House being the RoboCo leader at the Vault Tec meeting in the show....be interesting to see what their Canon will be...I have playthroughs where I sided with House...and some where he's "no more".
On to The Punisher!
My theory about Moldaver is that she is a synth. Not only that, but she is one of several created by a primary Williams synth, who was created by the Institute decades before the events of Fallout 4. With her intelligence and charisma, I could see her convincing sympathetic humans and fellow synths to escape the Institute with the resources necessary to start up a remote synth fabrication operation.
I believe that the original Ms Williams, as a renowned scientist, had her consciousness and memories scanned by C.I.T., the forebears of the Institute, in much the same way as Nick Valentine did, and was recreated as a synth without regard to her origins or potential, merely as an experiment to be relegated as a tool without agency.
Much like her original human self, the Williams synth’s copies all had the goal of bettering the lives of the people of the Wasteland, and each would take on new names and develop unique personality traits as a result of their individual experiences. We haven’t seen the last of the legacy of Williams in Fallout.
As far as I know, synths don't bleed to death.
No. I think Moldaver was part of the upper management group who went to one of the "good" vaults in New Vegas and she escaped from there. I think it's a pretty sure bet that the Enclave is in New Vegas, too. That's how she and Dr. Wilzig are connected.
@@GeraldH-ln4dv The Enclave base that Wilzig escaped from is in the Sierra Mountains. Moldaver hated Vault-Tech and was fighting against them, so it's highly unlikely that she was anywhere near their facilities. Coop called her a millionaire, and she was a brilliant scientist, so she probably had access to cryostasis elsewhere. How she got wind of Wilzig is as yet unknown, but maybe we'll find out next season.
@@leeneufeld4140 That makes sense.
@@leeneufeld4140 I could totally see her being frozen against her will as she was the lead in researching cold fusion. Operation Paperclip comes to mind.
Bummed no more, Muldaver. That actress gave a great performance. Can't wait for New Vegas, though.
I misread the title. Instead of My wife and I watching fallout for the first time I read:
My FIRST wife and I reacting…
I was like… 😳 lol
A lab in Livermore, Ca proved cold fusion is possible. Still years away from a viable power source, but they are one step closer. The French are also working on it.
So are the Russians. They have a facility under a mountain near Krasnoyarsk in Siberia.
The lab at Livermore wasn't doing cold fusion. It was just good ol' actual fusion. They are NOT the same thing. Cold fusion has never been demonstrated. The two scientists years ago who claimed to have discovered it failed to reproduce their results and no one else could either so it was a mistake.