@@PROVOCATEURSK Oh they could, a series about a game doing references and facts about the game, nah bro, the fans prob not like it, put more gays and lesbians., they love that
She's one of the best characters in recent years and such a mentally strong and righteous young woman. Vulnerable, emotionally open, principled, loyal, resolveful etc. Ironically, it kinda seems that Bud did have the right idea when it comes to crafting a perfect society if they were able to produce people like Lucy and her brother.
In Fallout episode 3, Walton Goggins' The Ghoul dismisses Lucy's idea of what "the golden rule" is, instead claiming that Fallout's apocalypse has its own "golden rule": "Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit every goddamn time." In one sentence, the Ghoul illustrates exactly what the player experiences in a Fallout game.
Both Lucy and Maximus got what they wanted in the end. But like Wilzig said in the 2nd episode "But will you want the same things after you become a different animal altogether...
I love watching people react to Fallout who haven't played the games, it's cool to see. but at the same time, I get kinda sad when they aren't hyped seeing New Vegas at the end 😂
I've played New Vegas, but it was so long ago that my initial thought was "The hell is that, the space needle? is he in Seattle? Oh no, what happened to Seattle that its a desert now?". I am so smart, S M R T! Anyways, I think the draw for me to seeing reactions like this is seeing someone that isnt familiar with the games being able to watch and still go "This is a damn good show!". Its ended up being a great introduction to the game world so many people love for its dystopian bleakness, 50's swagger, and gallows humor. On paper, a wild combination, but is just works. Heres hoping they keep up the effort that went into this first season. So many amazing stories to be woven into that world.
And then there's me, who only knows the games by title (I work in a store that sells video games), but immediately knew that had to be New Vegas. I won't say I was hyped, but I was intrigued that they'd be going somewhere that I knew was part of the games. (Btw I did later learn that a number of locations shown also existed in the games.)
most surprising thing about this show was how EVERYTHING & everyone was developed, explored, and paid off. when we kept seeing the vault 33 story and characters after Lucy left, I was like.... wtf show, shows don't do this... by the time Thaddeus & Chicken Doc, even Dane were brought back, developed, and given intriguing setups to stick around I was like WTF SHOW WHO ARE YOU
I agree! The fact that a movie was proposed multiple times and never came together (for good reasons) left me with little hope for this series. But my god, they did it! It's not perfect, but it's still amazing and I have high hopes for S2!
@@ZeallustImmortal I just want to see DiCaprio playing Benny. Benny is almost a given seeing as he's the secondary antagonist in the game and one of the best antagonists in all of Gaming
They did the series thinking on the fan players, the gun that is not good without a scope, the minutemen music in that radio, New Vegas in the final, war war never changes. What a masterpiece.
Dane set Maximus up as the one who killed Moldaver because Max getting knighted gets him out of all the trouble he was in, his loyalty to the brotherhood and the death of knight Titus will no longer be questioned if he’s suddenly a knighted war hero.
@@magoconcancer99 well it seems in doing so it kept him on the base where he could collect Intel as opposed to being in the wastes. Also it seemed he got closer to Elder Quintus
Natalie cut it out, or her editor did, but I don't think she noticed that the secretary that introduced Hank to Cooper at Vaulttech was actually Betty.
So much plot important information was cut out of this video and the last…makes me question whether Natalie and/or the editor is just dismissing stuff they don’t immediately understand.
@@ghtrggkoI mean, there’s only so much footage you can show in a reaction before it violates copyright law, so inevitably some things have to get cut, even if they are important
there's a game called Fallout: New Vegas, which was the city at the last scene, that entry in the franchise is one of (if not) the most popular/well-reviewed games and its definetly for the fans and story development
@@Pseudo___ staying outside the game is what made this work. they start messing with lore things are going to go bad. seeing the kings would be a hoot, but getting in new vegas proper would ruin things.
I love the Dane reveal because it kinda recontextualises everything about Maximus. When you first watch the show and you suspect that did do it from that point in you view Maximus as an opportunist, someone willing to do anything to further themselves under the justification of doing it to help people and in denial of the truth. But when you watch it again knowing he was innocent you realise he’s kinda just a naive idealist who’s just trying to survive and does actually want to help people even if he’s not the best at doing so.
The Brotherhood of Steel hates anything that is considered a mutation. This includes, Ghouls, even the ones that are civilized and not feral. They also dislike self-conscious robots.
This quality of this show was such a great surprise! I went into it with an open mind, but definitely did not expect to love it as much as I did! Can't wait for season 2!
@@AngeloBarovierSD Usually the directors/creators have the biggest impact. While I thought Westworld really fell off Johnathan Nolan is still an INCREDIBLE writer. He basically wrote/co-wrote most of Christophers films
@@reedarnold4010 Lisa and Jonathan were showrunners and, in the land of series, directors are not the lead creative (unlike in film). And while I do love Jonathan’s cerebral writing, let’s not forget Lisa Joy, a multi-degreed storyteller who not only co-wrote Westworld (and penned on Pushing Daisies and Burn Notice) but she also wrote for Fallout as well. They are an incredible husband and wife duo, and I’m excited to see their careers continue.
@@AngeloBarovierSD The Burn Notice connection is perfect for a fallout series. That also had the campy cynical tone combining violence and dark comedy.
@@testfire3000 Not gonna lie, Fallout to me is what everybody was saying The Last of Us was. It is unarguably the best live-adaptation so far. Here's hoping they can nail God of War lol
I feel like Dane gave Max the credit for killing Moldaver just to keep him in the brotherhood. Since Max expressed his intent on joining Lucy in the vaults
Could be, I feel like it’s the more simple answer of Dane just using the battle’s momentum to clear Max in the eyes of the Brotherhood. The only reason I say that is because we haven’t seen that much of Dane, and what we have seen is that they’re characterized as extremely loyal to Max. Like, if they’d done a selfish, self-serving thing before I’d be inclined to believe your theory over the other. But maybe I’m wrong and that potential selfishness in regards to Maximus will be explored.
It was also possibly to save him from punishment, as a hero he is likely to be absolved of all crimes (allegedly harming Dane, letting his knight die, and trying to stiff an Elder with an incorrect head), he will be knighted now and become untouchable. It also puts him in Dane's pocket and Dane needs a friend in the Brotherhood to keep them away from the front line, Maximus could possibly get them transferred to a desk job with his new influence.
All of the vaults mentioned in the meeting are actual vaults from the Fallout games or are at least mentioned in the existing lore. They weren't made up for the series. Slight spoiler alert for the games: Overcrowded vault = Vault 27 (Fallout Bible - reference book for Fallout game developers), milk delivery robot put in charge = Vault 51 (Fallout 76), creating super-soldiers from illegal aliens = Vault 87 (Fallout 3), separating parents from children = Vault 75 (Fallout 4)
Vault 114 and 118 (Fallout 4) were also supposed to be overcrowded. 114 was sold to rich folk as a luxury vault, only to end up packed like sardines. 118 was like an old-timey ocean liner - a few rich folks lived in luxury and the rest were blue collar folk forced to live in overcrowded miserable conditions.
Vault 12 was in Bakersfield, where Cooper considered buying a ranch and a place in the vault. By design the vault door did not seal, in order to study the effects of radiation. The residents died or became ghouls. (Fallout 1)
@@Tom-fg7fz True, but the show's only mention of Bakersfield comes from a brief mention of Cooper looking at buying a ranch near Bakersfield (to which Barb replies that they need to get into one of the "good" vaults). That might be a hint that Cooper ended up in Vault 12 and was ghoulified along with the other residents, but it's not clear either way. Cooper was rather vague when Lucy asked how he became a ghoul. All he said was "something like that". Maybe we'll find out more in Season 2.
@@grumpyoldman7562I don't think that Cooper ended Up in Vault 12. He asked Hank where his Family is so my guess would be that he reached the Vault with His daughter and they rejected him but took his daughter and his wife. So maybe His Family is in Vault 31 but then he would know where they are since his daughter somehow must have gotten there and she was with him when the bombs fell
I suspect Moldaver kept Rose alive, in that room with a view of the city, so she could see the lights turn on. She even delayed turning the cold fusion on, until after dark, despite an ongoing battle. Maybe she was hoping for just one moment of recognition, in Rose's feral brain. All those years waiting, only to have Rose's own daughter kill her 5 minutes too early. We love Fallout but it hates us, and it's abusive.
Nah I think it's kinda messed up. Muldaver isn't a good person either, even if her motives were less evil than Vault Tecs. Remember she basically let in murdering Raiders into the original vault knowing not every vault dweller was evil.
I'm glad to see someone really shout out Maximus's actor because of the main 3 characters/actors (obviously the other two are also phenomenal) his performance really stood out to me and many people have overlooked it in their reactions in favor of Walter or Ella. Again those two were great too but Aaron Moten comes in as a lesser known actor to his counterparts and just knocks it out of the park.
While I can agree the actor is fine, his character, Maximus is a complete idiot. He keeps failing UPWARD. After talking to my kids who DID play the games (I did not), that apparently is a thing in Fallout - an "idiot savant" trait that can be assigned to characters.
@@stevef68 He is a complete Luck 10, Intelligence 1 skill build. I found it really funny once I realised what they were going for with his character, its very much in keeping with the games.
@@stevef68 Yes if you take the perk "idiot savant" it actually rewards you MORE often the lower your intelligence, so you will see that combination common in character designs. He clearly is one of those builds. Almost everything he says is incorrect, but still works out in his favor. That's also why I believe Thaddeus is becoming a super mutant or something, rather than a ghoul, because they are also immune to radiation and very tough, and I can't imagine Maximus being right when he said "I think you might be a ghoul"
@@fochdion1152 Hahaha, Maximus is too stupid to be correct. This is the first "proof" that Thaddeus is a super mutant, not a ghoul that I can honestly agree with.
The eyeliner you noticed was due to her being in the vault. Her hair was nice and brushed too. She was able to fix herself up a little before getting kicked out.
Nice reaction! It's funny how you described the show, with it's sudden tonal shifts, wacky humour, etc. That may have felt strange for a while without any context, but to a Fallout fan it would have felt normal from the beginning. In fact, the way you described the show is a perfect description of the game world so I guess they really nailed the Fallout tone! The writing in the show is actually better than the writing in the games TBH. When you know the ending of the show, Lucy saying the line "if my dad found out that I destroyed an entire community to save him, that'd break his heart" is actually a bit of a gut punch. Every line of dialogue is well considered, with tons of intelligent foreshadowing.
Norms other option is to sabotage the cryo-pods forcing the occupants to emerge and thereby forcing Bud to open the doors so they can go to Vaults 32 & 33 to survive. This will cause a big shake-up of the vault dwellers when they find out what has been happening.
Fallout is known for its environmental storytelling, where the player figures out what went down in an area by deciphering clues and reading notes and computer logs. The series did a good job of capturing that by not holding your hand. Just telling the story and letting you figure out what’s going on at the same time as the characters
Another way the show subverts expectations is with Norm (and Chet). Chet is *literally* the biggest person in Vault 33 and Norm is literally the smallest. In Episode 1, Chet is willing to go to the surface *right away* with Lucy whereas Norm tells Lucy straight up he's 'too chicken' (plus having hidden throughout the raider fight). Therefore the expectation is Chet is big and brave, Norm is small and cowardly. But, as the episodes progress, Norm continues to show more and more bravery whereas Chet shows more and more cowardice, ending up with Chet not going anywhere with Norm (even acknowledging he's a coward) and Norm then going into Vault 31 by himself. The way the true characters of each of them were shown in the series was a phenomenal stretch of storytelling, IMO.
All I can think of when I watch the series is that if Disney Star Wars had better writers, Maximus is what Finn should've been, and Lucy is what Rey should've been.
That last shot is of New Vegas, which is a main story location in the Fallout video game series. It’s the headquarters of Robco’s founder Robert House, one of the guys sitting in that evil Vault-Tec cabal meeting.
If you had played Fallout 4, you would have known that the blue cases in Vault 31 are Cryogenic sleeping pods. That means the people from 31 are from before the bombs and have been "sleeping" for centuries, only awakened as needed. Cooper met Hank and Betty at his wife's office in the far past.
Yeah they really nailed the tone of Fallout, the whole series is somewhere between The Boys and Heart Of Darkness which is a really unique place to be.😂
Possibly! I do think Barb and daughter were taken into a vault for upper management, probably Barb was already there, Coop knew where to go and that is where he was taking his daughter. But for reasons still to be seen, they refused him entry. That is how I see the most likely scenario. Sending him to Vault 4 is a good variation!
Can’t really be sent anywhere. When the bomb hit cooper was with his daughter so I can’t see how they would’ve got split up. But they do hint at the daughter being with barb
@@testfire3000 Idk, it seems as thought Cooper has no idea where his family is (hence the "Where the fuck is my family"). Maybe being the "good" version of himself back then, Vault-Tek came just in time to snatch her from his arms before leaving him to die, and they can build from there?
My favourite funfact that I wrote under every reaction I have watched so far is that if Lucy and Wilzig had bought the medicine from the snake oil salesman in episode 2 most of what happened would not have happened because Wilzig would not have died and thus, Lucy would not have had to cut his head off :D
@@andrewdemarco3512 Dude was attempting suicide before he noticed Thaddeus. It's not that he charges a ton, it's that Thaddeus' only thing of value was a fusion core, and the salesman wasn't about to make change for him.
@@DrLipkin Yeah, getting that fusion core from Thaddeus was probably a life changing moment for Dr. Chicken Effer. He is no longer suicidal, he is ready to go live it up at whatever city he can sell that at.
I always interpreted Moldaver keeping Lucy's mom around was because the two ended up in a relationship together after she fled Vault 33. (And that, in turn, being additional motivation for her dad nuking Shady Sands in revenge.) Then again, maybe it was just some revenge thing--who knows?
There's definitely a subtext there, but they keep it vague enough that you can read whatever you want into it. I think it's a testament to the writing that whether or not you pick up on that doesn't really affect the story, in the same way that people who haven't played the game aren't really missing anything by not picking up all the "easter eggs", because they're not really easter eggs, but just part of the world the same way they are in the games. I think the only thing I'd say to someone going into this series blind is to remind them that it is based on a video game. It's not a live action story based on a video game world and its characters, but it literally uses video game logic, which can make some things seem really odd or random.
@@wanderingidle4848 It's in a similar vein as good Christian Rock. As an atheist, Christian Rock can be very good when it's subtle enough that it could easily interpreted as being... well... not Christian. I hope they don't reveal it and it stays subtle. It's like actual Fallout games when you meet a person and they die or you come across the remains of someone with a little note next to them - their whole life story, their whole struggle, everything they had to do to survive is gone. All you know is what you were there to witness.
@@Helldog6I feel like you were on your way to making some kind of cogent point, but you lead with the premise that there’s such a thing as good Christian rock, so I can’t really take you seriously. (I’m sorry if that came off as unfairly hostile. I saw your comment right after watching the debate and am kind of just venting.)
I don't know: there is a 5yrs time difference between people of 33 (including Rose) getting out + some of them (children) going back to 33, and destruction of Shady Sands, which was supposed to be a nuke, but no adfitional crater visible (one of 4 nukes 219yrs ago dropped on approx Shady Sands area), and also since Max was hiden in the fridge, some people knew about it? (otherwise would not have time to react there close inside of primary blast radius). So, WAY MORE happened than "Rose and Hank", Moldaver just put it like that (familiy issue) so to have maximum impact on Lucy..
Everyone saying "They were in a relationship." are literally reaching. Theres no such thing as a platonic friendship between women anymore. It always has to be romantic for some reason
Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, the married couple behind Westworld, Person of Interest, and other excellent projects, can always be counted on to tell a good story with great visuals. The moment I heard they were making this adaptation I knew it would be excellent.
At the end when Hank gets to the top of the hill in the desert that's New Vegas, such a cool location in the games so I'm excited to see what the show does with it.
Hey Nat!😊 A few things I want to mention. 1st off, those capsules in Vault 31, they are Cryo-Pods just like the ones in Vault 4 where they are keeping those people that were experiments. ---Vault 31 is Bud's Buds which means they are junior executives/management trainees of Vault-Tec. Barbara, Cooper's wife, was a senior executive. That's why she was seated right next to Bud @ that meeting of corporations. I wouldn't be surprised if Barbara was the big boss' right hand woman because she glanced up @ somebody in the shadows of the observation deck before getting the meeting back on track. So, she wouldn't be in Vault 31. ---All those experiments being thrown out @ that meeting of the Corporate Heads are actual experiments that u learn about in the games.. ---Moldaver is not a ghoul. She quite possibly could have had a Cryo-Pod of her own. Unfortunately, it only holds 1& she was a leader of the New California Republic so she was saved from the blast that destroyed Shady Sands. Rose, Lucy's mom, was ghoulified by it. I think maybe Lee Moldaver & Rose were in "lesbians" together. Moldaver might have kept Rose even in that state because she couldn't let her go &/ to make Hank see what he had done. ---Something I don't think u realized when u said something like "Imagine surviving all these years & to be still loyal to Vault-Tec." Now, I don't know if u r talking about the 28yrs or so that he was living in Vault 33, or since the bombs 1st fell. Even though it has been 200yrs since the initial bomb drop, when he came out of cryo-sleep it would have been just like yesterday to him. Plus, Bud's Buds were loyal Vault-Tec employees. ---Did u realize that it was Betty that introduced Hank to Cooper? The scene wasn't shown on your RUclips reaction. ---Ok, up next, Norm. Being too smart for his own good, he is in quite a predicament. Will he get into his dad's Cryo-Pod? Will he threaten Bud's Buds to get out of 31? I can't wait to find out. ---@ the end, I felt the darkness conveyed by Lucy's last "Okey-Dokey". It's funny, I used to occasionally say "Okey-Dokey", but sometimes with "Pokey" @ the end. I got it from the old claymation TV show GUMBY. ---Love the Lucy & Ghoul team up. Ok, I've rattled on enough. I enjoyed all your reactions to the FALLOUT series.😊👍
Listening and singing along to I don't want to set the world on fire while I'm literally shooting missiles at a behemoth super mutant is the perfect amount of ironic campy grittiness that i love about the fallout franchise lol
Moldaver - Visibly orchestrates the murder of a dozen or so vault dwellers. "I don't think she's all bad..." Maximus - suspected of injuring his friend that he actually didn't injure, then lied about his name to stay alive. "Oh, Lucy, you're too trusting and he hasn't earned it, this will all go wrong" Dane - admits they did it to themselves. "Oh they're lying to protect Maximus." 🤔 Props though on giving Moldaver some credit. Because she's coded as villain, a lot of people let their internal presumption assume she was for some reason working with Lucy's dad, despite that obviously being counter factual from the start. Many people heard "communist" and said oh, evil then... despite the clear villain of the story being the war mongering vulture capitalism that destroyed the world. It's wild how much internal bias can color a viewer's perceptions of a piece.
It still bothers me that she did that by the way. I'm so confused on how this even works, it's one of the only issues I have with the show tbh. She literally infiltrated a vault with a bunch of raiders, let one of those raiders marry and have sex with some random girl (or, even worse, let the daughter of her potential lover/best friend have sex with some random murderer), and while they are eating cake and food - then allow those raiders to slaughter a random innocent people just to get Hank? But then later, when we get to her home base, she's surrounded by a bunch of NCR members? Are the raiders, NCR? Did she just use the raiders to infiltrate the Vault, and then have NCR Remnants on stand by? Isn't she a known criminal with a feared reputation? IDK if I'm just not getting it or what.
@@Helldog6 no you’re right, it’s a super confusing (lazy?) choice for set up. Especially because she met and knew Lucy as a child so now she’s cool with some random mercenary she picked up bedding and murdering her because it could expedite (really would it though?) some noble plan. I think the most charitable take is maybe that she had no idea Vault 33 and 32 would be doing an exchange (because honestly in plot how could she? The infiltration really doesn’t make sense when you look at it) but that arguably she didn’t know who the subjects would be, as it’s likely that that communication would be with Vault 31 directly. Which then begs the question, how did Vault 31 not know that one of the vaults had gone dark 2 years before? Surely the start of the uprising might have been communicated by that overseer. The whole set up kind of falls apart if we look too closely. I think NCR was always her crew, and the vault group was simply hired “outside talent” … Gunners, probably, because she knew a lot of both sides would die and she didn’t want to sacrifice NCR. Honestly though she had the pip boy to enter one vault… why not just use that to enter the target vault? She may not have known which one he was in, or may not have been looking for Hank specifically, just whatever Vault-Tec plant she could nab. Which is arguably a more manic set-up, if Moldaver always meant to only target the one vault and they just happened to all be dead when she got the door open. Like we might imagine all these hired Gunners are handed jumpsuits by her last minute and told to roll with it as a change of plans when she gets the trade request alert pop up after looking around trying to figure out what happened.
that town at the end is New Vegas / Las Vegas before the bombs dropped. It’s the primary city in Fallout New Vegas and ran my Mr. House, i highly reccomend either playing or just watching New Vegas lore before season 2 to have a greater understanding of what’s about to happen in the show. Spoiler territory: Mr. House was seen in the meeting with Bud and Barb, he was the mustache guy with the RobCo sign and is the leader of New Vegas. the city is not vault tec controlled.
WAS the leader of New Vegas. The show after the games. And I feel like the easiest way to reconcile the various game endings with the show is to have someone swoop in after the NCR-Legion war weakened the area and take over for themselves. And if Hank was headed there...
The only reason I can think of for Hank to go to New Vegas is to see Mr House because being a junior exec he probably doesn't know where the vault for the senior execs is. He probably learned that House was still alive when he went to Shady Sands and knowing House was in that special meeting he is probably hoping House knows were the senior exec vault is.
The throwaway line about separating children and parents? That's one of the vaults in fallout 4s Boston commonwealth. The vault is built under a middle school. To get in you have to walk over the bodies of the parents. In the notes you find there it's revealed one of the main antagonist factions, a marauding band of mercenaries called the gunners was founded in that very same vault. Vault tec was breeding and training perfect soldiers. They eventually revolt and take up the mission for their own benefit. You find their forces concentrated around hospitals and medical research facilities presumably looking for tools, data or other genetic samples. Bethesda had to cut most of the missions with that faction to make their launch date and it still looms in the lore due to the real depravity involved. Also, the hack and slash of the partial removal made finding the vault and solving the mystery feel really rewarding. Unintentionally the best detective story in the game. The game refuses to give you all the pieces of the puzzle because it doesn't have them itself.
in second season Norm will be saved by Betty, who sends him away from Vault 33 to find a replacement for the water chip. He will want to be accompanied by Chet and along the way two other companions will be added: Thaddeus and the chicken-loving doctor/charlatan
26:50 Yeah, that's pretty much the essence of Fallout lol. It's goofy, it's comical, but then it'll get super real about the war crimes or horrible human experimentation and starts to resemble a horror game. Then you find another vault, only to discover it's filled to the brim with guys named Gary, who are all clones of the original Gary, and have mostly devolved to only saying Gary. They have varying levels of violent and psychotic traits and behaviors, and the entire thing is rather hilarious. By the time a bunch of crazed lunatics are running down the hall with pipes and hammers yelling GARY and you're mowing them down while dying laughing, you forget how real and spooky the game can be lol.
They filmed the last "okey dokey" a few times to get the emotion right. Which is not always the case when shooting on film, but I'm glad they allowed Ella to get it right cause that last one hits hard, and each one in the series is so different!
My guess is when Coop and Barb divorced he lost his spot in the "good" vault. So where we saw him riding off to was likely wherever he can hand over his daughter so she could be safe in the vaults. I guess we can assume he went to some sort of transfer station because he clearly doesn't know where she ended up. But yeah, that's my guess on how events played out off screen.
The parts where all hell breaks loose and it starts playing old music really grasp the feel of the game. You'll be walking around, listening to the radio, suddenly shit hits the fan, and you're fighting off mutants and raiders while listening to Nat King Cole. Love that detail!
So if you didn't catch it the end credits showed the city back was going to. It's called New Vegas and there is a fallout New Vegas game. So I'm excited as well to see where this is all heading.
This series is a master class in foreshadowing. "Don't Lose Your Head!" posters in the vault. "If my dad found out I destroyed an entire community to save him...". The Snake Oil Salesman mentions foot-healing for the Enclave deserter, and he would have lived to take the cold fusion to Moldaver as a ghoul. Bud Dwyer's entire persona.
SO well written. This exceeded my wildest hopes. I admit I was a bit skeptical when they first announced it, considering the track record of game adaptations.
Can't wait for season 2. I really hope they give us more of the story of Coop riding away from the Nukes up to when he became an outlaw wasteland Ghoul. Walton Goggins is so great.
All of the hypothetical vaults that are discussed in the meeting by the other company owners are from the games. The Supermutant experiment one resulted in… well, super mutants. You’ll probably see them in coming seasons.
I like how Vault-Tec is calling all of their enemies communists and yet at the end Hank monologue sounds preety much like what communist would say. One world, one nation, one corporation to steer the world.
"One corporation" is the opposite of the goals of communism. Communism strives for no corporations and for the people themselves to own and control the means of production. Vault-Tec's and Hank's goal is a corporatocracy.
@@ThinkerT no no, the OP is right. You're quoting what they SAY, and of course that's great marketing. But the top decision makers are always the actual rulers. If you think because you collectively own the means of production you can go decide to fly one of the expensive jets to take a spontaneous vacation, because, after all, you own it... you will find you cannot. But the top communist leaders can do exactly that. Because really they are the executive board of one single corporation with a monopoly so EVERYONE is forced to function as one of their employees.
@damiankretowicz6038, As a non-gamer, my interest in the series is as an alternate history exercise, and I find the depiction of how uber-capitalism would manifest itself into a fantastic future for itself is pretty unrealistic, if not ludicrous.
The back and forth between incredibly dark (apocalypse, etc) and silly dumb humor (50s shtick!) is 100% a reflection of the original games, and they did SUCH a good job bringing those same vibes to the show. I love when actual fans of the original property work on an adaptation (Jackson's LotR, Feige's Marvel, The Boys, Fallout, etc) because they respect what made the original WORK, and ensure that the same magic is in the adaptation.
This show did a great job of matching great characterizations and drama (and great acting) with dystopian horror laced with mad science, and spiced with a healthy dollop of savagely well-done satirical humor. Additionally, the retro-futurist vibe of the whole thing, in which the surface optimism and trust in traditional hierarchies of 1950s America -- underpinned as it was by the sort of paranoia that drove McCarthyism and other horrific abuses of civil liberties -- results in the catastrophic destruction of all that humanity had accomplished. I found myself surprised and quite delighted, and look forward to Season 2. 😀
I’m so glad that you came around to the tone of the show and the IP as a whole. The tone is so specific, but as a whole it works so well. They really captured the tone of the game, especially from FO3 onward. Sorry to use the term “tone” so much, but it was the reason I think they nailed the thing that works so well about the game as a show crossover. Great acting, great execution of special effects, great overall tone. I was super worried because of my investment in the games, and they nailed it.
Fallout is my favorite series of games ever so I was almost as worried as I was excited when I heard they were making this, but thankfully I had nothing to worry about, lol. Great show, great casting, great writing, and somehow they even actually manage to make it feel like Fallout. Can't wait for the second season. Great video, great reaction, great job Nat. Lol. Keep it up and we'll keep watching. 😉
Absolutely phenomenal first season to this show, with a finale that made everything come together incredibly well. Can't wait for season 2, where we will hopefully get not only Deathclaws but Super Mutants as well, and an exploration of New Vegas and Mr. House!
When they were in Vault 4 and talking about creating genetically engineered radiation resistant humans I assumed it was Supermutants. I guess I have to wait until next season for our big green buddies.
@@christopherconard2831 Yeah, that was my first thought too, but they also talk about them in ep 8, and how they would want a vault where they could create super mutant soldiers using illegal immigrants. Seems more in line with established lore, so maybe we'll get an exploration of that and the FEV in the next season.
I honestly feel like the way everything revealed and the whole back and forth between characters when it was revealing was heavily inspired by Westworld season 1 specially the finale. How everything just came together at end…
Yes, they nailed the tone of Fallout perfectly in this series. Each game has a different balance between grittiness, social commentary, camp, and dark humor, but the elements of each are all there. On sound design specifically, that is straight from the games. Fallout 3, New Vegas, and 4 have in-game radio stations with that kind of music in the series (many songs are straight from the game soundtracks). The sound effects also matched the games perfectly. The town shown at the end is New Vegas, home of Robert House and setting of the game Fallout: New Vegas. House is the RobCo CEO you saw in the Vault-Tec HQ meeting scene in the finale.
I agree on all your score points, but I think for me, I'd have an additional category as "Rewatchability" which is actually where I'd deduct points. It's an amazing show, and 10/10, but I don't see myself watching it again anytime soon~
23:00 and 26:00 - Cooper gets him and his daughter to the Wife's vault which I will assume is in LA near where the birthday party was. Which I am sure is "one of the Good ones" I suspect that they either tricked Cooper out of the vault or they forced him out.
That city at the end of season 1 is New Vegas. It was also one of the Fallout games. Nat, you need to play New Vegas when you get a chance to understand more of what’s to come in season 2. Someone here said Mr. House is the antagonist of New Vegas. I’d rather say, he’s probably the best character the Fallout universe has to offer. He can actually help humanity rebuild with his technological knowledge and know-how. Fallout is very good at dividing what faction the player, or audience, likes the most.
The series for me is the best of the year so far. Lots of year to go but if it retains the spot it will be two years in a row my favorite tv series was a video game adaption - something I would have never believed possible at one point.
Natalie, one very funny bit is all those ideas getting spit balled around at 16:45 are ACTUAL vaults from the games and those were the ACTUAL "test" run on them. Super messed up and there are so many worse tests that didnt get pitched in that scene that came to fruition in the games.
Hopefully in season two we continue to see more of Coop’s past. Really wanna see more of the early days of the apocalypse. Who knows? Maybe by season 3 or 4 he interacts with some other characters or factions.
Lucy saying her dad wouldn't like her sacrificing an entire community to save him is just beautiful writing.
Little does she know….
Dad would’ve been proud.
He sacrificed an entire community to save her... and it broke her heart.
@@HighlordFrancis Dude certainly knows a thing or two about "destroying a community" for sure
@@fochdion1152 ill fix that for you.. "save her"
The code, 101097, is the release date for the first Fallout game.
damn i didnt even see that!
Wow, so marvelous, how did they think of that? Stop with these boring facts.
@@PROVOCATEURSKwOW sO mARvELoUs hOw dID thEY tHinK Of tHaT SToP wITh thEsE boRInG faCtS
@@PROVOCATEURSK no need to be a Karen
@@PROVOCATEURSK Oh they could, a series about a game doing references and facts about the game, nah bro, the fans prob not like it, put more gays and lesbians., they love that
That last “okey dokey” gave me chills. The music, the cold tone in her voice. Badass.
Her first "okey dokey" of the series as maximum okey.
By the end of the season finale, there was no more okey left in her dokey.
"Okey Dokey" meets "Well, SHEEEIT"
Woman and badass don't go together gay.
@@user-ayush818 This isn't Twitter mate. You don't get paid for having brain-dead takes on extremely simple shit.
She's one of the best characters in recent years and such a mentally strong and righteous young woman. Vulnerable, emotionally open, principled, loyal, resolveful etc. Ironically, it kinda seems that Bud did have the right idea when it comes to crafting a perfect society if they were able to produce people like Lucy and her brother.
In Fallout episode 3, Walton Goggins' The Ghoul dismisses Lucy's idea of what "the golden rule" is, instead claiming that Fallout's apocalypse has its own "golden rule": "Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit every goddamn time."
In one sentence, the Ghoul illustrates exactly what the player experiences in a Fallout game.
Along with “when in doubt! Shotguns the answer!”
The real tragedy of the finale, is both Lucy and Maximus got what they wanted from the first episode, but not in the way they wanted.
“Be careful what you wish for.”
What was it that Lucy wanted? To rescue her father?
@@DevyanshBahri
To rescue her father and go home. But her father turned out to not be a good man.
Both Lucy and Maximus got what they wanted in the end. But like Wilzig said in the 2nd episode "But will you want the same things after you become a different animal altogether...
I love watching people react to Fallout who haven't played the games, it's cool to see. but at the same time, I get kinda sad when they aren't hyped seeing New Vegas at the end 😂
I've played New Vegas, but it was so long ago that my initial thought was "The hell is that, the space needle? is he in Seattle? Oh no, what happened to Seattle that its a desert now?". I am so smart, S M R T! Anyways, I think the draw for me to seeing reactions like this is seeing someone that isnt familiar with the games being able to watch and still go "This is a damn good show!". Its ended up being a great introduction to the game world so many people love for its dystopian bleakness, 50's swagger, and gallows humor. On paper, a wild combination, but is just works. Heres hoping they keep up the effort that went into this first season. So many amazing stories to be woven into that world.
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Ikr? Like, the music builds there for a reason people!
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And then there's me, who only knows the games by title (I work in a store that sells video games), but immediately knew that had to be New Vegas. I won't say I was hyped, but I was intrigued that they'd be going somewhere that I knew was part of the games.
(Btw I did later learn that a number of locations shown also existed in the games.)
most surprising thing about this show was how EVERYTHING & everyone was developed, explored, and paid off.
when we kept seeing the vault 33 story and characters after Lucy left, I was like.... wtf show, shows don't do this...
by the time Thaddeus & Chicken Doc, even Dane were brought back, developed, and given intriguing setups to stick around I was like WTF SHOW WHO ARE YOU
I agree! The fact that a movie was proposed multiple times and never came together (for good reasons) left me with little hope for this series. But my god, they did it! It's not perfect, but it's still amazing and I have high hopes for S2!
I wouldnt say everything is paid off yet, but a lot was. They left us reasons to want season 2 lol
@@ZeallustImmortal I just want to see DiCaprio playing Benny.
Benny is almost a given seeing as he's the secondary antagonist in the game and one of the best antagonists in all of Gaming
@@tobiasa9071 Hes dead.
@@ZeallustImmortalto be clear, DiCaprio isn’t dead. Benny’s original voice actor Matthew Perry is dead.
They did the series thinking on the fan players, the gun that is not good without a scope, the minutemen music in that radio, New Vegas in the final, war war never changes. What a masterpiece.
The line "We all are cowards; thats why we live in vaults!" hits so hard!
Dane set Maximus up as the one who killed Moldaver because Max getting knighted gets him out of all the trouble he was in, his loyalty to the brotherhood and the death of knight Titus will no longer be questioned if he’s suddenly a knighted war hero.
Yep. Dane really is Max's ride or die and is always doing what they can to look out for him.
Dane is also setting themselves up as Max's right hand. Personally I still wonder if Dane is a spy/plant, possibly for the Enclave.
@@nathandc I dont think a spy would hurt himself to not go in a mission about get what exactly the enclave was looking for.
@@magoconcancer99 well it seems in doing so it kept him on the base where he could collect Intel as opposed to being in the wastes. Also it seemed he got closer to Elder Quintus
It was the least she could do after putting him in the situation in the first place.
Natalie cut it out, or her editor did, but I don't think she noticed that the secretary that introduced Hank to Cooper at Vaulttech was actually Betty.
I didn't even notice that and I've seen it like 3 times haha
I didn't notice it till my second watch.
@@spidahnw Well, I mean, he clearly calls her Betty.
So much plot important information was cut out of this video and the last…makes me question whether Natalie and/or the editor is just dismissing stuff they don’t immediately understand.
@@ghtrggkoI mean, there’s only so much footage you can show in a reaction before it violates copyright law, so inevitably some things have to get cut, even if they are important
there's a game called Fallout: New Vegas, which was the city at the last scene, that entry in the franchise is one of (if not) the most popular/well-reviewed games and its definetly for the fans and story development
if they have a Vegas season made with the same love as S1... Fallout will be our nerd show
Seeing the deathclaw skull laying there... Season 2 is going to be great. Lol.
TV show is 15 years after the New Vegas game so who knows what going on there now due to different game choices that could have been made
@@Pseudo___I figure either the house ending or Elijah's ending is canon
@@Pseudo___ staying outside the game is what made this work. they start messing with lore things are going to go bad. seeing the kings would be a hoot, but getting in new vegas proper would ruin things.
I love the Dane reveal because it kinda recontextualises everything about Maximus.
When you first watch the show and you suspect that did do it from that point in you view Maximus as an opportunist, someone willing to do anything to further themselves under the justification of doing it to help people and in denial of the truth.
But when you watch it again knowing he was innocent you realise he’s kinda just a naive idealist who’s just trying to survive and does actually want to help people even if he’s not the best at doing so.
Not a test tube. Cryo- freezer!
In a Vault-Tec vault, they are one and the same...
*fridge
The Brotherhood of Steel hates anything that is considered a mutation. This includes, Ghouls, even the ones that are civilized and not feral. They also dislike self-conscious robots.
This quality of this show was such a great surprise! I went into it with an open mind, but definitely did not expect to love it as much as I did! Can't wait for season 2!
Same
I’m just gonna start to assume that if Ella Purnell is starring in a video game adaptation, then it’s a good adaptation. She’s two for two so far!
@@AngeloBarovierSD Usually the directors/creators have the biggest impact. While I thought Westworld really fell off Johnathan Nolan is still an INCREDIBLE writer. He basically wrote/co-wrote most of Christophers films
@@reedarnold4010 Lisa and Jonathan were showrunners and, in the land of series, directors are not the lead creative (unlike in film). And while I do love Jonathan’s cerebral writing, let’s not forget Lisa Joy, a multi-degreed storyteller who not only co-wrote Westworld (and penned on Pushing Daisies and Burn Notice) but she also wrote for Fallout as well.
They are an incredible husband and wife duo, and I’m excited to see their careers continue.
@@AngeloBarovierSD The Burn Notice connection is perfect for a fallout series. That also had the campy cynical tone combining violence and dark comedy.
This will go down as one of the best video game to live action adaptations ever
This will be the measuring stick for all such adaptations for YEARS to come. "Oh it was good but it was no Fallout".
@@testfire3000 Not gonna lie, Fallout to me is what everybody was saying The Last of Us was.
It is unarguably the best live-adaptation so far. Here's hoping they can nail God of War lol
I feel like Dane gave Max the credit for killing Moldaver just to keep him in the brotherhood. Since Max expressed his intent on joining Lucy in the vaults
Could be, I feel like it’s the more simple answer of Dane just using the battle’s momentum to clear Max in the eyes of the Brotherhood. The only reason I say that is because we haven’t seen that much of Dane, and what we have seen is that they’re characterized as extremely loyal to Max. Like, if they’d done a selfish, self-serving thing before I’d be inclined to believe your theory over the other.
But maybe I’m wrong and that potential selfishness in regards to Maximus will be explored.
It was also possibly to save him from punishment, as a hero he is likely to be absolved of all crimes (allegedly harming Dane, letting his knight die, and trying to stiff an Elder with an incorrect head), he will be knighted now and become untouchable. It also puts him in Dane's pocket and Dane needs a friend in the Brotherhood to keep them away from the front line, Maximus could possibly get them transferred to a desk job with his new influence.
3:18 Whichever writer or actor came up with this little part of slowly sawing through the restraints receives my eternal gratitude ♥🙂
All of the vaults mentioned in the meeting are actual vaults from the Fallout games or are at least mentioned in the existing lore. They weren't made up for the series. Slight spoiler alert for the games: Overcrowded vault = Vault 27 (Fallout Bible - reference book for Fallout game developers), milk delivery robot put in charge = Vault 51 (Fallout 76), creating super-soldiers from illegal aliens = Vault 87 (Fallout 3), separating parents from children = Vault 75 (Fallout 4)
Vault 114 and 118 (Fallout 4) were also supposed to be overcrowded. 114 was sold to rich folk as a luxury vault, only to end up packed like sardines. 118 was like an old-timey ocean liner - a few rich folks lived in luxury and the rest were blue collar folk forced to live in overcrowded miserable conditions.
Vault 12 was in Bakersfield, where Cooper considered buying a ranch and a place in the vault.
By design the vault door did not seal, in order to study the effects of radiation.
The residents died or became ghouls.
(Fallout 1)
@@Tom-fg7fz True, but the show's only mention of Bakersfield comes from a brief mention of Cooper looking at buying a ranch near Bakersfield (to which Barb replies that they need to get into one of the "good" vaults). That might be a hint that Cooper ended up in Vault 12 and was ghoulified along with the other residents, but it's not clear either way. Cooper was rather vague when Lucy asked how he became a ghoul. All he said was "something like that". Maybe we'll find out more in Season 2.
@@grumpyoldman7562I don't think that Cooper ended Up in Vault 12. He asked Hank where his Family is so my guess would be that he reached the Vault with His daughter and they rejected him but took his daughter and his wife. So maybe His Family is in Vault 31 but then he would know where they are since his daughter somehow must have gotten there and she was with him when the bombs fell
I suspect Moldaver kept Rose alive, in that room with a view of the city, so she could see the lights turn on. She even delayed turning the cold fusion on, until after dark, despite an ongoing battle. Maybe she was hoping for just one moment of recognition, in Rose's feral brain. All those years waiting, only to have Rose's own daughter kill her 5 minutes too early. We love Fallout but it hates us, and it's abusive.
I think it's implied that rose and moldiver were sweet for each other.
That sounds about right.
Moldaver likely kept Rose alive for the same reasons people don't euthanize their loved ones with dementia.
@@ragtimeraver People with dementia don't eat people, or have super human strength.
Nah I think it's kinda messed up. Muldaver isn't a good person either, even if her motives were less evil than Vault Tecs. Remember she basically let in murdering Raiders into the original vault knowing not every vault dweller was evil.
I'm glad to see someone really shout out Maximus's actor because of the main 3 characters/actors (obviously the other two are also phenomenal) his performance really stood out to me and many people have overlooked it in their reactions in favor of Walter or Ella. Again those two were great too but Aaron Moten comes in as a lesser known actor to his counterparts and just knocks it out of the park.
While I can agree the actor is fine, his character, Maximus is a complete idiot. He keeps failing UPWARD. After talking to my kids who DID play the games (I did not), that apparently is a thing in Fallout - an "idiot savant" trait that can be assigned to characters.
@@stevef68 He is a complete Luck 10, Intelligence 1 skill build. I found it really funny once I realised what they were going for with his character, its very much in keeping with the games.
@@stevef68 Yes if you take the perk "idiot savant" it actually rewards you MORE often the lower your intelligence, so you will see that combination common in character designs. He clearly is one of those builds. Almost everything he says is incorrect, but still works out in his favor. That's also why I believe Thaddeus is becoming a super mutant or something, rather than a ghoul, because they are also immune to radiation and very tough, and I can't imagine Maximus being right when he said "I think you might be a ghoul"
@@fochdion1152 Hahaha, Maximus is too stupid to be correct. This is the first "proof" that Thaddeus is a super mutant, not a ghoul that I can honestly agree with.
@@testfire3000 I mean it's a harsh take but I think there's something to it... 😁
The eyeliner you noticed was due to her being in the vault. Her hair was nice and brushed too.
She was able to fix herself up a little before getting kicked out.
Oh man, rewatching this, that exchange between Lucy and Max, "Find me!" "I will!" has so much more meaning.
Nice reaction! It's funny how you described the show, with it's sudden tonal shifts, wacky humour, etc. That may have felt strange for a while without any context, but to a Fallout fan it would have felt normal from the beginning. In fact, the way you described the show is a perfect description of the game world so I guess they really nailed the Fallout tone!
The writing in the show is actually better than the writing in the games TBH. When you know the ending of the show, Lucy saying the line "if my dad found out that I destroyed an entire community to save him, that'd break his heart" is actually a bit of a gut punch. Every line of dialogue is well considered, with tons of intelligent foreshadowing.
Norms other option is to sabotage the cryo-pods forcing the occupants to emerge and thereby forcing Bud to open the doors so they can go to Vaults 32 & 33 to survive. This will cause a big shake-up of the vault dwellers when they find out what has been happening.
@@spanners7343 I hope this happens!
24:10 I saw some comment on this scene.
They called it the fifth stage of the The Five Stages of Okie Dokie.
Fallout is known for its environmental storytelling, where the player figures out what went down in an area by deciphering clues and reading notes and computer logs. The series did a good job of capturing that by not holding your hand. Just telling the story and letting you figure out what’s going on at the same time as the characters
"I suck without a scope" - me in the game lol
And if you still suck after getting a scope: "This scope sucks." 😉👍
@@michaelhoward142 lol basically
@@michaelhoward142that’s why I use a shotgun 👍
Another way the show subverts expectations is with Norm (and Chet). Chet is *literally* the biggest person in Vault 33 and Norm is literally the smallest. In Episode 1, Chet is willing to go to the surface *right away* with Lucy whereas Norm tells Lucy straight up he's 'too chicken' (plus having hidden throughout the raider fight). Therefore the expectation is Chet is big and brave, Norm is small and cowardly.
But, as the episodes progress, Norm continues to show more and more bravery whereas Chet shows more and more cowardice, ending up with Chet not going anywhere with Norm (even acknowledging he's a coward) and Norm then going into Vault 31 by himself. The way the true characters of each of them were shown in the series was a phenomenal stretch of storytelling, IMO.
All I can think of when I watch the series is that if Disney Star Wars had better writers, Maximus is what Finn should've been, and Lucy is what Rey should've been.
Now that would be a set of movies worth watching!
Good observation, aye.
They struggled too
@@daurydavis3983 It's a matter of personality. Max and Lucy each have one.
@@krbkrbkrbkrbkrb if you think rey and finn don't have personalities than you are delusional
That last shot is of New Vegas, which is a main story location in the Fallout video game series. It’s the headquarters of Robco’s founder Robert House, one of the guys sitting in that evil Vault-Tec cabal meeting.
If you had played Fallout 4, you would have known that the blue cases in Vault 31 are Cryogenic sleeping pods. That means the people from 31 are from before the bombs and have been "sleeping" for centuries, only awakened as needed. Cooper met Hank and Betty at his wife's office in the far past.
The first 2 games in particularly are filled to the brim with dark sarcastic humor. So it fits very well with the show.
thank you nat. and your hubby. I do appreciate how you eventually decide the rating, AKA sound design, production value, acting and writing.
Yeah they really nailed the tone of Fallout, the whole series is somewhere between The Boys and Heart Of Darkness which is a really unique place to be.😂
It was just about the bounty till he saw moldavers picture when he was arrested by the gub mint.
The City at the end is New Vegas, from the game Fallout Vegas. It is run by one of the evil executives from before the war.
@markkringle9144, Mr. House, as seen in the meeting.
I think Barb and their daughter went to a "good" vault while Cooper got sent to Vault 4 and was one of the first test subjects of the "ghoul serum."
Possibly! I do think Barb and daughter were taken into a vault for upper management, probably Barb was already there, Coop knew where to go and that is where he was taking his daughter. But for reasons still to be seen, they refused him entry. That is how I see the most likely scenario. Sending him to Vault 4 is a good variation!
Can’t really be sent anywhere. When the bomb hit cooper was with his daughter so I can’t see how they would’ve got split up. But they do hint at the daughter being with barb
@@testfire3000 Idk, it seems as thought Cooper has no idea where his family is (hence the "Where the fuck is my family"). Maybe being the "good" version of himself back then, Vault-Tek came just in time to snatch her from his arms before leaving him to die, and they can build from there?
Theres no such thing as a ''ghoul serum".
My favourite funfact that I wrote under every reaction I have watched so far is that if Lucy and Wilzig had bought the medicine from the snake oil salesman in episode 2 most of what happened would not have happened because Wilzig would not have died and thus, Lucy would not have had to cut his head off :D
but then we wouldn't have the two heads kissing with Lucy and Maximus 😔
But then he'd be a ghoul. Besides, they had no money to pay him. Sounds like he charges hundreds of caps if he considered a fusion core a fair trade
@@andrewdemarco3512 Dude was attempting suicide before he noticed Thaddeus. It's not that he charges a ton, it's that Thaddeus' only thing of value was a fusion core, and the salesman wasn't about to make change for him.
@@DrLipkin Yeah, getting that fusion core from Thaddeus was probably a life changing moment for Dr. Chicken Effer. He is no longer suicidal, he is ready to go live it up at whatever city he can sell that at.
@@testfire3000 Probably blow the lot on coke and chickens.
I always interpreted Moldaver keeping Lucy's mom around was because the two ended up in a relationship together after she fled Vault 33. (And that, in turn, being additional motivation for her dad nuking Shady Sands in revenge.) Then again, maybe it was just some revenge thing--who knows?
There's definitely a subtext there, but they keep it vague enough that you can read whatever you want into it.
I think it's a testament to the writing that whether or not you pick up on that doesn't really affect the story, in the same way that people who haven't played the game aren't really missing anything by not picking up all the "easter eggs", because they're not really easter eggs, but just part of the world the same way they are in the games.
I think the only thing I'd say to someone going into this series blind is to remind them that it is based on a video game. It's not a live action story based on a video game world and its characters, but it literally uses video game logic, which can make some things seem really odd or random.
@@wanderingidle4848 It's in a similar vein as good Christian Rock. As an atheist, Christian Rock can be very good when it's subtle enough that it could easily interpreted as being... well... not Christian. I hope they don't reveal it and it stays subtle. It's like actual Fallout games when you meet a person and they die or you come across the remains of someone with a little note next to them - their whole life story, their whole struggle, everything they had to do to survive is gone. All you know is what you were there to witness.
@@Helldog6I feel like you were on your way to making some kind of cogent point, but you lead with the premise that there’s such a thing as good Christian rock, so I can’t really take you seriously.
(I’m sorry if that came off as unfairly hostile. I saw your comment right after watching the debate and am kind of just venting.)
I don't know: there is a 5yrs time difference between people of 33 (including Rose) getting out + some of them (children) going back to 33, and destruction of Shady Sands, which was supposed to be a nuke, but no adfitional crater visible (one of 4 nukes 219yrs ago dropped on approx Shady Sands area), and also since Max was hiden in the fridge, some people knew about it? (otherwise would not have time to react there close inside of primary blast radius). So, WAY MORE happened than "Rose and Hank", Moldaver just put it like that (familiy issue) so to have maximum impact on Lucy..
Everyone saying "They were in a relationship." are literally reaching. Theres no such thing as a platonic friendship between women anymore. It always has to be romantic for some reason
I have watched a ton of these reactions and this breakdown at the end is my favorite!
Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, the married couple behind Westworld, Person of Interest, and other excellent projects, can always be counted on to tell a good story with great visuals. The moment I heard they were making this adaptation I knew it would be excellent.
25:43 Vegas is ran by Robert Edwin House you saw him in the meeting. antagonist from Fallout New Vegas game
You misspelled protagonist. Now go fetch more snowglobes.
@@rinscher9420 You misspelled rotting corpse. Yes Man is the true messiah
House is the future.
@@smellycat57 No gods. No Masters...
The House always wins
At the end when Hank gets to the top of the hill in the desert that's New Vegas, such a cool location in the games so I'm excited to see what the show does with it.
Hey Nat!😊 A few things I want to mention. 1st off, those capsules in Vault 31, they are Cryo-Pods just like the ones in Vault 4 where they are keeping those people that were experiments.
---Vault 31 is Bud's Buds which means they are junior executives/management trainees of Vault-Tec. Barbara, Cooper's wife, was a senior executive. That's why she was seated right next to Bud @ that meeting of corporations. I wouldn't be surprised if Barbara was the big boss' right hand woman because she glanced up @ somebody in the shadows of the observation deck before getting the meeting back on track. So, she wouldn't be in Vault 31.
---All those experiments being thrown out @ that meeting of the Corporate Heads are actual experiments that u learn about in the games..
---Moldaver is not a ghoul. She quite possibly could have had a Cryo-Pod of her own. Unfortunately, it only holds 1& she was a leader of the New California Republic so she was saved from the blast that destroyed Shady Sands. Rose, Lucy's mom, was ghoulified by it. I think maybe Lee Moldaver & Rose were in "lesbians" together. Moldaver might have kept Rose even in that state because she couldn't let her go &/ to make Hank see what he had done.
---Something I don't think u realized when u said something like "Imagine surviving all these years & to be still loyal to Vault-Tec." Now, I don't know if u r talking about the 28yrs or so that he was living in Vault 33, or since the bombs 1st fell. Even though it has been 200yrs since the initial bomb drop, when he came out of cryo-sleep it would have been just like yesterday to him. Plus, Bud's Buds were loyal Vault-Tec employees.
---Did u realize that it was Betty that introduced Hank to Cooper? The scene wasn't shown on your RUclips reaction.
---Ok, up next, Norm. Being too smart for his own good, he is in quite a predicament. Will he get into his dad's Cryo-Pod? Will he threaten Bud's Buds to get out of 31? I can't wait to find out.
---@ the end, I felt the darkness conveyed by Lucy's last "Okey-Dokey". It's funny, I used to occasionally say "Okey-Dokey", but sometimes with "Pokey" @ the end. I got it from the old claymation TV show GUMBY.
---Love the Lucy & Ghoul team up.
Ok, I've rattled on enough. I enjoyed all your reactions to the FALLOUT series.😊👍
Listening and singing along to I don't want to set the world on fire while I'm literally shooting missiles at a behemoth super mutant is the perfect amount of ironic campy grittiness that i love about the fallout franchise lol
Moldaver - Visibly orchestrates the murder of a dozen or so vault dwellers. "I don't think she's all bad..."
Maximus - suspected of injuring his friend that he actually didn't injure, then lied about his name to stay alive. "Oh, Lucy, you're too trusting and he hasn't earned it, this will all go wrong"
Dane - admits they did it to themselves. "Oh they're lying to protect Maximus."
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Props though on giving Moldaver some credit. Because she's coded as villain, a lot of people let their internal presumption assume she was for some reason working with Lucy's dad, despite that obviously being counter factual from the start. Many people heard "communist" and said oh, evil then... despite the clear villain of the story being the war mongering vulture capitalism that destroyed the world. It's wild how much internal bias can color a viewer's perceptions of a piece.
Maxi rarely gets his due😢
It still bothers me that she did that by the way. I'm so confused on how this even works, it's one of the only issues I have with the show tbh.
She literally infiltrated a vault with a bunch of raiders, let one of those raiders marry and have sex with some random girl (or, even worse, let the daughter of her potential lover/best friend have sex with some random murderer), and while they are eating cake and food - then allow those raiders to slaughter a random innocent people just to get Hank?
But then later, when we get to her home base, she's surrounded by a bunch of NCR members? Are the raiders, NCR? Did she just use the raiders to infiltrate the Vault, and then have NCR Remnants on stand by? Isn't she a known criminal with a feared reputation?
IDK if I'm just not getting it or what.
@@Helldog6 no you’re right, it’s a super confusing (lazy?) choice for set up.
Especially because she met and knew Lucy as a child so now she’s cool with some random mercenary she picked up bedding and murdering her because it could expedite (really would it though?) some noble plan.
I think the most charitable take is maybe that she had no idea Vault 33 and 32 would be doing an exchange (because honestly in plot how could she? The infiltration really doesn’t make sense when you look at it) but that arguably she didn’t know who the subjects would be, as it’s likely that that communication would be with Vault 31 directly. Which then begs the question, how did Vault 31 not know that one of the vaults had gone dark 2 years before? Surely the start of the uprising might have been communicated by that overseer. The whole set up kind of falls apart if we look too closely.
I think NCR was always her crew, and the vault group was simply hired “outside talent” … Gunners, probably, because she knew a lot of both sides would die and she didn’t want to sacrifice NCR. Honestly though she had the pip boy to enter one vault… why not just use that to enter the target vault? She may not have known which one he was in, or may not have been looking for Hank specifically, just whatever Vault-Tec plant she could nab. Which is arguably a more manic set-up, if Moldaver always meant to only target the one vault and they just happened to all be dead when she got the door open. Like we might imagine all these hired Gunners are handed jumpsuits by her last minute and told to roll with it as a change of plans when she gets the trade request alert pop up after looking around trying to figure out what happened.
@@Helldog6 Moldaver hired the raiders as a distraction, that's why she abandoned them to be captured by the Vault residents
it's great to watch show that respects fandom and lore and still creates new lore.
“No requests,” just the best.
that town at the end is New Vegas / Las Vegas before the bombs dropped. It’s the primary city in Fallout New Vegas and ran my Mr. House, i highly reccomend either playing or just watching New Vegas lore before season 2 to have a greater understanding of what’s about to happen in the show.
Spoiler territory: Mr. House was seen in the meeting with Bud and Barb, he was the mustache guy with the RobCo sign and is the leader of New Vegas. the city is not vault tec controlled.
WAS the leader of New Vegas. The show after the games. And I feel like the easiest way to reconcile the various game endings with the show is to have someone swoop in after the NCR-Legion war weakened the area and take over for themselves. And if Hank was headed there...
@@Ziergon since they showed Mr. House in the show, i feel like we’re going to see him again cant been without no reason
The only reason I can think of for Hank to go to New Vegas is to see Mr House because being a junior exec he probably doesn't know where the vault for the senior execs is. He probably learned that House was still alive when he went to Shady Sands and knowing House was in that special meeting he is probably hoping House knows were the senior exec vault is.
The throwaway line about separating children and parents? That's one of the vaults in fallout 4s Boston commonwealth. The vault is built under a middle school. To get in you have to walk over the bodies of the parents.
In the notes you find there it's revealed one of the main antagonist factions, a marauding band of mercenaries called the gunners was founded in that very same vault.
Vault tec was breeding and training perfect soldiers. They eventually revolt and take up the mission for their own benefit. You find their forces concentrated around hospitals and medical research facilities presumably looking for tools, data or other genetic samples.
Bethesda had to cut most of the missions with that faction to make their launch date and it still looms in the lore due to the real depravity involved. Also, the hack and slash of the partial removal made finding the vault and solving the mystery feel really rewarding. Unintentionally the best detective story in the game. The game refuses to give you all the pieces of the puzzle because it doesn't have them itself.
ALL of the Vault ideas brought up in that meeting are actually from the games.
in second season Norm will be saved by Betty, who sends him away from Vault 33 to find a replacement for the water chip.
He will want to be accompanied by Chet and along the way two other companions will be added: Thaddeus and the chicken-loving doctor/charlatan
That sounds more like a spin-off series. lol
26:50 Yeah, that's pretty much the essence of Fallout lol. It's goofy, it's comical, but then it'll get super real about the war crimes or horrible human experimentation and starts to resemble a horror game. Then you find another vault, only to discover it's filled to the brim with guys named Gary, who are all clones of the original Gary, and have mostly devolved to only saying Gary. They have varying levels of violent and psychotic traits and behaviors, and the entire thing is rather hilarious. By the time a bunch of crazed lunatics are running down the hall with pipes and hammers yelling GARY and you're mowing them down while dying laughing, you forget how real and spooky the game can be lol.
They filmed the last "okey dokey" a few times to get the emotion right. Which is not always the case when shooting on film, but I'm glad they allowed Ella to get it right cause that last one hits hard, and each one in the series is so different!
Cool reation and commentary! This series was surprisingly great! Totally agree with your rating. The music was awesomely retro and cleverly used.
My guess is when Coop and Barb divorced he lost his spot in the "good" vault. So where we saw him riding off to was likely wherever he can hand over his daughter so she could be safe in the vaults. I guess we can assume he went to some sort of transfer station because he clearly doesn't know where she ended up. But yeah, that's my guess on how events played out off screen.
i get why Hank bombed Shady Sands, President Kimball probably tried to make him pay taxes.
(fallout new vegas reference for any who don’t know)
And I bet neither Vault-tec the corp nor any of its high ranking employees paid a cent in taxes their entire life!
"Fuck the NCR!"
He gave the Troops the Nuclear Winter they kept wishing for lmao
@@sosaboi1352 patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter
Understandable.
The parts where all hell breaks loose and it starts playing old music really grasp the feel of the game. You'll be walking around, listening to the radio, suddenly shit hits the fan, and you're fighting off mutants and raiders while listening to Nat King Cole. Love that detail!
So if you didn't catch it the end credits showed the city back was going to. It's called New Vegas and there is a fallout New Vegas game. So I'm excited as well to see where this is all heading.
For someone who loves the game and lore, this whole show was a huge treat.
Not to mention the way Coops demeanor toward Lucy changed.
That Shot of New Vegas at the last scene though gave me chills of excitement
This series is a master class in foreshadowing. "Don't Lose Your Head!" posters in the vault. "If my dad found out I destroyed an entire community to save him...". The Snake Oil Salesman mentions foot-healing for the Enclave deserter, and he would have lived to take the cold fusion to Moldaver as a ghoul. Bud Dwyer's entire persona.
SO well written. This exceeded my wildest hopes. I admit I was a bit skeptical when they first announced it, considering the track record of game adaptations.
Can't wait for season 2. I really hope they give us more of the story of Coop riding away from the Nukes up to when he became an outlaw wasteland Ghoul. Walton Goggins is so great.
25:31 its still so beautiful to witness the majesty that is this city, Viva New Vegas
"Test tube" the term is cryogenically frozen, which was in some of the Fallout games.
All of the hypothetical vaults that are discussed in the meeting by the other company owners are from the games. The Supermutant experiment one resulted in… well, super mutants. You’ll probably see them in coming seasons.
21:55 One of the few reactors to call that Lucy (if anyone) was at fault for Hank’s release.
100% agree 8 to 10 episodes is perfect, I always prefer to be left wanting more than wanting it it be over already
very happy you enjoyed this series so far 🎉
I like how Vault-Tec is calling all of their enemies communists and yet at the end Hank monologue sounds preety much like what communist would say. One world, one nation, one corporation to steer the world.
"One corporation" is the opposite of the goals of communism. Communism strives for no corporations and for the people themselves to own and control the means of production. Vault-Tec's and Hank's goal is a corporatocracy.
@@ThinkerT no no, the OP is right. You're quoting what they SAY, and of course that's great marketing. But the top decision makers are always the actual rulers. If you think because you collectively own the means of production you can go decide to fly one of the expensive jets to take a spontaneous vacation, because, after all, you own it... you will find you cannot. But the top communist leaders can do exactly that. Because really they are the executive board of one single corporation with a monopoly so EVERYONE is forced to function as one of their employees.
@damiankretowicz6038, As a non-gamer, my interest in the series is as an alternate history exercise, and I find the depiction of how uber-capitalism would manifest itself into a fantastic future for itself is pretty unrealistic, if not ludicrous.
The back and forth between incredibly dark (apocalypse, etc) and silly dumb humor (50s shtick!) is 100% a reflection of the original games, and they did SUCH a good job bringing those same vibes to the show. I love when actual fans of the original property work on an adaptation (Jackson's LotR, Feige's Marvel, The Boys, Fallout, etc) because they respect what made the original WORK, and ensure that the same magic is in the adaptation.
This show did a great job of matching great characterizations and drama (and great acting) with dystopian horror laced with mad science, and spiced with a healthy dollop of savagely well-done satirical humor.
Additionally, the retro-futurist vibe of the whole thing, in which the surface optimism and trust in traditional hierarchies of 1950s America -- underpinned as it was by the sort of paranoia that drove McCarthyism and other horrific abuses of civil liberties -- results in the catastrophic destruction of all that humanity had accomplished.
I found myself surprised and quite delighted, and look forward to Season 2. 😀
I’m so glad that you came around to the tone of the show and the IP as a whole. The tone is so specific, but as a whole it works so well. They really captured the tone of the game, especially from FO3 onward. Sorry to use the term “tone” so much, but it was the reason I think they nailed the thing that works so well about the game as a show crossover. Great acting, great execution of special effects, great overall tone. I was super worried because of my investment in the games, and they nailed it.
Fallout is my favorite series of games ever so I was almost as worried as I was excited when I heard they were making this, but thankfully I had nothing to worry about, lol. Great show, great casting, great writing, and somehow they even actually manage to make it feel like Fallout. Can't wait for the second season. Great video, great reaction, great job Nat. Lol. Keep it up and we'll keep watching. 😉
15:56 no those are cryogenic chambers. That's why Hank isn't dead after 200 years of being cryosleep.
I'm surprised more reactors don't get that. I feel like cryo tubes (or something similar like a stasis pod) are pretty ubiquitous in scifi
I love the "okey dokies" Each time it's different.
I cannot express how hype I felt when I saw New Vegas.
Absolutely phenomenal first season to this show, with a finale that made everything come together incredibly well. Can't wait for season 2, where we will hopefully get not only Deathclaws but Super Mutants as well, and an exploration of New Vegas and Mr. House!
When they were in Vault 4 and talking about creating genetically engineered radiation resistant humans I assumed it was Supermutants.
I guess I have to wait until next season for our big green buddies.
@@christopherconard2831 Yeah, that was my first thought too, but they also talk about them in ep 8, and how they would want a vault where they could create super mutant soldiers using illegal immigrants. Seems more in line with established lore, so maybe we'll get an exploration of that and the FEV in the next season.
There is something so sweet about this series.
She's called Lucy 🤣
I honestly feel like the way everything revealed and the whole back and forth between characters when it was revealing was heavily inspired by Westworld season 1 specially the finale. How everything just came together at end…
Or Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan simply have a (successful) style they prefer. These violent delights have violent ends.
Yes, they nailed the tone of Fallout perfectly in this series. Each game has a different balance between grittiness, social commentary, camp, and dark humor, but the elements of each are all there.
On sound design specifically, that is straight from the games. Fallout 3, New Vegas, and 4 have in-game radio stations with that kind of music in the series (many songs are straight from the game soundtracks). The sound effects also matched the games perfectly.
The town shown at the end is New Vegas, home of Robert House and setting of the game Fallout: New Vegas. House is the RobCo CEO you saw in the Vault-Tec HQ meeting scene in the finale.
Had a blast discovering this show with you Nat 😊
I think much of the music was from the pip boy radio that's in game. I'll be a just a little disappointed if we don't get "Big Iron" in season 2. :)
I agree on all your score points, but I think for me, I'd have an additional category as "Rewatchability" which is actually where I'd deduct points. It's an amazing show, and 10/10, but I don't see myself watching it again anytime soon~
All of the different vaults they talk about in the “dark meeting scene” are actual vaults that have been in of the games.
Watched Braveheart for the first time yesterday. One of those classic rare films everyone should see once. Worth checking out! 😁
All the ideas mentioned in the meeting are vaults that are either mentioned or are able to be explored in the games.
23:00 and 26:00 - Cooper gets him and his daughter to the Wife's vault which I will assume is in LA near where the birthday party was. Which I am sure is "one of the Good ones" I suspect that they either tricked Cooper out of the vault or they forced him out.
My favorite subtle gag is how Bud's brain robot is just called "Brain on a Roomba" in the subtitles. lmao
That city in the end is New Vegas, city of Mr.House and directly involved in the games! Still wondering how they’ll decide to show the city 🧐
Loved your reaction for every plot "bomb" dropped.
That city at the end of season 1 is New Vegas. It was also one of the Fallout games. Nat, you need to play New Vegas when you get a chance to understand more of what’s to come in season 2. Someone here said Mr. House is the antagonist of New Vegas. I’d rather say, he’s probably the best character the Fallout universe has to offer. He can actually help humanity rebuild with his technological knowledge and know-how. Fallout is very good at dividing what faction the player, or audience, likes the most.
I appreciate you and thank you for making content.
The series for me is the best of the year so far. Lots of year to go but if it retains the spot it will be two years in a row my favorite tv series was a video game adaption - something I would have never believed possible at one point.
at this point i'm pretty convinced that the residents of vault 4 are in fact, all Canadian!
Natalie, one very funny bit is all those ideas getting spit balled around at 16:45 are ACTUAL vaults from the games and those were the ACTUAL "test" run on them. Super messed up and there are so many worse tests that didnt get pitched in that scene that came to fruition in the games.
I like when you raise your voice 😂 it’s funny and it makes me laugh 😂
Hopefully in season two we continue to see more of Coop’s past. Really wanna see more of the early days of the apocalypse. Who knows? Maybe by season 3 or 4 he interacts with some other characters or factions.