Maximus was severely traumatized as a child, lost everything, then got sucked into a cult because he had nowhere else to go. He's shown a lot of growth.
Thank you for this! Maximus was raised by the brotherhood and we got a taste of their education’. He is lacking in intelligence because he lacks experience. Who of us wouldn’t be that way in the same circumstance?
"So everyone in the Brotherhood is stupid." The aspirants are. They were taken in as kids, and literally only taught 2 things: combat and how to preserve salvaged tech. Nothing else.
BoS is constantly and discreetly shown to know WAY more than directly revealed, and this low grunt perspective is in favor of distraction from what BoS is and knows, that way, show avoids being too obvious. And it works: people fall for it, including those who think of themselves as smart 😅
The Brotherhood doesn't tolerate Ghouls, despite the advantages Ghouls have. 1. They live a real long time if they have a steady supply of Jet. 2. They are actually healed by radiation. 3. No more stuffy noses.
Love how you can be so invested in the show and still be anoyed by the characters. It's a sign of some compelling writing I think despite some other plot pushing conveniences.
The opening may have seemed a little stretched out, but it was a bit of indulgent fan service. The outfits The scrap farmers were wearing were NCR Ranger uniforms, implying that they were survivors/remnants of the NCR (the org that built Shady Sands)
Thw show is structured more in the way of how the games' story progression, gameplay and mechanics are. That includes side quests things like lucy learning about the gulper experiment
In Fallout 4 you find a very similar dog in a Nuka-Cola machine at a Red Rocket just like that one - so placing the dog there is a bit of an Easter egg.
In most storytelling, I would agree about the probability of certain things, but this is Fallout. This is a universe where luck plays a role. Luck is the L in the acronym S.P.E.C.I.A.L., which stands for Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility, and Luck.
In the words of the philosopher Dan Bull, discussing Luck in the song You're SPECIAL; Luck, the Lady, that Lowers the Likelihood of Life's Lotto's Loss for the Lazy. When you're Larking with Lice, that are Larger than Life, at Least you'll have the Lethal Last Laugh and the Like. The Lie of the Land's Less than Lavish and Lovely, but when Looking for Loot you'll Locate Lots of Luxuries. Loads of Little Lowlifes Leering at your Luggage? A Lone Lad is Liable to Let them them Learn what Luck is!
I think it's important you notice that the two people in the recording they show Lucy in Vault 4, with the scientists attacked by the Overseer's great uncle Peter (On his mother's side :) ) are the same scientists in the Vault-Tec advert (Because he's advertising Vault 4 too!). These people in the ad say that the vault is governed entirely by scientists who are to study the effects of radiation in the DNA, a proposition that seems incredibly beneficial for the cault communities that will repopulate the world after a nuclear holocaust. And yet among their experiments we see a deformed monster with multiple rows of fingers for teeth, and a woman captive in a tank who is made to gestate mutant fish that will devour her after she gives birth. The point is that Vault-Tec is f*cked up, which you already suspect, but this shows you one of the many specific ways in which Vault-Tec is f*cked up. It's not worth a doctoral thesis in film studies but I think these are realy cool details that make watching the episodes with care really worth it, or at least give it more than one watch.
@@HannaHsOverInvested I had to double check when I saw them xD I'm also glad that the season was released all together, it was late when I finished episode 7 but I HAD to see what happens next
Still gonna throw the recommendation for the Shoddycast Fallout Storyteller series, it’s a great UA-cam series with a soothing narration of the the things going on in the Wasteland and the back when times, from taking about organizations like The Brotherhood, NCR and Enclave and other things, like why the use bottle caps, The FEV Virus which our dear friend Thaddeus might have injected as well as so much more. If you’re interested in learning more about the Fallout universe it’s the best place to go.
Point is they are not stupid. If you carefully watch and listen, they are actually VERY SMART. While this "lowest grunt" (Max, Dane, Thadd, Recruit Training base, etc) is just A DISTRACTION, so it would not be too obvious how it is going and how it ends..
It's not convenience. They are all going to the same place, and started in the same place. They are traveling at different paces, and getting sidetracked, but their journey is a linear point A to point B ordeal.
I always thought it was Chet’s wife who I can’t remember the name of right now. They killed her husband and stabbed her in the eye, and she seemed really into the idea when Norm brought it up
I'm more annoyed the ghoul stabbed the gulper in the lake 3 times with a spear and ignored his guns than any minor convenience we have seen along the way.
Oh, so beautiful to see her going throuth the full range of emotions. It's a brilliant show, and capturing the essence of the games. (Even though it somewhat invalidates my own playthroughs. No gods, no masters).
One thing to keep in mind about this setting is that everyone's a little dumb lol. Fallout has a reputation for juxtaposing the dark and serious with the absurd. The "convenience" of the plot could honestly be chalked up to the games. Sometimes things are a little too convenient for the protagonist, but often with unexpected results.
Yeh and a decent part of the games is the choice between something that could be seen as the morally right and something that could make your gameplay easier. For example Lucy and Maximus leaving Vault 4 with the Power Armor. Returning the Fusion Core to the Vault could be the morally right thing to do but that might make combat in the future harder because they no longer have access to the Power Armor. But Lucy and Maximus could also have chosen to keep the Fusion Core because they (or the player) deem the success of the mission to be more important than the population of one Vault! They could even reason that the Vault could start trading with outsiders for fuel or start a town on the surface and still prosper. There are a few of those choices in the games and they are usually quite interesting. As a player it is easy to be detached to the decision as it is just pixels on a screen and no real ramification to me or real humans if the computer program kills some units or if they get to live, but if you try to see it from the perspective of the played character some of the choices can be outright horrible. Maybe a necessary evil but still horrible.
It is interesting as I've seen people suspect both Betty, Eyepatch-Stephanie and even Norm! The case could have bneen an excellent episode of a Detective show! Betty with her comment that people need something to fuss about. Both Norm and Steph seemed quite happy if the Raiders died during that initial meeting after the attack Norm was the one to cart the Jell-o and offer the rest to the female guard (making her a suspect as she had the "murder weapon"). Betty was the one to assign Norm to the duty of feeding the prisoners giving him access to poisoning the Raiders. Both Betty and Steph are from Vault 31 and would have access to poison the Jell-O while implicating Norm (mayeb Betty had planned to poison them when assigning Norm) Steph did not seem very bothered when she said how horrible it was what had happened to the Raiders. So many clues pointing in each direction!
I have a suggestion for a show to watch! It’s called “Vox Machina” It’s based on a D&D campaign that a bunch of famous voice actors, such as Ellie from the last of us, plays in! The community liked the show so much that when they put up on kickstarter that they wanted to animate a little episode for it, it instead became the MOST FUNDED kickstarter ever for an animation. And now it’s a whole series with 2 seasons and a third on the way. But! I’d like to see your perspective because you’re a writer! And D&D writing is about making a story with multiple people at the same time. And because it’s a tabletop game some of the basic narrative trends like “don’t kill off important characters” aren’t set in stone. Yet the story is good, well I think at least. Also Baldurs Gate 3 was nominated game of the year winning 6 awards, and that is a D&D game! So… there’s the tie in to modern gaming 😅
I have no problem with people meeting, but someone explain to me how the Gulper naboens ate a woman, considering how they Eat by swallowing prey whole.
@@RichardX1 Also they might have been "beta versions" of gulpers (that prompted scientists to change their teeth for fingers in later iterations of experiments so they wouldn't immediately ate their "mother" alive)
Do a reaction for the trailers of “Kingdom Come: Deliverance” and it’s recently announced sequel. Also “The Wolf among Us”, both great games with great storytelling.
At unabashedly being my whole self on the internet for other people's amusement 😅 I do hope that for the people that watch all eight episodes. It's fun to see my thought process. I do try and share everything which sometimes makes me look like a dummy but I feel like that's part of the fun.
It's interesting how you get annoyed by minor inconsistencies and things a show glosses over, I think the reason they do is because of time and budget perhaps. And I think the reason you find yourself annoyed by this is because you are an author, a book has a lot of time to meticulously set the scene and provide lots of information. maybe your writers brain processes the show like a book. I dont know. what do you think of this?
I think also because as a novel writer I have to be so aware of all of the details because I have the ability to put them in so I also figure out ways to give information very quickly. Sometimes I watch something and I think, one line of dialogue would have solved this plot hole but nobody thought of it.
Forgot to mention you're S.P.E.C.I.E.L. ua-cam.com/video/tuQPfVZbMbg/v-deo.htmlsi=hQ6jBAOC6fL1g3xy If you knew about the perks of the game you would know that for Maximus a lone lad is liable to let them learn what luck is.
How was your weekend, everything okay? The Fallout series is great, but there are also people and the press in training who have criticized the series for the unnecessary explicit sexual scenes, sex and sexualization towards women, since in many countries it is a sensitive topic and people are divided!! What do you think about this Hannah?
You're only doing it for the views "No duh, I'm producing a UA-cam show... Actually I was thinking I would just throw it in the Mariana trench for a kraken to watch 🙄" Outside of plot convenience, if you're tracking someone with your Pip-Boy you head in their general direction and if you're behind them you'll probably follow around the same paths, but also, especially with something I like, I love watching the logic get torn apart. Speaking of which I checked to see and you don't have a reaction to arcane, you'll get a lot of views with it, love it and hate it, it's loosely based off League of Legends and your little girl Gucci here from fallout voices a main character. If you do decide to watch it with your audience you can definitely add me to that group along with a lot of other people... If you're not going to do the episodes one for one the format is technically three parts of 3 episodes each, it's neatly put together with the 369 model and season 2 is on its way... Since you're clearly in it for the views 🤗
@@artiemeyer8803 that’s actually what made it seem butthurt. Like you were laughing at the idea she may not like the show. It turned just what seemed like a defensive retaliation into a hawty comparison of how much lesser she is.
Maximus was severely traumatized as a child, lost everything, then got sucked into a cult because he had nowhere else to go. He's shown a lot of growth.
Thank you for this! Maximus was raised by the brotherhood and we got a taste of their education’. He is lacking in intelligence because he lacks experience. Who of us wouldn’t be that way in the same circumstance?
Hannah: "This show is too convenient with people finding each other"
Also Hannah: "They better find the dog; I don't care how convenient it is"
The duality of Hannah, the empath fighting with the writer.
"So everyone in the Brotherhood is stupid."
The aspirants are. They were taken in as kids, and literally only taught 2 things: combat and how to preserve salvaged tech. Nothing else.
BoS is constantly and discreetly shown to know WAY more than directly revealed, and this low grunt perspective is in favor of distraction from what BoS is and knows, that way, show avoids being too obvious.
And it works: people fall for it, including those who think of themselves as smart 😅
Also, Max specificly has his best Specials in Endurance and Strength. Intelegence and Luck were his dump stats. THe guy is a meat head.
@@wynnefox Nah, his Luck is maxed out (that's where all his INT points went 😁)
"Max is 85% redeemed!" Just you wait for episode 8. :D
SO MANY EMOTIONS.
The Brotherhood doesn't tolerate Ghouls, despite the advantages Ghouls have.
1. They live a real long time if they have a steady supply of Jet.
2. They are actually healed by radiation.
3. No more stuffy noses.
Love how you can be so invested in the show and still be anoyed by the characters. It's a sign of some compelling writing I think despite some other plot pushing conveniences.
You telling me that when that doctor said he had serums to cure a missing foot when Lucy was leaving with the old man… he actually did? 😂
I mean, I've never seen a ghoul missing a limb have you? LOL
@@grahamdixon1699I've seen one without limbs. Granted, I blew it up with a shotgun, but it was still missing a few limbs
@@DaGalaxyBoy hilarious and not the point
@@grahamdixon1699no no… let them cook.
Season finale checklist:
Tissues
(Optional) Emotional support object: blanket, pet ect.
Patience for season 2
Noted
Goosey: "Do you wanna live with me in my vault."
Hannah: "Yes, ma'am!"
The double cliffhanger at the end is brutal 😂
Just imagine if it was a weekly show 😱
The opening may have seemed a little stretched out, but it was a bit of indulgent fan service. The outfits The scrap farmers were wearing were NCR Ranger uniforms, implying that they were survivors/remnants of the NCR (the org that built Shady Sands)
Even the shack they live in is the pre-fab wooden shack for Fallout 4. I think it is the Large one but not sure.
Thw show is structured more in the way of how the games' story progression, gameplay and mechanics are. That includes side quests things like lucy learning about the gulper experiment
In Fallout 4 you find a very similar dog in a Nuka-Cola machine at a Red Rocket just like that one - so placing the dog there is a bit of an Easter egg.
In most storytelling, I would agree about the probability of certain things, but this is Fallout. This is a universe where luck plays a role. Luck is the L in the acronym S.P.E.C.I.A.L., which stands for Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility, and Luck.
In the words of the philosopher Dan Bull, discussing Luck in the song You're SPECIAL;
Luck, the Lady, that Lowers the Likelihood of Life's Lotto's Loss for the Lazy.
When you're Larking with Lice, that are Larger than Life, at Least you'll have the Lethal Last Laugh and the Like.
The Lie of the Land's Less than Lavish and Lovely, but when Looking for Loot you'll Locate Lots of Luxuries.
Loads of Little Lowlifes Leering at your Luggage?
A Lone Lad is Liable to Let them them Learn what Luck is!
I think it's important you notice that the two people in the recording they show Lucy in Vault 4, with the scientists attacked by the Overseer's great uncle Peter (On his mother's side :) ) are the same scientists in the Vault-Tec advert (Because he's advertising Vault 4 too!).
These people in the ad say that the vault is governed entirely by scientists who are to study the effects of radiation in the DNA, a proposition that seems incredibly beneficial for the cault communities that will repopulate the world after a nuclear holocaust.
And yet among their experiments we see a deformed monster with multiple rows of fingers for teeth, and a woman captive in a tank who is made to gestate mutant fish that will devour her after she gives birth. The point is that Vault-Tec is f*cked up, which you already suspect, but this shows you one of the many specific ways in which Vault-Tec is f*cked up.
It's not worth a doctoral thesis in film studies but I think these are realy cool details that make watching the episodes with care really worth it, or at least give it more than one watch.
I did notice that.
@@HannaHsOverInvested I had to double check when I saw them xD
I'm also glad that the season was released all together, it was late when I finished episode 7 but I HAD to see what happens next
0:51 desert rangers from new Vegas.
Ultra elite soldiers of the NCR, ya know… shady sands….
He’s a veteran and apparently an elite veteran.
8:45 Well, at least healing items are video-game accurate.
ONLY ONE More Ep and all your Questions will be ANSWERED!!!
3:23 these are the same folk from that commercial from the beginning of the previous episode…
Still gonna throw the recommendation for the Shoddycast Fallout Storyteller series, it’s a great UA-cam series with a soothing narration of the the things going on in the Wasteland and the back when times, from taking about organizations like The Brotherhood, NCR and Enclave and other things, like why the use bottle caps, The FEV Virus which our dear friend Thaddeus might have injected as well as so much more.
If you’re interested in learning more about the Fallout universe it’s the best place to go.
Seeing Hannah enjoying the show is so nice.
"SO everybody in the Brotherhood is stupid..." I mean it IS a cult lmao
"Everyone wants to save the world. It's just that no one can agree on how to do it."
Point is they are not stupid. If you carefully watch and listen, they are actually VERY SMART. While this "lowest grunt" (Max, Dane, Thadd, Recruit Training base, etc) is just A DISTRACTION, so it would not be too obvious how it is going and how it ends..
Lowest Grunt perspective on the Brotherhood is just a distraction, to avoid the show having things too obvious..
oh, we so back!
Legit one of my fav review channels.
It's not convenience. They are all going to the same place, and started in the same place. They are traveling at different paces, and getting sidetracked, but their journey is a linear point A to point B ordeal.
Betty killed the raiders and blamed... doesn't matter because right after she initiated the vault reassignment as a diversion.
I always thought it was Chet’s wife who I can’t remember the name of right now. They killed her husband and stabbed her in the eye, and she seemed really into the idea when Norm brought it up
@@fobbles_ She might have been an executioner, but she would totally do it only with Betty's permission.
That scientist in the video that. The VAULT 4 dwellers was the same guy who's family was in the promotional video that Cooper was in.
I did notice that.
I'm more annoyed the ghoul stabbed the gulper in the lake 3 times with a spear and ignored his guns than any minor convenience we have seen along the way.
Am I the only one who recognizes C.H.I.P.s star and 80s sex symbol Eric Estrada?
Yeah, I wouldn't have recognized him if I hadn't been spoiled about his cameo beforehand. And I'm old enough to remember C.Hi.P.s.
Oh, so beautiful to see her going throuth the full range of emotions. It's a brilliant show, and capturing the essence of the games. (Even though it somewhat invalidates my own playthroughs. No gods, no masters).
The people of the post-apocalyptic wasteland in the Fallout universe are quite strange, goofy, and also dangerous. It can make for some humor.
One thing to keep in mind about this setting is that everyone's a little dumb lol. Fallout has a reputation for juxtaposing the dark and serious with the absurd. The "convenience" of the plot could honestly be chalked up to the games. Sometimes things are a little too convenient for the protagonist, but often with unexpected results.
Yeh and a decent part of the games is the choice between something that could be seen as the morally right and something that could make your gameplay easier.
For example Lucy and Maximus leaving Vault 4 with the Power Armor. Returning the Fusion Core to the Vault could be the morally right thing to do but that might make combat in the future harder because they no longer have access to the Power Armor. But Lucy and Maximus could also have chosen to keep the Fusion Core because they (or the player) deem the success of the mission to be more important than the population of one Vault! They could even reason that the Vault could start trading with outsiders for fuel or start a town on the surface and still prosper.
There are a few of those choices in the games and they are usually quite interesting. As a player it is easy to be detached to the decision as it is just pixels on a screen and no real ramification to me or real humans if the computer program kills some units or if they get to live, but if you try to see it from the perspective of the played character some of the choices can be outright horrible. Maybe a necessary evil but still horrible.
9:00 Norm gave her the Jell-O mold. I think he set her up.
It is interesting as I've seen people suspect both Betty, Eyepatch-Stephanie and even Norm!
The case could have bneen an excellent episode of a Detective show!
Betty with her comment that people need something to fuss about.
Both Norm and Steph seemed quite happy if the Raiders died during that initial meeting after the attack
Norm was the one to cart the Jell-o and offer the rest to the female guard (making her a suspect as she had the "murder weapon").
Betty was the one to assign Norm to the duty of feeding the prisoners giving him access to poisoning the Raiders.
Both Betty and Steph are from Vault 31 and would have access to poison the Jell-O while implicating Norm (mayeb Betty had planned to poison them when assigning Norm)
Steph did not seem very bothered when she said how horrible it was what had happened to the Raiders.
So many clues pointing in each direction!
I have a suggestion for a show to watch!
It’s called “Vox Machina”
It’s based on a D&D campaign that a bunch of famous voice actors, such as Ellie from the last of us, plays in!
The community liked the show so much that when they put up on kickstarter that they wanted to animate a little episode for it, it instead became the MOST FUNDED kickstarter ever for an animation. And now it’s a whole series with 2 seasons and a third on the way.
But! I’d like to see your perspective because you’re a writer!
And D&D writing is about making a story with multiple people at the same time. And because it’s a tabletop game some of the basic narrative trends like “don’t kill off important characters” aren’t set in stone. Yet the story is good, well I think at least.
Also Baldurs Gate 3 was nominated game of the year winning 6 awards, and that is a D&D game! So… there’s the tie in to modern gaming 😅
You can be stupid and steel be good, Thank you Hanna! I feel seen and validated
"I have a vocal lesson in 15 minutes" she said while her voice cracked up... :)
I actually shouldnt have filmed this right away. My lesson wasn't great.
@@HannaHsOverInvested trust me, most of us are grateful for all the sacrifices you keep making for us 😁
@@HannaHsOverInvested oh! Btw are you working to be a voice actor? Or like is it a singing lesson? What do vocal lessons do?
@@fobbles_ singing lesson. Im in school rn and its part of the program
HANNAH!
How's tricks, beautiful lady?
Any sign of any new books maybe appearing any time soon...? 👀
Last episode she mentioned the next book is getting SO close.
@@radwolf76
👀
The goal is October
I was about to joke about complimenting your shirt again then you mentioned back to back viewings so the wardrobe makes sense now 😊
14:08 Of course they did! 😂
I have no problem with people meeting, but someone explain to me how the Gulper naboens ate a woman, considering how they Eat by swallowing prey whole.
Some species have digestive systems that radically change from the juvenile to the adult stage.
@@RichardX1 yeah, that’s the best I’ve come up with as well
@@RichardX1 Also they might have been "beta versions" of gulpers (that prompted scientists to change their teeth for fingers in later iterations of experiments so they wouldn't immediately ate their "mother" alive)
What a difference.... A DAY makessssssss ❤
24 little hoursss
Do a reaction for the trailers of “Kingdom Come: Deliverance” and it’s recently announced sequel. Also “The Wolf among Us”, both great games with great storytelling.
6:34 🫵😲
Please watch the trailer for Expedition 33. It’s got a FANTASTIC concept in a fantasy world. Really think you’d find it interesting!!
excellent reaction and I agreed with you about Dogmeat!!
One more episode to go Hannah, and the payoff is worth it.
I know it’s not your jam and you only do this as a side gig and you’re a writer. By definition.
But you’re really good at this.
At unabashedly being my whole self on the internet for other people's amusement 😅
I do hope that for the people that watch all eight episodes. It's fun to see my thought process. I do try and share everything which sometimes makes me look like a dummy but I feel like that's part of the fun.
I dont usually watch reactions but your really entertainment keep it up!
Thanks!!
Haha you’re so hooked now. There is a great payoff thankfully.
Gears
Can’t watch my UA-cam without eating my el polo loco quesadilla in my car parked in a parking lot in Alaska
Max redeemed! 85%
your editing is great
Thank you! I am very self-conscious about it.
yeahhhh!
I get big Frodo and Sam vibes off the two vaulties.
When’s the last episode dropping?
Tomorrow!
It's interesting how you get annoyed by minor inconsistencies and things a show glosses over, I think the reason they do is because of time and budget perhaps. And I think the reason you find yourself annoyed by this is because you are an author, a book has a lot of time to meticulously set the scene and provide lots of information. maybe your writers brain processes the show like a book. I dont know. what do you think of this?
I think also because as a novel writer I have to be so aware of all of the details because I have the ability to put them in so I also figure out ways to give information very quickly. Sometimes I watch something and I think, one line of dialogue would have solved this plot hole but nobody thought of it.
@@HannaHsOverInvestedVery interesting, thanks for your reply. Maybe you should be a writer for television. 😂
Forgot to mention you're S.P.E.C.I.E.L.
ua-cam.com/video/tuQPfVZbMbg/v-deo.htmlsi=hQ6jBAOC6fL1g3xy
If you knew about the perks of the game you would know that for Maximus a lone lad is liable to let them learn what luck is.
How was your weekend, everything okay? The Fallout series is great, but there are also people and the press in training who have criticized the series for the unnecessary explicit sexual scenes, sex and sexualization towards women, since in many countries it is a sensitive topic and people are divided!!
What do you think about this Hannah?
As an American this is a hilarious concept to me as heads are exploded, torture, mutilations, and more violence that sex would be the problem.
Gameplay convenience explains a lot of the failing writers logic.
You're only doing it for the views
"No duh, I'm producing a UA-cam show... Actually I was thinking I would just throw it in the Mariana trench for a kraken to watch 🙄"
Outside of plot convenience, if you're tracking someone with your Pip-Boy you head in their general direction and if you're behind them you'll probably follow around the same paths, but also, especially with something I like, I love watching the logic get torn apart. Speaking of which I checked to see and you don't have a reaction to arcane, you'll get a lot of views with it, love it and hate it, it's loosely based off League of Legends and your little girl Gucci here from fallout voices a main character. If you do decide to watch it with your audience you can definitely add me to that group along with a lot of other people... If you're not going to do the episodes one for one the format is technically three parts of 3 episodes each, it's neatly put together with the 369 model and season 2 is on its way...
Since you're clearly in it for the views 🤗
You can talk all your shit that you want but they are the ones that have a hit show...lol
Booo stop being so buthurt
@@fobbles_ Butthurt? lol. Simply stating 2 facts. 1-She said she is still going to talk shit about it and 2- It is a hit show
@@artiemeyer8803 it read very butthurt
@@fobbles_ I guess you missed the lol at the end
@@artiemeyer8803 that’s actually what made it seem butthurt. Like you were laughing at the idea she may not like the show. It turned just what seemed like a defensive retaliation into a hawty comparison of how much lesser she is.