The black guy - Maximus ruins the show. He is so friggin stupid - ALL the time. Its a bit odd to see a mentally challenged co-main character for the first time that isn't meant to be comedic or sad. Everything is good except for Maximus - he is very poorly written unfortunately
Norm is so underrated in this. Everyone goes on about the "trio" of main characters, but Norm is the unofficial forth. Him delving into the mystery of the vaults is one of my favourite parts of this series so far
Honestly same. I was surprised when I saw Norm's storyline continue after Lucy had left, primarily because he wasn't really in any of the promotional stuff Out of the entirety of the show, all of which I loved, I specifically loved past Cooper and Norm's stuff the most I adore the "before the storm" stuff in the past, jumped out of my seat seeing Robert House, and understanding the society that existed before they were struck with the end of the world. He plays the character brilliantly, and so does Norm The mystery of the vaults is riveting, and his character walks the perfect line of meaningfully defiant and purposefully obedient -- I honestly couldn't get enough of episode 8 when they framed Norm and Cooper's stories overlapping as the truth is revealed
Yeah, Norm is great. It's really easy to ruin the skeptical nerd character, but he's placed in the environment where his character traits fit perfectly. Really enjoyed following his plotline
What I love about Norm is that the opening sets him up to be some sort of oblivious loser who won't be important to the story at all, and yet he ends up being one of the most perceptive and slick characters in the entire show. His ability to stay cool under pressure as he tries to unravel the mystery of Vault 31 is incredible and his subplot was one of the most compelling parts of an already compelling season.
The reason why Lucy doesn’t get annoying is because no matter how naive she is, she is always willing to learn. She cut off that head. She cut off that ass jerky. She is willing to not be that naive woman, and that is why I love her.
To be fair I think a lot of the "convenient meetups" can be explained by the fact that all three main characters are after the doctor's head. Lucy has a tracker that leads her straight to whoever has it, The Ghoul/Maximus has the dog, and whenever a character doesn't have one of those there is still normally some sort of lead for them to follow. That being said, there are absolutely instances where things seem way too convenient to be explained by either, they weren't really THAT distracting to me though
Like how the brotherhood were completely willing to gun down fleeing on armed civilians in the back, but stood around and let Howard monologue before they started fighting back?
@@SpottedHaresIn can be a little shocking when a single man approaches you with such confidence when you and your buddies are walking tanks, even if it doesn't intimidate you, it may be worth it to humor him and hear what he has to say. You're telling me you never played a game and let a significantly lower level NPC try to rob you/intimidate you/monologue for a bit before you flattened them?
@@SpottedHares Cooper is essentially a wasteland boogeyman, they're all scared shitless because they know of him and he opens the conversation with the fact that he knows how their armor works. The civilians are part of the NCR, meaning that to the Brotherhood they're enemy combatants.
I believe Amazon didn't know how well Fallout was going to do, so they dropped all the episodes. Now that they know they have a banger, I expect season two to be put out weekly.
Nope, Jonah Nolan requested it because he hated how people on Reddit picked about his shows and then would get pissed off when their theories were wrong.
For me personally, shows have a worse chance of me even finishing them, when they try to babysit how many episodes I can watch how quickly. The streaming platforms think that I will not forget them if I have to wait 2 months to see all the episodes. In reality it is much more likely that I simply forget to watch the next episode to begin with.
I see very little people talking about this but the funniest part was def at the start where the knight in his T-60 power armor ran from the yao guai saying "HOLY SHIT,......... FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, NO, NO, NO, NO, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, NO, *BANG*"
That was so good. Everyone who’s played the games can instantly connect with that moment of having that reaction while wearing power armor. The show had a lot of great little subversions. I was continually surprised, shocked, and disgusted throughout the whole experience even though I generally knew what the outcome was going to be based on my knowledge of the games. Showrunners did a great job, high hopes for season 2
Same thing I’ve always done in the video games as well😂😂 reason I love this show. It don’t miss on all the gore and scary shit that happened in the game. Now I just hope they bring in death claws on the show 😮😮
Nobody talks about the littlest but somehow also biggest continuity thing about it - the sound effects. For taking chems/stimpacks, the Pip-Boy sound effects, the UI beeps in the Power Armour, vault sounds, they’re ripped directly from the games. It’s perfect.
They even incorporated og fallout 1 and 2 gun sounds which while I feel like they captured the essence of new Vegas and 3’s vibe they didn’t really get the bleakness of fo1 and 2 but it’s cool nonetheless
Right! The Fallout 1/2 level up sound playing when Lucy gets accepted to the exchange program was my (VERY early 😂) moment of "oh ok these guys cared about the games"
@@GavinWilliamson13the ghoul had a lot of bleak moments surrounding him. Near the end started to feel very bleak too when Lucy had to make a choice and when she learned about the secrets kept from her, it started to feel Very dark to me
@@AlistairAi Yeah! Off the top of my head, I remember that he put Sander Cohen's mask in one of the episodes; not sure which one, but it's in the first season.
When I heard the rumors that "None of the writers of the show played Fallout" I was worried, but when I saw the show, I couldn't help but ask "If they never played any of the games, then they must've been locked in an Elevator for weeks with people who did." Because there was WAY too much shit that you can't just google or look up, it's shit you gotta experience in the game yourself and the writers proved that in this show.
I love the feeling of investigation you get with Norm’s story line. My favorite thing about the game was uncovering the horror experiments of the vaults . So fascinating and haunting. everytime we got to be in Norm’s POV I was in detective mode, just like in the game 😂 10/10
I love that the Stimpaks behave just like how it was in the game. No questions how it heals, it just did just like in the game. They didn't have a entire episode dedicated to why and how it works. They just used it and moved on with the plot like how you use it in the game because its just an in-game "medication", no explanation required.
@@ConzyWonzy1 A lot of adaptations seem to feel the need to over-explain how things work the way they do, not necessarily an episode but it's plausible to imagine a scene where someone tries to explain how a stimpak works. It's great that Lucy just uses it naturally and there is no need for that immersion breaking explanation. I appreciated it too
To add to that, i love how unapologetic the violence and the themes are presented in the show. When violence and all that happens, it isn't overly glorified, it just happens. It's as fallout in tone as it can get.
My wife who is not much of a gamer who has only watched me play some of 3, New Vegas, 4 and 76 she wasn't a fan at all, but said since I like it she'll watch one episode to make me happy, so watched the first episode late at night and I fell asleep 5 minutes into 2, she binged the whole dam season in one night without me 😂 Now shes asking so many questions about the lore, I started a new playthrough on every game so she about to get educated😅
Question: I just finished the show and wanna start playing the games. I played Fallout 1 and 2 back in the days and none after that. Where is a good place to start? (I’m not very into 3D games but as far as I know everything since new vegas are FPS perspective so I don’t think I have a choice anyway?)
@joaovictor3312 slight spoiler but since his wife worked for vault tec even though he never trusted it he might have picked up some tech over 220 years since the war
@joaovictor3312 that's why I didn't specify a vats based system he was a power armor marine pre war he could have known of some experimental army tech before the deals with vault tec, or he's just on so many chems we don't have a cannon awnser to what exactly they do to ghouls plus his cannon stats has a perception of 7 so he would be very accurate anyways
Maximus has the most lore accurate story out of the main three. He joined the brotherhood to get some power armor which is probably what literally everyone who joins the brotherhood on their first run💀
@@nathansquared2685 You are talking about the logo on the bomb, right? That's actually just a warning sign. The Vault-Tec logo looks similar but is different
“Nothing but references” is funny because Todd Howard specifically asked that they do not reference any of the events in fallout 4 and new vegas and 3 that were based on player choice
So I’m guessing we won’t get to see or hear about the events new Vegas in season 2 since Henry was on the cliff looking at it which sucks because I want to know what happened with Mojave and the tunnellers
Goggins is perfect for the role. If anyone told me he would star in this i would get so angry and confused. He is legendary. Maximus feels like my lil brother who never played before trying to catch up. And then , wow , the main gal , she is not only perfect for the role , but perfect all together. Love this show , and love that the cast actually played thru the game and loved it.
@@eldritchbidoof because i never rated goggins, but then again i never watched justified. I pictured someone else for the role , but it dont matter now because Goggins is perfect for the role , he just became a legend.
Fun fact in interviews Ella Purnell (Lucy MacLean) has said that she had played Fallout 4, Walton Goggins (The Ghoul) got to understand what makes Fallout enjoyable and interesting through his son who plays it, and Aaron Paton (Maximus) had researched the series and watched people play fallout on Twitch streams.
EDIT: Most ppl cant be bothered to read beyond this comment before replying to me so I am editing it: My main complaint is not that the actors played or did not play the games. I couldnt care less if they did or didnt, it only helps the actors see how they should portray characters, get a feeling of the atmosphere and the world. It actually all comes down to the showrunners. The writing itself is quite horrible, its written like a Marvel show. That is entirely up to you if you enjoy it or not, I do not. But objectively speaking, its also not GREAT or AMAZING as people here(and not only here) claim repeatedly, its just another mediocre show that is being overrated to oblivion because it is better than your other average show. I have presented multiple points, for example the fact that Shady Sands has been nuked or the fact the Enclave is still around. There are plenty of scenes that are written and filmed horribly, for example the scene where a man runs away from a turret with a dog beside him and neither of them get hit even once(the distance is couple of meters and the CGI is beyond bad). Or scenes with the Ghoul being badass, those scenes are quite outrageous. Its like its written by some teenager with power fantasies. There is one specifically where the Ghoul talks to the brotherhood soldiers in a room and they are all aiming a gun at him while he talks. He mentions that the suit of armor has a weakness and they are all just watching him load a gun and shoot one of the soldiers and even afterwards they still let him make a Marvel tier remark. ------------------------------------------------------------ So Lucy MacLean played arguably the worst Fallout game after 76. Hard to say if Walton Goggins got it right since you state that he only "understands what makes it enjoyable and interesting", and Aaron Paton watched twitch streamers play the game....that does not look good to anyone with a brain. Compared to lets say Henry Cavill in The Witcher show. I have personally watched the show(not in the entirety yet) and its nothing special. You can watch the Synthetic Mans review and I absolutely agree with his view. There are also tons of clips on 4chan that show the ridiculously cringeworthy moments(man running with a dog from a turret firing at him in a straight line and neither of them get shot(and the CGI is really bad). Is this better than the HALO show? Yes. Is Fallout a good show? No.
i watched a couple of the cast talking about playing the game and i think Ella confirmed that she played the game a couple of hours, but she doesnt good at playing the game, never get used to the control and stuff so she gave up and also watch people play on twitch like Aron. She said that would be more efficient than her wasting her time getting used to the game and i think its fair.
@@szowink I am pretty sure that everyone would agree that actually playing a game and watching someone else play it are 2 completely different experiences.
I hear a lot of people say the writing was bad and “they didn’t feel or talk like real people” and I say balderdash. It was one of the strengths of the writing. These aren’t people like nowdays. And they didn’t talk like modern people in the games. It makes the writing better I think.
Lucy has been raised in a vault where their societal customs are completely fucked to the point where they have to clarify that incest is wrong and just randomly asking for a dude’s sperm count. Maximus was raised by the brotherhood of steel for most his life, and the brotherhood of steel have notoriously been weird, antisocial, and almost completely out of touch with society since fallout 1, 2, and new Vegas. Even fallout 3’s brotherhood of steel was a complete mess despite being the most altruistic depiction of them. The ghoul is the only one who seems to really get how the wasteland works and how the world used to be.
The writing for the vault dwellers is the best part of the show imo. It shows how beautifully chaotic the world is. Even the sweetest, most innocent people in the world are kinda fucked up lol. The writing is what made this show truly feel like fallout
How did they not talk like real people? The vault dwellers talked like 1950s Americans. And the Wastelanders talked like great unwashed West coast crazies. Seemed perfectly fitting.
When it comes to The Ghoul’s revolver I got the feeling it is a Legendary Weapon. Probably has the explosive effect on it. I’ve also heard someone else mention it felt like he had the Bloody Mess perk.
@@Mr_Mcfeelyif it’s anything like the game, he probably looted that off a Legendary Gunner, which we haven’t seen yet. Maybe season 2 will bring us some Gunner mercs
One note about the "plot conveniences", it's because the characters are so intertwined in their shared goals that they are all following their own paths to the same destinations. For example, in the beginning they're all headed to Filly. Some of them group up there, and those that don't are following the dog who's tracking their scent. Lucy literally has a quest objective marker to follow the entire time. What I'm getting at, is that they all have their own ways of finding where they need to be, and because they're all chasing the same thing, they usually end up there around the same time.
I was about to say that it makes sense if we are following a group of people all with a similar end goal it just seems natural. It is like when you take a day to go shopping and see the same person/group of people in different stores throughout the day.
Yup. The Ghoul has the dog, Maximus and Thaddeus have their silver gun tracker thing, and Lucy has her pip-boy and is the one getting tracked by the other three. It makes complete sense they keep running into each other since they all have a means of tracking the object they want. The only one that doesn't really make sense is the chicken fucker. That guy seems to be everywhere.
Yeah I was gonna say the same thing. Sure it may be a little bit far fetched if you really over think it but they really had explanations for it all. I think Charlie was overthinking to try and find some kind of flaw to say it wasn't perfect so some people won't cry about it lol
As a Fallout fan I couldnt be happier! The fact Stimpaks work exactly like they do in the games is absolutely wild and welcomed! If you notice during the scene where the lead farmers were taking their suits off and heading into their hut you hear the start menu music from FO4.
I have very limited experience with the Fallout franchise, but when I tell you I was HYPED AF when The Ghoul gave his "War never changes" speech at the end
I really loved what they did with Lucy and the Ghoul’s chemistry in this. The latter absolutely could not care less about hurting her at any point initially despite his knowing about her innocent attitude and vault background. Got her as a mutated axolotl bait and straight up sliced her finger off with no hesitation, just glorious. The next season will obviously build up a more friendly relationship between the two, leaning towards a more father-daughter one even I bet, but still I liked that they didn’t rush off to that point with them this season
They can learn from each other. He's already showing her how cruel the wasteland is and you do what you have to do to survive. She can teach him, or remind him of his humanity he once had. The cruelty of the world may bend her but it won't break her. The comment she made to him when she left the Superduper Mart about one day she may look like him, but she will never be like him, says it all. After what he did to her, she still kept to her beliefs in being a decent person. She could have killed him, could have not given him his medicine and let him succumb to turning feral, but she didn't. She gave him the meds and left, but with a stronger attitude.
I think the ghoul represents the end game character everybody ends up being in the games and Lucy is the start of the game before your innocence is robbed through the wasteland just like in the game its a good dynamic
In a really screwed up way, he's teaching her, doing her a kindness...love how much of a monster the Ghoul is while being consistent and not being sadistic for the sake of sadism. He's a terrible person but you can see the glimpses of humanity even in his cruelty.
Ya I loved their interactions and relationship. I was sure they were gonna make him the ‘gruff but well-meaning mentor’ character to her. Where he’s a bit rude and combative, but has good intentions and trying to help her out and teach her. Instead he’s just cold and ruthless and not afraid to use her for his benefits. Cutting off her finger for payback, using her as bait for the monster, selling her to organ harvesters for drugs. Really happy they didn’t just make it a stereotypical mentor/student relationship. They probably go that way for season 2, but was good to see Cooper actually be a legit bounty hunter only in it for himself.
The show did two things that pretty much guaranteed its faithfulness to the show: 1. Most of the crew were fans of the games. Even Jonathan Nolan himself is vocal about his love of the games. 2. Bethesda had direct communication and decision-making with the production. They were consulted on their what was going to happen in the story and it was a mutual agreement between the show-runners and Bethesda.
When Lucy is first walking through the waste land I was like “oh yeah, that’s definitely a place I’ve walked through before” like if the show makes me feel a sense of not just nostalgia, but Deja vu in some sets and scenes then it’s doing something right with its design
There are so many sick little references in this show. Even in the scene where she asks the guy for directions to filly, she keeps her gun pointed at him on accident. Its a cool little hommage on how players in the game always have their gun drawn on npcs in dialogue.
That and as a low-level vault dweller she slowly loses that naive mindset and starts gearing up. Slowly getting armor, learning about the wasteland, "Everyone I met out here has tried to kill me." It's hilarious and pretty faithful to the game. After a while you kind of start to shoot first and ask questions later.
@chiquita683 dude what? They keep the canon intact. This takes place AFTER new vegas. It makes sense that the NCR could have been nuked because they were already failing like the Roman Empire did. Plus there's still the remaining 600,000 NCR population
the continuity of the story after Lucy leaves the vault was extremely well executed. Even if you didn’t play the games it pushed the idea that VaultTec was hiding WAAAAAY more than anyone knew and it made for a really eerie vibe.
I actually think the big vault tec twist suited perfectly, they’ve hinted at it before but always kept it very nuanced. Used to be some real ‘fallout iceberg’ stuff now it’s real!
To think that Ella Purnell has starred in two masterful video game adaptations, one of them being the one that started it all, Arcane. She deserves all the praise, incredible actress.
To be fair in the games people always coincidentally are exactly where they need to be so one could argue that the "plot convenience" is lore acurate xD
Yeah idk what those fuckers want. Several episodes of Lucy just wandering aimlessly having no fucking idea where to go? I know fallout’s side quests are awesome and all, but in a show/movie you want to keep as close to the actual plot as much as possible Like cmon, the modern fallout games literally give you a handy arrow pointing where you need to go, Lucy had the same thing. Idk what else you’d want.
This is basically how I justified it in my mind. If rad away, stim packs and whatever it was that turned the squire into a ghoul but heals his foot can be pulled straight from the game then 🤷 they're all locked to a region map in my mind just like the games, so of course they'll all be near each other when they're not side questing lol
I mean it makes sense for Lucy considering she had a tracker in the head and always knew where to go. Same with Cooper. Dogmeat spent most the show constantly following the head so he knew where to go as well
@@system0fadowner251 BoS also had the rad tracking gun that they used after they found Siggy's headless body. So each group has a reason to stay on top of each other.
On the whole convenience thing: when the scientist ends up near the Yaogui cave, I think there was an implied time skip later on when Maximus ends up there. Time of day looked different, and they didn’t even run into each other. Not explained well but that’s how I took it. When Lucy finds Maximus locked in the armor, that was explained as her tracking the head to that spot
The show's plot basically being an unpublished game campaign told through the eyes of three different player character builds was amazing to me. You've got the low int, high endurance power armor bro, the luck and charisma talker, and the shoot first gunslinger, all plodding along on the same main quest while doing their own set of secondaries. Brilliant
@@SketchySkullKnight right?? i was so excited to finally see some of my fav fallout games (1, 2 and NV) and all that for it to just get nuked/bombed. there are scenes i like and scenes that just feel weird ._. like the gal having her water break and stuff.
The minute I saw Walter goggins as the ghoul in episode one I knew he was gonna be my favorite character. Such a great actor and casted so perfectly for this character
Dont forget the sound design! From reloading, to equipping and holstering weapons all similar to the games. Got the heebie-jeebies when Lucy used a stimpack for the first time. Loved this show!
A nice detail I really enjoyed was minor background characters showing up later in various places. For example a ghoul Lucy saved showed up later near the end. They really made the show feel like you were going through side quests with small payoffs.
Also really hits the "your choices have impact" that the games have like when the radio stations talk about the results of quests that you did and how NPC's sometimes will recognise you for things that you have done
totally agree with the weekly release model, so much more interesting to be able to talk to your friends about it each week and always look forward to whats coming next episode
I found this channel years ago watching the “Fallout New Vegas Best Weapons Guide” video and seeing you react to a tv show based on that game feels like a nice full circle moment hahaha 😂
The conversations even seemed to be inspired by the dialogue choices in the games. Also enjoyed how each character seemed to have their own “level of karma”
@@gravoligaming3970 really? Didn't you see that scene where the BoS dude saved the doctor but it turned out the doctor was getting freaky with the chickens lol
@@not_someone9348 Oh yeah that’s why I was so confused when he actually helped him I thought there had to be a catch too it but I kinda forgot about it then we find out he turned him to a ghoul lmao
@@not_someone9348 Ikr? When Lucy was hauling Wilzig's ass out of Filly, that guy was there selling serums to heal his foot. My instant thought was a scammer, but seeing his stuff actually work?
Pay close attention a lot of the scenes i notice Have Speech checks Intelligent checks Strength requirements Sneak checks 😂 Im Not even tryna be funny a lot of the scenes remind me of skill checks
Fallout lore is insane. The wasteland literally spans the entire US. What made this show especially impressive to me was the thoroughness and depth they went into. They actually did it
The New Vegas thing was due to a mistake with the Shady Sands 2277 thing. It happened before New Vegas happened which was 2281 if I remember correctly. It was probably the only big mistake of the show. One big character in New Vegas arrives in the Mojave Wasteland coming from Shady Sands which wouldn't make sense if the 2277 Shady Sands thing happened. It was just a mistake, not some attempt to make New Vegas obsolete or something.
When I saw that the director and executive producer was Jonathan Nolan, everything made sense. Jonathan and his wife Lisa Joy produced Westworld and he wrote many of his brother Christopher Nolan’s movies, including The Dark Knight.
Not to mention, John and Chris are MASSIVE fallout fans. John even said it was one of the first games he really sat down and played it all the way through. Even Ella Purnell played and enjoyed Fallout 4.
That actually makes a lot of sense, I was surprised to see Ramin Djiwadi doing the music for the fallout series (stellar work per usual) but with Westworld showrunners it makes sense that they would hire him for it since he also did a stellar job with the westworld music
@velocityhdmi8140 overuse? Don't they use different songs and can only be heard in the beginning or end of an episode (at least from what I remember, they're an hour for each episode)
@@not_someone9348Gets played sometimes when they are just walking through the wasteland too. Which I like as well cause you always have your radio playing when you’re walking to your destinations. Music is definitely not overused.
"No Competition" if everyone is dead is the answer to your query around 13:30. Thats ultimate power. And Vault-Tec may have talked about launching the 1st Nuke but that doesn't mean it will be them. S2 looks like it will go from Coopers betrayal of his wife to Launch - lets see where they take it.
I thought the opening bombing scene was disappointing, nukes looked incredibly fake like a plugin on Houdini or something and they were also unrealistically close, they would have immediately had 3rd degree burns from that distance.
My parents love the show far and they have never touched a single piece of fallout, and as someone who has put 100's of hours into the fallout games I also love the show. You'll probably love the story and lore of the games even if you just watch youtube videos on the games.
As a fallout fan, you can feel the love and passion put into this show. Everything down to the power armor sounds and how the terminals look is spot on. The robots are almost 1 to 1, and everything looks AMAZING. Can’t wait to see where this goes
Yeah I love the attention to detail like the hud in the power armor and basically every detail in the show. You can feel that it was made by people passionate about fallout
My favourite part was the sound effects from the games. When that squire gave that snake oil salesman the fusion core it literally made the upholster weapon sound as he pulled it out
@@hyperkaioken4982 I genuinely can't say there was. The only attention to detail was for surface level vanity about the way Vaults are depicted in the 3D fallout games and how America for whatever reason wasn't some monument to atrocities that should be forgotten but was instead- actually pretty good. :/ Also, genuinely what the hell is with everyone being so damn hostile. Like everyone is a Fallout 4 or 3 raider in the series. No one is just- a regular person trying to survive the wastes. EVERYONE is awful.
My favorite about the three main characters its basically how someone would play a fallout game lucy the bright eye good intentions run, maximus a faction oriented run w the brotherhood, and the ghoul the guy whos replayed the game MULTIPLE times and is just having fun
Honestly I really like how the did Lucy’s character development. She very much captures how I felt the first time playing Fallout 3, leaving the vault and trying to do a a good karma run in the wasteland. Mistakes were definitely made in my playthrough lol
The atmosphere is completely accurate with what they can do, lots of practical sets and less green/blue screen and I loved it. Very happy with the way season 1 ended, will tune in for season 2. I do think they should release weekly just to keep the fallout vibe going for 2 months instead of 2 days.
My mom was a set dresser for this show. She worked exclusively in the vaults, and told me they nailed everything about Fallout (I taught her about some fallout lore.) Everything inside was completely practical and faithful to the game. It was exciting she was working on it, but I thought it was just going to be another halo situation. I was so very happy to find out the show is fantastic!
The Ghoul feels like a max level character finally getting around to the main story, a mythological figure being dug out of a grave to walk the wastes again it was great.
What I appreciated is they didn't have the cliché friends/couple falls out because of the secrets they kept, only to come back together in the last act. They kept their secrets until they trusted each other and then opened up, so the drama could come from the main conflict.
There's something about that first walk from Megaton to the Super Duper Mart holding a 10mm pistol and a hunting rifle to find food for Moira Browns Survival Guide. I've played it over and over again 1 time a year and every single time that single mission that single walk with the Galaxy News Radio playing in the background always makes me fall in love. Over and over again
I smell something fishy in your story. That first walk to the Super Duper Mart takes place before you replace Galaxy News Radio's boradcasting dish on the Washington Memorial. That means you're not listening to GNR... "You're listening to Enclave Radio, with your host -- President John Henry Eden, President of the Enclave, President of America, President... of your heart."
@@TheVantriliquist13 Yea, if I remember correctly Megaton is the edge of where you can still hear it. Muties just wanted some target practice, don't blame 'em. Brotherhood had twenty years to shut down Vault 87 and drive them out of D.C...
Loved the show overall, but I was surprised how invested I became in the mystery of what was happening in vaults 31-33. Every time they dropped new hints, then jumped to the A plot I'd be yearning to get back for more.
The vault experiments are my favorite part of Fallout so I was excited for the reveal of what was going on between the 3 of them. It was probably another nod to the mechanic in-game, now that I think of it. Especially with Norm having to hack the terminals to read logs and exploring the spoOoOky vault full of context clues and corpses!
I usually agree with the weekly model but in terms of this show it's extremely important because people would lose interest if on some endings you'd have to wait an entire week to see what happens next it works well with the show
Watched this with my mum, shes 64 and loved the show not knowing that there was a game, i know most of the music from listening to the radio in the game and my mum knows most of it thought time so we kinda bonded though good tunes, soon we are gunna play the game
@@HaliaxOfTheChandrianbecause there’s a base price regardless. Having high charisma means you’re good at haggling down the price or bad at it with low charisma.
I love how well connected the show is. Whoever this studio is, I really believe that they should be the one to handle a Bioshock series if it ever drops.
9:50 Everybody keeps saying that they coincidentally all show up in the same places. But they're all looking for the same thing, and all find means to track that thing or another thing that is tracking that thing. If you and some friends all drive separately to track a thing using different but accurate methods, why would it be surprising that you see each other along the way?
yeah, thought the same. maybe the timings were a bit convenient but thats on how writing stories goes, you want interesting people to interact so intesresting things happen. it is noticeable but doesnt bother me much
Yes, but in some instances I agree that it was a bit too coincidental. For example in episode 2, when knight Titus and Maximus were dropped off in the middle of the wilderness because Titus was "bored and wanted to shoot something". Just before getting to the cave with the radiated bear, they managed to stumble across one of Wilzig's previous resting spots. There was nothing that drove them there, they had just been dropped off at a random spot and wondered around.
@@user-jw6hs9mf4z that could have happened in the game easy though given how the map would be nothing but points of interest, soooo.. if we're indulging in the VATS-style gore that is way over the top for RL why not this?
You see, the way you put it SOUNDS like it makes sense, but you really have to see what happens in the show in order to understand how convenient it is that the characters find themselves where they need to be in order to further the plot. The bear cave as pointed out before is a perfect example. It happens more often than most people notice.
You saying it releasing all at once isnt always the best resonates with me because im only 4 episodes into the show and im taking it slowly ive only watched 1 or 2 episodes a day to keep the excitement of what going to happen next fresh. Also i told my mom about the show and shes never played video games before and never heard of fallout. But she loves it and is now really excited for a season 2
I think season 2 of Fallout (which has already been greenlit) will probably have the weekly episode releases like the Boys did from Season 1 to Season 2
Vault Tec is just a branch of the deep government that turned into the Enclave. They only thing they're responsible for is the treatment of the vault dwellers, not the entire war. The war most certainly is so broad that it's an unmitigated disaster that no single party could be responsible for. Kinda the whole point of Fallout, humanity is responsible.
It's canon that China launched the nukes, you are still right about vault tech and the show confirms they had the plan, but they don't actually confirm they started the war. They had nukes, but if it were them that launched them that day, the daughter would have not been with Dad.
I interpreted it in the show that they intended to start the war by detonating a nuke in shady acres, but it’s never explicitly said that they were the soul cause of the war
@@pennywise5662 Yeah, Vault Tec may have had the plan to launch on the back burner as a potential course of action, the Chinese just got the jump and launched before Vault Tec expected or planned. Then at that point the US retailiated, Vault Tec jumped on the bandwagon firing some off, heck even the Zetans fired some shit off as well.
In cannon, Vault-Tec was a legitimate driver of the bombs dropping. They wanted the bombs to fall specifically to perform their vault experiments. They were working with the branch of government that later became the Enclave so that the Enclave could collect and use that data to rebuild without significant resistance or opposition.
Well, you gotta remember in terms of fallout when people do meet. It does kind of sound convenient, but it is a deserted town and there’s not much town to go when it’s a wasteland. You got one town here one over there so it kind of works both ways there’s not much places to go
Honestly it comes down to what level of immersion people needed in the games to follow the stories and motives of the characters you meet. Some people only care about the end result without as much emphasis on why, and some people like the whole backstory leading up to events. Its really two different experiences; The action rpg players vs the character rpg players: The guy who's favourite part of the games is power armour and vats blasting dudes really might not care so much about the representation of the groups and their themes and strengths and faults. One experience is not better or worse than the other, but it does sting when core parts of some of the characters and groups change in ways that don't match the central ideas that make them interesting. To House, the brotherhood is literally a bunch of power tripping cosplayers on stolen valour, and to them house sort of represents their ideas about the old world but more so want his technology for themselves. Making it so House agrees with dropping the bombs on America flies in the face of his shear ego as a capitalist because why would he ever risk losing his source of wealth and status? The point is that he himself recognised that mutual destruction was certain and prepared for it, not because vault tec informed him they would. It takes away from his technocratic beliefs. 80% of the fallout games are thinking about the choices made by groups and characters and deciding in which ways you agree or not and what you priorities. Flattening out these characters into "yea they nuked themselves" removes that back and forth of the real debate over their politics, and when that literally is the interesting part of the world to some people you will may understand the disappointment some feel with the show. Imagine in star wars if the Sith is actually extinct and the republic turned evil by themselves. Not necessarily a different outcome but fundamentally a different story.
I had a neckbeard try to write-off Lucy as "girlboss nonsense" because she "came to the surface and acts like she knows everything". My brother in christ.... you mean she's acting exactly how dumb vault dwellers act. lol "Vault dweller spends entire life underground, thinks they know everything, comes to the surface, finds out how wrong they are" is pretty much the oldest Fallout troupe. lol
When the shopkeeper lady said Ive got 200 caps for anyone that kills him, I knew bro was gonna use V.A.T.S and they did it so well.... bro was even eating tomatoes during the fight..... They captured the essence of pausing the game, eating for health, and going back to fighting.... THIS SHOW is amazing.
Every single hardcore Fallout fan can sympathize with Maximus. His entire backstory is “I joined the Brotherhood so I can get Power Armor”
Lmao
The black guy - Maximus ruins the show. He is so friggin stupid - ALL the time.
Its a bit odd to see a mentally challenged co-main character for the first time that isn't meant to be comedic or sad.
Everything is good except for Maximus - he is very poorly written unfortunately
He has bad guy energy I hope they explore in season 2.
I’m sure there is already a clothing mod for 4 with his outfit since they dropped it in 76
I didn’t mind him in the first couple episodes, but couldn’t stand him by the end. He turned out to be quite the shitty, whiny bitch.
Norm is so underrated in this. Everyone goes on about the "trio" of main characters, but Norm is the unofficial forth. Him delving into the mystery of the vaults is one of my favourite parts of this series so far
Honestly same. I was surprised when I saw Norm's storyline continue after Lucy had left, primarily because he wasn't really in any of the promotional stuff
Out of the entirety of the show, all of which I loved, I specifically loved past Cooper and Norm's stuff the most
I adore the "before the storm" stuff in the past, jumped out of my seat seeing Robert House, and understanding the society that existed before they were struck with the end of the world. He plays the character brilliantly, and so does Norm
The mystery of the vaults is riveting, and his character walks the perfect line of meaningfully defiant and purposefully obedient -- I honestly couldn't get enough of episode 8 when they framed Norm and Cooper's stories overlapping as the truth is revealed
Yeah, Norm is great. It's really easy to ruin the skeptical nerd character, but he's placed in the environment where his character traits fit perfectly. Really enjoyed following his plotline
Definitely my favorite character, he was so relatable in a world of broken social skills and violence
What I love about Norm is that the opening sets him up to be some sort of oblivious loser who won't be important to the story at all, and yet he ends up being one of the most perceptive and slick characters in the entire show. His ability to stay cool under pressure as he tries to unravel the mystery of Vault 31 is incredible and his subplot was one of the most compelling parts of an already compelling season.
To be honest, I care more about Norm and the vault conspiracy than the wasteland stuff, although that was good too.
The reason why Lucy doesn’t get annoying is because no matter how naive she is, she is always willing to learn. She cut off that head. She cut off that ass jerky. She is willing to not be that naive woman, and that is why I love her.
And she’s allowed to be wrong about the way the world works, but not given into its darker nature
I love how she is disgusted at first at things like having to cut off the head, but then she just goes:
*Okey-dokey ¯\_(ツ)_/¯*
yeah she had pretty good character development
She starts naive and literally doesn’t get less naive or stupid the entire show lol. What are you talking about
@@Ccthomas-ks1hnYou either didn’t watch the show or are upset that she wasn’t some “badass” murderous broad by the end of the season.
To be fair I think a lot of the "convenient meetups" can be explained by the fact that all three main characters are after the doctor's head. Lucy has a tracker that leads her straight to whoever has it, The Ghoul/Maximus has the dog, and whenever a character doesn't have one of those there is still normally some sort of lead for them to follow. That being said, there are absolutely instances where things seem way too convenient to be explained by either, they weren't really THAT distracting to me though
I like how the Ghoul rediscovered the dog from the freezer. It just worked out so perfectly.
@@VicJang bro is actually the player character
Like how the brotherhood were completely willing to gun down fleeing on armed civilians in the back, but stood around and let Howard monologue before they started fighting back?
@@SpottedHaresIn can be a little shocking when a single man approaches you with such confidence when you and your buddies are walking tanks, even if it doesn't intimidate you, it may be worth it to humor him and hear what he has to say. You're telling me you never played a game and let a significantly lower level NPC try to rob you/intimidate you/monologue for a bit before you flattened them?
@@SpottedHares Cooper is essentially a wasteland boogeyman, they're all scared shitless because they know of him and he opens the conversation with the fact that he knows how their armor works. The civilians are part of the NCR, meaning that to the Brotherhood they're enemy combatants.
“I’m sorry, it’s just, Guy was fckin my chickens” has to be the best line Ive ever heard
i just watched that scene, i was expecting something like that but definitely NOT THAT lmao
@@John1045okay smart guy
@@John1045 Nah Fallout had actual clever humor, not just a bunch of people saying "well that just happened"
@@John1045 you are more brain rotted than the culture you've opposed yourself against. Congrats.
"Do you wanna make my Cock Explode, Now!"
is so much funnier
The Ghoul's "Wasteland's Golden Rule" absolutely killed me
"Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit every goddamn time"
😂😂
They gave him so many good lines. He’s the best character god I need the next game to let us play a ghoul.
I've got another settlement for you. I'll mark it on your map.
That's literally me playing fallout 4
My farts are better than Charlie's farts.
My favorite line 😂
I believe Amazon didn't know how well Fallout was going to do, so they dropped all the episodes. Now that they know they have a banger, I expect season two to be put out weekly.
Nope, Jonah Nolan requested it because he hated how people on Reddit picked about his shows and then would get pissed off when their theories were wrong.
There was also the hate campaign before hand, so it made sense to just drop it, and see how its received.
I don't know if Amazon or the directors are capable of planning ahead like that. Other channels don't.
Looking at you, Netflix.
i despise the weekly formula. i'm so glad they didn't go with it.
For me personally, shows have a worse chance of me even finishing them, when they try to babysit how many episodes I can watch how quickly.
The streaming platforms think that I will not forget them if I have to wait 2 months to see all the episodes.
In reality it is much more likely that I simply forget to watch the next episode to begin with.
I see very little people talking about this but the funniest part was def at the start where the knight in his T-60 power armor ran from the yao guai saying "HOLY SHIT,......... FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, NO, NO, NO, NO, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, NO, *BANG*"
Michael rappaport lol
That was so good. Everyone who’s played the games can instantly connect with that moment of having that reaction while wearing power armor.
The show had a lot of great little subversions. I was continually surprised, shocked, and disgusted throughout the whole experience even though I generally knew what the outcome was going to be based on my knowledge of the games. Showrunners did a great job, high hopes for season 2
It's show how heavy the armor is
Same thing I’ve always done in the video games as well😂😂 reason I love this show. It don’t miss on all the gore and scary shit that happened in the game. Now I just hope they bring in death claws on the show 😮😮
literally me on first playthrough
Nobody talks about the littlest but somehow also biggest continuity thing about it - the sound effects. For taking chems/stimpacks, the Pip-Boy sound effects, the UI beeps in the Power Armour, vault sounds, they’re ripped directly from the games. It’s perfect.
Even the water
They even incorporated og fallout 1 and 2 gun sounds which while I feel like they captured the essence of new Vegas and 3’s vibe they didn’t really get the bleakness of fo1 and 2 but it’s cool nonetheless
Right! The Fallout 1/2 level up sound playing when Lucy gets accepted to the exchange program was my (VERY early 😂) moment of "oh ok these guys cared about the games"
Even the dog makes the same sound as dog meat from 4 when injured, it’s really cool
@@GavinWilliamson13the ghoul had a lot of bleak moments surrounding him. Near the end started to feel very bleak too when Lucy had to make a choice and when she learned about the secrets kept from her, it started to feel Very dark to me
The Show Is very Good But I've still heard that a settlement needs help, I'll mark it on your map.
Please... no more
PLEASE!!!!
I helped that settlement that you sent me too. They've decided to join the minutemen.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! THIS WILL NEVER END
And I'm glad
WILL YOU SHUT THE HELL UP GARVEY?!
Fallout 4 is getting updated so I'm guessing we'll a lot more of this 😭
Jonathan Nolan is a proud gamer, that’s why.
This is the same man who put Bioshock Easter eggs in Westworld.
He does? Can you name some, I didn’t see any but I stopped after Season 2
@@AlistairAi Yeah! Off the top of my head, I remember that he put Sander Cohen's mask in one of the episodes; not sure which one, but it's in the first season.
When I heard the rumors that "None of the writers of the show played Fallout" I was worried, but when I saw the show, I couldn't help but ask "If they never played any of the games, then they must've been locked in an Elevator for weeks with people who did." Because there was WAY too much shit that you can't just google or look up, it's shit you gotta experience in the game yourself and the writers proved that in this show.
I love the feeling of investigation you get with Norm’s story line. My favorite thing about the game was uncovering the horror experiments of the vaults . So fascinating and haunting. everytime we got to be in Norm’s POV I was in detective mode, just like in the game 😂 10/10
same bro. it was like me and Nick Valentine the first time i was finding Kellogg.
kept forgetting his name so i just called him zelensky the whole time lmao
Norm is actually the 4th main character everyone forgets about. He really represented the exploration part of Fallout we all love.
@@artisriga maxed out INT build
“You want another autograph young Henry?”
“Feo, fuerte, y formal”
God that line hit so fucking hard
The musical sting whenever the Ghoul shows up is just *chef's kiss*
Final episode was literally so fuckin good in general. Feel kinda sad for anyone that gave up on the show before the finale🥲
@@gabetheguy5019 you mean final of the season
I love that the Stimpaks behave just like how it was in the game. No questions how it heals, it just did just like in the game. They didn't have a entire episode dedicated to why and how it works. They just used it and moved on with the plot like how you use it in the game because its just an in-game "medication", no explanation required.
Why would anyone make an entire episode on how a stimpak works?
@@ConzyWonzy1 A lot of adaptations seem to feel the need to over-explain how things work the way they do, not necessarily an episode but it's plausible to imagine a scene where someone tries to explain how a stimpak works. It's great that Lucy just uses it naturally and there is no need for that immersion breaking explanation. I appreciated it too
Its fitting that a show based on a Bethesda game has an item where “it just works”
To add to that, i love how unapologetic the violence and the themes are presented in the show. When violence and all that happens, it isn't overly glorified, it just happens. It's as fallout in tone as it can get.
@@toastyshoober7046to be fair, stimpacks already worked this way before Bethesda bought the franchise
I just hope we get "Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter." in season 2.
😊😊😊
My wife who is not much of a gamer who has only watched me play some of 3, New Vegas, 4 and 76 she wasn't a fan at all, but said since I like it she'll watch one episode to make me happy, so watched the first episode late at night and I fell asleep 5 minutes into 2, she binged the whole dam season in one night without me 😂
Now shes asking so many questions about the lore, I started a new playthrough on every game so she about to get educated😅
that's so sweet 😭
Had a similar effect with my mom it’s fun talking about stuff you usually don’t talk about.
Question:
I just finished the show and wanna start playing the games. I played Fallout 1 and 2 back in the days and none after that. Where is a good place to start? (I’m not very into 3D games but as far as I know everything since new vegas are FPS perspective so I don’t think I have a choice anyway?)
@@VicJang I started playing 4 Todd Howard himself said, all the games are meant for a different audience
@@VicJangnew vegas would be a good one to start but expect some crashes
The Ghoul has maxed VATS, he has maxed his Bloody Mess perk. He also maxed out his agility since he’s in VATS so much.
Does he even have a pip boy? From what I recall only lucy has one and thus the only one able to VATS
@joaovictor3312 slight spoiler but since his wife worked for vault tec even though he never trusted it he might have picked up some tech over 220 years since the war
The Ghoul probably has the grim reaper sprint perk that fills up his AP bar after each kill in VATS
@@thatbolyengirlfan6187 yes but where is it on his wrist, he doesnt appear to wear one
@joaovictor3312 that's why I didn't specify a vats based system he was a power armor marine pre war he could have known of some experimental army tech before the deals with vault tec, or he's just on so many chems we don't have a cannon awnser to what exactly they do to ghouls plus his cannon stats has a perception of 7 so he would be very accurate anyways
Walton Goggins steals every scene he touches
He's Walton Goggins, expect nothing less.
Crazy how I am stronger than 3 kids as a girl 😂
Might as well be *the* main character
The fact he has not gotten any award recognition proves how out of touch the current industry is.
Agreed!
Maximus has the most lore accurate story out of the main three. He joined the brotherhood to get some power armor which is probably what literally everyone who joins the brotherhood on their first run💀
The first thing Bethesda dropped that worked on launch.
Lmao brah
underrated comment
Bruh... no way😂
Right. I did not spot a single glitch the whole season. Not a realistic adaptation.
“The hits hit, and the shits shit.” Very important.
Fallout has a lot of shits in it.
Deep
Has alot more hits.@@robertlawrence9000
@@ENRI_465Deeper
@@joshuatealeaves Deepness
I loved the pre-war plotline because thats always been one of the most interesting aspects of fallout to me is what led to this
Even though they retconned it and made it to where Vault Tech was somehow responsible for the Great War when that was NEVER established.
@@johannderjager4146 launch Fallout 3, go to Megaton and take a closer look at the nuke ya dingus.
@@johannderjager4146 oh well, it makes more sense than and is more interesting than "war never changes"
@@johannderjager4146that was literally established lol.
@@nathansquared2685 You are talking about the logo on the bomb, right? That's actually just a warning sign. The Vault-Tec logo looks similar but is different
“Nothing but references” is funny because Todd Howard specifically asked that they do not reference any of the events in fallout 4 and new vegas and 3 that were based on player choice
"Those are stories we've already told."
So I’m guessing we won’t get to see or hear about the events new Vegas in season 2 since Henry was on the cliff looking at it which sucks because I want to know what happened with Mojave and the tunnellers
Well pretty much the BoS ending in Fo4 is the canon ending, since the Prydwen appears in this show, and it takes place after the events of 4
I thought they were going to split off from the brother hood and go to the Commonwealth for a minute.
@@Scooter227if i remember well, there were more prydway but were destroyed, so maybe the B.O.S build more
Goggins is perfect for the role. If anyone told me he would star in this i would get so angry and confused. He is legendary. Maximus feels like my lil brother who never played before trying to catch up. And then , wow , the main gal , she is not only perfect for the role , but perfect all together. Love this show , and love that the cast actually played thru the game and loved it.
why would you be angry and confused......?????
@@eldritchbidoof because i never rated goggins, but then again i never watched justified. I pictured someone else for the role , but it dont matter now because Goggins is perfect for the role , he just became a legend.
@@stefanvegsund9584I just remember him from Hateful Eight, and am gonna be rewatching that asap cuz now I can’t stop thinking about his performances
Fun fact in interviews Ella Purnell (Lucy MacLean) has said that she had played Fallout 4, Walton Goggins (The Ghoul) got to understand what makes Fallout enjoyable and interesting through his son who plays it, and Aaron Paton (Maximus) had researched the series and watched people play fallout on Twitch streams.
EDIT: Most ppl cant be bothered to read beyond this comment before replying to me so I am editing it:
My main complaint is not that the actors played or did not play the games. I couldnt care less if they did or didnt, it only helps the actors see how they should portray characters, get a feeling of the atmosphere and the world. It actually all comes down to the showrunners. The writing itself is quite horrible, its written like a Marvel show. That is entirely up to you if you enjoy it or not, I do not. But objectively speaking, its also not GREAT or AMAZING as people here(and not only here) claim repeatedly, its just another mediocre show that is being overrated to oblivion because it is better than your other average show.
I have presented multiple points, for example the fact that Shady Sands has been nuked or the fact the Enclave is still around. There are plenty of scenes that are written and filmed horribly, for example the scene where a man runs away from a turret with a dog beside him and neither of them get hit even once(the distance is couple of meters and the CGI is beyond bad). Or scenes with the Ghoul being badass, those scenes are quite outrageous. Its like its written by some teenager with power fantasies. There is one specifically where the Ghoul talks to the brotherhood soldiers in a room and they are all aiming a gun at him while he talks. He mentions that the suit of armor has a weakness and they are all just watching him load a gun and shoot one of the soldiers and even afterwards they still let him make a Marvel tier remark.
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So Lucy MacLean played arguably the worst Fallout game after 76. Hard to say if Walton Goggins got it right since you state that he only "understands what makes it enjoyable and interesting", and Aaron Paton watched twitch streamers play the game....that does not look good to anyone with a brain. Compared to lets say Henry Cavill in The Witcher show.
I have personally watched the show(not in the entirety yet) and its nothing special. You can watch the Synthetic Mans review and I absolutely agree with his view. There are also tons of clips on 4chan that show the ridiculously cringeworthy moments(man running with a dog from a turret firing at him in a straight line and neither of them get shot(and the CGI is really bad).
Is this better than the HALO show? Yes. Is Fallout a good show? No.
Always appreciate actors who actually delve into the source material to get a solid understanding.
i watched a couple of the cast talking about playing the game and i think Ella confirmed that she played the game a couple of hours, but she doesnt good at playing the game, never get used to the control and stuff so she gave up and also watch people play on twitch like Aron. She said that would be more efficient than her wasting her time getting used to the game and i think its fair.
@@szowink I am pretty sure that everyone would agree that actually playing a game and watching someone else play it are 2 completely different experiences.
@@Razzak18CzFallout 4 is good. Maybe not the best fallout, but it’s still very good
I built some of the sets for this, including the vault and main vault door. It was so cool working on it that i actually started playing the games
Awsome!
The sets came out great!
Bro the sets were absolutely spot on. The feel, the aesthetics everything. You guys did an amazing job well done
God bless you and your hard work. Thank you.
Thank you for putting in effort to make an enjoyable expansion of the universe!
I hear a lot of people say the writing was bad and “they didn’t feel or talk like real people” and I say balderdash. It was one of the strengths of the writing. These aren’t people like nowdays. And they didn’t talk like modern people in the games. It makes the writing better I think.
Lucy has been raised in a vault where their societal customs are completely fucked to the point where they have to clarify that incest is wrong and just randomly asking for a dude’s sperm count.
Maximus was raised by the brotherhood of steel for most his life, and the brotherhood of steel have notoriously been weird, antisocial, and almost completely out of touch with society since fallout 1, 2, and new Vegas. Even fallout 3’s brotherhood of steel was a complete mess despite being the most altruistic depiction of them.
The ghoul is the only one who seems to really get how the wasteland works and how the world used to be.
The writing for the vault dwellers is the best part of the show imo. It shows how beautifully chaotic the world is. Even the sweetest, most innocent people in the world are kinda fucked up lol. The writing is what made this show truly feel like fallout
How did they not talk like real people? The vault dwellers talked like 1950s Americans. And the Wastelanders talked like great unwashed West coast crazies. Seemed perfectly fitting.
@@kael13 That’s my point. They didn’t talk like us, they were better suited for the story and premise.
The writing is bad compared to the games, which has the same types of people...
When it comes to The Ghoul’s revolver I got the feeling it is a Legendary Weapon. Probably has the explosive effect on it. I’ve also heard someone else mention it felt like he had the Bloody Mess perk.
Kept thinking the whole time who'd he loot to get those bad boy's 😂
@@Mr_Mcfeelyif it’s anything like the game, he probably looted that off a Legendary Gunner, which we haven’t seen yet. Maybe season 2 will bring us some Gunner mercs
its just the ammo he uses. you can see he has different colored ammos, and he sometimes just shoots just regular bullets with the same gun
It makes me laugh to think the writers had a billboard of all the perks and SPECIAL when writing the show.
One note about the "plot conveniences", it's because the characters are so intertwined in their shared goals that they are all following their own paths to the same destinations. For example, in the beginning they're all headed to Filly. Some of them group up there, and those that don't are following the dog who's tracking their scent. Lucy literally has a quest objective marker to follow the entire time. What I'm getting at, is that they all have their own ways of finding where they need to be, and because they're all chasing the same thing, they usually end up there around the same time.
I was about to say that it makes sense if we are following a group of people all with a similar end goal it just seems natural. It is like when you take a day to go shopping and see the same person/group of people in different stores throughout the day.
Yup. The Ghoul has the dog, Maximus and Thaddeus have their silver gun tracker thing, and Lucy has her pip-boy and is the one getting tracked by the other three. It makes complete sense they keep running into each other since they all have a means of tracking the object they want. The only one that doesn't really make sense is the chicken fucker. That guy seems to be everywhere.
Yeah I was gonna say the same thing. Sure it may be a little bit far fetched if you really over think it but they really had explanations for it all. I think Charlie was overthinking to try and find some kind of flaw to say it wasn't perfect so some people won't cry about it lol
@@splatterfrog4606hes got that "cabbages guy" vibe from Avatar though lol
@@splatterfrog4606 let's hope that we got to see him on season 2
As a Fallout fan I couldnt be happier! The fact Stimpaks work exactly like they do in the games is absolutely wild and welcomed! If you notice during the scene where the lead farmers were taking their suits off and heading into their hut you hear the start menu music from FO4.
I have very limited experience with the Fallout franchise, but when I tell you I was HYPED AF when The Ghoul gave his "War never changes" speech at the end
I really loved what they did with Lucy and the Ghoul’s chemistry in this. The latter absolutely could not care less about hurting her at any point initially despite his knowing about her innocent attitude and vault background. Got her as a mutated axolotl bait and straight up sliced her finger off with no hesitation, just glorious. The next season will obviously build up a more friendly relationship between the two, leaning towards a more father-daughter one even I bet, but still I liked that they didn’t rush off to that point with them this season
They can learn from each other. He's already showing her how cruel the wasteland is and you do what you have to do to survive. She can teach him, or remind him of his humanity he once had. The cruelty of the world may bend her but it won't break her. The comment she made to him when she left the Superduper Mart about one day she may look like him, but she will never be like him, says it all. After what he did to her, she still kept to her beliefs in being a decent person. She could have killed him, could have not given him his medicine and let him succumb to turning feral, but she didn't. She gave him the meds and left, but with a stronger attitude.
I think the ghoul represents the end game character everybody ends up being in the games and Lucy is the start of the game before your innocence is robbed through the wasteland just like in the game its a good dynamic
In a really screwed up way, he's teaching her, doing her a kindness...love how much of a monster the Ghoul is while being consistent and not being sadistic for the sake of sadism. He's a terrible person but you can see the glimpses of humanity even in his cruelty.
I think he’ll continue to show her that you have to do bad things to survive, and she’ll bring him back to his old self before the bombs dropped.
Ya I loved their interactions and relationship.
I was sure they were gonna make him the ‘gruff but well-meaning mentor’ character to her. Where he’s a bit rude and combative, but has good intentions and trying to help her out and teach her.
Instead he’s just cold and ruthless and not afraid to use her for his benefits. Cutting off her finger for payback, using her as bait for the monster, selling her to organ harvesters for drugs.
Really happy they didn’t just make it a stereotypical mentor/student relationship. They probably go that way for season 2, but was good to see Cooper actually be a legit bounty hunter only in it for himself.
read the title and thought "thank god"
I thought the same thing 😂
HELL YEAH FINALLY A DUB
So you need someone on the internet to tell you what to like?
Crazy how I am stronger than 3 kids as a girl 😂
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The show did two things that pretty much guaranteed its faithfulness to the show:
1. Most of the crew were fans of the games. Even Jonathan Nolan himself is vocal about his love of the games.
2. Bethesda had direct communication and decision-making with the production. They were consulted on their what was going to happen in the story and it was a mutual agreement between the show-runners and Bethesda.
The creators on the Netflix ATLA adaptation definitely lost the plot on this
When Lucy is first walking through the waste land I was like “oh yeah, that’s definitely a place I’ve walked through before” like if the show makes me feel a sense of not just nostalgia, but Deja vu in some sets and scenes then it’s doing something right with its design
There are so many sick little references in this show. Even in the scene where she asks the guy for directions to filly, she keeps her gun pointed at him on accident. Its a cool little hommage on how players in the game always have their gun drawn on npcs in dialogue.
That and as a low-level vault dweller she slowly loses that naive mindset and starts gearing up. Slowly getting armor, learning about the wasteland, "Everyone I met out here has tried to kill me." It's hilarious and pretty faithful to the game. After a while you kind of start to shoot first and ask questions later.
I got goosebumps when lucy looks at the ncr flag for the first time and the new vegas theme started to play
That guy was actually doing an idle animation (for certain NPCs) from the original Fallouts, as well!
when she went "I thought you guys were the good guys" to the brotherhood... I literally had that moment 😂
I always put weapons away before any interactions with NPC's. Some old game or other must have conditioned me somehow.
Season 2 : New Vegas 2 : Caesar's Boogaloo.
Season 3 : Dunwich Horrors.
Season 4 : Synth Overlords
That would be awesome. Imagine if Season 2 is mainly about fighting the Legion Remnants and Tunnelers!
How when the show already craps on all the canon from tbe games?
@chiquita683 dude what? They keep the canon intact. This takes place AFTER new vegas. It makes sense that the NCR could have been nuked because they were already failing like the Roman Empire did. Plus there's still the remaining 600,000 NCR population
a duneich horrors sideplot in the next season would go hard but it would prob be set in vegas so it'd have to be some other kind of cosmic horror lol
@@jakespacepiratee3740 I'm pretty sure the legion won.
the continuity of the story after Lucy leaves the vault was extremely well executed. Even if you didn’t play the games it pushed the idea that VaultTec was hiding WAAAAAY more than anyone knew and it made for a really eerie vibe.
I actually think the big vault tec twist suited perfectly, they’ve hinted at it before but always kept it very nuanced. Used to be some real ‘fallout iceberg’ stuff now it’s real!
To think that Ella Purnell has starred in two masterful video game adaptations, one of them being the one that started it all, Arcane. She deserves all the praise, incredible actress.
oh shit yeah she was AMAZING as jinx
I had no clue she voiced jinx until reading this comment, not even on her imdb
The one that started it all? Uh hello, Castlevania?
My farts are better than Charlie's farts.
@@perspicacioussimpleton7288 Thank you for saying it before I had to
To be fair in the games people always coincidentally are exactly where they need to be so one could argue that the "plot convenience" is lore acurate xD
*SPOILER ALERT*
That mf Maxson when you decided to save Danse.
Yeah idk what those fuckers want. Several episodes of Lucy just wandering aimlessly having no fucking idea where to go? I know fallout’s side quests are awesome and all, but in a show/movie you want to keep as close to the actual plot as much as possible
Like cmon, the modern fallout games literally give you a handy arrow pointing where you need to go, Lucy had the same thing. Idk what else you’d want.
This is basically how I justified it in my mind. If rad away, stim packs and whatever it was that turned the squire into a ghoul but heals his foot can be pulled straight from the game then 🤷 they're all locked to a region map in my mind just like the games, so of course they'll all be near each other when they're not side questing lol
I mean it makes sense for Lucy considering she had a tracker in the head and always knew where to go. Same with Cooper. Dogmeat spent most the show constantly following the head so he knew where to go as well
@@system0fadowner251 BoS also had the rad tracking gun that they used after they found Siggy's headless body. So each group has a reason to stay on top of each other.
On the whole convenience thing: when the scientist ends up near the Yaogui cave, I think there was an implied time skip later on when Maximus ends up there. Time of day looked different, and they didn’t even run into each other. Not explained well but that’s how I took it. When Lucy finds Maximus locked in the armor, that was explained as her tracking the head to that spot
Critikal saying Fallout 3 is his favorite was something I wasn't expecting. I thought I was the only one.
The show's plot basically being an unpublished game campaign told through the eyes of three different player character builds was amazing to me. You've got the low int, high endurance power armor bro, the luck and charisma talker, and the shoot first gunslinger, all plodding along on the same main quest while doing their own set of secondaries. Brilliant
The ghoul is a good stand-in for jaded veteran players haha
Lucy is definitely a luck and agility build
@@kennymccormick6366with a low charisma lmao
Lol agility, low charisma
@@kennywiratrijaka9058what’s your sperm count
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
Too bad they ruined New Vegas and retconned a bunch of established lore for the sake of cool visuals
@@SketchySkullKnight right?? i was so excited to finally see some of my fav fallout games (1, 2 and NV) and all that for it to just get nuked/bombed.
there are scenes i like and scenes that just feel weird ._. like the gal having her water break and stuff.
Don't worry, we are close to that
@@SketchySkullKnightmaybe I’m just dumb but I didn’t see anything from FNV changed. could you elaborate?
I'm convinced the tunnelers from Lonesome Road got loose into the Mojave based on the end credits of the final episode.
13:45 Then you're not really into fallout that deep, you're the silly one
The minute I saw Walter goggins as the ghoul in episode one I knew he was gonna be my favorite character. Such a great actor and casted so perfectly for this character
Dont forget the sound design! From reloading, to equipping and holstering weapons all similar to the games. Got the heebie-jeebies when Lucy used a stimpack for the first time. Loved this show!
You are so right, even the Pip-Boy sounds! It was just straight up, unadulterated perfection.
Yep that unmistakable HISSSS as the Stimpak kicks in was perfect!
fun and all, writing is still underwhelming for a fallout story
@@ggadams639Could you explain why it’s underwhelming?
@@ggadams639theyre not gonna sit there and read terminals and notes for hours mate, sorry.
A nice detail I really enjoyed was minor background characters showing up later in various places. For example a ghoul Lucy saved showed up later near the end. They really made the show feel like you were going through side quests with small payoffs.
Also really hits the "your choices have impact" that the games have like when the radio stations talk about the results of quests that you did and how NPC's sometimes will recognise you for things that you have done
We'll probably be seeing chicken )(/&er all the way up to the series finale.
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True
It really feels like a true adaptation to the games.
totally agree with the weekly release model, so much more interesting to be able to talk to your friends about it each week and always look forward to whats coming next episode
I found this channel years ago watching the “Fallout New Vegas Best Weapons Guide” video and seeing you react to a tv show based on that game feels like a nice full circle moment hahaha 😂
The conversations even seemed to be inspired by the dialogue choices in the games. Also enjoyed how each character seemed to have their own “level of karma”
omg yeah! idk if you saw but they released the SPECIAL stats for Lucy and The Ghoul and it's so funny seeing how they compare (or dont)
Yeah the ghoul is like that lvl 300 guy running around in Fallout 76
@@Metaljacket420 The Ghoul is simply on his 30th maxed playthrough and doesn't give a shit anymore.
@@Metaljacket420300? Thats low lmao, I got 200 levels in fo76 in 2 days. more like 1000 atleast.
@@riioas5543alr little loser nobody care 😂
The way the crazy wasteland doctor was introduced was comedy gold.
dude i thought he was like an actual good doctor after that scene he healed the scribe, just to find out he turned him into a ghoul lmaoo
@@gravoligaming3970 really? Didn't you see that scene where the BoS dude saved the doctor but it turned out the doctor was getting freaky with the chickens lol
@@gravoligaming3970also I hate judging people based on how they look but he looked like a scammer already
@@not_someone9348 Oh yeah that’s why I was so confused when he actually helped him I thought there had to be a catch too it but I kinda forgot about it then we find out he turned him to a ghoul lmao
@@not_someone9348 Ikr? When Lucy was hauling Wilzig's ass out of Filly, that guy was there selling serums to heal his foot. My instant thought was a scammer, but seeing his stuff actually work?
The first 10 minutes are insane. Before the bombs drop the dude taking photos takes 2 pictures and the 3rd flash is the BIG one
Hearing charlie say he and i share the same favorite fallout makes me so happy
I love the little fallout experience moments, like the whole "weighing down your companion with your stuff" bit
Also the " thou shalt always get side tracked by bull shit." line seeming to be a joke about side quests.
I didn’t even notice that.
I liked them throwing bricks n random shit in the basketball hoop
Pay close attention a lot of the scenes i notice
Have
Speech checks
Intelligent checks
Strength requirements
Sneak checks
😂
Im Not even tryna be funny a lot of the scenes remind me of skill checks
And the random encounter with that doctor guy and the chickens early on. He just says thank you and sprints away like an npc
I only wished we’d see the NCR more, but I actually think we’ll see a lot more of them in the later seasons!
they are dead tho?
Lore wise, the NCR were nearly eradicated and it hasn't been long enough to establish a big presence. Moldaver's group is some sort of remnant
@@patrick476people can die. their ideas won’t. i think they’ll pop out occasionally in season 2 especially with that ending scene
@@patrick476only their capital is. there may be some remnants of ncr still lingering in other areas
@@patrick476from what I got, they’re still relevant but the shady sands city was bombed only a few years before Lucy left the vault
Fallout lore is insane. The wasteland literally spans the entire US. What made this show especially impressive to me was the thoroughness and depth they went into. They actually did it
The New Vegas thing was due to a mistake with the Shady Sands 2277 thing. It happened before New Vegas happened which was 2281 if I remember correctly. It was probably the only big mistake of the show. One big character in New Vegas arrives in the Mojave Wasteland coming from Shady Sands which wouldn't make sense if the 2277 Shady Sands thing happened. It was just a mistake, not some attempt to make New Vegas obsolete or something.
When I saw that the director and executive producer was Jonathan Nolan, everything made sense. Jonathan and his wife Lisa Joy produced Westworld and he wrote many of his brother Christopher Nolan’s movies, including The Dark Knight.
it runs in the family
Not to mention, John and Chris are MASSIVE fallout fans. John even said it was one of the first games he really sat down and played it all the way through. Even Ella Purnell played and enjoyed Fallout 4.
Now let's hope that he doesn't Westworld fallout and shit the bed on the 2nd season.
That actually makes a lot of sense, I was surprised to see Ramin Djiwadi doing the music for the fallout series (stellar work per usual) but with Westworld showrunners it makes sense that they would hire him for it since he also did a stellar job with the westworld music
@@daminttenomg 😂
You didn’t mention the classic fallout
music
That's one thing I thought of during the video and he didn't even mention it lol.
also the main theme being played when lucy discovered the NCR flag is a beautiful touch.
They overuse the music tbh that's my only gripe about it
@velocityhdmi8140 overuse? Don't they use different songs and can only be heard in the beginning or end of an episode (at least from what I remember, they're an hour for each episode)
@@not_someone9348Gets played sometimes when they are just walking through the wasteland too. Which I like as well cause you always have your radio playing when you’re walking to your destinations. Music is definitely not overused.
"No Competition" if everyone is dead is the answer to your query around 13:30. Thats ultimate power.
And Vault-Tec may have talked about launching the 1st Nuke but that doesn't mean it will be them. S2 looks like it will go from Coopers betrayal of his wife to Launch - lets see where they take it.
2 episodes left, which Ill watch after work tonight. Im so excited. Im loving it so much.
Never player fallout, but that opening bombing scene hooked me immediately and im loving it so far
play the game you gonna love it :)
I thought the opening bombing scene was disappointing, nukes looked incredibly fake like a plugin on Houdini or something and they were also unrealistically close, they would have immediately had 3rd degree burns from that distance.
@@TheNewOptionthat’s what I thought and the shockwave would have knocked them over
@@RowanNosnhoj because its a game universe not ours things dont work the same
My parents love the show far and they have never touched a single piece of fallout, and as someone who has put 100's of hours into the fallout games I also love the show. You'll probably love the story and lore of the games even if you just watch youtube videos on the games.
I love the part where John fallout appears and says "War dosen't change"
John fallout once said "I need your help. I need 2000 bottle caps to get on the new vegas strip and save the Mojave." Truly a noble man.
My favorite scene was when John Fallout stepped out of the vault and said "Its Fallouting TIme". I wept harder than I ever had before..
Don’t disrespect the lore 🤓
"Where is my Shaun" - John Fallout
Charlie I love you. I’m glad I’m not one of the only people who enjoy Fallout 3 more than new Vegas while 100% loving NV.
The Last of Us show was objectively garbage
Fallout is name only - the lore is completely retconned
As a fallout fan, you can feel the love and passion put into this show. Everything down to the power armor sounds and how the terminals look is spot on. The robots are almost 1 to 1, and everything looks AMAZING. Can’t wait to see where this goes
Yeah I love the attention to detail like the hud in the power armor and basically every detail in the show. You can feel that it was made by people passionate about fallout
My favourite part was the sound effects from the games. When that squire gave that snake oil salesman the fusion core it literally made the upholster weapon sound as he pulled it out
Love? What love.
@@tryfry5634 dude come on xD i can understand if you disliked certain parts but you can't say it wasn't filled with attention to detail
@@hyperkaioken4982 I genuinely can't say there was. The only attention to detail was for surface level vanity about the way Vaults are depicted in the 3D fallout games and how America for whatever reason wasn't some monument to atrocities that should be forgotten but was instead- actually pretty good. :/
Also, genuinely what the hell is with everyone being so damn hostile. Like everyone is a Fallout 4 or 3 raider in the series. No one is just- a regular person trying to survive the wastes. EVERYONE is awful.
My favorite about the three main characters its basically how someone would play a fallout game lucy the bright eye good intentions run, maximus a faction oriented run w the brotherhood, and the ghoul the guy whos replayed the game MULTIPLE times and is just having fun
Ghoul is new game plus 😂
Yes
You can basically build the Ghoul in 4 too if you look at the Endurance tree. You just need the visual mod and you can basically become a ghoul.
Honestly I really like how the did Lucy’s character development. She very much captures how I felt the first time playing Fallout 3, leaving the vault and trying to do a a good karma run in the wasteland. Mistakes were definitely made in my playthrough lol
The 3 characters literally represent the 3 karmas
Lucy being good
Maximus being neutral
And Cooper the Ghoul being bad
I binged it the minute it dropped (2am UK) with eyes pinned open Clockwork orange style. NO REGRETS. Brilliant series and can't wait for season 2. 🙏🙏🙏
The atmosphere is completely accurate with what they can do, lots of practical sets and less green/blue screen and I loved it. Very happy with the way season 1 ended, will tune in for season 2. I do think they should release weekly just to keep the fallout vibe going for 2 months instead of 2 days.
My mom was a set dresser for this show. She worked exclusively in the vaults, and told me they nailed everything about Fallout (I taught her about some fallout lore.) Everything inside was completely practical and faithful to the game. It was exciting she was working on it, but I thought it was just going to be another halo situation. I was so very happy to find out the show is fantastic!
Based mom
That’s pretty sick.
She should have told them to play the game so they knew what Fallout was
@@chiquita683he literally said Bethesda (the company that made the game) helped make it
It was faithful to the show? So it was faithful to itself? Ok…
The Ghoul feels like a max level character finally getting around to the main story, a mythological figure being dug out of a grave to walk the wastes again it was great.
What I appreciated is they didn't have the cliché friends/couple falls out because of the secrets they kept, only to come back together in the last act. They kept their secrets until they trusted each other and then opened up, so the drama could come from the main conflict.
Was amazing the music choices The ncr and the new Vegas stuff at the end so hype for season 2
There's something about that first walk from Megaton to the Super Duper Mart holding a 10mm pistol and a hunting rifle to find food for Moira Browns Survival Guide.
I've played it over and over again 1 time a year and every single time that single mission that single walk with the Galaxy News Radio playing in the background always makes me fall in love. Over and over again
I smell something fishy in your story.
That first walk to the Super Duper Mart takes place before you replace Galaxy News Radio's boradcasting dish on the Washington Memorial. That means you're not listening to GNR... "You're listening to Enclave Radio, with your host -- President John Henry Eden, President of the Enclave, President of America, President... of your heart."
@@apeabel nah u can still hear it from
Megaton its just quieter as u get further and further away from the GNR
@@apeabel until u replace it then u can hear THREE DOGGGGGG across the wasteland
@apeabel oh it comes in I think but just real staticy haha possibly why I loved it even more before the dish repair....dumb super mutants SMH
@@TheVantriliquist13 Yea, if I remember correctly Megaton is the edge of where you can still hear it.
Muties just wanted some target practice, don't blame 'em. Brotherhood had twenty years to shut down Vault 87 and drive them out of D.C...
Loved the show overall, but I was surprised how invested I became in the mystery of what was happening in vaults 31-33. Every time they dropped new hints, then jumped to the A plot I'd be yearning to get back for more.
Yeah I think all of the vault scenes were the best part of the show. That kid from Hannah Montana is a surprisingly good actor too.
The vault experiments are my favorite part of Fallout so I was excited for the reveal of what was going on between the 3 of them. It was probably another nod to the mechanic in-game, now that I think of it. Especially with Norm having to hack the terminals to read logs and exploring the spoOoOky vault full of context clues and corpses!
Definitely, they nailed the feeling of exploring each vault and learning whatever the hell was going on in them
I usually agree with the weekly model but in terms of this show it's extremely important because people would lose interest if on some endings you'd have to wait an entire week to see what happens next it works well with the show
Watched this with my mum, shes 64 and loved the show not knowing that there was a game, i know most of the music from listening to the radio in the game and my mum knows most of it thought time so we kinda bonded though good tunes, soon we are gunna play the game
There are even a lot of references that aren't super obvious, like the weapons in the shop being the same price as they are in fallout 4.
How can they be the same price when the prices of weapons in the game vary based on charisma and the perk to lower prices?
@@HaliaxOfTheChandrian Junk jet on the wall in the show says 285 and the listed value in your inventory in the game is 285
@@HaliaxOfTheChandrianwhat is "charisma and perk" modifying, you've almost got it
@@HaliaxOfTheChandrianbecause there’s a base price regardless. Having high charisma means you’re good at haggling down the price or bad at it with low charisma.
@@HaliaxOfTheChandriandumbest thing I ever read
I love how well connected the show is. Whoever this studio is, I really believe that they should be the one to handle a Bioshock series if it ever drops.
Fr
100%
I hope bioshock is good
It's the same studio that makes The Boys.
Bioshock is just diet atlas shrugged
I'm liking where this trend(?) is going. I mean, like, being a game creator can be a good if not great stepping stone for future/aspiring film makers.
9:50 Everybody keeps saying that they coincidentally all show up in the same places. But they're all looking for the same thing, and all find means to track that thing or another thing that is tracking that thing. If you and some friends all drive separately to track a thing using different but accurate methods, why would it be surprising that you see each other along the way?
yeah, thought the same. maybe the timings were a bit convenient but thats on how writing stories goes, you want interesting people to interact so intesresting things happen. it is noticeable but doesnt bother me much
I mean, they fast travel duh
Yes, but in some instances I agree that it was a bit too coincidental. For example in episode 2, when knight Titus and Maximus were dropped off in the middle of the wilderness because Titus was "bored and wanted to shoot something". Just before getting to the cave with the radiated bear, they managed to stumble across one of Wilzig's previous resting spots. There was nothing that drove them there, they had just been dropped off at a random spot and wondered around.
@@user-jw6hs9mf4z that could have happened in the game easy though given how the map would be nothing but points of interest, soooo.. if we're indulging in the VATS-style gore that is way over the top for RL why not this?
You see, the way you put it SOUNDS like it makes sense, but you really have to see what happens in the show in order to understand how convenient it is that the characters find themselves where they need to be in order to further the plot. The bear cave as pointed out before is a perfect example. It happens more often than most people notice.
Being stuck in the power armor with no way to get out because of losing the fusion core brought me huge black mirror vibes
Oh cmon man spoilers
But how does he go to the bathroom?
@@soaktinbleech1106 watch the show.....oh wait no prime :(
@@ChefMovktax2 I got Amazon prime just so that I could watch this show, but work has been taking alot of my time so I'm only on episode 5
@@ferretyluv power armor recycle water and poop
You saying it releasing all at once isnt always the best resonates with me because im only 4 episodes into the show and im taking it slowly ive only watched 1 or 2 episodes a day to keep the excitement of what going to happen next fresh. Also i told my mom about the show and shes never played video games before and never heard of fallout. But she loves it and is now really excited for a season 2
Once the classic guitar plays and you hear I don’t want to set… it gave me the goosebumps once it played on the show
The cousin stuff was outta pocket tho 😭
HUH (havent watched it)
Crazy how I am stronger than 3 kids as a girl 😂
@@jacksoncarver469Watch it... You'll understand
@@jacksoncarver469 man you gotta watch it
It was plot relevant though. If you only have like 1000 people in the vault you are kinda forced to have those discussions to ensure genetic diversity
If you can’t tell, all of the characters have stat sheets. Most specifically The Ghoul has bloody mess, cannibal, gun-fu…
I love this, I started watching thinking what certain characters, traits, strong skills and perks were, had so much fun watching it
I'm really hoping we get a Mysterious stranger Easter egg at some point.
@@L3thalBones god I hope youre right
@@L3thalBonesi was thinking he could be a nod to it lol
@@Strandman11 Who The Ghoul? I kinda thought that but I'm still hoping for a proper one.
The Ghoul's gun... the way those bullets fu up, i was just blown away.
I think season 2 of Fallout (which has already been greenlit) will probably have the weekly episode releases like the Boys did from Season 1 to Season 2
Yeah that was my thought. Boys was a binge show adapation, and now that they got you hooked they can do a drip feed.
Where has it been said it’s already been greenlit? Because I can’t find any confirmation of that.
@@rakoonshampoo2608 The end of Season 1 quite literally showed what they'd be focusing on for Season 2, New Vegas.
@@rakoonshampoo2608 no confirmation yet, but judging from the success of this season i would say its inevitable
@@ergohash2517 would be funny if this actually good show doesn't get renewed but other mediocre crap does.
This may get lost in the comments, but I just want to honor Mitten Squad. He would have loved to have watched this show. Rest in peace.
How dare you call Bethesda the creator of the Fallout series.
lol I got so excited when he said the creators of fallout worked on it and felt my hopes diminish when he said Bethesda
bro spent 4 minutes beating around the bush telling unfunny jokes so skip to 4:05 for the actual review
In games its strongly hinted at that it was actually Vault tech that started it all. In Megaton the nuke is actually Vault techs.
Vault Tec is just a branch of the deep government that turned into the Enclave. They only thing they're responsible for is the treatment of the vault dwellers, not the entire war. The war most certainly is so broad that it's an unmitigated disaster that no single party could be responsible for. Kinda the whole point of Fallout, humanity is responsible.
It's canon that China launched the nukes, you are still right about vault tech and the show confirms they had the plan, but they don't actually confirm they started the war. They had nukes, but if it were them that launched them that day, the daughter would have not been with Dad.
I interpreted it in the show that they intended to start the war by detonating a nuke in shady acres, but it’s never explicitly said that they were the soul cause of the war
@@pennywise5662it wasn’t them who launched them, they just encouraged the war, and probably sold the nukes
@@pennywise5662 Yeah, Vault Tec may have had the plan to launch on the back burner as a potential course of action, the Chinese just got the jump and launched before Vault Tec expected or planned. Then at that point the US retailiated, Vault Tec jumped on the bandwagon firing some off, heck even the Zetans fired some shit off as well.
In cannon, Vault-Tec was a legitimate driver of the bombs dropping. They wanted the bombs to fall specifically to perform their vault experiments. They were working with the branch of government that later became the Enclave so that the Enclave could collect and use that data to rebuild without significant resistance or opposition.
Only in Bethesda lore is this true.
@@user-ez7ed7kd8ewrong. The enclave played a massive role in the earlier games
Canon*
Vault Tech being responsible for nearly every event in the fallout universe is kinda boring ngl.
Hope this isn't true.
@@iloveketamine477 True. But vault tex being directly related to the bombs dropping is Bethseda slop. Just like the rest of the show.
Well, you gotta remember in terms of fallout when people do meet. It does kind of sound convenient, but it is a deserted town and there’s not much town to go when it’s a wasteland. You got one town here one over there so it kind of works both ways there’s not much places to go
Honestly it comes down to what level of immersion people needed in the games to follow the stories and motives of the characters you meet. Some people only care about the end result without as much emphasis on why, and some people like the whole backstory leading up to events. Its really two different experiences; The action rpg players vs the character rpg players:
The guy who's favourite part of the games is power armour and vats blasting dudes really might not care so much about the representation of the groups and their themes and strengths and faults. One experience is not better or worse than the other, but it does sting when core parts of some of the characters and groups change in ways that don't match the central ideas that make them interesting.
To House, the brotherhood is literally a bunch of power tripping cosplayers on stolen valour, and to them house sort of represents their ideas about the old world but more so want his technology for themselves.
Making it so House agrees with dropping the bombs on America flies in the face of his shear ego as a capitalist because why would he ever risk losing his source of wealth and status? The point is that he himself recognised that mutual destruction was certain and prepared for it, not because vault tec informed him they would. It takes away from his technocratic beliefs.
80% of the fallout games are thinking about the choices made by groups and characters and deciding in which ways you agree or not and what you priorities. Flattening out these characters into "yea they nuked themselves" removes that back and forth of the real debate over their politics, and when that literally is the interesting part of the world to some people you will may understand the disappointment some feel with the show.
Imagine in star wars if the Sith is actually extinct and the republic turned evil by themselves. Not necessarily a different outcome but fundamentally a different story.
I had a neckbeard try to write-off Lucy as "girlboss nonsense" because she "came to the surface and acts like she knows everything". My brother in christ.... you mean she's acting exactly how dumb vault dwellers act. lol "Vault dweller spends entire life underground, thinks they know everything, comes to the surface, finds out how wrong they are" is pretty much the oldest Fallout troupe. lol
Ywnbaw
@@brothermannerfound the neckbeard
@@brothermannerYou will never not be a mentally derelict neanderthal
@Asori38 i guess you must've looked in the mirror haha owned
@@brothermanner that was actually really clever you got me bro
When the shopkeeper lady said Ive got 200 caps for anyone that kills him, I knew bro was gonna use V.A.T.S and they did it so well.... bro was even eating tomatoes during the fight.....
They captured the essence of pausing the game, eating for health, and going back to fighting.... THIS SHOW is amazing.
Lol I never thought about it like that but you're right
She said a thousand caps. But yeah, munching on some food while getting shot at was a pretty funny nod to eating while in combat in the games.
"Amazing" is a bit of a stretch at best
how did he use VATS if he doesn't wear pip-boy?
Muttfruit
Lucy picked the Wild Wasteland perk