@@IfThenCreatesorry. Never seen your content before this vid. Didn't know that vague joke was a problem, but I removed it. The rest we already know since we've seen the man he was and the man he is now
Quick correction: A stimpack cannot replace a missing limb. It can heal one that's severely damaged but not missing. It just seems that because of the artwork used for the vault boy animation (the limb is still on your character it just has 0 to little hp). The ghoul looks the way he does because if you notice when they dug him up he had 2 bags of RadAway being run through an IV onto hos casket (thats what the guy who got shot with the junk cannon was doing , watching over his "grave" and probably monitoring the IV)
I loved that scene this episode when the brotherhood are making the picture of the scientist. The recruit sitting there filling in dots on a piece of graph paper and receiving the coordinates for the dots over the radio, I thought that was such a fun touch and a great way to characterize the brotherhood of steel as this group that utilizes prewar technology but also doesn’t really understand how to use it.
I want to thank you for the (so far) weekly recaps! I think that this show should be digested at a slower rate to fully enjoy and understand the elements of each episode. I’m going to be watching the 3rd episode this Friday and hope to hear your recap and thoughts on it next week! Having you to listen to and “go on the journey” with me is really fun especially when everyone I know has completed it and I have to warn them about spoilers.
there was definitely a suggestive undertone to the codpiece thing & the way titus manhandled maximus on the vertibird. i'd even go so far as to say that the level to which the squires are expected to submit to their knights had a sexual undertone in general. having to call a knight your "lord" and having his brand on your neck, kind of feels like you're property at that point. pretty scary honestly. i wouldn't want to be a woman squire. (or a man squire, or any gender squire really.) thanks for another awesome recap, loved hearing your thoughts!
Hard agree. The sexual undertone of the powerplay gave Titus' interactions such an uncomfortable, cruel, and exploitative vibe. Squires are absolutely the property of their Knights, to the point of being disposable, and both squires and knights are the property of the brotherhood, equally disposable, and Titus' resentment before death was such a delicious way to show that. It's trauma and dehumanisation all the way down.
I haven't considered the "main quest logic" thing and now it makes so much sense! Loved the show, not just the best game adaptation, it it's a whole new way of adapting a game. PS: I think the leg of the doctor thing is a "main character logic" thing. Stimpaks are the magic potion for the main characters.
The show definitely operates on game logic. Max getting stuck in the boardwalk, despite being in power armor and could otherwise easily get out of it, is a nod to a game glitch. The reason, i think, for the diaper man close ups is a reference for the weird camera shots you can get into during dialouge in-game. For example, i was recently playing with Cait and was doing The Big Dig quest, and when bobby no-nose opens the door to her hideout to admit us, my chacter got trapped behind the door. Cait decided that was a perfect moment to chat with me, so everytime the camera panned to me, it appeared to be a door cait was talking to rather than my character.
on the west coast NCR soldiers are often abbreviated as "Bears" at least in New Vegas. Titus calling the Yao Guai a Bear is indicative of a fan theory that I quite agree with.
The Ghoul is obviously lvl 75, at least. Possible perks maxed out: Gun Nut, Repair, Tough Guy, Cannibal (?), Terrifying Presence, Gunslinger (duh), All the perks that has to do with rads, of course (probably got them for free), Rifleman, Grim Reaper's Sprint, Action Boy...
a level dependant on intelligence would take roughly a few hours, so 200 years of exp gain would probably put him somewhere near lvl 50K idk I'm just spitballing.
I love watching your builds, I often use them as my background sounds when I’m working on a project. However, I really love your fallout theories and your covering the show. I’m a total fallout nerd. Lastly, your hair is lovely today!
OMG thank you. I couldn't place the actor that played Knight Titus but I recognized him from somewhere. I think Max let Titus die because he was disillusioned when Titus ran away from the bear instead of killing it. He was looking up to the knight until he saw that he was a coward? And yes, Max + Lucy felt like a real thing.
I initially typed a short comment and have been coming back to edit and add thoughts as I watch your video, apologies for the wall of text. 😅 I love your take on the main quest feeling, it's what really delighted me about this episode and one of many things that hooked me. It made the whole thing *feel* like Fallout, the same way the ghoul, the vault dweller, the dog, Lucy's name being Lucy (apparently one of the more common Fallout character names, my first was named Lucy 😂) all directly link back to the games without specifically *being* the games. It's like they managed to get the essence of the Fallout games without bringing their individual plots along, and the main quest vibes tied all that together. I love that they didn't try to make the show feel like it wasn't based on a game and instead embraced that it's a game, and brought the feeling of playing a game to watching the show. It changed how I watched it. It changed how I looked for hints in the story. I think it was really, really cleverly done. Have to say though, animal cruelty is the biggest Nope for me in any media and I struggled so hard to get through those early dog scenes. Maximus is such a complicated character that I find very difficult to watch. He can be selfish, and petty, and mean, but I like that they make it clear a lot of his behaviour is conditioning from the brotherhood, and Knight Titus is proof of that. Behind all the pomp and armour and religion, it's a lot of people being awful to each other and justifying it with dogma. A toaster is evil but power armour and miniguns aren't? Whose interests are they actually serving? To what end? What does it do to a boy's soul to be caught up in all that, and then to be presented with the opportunity to both play Knight and potentially escape, and does he actually want either of these things? Maximus is grating, for me, but damn do I love his character. I also find it interesting that you seem to be reading him as very innocent, which in some ways I think he is, but for me I read him as a little Nice Guy, too. Like there's potential for that white knight behaviour to turn very sour, especially since he's so impulsive. His scenes in the early episodes made me very nervous. I saw him as a man who should not have power (not healing Titus), being given a lot of power (suit), and thinking that he's the good guy. Re: Maximus and Lucy chemistry, I feel like they're both playing to what they've been told to want. He sees her as little pretty damsel in distress, and she sees him as the hero coming in to save the day, when the reality is both of them are neither. I really enjoyed that they were making googly eyes at each other when they're making such snap judgements and basing their attractions on that, which tbh is perfect characterisation again. They're both naive and it's a great way to illustrate that. I did a lot of yelling at the screen. I also think it was an interesting (maybe unintentional?) way to show forced intimacy in different ways. I consider what Titus did with the codpiece to verge on SA, or at the very least SH, and it was a power-play. One of the other commenters here (@inthebeam6231) commented on the same thing, saying it suggested that squires are expected to be submissive to their knights in more ways than one, and I agree with them. There was sexual tension but it was the bad kind of sexual tension, the "I can make you do what I want, and I want you to know that" nonconsensual kind. When that was followed up with the googly eyes with Lucy, it kinda drove home that Maximus really does not have a good grasp on connection, safety, or intimacy, simply because the brotherhood never taught him that. I'm really excited to watch more of your recaps and see how you feel about the show as it progresses. I binge-watched it over two nights so obvs I know what happens, and I'm trying not to spoil it at all, but I'm really enjoying your thoughts and look forward to hearing more of them.
OMG I have the same problem with reading romance on screen and had the same thoughts lol. I thought this was a really good episode. I'm loving all the characters, I think the casting is great. I especially loved the scenes with the doctor and Lucy, and everyone is talking about the ghoul being attractive but Maximus is HOT.
One thing I love about your videos is how natural you are. So many channels, and no knock to them, have to heavily edit for pacing. So, it made me happy to see you post about E2. It was a really violent episode but, formulaically it makes sense. There’s so much to introduce the 3 main narratives have to merge. Action drives them together. Shows I’ve watched fail in the production phase tended to have complex ambitions, and drag things out too far. The Philly meeting was so fabulous, every department has to work in lockstep to achieve a scene like that. I loved Titus’s conflict, mostly because it’s revealed that the Knight is Michael Rapaport who is insufferable irl. Titus letting him croak extended my patience with him, also made me realize he’s written as an arrested development and bought some sympathy. So can’t wait for your part 4. Remain amazing. 🎉
4:41 Going back to DogMeat being a synth, maybe he wasn’t tracking him from the cigar scent but rather maybe he’s tracking the scent of the the institute that could be all over Kellog considering he’s surrounded by synths
I'm glad you noticed the initial claustrophobia of the power armor! The only thing that makes it bearable is once you're in it & moving, how powerful & protected it makes you feel (at risk of going to your head) I too wish we saw more greenery, in New Vegas the mountains around Jacobstown have evergreens with leaves, & even 76 which is earlier in the timeline has more foliage than even 4 does; & before 76 came out 4 was the colorful Fallout! In New Vegas, the NCR logo features a 2-headed version of the Californian bear, & wastelands refer to NCR as "the bear", so clearly the term is familiar to them The Ghoul was a beast in that fight & I guess he's a higher leveled player at this point lol Stimpack effectively seems to be based on severity of the wound, missing limbs are a no go; & before Fallout 4 crippled limbs needed a Doctor's Bag item to uncripple them. The dog does seem to be a (cute!) walking plot device tho I wholeheartedly agree with your take on the nature of people, societies, & those "Minutemen Values"!
The scene with Titus and Maximus felt like pure disrespect and just Titus looking down on someone below him in the hierarchy to me lol. The scene with Lucy was definitely romantic in nature to me. It feels like Lucy has been fed this perfect view of marriage and love that she is looking for it more than the normal person maybe would. She has also grown up with the concept of marrying strangers being normal so it might not be that weird i guess
So many things... First, a video about your Soul Survivor synth theory is something I never knew I needed, but now I NEED it! Titus handing Maximus the codpiece seemed like typical guy being a jerk to someone lesser (like, clean THIS you peon or something). That showed the power dynamic and how miserable Max was (because of how miserable Titus was), which also sets Max up for letting Titus die piling on to the disappointment of how the Brotherhood is nothing like he thought it was as a kid. I thought it was a yao guai for sure. All I could come up with is maybe they changed it to bear for the non-Fallout playing audience? Finally, the Lucy and Max moment definitely felt romantic to me. It seemed to me they were both surprised to find someone else that isn't just a selfish jerk and that made them potentially interested. Thanks again for sharing your observations!
Actually the Enclave is pretty technologically advanced. All those helicopters the Brotherhood has were taken from the Enclave after beating them. According to Fallout 4, the Prydwyn was partly made from captured Enclave tech.
I took out the batteries when I started filming videos in my room 😅 I hated how it jumped around in edited clips. I’ll have to move it to a less visible wall!
Love your video style and how you’re talking about the episodes 😊 I really wishes that Max had a crush on his knight 😁 but I think its meant to humiliate him, sadly
At first I wasn't a fan of the power armor helmets making their voices deeper (since in FO4 it just adds an intercom effect without changing pitch). But I guess it's necessary for the plot of Maximus pretending to be Titus. And it does add more intimidation factor.
Okay so no spoilers, more of a theory slash question. The stimpacks, don't they just hyper stimulate the muscles, tendons, and connecting tissue to heal the are at an accelerated level? Its not a cure all but it's a pain management and healing tool kind of thing. Also I thought the dog was like part muntant, sinth, and organic being kind of thing. An experiment that failed according to enclave standards but succeeded at least from the doctors point of view. Thats why he saved him.?
The Sole survivor couldn’t be a Synth. The writer Emil, confirmed on Twitter that Nate is in the Intro of fallout 1, with America annexing Canada. However, I’ve had a theory with no evidence that Father isn’t actually Shaun.
I don’t doubt that pre-war Nate and Nora were real people, my theory is the sole survivor was replaced with a synth in the vault. What’s your Father/Shaun theory 👀
It's a ridiculous theory created by Bethesda to keep the discussion going. The problem is, if you were a synth then the institute would know and would would never have been leading at all. Especially since Shaun is the leader and your son. Another problem is when the BOS get the institute data, they find out Danse is a synth and want him dead. So if you were one, they'd be after you as well. Where does this come from? Far Harbor DLC. DiMA a synth is a known liar if you played the game. He is manipulating you into thinking you are a synth. Just as he did to Kasumi. We know Kasumi isn't a synth as she has no synth component if you kill her. DiMA is a manipulator and if you find his memories, you know he isn't a good person. Don't trust DiMA. Another thing, you were frozen in vault 111, you came out of that vault. Nate/Nora your spouse is dead and still there, so if this was all a dream, then it does explain you waking out of cryo pod. You also see the other residents who entered the vault with you there all in pods. If you look at the pods, yours says remote override as Shaun said he released you from the pod. While your spouse says manual override because that's when Kellogg came. It also mentions Shaun being there. So if this is all fake, then what is the point in Kellogg being there and calling you the backup? Your spouse would have to be a synth too but evidence is they were shot and their body is frozen. By the way Emil is not a good writer and that thing he said about Nate being the guy committing war crimes in Canada being Nate is something he retracted after criticism because he gets the timeline wrong. Nate was out of the military in 2074. The annexation of Canada was complete in 2077 when that propaganda was shown of soldiers in T51 power armour killing a Canadian. The one laughing that Emil claims is Nate is just so bad because he is saying Nate is evil by default. That's why he retracted his statement because he forgot that people know the lore better than him. Also this synth thing was a Bethesda thing. Original Fallout creator Tim Cain said he never wanted terminator style robots in Fallout and said he was surprised to see them in Fallout 4 because they already made a decision not to have them back when they made Fallout 1. So now we have people questioning who is and isn't a synth and it's lead to ridiculous theories like this. You can pretty much say all characters are synths now because of this.
@@IfThenCreateAhhh, I get what you mean now. In all honesty, I’ve never been convinced that he is actually Shaun. I don’t know why, just never brought it. It seems too convenient for Shaun. It’s also not the first time he’s had the whole institute contribute to a lie. In the case of synth Shaun, if you side with the institute in the end. The whole institute knows he’s a synth, but has to contribute the lie that he is a real human. So I believe it could all just like father said “an experiment”. To give you benefit of the doubt, I think the story is more interesting if we actually did turn out to be a synth.
I'm looking forward to your videos about later episodes; the lore! With the Doctor, my favorite thing he said to Lucy was about not having a fire in the dark. Like, that seems pretty survival 101 and really illustrated how out of her debth she was. While I do think the actors playing Lucy and Maximus did play up the almost disney like meet-cute, you are not alone with your thoughts about Titus and Maximus. My wife, two of my friends, and i all picked up on that. It was almost like Lucy/Max was romance while Titus/Max was sexual (and toxic). And while The Ghoul isn't as sinewy, I think that's just bc the higher up still wanted The Ghoul to look with Walter Goggins. Boring, but probably true. Filly was totally Dimond City!
i think the stimpacks just kinda stop bleeding in the show. so they stop you from dying from the wounds but don't actually heal the wounds. with the dog, maybe her fur just hid the bullet hole and it wasn't actually healed idk.
I think the cigar trail Kellogg left behind is implied to have been there since you first arrived in Diamond City or at least while you were finding Nick in 114.
back to what you said about Kellogg not being there in years: I thought that he was running around recently because he was with synth shaun? or am i mistaken. sorry for the fo4 question lol. loving this content about the show!
You’re right! It just depends on how recently you think that is. Since Nick was comfortable breaking into the abandoned house in Diamond City, I always assume it’s been empty for at least a few months
I would LOVE to hear your theories of the Sole Survivor being a synth. I’ve also had my speculations but I feel like my theories are always getting debunked😅 I would love to hear your opinion on it!
I know you are a Psychology major and maybe I shouldn't say what I'm about to say given said knowledge, but... oh, well XD I don't believe Cooper is "bad", he just does what he has to do. And that goes for most characters in that Universe, EXCEPT for The Master (FO1), Tenpenny and the owners of Paradise Falls (FO3), Elijah (FNV/Dead Money DLC), Caesar (FNV), the Enclave, Vault-Tec and the Institute as a whole (although there's a handful of former Enclave members who deserves some forgiveness and all of them make an appearance in NV lol) In our universe I'm already a "The ends justify the means" kind of person, specially when it comes to progress (although at the same I think mankind as a whole should be vaulted from the planet and we should give it back to Mother Nature, but thats not here nor there) and... uh... I dunno exactly how to phrase this in English, but I have a very flexible vision of moral and ethics cuz both are more of a cultural matter than anything else, specially if you consider that most of what we've learned as being "right" or "wrong" on this side of the globe came from the Catholic Church and I do have my personal issues with them (and any other monotheist religion tbh), while for most (if not all) people in the East most of what we do and think are morally disgusting, and don't make me start on Middle East But getting back on the track here. The Wasteland has its own rules, its own laws, both natural and man-made, so... yeah. It's a whole different setup
@@IfThenCreate you've taught me something new because I thought he eas s German shepherd in fallout 4 but i guess people gaslit me into thinking that was still a blue heeler. Thanks!
I disagree with the concept of the Sole Survivor as a synth in Fallout 4. I do appreciate the drama that is brought about by DiMA with the proposal of such a thing, but I prefer to be human. To each, his or her own. I would disagree with the assertion that Dogmeat is a synth. And there are other dogs that are not irradiated, or mad, since you can buy dogs and you can trap them. I could accept that some dogs escaped from captivity by the enclave, or the institute, or other organization, and successfully repopulated. I do agree with you about trees. I think they would have returned to life after 219 years. I don’t think the doctor is two hundred years old. I suspect he is enough of a nerd that he has read the prewar history pertaining to science and what science may have proposed. I think he said “two ton irradiated bear”, if I recall it correctly. This would be known as a Yao Gai, well to a Fallout player, but not to someone who is unfamiliar with the franchise. As far as moral. Well, you are a psychology major, but Maximus has a certain sense of putting the BoS on a pedestal. Also, his first duty is to protect the Brotherhood, the second to his knight. He could conceivably believe that Titus is a disgrace to the Brotherhood, and that the Brotherhood would be better without that Titus. Also, his reason for joining the Brotherhood of Steel, was to hurt the people who hurt him. As far as the Ghoul, I don’t think he is unkillable. I think he just has a whole lot of levels from 200+ years of adventuring in the wasteland. He also was described in the episode “The End” as a legend. I know as a high level character I shrug off a lot of hits. I also would not say that he is not Chaotic evil. He does not seem to do things just to hurt other people. On the same note, he does not do things to help people either. He is very self-oriented. I like the gore & comedy mixture. Stim packs, at least as far as the game happens, seems to be limited. A human is a bit more complicated than a dog. Also, a human outweighs a dog. On the Ghoul helping the dog, CX404 always follows his master, the doctor. The Ghoul is using the dog as a tracker. The other thing is the doctor knows a lot. One assumes that the doctor did his research on the area he was traveling to, and I think the Enclave had some contact with Vault-Tec. There is also the possibility that he hacked Lucy’s Pip-Boy while she was sleeping, before she woke up. After all, she had taken it off. The Minutemen are a Commonwealth thing. The values may be there, but I think most of the people are just trying to make it by.
Named by descendants of those held in Chinese internment camps before the Great War, yao guai are mutated American black bears.*Stolen from the Fallout Wiki
Ok, you said you don't have much experience with the Enclave... Even though they were a HUGE part of Fallout 3... Anyway. The Enclave is remnants of a faction of the US government from before the war... They had their hands in the military AND industry, so they had ALL the tech. They developed there own power armor and Vertibirds ...
But is it spoiling talking about things that aren't in the show? Nobody seems to know how to answer this question. You keep mentioning the Vault-tec.Assisted.Targeting.System Even for the scene you're talking about it's just a cowboy western deadeye cliche. For the scene you are talking about with the doctor's leg being "blown off". First:New Vegas has doctor's bags for individual limbs. Second: in the Fallout games if you lose a limb technically you should be dead. Oh I see how it is "Enclaves Evil".. Pretty rude but okay.
“I want Hancock. I want a man who is falling apart.” 😂 10/10
I mean... The Ghoul is falling apart. Maybe not physically lol
@@alphastormeex9468 Hey, that’s a spoiler. Please edit your comment, or I will delete it.
@@IfThenCreatesorry. Never seen your content before this vid. Didn't know that vague joke was a problem, but I removed it. The rest we already know since we've seen the man he was and the man he is now
Quick correction: A stimpack cannot replace a missing limb. It can heal one that's severely damaged but not missing. It just seems that because of the artwork used for the vault boy animation (the limb is still on your character it just has 0 to little hp).
The ghoul looks the way he does because if you notice when they dug him up he had 2 bags of RadAway being run through an IV onto hos casket (thats what the guy who got shot with the junk cannon was doing , watching over his "grave" and probably monitoring the IV)
I loved that scene this episode when the brotherhood are making the picture of the scientist. The recruit sitting there filling in dots on a piece of graph paper and receiving the coordinates for the dots over the radio, I thought that was such a fun touch and a great way to characterize the brotherhood of steel as this group that utilizes prewar technology but also doesn’t really understand how to use it.
Same!! Absolutely loved that!
I want to thank you for the (so far) weekly recaps! I think that this show should be digested at a slower rate to fully enjoy and understand the elements of each episode. I’m going to be watching the 3rd episode this Friday and hope to hear your recap and thoughts on it next week! Having you to listen to and “go on the journey” with me is really fun especially when everyone I know has completed it and I have to warn them about spoilers.
Thank you!! I’m so glad I’m not the only one trying to space them out!
there was definitely a suggestive undertone to the codpiece thing & the way titus manhandled maximus on the vertibird. i'd even go so far as to say that the level to which the squires are expected to submit to their knights had a sexual undertone in general. having to call a knight your "lord" and having his brand on your neck, kind of feels like you're property at that point. pretty scary honestly. i wouldn't want to be a woman squire. (or a man squire, or any gender squire really.) thanks for another awesome recap, loved hearing your thoughts!
THANK YOU FOR VALIDATING ME I knew there were some undertones there!!
Hard agree. The sexual undertone of the powerplay gave Titus' interactions such an uncomfortable, cruel, and exploitative vibe. Squires are absolutely the property of their Knights, to the point of being disposable, and both squires and knights are the property of the brotherhood, equally disposable, and Titus' resentment before death was such a delicious way to show that. It's trauma and dehumanisation all the way down.
I read it that way too. Knight Titus was giving some strong "power daddy" vibes.
I haven't considered the "main quest logic" thing and now it makes so much sense! Loved the show, not just the best game adaptation, it it's a whole new way of adapting a game.
PS: I think the leg of the doctor thing is a "main character logic" thing. Stimpaks are the magic potion for the main characters.
Oooo I think you’re right
The show definitely operates on game logic. Max getting stuck in the boardwalk, despite being in power armor and could otherwise easily get out of it, is a nod to a game glitch.
The reason, i think, for the diaper man close ups is a reference for the weird camera shots you can get into during dialouge in-game. For example, i was recently playing with Cait and was doing The Big Dig quest, and when bobby no-nose opens the door to her hideout to admit us, my chacter got trapped behind the door. Cait decided that was a perfect moment to chat with me, so everytime the camera panned to me, it appeared to be a door cait was talking to rather than my character.
on the west coast NCR soldiers are often abbreviated as "Bears" at least in New Vegas. Titus calling the Yao Guai a Bear is indicative of a fan theory that I quite agree with.
RE: The Ghoul being hard to kill - imagine what level he'll be after 200+ years. 🙂
The Ghoul is obviously lvl 75, at least. Possible perks maxed out: Gun Nut, Repair, Tough Guy, Cannibal (?), Terrifying Presence, Gunslinger (duh), All the perks that has to do with rads, of course (probably got them for free), Rifleman, Grim Reaper's Sprint, Action Boy...
a level dependant on intelligence would take roughly a few hours, so 200 years of exp gain would probably put him somewhere near lvl 50K idk I'm just spitballing.
@@beardedgeek973Bloody Mess lol
I love watching your builds, I often use them as my background sounds when I’m working on a project. However, I really love your fallout theories and your covering the show. I’m a total fallout nerd. Lastly, your hair is lovely today!
Thank you so much!!
Thank you for your review. You're wonderful to watch, you're great at what you do.
Even the most evil people have soft spots. I felt bad for him that he had to hide his friend. It was a humanizing moment
OMG thank you. I couldn't place the actor that played Knight Titus but I recognized him from somewhere. I think Max let Titus die because he was disillusioned when Titus ran away from the bear instead of killing it. He was looking up to the knight until he saw that he was a coward? And yes, Max + Lucy felt like a real thing.
Kinght Titus (The actor - can't remember his name) is the dad from Atypical
I initially typed a short comment and have been coming back to edit and add thoughts as I watch your video, apologies for the wall of text. 😅
I love your take on the main quest feeling, it's what really delighted me about this episode and one of many things that hooked me. It made the whole thing *feel* like Fallout, the same way the ghoul, the vault dweller, the dog, Lucy's name being Lucy (apparently one of the more common Fallout character names, my first was named Lucy 😂) all directly link back to the games without specifically *being* the games. It's like they managed to get the essence of the Fallout games without bringing their individual plots along, and the main quest vibes tied all that together. I love that they didn't try to make the show feel like it wasn't based on a game and instead embraced that it's a game, and brought the feeling of playing a game to watching the show. It changed how I watched it. It changed how I looked for hints in the story.
I think it was really, really cleverly done.
Have to say though, animal cruelty is the biggest Nope for me in any media and I struggled so hard to get through those early dog scenes.
Maximus is such a complicated character that I find very difficult to watch. He can be selfish, and petty, and mean, but I like that they make it clear a lot of his behaviour is conditioning from the brotherhood, and Knight Titus is proof of that. Behind all the pomp and armour and religion, it's a lot of people being awful to each other and justifying it with dogma. A toaster is evil but power armour and miniguns aren't? Whose interests are they actually serving? To what end? What does it do to a boy's soul to be caught up in all that, and then to be presented with the opportunity to both play Knight and potentially escape, and does he actually want either of these things? Maximus is grating, for me, but damn do I love his character. I also find it interesting that you seem to be reading him as very innocent, which in some ways I think he is, but for me I read him as a little Nice Guy, too. Like there's potential for that white knight behaviour to turn very sour, especially since he's so impulsive. His scenes in the early episodes made me very nervous. I saw him as a man who should not have power (not healing Titus), being given a lot of power (suit), and thinking that he's the good guy.
Re: Maximus and Lucy chemistry, I feel like they're both playing to what they've been told to want. He sees her as little pretty damsel in distress, and she sees him as the hero coming in to save the day, when the reality is both of them are neither. I really enjoyed that they were making googly eyes at each other when they're making such snap judgements and basing their attractions on that, which tbh is perfect characterisation again. They're both naive and it's a great way to illustrate that. I did a lot of yelling at the screen.
I also think it was an interesting (maybe unintentional?) way to show forced intimacy in different ways. I consider what Titus did with the codpiece to verge on SA, or at the very least SH, and it was a power-play. One of the other commenters here (@inthebeam6231) commented on the same thing, saying it suggested that squires are expected to be submissive to their knights in more ways than one, and I agree with them. There was sexual tension but it was the bad kind of sexual tension, the "I can make you do what I want, and I want you to know that" nonconsensual kind. When that was followed up with the googly eyes with Lucy, it kinda drove home that Maximus really does not have a good grasp on connection, safety, or intimacy, simply because the brotherhood never taught him that.
I'm really excited to watch more of your recaps and see how you feel about the show as it progresses. I binge-watched it over two nights so obvs I know what happens, and I'm trying not to spoil it at all, but I'm really enjoying your thoughts and look forward to hearing more of them.
OMG I have the same problem with reading romance on screen and had the same thoughts lol. I thought this was a really good episode. I'm loving all the characters, I think the casting is great. I especially loved the scenes with the doctor and Lucy, and everyone is talking about the ghoul being attractive but Maximus is HOT.
So glad it’s not just me 😂
Made my heart happy to see a Friends reference in a Fallout video 😊😂
Keep watching. It is so much fun to see your reactions!
One thing I love about your videos is how natural you are. So many channels, and no knock to them, have to heavily edit for pacing. So, it made me happy to see you post about E2.
It was a really violent episode but, formulaically it makes sense. There’s so much to introduce the 3 main narratives have to merge. Action drives them together.
Shows I’ve watched fail in the production phase tended to have complex ambitions, and drag things out too far. The Philly meeting was so fabulous, every department has to work in lockstep to achieve a scene like that.
I loved Titus’s conflict, mostly because it’s revealed that the Knight is Michael Rapaport who is insufferable irl. Titus letting him croak extended my patience with him, also made me realize he’s written as an arrested development and bought some sympathy.
So can’t wait for your part 4.
Remain amazing. 🎉
4:41 Going back to DogMeat being a synth, maybe he wasn’t tracking him from the cigar scent but rather maybe he’s tracking the scent of the the institute that could be all over Kellog considering he’s surrounded by synths
I'm glad you noticed the initial claustrophobia of the power armor! The only thing that makes it bearable is once you're in it & moving, how powerful & protected it makes you feel (at risk of going to your head)
I too wish we saw more greenery, in New Vegas the mountains around Jacobstown have evergreens with leaves, & even 76 which is earlier in the timeline has more foliage than even 4 does; & before 76 came out 4 was the colorful Fallout!
In New Vegas, the NCR logo features a 2-headed version of the Californian bear, & wastelands refer to NCR as "the bear", so clearly the term is familiar to them
The Ghoul was a beast in that fight & I guess he's a higher leveled player at this point lol
Stimpack effectively seems to be based on severity of the wound, missing limbs are a no go; & before Fallout 4 crippled limbs needed a Doctor's Bag item to uncripple them. The dog does seem to be a (cute!) walking plot device tho
I wholeheartedly agree with your take on the nature of people, societies, & those "Minutemen Values"!
The scene with Titus and Maximus felt like pure disrespect and just Titus looking down on someone below him in the hierarchy to me lol. The scene with Lucy was definitely romantic in nature to me. It feels like Lucy has been fed this perfect view of marriage and love that she is looking for it more than the normal person maybe would. She has also grown up with the concept of marrying strangers being normal so it might not be that weird i guess
So many things... First, a video about your Soul Survivor synth theory is something I never knew I needed, but now I NEED it! Titus handing Maximus the codpiece seemed like typical guy being a jerk to someone lesser (like, clean THIS you peon or something). That showed the power dynamic and how miserable Max was (because of how miserable Titus was), which also sets Max up for letting Titus die piling on to the disappointment of how the Brotherhood is nothing like he thought it was as a kid. I thought it was a yao guai for sure. All I could come up with is maybe they changed it to bear for the non-Fallout playing audience? Finally, the Lucy and Max moment definitely felt romantic to me. It seemed to me they were both surprised to find someone else that isn't just a selfish jerk and that made them potentially interested. Thanks again for sharing your observations!
I adore the idea of cutting the show some slack for big coincidences because that's how main quests work.
I recognized the actor as being the father from Atypical. *** Thank you for your review.
The reason episode 2 was so gory was because the Ghoul had the bloody mess perk
HAH
honestly i'd be scared of tumbleweeds too! i just learned that they give u splinters?? and are wildfire carriers? and are invasive?? danggggg
WHAT
Actually the Enclave is pretty technologically advanced. All those helicopters the Brotherhood has were taken from the Enclave after beating them. According to Fallout 4, the Prydwyn was partly made from captured Enclave tech.
Love your vids! But, please change the battery in your wall clock :)
I took out the batteries when I started filming videos in my room 😅 I hated how it jumped around in edited clips. I’ll have to move it to a less visible wall!
Love your video style and how you’re talking about the episodes 😊 I really wishes that Max had a crush on his knight 😁 but I think its meant to humiliate him, sadly
Love all your videos sm 🧡
Yesss you noticed the trees 😂 that’s the scene I thought of you when it happened!!
Waaaait hold up that was Michael Rappaport?!?! You’re right, he was in a lot of things but I know him from Boston Public ❤
And yes I felt that romantic tension too!
Sorry, I’m totally just live commenting on your video as I’m watching it…😅
At first I wasn't a fan of the power armor helmets making their voices deeper (since in FO4 it just adds an intercom effect without changing pitch). But I guess it's necessary for the plot of Maximus pretending to be Titus. And it does add more intimidation factor.
Okay so no spoilers, more of a theory slash question. The stimpacks, don't they just hyper stimulate the muscles, tendons, and connecting tissue to heal the are at an accelerated level? Its not a cure all but it's a pain management and healing tool kind of thing. Also I thought the dog was like part muntant, sinth, and organic being kind of thing. An experiment that failed according to enclave standards but succeeded at least from the doctors point of view. Thats why he saved him.?
The Sole survivor couldn’t be a Synth. The writer Emil, confirmed on Twitter that Nate is in the Intro of fallout 1, with America annexing Canada.
However, I’ve had a theory with no evidence that Father isn’t actually Shaun.
I don’t doubt that pre-war Nate and Nora were real people, my theory is the sole survivor was replaced with a synth in the vault.
What’s your Father/Shaun theory 👀
I don't think you realise what a Synth is within the context of Fallout 4.
It's a ridiculous theory created by Bethesda to keep the discussion going. The problem is, if you were a synth then the institute would know and would would never have been leading at all. Especially since Shaun is the leader and your son.
Another problem is when the BOS get the institute data, they find out Danse is a synth and want him dead. So if you were one, they'd be after you as well.
Where does this come from? Far Harbor DLC. DiMA a synth is a known liar if you played the game. He is manipulating you into thinking you are a synth. Just as he did to Kasumi. We know Kasumi isn't a synth as she has no synth component if you kill her. DiMA is a manipulator and if you find his memories, you know he isn't a good person. Don't trust DiMA.
Another thing, you were frozen in vault 111, you came out of that vault. Nate/Nora your spouse is dead and still there, so if this was all a dream, then it does explain you waking out of cryo pod. You also see the other residents who entered the vault with you there all in pods. If you look at the pods, yours says remote override as Shaun said he released you from the pod. While your spouse says manual override because that's when Kellogg came. It also mentions Shaun being there. So if this is all fake, then what is the point in Kellogg being there and calling you the backup? Your spouse would have to be a synth too but evidence is they were shot and their body is frozen.
By the way Emil is not a good writer and that thing he said about Nate being the guy committing war crimes in Canada being Nate is something he retracted after criticism because he gets the timeline wrong. Nate was out of the military in 2074. The annexation of Canada was complete in 2077 when that propaganda was shown of soldiers in T51 power armour killing a Canadian. The one laughing that Emil claims is Nate is just so bad because he is saying Nate is evil by default. That's why he retracted his statement because he forgot that people know the lore better than him.
Also this synth thing was a Bethesda thing. Original Fallout creator Tim Cain said he never wanted terminator style robots in Fallout and said he was surprised to see them in Fallout 4 because they already made a decision not to have them back when they made Fallout 1. So now we have people questioning who is and isn't a synth and it's lead to ridiculous theories like this. You can pretty much say all characters are synths now because of this.
@@IfThenCreateAhhh, I get what you mean now.
In all honesty, I’ve never been convinced that he is actually Shaun. I don’t know why, just never brought it. It seems too convenient for Shaun. It’s also not the first time he’s had the whole institute contribute to a lie. In the case of synth Shaun, if you side with the institute in the end. The whole institute knows he’s a synth, but has to contribute the lie that he is a real human. So I believe it could all just like father said “an experiment”.
To give you benefit of the doubt, I think the story is more interesting if we actually did turn out to be a synth.
@@SorceressWitchI like that point about the BoS data base, never thought of it and it’s a very good point.
I'm looking forward to your videos about later episodes; the lore!
With the Doctor, my favorite thing he said to Lucy was about not having a fire in the dark. Like, that seems pretty survival 101 and really illustrated how out of her debth she was.
While I do think the actors playing Lucy and Maximus did play up the almost disney like meet-cute, you are not alone with your thoughts about Titus and Maximus. My wife, two of my friends, and i all picked up on that. It was almost like Lucy/Max was romance while Titus/Max was sexual (and toxic).
And while The Ghoul isn't as sinewy, I think that's just bc the higher up still wanted The Ghoul to look with Walter Goggins. Boring, but probably true.
Filly was totally Dimond City!
i think the stimpacks just kinda stop bleeding in the show. so they stop you from dying from the wounds but don't actually heal the wounds. with the dog, maybe her fur just hid the bullet hole and it wasn't actually healed idk.
Great video, loving your thoughts on the episodes!
I think the cigar trail Kellogg left behind is implied to have been there since you first arrived in Diamond City or at least while you were finding Nick in 114.
back to what you said about Kellogg not being there in years: I thought that he was running around recently because he was with synth shaun? or am i mistaken. sorry for the fo4 question lol. loving this content about the show!
You’re right! It just depends on how recently you think that is. Since Nick was comfortable breaking into the abandoned house in Diamond City, I always assume it’s been empty for at least a few months
I would LOVE to hear your theories of the Sole Survivor being a synth. I’ve also had my speculations but I feel like my theories are always getting debunked😅 I would love to hear your opinion on it!
Idk the toaster in New Vegas was pretty threatening 😂
I know you are a Psychology major and maybe I shouldn't say what I'm about to say given said knowledge, but... oh, well XD
I don't believe Cooper is "bad", he just does what he has to do. And that goes for most characters in that Universe, EXCEPT for The Master (FO1), Tenpenny and the owners of Paradise Falls (FO3), Elijah (FNV/Dead Money DLC), Caesar (FNV), the Enclave, Vault-Tec and the Institute as a whole (although there's a handful of former Enclave members who deserves some forgiveness and all of them make an appearance in NV lol)
In our universe I'm already a "The ends justify the means" kind of person, specially when it comes to progress (although at the same I think mankind as a whole should be vaulted from the planet and we should give it back to Mother Nature, but thats not here nor there) and... uh... I dunno exactly how to phrase this in English, but I have a very flexible vision of moral and ethics cuz both are more of a cultural matter than anything else, specially if you consider that most of what we've learned as being "right" or "wrong" on this side of the globe came from the Catholic Church and I do have my personal issues with them (and any other monotheist religion tbh), while for most (if not all) people in the East most of what we do and think are morally disgusting, and don't make me start on Middle East
But getting back on the track here. The Wasteland has its own rules, its own laws, both natural and man-made, so... yeah. It's a whole different setup
Don't quote me, but I'm pretty sure people say "bear" in reference to yao guai in Fallout 4. Like companions in combat comments.
Dog meat is a blue heeler btw
In Fallout 3, yes, not in Fallout 4
@@IfThenCreate you've taught me something new because I thought he eas s German shepherd in fallout 4 but i guess people gaslit me into thinking that was still a blue heeler. Thanks!
I disagree with the concept of the Sole Survivor as a synth in Fallout 4. I do appreciate the drama that is brought about by DiMA with the proposal of such a thing, but I prefer to be human. To each, his or her own.
I would disagree with the assertion that Dogmeat is a synth. And there are other dogs that are not irradiated, or mad, since you can buy dogs and you can trap them. I could accept that some dogs escaped from captivity by the enclave, or the institute, or other organization, and successfully repopulated.
I do agree with you about trees. I think they would have returned to life after 219 years.
I don’t think the doctor is two hundred years old. I suspect he is enough of a nerd that he has read the prewar history pertaining to science and what science may have proposed.
I think he said “two ton irradiated bear”, if I recall it correctly. This would be known as a Yao Gai, well to a Fallout player, but not to someone who is unfamiliar with the franchise.
As far as moral. Well, you are a psychology major, but Maximus has a certain sense of putting the BoS on a pedestal. Also, his first duty is to protect the Brotherhood, the second to his knight. He could conceivably believe that Titus is a disgrace to the Brotherhood, and that the Brotherhood would be better without that Titus. Also, his reason for joining the Brotherhood of Steel, was to hurt the people who hurt him.
As far as the Ghoul, I don’t think he is unkillable. I think he just has a whole lot of levels from 200+ years of adventuring in the wasteland. He also was described in the episode “The End” as a legend. I know as a high level character I shrug off a lot of hits. I also would not say that he is not Chaotic evil. He does not seem to do things just to hurt other people. On the same note, he does not do things to help people either. He is very self-oriented.
I like the gore & comedy mixture.
Stim packs, at least as far as the game happens, seems to be limited. A human is a bit more complicated than a dog. Also, a human outweighs a dog.
On the Ghoul helping the dog, CX404 always follows his master, the doctor. The Ghoul is using the dog as a tracker.
The other thing is the doctor knows a lot. One assumes that the doctor did his research on the area he was traveling to, and I think the Enclave had some contact with Vault-Tec.
There is also the possibility that he hacked Lucy’s Pip-Boy while she was sleeping, before she woke up. After all, she had taken it off.
The Minutemen are a Commonwealth thing. The values may be there, but I think most of the people are just trying to make it by.
No spoilers, but you aren't imagining the romantic tension between Lucy and Maximus.
Dogmeat...probably. Sole Survivor ... imma say no because yoi can tale radiation damage.
Synths can take radiation damage
Named by descendants of those held in Chinese internment camps before the Great War, yao guai are mutated American black bears.*Stolen from the Fallout Wiki
Ok, you said you don't have much experience with the Enclave... Even though they were a HUGE part of Fallout 3... Anyway. The Enclave is remnants of a faction of the US government from before the war... They had their hands in the military AND industry, so they had ALL the tech. They developed there own power armor and Vertibirds ...
But is it spoiling talking about things that aren't in the show?
Nobody seems to know how to answer this question.
You keep mentioning the Vault-tec.Assisted.Targeting.System
Even for the scene you're talking about it's just a cowboy western deadeye cliche.
For the scene you are talking about with the doctor's leg being "blown off".
First:New Vegas has doctor's bags for individual limbs.
Second: in the Fallout games if you lose a limb technically you should be dead.
Oh I see how it is "Enclaves Evil"..
Pretty rude but okay.