The black guy - Maximus ruins the show. He is so friggin stupid - ALL the time. Its a bit odd to see a mentally challenged co-main character for the first time that isn't meant to be comedic or sad. Everything is good except for Maximus - he is very poorly written unfortunately
Nobody talks about the littlest but somehow also biggest continuity thing about it - the sound effects. For taking chems/stimpacks, the Pip-Boy sound effects, the UI beeps in the Power Armour, vault sounds, they’re ripped directly from the games. It’s perfect.
They even incorporated og fallout 1 and 2 gun sounds which while I feel like they captured the essence of new Vegas and 3’s vibe they didn’t really get the bleakness of fo1 and 2 but it’s cool nonetheless
Right! The Fallout 1/2 level up sound playing when Lucy gets accepted to the exchange program was my (VERY early 😂) moment of "oh ok these guys cared about the games"
@@GavinWilliamson13the ghoul had a lot of bleak moments surrounding him. Near the end started to feel very bleak too when Lucy had to make a choice and when she learned about the secrets kept from her, it started to feel Very dark to me
The reason why Lucy doesn’t get annoying is because no matter how naive she is, she is always willing to learn. She cut off that head. She cut off that ass jerky. She is willing to not be that naive woman, and that is why I love her.
I love that line because it's so true. Also I love when Lucy is just walking and Music plays like B-roll shots. Because most player will walk with Radio New Vegas, GNR, or diamond City radio on blasting bangers. Except Jonny Guitar holy cow I'm tired of the crap
@joaovictor3312 slight spoiler but since his wife worked for vault tec even though he never trusted it he might have picked up some tech over 220 years since the war
@joaovictor3312 that's why I didn't specify a vats based system he was a power armor marine pre war he could have known of some experimental army tech before the deals with vault tec, or he's just on so many chems we don't have a cannon awnser to what exactly they do to ghouls plus his cannon stats has a perception of 7 so he would be very accurate anyways
Norm is so underrated in this. Everyone goes on about the "trio" of main characters, but Norm is the unofficial forth. Him delving into the mystery of the vaults is one of my favourite parts of this series so far
Honestly same. I was surprised when I saw Norm's storyline continue after Lucy had left, primarily because he wasn't really in any of the promotional stuff Out of the entirety of the show, all of which I loved, I specifically loved past Cooper and Norm's stuff the most I adore the "before the storm" stuff in the past, jumped out of my seat seeing Robert House, and understanding the society that existed before they were struck with the end of the world. He plays the character brilliantly, and so does Norm The mystery of the vaults is riveting, and his character walks the perfect line of meaningfully defiant and purposefully obedient -- I honestly couldn't get enough of episode 8 when they framed Norm and Cooper's stories overlapping as the truth is revealed
Yeah, Norm is great. It's really easy to ruin the skeptical nerd character, but he's placed in the environment where his character traits fit perfectly. Really enjoyed following his plotline
What I love about Norm is that the opening sets him up to be some sort of oblivious loser who won't be important to the story at all, and yet he ends up being one of the most perceptive and slick characters in the entire show. His ability to stay cool under pressure as he tries to unravel the mystery of Vault 31 is incredible and his subplot was one of the most compelling parts of an already compelling season.
@@nathansquared2685 You are talking about the logo on the bomb, right? That's actually just a warning sign. The Vault-Tec logo looks similar but is different
I believe Amazon didn't know how well Fallout was going to do, so they dropped all the episodes. Now that they know they have a banger, I expect season two to be put out weekly.
Nope, Jonah Nolan requested it because he hated how people on Reddit picked about his shows and then would get pissed off when their theories were wrong.
For me personally, shows have a worse chance of me even finishing them, when they try to babysit how many episodes I can watch how quickly. The streaming platforms think that I will not forget them if I have to wait 2 months to see all the episodes. In reality it is much more likely that I simply forget to watch the next episode to begin with.
Fun fact in interviews Ella Purnell (Lucy MacLean) has said that she had played Fallout 4, Walton Goggins (The Ghoul) got to understand what makes Fallout enjoyable and interesting through his son who plays it, and Aaron Paton (Maximus) had researched the series and watched people play fallout on Twitch streams.
EDIT: Most ppl cant be bothered to read beyond this comment before replying to me so I am editing it: My main complaint is not that the actors played or did not play the games. I couldnt care less if they did or didnt, it only helps the actors see how they should portray characters, get a feeling of the atmosphere and the world. It actually all comes down to the showrunners. The writing itself is quite horrible, its written like a Marvel show. That is entirely up to you if you enjoy it or not, I do not. But objectively speaking, its also not GREAT or AMAZING as people here(and not only here) claim repeatedly, its just another mediocre show that is being overrated to oblivion because it is better than your other average show. I have presented multiple points, for example the fact that Shady Sands has been nuked or the fact the Enclave is still around. There are plenty of scenes that are written and filmed horribly, for example the scene where a man runs away from a turret with a dog beside him and neither of them get hit even once(the distance is couple of meters and the CGI is beyond bad). Or scenes with the Ghoul being badass, those scenes are quite outrageous. Its like its written by some teenager with power fantasies. There is one specifically where the Ghoul talks to the brotherhood soldiers in a room and they are all aiming a gun at him while he talks. He mentions that the suit of armor has a weakness and they are all just watching him load a gun and shoot one of the soldiers and even afterwards they still let him make a Marvel tier remark. ------------------------------------------------------------ So Lucy MacLean played arguably the worst Fallout game after 76. Hard to say if Walton Goggins got it right since you state that he only "understands what makes it enjoyable and interesting", and Aaron Paton watched twitch streamers play the game....that does not look good to anyone with a brain. Compared to lets say Henry Cavill in The Witcher show. I have personally watched the show(not in the entirety yet) and its nothing special. You can watch the Synthetic Mans review and I absolutely agree with his view. There are also tons of clips on 4chan that show the ridiculously cringeworthy moments(man running with a dog from a turret firing at him in a straight line and neither of them get shot(and the CGI is really bad). Is this better than the HALO show? Yes. Is Fallout a good show? No.
i watched a couple of the cast talking about playing the game and i think Ella confirmed that she played the game a couple of hours, but she doesnt good at playing the game, never get used to the control and stuff so she gave up and also watch people play on twitch like Aron. She said that would be more efficient than her wasting her time getting used to the game and i think its fair.
@@szowink I am pretty sure that everyone would agree that actually playing a game and watching someone else play it are 2 completely different experiences.
One note about the "plot conveniences", it's because the characters are so intertwined in their shared goals that they are all following their own paths to the same destinations. For example, in the beginning they're all headed to Filly. Some of them group up there, and those that don't are following the dog who's tracking their scent. Lucy literally has a quest objective marker to follow the entire time. What I'm getting at, is that they all have their own ways of finding where they need to be, and because they're all chasing the same thing, they usually end up there around the same time.
I was about to say that it makes sense if we are following a group of people all with a similar end goal it just seems natural. It is like when you take a day to go shopping and see the same person/group of people in different stores throughout the day.
Yeah I was gonna say the same thing. Sure it may be a little bit far fetched if you really over think it but they really had explanations for it all. I think Charlie was overthinking to try and find some kind of flaw to say it wasn't perfect so some people won't cry about it lol
Maximus has the most lore accurate story out of the main three. He joined the brotherhood to get some power armor which is probably what literally everyone who joins the brotherhood for on their first run💀
To think that Ella Purnell has starred in two masterful video game adaptations, one of them being the one that started it all, Arcane. She deserves all the praise, incredible actress.
I love the feeling of investigation you get with Norm’s story line. My favorite thing about the game was uncovering the horror experiments of the vaults . So fascinating and haunting. everytime we got to be in Norm’s POV I was in detective mode, just like in the game 😂 10/10
I see very little people talking about this but the funniest part was def at the start where the knight in his T-60 power armor ran from the yao guai saying "HOLY SHIT,......... FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, NO, NO, NO, NO, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, NO, *BANG*"
That was so good. Everyone who’s played the games can instantly connect with that moment of having that reaction while wearing power armor. The show had a lot of great little subversions. I was continually surprised, shocked, and disgusted throughout the whole experience even though I generally knew what the outcome was going to be based on my knowledge of the games. Showrunners did a great job, high hopes for season 2
Same thing I’ve always done in the video games as well😂😂 reason I love this show. It don’t miss on all the gore and scary shit that happened in the game. Now I just hope they bring in death claws on the show 😮😮
There are so many sick little references in this show. Even in the scene where she asks the guy for directions to filly, she keeps her gun pointed at him on accident. Its a cool little hommage on how players in the game always have their gun drawn on npcs in dialogue.
That and as a low-level vault dweller she slowly loses that naive mindset and starts gearing up. Slowly getting armor, learning about the wasteland, "Everyone I met out here has tried to kill me." It's hilarious and pretty faithful to the game. After a while you kind of start to shoot first and ask questions later.
Fallout lore is insane. The wasteland literally spans the entire US. What made this show especially impressive to me was the thoroughness and depth they went into. They actually did it
I really loved what they did with Lucy and the Ghoul’s chemistry in this. The latter absolutely could not care less about hurting her at any point initially despite his knowing about her innocent attitude and vault background. Got her as a mutated axolotl bait and straight up sliced her finger off with no hesitation, just glorious. The next season will obviously build up a more friendly relationship between the two, leaning towards a more father-daughter one even I bet, but still I liked that they didn’t rush off to that point with them this season
They can learn from each other. He's already showing her how cruel the wasteland is and you do what you have to do to survive. She can teach him, or remind him of his humanity he once had. The cruelty of the world may bend her but it won't break her. The comment she made to him when she left the Superduper Mart about one day she may look like him, but she will never be like him, says it all. After what he did to her, she still kept to her beliefs in being a decent person. She could have killed him, could have not given him his medicine and let him succumb to turning feral, but she didn't. She gave him the meds and left, but with a stronger attitude.
I think the ghoul represents the end game character everybody ends up being in the games and Lucy is the start of the game before your innocence is robbed through the wasteland just like in the game its a good dynamic
In a really screwed up way, he's teaching her, doing her a kindness...love how much of a monster the Ghoul is while being consistent and not being sadistic for the sake of sadism. He's a terrible person but you can see the glimpses of humanity even in his cruelty.
Ya I loved their interactions and relationship. I was sure they were gonna make him the ‘gruff but well-meaning mentor’ character to her. Where he’s a bit rude and combative, but has good intentions and trying to help her out and teach her. Instead he’s just cold and ruthless and not afraid to use her for his benefits. Cutting off her finger for payback, using her as bait for the monster, selling her to organ harvesters for drugs. Really happy they didn’t just make it a stereotypical mentor/student relationship. They probably go that way for season 2, but was good to see Cooper actually be a legit bounty hunter only in it for himself.
Dont forget the sound design! From reloading, to equipping and holstering weapons all similar to the games. Got the heebie-jeebies when Lucy used a stimpack for the first time. Loved this show!
When it comes to The Ghoul’s revolver I got the feeling it is a Legendary Weapon. Probably has the explosive effect on it. I’ve also heard someone else mention it felt like he had the Bloody Mess perk.
@@Mr_Mcfeelyif it’s anything like the game, he probably looted that off a Legendary Gunner, which we haven’t seen yet. Maybe season 2 will bring us some Gunner mercs
A nice detail I really enjoyed was minor background characters showing up later in various places. For example a ghoul Lucy saved showed up later near the end. They really made the show feel like you were going through side quests with small payoffs.
Also really hits the "your choices have impact" that the games have like when the radio stations talk about the results of quests that you did and how NPC's sometimes will recognise you for things that you have done
When I saw that the director and executive producer was Jonathan Nolan, everything made sense. Jonathan and his wife Lisa Joy produced Westworld and he wrote many of his brother Christopher Nolan’s movies, including The Dark Knight.
Not to mention, John and Chris are MASSIVE fallout fans. John even said it was one of the first games he really sat down and played it all the way through. Even Ella Purnell played and enjoyed Fallout 4.
That actually makes a lot of sense, I was surprised to see Ramin Djiwadi doing the music for the fallout series (stellar work per usual) but with Westworld showrunners it makes sense that they would hire him for it since he also did a stellar job with the westworld music
the continuity of the story after Lucy leaves the vault was extremely well executed. Even if you didn’t play the games it pushed the idea that VaultTec was hiding WAAAAAY more than anyone knew and it made for a really eerie vibe.
To be fair in the games people always coincidentally are exactly where they need to be so one could argue that the "plot convenience" is lore acurate xD
Yeah idk what those fuckers want. Several episodes of Lucy just wandering aimlessly having no fucking idea where to go? I know fallout’s side quests are awesome and all, but in a show/movie you want to keep as close to the actual plot as much as possible Like cmon, the modern fallout games literally give you a handy arrow pointing where you need to go, Lucy had the same thing. Idk what else you’d want.
This is basically how I justified it in my mind. If rad away, stim packs and whatever it was that turned the squire into a ghoul but heals his foot can be pulled straight from the game then 🤷 they're all locked to a region map in my mind just like the games, so of course they'll all be near each other when they're not side questing lol
I mean it makes sense for Lucy considering she had a tracker in the head and always knew where to go. Same with Cooper. Dogmeat spent most the show constantly following the head so he knew where to go as well
@@system0fadowner251 BoS also had the rad tracking gun that they used after they found Siggy's headless body. So each group has a reason to stay on top of each other.
The conversations even seemed to be inspired by the dialogue choices in the games. Also enjoyed how each character seemed to have their own “level of karma”
As a fallout fan, you can feel the love and passion put into this show. Everything down to the power armor sounds and how the terminals look is spot on. The robots are almost 1 to 1, and everything looks AMAZING. Can’t wait to see where this goes
Yeah I love the attention to detail like the hud in the power armor and basically every detail in the show. You can feel that it was made by people passionate about fallout
My favourite part was the sound effects from the games. When that squire gave that snake oil salesman the fusion core it literally made the upholster weapon sound as he pulled it out
@@hyperkaioken4982 I genuinely can't say there was. The only attention to detail was for surface level vanity about the way Vaults are depicted in the 3D fallout games and how America for whatever reason wasn't some monument to atrocities that should be forgotten but was instead- actually pretty good. :/ Also, genuinely what the hell is with everyone being so damn hostile. Like everyone is a Fallout 4 or 3 raider in the series. No one is just- a regular person trying to survive the wastes. EVERYONE is awful.
Goggins is perfect for the role. If anyone told me he would star in this i would get so angry and confused. He is legendary. Maximus feels like my lil brother who never played before trying to catch up. And then , wow , the main gal , she is not only perfect for the role , but perfect all together. Love this show , and love that the cast actually played thru the game and loved it.
@@eldritchbidoof because i never rated goggins, but then again i never watched justified. I pictured someone else for the role , but it dont matter now because Goggins is perfect for the role , he just became a legend.
I thought the opening bombing scene was disappointing, nukes looked incredibly fake like a plugin on Houdini or something and they were also unrealistically close, they would have immediately had 3rd degree burns from that distance.
My parents love the show far and they have never touched a single piece of fallout, and as someone who has put 100's of hours into the fallout games I also love the show. You'll probably love the story and lore of the games even if you just watch youtube videos on the games.
My favorite about the three main characters its basically how someone would play a fallout game lucy the bright eye good intentions run, maximus a faction oriented run w the brotherhood, and the ghoul the guy whos replayed the game MULTIPLE times and is just having fun
Honestly I really like how the did Lucy’s character development. She very much captures how I felt the first time playing Fallout 3, leaving the vault and trying to do a a good karma run in the wasteland. Mistakes were definitely made in my playthrough lol
9:50 Everybody keeps saying that they coincidentally all show up in the same places. But they're all looking for the same thing, and all find means to track that thing or another thing that is tracking that thing. If you and some friends all drive separately to track a thing using different but accurate methods, why would it be surprising that you see each other along the way?
yeah, thought the same. maybe the timings were a bit convenient but thats on how writing stories goes, you want interesting people to interact so intesresting things happen. it is noticeable but doesnt bother me much
Yes, but in some instances I agree that it was a bit too coincidental. For example in episode 2, when knight Titus and Maximus were dropped off in the middle of the wilderness because Titus was "bored and wanted to shoot something". Just before getting to the cave with the radiated bear, they managed to stumble across one of Wilzig's previous resting spots. There was nothing that drove them there, they had just been dropped off at a random spot and wondered around.
@@绝不会放弃你 that could have happened in the game easy though given how the map would be nothing but points of interest, soooo.. if we're indulging in the VATS-style gore that is way over the top for RL why not this?
You see, the way you put it SOUNDS like it makes sense, but you really have to see what happens in the show in order to understand how convenient it is that the characters find themselves where they need to be in order to further the plot. The bear cave as pointed out before is a perfect example. It happens more often than most people notice.
@@SketchySkullKnight right?? i was so excited to finally see some of my fav fallout games (1, 2 and NV) and all that for it to just get nuked/bombed. there are scenes i like and scenes that just feel weird ._. like the gal having her water break and stuff.
There's something about that first walk from Megaton to the Super Duper Mart holding a 10mm pistol and a hunting rifle to find food for Moira Browns Survival Guide. I've played it over and over again 1 time a year and every single time that single mission that single walk with the Galaxy News Radio playing in the background always makes me fall in love. Over and over again
I smell something fishy in your story. That first walk to the Super Duper Mart takes place before you replace Galaxy News Radio's boradcasting dish on the Washington Memorial. That means you're not listening to GNR... "You're listening to Enclave Radio, with your host -- President John Henry Eden, President of the Enclave, President of America, President... of your heart."
@@TheVantriliquist13 Yea, if I remember correctly Megaton is the edge of where you can still hear it. Muties just wanted some target practice, don't blame 'em. Brotherhood had twenty years to shut down Vault 87 and drive them out of D.C...
Pay close attention a lot of the scenes i notice Have Speech checks Intelligent checks Strength requirements Sneak checks 😂 Im Not even tryna be funny a lot of the scenes remind me of skill checks
@@HaliaxOfTheChandrianbecause there’s a base price regardless. Having high charisma means you’re good at haggling down the price or bad at it with low charisma.
Loved the show overall, but I was surprised how invested I became in the mystery of what was happening in vaults 31-33. Every time they dropped new hints, then jumped to the A plot I'd be yearning to get back for more.
The vault experiments are my favorite part of Fallout so I was excited for the reveal of what was going on between the 3 of them. It was probably another nod to the mechanic in-game, now that I think of it. Especially with Norm having to hack the terminals to read logs and exploring the spoOoOky vault full of context clues and corpses!
@velocityhdmi8140 overuse? Don't they use different songs and can only be heard in the beginning or end of an episode (at least from what I remember, they're an hour for each episode)
@@not_someone9348Gets played sometimes when they are just walking through the wasteland too. Which I like as well cause you always have your radio playing when you’re walking to your destinations. Music is definitely not overused.
I love how well connected the show is. Whoever this studio is, I really believe that they should be the one to handle a Bioshock series if it ever drops.
In cannon, Vault-Tec was a legitimate driver of the bombs dropping. They wanted the bombs to fall specifically to perform their vault experiments. They were working with the branch of government that later became the Enclave so that the Enclave could collect and use that data to rebuild without significant resistance or opposition.
Vault Tec is just a branch of the deep government that turned into the Enclave. They only thing they're responsible for is the treatment of the vault dwellers, not the entire war. The war most certainly is so broad that it's an unmitigated disaster that no single party could be responsible for. Kinda the whole point of Fallout, humanity is responsible.
It's canon that China launched the nukes, you are still right about vault tech and the show confirms they had the plan, but they don't actually confirm they started the war. They had nukes, but if it were them that launched them that day, the daughter would have not been with Dad.
I interpreted it in the show that they intended to start the war by detonating a nuke in shady acres, but it’s never explicitly said that they were the soul cause of the war
@@pennywise5662 Yeah, Vault Tec may have had the plan to launch on the back burner as a potential course of action, the Chinese just got the jump and launched before Vault Tec expected or planned. Then at that point the US retailiated, Vault Tec jumped on the bandwagon firing some off, heck even the Zetans fired some shit off as well.
"They keep running into eachother" its almost like they were tracking eachother down and the ghoul had the dog to smell the head and the bos had the radiation dictator that tracked the radiation level the ghoul emitted
Ah yes the radiation detector that they pulled out to detect a radiation trial in a radiation filled wasteland, also nevermind the blatant contradiction of Lucy finding Maximus when her tracker was inside the head that would've been miles from where maximus was stuck by the time she got there, she should've been on Thaddeus' trail and never even came across Maximus
My mom was a set dresser for this show. She worked exclusively in the vaults, and told me they nailed everything about Fallout (I taught her about some fallout lore.) Everything inside was completely practical and faithful to the game. It was exciting she was working on it, but I thought it was just going to be another halo situation. I was so very happy to find out the show is fantastic!
I actually think the big vault tec twist suited perfectly, they’ve hinted at it before but always kept it very nuanced. Used to be some real ‘fallout iceberg’ stuff now it’s real!
I think season 2 of Fallout (which has already been greenlit) will probably have the weekly episode releases like the Boys did from Season 1 to Season 2
When the shopkeeper lady said Ive got 200 caps for anyone that kills him, I knew bro was gonna use V.A.T.S and they did it so well.... bro was even eating tomatoes during the fight..... They captured the essence of pausing the game, eating for health, and going back to fighting.... THIS SHOW is amazing.
On the whole convenience thing: when the scientist ends up near the Yaogui cave, I think there was an implied time skip later on when Maximus ends up there. Time of day looked different, and they didn’t even run into each other. Not explained well but that’s how I took it. When Lucy finds Maximus locked in the armor, that was explained as her tracking the head to that spot
The best release model is the triple drop followed by weekly instalments. Sometimes episode 1 of a show is by necessity, usually a bit exposition heavy and it's not until a few episodes in that the show really gets firing. The triple drop lets the audience binge the first three episodes and get into (and hooked) on the story. Then the rest of the show comes out weekly so that it can be appreciated and keep everyone on the same page.
Best release will always be all at once for me, then everyone can choose their own speed to watch it. If it's weekly you either have to spread a few hour long show across several whole months, or painstakingly dodge spoilers while waiting for it all to release. When it's all at once you can watch whenever you're in the mood to watch it. If you wanna watch weekly then just watch it weekly or an episode every few days, If you wanna binge it all in one night then binge it all in one night, it's a fully customisable experience you can tailor to how you wanna watch. Or the worst thing ever is when they release weekly split the season into parts like with the last season of attack on titan or this invincible season, it absolutely kills the hype for it cause you're basically getting like 5 hours of show spread across a year. If it's weekly and the episodes release on a day of the week you're In work and can't watch then you're almost definitely gonna get it spoiled in the few days you're working and can't watch it, If it drops all at once not as many people talk about it so you can just watch as many episodes as you want whenever you can fit them into the busy schedule. I've never understood the point of saying it's bad dropping it all at once cause you don't hear many people discussing it, my brothers in Christ have you not seen forums or chats before haha, there are still millions of chatrooms talking about 20 year old shows you could join as many as you want and talk about it haha. Plus good god forbid you get to a filler arc in a weekly release schedule good god haha, having to spread 2-3 hours of filler across a few weeks while you're waiting for the show to get good again is the absolute worst. AHH just even thinking about weekly hurts, some fights in anime are like 8-10 episodes long, I can't imagine spreading 2 hour fight across 2 entire months in pieces haha, couple punches thrown and then wait til next week to see if he blocks, and then one episode of flashbacks followed by a few more punches the month after
Wasn't there a research conducted on the topic of "what's the best release model for TV streaming according to customer satisfaction" and the results were that 1 episode every 1-3 day(s) provided the best results? If that is true and I'm not misremembering I'd like to see a streaming service try it out for once
@@malif1279 that is way better than one a week haha. I'd much rather it be one a day at the most, especially when it's a show where the seasons like 40-50 episodes like with some anime it can take like 8+ months to weekly release it all and it absolutely kills the flow of the show when some fights can last months so you'll be getting a few punches a week haha.
@@TAKEYOURCREATINE To be fair, they got as close to the look of power armor as they possibly could. I think literally the only possible improvement could be making it slightly darker.
I finally got to watch the series because Amazon Prime Video was having issues on my phone for months, and it got fixed. My god, I love it! They captured the gore, the aesthetic, the way the Pipboys work with having all the features they do in the game. I'll tell ya, if Nintendo does half as well on the Zelda movie as Amazon and Bethesda did on this series, I'll be overjoyed!
@@graveyardghoul8482 I knew about Ella didn't know Kyle did, that's cool. I just think its kind of sad its expected for like a book adapation an actor is expected to read the book, but a game? God no games are for kids.
@@judasdubois yeah its strange. One of the interviews for the halo adaptation the director was quoted saying he was proud he had not played a single halo game. I was like that makes sense cause it feels that way.
For the convenient time & place thing I didn't think it was a problem. I think that's because it's based on a universe where(usually) the events happen when your character gets there. So it's a little video gamey and I like that, feels canon to me.
yeah I never had a problem with it and actually found it really endearing that they kept running into each other in such a big wasteland like that but I was never able to put into words why I thought it was a positive thing but this is it
The only coincidence that bother me was when knight Titus and Maximus stopped at the same cave the doctor was just at. They didn’t come down there for him, Titus just wanted to shoot shit, and nothing really came of it weirdly enough. Like the doctor seemed to leave asap, and If I remember correctly Maximus was already on the way to Filly to begin with, so there isn’t much reason narratively for them to both be there.
@pman87850 it was literally just for foreshadowing that there was something big and scary in the cave. But yeah, a massive coincidence with no actual point for the sake of foreshadowing.
The vault tec twist is also definitely hidden within lore in game to. They wanted to force people into their experiments and this was the best way to do it.
People are dumb and quick to judge without doing research so here ya go. Timeline: Fallout 76 - 2102 Fallout 1 - 2161 Fallout 2 - 2241 Fallout 3 - 2277 Fallout New Vegas - 2281 Fallout 4 - 2287 Fallout TV Show- 2296 New Vegas in the show is canon ;)
As a Fallout fan, I felt obligated to binge it regardless whether it was shit or amazing and I was so damn happy it was so good. The attention to detail was fantastic, the storylines were interesting, the essence of Fallout was just THERE, and finale was a great tie up of the season and get me super hyped for the second season.
i played the Fallout New Vegas main menu theme on the ending scene of Arriving at New Vegas ; it was so good it Deserved it playing during the credits.
Literally almost finished with the first episode right now lol gonna wait to watch this in case of spoilers Edit: just finished it and holy fuck is it good
I am up to the last 2 episodes, every single one of the first 6 episodes have had me on the edge of my seat and absolutely glued with my attention, it has been such a great show. Enjoy what you are about to watch
The entire first season is fantastic. They brought so many elements of the games to life, and they did it so well that I didn't even recognize some of them at first.
@MaullerTwin even by the end I still found him bland and unbelieve as a character. There's no way that someone raised by the Brotherhood should be as bland as Maximus, especially when they're one of the three main characters.
Same! SOOOO many TV and movie adaptations of video game franchises shat the bed and I've been a fanatical devotee of the fallout lore since FO3 so I was hoping against hope that the fallout TV show would be good.
To be fair, anyone would be well within reason to assume a video game adaptation would be bad, since we have more examples of it going wrong than going right.
Fallout 4 has a very special place in my heart just because when I was really young, like 6-7 I would sit in a room with my dad and watch him play fallout 4 as much as I could. It was so cool watching him slowly collect these amazing suits of power armor and build up a settlement. And while he obviously didn’t let me watch the violent parts, but it was still an amazingly cool experience and so fallout 4 will always be nostalgic to me so I appreciate the show being extremely close to how fallout 4 looked.
One thing I’ve heard is that video game adaptations are finally improving because the audience of these adapted games are at the age of being in these creative spaces, so there’s more passion there was back during the days of the original Mario movie and the Mortal Kombat movies
That's a total retcon. There was a war between the Chinese and the US in the first Fallout game. This is just some stupid liberal anti-America nonsense retcon.
@@angelsideuk6197it’s also implied aliens might have started the war, and the government was in contact with them. Also that the buttercup mechanical horses everywhere were some sort alien weapon? From the alien DLC
One thing I'd say about your review Charlie, the Ghoul doesn't brutally massacre a town, just like the cowboy he was meant to be on the silver screen, he only shoots and kills people who draws on him first.
@@nopenoperson9118 he also admitted to killing the people at the super duper mart even though he didn't, he's trying to get a rise out of the two sheriff's that were going to kill him, and if ultimately worked
If people are saying that the show is all just references they've clearly never played the game because Fallout is just references If you've played any Fallout game in the entire franchise they are packed to the fucking brim with pop culture references TV movie and music references They are literally just a reference series and the reason why it feels so good is because they take so many real life references and implement them into the game in a way that makes sense
Fallout has a lot of references, but to say that it is only references are 100% wrong. The game, especially NV, is filled with lore, wasteland politics, and great characters.
@@affordablex4914 Even then NV still is filled with numerous pop culture references, granted mostly under the wild wasteland perk. Even without it there's numerous allusions to things like The Rat Pack, Mad Max, Metal Gear Solid, and not to mention all of the quests are literally named after old 40s-60s hits. The entire series has been filled with them since at least 2, and even than fallout 1 had an easter egg where the Tardis and was inspired by books like A Canticle for Leibowitz as well as Cormac McCarthy's "The Road", and movies like "A Boy & His Dog"
@@boxylemons7961 Read my comment again🤦♀️I never said that fallout doesn’t have refrences, all I’m saying is the refrences isn’t the entire game. To say that fallout is “literally just a reference series” is just stupid.
The spoiler you mentioned actually confirmed something from fallout 3. The nuke from megatone had a valt tech logo on it and people have been questioning it for long time
The show is basically just a typical corporate "capitalism bad" story, and the whole premise is a copy pasta of fallout 3's story except changing the purifier for some cold fusion device. Shady sands is basically megatown and the goal of the main character is to uncover some secret about her dad who wasnt native to the vault
@@joshjonson2368 I mean, the Fallout games even from the first had that "Capitalism bad" story. It's all buried in the lore, computer logs and settings. That's what led to the resource wars, which led to the conflict against China to which "fighting against communism" was the propaganda used to hype people up for the conflict. It amazes me how people miss this stuff or fail to recognize it.
@@joshjonson2368 Well, that’s what Fallout is about essentially, VaultTec is a corrupt private corporation and always has been. It’s never been clear on their involvement in the Great War but it’s been suggested multiple times in the games they had something to do with the bombs dropping. The commies do drop bombs don’t worry, they either retaliated or fired first but that isn’t clear and it’s also theorized the Zetan aliens caused it too but nothing is confirmed. Either way VaultTec is amoral in its use of experiments on certain vaults many of which are unethical.
@@elijahgrimm8052 the main problem i have is #1... Amazon show. Very haha funny, selling us anti capitalism. #2 yes, capitalism was always regarded as negative in the games but it was never actually the villain. I mean Vault Tec was greedy but only had power from what the Enclave, the government. Which you actively fight in 3/5 mainline games. FNV is fighting capitalism in house sure, but mainly authoritarianism in both House and Caesar. the NCR is plagued by capitalism sure, but they're also regarded as a tough "compromise" compared to the Socialist Follower's who have the best intentions, but not the power to enforce peace. ig you could also say F1 is kind of anti authoritarian and F4... well, F4 is anti-science guys who have the ability to teleport but use it to replace random people instead of changing the world meaningfully.
I was waiting for there to be an entire episode of Lucy looting an abandoned building (for caps, materials, ammo, weapons, stimpacks, etc) for two hours 😂
You just pitched a low budget bottle episode for season 2, good job. Hoping it stays high budget though and we don't get bottle seasons like with The Walking Dead at the farm and prison.
I honestly am enamored with the subtle details of it ,such as the raider in the first episodes alluding from being from the outside just by the way he filled the entire blender with purified water,can’t wait to see cazadors,super mutants and deathclaws in the next season!
Walton goggins kills it, and a small critique. I wish the power armor just had the jetpack from the games instead. I think doing the whole iron man thing was weird when they literally have jetpacks in the game.
@@smallgyro4932they have information of the surface in the game they can tune into the radio station out in the wasteland on their pip boys and they also have to have been taught by the first vault generation that the possibility of raiders could happen eventually. Clearly they were from the surface because the pip boy picks up radiation and theirs only one way to get that amount of radiation in a vault and that’s to not be from the vault
@@smallgyro4932 What do you mean? there are vaults in the games that deal with people from the wasteland so they knowing what the wasteland is about is lore accurate
I wanted to feel this way. I really did. But there are too many egregious retcons in this. The symbolism of the whole series going from the horror of war to "muh capitalism bad". The reason the bombs were dropped. The mechanics of Ghoulification. The morality of the Brotherhood going from good/grey to villainous, the disrespect of the NCR, the stupid comparison of vault dwellers to "rich people", the changing of certain mutants. The hypocritical, childish behavior of Maximus and huge plothole surrounding his Knight. Yeah...no. Just because it looks good and has memberberries doesn't mean they can go and screw with this amazing series. Strike 3 was hit for me.
On my second watch, I noticed Betty talking to Norm in the beginning about, "how clever boys" get angry, which eludes to more back story with Betty and Hank. I just thought that was great foreshadowing.
My ONLY criticism, and this is quite minor, is the vehicles in the series. I was really looking forward to seeing the junked out triple finned fusion cars. The only one properly built like that (that i noticed) was a single red one at the party before the war. And I was looking forward to seeing those.
In general, i think a lot of the pre-war related design was more grounded in reality. Alot of the standing buildings and interiors are pretty much similar to what you can find irl, like the pharmacy and the superstore. Im thinking a lot of that nuclear-future design language was left out because there wasnt a huge focus on commercial nuclear power and consumption as a plot point. It was also probably easier to just get a hold of existing 70s props rather than making funkier new ones. I actually didnt really notice for awhile.
This. None of the cars in the show looked like a Corvega. But then again, the franchise didn't really specify that Corvega was the only car manufacturer in existence before the bombs dropped. So I guess it's kinda plausible that there _might_ be other unnamed companies out there without the rear-mounted reactor. At least they had that dinky one-seater Bud drove to work.
@@bigerik4600 This is honestly one of the biggest gripe i had with the show, i thought i would see more of the nuke-punk aesthetic in the show but in most of the scenes there are just mostly real life 60s props that doesn't fit the Fallout aesthetics.
13:20 the games have definitely hinted that Vault-Tec played at least some part in the bombs dropping. Maybe they didn’t drop the bombs themselves, but Vault-Tec certainly would have profited off the continued fear of nuclear war breaking out at any moment.
Project Safehouse was ordered by the shadow government as a case study for interstellar travel. The GECK is a terraforming engine, the Vault experiments are by and large interstellar generation ship problems. Not to mention how the blue flu feels like it was an FEV precursor and survival/inoculation is why there's so many prewar ghouls
As a big fallout fan, most of my time with the franchise is playing the games by myself without really seeing it anywhere else, so seeing all the love and attention from everyone towards the franchise puts a big ol smile on my face, mittensquad would be proud
Depends really. Starting a new playthrow on fo3 means you can do anything at any time in any order. Starting a new playthrow on fallout 2 means spending 4 days straight punching gecko's hoping to level up enough.
@@davidlz830 F2 early game really sucks for new players because it is pretty unforgiving. But it's also more open than 1. Sure, you can spend 4 days punching gecko's, but when you realize you don't have to do that at all...just go do something else
Every single hardcore Fallout fan can sympathize with Maximus. His entire backstory is “I joined the Brotherhood so I can get Power Armor”
Lmao
The black guy - Maximus ruins the show. He is so friggin stupid - ALL the time.
Its a bit odd to see a mentally challenged co-main character for the first time that isn't meant to be comedic or sad.
Everything is good except for Maximus - he is very poorly written unfortunately
He has bad guy energy I hope they explore in season 2.
I’m sure there is already a clothing mod for 4 with his outfit since they dropped it in 76
I didn’t mind him in the first couple episodes, but couldn’t stand him by the end. He turned out to be quite the shitty, whiny bitch.
Nobody talks about the littlest but somehow also biggest continuity thing about it - the sound effects. For taking chems/stimpacks, the Pip-Boy sound effects, the UI beeps in the Power Armour, vault sounds, they’re ripped directly from the games. It’s perfect.
Even the water
They even incorporated og fallout 1 and 2 gun sounds which while I feel like they captured the essence of new Vegas and 3’s vibe they didn’t really get the bleakness of fo1 and 2 but it’s cool nonetheless
Right! The Fallout 1/2 level up sound playing when Lucy gets accepted to the exchange program was my (VERY early 😂) moment of "oh ok these guys cared about the games"
Even the dog makes the same sound as dog meat from 4 when injured, it’s really cool
@@GavinWilliamson13the ghoul had a lot of bleak moments surrounding him. Near the end started to feel very bleak too when Lucy had to make a choice and when she learned about the secrets kept from her, it started to feel Very dark to me
“I’m sorry, it’s just, Guy was fckin my chickens” has to be the best line Ive ever heard
i just watched that scene, i was expecting something like that but definitely NOT THAT lmao
@@John1045okay smart guy
@@John1045 Nah Fallout had actual clever humor, not just a bunch of people saying "well that just happened"
@@John1045 you are more brain rotted than the culture you've opposed yourself against. Congrats.
"Do you wanna make my Cock Explode, Now!"
is so much funnier
The reason why Lucy doesn’t get annoying is because no matter how naive she is, she is always willing to learn. She cut off that head. She cut off that ass jerky. She is willing to not be that naive woman, and that is why I love her.
And she’s allowed to be wrong about the way the world works, but not given into its darker nature
I love how she is disgusted at first at things like having to cut off the head, but then she just goes:
*Okey-dokey ¯\_(ツ)_/¯*
yeah she had pretty good character development
She starts naive and literally doesn’t get less naive or stupid the entire show lol. What are you talking about
@@Ccthomas-ks1hnYou either didn’t watch the show or are upset that she wasn’t some “badass” murderous broad by the end of the season.
Walton Goggins steals every scene he touches
He's Walton Goggins, expect nothing less.
Might as well be *the* main character
The fact he has not gotten any award recognition proves how out of touch the current industry is.
Agreed!
@@bakatoaster6000-ytthere are 3 main characters and he plays one of em
The Ghoul's "Wasteland's Golden Rule" absolutely killed me
"Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit every goddamn time"
😂😂
They gave him so many good lines. He’s the best character god I need the next game to let us play a ghoul.
I've got another settlement for you. I'll mark it on your map.
That's literally me playing fallout 4
My favorite line 😂
I love that line because it's so true. Also I love when Lucy is just walking and Music plays like B-roll shots. Because most player will walk with Radio New Vegas, GNR, or diamond City radio on blasting bangers. Except Jonny Guitar holy cow I'm tired of the crap
The Ghoul has maxed VATS, he has maxed his Bloody Mess perk. He also maxed out his agility since he’s in VATS so much.
Does he even have a pip boy? From what I recall only lucy has one and thus the only one able to VATS
@joaovictor3312 slight spoiler but since his wife worked for vault tec even though he never trusted it he might have picked up some tech over 220 years since the war
The Ghoul probably has the grim reaper sprint perk that fills up his AP bar after each kill in VATS
@@thatbolyengirlfan6187 yes but where is it on his wrist, he doesnt appear to wear one
@joaovictor3312 that's why I didn't specify a vats based system he was a power armor marine pre war he could have known of some experimental army tech before the deals with vault tec, or he's just on so many chems we don't have a cannon awnser to what exactly they do to ghouls plus his cannon stats has a perception of 7 so he would be very accurate anyways
Norm is so underrated in this. Everyone goes on about the "trio" of main characters, but Norm is the unofficial forth. Him delving into the mystery of the vaults is one of my favourite parts of this series so far
Honestly same. I was surprised when I saw Norm's storyline continue after Lucy had left, primarily because he wasn't really in any of the promotional stuff
Out of the entirety of the show, all of which I loved, I specifically loved past Cooper and Norm's stuff the most
I adore the "before the storm" stuff in the past, jumped out of my seat seeing Robert House, and understanding the society that existed before they were struck with the end of the world. He plays the character brilliantly, and so does Norm
The mystery of the vaults is riveting, and his character walks the perfect line of meaningfully defiant and purposefully obedient -- I honestly couldn't get enough of episode 8 when they framed Norm and Cooper's stories overlapping as the truth is revealed
Yeah, Norm is great. It's really easy to ruin the skeptical nerd character, but he's placed in the environment where his character traits fit perfectly. Really enjoyed following his plotline
Definitely my favorite character, he was so relatable in a world of broken social skills and violence
What I love about Norm is that the opening sets him up to be some sort of oblivious loser who won't be important to the story at all, and yet he ends up being one of the most perceptive and slick characters in the entire show. His ability to stay cool under pressure as he tries to unravel the mystery of Vault 31 is incredible and his subplot was one of the most compelling parts of an already compelling season.
To be honest, I care more about Norm and the vault conspiracy than the wasteland stuff, although that was good too.
The Show Is very Good But I've still heard that a settlement needs help, I'll mark it on your map.
Please... no more
PLEASE!!!!
I helped that settlement that you sent me too. They've decided to join the minutemen.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! THIS WILL NEVER END
And I'm glad
Fallout 4 is getting updated so I'm guessing we'll a lot more of this 😭
please preston just let me sleep
I loved the pre-war plotline because thats always been one of the most interesting aspects of fallout to me is what led to this
Even though they retconned it and made it to where Vault Tech was somehow responsible for the Great War when that was NEVER established.
@@johannderjager4146 launch Fallout 3, go to Megaton and take a closer look at the nuke ya dingus.
@@johannderjager4146 oh well, it makes more sense than and is more interesting than "war never changes"
@@johannderjager4146that was literally established lol.
@@nathansquared2685 You are talking about the logo on the bomb, right? That's actually just a warning sign. The Vault-Tec logo looks similar but is different
“You want another autograph young Henry?”
“Feo, fuerte, y formal”
God that line hit so fucking hard
The musical sting whenever the Ghoul shows up is just *chef's kiss*
Final episode was literally so fuckin good in general. Feel kinda sad for anyone that gave up on the show before the finale🥲
@@gabetheguy5019 you mean final of the season
@@jess-hc4xgseason 1 finale so he's right
He didn't say anything wrong 😂 ? You just love to nitpick@@jess-hc4xg
I believe Amazon didn't know how well Fallout was going to do, so they dropped all the episodes. Now that they know they have a banger, I expect season two to be put out weekly.
Nope, Jonah Nolan requested it because he hated how people on Reddit picked about his shows and then would get pissed off when their theories were wrong.
There was also the hate campaign before hand, so it made sense to just drop it, and see how its received.
I don't know if Amazon or the directors are capable of planning ahead like that. Other channels don't.
Looking at you, Netflix.
i despise the weekly formula. i'm so glad they didn't go with it.
For me personally, shows have a worse chance of me even finishing them, when they try to babysit how many episodes I can watch how quickly.
The streaming platforms think that I will not forget them if I have to wait 2 months to see all the episodes.
In reality it is much more likely that I simply forget to watch the next episode to begin with.
Fun fact in interviews Ella Purnell (Lucy MacLean) has said that she had played Fallout 4, Walton Goggins (The Ghoul) got to understand what makes Fallout enjoyable and interesting through his son who plays it, and Aaron Paton (Maximus) had researched the series and watched people play fallout on Twitch streams.
EDIT: Most ppl cant be bothered to read beyond this comment before replying to me so I am editing it:
My main complaint is not that the actors played or did not play the games. I couldnt care less if they did or didnt, it only helps the actors see how they should portray characters, get a feeling of the atmosphere and the world. It actually all comes down to the showrunners. The writing itself is quite horrible, its written like a Marvel show. That is entirely up to you if you enjoy it or not, I do not. But objectively speaking, its also not GREAT or AMAZING as people here(and not only here) claim repeatedly, its just another mediocre show that is being overrated to oblivion because it is better than your other average show.
I have presented multiple points, for example the fact that Shady Sands has been nuked or the fact the Enclave is still around. There are plenty of scenes that are written and filmed horribly, for example the scene where a man runs away from a turret with a dog beside him and neither of them get hit even once(the distance is couple of meters and the CGI is beyond bad). Or scenes with the Ghoul being badass, those scenes are quite outrageous. Its like its written by some teenager with power fantasies. There is one specifically where the Ghoul talks to the brotherhood soldiers in a room and they are all aiming a gun at him while he talks. He mentions that the suit of armor has a weakness and they are all just watching him load a gun and shoot one of the soldiers and even afterwards they still let him make a Marvel tier remark.
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So Lucy MacLean played arguably the worst Fallout game after 76. Hard to say if Walton Goggins got it right since you state that he only "understands what makes it enjoyable and interesting", and Aaron Paton watched twitch streamers play the game....that does not look good to anyone with a brain. Compared to lets say Henry Cavill in The Witcher show.
I have personally watched the show(not in the entirety yet) and its nothing special. You can watch the Synthetic Mans review and I absolutely agree with his view. There are also tons of clips on 4chan that show the ridiculously cringeworthy moments(man running with a dog from a turret firing at him in a straight line and neither of them get shot(and the CGI is really bad).
Is this better than the HALO show? Yes. Is Fallout a good show? No.
Always appreciate actors who actually delve into the source material to get a solid understanding.
i watched a couple of the cast talking about playing the game and i think Ella confirmed that she played the game a couple of hours, but she doesnt good at playing the game, never get used to the control and stuff so she gave up and also watch people play on twitch like Aron. She said that would be more efficient than her wasting her time getting used to the game and i think its fair.
@@szowink I am pretty sure that everyone would agree that actually playing a game and watching someone else play it are 2 completely different experiences.
@@Razzak18CzFallout 4 is good. Maybe not the best fallout, but it’s still very good
“The hits hit, and the shits shit.” Very important.
Fallout has a lot of shits in it.
Deep
Has alot more hits.@@robertlawrence9000
@@ENRI_465Deeper
@@joshuatealeaves Deepness
One note about the "plot conveniences", it's because the characters are so intertwined in their shared goals that they are all following their own paths to the same destinations. For example, in the beginning they're all headed to Filly. Some of them group up there, and those that don't are following the dog who's tracking their scent. Lucy literally has a quest objective marker to follow the entire time. What I'm getting at, is that they all have their own ways of finding where they need to be, and because they're all chasing the same thing, they usually end up there around the same time.
I was about to say that it makes sense if we are following a group of people all with a similar end goal it just seems natural. It is like when you take a day to go shopping and see the same person/group of people in different stores throughout the day.
Yeah I was gonna say the same thing. Sure it may be a little bit far fetched if you really over think it but they really had explanations for it all. I think Charlie was overthinking to try and find some kind of flaw to say it wasn't perfect so some people won't cry about it lol
@@splatterfrog4606hes got that "cabbages guy" vibe from Avatar though lol
@@splatterfrog4606 let's hope that we got to see him on season 2
In Fallout Shelter Lucy has a high luck stat too
Maximus has the most lore accurate story out of the main three. He joined the brotherhood to get some power armor which is probably what literally everyone who joins the brotherhood for on their first run💀
O you poor sweet summer child.
@@artemis6658 ?
O you poor sweet summer child.
A me rich sour winter adult.
I built some of the sets for this, including the vault and main vault door. It was so cool working on it that i actually started playing the games
Awsome!
The sets came out great!
Bro the sets were absolutely spot on. The feel, the aesthetics everything. You guys did an amazing job well done
God bless you and your hard work. Thank you.
Thank you for putting in effort to make an enjoyable expansion of the universe!
The first thing Bethesda dropped that worked on launch.
Lmao brah
underrated comment
Bruh... no way😂
Right. I did not spot a single glitch the whole season. Not a realistic adaptation.
no glitch, no constant crash, no poorly optimized software. 10/10
To think that Ella Purnell has starred in two masterful video game adaptations, one of them being the one that started it all, Arcane. She deserves all the praise, incredible actress.
I had no clue she voiced jinx until reading this comment, not even on her imdb
The one that started it all? Uh hello, Castlevania?
@@perspicacioussimpleton7288 Thank you for saying it before I had to
Ella purnell sucks at acting
bet my shits better than yours @@p-__
I just hope we get "Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter." in season 2.
😊😊😊
Bring back the legion have the second season be about the first battle of Hoover dam
Fuck I hope so
Well, in the end they got their fucking winter they always wanted
I love the feeling of investigation you get with Norm’s story line. My favorite thing about the game was uncovering the horror experiments of the vaults . So fascinating and haunting. everytime we got to be in Norm’s POV I was in detective mode, just like in the game 😂 10/10
same bro. it was like me and Nick Valentine the first time i was finding Kellogg.
kept forgetting his name so i just called him zelensky the whole time lmao
Norm is actually the 4th main character everyone forgets about. He really represented the exploration part of Fallout we all love.
@@artisriga maxed out INT build
I see very little people talking about this but the funniest part was def at the start where the knight in his T-60 power armor ran from the yao guai saying "HOLY SHIT,......... FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, NO, NO, NO, NO, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, NO, *BANG*"
Michael rappaport lol
That was so good. Everyone who’s played the games can instantly connect with that moment of having that reaction while wearing power armor.
The show had a lot of great little subversions. I was continually surprised, shocked, and disgusted throughout the whole experience even though I generally knew what the outcome was going to be based on my knowledge of the games. Showrunners did a great job, high hopes for season 2
It's show how heavy the armor is
Same thing I’ve always done in the video games as well😂😂 reason I love this show. It don’t miss on all the gore and scary shit that happened in the game. Now I just hope they bring in death claws on the show 😮😮
literally me on first playthrough
There are so many sick little references in this show. Even in the scene where she asks the guy for directions to filly, she keeps her gun pointed at him on accident. Its a cool little hommage on how players in the game always have their gun drawn on npcs in dialogue.
That and as a low-level vault dweller she slowly loses that naive mindset and starts gearing up. Slowly getting armor, learning about the wasteland, "Everyone I met out here has tried to kill me." It's hilarious and pretty faithful to the game. After a while you kind of start to shoot first and ask questions later.
I got goosebumps when lucy looks at the ncr flag for the first time and the new vegas theme started to play
That guy was actually doing an idle animation (for certain NPCs) from the original Fallouts, as well!
when she went "I thought you guys were the good guys" to the brotherhood... I literally had that moment 😂
I always put weapons away before any interactions with NPC's. Some old game or other must have conditioned me somehow.
Fallout lore is insane. The wasteland literally spans the entire US. What made this show especially impressive to me was the thoroughness and depth they went into. They actually did it
I really loved what they did with Lucy and the Ghoul’s chemistry in this. The latter absolutely could not care less about hurting her at any point initially despite his knowing about her innocent attitude and vault background. Got her as a mutated axolotl bait and straight up sliced her finger off with no hesitation, just glorious. The next season will obviously build up a more friendly relationship between the two, leaning towards a more father-daughter one even I bet, but still I liked that they didn’t rush off to that point with them this season
They can learn from each other. He's already showing her how cruel the wasteland is and you do what you have to do to survive. She can teach him, or remind him of his humanity he once had. The cruelty of the world may bend her but it won't break her. The comment she made to him when she left the Superduper Mart about one day she may look like him, but she will never be like him, says it all. After what he did to her, she still kept to her beliefs in being a decent person. She could have killed him, could have not given him his medicine and let him succumb to turning feral, but she didn't. She gave him the meds and left, but with a stronger attitude.
I think the ghoul represents the end game character everybody ends up being in the games and Lucy is the start of the game before your innocence is robbed through the wasteland just like in the game its a good dynamic
In a really screwed up way, he's teaching her, doing her a kindness...love how much of a monster the Ghoul is while being consistent and not being sadistic for the sake of sadism. He's a terrible person but you can see the glimpses of humanity even in his cruelty.
I think he’ll continue to show her that you have to do bad things to survive, and she’ll bring him back to his old self before the bombs dropped.
Ya I loved their interactions and relationship.
I was sure they were gonna make him the ‘gruff but well-meaning mentor’ character to her. Where he’s a bit rude and combative, but has good intentions and trying to help her out and teach her.
Instead he’s just cold and ruthless and not afraid to use her for his benefits. Cutting off her finger for payback, using her as bait for the monster, selling her to organ harvesters for drugs.
Really happy they didn’t just make it a stereotypical mentor/student relationship. They probably go that way for season 2, but was good to see Cooper actually be a legit bounty hunter only in it for himself.
Dont forget the sound design! From reloading, to equipping and holstering weapons all similar to the games. Got the heebie-jeebies when Lucy used a stimpack for the first time. Loved this show!
You are so right, even the Pip-Boy sounds! It was just straight up, unadulterated perfection.
Yep that unmistakable HISSSS as the Stimpak kicks in was perfect!
fun and all, writing is still underwhelming for a fallout story
@@ggadams639Could you explain why it’s underwhelming?
@@ggadams639theyre not gonna sit there and read terminals and notes for hours mate, sorry.
read the title and thought "thank god"
I thought the same thing 😂
HELL YEAH FINALLY A DUB
So you need someone on the internet to tell you what to like?
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Agreed
When it comes to The Ghoul’s revolver I got the feeling it is a Legendary Weapon. Probably has the explosive effect on it. I’ve also heard someone else mention it felt like he had the Bloody Mess perk.
Kept thinking the whole time who'd he loot to get those bad boy's 😂
@@Mr_Mcfeelyif it’s anything like the game, he probably looted that off a Legendary Gunner, which we haven’t seen yet. Maybe season 2 will bring us some Gunner mercs
its just the ammo he uses. you can see he has different colored ammos, and he sometimes just shoots just regular bullets with the same gun
It makes me laugh to think the writers had a billboard of all the perks and SPECIAL when writing the show.
A nice detail I really enjoyed was minor background characters showing up later in various places. For example a ghoul Lucy saved showed up later near the end. They really made the show feel like you were going through side quests with small payoffs.
Also really hits the "your choices have impact" that the games have like when the radio stations talk about the results of quests that you did and how NPC's sometimes will recognise you for things that you have done
We'll probably be seeing chicken )(/&er all the way up to the series finale.
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True
It really feels like a true adaptation to the games.
When I saw that the director and executive producer was Jonathan Nolan, everything made sense. Jonathan and his wife Lisa Joy produced Westworld and he wrote many of his brother Christopher Nolan’s movies, including The Dark Knight.
it runs in the family
Not to mention, John and Chris are MASSIVE fallout fans. John even said it was one of the first games he really sat down and played it all the way through. Even Ella Purnell played and enjoyed Fallout 4.
Now let's hope that he doesn't Westworld fallout and shit the bed on the 2nd season.
That actually makes a lot of sense, I was surprised to see Ramin Djiwadi doing the music for the fallout series (stellar work per usual) but with Westworld showrunners it makes sense that they would hire him for it since he also did a stellar job with the westworld music
@@daminttenomg 😂
the continuity of the story after Lucy leaves the vault was extremely well executed. Even if you didn’t play the games it pushed the idea that VaultTec was hiding WAAAAAY more than anyone knew and it made for a really eerie vibe.
To be fair in the games people always coincidentally are exactly where they need to be so one could argue that the "plot convenience" is lore acurate xD
*SPOILER ALERT*
That mf Maxson when you decided to save Danse.
Yeah idk what those fuckers want. Several episodes of Lucy just wandering aimlessly having no fucking idea where to go? I know fallout’s side quests are awesome and all, but in a show/movie you want to keep as close to the actual plot as much as possible
Like cmon, the modern fallout games literally give you a handy arrow pointing where you need to go, Lucy had the same thing. Idk what else you’d want.
This is basically how I justified it in my mind. If rad away, stim packs and whatever it was that turned the squire into a ghoul but heals his foot can be pulled straight from the game then 🤷 they're all locked to a region map in my mind just like the games, so of course they'll all be near each other when they're not side questing lol
I mean it makes sense for Lucy considering she had a tracker in the head and always knew where to go. Same with Cooper. Dogmeat spent most the show constantly following the head so he knew where to go as well
@@system0fadowner251 BoS also had the rad tracking gun that they used after they found Siggy's headless body. So each group has a reason to stay on top of each other.
The conversations even seemed to be inspired by the dialogue choices in the games. Also enjoyed how each character seemed to have their own “level of karma”
omg yeah! idk if you saw but they released the SPECIAL stats for Lucy and The Ghoul and it's so funny seeing how they compare (or dont)
Yeah the ghoul is like that lvl 300 guy running around in Fallout 76
@@Metaljacket420 The Ghoul is simply on his 30th maxed playthrough and doesn't give a shit anymore.
@@Metaljacket420300? Thats low lmao, I got 200 levels in fo76 in 2 days. more like 1000 atleast.
@@riioas5543alr little loser nobody care 😂
As a fallout fan, you can feel the love and passion put into this show. Everything down to the power armor sounds and how the terminals look is spot on. The robots are almost 1 to 1, and everything looks AMAZING. Can’t wait to see where this goes
Yeah I love the attention to detail like the hud in the power armor and basically every detail in the show. You can feel that it was made by people passionate about fallout
My favourite part was the sound effects from the games. When that squire gave that snake oil salesman the fusion core it literally made the upholster weapon sound as he pulled it out
Love? What love.
@@tryfry5634 dude come on xD i can understand if you disliked certain parts but you can't say it wasn't filled with attention to detail
@@hyperkaioken4982 I genuinely can't say there was. The only attention to detail was for surface level vanity about the way Vaults are depicted in the 3D fallout games and how America for whatever reason wasn't some monument to atrocities that should be forgotten but was instead- actually pretty good. :/
Also, genuinely what the hell is with everyone being so damn hostile. Like everyone is a Fallout 4 or 3 raider in the series. No one is just- a regular person trying to survive the wastes. EVERYONE is awful.
Goggins is perfect for the role. If anyone told me he would star in this i would get so angry and confused. He is legendary. Maximus feels like my lil brother who never played before trying to catch up. And then , wow , the main gal , she is not only perfect for the role , but perfect all together. Love this show , and love that the cast actually played thru the game and loved it.
why would you be angry and confused......?????
@@eldritchbidoof because i never rated goggins, but then again i never watched justified. I pictured someone else for the role , but it dont matter now because Goggins is perfect for the role , he just became a legend.
@@stefanvegsund9584I just remember him from Hateful Eight, and am gonna be rewatching that asap cuz now I can’t stop thinking about his performances
Never player fallout, but that opening bombing scene hooked me immediately and im loving it so far
play the game you gonna love it :)
I thought the opening bombing scene was disappointing, nukes looked incredibly fake like a plugin on Houdini or something and they were also unrealistically close, they would have immediately had 3rd degree burns from that distance.
@@TheNewOptionthat’s what I thought and the shockwave would have knocked them over
@@RowanNosnhoj because its a game universe not ours things dont work the same
My parents love the show far and they have never touched a single piece of fallout, and as someone who has put 100's of hours into the fallout games I also love the show. You'll probably love the story and lore of the games even if you just watch youtube videos on the games.
My favorite about the three main characters its basically how someone would play a fallout game lucy the bright eye good intentions run, maximus a faction oriented run w the brotherhood, and the ghoul the guy whos replayed the game MULTIPLE times and is just having fun
Ghoul is new game plus 😂
Yes
You can basically build the Ghoul in 4 too if you look at the Endurance tree. You just need the visual mod and you can basically become a ghoul.
Honestly I really like how the did Lucy’s character development. She very much captures how I felt the first time playing Fallout 3, leaving the vault and trying to do a a good karma run in the wasteland. Mistakes were definitely made in my playthrough lol
The 3 characters literally represent the 3 karmas
Lucy being good
Maximus being neutral
And Cooper the Ghoul being bad
9:50 Everybody keeps saying that they coincidentally all show up in the same places. But they're all looking for the same thing, and all find means to track that thing or another thing that is tracking that thing. If you and some friends all drive separately to track a thing using different but accurate methods, why would it be surprising that you see each other along the way?
yeah, thought the same. maybe the timings were a bit convenient but thats on how writing stories goes, you want interesting people to interact so intesresting things happen. it is noticeable but doesnt bother me much
I mean, they fast travel duh
Yes, but in some instances I agree that it was a bit too coincidental. For example in episode 2, when knight Titus and Maximus were dropped off in the middle of the wilderness because Titus was "bored and wanted to shoot something". Just before getting to the cave with the radiated bear, they managed to stumble across one of Wilzig's previous resting spots. There was nothing that drove them there, they had just been dropped off at a random spot and wondered around.
@@绝不会放弃你 that could have happened in the game easy though given how the map would be nothing but points of interest, soooo.. if we're indulging in the VATS-style gore that is way over the top for RL why not this?
You see, the way you put it SOUNDS like it makes sense, but you really have to see what happens in the show in order to understand how convenient it is that the characters find themselves where they need to be in order to further the plot. The bear cave as pointed out before is a perfect example. It happens more often than most people notice.
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
Too bad they ruined New Vegas and retconned a bunch of established lore for the sake of cool visuals
@@SketchySkullKnight right?? i was so excited to finally see some of my fav fallout games (1, 2 and NV) and all that for it to just get nuked/bombed.
there are scenes i like and scenes that just feel weird ._. like the gal having her water break and stuff.
Don't worry, we are close to that
@@SketchySkullKnightmaybe I’m just dumb but I didn’t see anything from FNV changed. could you elaborate?
I'm convinced the tunnelers from Lonesome Road got loose into the Mojave based on the end credits of the final episode.
There's something about that first walk from Megaton to the Super Duper Mart holding a 10mm pistol and a hunting rifle to find food for Moira Browns Survival Guide.
I've played it over and over again 1 time a year and every single time that single mission that single walk with the Galaxy News Radio playing in the background always makes me fall in love. Over and over again
I smell something fishy in your story.
That first walk to the Super Duper Mart takes place before you replace Galaxy News Radio's boradcasting dish on the Washington Memorial. That means you're not listening to GNR... "You're listening to Enclave Radio, with your host -- President John Henry Eden, President of the Enclave, President of America, President... of your heart."
@@apeabel nah u can still hear it from
Megaton its just quieter as u get further and further away from the GNR
@@apeabel until u replace it then u can hear THREE DOGGGGGG across the wasteland
@apeabel oh it comes in I think but just real staticy haha possibly why I loved it even more before the dish repair....dumb super mutants SMH
@@TheVantriliquist13 Yea, if I remember correctly Megaton is the edge of where you can still hear it.
Muties just wanted some target practice, don't blame 'em. Brotherhood had twenty years to shut down Vault 87 and drive them out of D.C...
I love the little fallout experience moments, like the whole "weighing down your companion with your stuff" bit
Also the " thou shalt always get side tracked by bull shit." line seeming to be a joke about side quests.
I didn’t even notice that.
I liked them throwing bricks n random shit in the basketball hoop
Pay close attention a lot of the scenes i notice
Have
Speech checks
Intelligent checks
Strength requirements
Sneak checks
😂
Im Not even tryna be funny a lot of the scenes remind me of skill checks
And the random encounter with that doctor guy and the chickens early on. He just says thank you and sprints away like an npc
There are even a lot of references that aren't super obvious, like the weapons in the shop being the same price as they are in fallout 4.
How can they be the same price when the prices of weapons in the game vary based on charisma and the perk to lower prices?
@@HaliaxOfTheChandrian Junk jet on the wall in the show says 285 and the listed value in your inventory in the game is 285
@@HaliaxOfTheChandrianwhat is "charisma and perk" modifying, you've almost got it
@@HaliaxOfTheChandrianbecause there’s a base price regardless. Having high charisma means you’re good at haggling down the price or bad at it with low charisma.
@@HaliaxOfTheChandriandumbest thing I ever read
Loved the show overall, but I was surprised how invested I became in the mystery of what was happening in vaults 31-33. Every time they dropped new hints, then jumped to the A plot I'd be yearning to get back for more.
Yeah I think all of the vault scenes were the best part of the show. That kid from Hannah Montana is a surprisingly good actor too.
The vault experiments are my favorite part of Fallout so I was excited for the reveal of what was going on between the 3 of them. It was probably another nod to the mechanic in-game, now that I think of it. Especially with Norm having to hack the terminals to read logs and exploring the spoOoOky vault full of context clues and corpses!
Definitely, they nailed the feeling of exploring each vault and learning whatever the hell was going on in them
You didn’t mention the classic fallout
music
That's one thing I thought of during the video and he didn't even mention it lol.
also the main theme being played when lucy discovered the NCR flag is a beautiful touch.
They overuse the music tbh that's my only gripe about it
@velocityhdmi8140 overuse? Don't they use different songs and can only be heard in the beginning or end of an episode (at least from what I remember, they're an hour for each episode)
@@not_someone9348Gets played sometimes when they are just walking through the wasteland too. Which I like as well cause you always have your radio playing when you’re walking to your destinations. Music is definitely not overused.
I love how well connected the show is. Whoever this studio is, I really believe that they should be the one to handle a Bioshock series if it ever drops.
Fr
100%
I hope bioshock is good
It's the same studio that makes The Boys.
Bioshock is just diet atlas shrugged
In cannon, Vault-Tec was a legitimate driver of the bombs dropping. They wanted the bombs to fall specifically to perform their vault experiments. They were working with the branch of government that later became the Enclave so that the Enclave could collect and use that data to rebuild without significant resistance or opposition.
Only in Bethesda lore is this true.
@@JackRogers-x9ewrong. The enclave played a massive role in the earlier games
Canon*
Vault Tech being responsible for nearly every event in the fallout universe is kinda boring ngl.
Hope this isn't true.
@@melatoninfiend True. But vault tex being directly related to the bombs dropping is Bethseda slop. Just like the rest of the show.
In games its strongly hinted at that it was actually Vault tech that started it all. In Megaton the nuke is actually Vault techs.
Vault Tec is just a branch of the deep government that turned into the Enclave. They only thing they're responsible for is the treatment of the vault dwellers, not the entire war. The war most certainly is so broad that it's an unmitigated disaster that no single party could be responsible for. Kinda the whole point of Fallout, humanity is responsible.
It's canon that China launched the nukes, you are still right about vault tech and the show confirms they had the plan, but they don't actually confirm they started the war. They had nukes, but if it were them that launched them that day, the daughter would have not been with Dad.
I interpreted it in the show that they intended to start the war by detonating a nuke in shady acres, but it’s never explicitly said that they were the soul cause of the war
@@pennywise5662it wasn’t them who launched them, they just encouraged the war, and probably sold the nukes
@@pennywise5662 Yeah, Vault Tec may have had the plan to launch on the back burner as a potential course of action, the Chinese just got the jump and launched before Vault Tec expected or planned. Then at that point the US retailiated, Vault Tec jumped on the bandwagon firing some off, heck even the Zetans fired some shit off as well.
"They keep running into eachother" its almost like they were tracking eachother down and the ghoul had the dog to smell the head and the bos had the radiation dictator that tracked the radiation level the ghoul emitted
Ah yes the radiation detector that they pulled out to detect a radiation trial in a radiation filled wasteland, also nevermind the blatant contradiction of Lucy finding Maximus when her tracker was inside the head that would've been miles from where maximus was stuck by the time she got there, she should've been on Thaddeus' trail and never even came across Maximus
My mom was a set dresser for this show. She worked exclusively in the vaults, and told me they nailed everything about Fallout (I taught her about some fallout lore.) Everything inside was completely practical and faithful to the game. It was exciting she was working on it, but I thought it was just going to be another halo situation. I was so very happy to find out the show is fantastic!
Based mom
That’s pretty sick.
She should have told them to play the game so they knew what Fallout was
@@chiquita683he literally said Bethesda (the company that made the game) helped make it
It was faithful to the show? So it was faithful to itself? Ok…
I love the part where John fallout appears and says "War dosen't change"
John fallout once said "I need your help. I need 2000 bottle caps to get on the new vegas strip and save the Mojave." Truly a noble man.
My favorite scene was when John Fallout stepped out of the vault and said "Its Fallouting TIme". I wept harder than I ever had before..
Don’t disrespect the lore 🤓
Being stuck in the power armor with no way to get out because of losing the fusion core brought me huge black mirror vibes
Oh cmon man spoilers
But how does he go to the bathroom?
@@soaktinbleech1106 watch the show.....oh wait no prime :(
@@ChefMovktax2 I got Amazon prime just so that I could watch this show, but work has been taking alot of my time so I'm only on episode 5
@@ferretyluv power armor recycle water and poop
I actually think the big vault tec twist suited perfectly, they’ve hinted at it before but always kept it very nuanced. Used to be some real ‘fallout iceberg’ stuff now it’s real!
I think season 2 of Fallout (which has already been greenlit) will probably have the weekly episode releases like the Boys did from Season 1 to Season 2
Yeah that was my thought. Boys was a binge show adapation, and now that they got you hooked they can do a drip feed.
Where has it been said it’s already been greenlit? Because I can’t find any confirmation of that.
@@rakoonshampoo2608 The end of Season 1 quite literally showed what they'd be focusing on for Season 2, New Vegas.
@@rakoonshampoo2608 no confirmation yet, but judging from the success of this season i would say its inevitable
@@ergohash2517 would be funny if this actually good show doesn't get renewed but other mediocre crap does.
When the shopkeeper lady said Ive got 200 caps for anyone that kills him, I knew bro was gonna use V.A.T.S and they did it so well.... bro was even eating tomatoes during the fight.....
They captured the essence of pausing the game, eating for health, and going back to fighting.... THIS SHOW is amazing.
Lol I never thought about it like that but you're right
She said a thousand caps. But yeah, munching on some food while getting shot at was a pretty funny nod to eating while in combat in the games.
"Amazing" is a bit of a stretch at best
how did he use VATS if he doesn't wear pip-boy?
Muttfruit
The cousin stuff was outta pocket tho 😭
HUH (havent watched it)
@@jacksoncarver469Watch it... You'll understand
@@jacksoncarver469 man you gotta watch it
It was plot relevant though. If you only have like 1000 people in the vault you are kinda forced to have those discussions to ensure genetic diversity
Made me do a double take😂
If you can’t tell, all of the characters have stat sheets. Most specifically The Ghoul has bloody mess, cannibal, gun-fu…
I love this, I started watching thinking what certain characters, traits, strong skills and perks were, had so much fun watching it
I'm really hoping we get a Mysterious stranger Easter egg at some point.
@@L3thalBones god I hope youre right
@@L3thalBonesi was thinking he could be a nod to it lol
@@Strandman11 Who The Ghoul? I kinda thought that but I'm still hoping for a proper one.
This may get lost in the comments, but I just want to honor Mitten Squad. He would have loved to have watched this show. Rest in peace.
On the whole convenience thing: when the scientist ends up near the Yaogui cave, I think there was an implied time skip later on when Maximus ends up there. Time of day looked different, and they didn’t even run into each other. Not explained well but that’s how I took it. When Lucy finds Maximus locked in the armor, that was explained as her tracking the head to that spot
If the next season has the main character being constantly told of a settlement that needs help than this show becomes perfect.
The best release model is the triple drop followed by weekly instalments. Sometimes episode 1 of a show is by necessity, usually a bit exposition heavy and it's not until a few episodes in that the show really gets firing. The triple drop lets the audience binge the first three episodes and get into (and hooked) on the story. Then the rest of the show comes out weekly so that it can be appreciated and keep everyone on the same page.
It makes me lose interest when they do that.
Best release will always be all at once for me, then everyone can choose their own speed to watch it. If it's weekly you either have to spread a few hour long show across several whole months, or painstakingly dodge spoilers while waiting for it all to release. When it's all at once you can watch whenever you're in the mood to watch it. If you wanna watch weekly then just watch it weekly or an episode every few days, If you wanna binge it all in one night then binge it all in one night, it's a fully customisable experience you can tailor to how you wanna watch.
Or the worst thing ever is when they release weekly split the season into parts like with the last season of attack on titan or this invincible season, it absolutely kills the hype for it cause you're basically getting like 5 hours of show spread across a year.
If it's weekly and the episodes release on a day of the week you're In work and can't watch then you're almost definitely gonna get it spoiled in the few days you're working and can't watch it, If it drops all at once not as many people talk about it so you can just watch as many episodes as you want whenever you can fit them into the busy schedule. I've never understood the point of saying it's bad dropping it all at once cause you don't hear many people discussing it, my brothers in Christ have you not seen forums or chats before haha, there are still millions of chatrooms talking about 20 year old shows you could join as many as you want and talk about it haha.
Plus good god forbid you get to a filler arc in a weekly release schedule good god haha, having to spread 2-3 hours of filler across a few weeks while you're waiting for the show to get good again is the absolute worst. AHH just even thinking about weekly hurts, some fights in anime are like 8-10 episodes long, I can't imagine spreading 2 hour fight across 2 entire months in pieces haha, couple punches thrown and then wait til next week to see if he blocks, and then one episode of flashbacks followed by a few more punches the month after
Yeah I like it that way too, it’s the perfect balance between the binge model and weekly releases.
Wasn't there a research conducted on the topic of "what's the best release model for TV streaming according to customer satisfaction" and the results were that 1 episode every 1-3 day(s) provided the best results?
If that is true and I'm not misremembering I'd like to see a streaming service try it out for once
@@malif1279 that is way better than one a week haha. I'd much rather it be one a day at the most, especially when it's a show where the seasons like 40-50 episodes like with some anime it can take like 8+ months to weekly release it all and it absolutely kills the flow of the show when some fights can last months so you'll be getting a few punches a week haha.
I get chills every time I see a scene with power armor.
Plus, "Though shall get sidetracked by shit every 2 minutes"
The Ghoul being relatable af!
Definitely a normie
This whole comment section is filled with bots I swear. Including you.
Eh, the power armor looked a bit off to me
@@TAKEYOURCREATINE To be fair, they got as close to the look of power armor as they possibly could. I think literally the only possible improvement could be making it slightly darker.
I finally got to watch the series because Amazon Prime Video was having issues on my phone for months, and it got fixed. My god, I love it! They captured the gore, the aesthetic, the way the Pipboys work with having all the features they do in the game. I'll tell ya, if Nintendo does half as well on the Zelda movie as Amazon and Bethesda did on this series, I'll be overjoyed!
For those curious the timeline goes Fallout 76 (2102), Fallout (2161), Fallout 2 (2241), Fallout 3 (2277), New Vegas (2281), Fallout 4 (2287), Fallout Show (2296).
nope. because in the show they ignore everything of new vegas and most of F2
@@sanji1259 What do you mean nope? Whether they "ignore" those or not (I disagree) this is still factually the timeline of all the games and the show.
@@sanji1259 games that also conflict the lore of one another...
@@L3thalBones then where is shady sands? The boneyard?
@@jakelongstaff4102 like? Can you name something?
I did see one of the actors talking about how they went and played the games to get more familiar with the source material
Yeah Lucy's actor did I thought that was cool. Walton just mentioned his kids play games, but man's named Walton not exactly a gamer name.
Ella Purnell and Kyle Maclachlan both said in interviews that they’ve played or have watched people play Fallout 4. Which is refreshing.
@@graveyardghoul8482 I knew about Ella didn't know Kyle did, that's cool. I just think its kind of sad its expected for like a book adapation an actor is expected to read the book, but a game? God no games are for kids.
@@judasdubois yeah its strange. One of the interviews for the halo adaptation the director was quoted saying he was proud he had not played a single halo game. I was like that makes sense cause it feels that way.
@@judasduboiseven John Nolan played through Fallout 3.
For the convenient time & place thing I didn't think it was a problem. I think that's because it's based on a universe where(usually) the events happen when your character gets there. So it's a little video gamey and I like that, feels canon to me.
yeah I never had a problem with it and actually found it really endearing that they kept running into each other in such a big wasteland like that but I was never able to put into words why I thought it was a positive thing but this is it
The only coincidence that bother me was when knight Titus and Maximus stopped at the same cave the doctor was just at. They didn’t come down there for him, Titus just wanted to shoot shit, and nothing really came of it weirdly enough. Like the doctor seemed to leave asap, and If I remember correctly Maximus was already on the way to Filly to begin with, so there isn’t much reason narratively for them to both be there.
@pman87850 it was literally just for foreshadowing that there was something big and scary in the cave. But yeah, a massive coincidence with no actual point for the sake of foreshadowing.
@@pman87850 so that Max gets the power armor. Also to show that the knights arent all heroic like he saw when he was a kid.
The main characters meeting up conveniently and randomly, I feel like was a representation of random encounters
10:30 it's almost like they all have the same mission being tracked and it just keeps leading them to the same places
dogmeat was tracking the head
They did have the same mission …..
I felt like they must have a high Luck stat hahahaha
I felt like they must have a high Luck stat hahahaha
I felt like they must have a high Luck stat hahahaha
Fun fact: the vault tec twist was originally gonna be in the canceled fallout movie. I was really excited that they ended up bringing that back.
The vault tec twist is also definitely hidden within lore in game to. They wanted to force people into their experiments and this was the best way to do it.
People are dumb and quick to judge without doing research so here ya go.
Timeline:
Fallout 76 - 2102
Fallout 1 - 2161
Fallout 2 - 2241
Fallout 3 - 2277
Fallout New Vegas - 2281
Fallout 4 - 2287
Fallout TV Show- 2296
New Vegas in the show is canon ;)
3:44 crisp audio, my favorite dish
As a Fallout fan, I felt obligated to binge it regardless whether it was shit or amazing and I was so damn happy it was so good. The attention to detail was fantastic, the storylines were interesting, the essence of Fallout was just THERE, and finale was a great tie up of the season and get me super hyped for the second season.
i played the Fallout New Vegas main menu theme on the ending scene of Arriving at New Vegas ; it was so good it Deserved it playing during the credits.
Too bad they messed up the lore and had some horrible characters and writing in it.
I was really happy to see that it genuinely got the *feel* of Fallout.
@@robertlawrence9000except they didn't do any of that. All of the lore things I've seen have been nitpicky at best and the actors all did fantastic.
Also Lucy is hecking good looking
Literally almost finished with the first episode right now lol gonna wait to watch this in case of spoilers
Edit: just finished it and holy fuck is it good
Charlie is literally the most overly careful person in the world about spoiling. I wish he would spoil more often when it’s something I’d never watch
@@bryanhartline1696 Youve seen invincible season 2 review right? He spoiled one of the most shocking fights in the show
I am up to the last 2 episodes, every single one of the first 6 episodes have had me on the edge of my seat and absolutely glued with my attention, it has been such a great show. Enjoy what you are about to watch
Watch the review of synthetic man of the fallout tv series.
The adaptation is garbage........
The entire first season is fantastic. They brought so many elements of the games to life, and they did it so well that I didn't even recognize some of them at first.
I wanted to love starfield and i hated it. I wanted to hate this show, and I loved it.
We're at the point where video game adaptations can't be written off anymore, due to these great ones coming out
Amen to that. Hopefully the Minecraft movie keeps up the pace.
@@donovanjoseph737 there’s gonna be a Minecraft movie? How? It’s all blocks
@itz_me_beautiful_devil_21 What?
But why did halo get fucked 😭😭
Too bad they messed this one up.
On the third episode, the Maximus dynamic is my favorite so far. And I'm excited to see the Lucy character progression.
Maxismus is a very unlikable character, which I'm sure was the point but damn is hard to like him.
He literally has a 1 int 10 luck build lmao
@@MaullerTwin He doesn't make a lot of sense...? So many scenes with him had me saying "Why!?"
@@MaullerTwin I hate Maximus but that's also why I like his character. I love the BOS but they are all sufferable people, Dance doesn't count lol
@MaullerTwin even by the end I still found him bland and unbelieve as a character. There's no way that someone raised by the Brotherhood should be as bland as Maximus, especially when they're one of the three main characters.
To be honest, I was afraid the show was going to be bad, but I’m glad it’s good
Same! SOOOO many TV and movie adaptations of video game franchises shat the bed and I've been a fanatical devotee of the fallout lore since FO3 so I was hoping against hope that the fallout TV show would be good.
To be fair, anyone would be well within reason to assume a video game adaptation would be bad, since we have more examples of it going wrong than going right.
In my opinion the show itself is fine, but there are points (probably the sexual scenes) that I just cringe
@@particely I didn't mind, Lucy is hot af
Trust me, it fucking sucks.
Fallout 4 has a very special place in my heart just because when I was really young, like 6-7 I would sit in a room with my dad and watch him play fallout 4 as much as I could. It was so cool watching him slowly collect these amazing suits of power armor and build up a settlement. And while he obviously didn’t let me watch the violent parts, but it was still an amazingly cool experience and so fallout 4 will always be nostalgic to me so I appreciate the show being extremely close to how fallout 4 looked.
Are you 12 or something?
Holy shit I’m just realizing fallout 4 is nine years old. Jesus Christ I’m an elder
@@Mroresident32303 I mean you were only like 3 or 4 years off
@@CantTellYou that’s way off tbh lol
@@Mroresident32303 😭
Is this finally the generation of good video game adaptations??
No.
Just adaptations in general really
@@courtneyriley185erm actually the fallout show was peak
@@courtneyriley185Have faith
One thing I’ve heard is that video game adaptations are finally improving because the audience of these adapted games are at the age of being in these creative spaces, so there’s more passion there was back during the days of the original Mario movie and the Mortal Kombat movies
Considering the nuke in megaton has the vault tec logo on the side it’s pretty obvious that they had some hand in the world ending.
That's a total retcon. There was a war between the Chinese and the US in the first Fallout game.
This is just some stupid liberal anti-America nonsense retcon.
How In the world did I wiff this?
Its something always heavily implied but im glad theres a concrete it was them
@@angelsideuk6197it’s also implied aliens might have started the war, and the government was in contact with them. Also that the buttercup mechanical horses everywhere were some sort alien weapon? From the alien DLC
It's actually not identical to the vault tec logo, but it's likely the company thinly disguising themselves.
One thing I'd say about your review Charlie, the Ghoul doesn't brutally massacre a town, just like the cowboy he was meant to be on the silver screen, he only shoots and kills people who draws on him first.
didn't the ghoul himself describe it as a massacre just before dropping two officers?
@@nopenoperson9118 he also admitted to killing the people at the super duper mart even though he didn't, he's trying to get a rise out of the two sheriff's that were going to kill him, and if ultimately worked
@@nopenoperson9118 He also claimed to have sacked the SuperDuperMart, when it was actually Lucy.
One thing I wanna see in the show is the mysterious stranger pop up to save someone in a situation
it would just be too easy and too fun. I hope they are willing to risk non-fans calling it Deus Ex Machina because I need this.
If people are saying that the show is all just references they've clearly never played the game because Fallout is just references
If you've played any Fallout game in the entire franchise they are packed to the fucking brim with pop culture references TV movie and music references
They are literally just a reference series and the reason why it feels so good is because they take so many real life references and implement them into the game in a way that makes sense
Fallout has a lot of references, but to say that it is only references are 100% wrong. The game, especially NV, is filled with lore, wasteland politics, and great characters.
@@affordablex4914 Even then NV still is filled with numerous pop culture references, granted mostly under the wild wasteland perk. Even without it there's numerous allusions to things like The Rat Pack, Mad Max, Metal Gear Solid, and not to mention all of the quests are literally named after old 40s-60s hits. The entire series has been filled with them since at least 2, and even than fallout 1 had an easter egg where the Tardis and was inspired by books like A Canticle for Leibowitz as well as Cormac McCarthy's "The Road", and movies like "A Boy & His Dog"
@@boxylemons7961 Read my comment again🤦♀️I never said that fallout doesn’t have refrences, all I’m saying is the refrences isn’t the entire game. To say that fallout is “literally just a reference series” is just stupid.
The spoiler you mentioned actually confirmed something from fallout 3. The nuke from megatone had a valt tech logo on it and people have been questioning it for long time
The show is basically just a typical corporate "capitalism bad" story, and the whole premise is a copy pasta of fallout 3's story except changing the purifier for some cold fusion device. Shady sands is basically megatown and the goal of the main character is to uncover some secret about her dad who wasnt native to the vault
@@joshjonson2368 I mean, the Fallout games even from the first had that "Capitalism bad" story. It's all buried in the lore, computer logs and settings. That's what led to the resource wars, which led to the conflict against China to which "fighting against communism" was the propaganda used to hype people up for the conflict. It amazes me how people miss this stuff or fail to recognize it.
@@joshjonson2368 Well, that’s what Fallout is about essentially, VaultTec is a corrupt private corporation and always has been. It’s never been clear on their involvement in the Great War but it’s been suggested multiple times in the games they had something to do with the bombs dropping. The commies do drop bombs don’t worry, they either retaliated or fired first but that isn’t clear and it’s also theorized the Zetan aliens caused it too but nothing is confirmed. Either way VaultTec is amoral in its use of experiments on certain vaults many of which are unethical.
@elijahgrimm8052 Ah yes, "corporations are bad" said the Amazon #2 wealthiest corporation produced and funded show 😂
@@elijahgrimm8052 the main problem i have is #1... Amazon show. Very haha funny, selling us anti capitalism.
#2 yes, capitalism was always regarded as negative in the games but it was never actually the villain. I mean Vault Tec was greedy but only had power from what the Enclave, the government. Which you actively fight in 3/5 mainline games. FNV is fighting capitalism in house sure, but mainly authoritarianism in both House and Caesar. the NCR is plagued by capitalism sure, but they're also regarded as a tough "compromise" compared to the Socialist Follower's who have the best intentions, but not the power to enforce peace.
ig you could also say F1 is kind of anti authoritarian and F4... well, F4 is anti-science guys who have the ability to teleport but use it to replace random people instead of changing the world meaningfully.
I was waiting for there to be an entire episode of Lucy looting an abandoned building (for caps, materials, ammo, weapons, stimpacks, etc) for two hours 😂
You just pitched a low budget bottle episode for season 2, good job. Hoping it stays high budget though and we don't get bottle seasons like with The Walking Dead at the farm and prison.
@@Jas0nH reminded me of the bee episode in breaking bad
@@FranguleaIonutwas one of the most memorable episodes tho.
I honestly am enamored with the subtle details of it ,such as the raider in the first episodes alluding from being from the outside just by the way he filled the entire blender with purified water,can’t wait to see cazadors,super mutants and deathclaws in the next season!
The bombs in game have vault tec symbols on them. It stayed true to lore.
The discussion between Chet and Stephanie about Bert’s shoes was so good.
Walton goggins kills it, and a small critique. I wish the power armor just had the jetpack from the games instead. I think doing the whole iron man thing was weird when they literally have jetpacks in the game.
Or making the actual vending machine or not making your vault dweller know what a raider and a knight is
Yea looks a little goofy with just those 2 jets supposedly being able to lift that much weight
@@smallgyro4932they have information of the surface in the game they can tune into the radio station out in the wasteland on their pip boys and they also have to have been taught by the first vault generation that the possibility of raiders could happen eventually. Clearly they were from the surface because the pip boy picks up radiation and theirs only one way to get that amount of radiation in a vault and that’s to not be from the vault
@@smallgyro4932 What do you mean? there are vaults in the games that deal with people from the wasteland so they knowing what the wasteland is about is lore accurate
I disagree, I think the only reason it doesn't do that in the game is for balance. Power armor should absolutely be able to do that.
I wanted to feel this way. I really did. But there are too many egregious retcons in this. The symbolism of the whole series going from the horror of war to "muh capitalism bad". The reason the bombs were dropped. The mechanics of Ghoulification. The morality of the Brotherhood going from good/grey to villainous, the disrespect of the NCR, the stupid comparison of vault dwellers to "rich people", the changing of certain mutants. The hypocritical, childish behavior of Maximus and huge plothole surrounding his Knight. Yeah...no. Just because it looks good and has memberberries doesn't mean they can go and screw with this amazing series. Strike 3 was hit for me.
On my second watch, I noticed Betty talking to Norm in the beginning about, "how clever boys" get angry, which eludes to more back story with Betty and Hank. I just thought that was great foreshadowing.
or after she gets kick out of vault 4 and says that her father wouldnt be proud of her if she destroyed an entire group of people to find him lol
My ONLY criticism, and this is quite minor, is the vehicles in the series. I was really looking forward to seeing the junked out triple finned fusion cars. The only one properly built like that (that i noticed) was a single red one at the party before the war. And I was looking forward to seeing those.
In general, i think a lot of the pre-war related design was more grounded in reality. Alot of the standing buildings and interiors are pretty much similar to what you can find irl, like the pharmacy and the superstore. Im thinking a lot of that nuclear-future design language was left out because there wasnt a huge focus on commercial nuclear power and consumption as a plot point. It was also probably easier to just get a hold of existing 70s props rather than making funkier new ones. I actually didnt really notice for awhile.
This. None of the cars in the show looked like a Corvega. But then again, the franchise didn't really specify that Corvega was the only car manufacturer in existence before the bombs dropped. So I guess it's kinda plausible that there _might_ be other unnamed companies out there without the rear-mounted reactor.
At least they had that dinky one-seater Bud drove to work.
@@bigerik4600 This is honestly one of the biggest gripe i had with the show, i thought i would see more of the nuke-punk aesthetic in the show but in most of the scenes there are just mostly real life 60s props that doesn't fit the Fallout aesthetics.
I get why they did it. It's cheaper to rent a hundred cars from the 40s and 50s than to modify a hundred cars to look retro futuristic.
Yes I too was surprised that converga was not in the vault Tec meeting in the final episode!
3:24 thought my speakers broke
The vault tech twist has been hinted at for years with tons of fans predicting it, it was less of a twist and more of a confirmation
13:20 the games have definitely hinted that Vault-Tec played at least some part in the bombs dropping.
Maybe they didn’t drop the bombs themselves, but Vault-Tec certainly would have profited off the continued fear of nuclear war breaking out at any moment.
Project Safehouse was ordered by the shadow government as a case study for interstellar travel. The GECK is a terraforming engine, the Vault experiments are by and large interstellar generation ship problems.
Not to mention how the blue flu feels like it was an FEV precursor and survival/inoculation is why there's so many prewar ghouls
I love that they used all the old jazz music eg. ink spots
Yao Gui scene was me every time I ran into a Yao Gui for the first time in each game.
That scene literally captured everybody’s first encounter with a yao gui it was great
It's Guai, but yeah lol
@@noticiasinmundicias Noticed that after I typed it, but in the words of Todd Howard: It Just Works
As a big fallout fan, most of my time with the franchise is playing the games by myself without really seeing it anywhere else, so seeing all the love and attention from everyone towards the franchise puts a big ol smile on my face, mittensquad would be proud
every so often I think about mittensquad, one of my favorite Fallout focused content creators. Miss him dearly RIP he would've loved this show.
Makes me really sad he didn’t get to live to see that the show actually turned out good
The fact we're about to get so much new merch thanks to the show is so exciting
Good old mittensquad was and always will be a legend to me and many others
Aww you mentioning mittensquad actually hurt in my heart, he would have loved this so much 😢 rest in peace
Episode 1, when the Cowboy Girl lifted her Thumb gave me goosebumps! Great start!
Hate to say it, but you are wrong. Best Fallout game is F2 and that's a cold fact.
Depends really. Starting a new playthrow on fo3 means you can do anything at any time in any order. Starting a new playthrow on fallout 2 means spending 4 days straight punching gecko's hoping to level up enough.
@@davidlz830 F2 early game really sucks for new players because it is pretty unforgiving. But it's also more open than 1. Sure, you can spend 4 days punching gecko's, but when you realize you don't have to do that at all...just go do something else
This is how you do a ‘game adaptation’ tv series. Also, I absolutely love the power armour is portrayed. That shit is scary.
Pity the suit looks plastic & the cgi is laughable
@@chriscunningham8703exactly
Bro the cgi is fucking terrible