Walton Goggins, does a great job selling Cooper's growing horror watching the mushroom cloud grow. Even more poignant when you realize how much he knew about how it really started.
You need to be a little careful applying real world physics to Fallout: its set in a divergent history and technology did not develop in the same way. I can't recall if they stayed with valves rather than transistors, and valves don't have the same weakness to EMP.
@@Ralnonin fallout 4 Corvega, it's hinted the cars use valves, i even think you can collect them as junk. So your theory is correct (if I'm not mistaken)
@Ralnon in Fallout New Vegas: Honest Hearts, there are logs you can find from a man named Randall Clark, a survivor of the Great War. In his first log, he noted that while he was driving down an interstate just outside of Salt Lake City, his truck and a nearby Chryslus had stopped working. Not even a minute after the vehicles stopped, there was a bright flash behind him from the bomb that destroyed SLC.
even if the cars weren't unaffected by design, the nukes are small enough that the EMP doesn't even knock out the tv. there are other pros and cons, though. for example, the horse doesn't need gas, but the horse would also be scared out of its mind
Between the little girl sudden show of fear and Howard's escalating realization and panic settling in they both SOLD that scene for me and it's the my favorite of the entire season. Love everything Walton Goggins does. Hope the little girl turns out to be fantastic actress because holy cow that was good.
Agreed! Goggins of course sells it, but it’s her reaction that really elevates the emotional level of the scene. Very impressive for such a young actor!
This is just a shitty fictional depiction of it. The real thing would be Infinity worse than anything you've seen in shows and movies like this. Even just one going off in LA in real life would be more catastrophic than the 4 or 5 you see going off in this clip.
@@xsteelfeverx8004 It's the world of Fallout game... there would not be also ghouls, human mutants, insect monsters enhanced by radiation and a lot of things you will see in the series!! To understand more about the series, i advise people who doesn't know the game, to search in here, how everything was created! After WWII, history took a diferent turn and the chip, was never invented...!!
Our parents were scared of nukes, we are just used to them now and the threat doesn't feel as likely when you aren't directly at war. But something like skynet. What if AI wanted to use nukes. Game Over.
You’re kidding right? You know they were doing duck and cover nuke drills in public schools up through the 80s? They lived in real daily fear of nuclear war.
They were also elevated so they could have a farther line of sight but they’re probably like 10 miles from the blast so I’d say it’s probably 25kt tnt blast probably like a fat man
@@talthan I've seen a digital model of a large modern nuclear explosion compared to a cityscape and, just the initial fireball alone, was about as tall as the final mushroom cloud shown here. Like it's just insane.
What year was that because depending on the year depends on how small the nukes were as well if like a Hiroshima bomb it took a bit before the shock wave and heat to arrive
@michaelcollins8992 Heat from thermal radiation travels at the speed of light. You will be blind and burned before you even realize what is going on. Marveling at the mashroom cloud is totaly dumb like here in the scene ! Trying to outrun the Shockwave on a horse is regarded.
he knew what it was, but didn't believe it, that was his mind trying to make sense of what he was seeing, he was having a few seconds of "Cognitive dissonance" then reality set in
I love that in a world where people can launch mini-nukes from over their shoulder, people are nit-picking the realism of this scene. Fallout nukes aren't like our nukes. Like everything else in the world, they're retro-futuristic fantasy nukes. Portraying them accurately would actually detract from the world-building in the series.
@@chrislatam5423 ah hah, so we've established its subjective, meaning its based on the individual, therefore the complaints that it looks dumb are also just as valid as the praise.
@@pyerack There doesn't need to be a why. This is not a realistic world. It'd be like asking why a wizard's thunderbolts don't travel at the speed of light. Nothing in Fallout is based on real science, it is a fantasy world utilizing real-world locations. That's why I say making this scene more realistic would actually detract from the series. Because it would beg the question, "Why is this scene so realistic when everything else is so over-the-top?" Doesn't mean you have to like it, but if you have a problem with this scene, then you have a problem with Fallout overall.
it's not that good, having a nuclear blast occur 5mi away from your house and nobody in the entire party could see it was complete BS, fallout 4 intro was better than this
The kid is standing, who by the way would have been blinded by the flash yet the windows behind her get blown in and nobody at the party notices the blinding flash. The whole scene is a nonsense.
@@pgs1796 Yeah, it was JUST this scene...other than that, Fallout's a pretty scientifically accurate series. (Edit: I REALLY fucking hate how [This Website] keeps deleting comments)
Well you can’t really win a nuclear war that’s for sure even though other countries built nuclear weapons and it’s fear the same fear that divided us the fear of conflict and the fear to built theses nuclear bombs in the first place
Take this as you will. I had a similar moment: In the late 1990s and 2000s bombings in malls in Metro Manila was a thing. Dad and I were buying my birthday gift in the Toy store. An hour later people were rushing, and screaming out of the Mall. Dad told me to stay put and get away from the glass doors since there could be explosives around Seeing this made me remember dad. Though the man is still with us, I had to pause cause I miss him. I teared up seeing the clip
@@TWISTEDINTOTRUTH Thanks dude. Things did not fully register at the time. Though I did know what was happening. I'm just glad to be in the here and now
@@stingerjohnny9951it’s not the radiation, a nuke being set of is pretty much a mini sun, meaning looking directly at one without the proper protection can and in all likelihood will blind you
@@TheIrishRushinI think the idea is that if you’re close enough to see a nuclear bomb detonate, you’re probably screwed anyway. You’re not going to be able to run anywhere before the shockwave breaks you.
@@BadassName17 I've always found it incredibly funny that most ghouls in the older games have milky white eyes as if they are blind. When in reality they can see just fine.
The worst place to be is in the ring of people who get instantly blinded and sunburned until they catch fire. Being right at the middle is okay you're just vaporised and being far enough away to live is good too but that distance would be awful
It may be a short scene, but Teagan Meredith deserves a damn Emmy nomination for her role. The look of fear on her face when she asked "Is it your thumb, or is it mine" gives me chills every time I watch it. That little girl has some amazing talent.
I love how the blast was strong enough to shatter the glass, but not strong enough to blow anyone's hats off, or ruffle the fern to the left of screen. Whoopsie!
Idk if anyone noticed. But Cooper after telling his daughter “If the bomb is bigger than your thumb, no point in running” than the nukes dropped and proceeded to jump on his horse and ran away. Lol.
@@quisqueyanguy120 China only wants Taiwan, Siberia and Tibet. If the USA evacuates Taiwanese people along with their nanochip-producing technology and gives them a place to live within the continental USA - China can have all the Taiwan it. Putin offers to effectively give SOuthern Siberia to China for support in the war against Ukraine. And it seems China is willing to take that deal - but it can have Siberia all the way west to Urals if it switches sides and helps NATO and the EU to crush Russia economically. As for Tibet - it mattered 40 years ago, when opiates were the main drugs, and Tibet grows 90% of opium in the world. But now Northern Korea produces high-quality synthetic drugs that are much more in-demand than opiates, and Tibet lost its strategic importance, and China's claim over it cam be legitimized. WWIII can be avoided if China gets what it wants - and it can actually be done. Otherwise - don't look at the flash...
Am I the only one really missing the sci-fi aspect of the games in the tv series? Were are the robots cutting the lawn, were are the ridiculous oversized 50s style vehicles? This did look so much like the real 50s, I nearly forgot how little the explosions looked like a nuke exploding...
They 100 percent should of done better in the nuke scenes, although lore wise the nukes had extremely low yield, in real life we call them dirty bombs, they basically produce minimum amount of shockwave and explosion damage with relatively small mushroom clouds but produce the maximum amount of radiation and fallout Again though even with them being dirty bombs, they did a horrible job, thank Christ the show is actually good enough to let it slide
It's nice that they got to have that father-daughter conversation without being on fire and being picked up and dashed to pieces within seconds of the detonation.
@@rubensano4860 fine. These aren’t normal nukes, they’re dirty bombs. Vault-Tec planted them to start the war and recoup their investment on the vaults.
No one has pointed this out yet but how genius it is that one of the party peoples taking pictures, the camera flash takes up the whole living room. Notice how the first bomb goes off, no one thinks otherwise. They must've thought "oh another picture"...or even the camera man took a photo at the same time the bomb goes off.
actually i heard we were already saved many times from it, because some last guys of the people in command refused to press the red button. and sure might happen sometime in the future as well and we won't know about it :v
It will happen again, in the U.S. It's just a matter of time. Either way the sun will do it to us in the far future, but we won't wait that long to do it ourselves.
nah, these are small bombs they are fission bombs, not thermonuclear bombs (fusion ones) thats why they are "small". In the universe of fallout Thermonuclear bombs were not invented. In real life. They would have been way more destruction
@@v44n7That had nothing to do with what he said. No bomb type was mentioned. Fallout has ICBM's and most certainly ones that have multiple small warheads to scatter over a region as evidenced by all the small craters in game.
Having the camera flashes was a really great idea to explain why the people at the party wouldn't immediately react to giant flash of light behind them.
Buffalo Bill Dam, just out of Cody on the road to Yellowstone is a probable target, since it provides irrigation water for a big section of northwest Wyoming. Most of Cody would be destroyed. Our shelter is a decent distance East… about 75 miles. Within 48 hours, radiation levels of fallout is decreased 100 fold, so sheltering is necessary for less than a week.
Ugh don't remind me. We literally have a sleeping bomb in Yellowstone....I better be dead before that sucker goes. I'm in Gillette so we would be gone.
this is one of the BEST damned shows I've seen, not to mention it's interesting to imagine it from the survivor's point of view, the shockwave and blast are the most deadly bits of nukes and the radiation is just another nail in the coffin,
For a nuke that close, the sound and impact sure took a while... also pretty sure she'd have instantly gone blind looking directly at the initial blast of light without any protection.
Missed that, too. And makes no sense. Why build vaults if you don't have a detection system that tells you to bring people into the vault BEFORE they get vaporised by nukes? I still feel that Fallout 4 did a more realistic intro...
@@TimothyGod i'm not speculating on some made up people in a made up fantasy scenario, I'm talking about the games they used as a template, that always included evacuation scenarios and specific actions to warn and react to a nuclear war. Best example surely is the introduction/tutorial of fallout 4.
@@craddocraddoc "made up fantasy scenario" I swore i heard them say they would drop the nukes. And wipe out surface world, and only have their important people be safe. That seems pretty concrete to me
Love the frame at 1:30 depicting two different kind of people, the privileged ones masking the problems with entertainment and the normal working people forced to see the reality which they live
Omg and if you survive, every birthday you have is just going to be the anniversary of the day the world ended. It’s like having your birthday on 9/11, or Remembrance day, but a millions times more depressing.
What else were we going to do? Save the planet? Explore the universe? We're chimpanzees with bigger rocks and emotional scars. Only thing we can do is wipe each other out eventually.
@@orcloverogrefiend5644 No... It's because of sin. That's a fact. The materialistic world is a the delusion. It's a spiritual condition and the longer you try to deny that and give it some inane worldly explanation, the worse absolutely everything is going to be for you. Little by little.
@@v44n7 in the TV show they are depicted as being closer to the blasts than US troops were in 1950s field tests. Those troops were warned severely against flash blindness.
@@badkittynomilktonight3334 depends on the yield and the distance to be instant blinded, of course you wont try your luck with a nuclear bomb, you tell your troops to not look at it
The scene was already pretty great on its own, but adding in _the_ classic Fallout song - "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" by The Ink Spots btw - to the background as Cooper and his daughter hightail it out of there added a whole new level of satisfaction to it. That said, I can't help but think that adding "It's All Over but the Crying" (another classic Fallout theme by The Ink Spots) would've worked a bit better in comparison, seeing as the world Cooper knew was "over" and all that was left was the anguish (i.e. the "crying") afterwards.
Also, if you have ever been in an accident or combat situation, time feels like it slows down... It's weird, but it's real. Let the educated and experienced be the ones to judge here.
The very-hinted-at reveal he faces at the end of the season adds to the tragedy of what is going on for Cooper in this scene. It adds another layer to Goggins’ portrayal of horror.
I was thinking the same thing. And it makes me wonder how they play it out in season 2, obviously Cooper went ghoul as he was outside the vault but so was his daughter yet he knows both are alive. Him finding out that the end of the world was basically his wife’s idea to sell vaults was brutal
Bigger than the Beirut blast, yet for all the radiation, scorching infrared and explosive heat, the dust thrown into the air and broken windows, not one of the extras clothing had a single mark. Maybe nuclear war isn't that big a deal right? LOL
This is just good cinema. The glass is symbolic of the divide between haves and have-nots, and also between the vaults and the wasteland. It reinforces how his daughter needs to ask for cake while every other child is free to have as much cake as they like. The slow motion chaos plays out in a similiar fashion when the raiders invade Vault 32, and we see also see the projection start to burn --- a not-too-subtle call back to the bombs dropping at the beginning of the episode. This is just plain good direction. People want to hate Westworld's later seasons but Jonah Nolan knows what he's doing. It drives home the notion that people haven't changed.
She had to ask because she was not invited to the party guests are allowed to have as much as they want that is offered. wasnt have or have not it was guest or not a guest
@@talthan That's the literal interpretation, yes. But my experience is that when you see a little kid and she's part of the entertainment, you offer a piece of cake out of courtesy, to show you appreciate their service. From how the camera tells the story, she was never even offered a piece.
this scene give you the impression you could run from a nuclear explosion if you are like 15 km away, the blast alone would´ve ripped organs, if that didn´t kill, it will be the 4000 degree flame wave coming seconds after
First, you get a radiation flash at the speed of light, so everything within a few kilometers is set ablaze. Not sure why this is missing in this scene, maybe because it would be no fun. Then the first shockwave rolling out, then the second rolling in, then big debris flying around, and radiation creeping slowly towards you.
So, she would have been permanently blind from that. No one in that room would not have noticed the bright flash. At that distance, it is just too bright not to notice.
I like this a lot but I feel like you probably could’ve just removed the audio from the scene. It could have just ended on the distortion with the nuke and went silent tbh. But besides that, really good work! 👍
Dude just took out all audio from the original and used this song... Didn't even keep the ambient noises which is what adds more tension to this. Imo, the original is better
@@willrentas7877 Cooper does mention he's looking for his whole family, not just his wife, so something had to have happened where they were separated.
@@nagger8216my guess they were frozen in some vault, because in-game some of the vaults were raided and the people there turned into ghouls because of radiation. That would explain why Cooper is 200yo.
Agreed, that they misplaced this song in the second episode. It holds such a strong emotional connection for me with the show. Maybe they intended to have it be a more romantic relationship between maximus and lucy, but it is SO much better how you've done it
the first episode of the season Is a little bit confusing because of the introduction of the main characters of this series if you don't know the story of the actual game is, but I got hooked into finishing the whole episodes as it was a very good story. I am looking for another season soon.
Nukes are WAY more powerful than depicted here. The first bomb would have burned eveyone in the initial flash and pretty much everything would be on fire. Those are maybe hiroshima size bombs, modern ones are hundreds to thousands times more powerful.
While nuclear weapons can be build thousands of times more powerful than the primitive atomic (pure fission) bombs, most active duty weapons are only about 25 times as powerful - about 500 kt. Aircraft delivered weapons run even smaller - the current version of the US B61 dial-a-yield goes from below 1kt to a maximum of 80 kt. Using multiple smaller weapons on large city-size targets is more effective and avoids the issue of a larger single bomb failing to detonate
Ironically for a franchise all about nuclear armageddon, the nukes used throughout the series tend to be low yields Nothing like the nukes we have today
That fking line
"Is it your thumb, or mine?" Gets right to the goddamn core of me
Blood ran cold hearing that.
You could tell that it was already bigger than her thumb...
Dont know, didnt really got me
It was the fear in the kids voice for me
The effects for this scene are spectacular, but it was her performance that really drives it home. Fantastic work for such a young actor.
She executed the line perfectly, it was great!
Walton crushes every single role he's ever had.
The first time I saw Walton Goggins was in Shanghai Noon 😊
First time i saw him was in the heat of the night tv series
@@olcaptain449136 years old still watching heat of the night on tv, bunny ears and all
Favorite role was Detective Vendrell in the Shield
@@BruiserKC such an amazingly nuanced and heart-wrenching performance
Now we can start to mod the series lol
Wish that was possible.
And unlike the games the show lets us "play" as a Ghoul
Make the black people white mod v 1.01
@@RayoSombrio78 it is if you think about it anyone can be a a video editor and upload it
I'm working on it..
Walton Goggins, does a great job selling Cooper's growing horror watching the mushroom cloud grow. Even more poignant when you realize how much he knew about how it really started.
If The Ghoul ever finds his wife, the punishment he meets out will be too raw to see. Hell, I’m not sure we even want to hear it.
@@NickJohnCoop Lots of questioning and lots of beating.
@@NickJohnCoopwait why? Im not familiar with the lore
@@macy762the series explains it
@@macy762 his wife is responsible, it was her plan that they fire the bomb first.
Love how he takes the horse to escape. He seemed to know the EMP from the nuke will kill every car stone cold!
You need to be a little careful applying real world physics to Fallout: its set in a divergent history and technology did not develop in the same way.
I can't recall if they stayed with valves rather than transistors, and valves don't have the same weakness to EMP.
@@Ralnonin fallout 4 Corvega, it's hinted the cars use valves, i even think you can collect them as junk. So your theory is correct (if I'm not mistaken)
@Ralnon in Fallout New Vegas: Honest Hearts, there are logs you can find from a man named Randall Clark, a survivor of the Great War. In his first log, he noted that while he was driving down an interstate just outside of Salt Lake City, his truck and a nearby Chryslus had stopped working. Not even a minute after the vehicles stopped, there was a bright flash behind him from the bomb that destroyed SLC.
even if the cars weren't unaffected by design, the nukes are small enough that the EMP doesn't even knock out the tv. there are other pros and cons, though. for example, the horse doesn't need gas, but the horse would also be scared out of its mind
In the fallout 1 intro you see a Corvega ad in the TV featuring no electronic neither computers, only full analog system.
Between the little girl sudden show of fear and Howard's escalating realization and panic settling in they both SOLD that scene for me and it's the my favorite of the entire season. Love everything Walton Goggins does. Hope the little girl turns out to be fantastic actress because holy cow that was good.
Agreed! Goggins of course sells it, but it’s her reaction that really elevates the emotional level of the scene. Very impressive for such a young actor!
Man... Just thinking about something like that and visualizing it in your mind is absolutely terrifying.
it will happen soon
This is just a shitty fictional depiction of it. The real thing would be Infinity worse than anything you've seen in shows and movies like this. Even just one going off in LA in real life would be more catastrophic than the 4 or 5 you see going off in this clip.
@@FrostDJakki3529 We do seem to be heading that way my friend - Good luck :-)
@@FrostDJakki3529 Yes... because you and a lot of people, love the "end of the world" idea !!
@@xsteelfeverx8004 It's the world of Fallout game... there would not be also ghouls, human mutants, insect monsters enhanced by radiation and a lot of things you will see in the series!!
To understand more about the series, i advise people who doesn't know the game, to search in here, how everything was created!
After WWII, history took a diferent turn and the chip, was never invented...!!
Jesus Christ, our parents were scared of Terminator predictions.
And we got this.
War never changes.
Our parents were scared of nukes, we are just used to them now and the threat doesn't feel as likely when you aren't directly at war. But something like skynet. What if AI wanted to use nukes. Game Over.
You’re kidding right? You know they were doing duck and cover nuke drills in public schools up through the 80s? They lived in real daily fear of nuclear war.
What did you not get when seeing the ending of Terminator 2?
I set the world on fire.
- Skynet
Them damn automations
Notice how those weren't airburst detonations, they looked to be ground impacts: this would create more fallout: dirty way to fight a nuclear war 🥺
Watch the end of the show haha, explains why it’s groundburst.
@@bno6156 oh, right: they weren't missiles or aircraft-dropped bombs were they? 😳
@@boydsinclair7606 extremely disappointed that they weren’t, because the reason for it happening makes no sense and is a lot less satisfying
@@bno6156 SPOILER WARNING:
Not missiles, not dropped from planes: detonated on the ground: placed there by VaultTec agents 🙁
@@boydsinclair7606 yeah, it’s stupid that they chose to do that like.
And that was a small nuke.
yes i was thinking the same not sure what scale it should have been but really felt way out of scale.
They were also elevated so they could have a farther line of sight but they’re probably like 10 miles from the blast so I’d say it’s probably 25kt tnt blast probably like a fat man
Probably subsurface has well given how the mushroom cloud developed
It definitely hit the ground hence the smaller yield, ground impacts are good if you want more fallout radiation
@@talthan I've seen a digital model of a large modern nuclear explosion compared to a cityscape and, just the initial fireball alone, was about as tall as the final mushroom cloud shown here. Like it's just insane.
I love that no one noticed the nuclear flash, because of the flashes of the camera. (Slow as fuck shockwave tho).
Bs what about termal radiation ?! This close they should be on fire in a milesecond!
@@BGSlopy I mean, Fallout has never portrayed nukes and radiation accurately, this is nothing new.
What year was that because depending on the year depends on how small the nukes were as well if like a Hiroshima bomb it took a bit before the shock wave and heat to arrive
It was weird because it looked like things were in slow motion yet the girl and dad were moving in normal time
@michaelcollins8992 Heat from thermal radiation travels at the speed of light. You will be blind and burned before you even realize what is going on. Marveling at the mashroom cloud is totaly dumb like here in the scene ! Trying to outrun the Shockwave on a horse is regarded.
By adding, the ink spots song in this scene, you just made it more morbid
Just like the game which had the same music.
just like the game ..... and i like it (thats litellary one of the songs on the game)
Using it ironically, as world is quite literally set on fire
It's much more dramatic with the TV series ost. Putting the same elements present in the game doesn't always make it better. I agree with you.
Yes
"That's smoke, it's just fire."
*(ALL OF LA IS "ON FIRE")* 😂
he knew what it was, but didn't believe it, that was his mind trying to make sense of what he was seeing,
he was having a few seconds of "Cognitive dissonance" then reality set in
To be fair, look up Los Angeles downtown construction site fire. The smoke was almost as bad as it was when he says that.
@@BlazingOwnager I found one of it at nigh time hours🤔 it was bad But🤨😬 it was titled "Possible 'foul play' probed in massive LA fire"
''People will remember me'' Big Smoke
That's hot, you say?
I love that in a world where people can launch mini-nukes from over their shoulder, people are nit-picking the realism of this scene. Fallout nukes aren't like our nukes. Like everything else in the world, they're retro-futuristic fantasy nukes. Portraying them accurately would actually detract from the world-building in the series.
Why would they go in slow motion and how does that make them better.
@@pyerack Cool Factor
@@chrislatam5423 ah hah, so we've established its subjective, meaning its based on the individual, therefore the complaints that it looks dumb are also just as valid as the praise.
@@pyerack There doesn't need to be a why. This is not a realistic world. It'd be like asking why a wizard's thunderbolts don't travel at the speed of light. Nothing in Fallout is based on real science, it is a fantasy world utilizing real-world locations.
That's why I say making this scene more realistic would actually detract from the series. Because it would beg the question, "Why is this scene so realistic when everything else is so over-the-top?"
Doesn't mean you have to like it, but if you have a problem with this scene, then you have a problem with Fallout overall.
☝️🤓
Honestly, it's one of the best opening scenes of a series I've ever seen.
it's not that good, having a nuclear blast occur 5mi away from your house and nobody in the entire party could see it was complete BS, fallout 4 intro was better than this
Bro it's and action drama@@bsdpowa chill out lololol. I can ldetonate a nuke 5 miles away from tennpenny tower in fo3 and survive
@@MADPAOFFICIAL I know it is, I was just saying the opening scene wasn't as good as it should've been
@@bsdpowa there are many things I wish they did differently I agree
@@MADPAOFFICIAL lol....
Walton Goggins is one of Hollywoods most underrated actors.
А вы заметили, что походка, физика .. Кого он играет? Это же Джон Уэйн!
@@VladislavtI hope that was Russian for "Walton Goggins is one of Hollywoods most underrated actors."
What makes him underrated exactly?
@@Mattjones3rdaccount it's an opinion. Not looking for a TH-cam debate or pissing contest. If you disagree move on to the next comment.
@@chadcleary7821he was just asking what makes him underrated exactly...
I think the first nuke was slowed down as a way of showing shock more than the nuke actually being slow
true
Exactly.
The kid is standing, who by the way would have been blinded by the flash yet the windows behind her get blown in and nobody at the party notices the blinding flash. The whole scene is a nonsense.
@@pgs1796 Yeah, it was JUST this scene...other than that, Fallout's a pretty scientifically accurate series.
(Edit: I REALLY fucking hate how [This Website] keeps deleting comments)
Well you can’t really win a nuclear war that’s for sure even though other countries built nuclear weapons and it’s fear the same fear that divided us the fear of conflict and the fear to built theses nuclear bombs in the first place
Take this as you will. I had a similar moment:
In the late 1990s and 2000s bombings in malls in Metro Manila was a thing. Dad and I were buying my birthday gift in the Toy store.
An hour later people were rushing, and screaming out of the Mall. Dad told me to stay put and get away from the glass doors since there could be explosives around
Seeing this made me remember dad. Though the man is still with us, I had to pause cause I miss him. I teared up seeing the clip
That must of been scary shit sorry to hear that happened to you.
@@user-yk5lk2in7n Thank you for this. The only thing I can focus on in this memory is my dad really took care of me.
Dad is a good man
@@ventus5th
Man that's deep. I'm glad you're ok
@@TWISTEDINTOTRUTH Thanks dude. Things did not fully register at the time. Though I did know what was happening.
I'm just glad to be in the here and now
Long life to you and your pops. That sounds like a nightmare
Missed the part where the girl would become permanently blind 😂
It is too far for that to happen
Quiet you, this is the kind of nuclear blast that mutates you so, I dunno, maybe she'd mutate better eyes or something
Radiation also doesn’t turn you into a badass immortal zombie, it just kills you.
Would i be able to use my solar eclipse glasses 😂
@@stingerjohnny9951it’s not the radiation, a nuke being set of is pretty much a mini sun, meaning looking directly at one without the proper protection can and in all likelihood will blind you
I'd be ok. The Mysterious Stranger would cover me.
You'll be just fine in the trunk of that car you were thrown in
I have Miss Fortune covering for me
**Theme plays as he just shoots the Nuke out of the air**
The fallout tv show trully has a masterpiece of an opening
good comedy, indeed.
"If you are close enough to see a nuclear bomb detonate run twords the light." -US Military Commander, WWII
Not even a name aye? Well he's wrong.
@@TheIrishRushinI think the idea is that if you’re close enough to see a nuclear bomb detonate, you’re probably screwed anyway. You’re not going to be able to run anywhere before the shockwave breaks you.
It's the fallout that's the real problem, that would get everyone eventually. I'd want to be at ground zero tbh.
I like how nukes don’t hurt peoples eyes.
Ikr, that girl would instantly go blind.
@@BadassName17 I've always found it incredibly funny that most ghouls in the older games have milky white eyes as if they are blind. When in reality they can see just fine.
or the fact nukes makes no noise and how small they are xD
I was just telling my friends that this morning lmao. Reality they'd be blinded instantly.
The worst place to be is in the ring of people who get instantly blinded and sunburned until they catch fire. Being right at the middle is okay you're just vaporised and being far enough away to live is good too but that distance would be awful
It may be a short scene, but Teagan Meredith deserves a damn Emmy nomination for her role. The look of fear on her face when she asked "Is it your thumb, or is it mine" gives me chills every time I watch it. That little girl has some amazing talent.
I love how the blast was strong enough to shatter the glass, but not strong enough to blow anyone's hats off, or ruffle the fern to the left of screen. Whoopsie!
People did not even shake
@@guilhermemunhoz9908how did the cowboy survive for 2019 years
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They should have kept the Ink Spots in the original scene.
Would have nailed the irony of the fallout world even more.
The absolute fear and expression change on his face is just awesome acting!
Plot twist: some random guy fired the fatman at close range
I have just watched the full series.... what a show!!! Hope there will be a second season...
Already green lit and happening.
@@coryboy345 Spoilers for those who haven't finished Season 1...
Who's Ready for Vegas, Baby!?
@@connerthewubbzler1062
New Vegas!!!!!
Jonathan Nolan showing Christopher Nolan how to show a nuke
Idk if anyone noticed. But Cooper after telling his daughter “If the bomb is bigger than your thumb, no point in running” than the nukes dropped and proceeded to jump on his horse and ran away. Lol.
This is highly unrealistic: the EMP wave from a nuclear detonation makes a horse shut down.
The Emperor protects ...
It was a special shielded Horse. One never know when you'll need an anti emp Horse.
It's fiction! It was never meant to be a documentary! Do you get your history and facts from video games?
Are you joking right ?
At least you know what an emp is?
It’s an electronic controlled horse?
Excellent series, played this game since Fallout 1 on DOS in the 90s, this series is one of the best series of it's kind. I can't wait for Season 2.
Since ww3 is about to start maybe WE will have the chance to test the thumb théorie
Yeah ww3 doesn’t seem so far now
Funnily enough we have tensions with China just like in the game
@@quisqueyanguy120 China only wants Taiwan, Siberia and Tibet.
If the USA evacuates Taiwanese people along with their nanochip-producing technology and gives them a place to live within the continental USA - China can have all the Taiwan it.
Putin offers to effectively give SOuthern Siberia to China for support in the war against Ukraine. And it seems China is willing to take that deal - but it can have Siberia all the way west to Urals if it switches sides and helps NATO and the EU to crush Russia economically.
As for Tibet - it mattered 40 years ago, when opiates were the main drugs, and Tibet grows 90% of opium in the world. But now Northern Korea produces high-quality synthetic drugs that are much more in-demand than opiates, and Tibet lost its strategic importance, and China's claim over it cam be legitimized.
WWIII can be avoided if China gets what it wants - and it can actually be done. Otherwise - don't look at the flash...
Are you a communist? @@quisqueyanguy120
@@quisqueyanguy120 yeah and the billionaires will make money out of it
you bring so much energy and knowledge to your viewers! ⚡
Am I the only one really missing the sci-fi aspect of the games in the tv series? Were are the robots cutting the lawn, were are the ridiculous oversized 50s style vehicles? This did look so much like the real 50s, I nearly forgot how little the explosions looked like a nuke exploding...
There was a mr handy helping with the birthday party tho
They 100 percent should of done better in the nuke scenes, although lore wise the nukes had extremely low yield, in real life we call them dirty bombs, they basically produce minimum amount of shockwave and explosion damage with relatively small mushroom clouds but produce the maximum amount of radiation and fallout
Again though even with them being dirty bombs, they did a horrible job, thank Christ the show is actually good enough to let it slide
Season 2 will most likely get double the budget considering the show's success, so we'll see some crazy stuff I'm sure
I was really hoping to see like, an assaultron or kike a protectatron
It's nice that they got to have that father-daughter conversation without being on fire and being picked up and dashed to pieces within seconds of the detonation.
Watch the show, I’m not gonna spoil it
@@lucaswilliams2292 I don't have time.
@@rubensano4860 fine. These aren’t normal nukes, they’re dirty bombs. Vault-Tec planted them to start the war and recoup their investment on the vaults.
@@rubensano4860find the time its 10/10
@@dethklok654 find the time to watch television? Presumably that is a joke.
Walton Goggins is one hell of an actor!
Wow that really did improve an already great scene! Well done!
seriously thought this was the scene originally even though I watched the episode, this song fits sooo well
No one has pointed this out yet but how genius it is that one of the party peoples taking pictures, the camera flash takes up the whole living room. Notice how the first bomb goes off, no one thinks otherwise. They must've thought "oh another picture"...or even the camera man took a photo at the same time the bomb goes off.
Come to think of it, this can happen in real life.
Ikr talk about 1 step forward 100 step back tech gets good but people just don't mind to restart the age back to the stone age
actually i heard we were already saved many times from it, because some last guys of the people in command refused to press the red button. and sure might happen sometime in the future as well and we won't know about it :v
It happend in the Japan already.
@@vincentcody3804 Twice.
It will happen again, in the U.S. It's just a matter of time. Either way the sun will do it to us in the far future, but we won't wait that long to do it ourselves.
I like how they delayed the sound of the bomb like how it would be IRL
the song goes really well with this scene, looks like as this was in the series!
Those are some very big gasoline-bomb explosions right there.
It's all China could afford at the moment after getting clapped by T51b's for a year straight.
People don’t realize that ONE missile can carry 10 of these bombs. And there’s hundreds of missiles……
nah, these are small bombs they are fission bombs, not thermonuclear bombs (fusion ones) thats why they are "small". In the universe of fallout Thermonuclear bombs were not invented. In real life. They would have been way more destruction
@@v44n7That had nothing to do with what he said. No bomb type was mentioned. Fallout has ICBM's and most certainly ones that have multiple small warheads to scatter over a region as evidenced by all the small craters in game.
@@TheIrishRushin i tought he was talking about real life missiles, not fallout missiles.
I... don't think that's how a nuclear bomb would detonate.
For clarification, it's SO MUCH scarier than that.
Having the camera flashes was a really great idea to explain why the people at the party wouldn't immediately react to giant flash of light behind them.
This is spot on the way you show the horror of a nuclear apocalypse.
Walton, dude is an awesome actor. Even on sons of anarchy as venus he played the role well. Dude plays an awesome cowboy.
The music just brings a warm "welcome to the vault" vibe.
i love the silence of the flash , its so perfect
Buffalo Bill Dam, just out of Cody on the road to Yellowstone is a probable target, since it provides irrigation water for a big section of northwest Wyoming. Most of Cody would be destroyed. Our shelter is a decent distance East… about 75 miles. Within 48 hours, radiation levels of fallout is decreased 100 fold, so sheltering is necessary for less than a week.
Ugh don't remind me. We literally have a sleeping bomb in Yellowstone....I better be dead before that sucker goes. I'm in Gillette so we would be gone.
Walton Goggins crushed it in Predators.
The ultimate line as Stans:
"........You know, man, if we ever make it home, I'm going to do so much....."
this is one of the BEST damned shows I've seen, not to mention it's interesting to imagine it from the survivor's point of view, the shockwave and blast are the most deadly bits of nukes and the radiation is just another nail in the coffin,
This makes the scene way better.
For a nuke that close, the sound and impact sure took a while... also pretty sure she'd have instantly gone blind looking directly at the initial blast of light without any protection.
Missed opportunity on the show runners’ part to have the haunting sound of the Fallout 76 nuke sirens.
Missed that, too. And makes no sense. Why build vaults if you don't have a detection system that tells you to bring people into the vault BEFORE they get vaporised by nukes? I still feel that Fallout 4 did a more realistic intro...
Cause i figured they didn't care, they wanted it to happen anyway. So why warnn people?@@craddocraddoc
@@TimothyGod i'm not speculating on some made up people in a made up fantasy scenario, I'm talking about the games they used as a template, that always included evacuation scenarios and specific actions to warn and react to a nuclear war. Best example surely is the introduction/tutorial of fallout 4.
@@craddocraddoc "made up fantasy scenario"
I swore i heard them say they would drop the nukes. And wipe out surface world, and only have their important people be safe. That seems pretty concrete to me
@@craddocraddoc also, this ain't the games so you are speculating on fantasy here, not me
"Bigger than your thumb, don't bother running" But his daughter was with him, so damn it all if he wasn't going to try to save her
Love the frame at 1:30 depicting two different kind of people, the privileged ones masking the problems with entertainment and the normal working people forced to see the reality which they live
If I were the birthday kid I would be ticked. The day REALLY should be only about me.
Omg and if you survive, every birthday you have is just going to be the anniversary of the day the world ended. It’s like having your birthday on 9/11, or Remembrance day, but a millions times more depressing.
Gosh that soundtrack and the memories it brings
i love the track they used for this scene, it's super eerie and anxiety inducing. It def works for depicting the most important event in fallout lore.
We never should have invented something that could destroy the world.
Even Robert Oppenheimer the man who invited the atomic bomb was deeply regretful about his roll in this
What else were we going to do? Save the planet? Explore the universe? We're chimpanzees with bigger rocks and emotional scars. Only thing we can do is wipe each other out eventually.
@@orcloverogrefiend5644 cheery
If you look at Oppenheimer before and after the...invention...he looks so cold and lost inside. There's nobody more regretful than him
@@orcloverogrefiend5644 No... It's because of sin. That's a fact. The materialistic world is a the delusion. It's a spiritual condition and the longer you try to deny that and give it some inane worldly explanation, the worse absolutely everything is going to be for you. Little by little.
I knew something was missing in this scene 😂
watched this over the weekend was done very well
The actors in this entire show really gave it their all. i dont usually like adaptations of video games, but this one takes the cake(no pun intended)
the scene reminds me of the one in Terminator
Give me your clothes.
Legend says no CGI was used in the making of this clip
You mean they didn't use real Nukes?
@@happybeingmiserable4668 Didn't they?
Hey that’s funny I live around Los Ang______
This scene made my blood run cold
Chills down my spine
The flash would have burned their retinas blinding them instantly
not necessary. it depends on the distance
@@v44n7 in the TV show they are depicted as being closer to the blasts than US troops were in 1950s field tests. Those troops were warned severely against flash blindness.
@@badkittynomilktonight3334 depends on the yield and the distance to be instant blinded, of course you wont try your luck with a nuclear bomb, you tell your troops to not look at it
"Nuclear Launch Detected"
"Warning, Nuclear Missile Launched."
Good old Starcraft
Red Alert 2
"Somebody call for an exterminator"
"strategic launch detected."
I love the cast is perfect
The scene was already pretty great on its own, but adding in _the_ classic Fallout song - "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" by The Ink Spots btw - to the background as Cooper and his daughter hightail it out of there added a whole new level of satisfaction to it. That said, I can't help but think that adding "It's All Over but the Crying" (another classic Fallout theme by The Ink Spots) would've worked a bit better in comparison, seeing as the world Cooper knew was "over" and all that was left was the anguish (i.e. the "crying") afterwards.
Slow-mo nukes.
Nope, the explosion was 10 miles away… hyper accurate. To the educated. 👍🤌👌
Also, if you have ever been in an accident or combat situation, time feels like it slows down... It's weird, but it's real. Let the educated and experienced be the ones to judge here.
@@mr.ryceguy6854 You mean Hiroshima inhabitants?
@@mr.ryceguy6854So not you.
Phenomenal. Thank you.
The very-hinted-at reveal he faces at the end of the season adds to the tragedy of what is going on for Cooper in this scene. It adds another layer to Goggins’ portrayal of horror.
I was thinking the same thing. And it makes me wonder how they play it out in season 2, obviously Cooper went ghoul as he was outside the vault but so was his daughter yet he knows both are alive. Him finding out that the end of the world was basically his wife’s idea to sell vaults was brutal
People lived through this irl. Insane.
Man it’s like looking at another terminator film
I thank you for this, someone had to do it
This literally brought tears (Sadness? Anguish? Horror?) to my eyes when I saw this scene
We are super turbo-f%cked.
So cool, especially after playing every fallout game.
Bigger than the Beirut blast, yet for all the radiation, scorching infrared and explosive heat, the dust thrown into the air and broken windows, not one of the extras clothing had a single mark.
Maybe nuclear war isn't that big a deal right? LOL
That was a blast for episode 1, holy shit
This is just good cinema. The glass is symbolic of the divide between haves and have-nots, and also between the vaults and the wasteland. It reinforces how his daughter needs to ask for cake while every other child is free to have as much cake as they like. The slow motion chaos plays out in a similiar fashion when the raiders invade Vault 32, and we see also see the projection start to burn --- a not-too-subtle call back to the bombs dropping at the beginning of the episode. This is just plain good direction. People want to hate Westworld's later seasons but Jonah Nolan knows what he's doing. It drives home the notion that people haven't changed.
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She had to ask because she was not invited to the party guests are allowed to have as much as they want that is offered. wasnt have or have not it was guest or not a guest
@@talthan That's the literal interpretation, yes. But my experience is that when you see a little kid and she's part of the entertainment, you offer a piece of cake out of courtesy, to show you appreciate their service. From how the camera tells the story, she was never even offered a piece.
this scene give you the impression you could run from a nuclear explosion if you are like 15 km away, the blast alone would´ve ripped organs, if that didn´t kill, it will be the 4000 degree flame wave coming seconds after
First, you get a radiation flash at the speed of light, so everything within a few kilometers is set ablaze. Not sure why this is missing in this scene, maybe because it would be no fun. Then the first shockwave rolling out, then the second rolling in, then big debris flying around, and radiation creeping slowly towards you.
Beautiful and gruesome at equal parts
So, she would have been permanently blind from that. No one in that room would not have noticed the bright flash. At that distance, it is just too bright not to notice.
The Ghoul is up there with Joshua Graham, Randall Clark, and Ssgt Vickers. Only solid fans will get it.
i dont get how metal gear solid fans will get who joshua graham is... but then again, we can't expect god to do all the work.
Ain’t no way Todd’s Mary Sue is on their level
I like this a lot but I feel like you probably could’ve just removed the audio from the scene. It could have just ended on the distortion with the nuke and went silent tbh. But besides that, really good work! 👍
what?, thats the game music you peasant.
Dude just took out all audio from the original and used this song... Didn't even keep the ambient noises which is what adds more tension to this. Imo, the original is better
This show was so well executed. The acting was superb and cant wait for season 2
This was one of the coolest scenes ever
I can’t wait to see what happened to Janey in season 2.
She prob died
Most likely frozen in a vault
@@olivernewton8584 I think it would be difficult for her to be n a vault with the last bomb that dropped being so close to them
@@willrentas7877 Cooper does mention he's looking for his whole family, not just his wife, so something had to have happened where they were separated.
@@nagger8216my guess they were frozen in some vault, because in-game some of the vaults were raided and the people there turned into ghouls because of radiation. That would explain why Cooper is 200yo.
Agreed, that they misplaced this song in the second episode. It holds such a strong emotional connection for me with the show. Maybe they intended to have it be a more romantic relationship between maximus and lucy, but it is SO much better how you've done it
Opinions of the show as a whole aside, this was an incredible well done scene.
the first episode of the season Is a little bit confusing because of the introduction of the main characters of this series if you don't know the story of the actual game is, but I got hooked into finishing the whole episodes as it was a very good story. I am looking for another season soon.
Because war
War never changes..
I set the world on fire. My bad.
Nukes are WAY more powerful than depicted here. The first bomb would have burned eveyone in the initial flash and pretty much everything would be on fire. Those are maybe hiroshima size bombs, modern ones are hundreds to thousands times more powerful.
While nuclear weapons can be build thousands of times more powerful than the primitive atomic (pure fission) bombs, most active duty weapons are only about 25 times as powerful - about 500 kt. Aircraft delivered weapons run even smaller - the current version of the US B61 dial-a-yield goes from below 1kt to a maximum of 80 kt. Using multiple smaller weapons on large city-size targets is more effective and avoids the issue of a larger single bomb failing to detonate
@@mikemilner8080that's why here they use severals and in Boston Just One.
Ironically for a franchise all about nuclear armageddon, the nukes used throughout the series tend to be low yields
Nothing like the nukes we have today
Nukes in our world are significantly more powerful than in fallout
Well Fall Out takes place in the 50's or early 60's so.....