I didn't have high hopes for this one, but I must admit, Amazon surprised me with Fallout - a pretty decent adaptation of the best selling game series.
I didn't have high hopes for this one, but I must admit, Amazon surprised me with Fallout - a pretty decent adaptation of the best selling game series.
The most unrealistic part of this show was Lucy not immediately filling her backpack with 450lb of random debris from the first bombed out house she went in. Then she should have said “ oh, I am over encumbered and cannot run!”
Obviously, Lucy used the player.setav carry weight console commands!
The most unrealistic part of this show is that how not all women have colossal boobas. Did the creators not hear about the Caliente's Beautiful Bodies mod??
And then falloutseries.exe crashes cause you tried adding the big tiddie mods after 5 hours of trouble shooting to get the base series to start up issue free to begin with ofc.
At least she slowly upgraded her weapons but never started with a spear
No, no, just desk fans and typewriters. Just 450lbs of desk fans and typewriters.
I’m amazed it didn’t crash to desktop once.
LOL - so true
A comment that is as funny as it is underrated.
funk yeaaa make my day or year
I had to command line skip a BoS mission in Fo4 because of that bull crap
Either crash to desktop or not even open like fallout 3 lol
It's a shame Drinker didn't mention Norm. As a character, Norm was a pleasant surprise. He is obviously small in stature, and appears cowardly on the surface, but Norm was seeing things clearly, and wasn't brainwashed like the other Vault dwellers. He's played excellently by Moisés Arias, who I didn't really know as an actor before. I'm hoping to see even bigger and better things from him in season 2.
Norm and Chet are destined to grow. I loved the exchange when Norm called him a coward and Chet responded by telling him they were all cowards who lived in a vault. It seemed to hit home for Norm. Looking forward to S2.
He was on Hannah Montana when I was a kid he played a little shit spoiled kid and he was tiny as a kid and still is lol
He's got the Small Frame Trait from New Vegas. +1 AGL but limbs are easily crippled
I was expecting Norm to be a typical annoying younger brother, only for him to become the fourth main character of the show with arguably the darkest arc. Unlike Lucy who had grown stronger in order to brave the wasteland, or Maximus who is a BoS knight, or Cooper who is a living legend, Norm is all alone surrounded by people who either want to silent him or too scared to help him.
The thing I hate most about it is the fact that it made almost all of Fallout New Vegas mean nothing, presumably because it's the best Fallout game by far BECAUSE BETHESDA DIDN'T MAKE IT and Todd Howard is seething about that, with his wanna-be youthful hair and midlife-crisis leather jacket.
One Nolan makes a movie about the making of the nuke and another makes a show about them being dropped weird coincidence
Now that I think
not to mention Alex Gardner's movie on America collapsing into civil war, also released in this same time window. weird. must be a coincidence.
@@reedehinger2636 or is it? Dun dun dunnnnnn.
@@jimbobjunior. It's almost like Operation Mockingbird never actually ended and the CIA is trying to subliminally prime the population for full scale nuclear war and domestic conflict. But... ha, no that'd be crazy. They've never done anything like that bef-... oh shit.
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The Ghoul ripping on side quests by saying "thou shall always get distracted by other bullshit" or something like that made me chuckle.
Me too, that line was gold :D
Could have called out Preston by name with that one.
Source material has been well represented in this series. It made the show a lot to me, as a fan of the videogame series. I think they did a really good job on this one.
@thechicagobox I haven't played the games in years but I was massively into 3/ new Vegas and a little bit for 4. I was like a kid again watching it, they nailed the atmosphere, costumes, setting.. music. It was really good fun.
imagine if it was a game mechanism to forget about quests, I mean yes you take a letter from someone to someone and you end up 2 months later in a vault doing that quest line and you do not even remember to who you have to deliver the message... I would like to see something like that ingame...
Why did the brotherhood of steel promote the 3 weakest nerdiest unmilitaristic people I’ve ever seen.
They cheked all the boxes.
Because the BOS has lost it's way.
Yeah they acted nothing like the Brotherhood in the games. You need to accomplish a LOT before you are given power armor.
It's definitely not 'the message' or else drinker would have pointed it out, right?
That was the point. The Brotherhood had lost its way. The elder says this towards the end of the show
dude it's 200 years after the bombs fell, there are gonna be some trees
Yep, whenever I start another fallout 4 game, I have to add trees mod loll
There are trees but it’s California 😂 damn desert as it is now in many spots
Trees exist because in Fallout 2 a GECK is used to restore a massive area near the locations the show takes place & it’s been roughly 55 years. So yes in that specific location/area there can be a forest.
@@AnarchyThirtySeven pretty sure that if trees didnt exist elsewhere there would be no life on the surface, and also we dont have enough nukes to destroy all of the flora on the planet
Fallout 1 was BARREN. The kind of dead an lifeless that makes you wonder "But what do they eat??!?!?" Fallout 1 & 2 will always be the best/original. Bethesda screws everything up.
Lucy be like: 👁_👁
Alita gremlin looking mf
She has that googly eyes
I wouldn't say no though.
I like how Lucy is a Bethesda Fallout protagonist while the Ghoul is playing New Vegas
Perfectly put. I want more Fallout 1&2 and less of this...whatever it is. The Ghoul is like 99% of the reason I like the show.
@@lawrencefrost9063 That other 1% better be the fact they nailed the Power Armour.
@@donmongoose Somewhat. The fight in Filly and the yao guai were pretty bad. RN I'm at the fusion core arc but I hope it picks up and they do it well in the finale.
@@donmongoose the power armour looked great except the weird knock off ironman bit, like whyyyyyy
@@Shockguey I thought it ended strongly tbh, I went in with low expectation but finished looking forward to season 2. I probably wouldn't if the Ghoul wasn't so enjoyable, but he was, so I am lol.
"It's easier to track a stuck pig than to ask it where it's going" The Ghoul had some of the greatest lines and Goggins was great in the role
"Thou shalt get sidetracked by random bullshit." Absolutely loved this line. He killed the delivery in every single one of them.
He was a bit like the Man in Black from Westworld but far more likeable
“I do this shit for the love of the game” That line gave me radioactive goosebumps
Tbf, Goggins is great in everything he's in usually.
the Ghoul stole the show.. dark but has a reason to live.. revenge.. and a inner struggle from the 'good guy' he once was to the cold blooded killer he became.. trying to be what he once was again.. the inner struggle of the soul. Lucy character was predicted to be by the scientist to adapt to the waste land, that foretold her not wanting what she thought she wanted in the end.. joining force with the ghoul.
I find it hypocritical that one of the richest companies on earth, run by one of the richest humans ever, put out an anti capitalist show directed by a dude worth 70 million.
It's almost as if it was more about "the message"
Is it anti-capitalist? I never really got that feel about it.
@@mrmhj9925 it is. It’s a critique of how capitalism always screws over the common person and eventually collapses because of greed.
Have you been living under a rock for the last few decades? They have been doing this forever. The most famous bands make songs "against the mainstream". White men produce anti-white misandrist movies and video games. The feminist movement was started by men. BLM movement was started by non blacks. Diversion.
@@fredericklockard3854 I see it more as what happens when capitalism collapses: a few greedy people come together and inevitably screw over the common person and society as a whole. Communism - with its politburo - was great for that.
Walton Goggins was absolutely incredible. Best actor I've witnessed since Gary Oldman.
I love these low-key actors with great talent. E.g. Javier Bardem
Imagine using movie sets for this show when Detroit exists. 😂
thats a joke that is at least 10 years out-dated, and also pretty mean-spirited
@@DukeEntwistle but is he lying?
Problem with filming in Detroit is some poor crew member might take a bunch of rounds from an Auto 9 when Robocop thinks the set pieces are littering.
I thought it was filmed in Detroit
@@DukeEntwistle If even one person found it funny, that means you're incorrect about it being outdated, yes? And uh...let's see ...ah, at least 74 other people found this amusing. Hmm...o-oh, what's that? It's "mean spirited?" Uh...hmm...well, I can tell you that nobody, including people in Detroit, care. You're the only one. And he isn't lying either. Detroit is a shit hole and everyone knows that. Now, remain silent.
Ella Purnell is good actor but Walton Goggins really is killing it out there. He's basically only played in good shows and movies for a while now, his acting has become something truly special.
Not saying he's not a good actor but I don't think an actor is good or bad just because they're in a bad movie or series. Purnell was in Yellowjackets and was Jinx in Arcane both of which are good shows. I know she was in that crap Synder zombie movie before that but I think the reason that was bad is more down to Snyder than her.
@@kityhawk2000 But it helps massively because he's more scrutinized in those projects and also surrounds himself with better actors, directors, producers and any other staff that can help his craft. It also speaks massively about his ability because these people want to work with him and he is also picking good projects. You can look through Walton's works and see his range develop after he was just a cop/western show specialist for a long time.
Everything I've seen him in I've liked, he was brilliant in The Shield and Justified and was excellent in this as both sides of his character.
He was hilarious as a trans prostitute on Sons of Anarchy
Everyone only ever brings up Justified, The Shield, or Hateful 8 when talking about Goggins. More people need to seriously watch Vice Principals. One of the greatest comedy series ever made.
I did like how the Ghoul is still wearing his blue Cowboy Sheriff outfit under the dilapidated duster. I mean yeah, 219 years may be too long for that silk shirt to survive, but it does speak to his hidden attachment to his past self.
its the little things like that that make the show shit. the sets, the armoured suits lol and the acting is puke
The bulk of survivors do NOT live in the vaults. They are a weird minority in an already existing civilisation. He kinda missed the point here...
That's what he is doing for years now. This and bitching about Brie Larson.
love how lucy described the brotherhood. something like "so you search for pre war tech with pre war tech so no one can use pre war tech?"
lol thats literally like the governments in real life
You just listed why I can't stand the Brotherhood of Steel. Total power-mad hypocrites pretending their protecting others by keeping tech for themselves. And they're in EVERY. DAMN. GAME! I want to see Caesar's Legion! Now THAT was different.
More like Brotherhood of STEAL
@@jonahelliot4241they really need to let the BoS just rest and die off at some point, there’s only so much that can be done with them before they just become raiders in power armor like how super mutants just became big green raiders (excluding Jacobstown obviously)
Well to be fair, they were proven right by what happened to shady sands.
Raul Julia, the only man that realized street fighter was a comedy, RIP
Van Damme was definitely in on the joke
Everyone on set knew it. The only people who didn't were the producers.
Go watch raul julia being interviewed on why he chose to be a part of street fighter, it'll break your heart.
@@Akandofaulbut he did it, and it’s damn right immortal in our hearts
A true boricua no matter what. He is Puerto Rican by the way. Great actor. Gone too soon
Westworld was absolutely fabulous for one season. 😂
this is my concern too. Lots of these shows ran by woke companies make it one season. I mean, you CAN see some "placement" of character types in each power seat already. If they keep the story telling this good, I'll ignore it.
I have to say that the scene at the start of ep1 when the girl says "my thumb or yours?" And the absolute terror of the scene, how inevitable the end of life felt, that shook me from the start.
I was watching with my son and we both said that we got the chills.
The stimpack plot armour has to be my favourite lore accurate technique to do anything on screen
I thought that wasteland doctor was going to give Thaddeus a stimpack. Instead, he got that magic medicine.
@@sikderqais6151The Ghoul serum, yeah
It just works!
@@obiwanshinobi87 I was saying as she was using the stimpak that I hope they dont try to explain how it works,just do it.
The doctor was in the show on like 4 separate occasions I started noticing him on the 2nd watch through.
Walton Goggins is just good in whatever project he is in, he is always on point.
He was phenomenal as Boyd Crowder. One of the most enjoyable performances of a character I've ever witnessed.
The man is a treasure.
Cecil Stedman
he broke the charisma meter, I was never able to select 12 as a base stat.
Venus Van Dam
My my how the mighty have fallen! Unsubed
I love the fact that the show doesn't shy away from videogame logic of Fallout like how stimpaks just heals people or animals instantly, or Filly NPCs going back to normal routine after the gunfight.
Yeah, it reminded me of being in a shootout with Malcolm Latimer’s men in Diamond City and yet everyone else is minding their own business while bullets and lasers are flying.
I hated that about the show. I thought this was fan service but for a show itself, this didn't make any sense at all and was just stupid silly Disney-level humor. That's enough fan-made Fallout stuff out there already. I was expecting a proper TV show with actual acting, not NPC dialouge.
Should have said “for every Resident Evil there’s another Resident Evil”
That wouldnt make sense because theyre all pretty bad😂
Ridiculous for him to act like the original Resident Evil movies weren't lit
For every Mario movie 2023 there's a Mario movie 1993. There fixed it.
@@chiquita683 If by "lit" you mean "dumpster fire" I might agree
@@Irish443 except they’re both garbage
"The Wasteland has it's own golden rule: Thou shalt get side tracked by bullshit every time." So true to format.
THAT was the kind of tongue in cheek joke I loved about the show. It fit the scene, but it makes even more sense if you play the games.
Hated this show
It's "Shalt NOT," but okay.
@@TEMINIX No, pretty sure it's "thou shall". It's cold irony, can you feel heat?
In the show it says shall get@@TEMINIX
Not a gamer - a 59 year old grandma! - but I got my head round the Fallout world pretty easily. But then I have a lifetime of reading complex novels so maybe that helps? I really enjoyed Fallout. Lucy is very likeable and believable and Walton Goggins never disappoints. So nice to watch something without any intrusive appearance from “the message”.
I really like the way Maximus is on the edge of giving into his base instincts in most situations.
*Fallout NV fans right now* *_You've gotten a lot farther than you should have, Your ride's over, mutie._*
They really made new vegas fans feel like they didn't matter and that their lore is just materials for bethesda designed to be dismantled to make a theme park out of in the form of this show
May as well add 1 and 2
@@gageriddle1681 It's because they're embarrassed that New Vegas is so good
@@gageriddle1681I’m dumb maybe but I’m not understanding, I thought they were giving love to new Vegas the whole time in fact far more Easter eggs then I thought I honestly thought they would ignore new Vegas completely and that would of been a loss.
@@gageriddle1681 We will see. If its bad in the next season we will see.
Dude, Ella Purnell has the biggest eyes I've ever seen on a human
She’s basically the most realistic anime girl
What do you expect from a AI poster girl/ female/ him/her it/ them/ they....ech go away now.
Clearly you haven't seen "Alita: Battle Angel"
@@telengardforever7783Alita battle angel used cgi to enlarge her eyes... Ella Purnell's eyes are legit big
@@telengardforever7783that wasn’t a real person
I never played the game and I didn't have any issues following the show or the world building. Loved it.
Me too. Never played the game myself and was slightly confused during the first episode sorting out characters and their motivations, but I tend to be pretty patient with initial episodes of any new series. After that..... I really got into it. Wildly entertaining and fun.
Watch Reaper's review titled "Fallout is a mess". That's the critique Drinker should have made.
@@AnoneemusNoename Why? So they can be convinced to turn on something they already enjoy? Why would they do that???
that's the point, the moment you know game lore this show doesn't make any sense
I'm frankly a bit baffled by the number of reviewers who are well versed in "The Message" and yet mysteriously giving this show a pass.
It’s because the average “conservative” is actually just a liberal going the speed limit.
@@greenleader3520 That and most of guys don't actually believe in this joke of a culture war. Which is really just a decades long grift to profit off useful idiots.
I haven't seen it. What did they sneak in there?
I have no idea what this man is talking about
There was a forest in Fallout: New Vegas, in the northwest corner of the map - Mt. Charleston. It's where you find the super mutant community of Jacobstown.
There's also forests in 76 and fallout 3
@@philapinyopoor Harold
@@michaelbibby01 I assume you forced him to live, yes?
@@Deridus I honestly can't remember what I did the first time. I usually was a 'good guy' on my first play so I'm sure I gave him the mercy kill. I do remember some fire and finding his heart.
@@Deridus 3 was a masterpiece for the era it was released
Walton Goggins as The Ghoul was a great casting move.
casting Walton Goggins is always a great move.
@@tokeeriksen2425hes just so much fun my fav part of justified
He absolutely made the show.
IMO, as the Ghoul he fit the look AND the role. I wonder how little prosthetics were used.
The Ghoul looks a lot like the German artist Joseph Beuys... I wonder if this is more than a coincidence.
„The world she grew up in“ Yeah… she looks pretty young for a 200 year old
Best of all, the lead actress defended staying true to the IP.
One thing about the Wasteland being too green, it makes sense that after a two centuries life would begin to grow back in areas not directly impacted by the nuclear bombs. Chernobyl is like this. One of the most radioactive places on the planet and its overgrown with plants, and animals.
Generally, just the lack of sunshine will keep the green away.
They also just said that the wolves especially and assuming other animals and plants have adapted to the radiation and its a part of them now. That should be something very interesting to study how life found its way to do that.
Yes very true. People just want to find uneducated reasons to hate something that is mostly great.
@@frenchyroastify but it's been over 200 years. More than enough time for that sky to clear up. 🙃
The thing is with Chernobyl, the Russians added measures to prevent most of the loose contamination from spreading, the most important feature being the shelter structure (only after trying to cover up the incident). A lot of people died doing so, unknowingly working to their deaths. Now we have a more permanent enclosure called the "Safe Confinement," which was somewhat recently finished. I would probably attribute this more closely to the bombings of Hiroshima or Nagasaki, where the concentration of ionizing radiation isn't even close to being as high as the mass currently still active in Chernobyl. As a matter of fact, most of the ionizing radiation from the bombs decayed within a week of time. It's just a lot of mis-information spread about how radioactivity actually works... since A LOT of people still don't understand it. Both cities were rebuilt, and people are living in them, despite the mainstream populace thinking otherwise (at least here in America).
I liked how the gulper vomited a bunch of random junk when killed. Really true to the games where looting monster corpses always gave you a bunch of stuff that made you think about the monster's dietary habits.
She didn't eat any irradiated roach meat or use any cooking station. I hope she finds a good settlement in S2 and starts scrapping random stuff to build it
I didn't get why it died just from the dude being pulled out. Maybe I missed something.
Now she just needs to kill a bloatfly or a rad roach and have a legendary mini gun pop out of it.
@@sarcasm-83it choked on him being yanked out
@@sarcasm-83 It wouldn't/couldn't let go of its prey, so it got turned inside-out. Pretty sure Drinker has experienced similar effects after some of his binges.
amazon must have been throwing millions of dollars at each episode this show looks incredible
The actor in the Brotherhood story line has all the charisma of a sack of gravel, But otherwise, the show is pretty good.
'I'm useless without a scope' 😂😂
Kinda funny because that's how a lot of people in the military are now days.
That was true to game heh where every scope plainly increases accuracy.
I am that man!
@@GamePath ... That a game reference. Nice try though.
@@bill8039 Relax nerd.
Street Fighter had the best villain speech ever. "For you the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life, but for me it was Tuesday."
I swear that line was used somewhere before that movie... but I cannot recall it.
@@SwiftNimblefoot The quote is from the movie. There was a Street Fighter comic that came out after that had the quote. Is that what you are thinking of?
@@SwiftNimblefoot DSP used that line in his horrible interview on Sidescrollers Podcast. Maybe there?
That line was so cold that I started using variations of it in real life.
R.I.P Raul Julia. his performance was so far beyond anything that movie deserved to have in it.
chernobal has some pretty amazing forrest around it. While not a direct blast zone, it does show that life finds a way to take back over given enough time. I don't think you'd ever see horses or other massive fauna such as elephants, but I'd bet that some smaller animals such as the dogs and cats would do very well. Trees, fungi, and other forrest growth would find a way.
The only category this show can fit into is "PARODIES" (the bad/cheap ones) :( And I'm really sorry You don't see the decline from "War. War never changes. " (1997) to 76.
They should’ve had Todd Howard make a cameo as the brain explaining to Norm how “it just works”.
Screw Todd Howard, he needs to lock himself up in a room and work on TES VI. And ensure it isn't shit like Starfield was.
@@prao4603if anything I think he is actually being locked up rn finishing Elder scrolls
Fuck Todd Howard, they need to keep him and his shitty writers as far away from this as humanly possible before he sends Emil Pagliarulo in to fuck it up.
SIXTEEN TIMES THE DETAIL
@@prao4603 Who cares about Elder Scrolls...more like, "Shitty Scrolls"...give me Fallout 5
Quick correction: The Brotherhood of Steel do not collect prewar tech in order to rebuild society. They hoard it to keep society from destroying itself again. It’s an ongoing debate in the series whether they’re actually helping or hindering the situation.
They are just all the worst impulses of mankind wrapped up in one backwards tribe.
BoS is different in every game because Bethesda changes BoS ideology however it suits Bethesda (and BoS is also quite different than in the original games)
@@stlawstlaw7585can it not be explained that there are just different "clans" within the BoS?
That’s what made me wary of the show in the first place. “What happened- people wanted to save the world but disagreed on how” it gave me a red flag because throughout the games that wasn’t the message. All of the factions are flawed, some more so than others. A majority of them didn’t want to save the world but to gain power and control. Rule things the way they thought it should be ruled and it didn’t matter what they needed to do to get it. Kind of thing. Some characters believed their faction was for one thing, but others were using their faction for another thing. It was complicated.
@@Maybeyoudorho How is that any different from the show?
fall9out desert scenes were filmed in a real ghost town on the coast of namibia - they got a decent budget
Lucy didn't take a single sip from her vault 33 canteen
Pretty sure the massive equipment bags that the Brotherhood squires lug around with them are a nod to all the times we got over encumbered carrying junk in the games 🤣
Its a great reference to using companions as walking inventory in the games.
Raul Julia deserved an Oscar for his portrayal of M Bison. It seemed he never acted. He lived that role. While he was dying of cancer. Just to make his kids happy. Legend.
The man was determined not to fade away, but burn up like a damned solar flare!
Your taste is limited totally to your oral orifice.
The best part is that he said that he the most fun playing that role because the director allowed him to fully unleash.
I learned he actually had whole family with him by his side the whole time while he was filming. 😊
Walton Goggins is excellent in Fallout. I've been a fan ever since he was in The Shield. The series Justified, too.
a lore reason as to why things are so green in a bombed out wasteland. the show takes place over 200 years after the great war and in the time since that many vaults opened up. some vaults were equipped with a G.E.C.K. (Garden of Eden Creation Kit), a device capable of terraforming.
Alita Battle Angel thinks Lucy has big eyes.
Dude, she has the biggest eyes I've ever seen on a human being
@@davidkymdell452Never saw Marty Feldman or Anne Hathaway?
@@Embrachuamanda seyfried in ted 2, or a million ways to die in the west comes to mind
@@thewanderer4336 She has, "Give me the Precious" eyes. 😳😂
Have you not seen Willow from Buffy?
Ella stated that she played the games to get an idea for the role and to respect the source material. That's a welcome change.
And Goggin said he specifically avoided playing the games so he wouldn't be distracted from the script. Each approach seemed to work for them.
Actors say what they believe is appropriate. Rachel Zegler first said that she gives a sh*t about the orignial Snow White material, only to row back after the backlash to tell how lovely und influencing the 30s-Version was. Dakota Johnson said that she liked the recent Spiderman movies, but didnt know a single title of the last films Tom Holland played in. But its nice to see an actress even know what the game`s name is the show is based on.
she must've learned from Henry Cavill
Yea well the show itself doesn’t care about the lore of the games
@@givenchymamajama3859 You should probably watch the show first.
The first episode I had my doubts but then I kept going and I loved it. They did a really good job
Drinker, this is ghostbusters all over again for you.
There are forests in Fallout they just tend to be rare and/or super dangerous and odd.
and then there's Fallout 76 with LOTS of forest regions
Or have a "talking tree" aka poor sap that was infected with the FEV..
@@cyryc They used the excuse that that area was not bombed in the war . Which is completely unbelievable since a survival bunker for the government is located under a hotel and the Chinese who knew about the silos and the bunker just said that’s ok we will let it go
Shut up, Herbert...
In two hundred+ years, forests would definitely regrow and start retaking areas. The big thing is if the land is usable; there are sites that have had nuclear events happen that have regrown plant-life within our lifetimes. The real thing that would stop plant regrowth is if the land is barren and dead, or filled with concrete and rubble. Any area currently able to house a forest would be able to regrow it.
Did anyone else notice that side character encounters were shot just like video game cut scenes? Often rambling monologs as you walk away, etc. Brilliant!
That was a nice touch!
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Honestly, as someone who has never played a fallout game and had little to no context prior to watching the show, I really liked the world building. I could pretty easily keep track of how things are and why things are and anything that I'd like explained more will likely crop up later nice and casual like. Far better than an obnoxious paragraph of exposition like the writers are terrified I won't be able to pay attention long enough to get invested 😄 Can't wait for the next season!
I think they made a perfect balance of Lucy being capable yet naive. They show that she has some experience learning shooting and martial arts in the vault, so she's not like completely helpless. As soon as she reaches the surface though, they show us that there are lot of savage badasses out there that can absolutely get the best of her.
I loved Cooper's dig at the Fallout series. "We have a golden rule here in the wasteland. You always get sidetracked by all the bullshit."
Someone pointed out that the show appears to go out of its way to crap on New Vegas in some shots.
@@AdderTude Yeah, I think that was inevitable. Howard's a bit salty over New Vegas' success, and since it's a Bethesda backed production it was expected.
@@AdderTudewhat the fuck are you people even talking about? Where did you come up with this??? What??
@@buttnakedsnake9357 Sounds like the wisdom of the fandom. Tread on it at your peril.
@@AdderTude The show also breaks out the Fallout theme for the NCR flag, which Bethesda typically reserves only for loving shots of Power Armor. The show understands how much iconography there in in that flag among the fans, it's one of the most recognizable symbols of the franchise.
Sigh... The fact that we come to conclusions like "I liked it a lot more than I expected" or "It's better than it had any right to be" says a lot about the condition of movies in the last 15 years.
Yeah.
Truth
This video is the symbolism of the person that created *the message* meme.... just accepting the message. KZhead heel turn in real time
throw a starving person a cracker, and they will think it's the best cracker they ever ate. Even if it's stale, and has mouse sh*t on it.
@@ButiguessilovememoreI'm having trouble parsing your reply, what are you saying?
The complimentary character types, dynamics and interactions in this show are what the sw sequel trilogy tried to do in tfw and continually failed at more and more with each movie.
When did the Drinker became a shill? Not one comment about the diversity of the cast or the transgender BOS initiate?
there are a few, i feel like he may be hiding/deleting the ones that gained traction early on
I loved how the series didn't crash and didn't show any bugs, Todd Howard really polished the engine this time
Ive seen plenty of bugs, they were huge!
As if turd howard invented fallout. Bethesda fallout is shit.
I honestly hope they sneak in some kind of weird screen glitch or something in the next season. No explanation either, just a cheeky nod to those of us in the know.
Maximus kind of glitched through the floor in his first fight in the armour ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
16 times the details
Walter goggins played a ghoul in the maze runner
Is it Walter or Walton? I seriously don't know anymore.
Walton not Walter
@@grammernotzi lol is it goggins of coggins i have no clue either
Let's be honest, He stole the show, as much as I liked Purnell as Lucy (she did the naïve quirky Vault dweller well) Goggins absolutely killed every scene he was in. His on screen magnetism can hardly be outcompeted.
@@grammernotziIt's Waltoner.
All of the games had a big surge in interest after the show was released. I recommend Fallout 4 if you want a digestible introduction to the world and relatively modern graphics. New Vegas if you want to dive into a deep and dark storylines, and Fallout 3 if you want a good mix and don't mind aging graphics.
Aside from the minor universe faux pas here and there, I enjoyed it. The main continuity flaw I really couldn't get past was how the villain lady presented herself as the leader of a bloodthirsty gang of raiders, who were quite content to murder the innocent vault dwellers in cold blood, and she herself threatening to blow up wounded survivors. But then suddenly in the finale, it's all 'oh no I'm actually just an eco warrior and your dad is the real bad guy. I was only PRETENDING to murder swathes of innocent people, capture my arch nemesis knowing that this will somehow cause his daughter to bring me the precious mcguffin via a series of fortunate and unfortunate events. Lazy writing if you ask me
Fun fact: this is the third product in the Fallout IP to have a story revolving finding a parent or child. Fallout 3: Go find your dad. Fallout 4: Go find your son. Fallout TV: Go find your dad. If we keep this up Fallout 6 will have us going to find our daughter, father, grandmother, and maybe even cousin Eddie.
Would be nice to see a perspective of someone born post-war who wasn't born from within a vault. Like a raider or settler in exile.
@@TheHamgamerWe did in Fallout New Vegas, the only modern Fallout game that has both good roleplaying options and an interesting central story.
the series was rigged from the start...
fook cousin Eddie. what has he ever done for us?
@@TheHamgamer fallout 2/NV/tactics
what i also liked about lucy is that she is not magically skilled. in the opening scenes she explaines her education and training during her growing up in the vault. She does not magically know how to fight, shes been training to do so in her growing up in the vault. Instead of Rey in SW just magically knowing the force and lightsaber fighting without propper training.
Totally, or Rae knowing how to swim 5km in a storm even though she grew up on a desert planet.
This justification is hilarious and interesting in such a meta way because she basically describes her starting stats & skills. 😂
This, and all her proficiency in combat is MAJORLY capped by her naivity coming from growing up in a 100% peaceful and sterile environment. She knows how to fight, but absolutely not when and who to fight or trust, which she doesn't just overcome in a single, mind-changing "snap"-moment like so many shows do. Actually decent character development being written in these times sure is a rarity by how much this amazes me.
@@S_O_O_Cher continued optimism, attitude, and willingness to keep going “okey dokey” to every situation remind me of Rudy. She’s not jaded yet, not sure if she will become so. And as in ‘Batman Begins’ “the will to act”.
In the begining it shows Lucy training juijitsu, but she never uses it when in hand to hand conflict
I'm AMAZED that the drinker thinks that maximus was a character at all. He was a plank of wood.
Huh. I found him super compelling. Every time he switched from that innocent, optimistic little boy attitude to dead-faced sociopath... like I dunno man, he expressed every frikkin human emotion there is. Rage. Helplessness. Fear. Optimism. Excitement. Determination. Giddiness. Romantic attraction. Suspicion. Regret. Insecurity. Like... I can keep going, but I was honestly stunned by how NOT plank of woodsy he was coz that was totally what I was expecting from him at the start of his journey but they really frikkin fleshed him out.
@@TheLadyIntegra When he finishes the same as he started it shows a serious lack of character..particularly development. he finished and started as the same character.
I thought he was a pretty entertaining fella
Walton Goggins was amazing. He has such range . Loved it and can't wait for S2
*Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.*
Maybe they shouldn't have said that...
Epic reference
Welp, NCR ain’t doing much patrolling in this continuity
Godspeed to NCR Trooper
Patrolling the mojave almost makes you wish for a poc protagonist who kills anyone for offending him and is portrayed as the good guy and then for current audience of course gets the strong whyte punani. Show is good aside from the heavy woke brainwashing and portraying the poc quota psychopath killer as the morally good guy because he was bullied once (of course) by whyte guys. All the woke brainwashing. There is even a transsquire with a painted on italian moustache in episode 1
Walton Goggins as Ghoul completely sold me on this show. His performance is fucking stellar.
So is his performance as the goofy innocent 50's cowboy movie actor. The development from cowboy to ghoul was an amazing contrast.
The show is woke
@@brennansmith6474 boo boo needs attention coochy coo 👶🍼
@@brennansmith6474 womp womp
@austinpierce6053 yes just consume you're product like a good little communist
I feel like Drinker and Mauler will have an interesting argument over this show, lol.
Ofc they will and they should. Fallout show is bad. I'm looking at comments and losing faith in humanity. And in Drinker. This was the most amateur nonsense in the rank of She-hulk and Rings of Power. It's shockingly bad.
@@Lazarus_ReSpawn Well, see, I was entertained by Fallout, I enjoyed it, plotholes and inconsistencies be damned. I'll take shit like that over RE and Halo anytime of the day.
@@Cybershroom If you managed to find fun in it, that's perfectly fine. You have the freedom to like what you wish, without any obligation to be objective. It shouldn't be fine to Drinker however, since it's identical to nonsense of Rings of Power and the likes. I personally can't imagine liking this heap of nonsense directed by woke amateurs and say "hey atleast it's not She-Hulk", because I see no difference. It is very much in the same tier as all that garbage. It's insultingly dumb.
Right?! There is no way drinker missed all the woke BS. They might as well have had the checklist on screen and started checking boxes as they went.
@@Lazarus_ReSpawn I agree with this. I could not get past the fight scene between the two vaults at the beginning of the first episode. Turned it off.
This show was made for you not for me. I will never get anything out of Fallout ever again
Also Maximus looks like he’s about to cry in every single scene he’s in.. My brother walked back into the room and asked “oh, who hurt his feelings now??” And I had to tell him that’s his happy and accomplished face.
They need brainwashing to make blacks more appealing for white women.
But Maxmus is barely a servant. Pretty understandable really.
He was by far the worst part of this show. Ella as Lucy I thought carried the show tbh. Goggins was fantastic as always. The BoS characters were all awful except that funny squire.
He's got a 7yr olds brain
they do it to make blecks more appealing for whyte females...
The main actresses eyes are so large they look like cgi.
Modded character creation do be like that.
Yeah, like they are mutated.
They look 30% bigger because they bulge out of her head that far lolol
i clicked "random" once in the character creation menu
I legit thought they were.
I think this is going to be a Ghostbusters: Afterlife situation. A lot of people liked that movie when it first came out simply because it wasn’t as bad as the slop we’ve been peddled for years. Upon subsequent viewings, you realize it wasn’t anywhere as good as you thought it was at first.
...which means you ain't watched it. 'Cos we ALL thought it was gunna be crap. 'til it wasn't.
@@Blitterbug I watched it. Ask me any question about the show, and you’ll get an answer. It wasn’t good. Retconned things from lore, completely disregarded others. The three main characters are two Gary Stu’s and a Mary Sue. Never felt like they were in any danger throughout the season…in a Fallout show. When something did happen to them, the situation turned in their favor literally a couple minutes later, sometimes the very next scene. The idea of Vault-Tec dropping the first bombs is also nothing short of insane. If they’re all about money, how will you continue to make money with 99.9% of your paying customers dead, and the world being a hell scape?
@@rodafowa1279be original games: anti corporatist. Be new fallout by Amazon: anti capitalist.
@@rodafowa1279 Excellent. Good to know. Odd comment in that case.
@@Blitterbug What's odd about it?
Mate if Bethesda or Amazon are paying you to shill this rubbish just say so
nice bait eunuch
@@hieuneo7085 lol cope and seethe
@@samuelreynolds8156 nice bait eunuch
@@hieuneo7085 dead internet theory confirmed
Street Fighter was the first time I cried at a movie. Absolute perfection.
"I'm gonna kick that sonovabitch Bison's ass so hard, that the next Bison wannabe is gonna feel it. Now who wants to go home.... and who wants to GO WITH ME?" Masterful.
That was beautiful.
Bro thats cap
I didn't cry but I peed a lot
Raul Julia's last role
I like how the ghoul is introduced (post bomb) it feels very much like how a player would find a main story companion in game
The ghoul has a name.
How the fuck would they introduce any ghoul for that matter before the bomb? Are you high buddy?
Because he wasn’t a ghoul pre Great War. Theyre talking about the way he was buried in a coffin.
@@DVankeuren Everywhere in the promotional materials and also the actor calls him "The Ghoul". As if he lost his previous humanity after all he has experienced in the Wasteland. A bit like Anakin Skywalker becoming Darth Vader. Edit: Prime's X-ray when pausing the video also shows him as The Ghoul. Although I like to call him by his name of Cooper Howard to make things clearer.
@@CitizensRegisterHere I get that, "how he was introduced". But he puts (post bomb) after it. Like dude..
They retconed so much in this show. The whole vault tech did it narrative was just such a stupid narrative decision (which dispenses with the entirety of the pre war lore just about). They destroyed the NCR and made them essentially raiders no different form the khans, vipers, or jackals. They heavily over represented the BOS, the western BOS was for the most part wiped out by the NCR and by the events of NV were a stagnant tiny organization, and now i guess they have an airship, and a bunch of vertibirds. How did they build it, where did they get the vertibirds, how did they have their resurgence, zero explanation as far as I know. According to the end of NV the BOS is either completely wiped out, or remain stagnant and dies off. They weren't kidding when the show writers said "this isn't for the fans"
2:25 The bulk of the survivors do not, in fact, live in vaults 200 years after the bombs. Nor were the vault dwellers _ever_ the bulk of the survivors.
Yeah. Drinker is not a true believer. Take him to the nearest compost room. How dare he disrespect my Fallout canon!
It shows how he has no knowlege of F1 and 2.
Pretty sure the drinker was presenting a spoiler-free summary of the plot. The revelation that civilization survived the bombs, and that the vault dwellers' entire existence has been a lie, isn't revealed to the protagonist until towards the end of the season.
@@txdmsk i mean drinker is the target audience. Someone who knows what fallout is generally, but doesn’t care that much, besides shit looking cool. That’s like saying that halo is a great show, because John halo is cool guy, and guns are awesome. There is supposed to be more to halo, than just superficial iconography.
It seems like they were the bulk of the survivors right after the bombs fell. Mostly because larger factions and raider groups originated from the vaults. But that's just what I gathered.
The scream of pain at rings of power isn’t even 1% of what that show deserves
Streetfighter was the first movie I can remember when I was a kid. I was five years old and I saw it randomly on TV. It has a special place in my heart, too. ^^
Walton Goggins is just too perfect in this!❤
There were trees in fallout. I WILL give you one word: HAROLD
You mean Herbert. or Bob.
*Giggles in Shishkebab*
That was the Capital Wasteland on the other side of the country. The show takes place on the West Coast which already has vegetation
I thought the exact same thing.
@@Sniper9773Yes, the tree is actually called Bob. The guy it's intertwined with is Harold. Or Herbert. Can't remember the name.
Maximus whole character is that he maxed out his luck stat. 😂
Strength & Endurance too
For sure has the idiot savant perk
@@chriswyatt9869 I was making the idiot savant sound for my friends each time he successfully failed at anything
He never DIDNT look like he was about to break down and cry..
Can say the same for Lucy.
This show and my boyfriend's love for fallout is getting me to try out the games XD
Very happy for you two
As Knight of the Brotherhood of Steel, I condemn this abomination!
Right?! Even without the woke stuff that somehow drinker missed(?!) the way they immediately treated a Knight convinced me that I had given the show enough of a chance and I turned it off.
Surprised there was no mention of the fact the whole thing was basically an homage to The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, with some scenes ripped right out of that movie like the scene where the guy comes home and the Ghoul is just sitting there eating dinner.
Yeah that was one of the better homages I've seen recently.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed while watching 😁
The ghoul, all three wrapped up in one character - Good, Bad and definitely Ugly.
the characters being introduced with name cards, too
So.... The Okie-Dokie, The Brat and The Ghoul? ;-)
I swear i was going mad the amount of times they showed the flashback about the kid coming out of the fridge and seeing the power armor
Especially when there is a big gaping hole in the back of it that means the lead lining would have done fk all to protect the kid from the blast.
The should have had more flashbacks of his life, like his family. Ok he survived Shady Sands, whatever. But what did he lose?
@@browneyeofsauron1244 I agree, as much as I want to like this show I feel like there were some missed opportunities to actually establish past events, for both the characters (except for Ghoul/Cobb) and the world. None of the factions have a drop of explanation as to what they are other than one or two offhand lines. I don't know why they bothered mentioning the scientist guy was Enclave previously and not just a Vault Dweller or something when VT gets a significant amount of lore established compared to everything else, and the Enclave is only mentioned by name. I know that future seasons will build more on these things obviously, but I can't imagine trying to watch this show as someone who didn't know anything about Fallout already. I would be so lost. Also, there are plot points that go absolutely nowhere, like the water chip in 33 being destroyed. It's brought up as something to be very concerned about and then everyone seems to forget about it.
@@4doorsmoresmores694 on the water chip, Betty is from before the bombs fell. The Vault Tech employees probably know where all the bits to repair things like that are stored. They did say their plan was to just outlive everyone. Contingencies like that would make sense. I was hoping to see how coop became a ghoul. But there's always room for more with a season 2, let's just hope it doesn't go the way of the Mandalorian.
@@sarahuher8358 "they probably know how to deal with it" ok if you're not going to show them dealing with it then maybe at least have someone like Betty say they can fix it?? I agree that solution makes sense but it isn't addressed at all, which makes it seem like the writers just kinda forgot about it
NO ONE HAS MENTIONED MATT BERRY!
Hands down best thing about the show
But cant you see the wokeness in this too, the good guys are a black man and white woman, whom they pair up and the bad guy is a white man, also the one who she had intimite relations with in the 1.st episode turned out to be a bad guy, was also white. Its sad that this is the case in most of hollywoods productions now days... Hard to find a movie or series where it is the opposite way.
Maximus is far away from an angel. He let people die, he lie about his identity. He kill people.
Battle Angel Alita did a great job as Lucy.
Not just me who thinks she has freakishly large eyes then.
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@@gregoreisenhorn5093 They are nice though. I just was grab them a squeeze them. Yumyum yum
That's Rosa Salazar, not Ella Purnell
@@dubiago8440 I think he meant the CGI character herself did a good job as Lucy. Layered meta-humor.
Goggins carried every scene he was in. Very underrated actor.
Is he or is the subject matter he thrives in too much for most pedestrian viewers? He’s rated extremely accurately. He’s supposed to be unsettling. Trying to get mass appeal for the hateful 8 or vice principals is a fools errand 😂 let him be who he his. Juaquin Phoenix had comic relief movies like signs to get him mass appeal. Whereas goggins is type cast as a southern guy every time hes cast because that’s his voice 😂 and for some reason white liberals love to hate on southern white people through media because it absolves them of their self induced guilt in their minds
I don't think he's underrated at all. Virtually every critic, actor, and film fan know who he is and say he's great. I've never heard anyone undervalue or pass him over when discussing any project he's worked on.
Watch The Righteous Gemstones
everyone praise this actor. he also has 8 WINS & 31 NOMINATIONS, check his imdb.
Dude has such a big stack of awards he aint underrated but yes he does bring every scene together where he is.
I loved following the characters of Lucy and the Ghoul. Walton Goggins is in all his glory in this role. But I couldn't get behind the character of Maximus. He made stupid decisions constantly and he always had the dumbest look on his face. I think the actor is capable of more than they gave him.
No one ever brings up how good they depicted fallout shelter. Everyone was overly happy about everything
What I like the most is indeed this character development. Lucy gradually becoming more hard, the Ghoul becoming slightly softer after his meeting with Lucy, Maximus trying to do the right thing but also being kinda selfish, the random jerks of the wasteland that live up to the typical game NPCs. Yes, I liked this show terrifically
I love that Maximus isn't just a "nice guy treated badly" but had a real dark side to him, acting selfishly to the point of killing people in the pursuit of what he wanted.
Uh I believe her name is Goosey, Cyril Figgis said so.
@@bivyb6249of course, idk how he could forget this. It did CLEARLY say that after all.
The way sex and relationships are treated as something just functional in the vaults was something I tought was amazing. And then you have Maximus who basically don't understand the notion of sex at all. Shows how the writers understood the world and how many usual societal concepts would change in a falloutesque scenario. I only played fallout 1/2 and new vegas, not sure if the sex and reproduction topic came up in 3 or 4.
Goosey is a psychopath though. Only way to explain her being able to not brake more often