As someone who hadn't played the games and knew nothing about the lore or what to expect, I can honestly say it's been a blast to watch this show! Great writing, fun and complex characters, interesting plot, dark humour - what's not to enjoy, right? Thanks for adding to the enjoyment with your enthusiastic and appreciative reactions, Neil! Great job, and welcome back!
Goggins is hands down one of the best character actors currently working. And anyone who liked what they saw of him in Fallout should immediately go watch Justified.
Wilzig: "Will you still want the same things when you have become a different creature all together?" By the end of the season, this is true of Lucy and Maximus. I also love the evolution of "Okey Dokey", and her delivery of that at the end. And with all the music .. man, its a great finale.
It is also true of Cooper in a way. He spent hundreds of years looking for his family but he had resigned himself to the fact that he will never find them and has instead transformed into someone focused on survival and temporary pleasures. His interaction with Lucy made him aware of how much he changed and that he did not like it at all.
My favourite reactions to the show by far, good to have you back! The beauty of the writing of this show is that the 3 main protagonists set out with a plan in episode 1 & get exactly what they wanted by the ending... and none of them are really happy about it. Lucy finds her dad, but he wasn't the guy who she thought it was. Max becomes the respected hero of the BOS, but now just wants out. It was never really explained what coop's plan was, but we find out hes spent 200 years looking for a member of vault tec to ask about his family.... who can surely be frozen in 31 if they're still to be found. Amazing show!
I like that Hank doesn’t give the code until Lucy calls him “dad”- he immediately goes back to trying to manipulate and justify after he inputs it, but it’s like for just a moment he remembers she IS his world like he told her in the first ep
I’ve just assumed with with Moldaver being a wealthy super scientist that she set up some sort of personal cryo shelter. If they never come back to it that’s my head canon.
That is almost certainly the answer not only is she a genius inventing cold fusion but by vault-tec buying out her company no doubt made her a millionaire so she could afford her own fallout shelter and cryo bed.
My take is that it has something to do with the Enclave, which also seems to have had some cryo stuff going on. Otherwise, how would Wilzig know her and she him? Or something with Vault-tech, because they both also made comments which seemed to indicate they might have deep connections to Vault-tech. Moldaver's comments about knowing Barb and Vault-tech buying her companies (plural). And Wilzig's comments to Lucy about Vault-tech plan D and being "surprised it wasn't more popular."
@@GeraldH-ln4dv Well the Enclave is the former US government and were linked at the hip to vault-tec so they would have data on all the vaults. They contracted Vault-tec to build at least 122 vaults in the first place.
I’m gonna continue to believe she’s a synth or clone or something else that will allow her to make a shocking season 2 return, because I feel like they’re not done with her yet Hell I’m definitely not😢
Yup, like she said earlier "Hypocrisy is like violence - if only the bad guys use it, then the bad guys win." So I'm sure she went ahead and used a cryo-chamber like all of Vault-Tec.
Small quibble: The Peter Principle is not "failing upward", it's the idea that in any hierarchical organization where promotion is based on merit, if you are good at your job then you will inevitably keep being promoted until they promote you into a job position that you're bad at, at which point you will stop earning new promotions and will be stuck in that job. It's called being "promoted to your level of incompetence", and it's one of the main reasons why bureaucracies (corporate or governmental) tend to suck at what they do.
Dane was supportive of Maximus throughout, saved his life, and then propped him up in the victory... Why wouldn't he trust Dane with his dream(s) and his new love? It would be kinda weird for Dane to get him in trouble after all of that.
Loved sering your reaction to this amazing and faithfull adaptation, it's great to have you back. I love how by the end of the series both Lucy and Maximus got exactly what they both wanted in the beginning and yet neither ended up happy or satisfied.
I love how every "okey dokey" reflects Lucy's growth/adaptation each time, starting with a happy care-free "okey dokey" and ending with a very weary one. The one thing I wish they had done in the show was to bring in Ron Perlman to do the intro voice over in the first episode like he's done for every Fallout game.
Neil... Thanks for coming back in for awhile... it is always a joy. I think you'll find that no matter how long... we will always cheer to see you again. Maybe same time next year. Take care, my friend!
Not sure if you missed it or it didn't make the edit.... The brain in a jar in vault 31 was Bud. I watched with subtitles and was slightly spoiled before we saw it and it said "brain on a roomba" 😂
@@fedos if you've seen the episode it's not a spoiler. If you haven't seen the episode why are you watching a reaction video and looking in the comments.... especially of a season finale?
@@fedos sorry for the misunderstanding. I've been accused of spoilers before and it was things that were literally in the video. I was overreacting and maybe a bit sensitive. Please accept my apology, I didn't mean to jump at you
Phenomenonal reaction. I will say 76 has gotten SOOOO much better since it was first released. Fallout 4 is my forever favorite but 76 is really fun now too.
At the time Shady Sands was destroyed, the NCR would have had a population of hundreds of thousands at minimum. Even with the destruction of Shady Sands and the NCR presence around LA, this is almost certainly not the last we've seen of the faction as a whole.
1st: I LUVED this show, even though I've never played the game. It was well written, directed acted, special effects....everything was great. But I have 2 plot issues. 1st Norm seems ready to go ahead and get in a pod. But that doesn't seem like his only option. He could threaten to open all the pods and then also destroy Bud's brain on a Roomba. What is Bud going to do to stop him? Stick him with a needle? Good Luck. 2nd issue is Vault Tecs logic. They plan to wipe the earth clean? I don't think a full scale nuclear war would destroy every human. Too many of us. It would mean the loss of billions, but not everyone. And the remainder would indeed create more factions. It's what we humans do. That brings me to my final point. I know that some people are just straight up evil. However, a full scale nuclear would destroy much of the earth, leaving a wasteland for thousands upon thousands of years. Is Vault Tec so evil that they'd destroy the playground because they can't be in full control of it? 😮😮😮
Just noticed the meeting room is an Easter-egg reference to the War Room from Dr Strangelove. 😉 Great show! Great Season Finale! Great reaction! Roll on Season 2!!
Really enjoyed watching this with you Neil. A very good friend who is a gamer (I'm not at all) suggested it to me so I watched it over a couple of days a while back and loved it. It was really nice learning about the lore and the games with you. Thanks!
Can report that after this show came out, the number of people who play fallout has gone up by a lot. It's really cool to see. Thanks for reacting to this show. It was really fun to see someone who knows the games reacting to all the things that come from the games.
I've enjoyed watching Neil watching Fallout .His enthusiasm and knowledge helps me understand - and become hooked on something I had little understanding or interest in previously . I'm glad the channel is back because of it . Looking forward to more Taskmaster and the next series .
I think if they stick with just these three pov characters (though Thaddeus is out there too and I kind of figure he might hook up with Coop and Lucy, the show likes to keep its sense of humor and they likely want a mainly comedic actor as one of the regulars) and the locations will just be LA for Max and Norm and the desert for the pair chasing Hank and how much they will feature New Vegas. They don't want to spoil the game for those catching up, but they also were very clear that this show takes place like twenty five years after the New Vegas game. And also to cover that now very interesting time in the past between Coop meeting Hank and the bombs falling. That Janey was with Coop when the bombs fell is actually the main evidence that while Vault Tec intended to drop the bombs, someone else did it first. Which makes sense with House's theory too. And if Bud was the main face of Vault Tec, well, he is super annoying.
Thanks for the reactions! Good to see how satisfied you are as a superfan! I'm trying Fallout 76 at the moment and the feeling I get that it's how Elderscrolls Online is to Skyrim. A bit diluted compared to the single-player games and it being online makes it less responsive. I tried to unsuccessfully replay Fallout 3 before that, but I just couldn't get it to launch, even after trying like 30 different online suggestions for solutions. Hopefully it works for most people, but it doesn't seem to love modern computers. Perhaps it's our modern multi-core CPUs or a temporary bug with the graphics drivers or some 3rd thing that ½ a day of trouble-shooting to get it working, didn't tell me.
After this series finished, for about two weeks I kept getting a little buzz of excitement thinking, "Oh great, we can watch another episode of that - what is it we're loving? - oh, it's Fallout, and we finished it. Damn." So it's been nice at least to relive it through you Neil, cheers. Loved the games 3, 3.5 and 4. (Always enjoy your Taskmasters too. The Expanse was all about S02 & S03, right? Honestly? With the necessary foundation course of S01. Anyhoo thanks.)
It seems as if Bud, the overseer of 31 is failing. This would explain why the system between the 3 vaults is breaking down. We also don't know how much those in 31 knew about who else was in that vault.
It's interesting to note that in every post-apocalyptic scene that the Ghoul appears in he speaks with his fake cowboy accent. Except in the finale when he says "where's my fiucking family" to Hank, which is in his natural Cooper Howard accent.
FWIW, just started F76 after the show and it’s really pretty fun in its current state. You can play all the quests and never have to acknowledge the multiplayer components even exist (if that doesn’t interest you).
As someone who played every Fallout game since the first, I finally realized that the Rob in Rob-co stood for Robert, not robot. I didn’t know it was Robert House’s company
Excellent series so excited for more glad you enjoyed. We got so many brilliant reveals in one episode. Hope House is in new vegas still, pity the voice actor died.
Well, I guess it depends which Storyline Showrunner will decides to follow. Since the series happens 15 Years After New Vegas Events, and none of the endings are canon, it can go in any direction.
After watching all of this, in ep 1 you see coop scoop up his daughter and head for the hills, in ep 8 he asks, as a ghoul, where's his family? Does that mean he made it to a vault and barb admitted the daughter and not him? Cause sheeesh 🤯
You were so focused on Hank / Henry that you seemed to miss that Betty was Vault 33's Betty Also, the sad thing about Hank bombing Shady Sands on behalf of Vault Tec is that Shady Sands was formed by members of another Vault. Vault Tec screwed Vault Tec
That seems like a rival branch to me. It has to go. 😅 But the really twisted thing is that that might actually happen depending on which vault makes it and how powerful a "competing vault" would be in comparison, because not all experiments would fit well together.
Yes. Shady Sands had the G.E.C.K. treatment post-F1, so a Vault-Tec overseer destroyed a Vault-Tec reclaimed area. Which makes Vault-Tec's argument about "clearing away all the factions" for Vault-Tec moot, since every surviving Vault would end up being a distinct faction.
@@alcor4670 Vault 31 was not the main management vault though, not the one Barb is in. I think only Barbs vault could talk to all the vaults and 31 can only talk to 32, 33. Hank likely knew nothing about shady sands being started by vault dwellers.
What's been bugging me for a while now is this: If the Overseer Hank destroyed Shady Sands with a nuke, does this mean that each Vault (or at least some Vaults) has to have a secret nuclear arsenal? And the nuke that made the Shady Sands crater (shithole?) would have to be detonated underground, much like the Sedan crater in Nevada. There were cars near the lip of the crater when Lucy and Max were there, which meant that it wasn't an airburst or a surface detonation. Edit: 11:40 I doubt this attack on the Observatory destroyed the NCR. This might be just one of the regions of the NCR since, iirc, the NCR's territory post-NV goes up as far north almost into Oregon, east into the Hoover Dam area in Nevada, and south into Baja.
Every vault most certainly doesnt have an arsenal. It would have to be only the most trusted and secure vaults. Its also possible the NCR put some gigantic nuclear power source underground that got sabotaged by VT agents to destroy the city.
@@davidmacy411 I was going to do some more research into yields and power plant outputs, but there's a chance that that might set off an alert somewhere lol. In any case, afaik Shady Sands didn't have a nuclear plant in F1, but they might have set up one later on. Powering a medium-sized town though wouldn't need a lot of energy (and certainly would not create a crater that size if it went critical). Chernobyl's output was designed to produce energy for a *much* larger region, but the explosion was very small in comparison to the WW2 nukes. In any case, a crater the size of Sedan (~100 kt, or 10 times the size of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) would require the energy of roughly 729 million Corvega engines, or hundreds of Vault power plants. Fuel for power plants is far less energy-dense than the material used for weapons, which is why it's highly unlikely that the crater was a sabotaged plant. So yeah, Shady Sands was most likely destroyed by a weapon. Where that weapon came from, well... 🤷♂
The NCR is much, much more than Shady Sands. It's territory stretches out east and south all the way to the Mexican Border. Don't forget the sign. Shady Sands was the "first" capital of the New Republic, meaning there are others which followed. The question hangs well where are they? What were they doing when Shady Sands fell and then was nuked? Questions for season 2 no doubt.
For the life of me, I don't understand how you choose series. Judging by your reactions, you are smart, well-read and have seen everything in your life. Your reactions to Lost and The Leftovers are simply the best. I've reviewed them several times. These series themselves are smartly written and filmed, they have an idea, they are very adult. I hope you choose something similar in level for your next reaction. Good luck to you. You're the best.
@@NeilTalks It's hard to argue with that ) My thought is that there are truly outstanding series that are more suitable for such a sophisticated viewer. For example, Westworld, where several ways of human development are considered and what this will lead to at the global level. Or the Hannibal series, which has an impeccable visual style, and Mads Mikkelsen's game deserves a box of Oscars and a monument during his lifetime. Or the Dexter series, about a serial killer who hunts serial killers. The idea itself is good, but it was implemented perfectly. The first season of Fargo, about the path of an ordinary man from a downtrodden insecure slug. All these series have a great plot, clever cliffhangers and there is an interesting idea behind the plot.
I thought the water chip was going to be a bigger deal, but I guess they just put it in as a nod to the original game, given that they never bring it up again.
Hey, just a bit of constructive criticism: It sounds like you have heavily added noise suppression to your audio, maybe automatically or maybe by hand, idk, but it makes your voice very difficult to make out on regular speakers. I would drop whatever noise suppression you're using right now to a lower setting
Just watching now and I've had to turn the volume right up to actually hear what's being said. I don't remember the problem being there on the last Taskmaster video.
If you're up to date on your deeper lore, brain on a roomba and its real life counterpart says some really important words that are easy to miss. Gives some (potential) pointers on where this is heading.
Hey there Neil! Its nice to have you back! Ive been enjoying your reactions since Avatar. I am guessing we are about the same age and both olde schoole fallout fans, which I am finding is fairly rare in reaction-land. As a fellow older generation guy, I would encourage you to be more attentive to peoples' pronouns. The character of Dain was repeatedly referred to as They, and was clearly coded as nonbinary in their depiction. Calling them Her is not accurate and considered misgendering. Now, through your videos, I feel I've gotten to know you well enough as a person to know that you wouldn't do that intentionally. Its an easy trap for those of us who weren't raised with this kind of awareness to fall into. I just thought I might respectfully bring this to your attention. Keep up the good work!
So many reactors say in 1x07, 'How can they possibly wrap things up in one episode?' Well this is how they make a perfect finale :D Not sure if you watched with subtitles.... but Bud's Brain in a jar is described hilariously as 'Brain-on-a-Romba' As far as bringing people to the games, sales have gone through the roof. I personally bought 1,2 and New Vegas, and have logged a ridiculous amount of time in New Vegas....(found Fallout 1's UI painful, so gave up on it for now) I had played alot of Fallout Shelter, so I was familiar with alot of the lore though. As far as Moldaver, if Vaultec bought out all her companies, it can be assumed that she was still fairly wealthy, and knowing that Vaultec were war mongering and dangerous, that she might have taken precautions to survive the nuclear holocaust.
There’s a mod that lets you play through Fallout 1 in the Fallout 2 engine along with a lot of community fixes and tweaks, so it smooths over some of the interface issues. It’s pretty easy to install, worth a look.
@@RocketSurgn_ Thanks for the heads up.... I want to play the game for the sake of learning the lore, and experiencing the stories etc. Just the controls were very awkward and not intuitive in Fallout 1 imo. I don't mind older graphics etc, some of my favourite games still to play have ancient graphics, but they have good game play though. Once again thanks.
I've played all the games (yes, including 1, 2 and 76), and the show is incredibly true to the world built in Fallout. New Vegas homers ree-ing about "lore accuracy" (as if they are the experts) aside, the show absolutely nailed the tone and feel of the Fallout world. It's going to be along two-year wait.
To my knowledge we never learn, in the games, who dropped the bombs. So to have that revealed in the show, was great! Fallout 76 has had years of additional content. While Multiplayer in the grand scheme of things, and if you enjoy the genre of mmo’s mixed with Bethesda RPG you would enjoy it if you gave it a chance. It can be mostly played as a single person experience. This sounds weird because you’ll see other players around you, and certain events will be multiplayer focused. The main story I found to be compelling enough, and the stories they’ve added on since only built on that. One of the first group of Vault Dwellers leaving a Vault to see what happened with the world. When it launched the story was told mostly through taped and computer logs. Since then they’ve added characters. Moral of the side note is Fallout 76 is worth playing.
In the games, you get contradictory info that it was started by China or that the Enclave planned to start it (and outside, devs have made comments that it was China I think but that’s not particularly considered cannon). My personal read of the episode is that they didn’t reveal it “was” VaultTec here, just that they would have done it if needed. As a comparison, it’s suggested in Fallout 2 that the Enclave had plans to start things (and were already manipulating things toward conflict instead of peace) but were caught off guard by the escalation to nuclear launches happening before they had expected. A lot of their people were scattered and caught outside bunkers, kindof like being shown the daughter of a senior Vault Tec exec caught outside vaults at a birthday party with her dad in the show. I think it makes the most sense that we were just shown someone else willing to cause the war but never really know who pushed the button first. Who knows though, they may have decided to say VT really did it themselves and just didn’t bother to get everyone into vaults first.
@@RocketSurgn_ I agree. The show implies that Vault-tech dropped the bombs in 2077, but it may have been a red herring. Barb's daughter was out in the world with Coop when the bombs dropped. Would she risk her own daughter, after making clear everything she was doing was for family?
It seems like the number 1 thing to come out of this show is an army of people shitting on New Vegas fans. Objectively the best game in the franchise, but if you liked New Vegas, well then, you're an asshole.
@@VORASTRA Oh, I get it. Can't stand em. Also can't stand having to run/config/optimize 20+ mods to play a game I've purchased on 3 different platforms. I gotta hear my Marty Robbins, though. (ed. Is funny because: I agree, but I still jump through hoops to play it in 2024)
So if Shady Sands got nuked, who ever hid Max in the fridge knew about the bomb? Or was it nuclear reactor of sort out of control meltdown? People say: "Indiana Jones", and get distracted, forgetting that he hid and had time to hide only cause he knew.. Other version is: crater was from Great War (we saw one hitting in approx area, and 2nd crater is nowhere to be seen), explosions were conventional, connected to BoS being there.. 🤷
@@VORASTRA Yes, long range warning system would be one of explanations how people had time to react. Although, not sure if such eqiupment still exists in Fallout, possibly does. 🤷
I would say that this show has next to no redeeming qualities, just in terms of character decisions. character rationalities, and events happening, it just falls apart completely.
The brain in the jar is Bud. And funny little bit, in the subtitles, they just called him "Brain on a Roomba" lol
As someone who hadn't played the games and knew nothing about the lore or what to expect, I can honestly say it's been a blast to watch this show! Great writing, fun and complex characters, interesting plot, dark humour - what's not to enjoy, right? Thanks for adding to the enjoyment with your enthusiastic and appreciative reactions, Neil! Great job, and welcome back!
I never thought the utterance of the words "Okey Dokey" could be so spine chilling. Ella Purnell was amazing.
Hey Neil, not sure if you caught it but the lady who showed young Hank into the room to meet Coop was a much younger Betty from the vault.
Goggins is hands down one of the best character actors currently working. And anyone who liked what they saw of him in Fallout should immediately go watch Justified.
Sam Rockwell would give him a run for his money.
@@josephkrengel True. Loved him in JoJo Rabbit
Yeah, he's amazing in Justified.
Wilzig: "Will you still want the same things when you have become a different creature all together?" By the end of the season, this is true of Lucy and Maximus.
I also love the evolution of "Okey Dokey", and her delivery of that at the end. And with all the music .. man, its a great finale.
It is also true of Cooper in a way. He spent hundreds of years looking for his family but he had resigned himself to the fact that he will never find them and has instead transformed into someone focused on survival and temporary pleasures. His interaction with Lucy made him aware of how much he changed and that he did not like it at all.
My favourite reactions to the show by far, good to have you back!
The beauty of the writing of this show is that the 3 main protagonists set out with a plan in episode 1 & get exactly what they wanted by the ending... and none of them are really happy about it.
Lucy finds her dad, but he wasn't the guy who she thought it was. Max becomes the respected hero of the BOS, but now just wants out. It was never really explained what coop's plan was, but we find out hes spent 200 years looking for a member of vault tec to ask about his family.... who can surely be frozen in 31 if they're still to be found.
Amazing show!
I like that Hank doesn’t give the code until Lucy calls him “dad”- he immediately goes back to trying to manipulate and justify after he inputs it, but it’s like for just a moment he remembers she IS his world like he told her in the first ep
I’ve just assumed with with Moldaver being a wealthy super scientist that she set up some sort of personal cryo shelter. If they never come back to it that’s my head canon.
That is almost certainly the answer not only is she a genius inventing cold fusion but by vault-tec buying out her company no doubt made her a millionaire so she could afford her own fallout shelter and cryo bed.
My take is that it has something to do with the Enclave, which also seems to have had some cryo stuff going on. Otherwise, how would Wilzig know her and she him? Or something with Vault-tech, because they both also made comments which seemed to indicate they might have deep connections to Vault-tech. Moldaver's comments about knowing Barb and Vault-tech buying her companies (plural). And Wilzig's comments to Lucy about Vault-tech plan D and being "surprised it wasn't more popular."
@@GeraldH-ln4dv Well the Enclave is the former US government and were linked at the hip to vault-tec so they would have data on all the vaults. They contracted Vault-tec to build at least 122 vaults in the first place.
I’m gonna continue to believe she’s a synth or clone or something else that will allow her to make a shocking season 2 return, because I feel like they’re not done with her yet
Hell I’m definitely not😢
Yup, like she said earlier "Hypocrisy is like violence - if only the bad guys use it, then the bad guys win." So I'm sure she went ahead and used a cryo-chamber like all of Vault-Tec.
Small quibble: The Peter Principle is not "failing upward", it's the idea that in any hierarchical organization where promotion is based on merit, if you are good at your job then you will inevitably keep being promoted until they promote you into a job position that you're bad at, at which point you will stop earning new promotions and will be stuck in that job. It's called being "promoted to your level of incompetence", and it's one of the main reasons why bureaucracies (corporate or governmental) tend to suck at what they do.
Dane was supportive of Maximus throughout, saved his life, and then propped him up in the victory... Why wouldn't he trust Dane with his dream(s) and his new love? It would be kinda weird for Dane to get him in trouble after all of that.
Loved sering your reaction to this amazing and faithfull adaptation, it's great to have you back.
I love how by the end of the series both Lucy and Maximus got exactly what they both wanted in the beginning and yet neither ended up happy or satisfied.
I love how every "okey dokey" reflects Lucy's growth/adaptation each time, starting with a happy care-free "okey dokey" and ending with a very weary one. The one thing I wish they had done in the show was to bring in Ron Perlman to do the intro voice over in the first episode like he's done for every Fallout game.
Neil... Thanks for coming back in for awhile... it is always a joy. I think you'll find that no matter how long... we will always cheer to see you again. Maybe same time next year. Take care, my friend!
Not sure if you missed it or it didn't make the edit.... The brain in a jar in vault 31 was Bud. I watched with subtitles and was slightly spoiled before we saw it and it said "brain on a roomba" 😂
Man, it's not that hard to use words that don't spoil who's speaking.
@@fedos if you've seen the episode it's not a spoiler. If you haven't seen the episode why are you watching a reaction video and looking in the comments.... especially of a season finale?
@@ImBigDave79 I'm referring to how it was spoiled for you. They could have used a word/words that didn't spoil it for you.
@@fedos sorry for the misunderstanding. I've been accused of spoilers before and it was things that were literally in the video. I was overreacting and maybe a bit sensitive. Please accept my apology, I didn't mean to jump at you
@@ImBigDave79 It's OK. I only call out people spoiling future episodes or lore that shouldn't be known by the reactor yet.
Moldaver developed some of the technologies Vault Tec aquired, maybe she had some stuff stashed away somewhere ?
Phenomenonal reaction. I will say 76 has gotten SOOOO much better since it was first released. Fallout 4 is my forever favorite but 76 is really fun now too.
Love your perspective on this...
At the time Shady Sands was destroyed, the NCR would have had a population of hundreds of thousands at minimum. Even with the destruction of Shady Sands and the NCR presence around LA, this is almost certainly not the last we've seen of the faction as a whole.
I’ve loved rewatching this with you! So glad you’re back
I loved this show, very excited to next season!
1st: I LUVED this show, even though I've never played the game. It was well written, directed acted, special effects....everything was great.
But I have 2 plot issues. 1st Norm seems ready to go ahead and get in a pod. But that doesn't seem like his only option. He could threaten to open all the pods and then also destroy Bud's brain on a Roomba. What is Bud going to do to stop him? Stick him with a needle? Good Luck.
2nd issue is Vault Tecs logic. They plan to wipe the earth clean? I don't think a full scale nuclear war would destroy every human. Too many of us. It would mean the loss of billions, but not everyone. And the remainder would indeed create more factions. It's what we humans do.
That brings me to my final point. I know that some people are just straight up evil. However, a full scale nuclear would destroy much of the earth, leaving a wasteland for thousands upon thousands of years. Is Vault Tec so evil that they'd destroy the playground because they can't be in full control of it? 😮😮😮
The Robco representative we see in this episode is Mr House which was a cool touch
. . . as was his joke about losing money running a casino.
The "Mi scuzi!" man... 😎
And he seems like the only guy at the meeting not buying it all, just listening to prepare
One of the greatest season ending i've seen.
This game adaptation was an masterpiece.
Glad you reacted to this
Holy shit dude!! 10/10/97 [ed. corrected by commenter, thx].... Wow. Good call on that!!!
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@@CliffSedge-nu5fv D'OH typo. Thx. Corrected.
Just noticed the meeting room is an Easter-egg reference to the War Room from Dr Strangelove. 😉
Great show! Great Season Finale! Great reaction! Roll on Season 2!!
Really enjoyed watching this with you Neil. A very good friend who is a gamer (I'm not at all) suggested it to me so I watched it over a couple of days a while back and loved it. It was really nice learning about the lore and the games with you. Thanks!
Can report that after this show came out, the number of people who play fallout has gone up by a lot. It's really cool to see. Thanks for reacting to this show. It was really fun to see someone who knows the games reacting to all the things that come from the games.
I've enjoyed watching Neil watching Fallout .His enthusiasm and knowledge helps me understand - and become hooked on something I had little understanding or interest in previously . I'm glad the channel is back because of it . Looking forward to more Taskmaster and the next series .
Season 2 can't come soon enough. Vegas, baby!
Love the watch Neil
I think if they stick with just these three pov characters (though Thaddeus is out there too and I kind of figure he might hook up with Coop and Lucy, the show likes to keep its sense of humor and they likely want a mainly comedic actor as one of the regulars) and the locations will just be LA for Max and Norm and the desert for the pair chasing Hank and how much they will feature New Vegas. They don't want to spoil the game for those catching up, but they also were very clear that this show takes place like twenty five years after the New Vegas game. And also to cover that now very interesting time in the past between Coop meeting Hank and the bombs falling. That Janey was with Coop when the bombs fell is actually the main evidence that while Vault Tec intended to drop the bombs, someone else did it first. Which makes sense with House's theory too. And if Bud was the main face of Vault Tec, well, he is super annoying.
Thoroughly loved this series. SO glad they got picked up for season 2.
Great ride, Neil. Thanks!
Thanks for the reactions! Good to see how satisfied you are as a superfan!
I'm trying Fallout 76 at the moment and the feeling I get that it's how Elderscrolls Online is to Skyrim. A bit diluted compared to the single-player games and it being online makes it less responsive.
I tried to unsuccessfully replay Fallout 3 before that, but I just couldn't get it to launch, even after trying like 30 different online suggestions for solutions. Hopefully it works for most people, but it doesn't seem to love modern computers. Perhaps it's our modern multi-core CPUs or a temporary bug with the graphics drivers or some 3rd thing that ½ a day of trouble-shooting to get it working, didn't tell me.
Tbf there was "a little bit" of Michael Emerson throughout the series. 😂
After this series finished, for about two weeks I kept getting a little buzz of excitement thinking, "Oh great, we can watch another episode of that - what is it we're loving? - oh, it's Fallout, and we finished it. Damn." So it's been nice at least to relive it through you Neil, cheers. Loved the games 3, 3.5 and 4. (Always enjoy your Taskmasters too. The Expanse was all about S02 & S03, right? Honestly? With the necessary foundation course of S01. Anyhoo thanks.)
Moldaver worked for the company vault tech got the the crypod tech from I believe
It seems as if Bud, the overseer of 31 is failing. This would explain why the system between the 3 vaults is breaking down. We also don't know how much those in 31 knew about who else was in that vault.
It's interesting to note that in every post-apocalyptic scene that the Ghoul appears in he speaks with his fake cowboy accent. Except in the finale when he says "where's my fiucking family" to Hank, which is in his natural Cooper Howard accent.
FWIW, just started F76 after the show and it’s really pretty fun in its current state. You can play all the quests and never have to acknowledge the multiplayer components even exist (if that doesn’t interest you).
Any chance of returning to The Expanse?
As someone who played every Fallout game since the first, I finally realized that the Rob in Rob-co stood for Robert, not robot. I didn’t know it was Robert House’s company
So, you never played New Vegas? It is explained very clearly there.
Excellent series so excited for more glad you enjoyed. We got so many brilliant reveals in one episode.
Hope House is in new vegas still, pity the voice actor died.
Well, I guess it depends which Storyline Showrunner will decides to follow. Since the series happens 15 Years After New Vegas Events, and none of the endings are canon, it can go in any direction.
Hope we get to meet Strong!! and the other factions, cant wait
After watching all of this, in ep 1 you see coop scoop up his daughter and head for the hills, in ep 8 he asks, as a ghoul, where's his family? Does that mean he made it to a vault and barb admitted the daughter and not him? Cause sheeesh 🤯
War.... War never changes
My guess is that the shadowy group above the meeting was the Vault-Tec board of directors.
More likely Enclave, working in the shadows the last few years before the nukes
finale was the bomb!
You were so focused on Hank / Henry that you seemed to miss that Betty was Vault 33's Betty
Also, the sad thing about Hank bombing Shady Sands on behalf of Vault Tec is that Shady Sands was formed by members of another Vault. Vault Tec screwed Vault Tec
That seems like a rival branch to me. It has to go. 😅
But the really twisted thing is that that might actually happen depending on which vault makes it and how powerful a "competing vault" would be in comparison, because not all experiments would fit well together.
Not really, yes was formed by members of another vault but not under Vault-Tek management so...
Yes. Shady Sands had the G.E.C.K. treatment post-F1, so a Vault-Tec overseer destroyed a Vault-Tec reclaimed area.
Which makes Vault-Tec's argument about "clearing away all the factions" for Vault-Tec moot, since every surviving Vault would end up being a distinct faction.
@@alcor4670 Vault 31 was not the main management vault though, not the one Barb is in. I think only Barbs vault could talk to all the vaults and 31 can only talk to 32, 33. Hank likely knew nothing about shady sands being started by vault dwellers.
I missed that too, the first time I watched. On re-watch I hate myself for not seeing it; it seems so obvious.
What's been bugging me for a while now is this:
If the Overseer Hank destroyed Shady Sands with a nuke, does this mean that each Vault (or at least some Vaults) has to have a secret nuclear arsenal?
And the nuke that made the Shady Sands crater (shithole?) would have to be detonated underground, much like the Sedan crater in Nevada. There were cars near the lip of the crater when Lucy and Max were there, which meant that it wasn't an airburst or a surface detonation.
Edit: 11:40 I doubt this attack on the Observatory destroyed the NCR. This might be just one of the regions of the NCR since, iirc, the NCR's territory post-NV goes up as far north almost into Oregon, east into the Hoover Dam area in Nevada, and south into Baja.
Every vault most certainly doesnt have an arsenal. It would have to be only the most trusted and secure vaults. Its also possible the NCR put some gigantic nuclear power source underground that got sabotaged by VT agents to destroy the city.
@@davidmacy411 I was going to do some more research into yields and power plant outputs, but there's a chance that that might set off an alert somewhere lol.
In any case, afaik Shady Sands didn't have a nuclear plant in F1, but they might have set up one later on. Powering a medium-sized town though wouldn't need a lot of energy (and certainly would not create a crater that size if it went critical). Chernobyl's output was designed to produce energy for a *much* larger region, but the explosion was very small in comparison to the WW2 nukes.
In any case, a crater the size of Sedan (~100 kt, or 10 times the size of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) would require the energy of roughly 729 million Corvega engines, or hundreds of Vault power plants. Fuel for power plants is far less energy-dense than the material used for weapons, which is why it's highly unlikely that the crater was a sabotaged plant.
So yeah, Shady Sands was most likely destroyed by a weapon. Where that weapon came from, well...
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@@alcor4670 Agreed. Its also possible they handle them like F76 does. We just dont know... yet.
@@davidmacy411 "like 76 did" you mean, Hank becoming enclave general? :D
The NCR is much, much more than Shady Sands. It's territory stretches out east and south all the way to the Mexican Border. Don't forget the sign. Shady Sands was the "first" capital of the New Republic, meaning there are others which followed. The question hangs well where are they? What were they doing when Shady Sands fell and then was nuked? Questions for season 2 no doubt.
For the life of me, I don't understand how you choose series. Judging by your reactions, you are smart, well-read and have seen everything in your life. Your reactions to Lost and The Leftovers are simply the best. I've reviewed them several times. These series themselves are smartly written and filmed, they have an idea, they are very adult. I hope you choose something similar in level for your next reaction. Good luck to you. You're the best.
Thanks. As far as how I choose series? That's easy. I react to shows I want to see. Simple as that. :)
@@NeilTalks It's hard to argue with that ) My thought is that there are truly outstanding series that are more suitable for such a sophisticated viewer. For example, Westworld, where several ways of human development are considered and what this will lead to at the global level. Or the Hannibal series, which has an impeccable visual style, and Mads Mikkelsen's game deserves a box of Oscars and a monument during his lifetime. Or the Dexter series, about a serial killer who hunts serial killers. The idea itself is good, but it was implemented perfectly. The first season of Fargo, about the path of an ordinary man from a downtrodden insecure slug. All these series have a great plot, clever cliffhangers and there is an interesting idea behind the plot.
I thought the water chip was going to be a bigger deal, but I guess they just put it in as a nod to the original game, given that they never bring it up again.
Hey, just a bit of constructive criticism: It sounds like you have heavily added noise suppression to your audio, maybe automatically or maybe by hand, idk, but it makes your voice very difficult to make out on regular speakers.
I would drop whatever noise suppression you're using right now to a lower setting
Just watching now and I've had to turn the volume right up to actually hear what's being said. I don't remember the problem being there on the last Taskmaster video.
If you're up to date on your deeper lore, brain on a roomba and its real life counterpart says some really important words that are easy to miss.
Gives some (potential) pointers on where this is heading.
I think vault 32 is to weed out the non hackers
Maximus is a bit of an INT 3 character
But he has a decent Luck stat. He keeps getting himself into situations and keeps lucking out of them.
did you spot mr house?
Okie Dokie
Those "Okie Dokie" got more and more serious as the season went on.
Hey there Neil! Its nice to have you back! Ive been enjoying your reactions since Avatar. I am guessing we are about the same age and both olde schoole fallout fans, which I am finding is fairly rare in reaction-land.
As a fellow older generation guy, I would encourage you to be more attentive to peoples' pronouns. The character of Dain was repeatedly referred to as They, and was clearly coded as nonbinary in their depiction. Calling them Her is not accurate and considered misgendering.
Now, through your videos, I feel I've gotten to know you well enough as a person to know that you wouldn't do that intentionally. Its an easy trap for those of us who weren't raised with this kind of awareness to fall into. I just thought I might respectfully bring this to your attention.
Keep up the good work!
So many reactors say in 1x07, 'How can they possibly wrap things up in one episode?' Well this is how they make a perfect finale :D
Not sure if you watched with subtitles.... but Bud's Brain in a jar is described hilariously as 'Brain-on-a-Romba'
As far as bringing people to the games, sales have gone through the roof. I personally bought 1,2 and New Vegas, and have logged a ridiculous amount of time in New Vegas....(found Fallout 1's UI painful, so gave up on it for now) I had played alot of Fallout Shelter, so I was familiar with alot of the lore though.
As far as Moldaver, if Vaultec bought out all her companies, it can be assumed that she was still fairly wealthy, and knowing that Vaultec were war mongering and dangerous, that she might have taken precautions to survive the nuclear holocaust.
There’s a mod that lets you play through Fallout 1 in the Fallout 2 engine along with a lot of community fixes and tweaks, so it smooths over some of the interface issues. It’s pretty easy to install, worth a look.
@@RocketSurgn_ Thanks for the heads up.... I want to play the game for the sake of learning the lore, and experiencing the stories etc. Just the controls were very awkward and not intuitive in Fallout 1 imo. I don't mind older graphics etc, some of my favourite games still to play have ancient graphics, but they have good game play though.
Once again thanks.
Max gets so much hate for being the most human, it's an uncomfortable feeling...
I've played all the games (yes, including 1, 2 and 76), and the show is incredibly true to the world built in Fallout. New Vegas homers ree-ing about "lore accuracy" (as if they are the experts) aside, the show absolutely nailed the tone and feel of the Fallout world. It's going to be along two-year wait.
To my knowledge we never learn, in the games, who dropped the bombs. So to have that revealed in the show, was great!
Fallout 76 has had years of additional content. While Multiplayer in the grand scheme of things, and if you enjoy the genre of mmo’s mixed with Bethesda RPG you would enjoy it if you gave it a chance. It can be mostly played as a single person experience. This sounds weird because you’ll see other players around you, and certain events will be multiplayer focused. The main story I found to be compelling enough, and the stories they’ve added on since only built on that. One of the first group of Vault Dwellers leaving a Vault to see what happened with the world. When it launched the story was told mostly through taped and computer logs. Since then they’ve added characters. Moral of the side note is Fallout 76 is worth playing.
In the games, you get contradictory info that it was started by China or that the Enclave planned to start it (and outside, devs have made comments that it was China I think but that’s not particularly considered cannon). My personal read of the episode is that they didn’t reveal it “was” VaultTec here, just that they would have done it if needed. As a comparison, it’s suggested in Fallout 2 that the Enclave had plans to start things (and were already manipulating things toward conflict instead of peace) but were caught off guard by the escalation to nuclear launches happening before they had expected. A lot of their people were scattered and caught outside bunkers, kindof like being shown the daughter of a senior Vault Tec exec caught outside vaults at a birthday party with her dad in the show. I think it makes the most sense that we were just shown someone else willing to cause the war but never really know who pushed the button first. Who knows though, they may have decided to say VT really did it themselves and just didn’t bother to get everyone into vaults first.
@@RocketSurgn_ Makes sense thanks for another point of view.
@@RocketSurgn_ I agree. The show implies that Vault-tech dropped the bombs in 2077, but it may have been a red herring. Barb's daughter was out in the world with Coop when the bombs dropped. Would she risk her own daughter, after making clear everything she was doing was for family?
It seems like the number 1 thing to come out of this show is an army of people shitting on New Vegas fans.
Objectively the best game in the franchise, but if you liked New Vegas, well then, you're an asshole.
And it freezes up every time I try to play it. That soundtrack though...
You're missing the point.
Shitting on New Vegas *FANBOYS* . You can be a fan of the game, but some people make it to another level.
@@VORASTRA
Oh, I get it. Can't stand em. Also can't stand having to run/config/optimize 20+ mods to play a game I've purchased on 3 different platforms. I gotta hear my Marty Robbins, though.
(ed. Is funny because: I agree, but I still jump through hoops to play it in 2024)
So if Shady Sands got nuked, who ever hid Max in the fridge knew about the bomb? Or was it nuclear reactor of sort out of control meltdown?
People say: "Indiana Jones", and get distracted, forgetting that he hid and had time to hide only cause he knew..
Other version is: crater was from Great War (we saw one hitting in approx area, and 2nd crater is nowhere to be seen), explosions were conventional, connected to BoS being there.. 🤷
The possible explanation is they had some form of air raid warning system, it was enabled but he didn't know any safe place, he only saw the bridge
@@VORASTRA Yes, long range warning system would be one of explanations how people had time to react. Although, not sure if such eqiupment still exists in Fallout, possibly does. 🤷
I would say that this show has next to no redeeming qualities, just in terms of character decisions. character rationalities, and events happening, it just falls apart completely.
There's always one. Todd hater, am I right?
@@GeraldH-ln4dv yep