An Attempted Objective Look at the Fallout TV Show 

I more find it funny how easily they are able to travel between the West and East Coast with essentially an unknown environment and lack of supply lines (that we know of) to bring the Brotherhood back West. In Fallout 3 it seemed like they struggled just to make it to DC and lost people along the way, but its always been something that has bothered me about Fallout lore is the vast territory you have to cross on foot no less to reach each coast. Now saying that, we don't know the state of central states and their condition to determine how much if a struggle it is, but considering there is little mention in any of the games on the nature or environment of these territories it just seems weird to allow what essentially feels like fast travel plot wise between both coasts.

About 30 minutes into a viewing of the first episode with friends, I came to the conclusion that the show is a soft reboot. Fallout 1, 2, and New Vegas do not happen in Bethesda's Fallout. The only games that matter to the show are the ones made by Bethesda; 3, 4, and 76.

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With all the other retcons and errors the devs made I think its pretty obvious they just messed up the date. I'm not saying its impossible for the bombs have happened at a later date but its clear that the devs originally intended it to be 2277. The timeline board says 2277, the book in the nuked shady sands elementary school locker says 2276, Lucy's mom is believed to have "died/Starved" from a plague in 2277. The quarantine from the plague acts as perfect cover for Hanks family to be missing. Then there's Lucy's age to take into account. The game states she was six while outside vault, if that's 2277 then shes 25(27 irl) in present 2296, where as Max would be the same age(35 irl). If the nuke happened later at 2284 but Lucy was still outside the vault at 2277 then max is supposed to be about five years younger since I think the child actor was six or seven at the time of filming. Which is really bad casting because Max's Actor is almost ten years older than Lucy's. The way they talk in the final ep also seems to imply the nuke happened immediately after hank took his children back so it seems unlikely this is the case. And finally if we are to presume Lucy was out of the vault at 2282 with the bomb dropping the same year then we run into even worse problems. Which now means Lucy's mother couldn't have "starved to death" in the plague and the quarantine couldn't be cover for them missing. Additionally Lucy tells us she had "10 years of cousin stuff" which with a 2277 date means it started at 15 but at 2282 means it started at 10. So I dont think I need to go into how that's problematic. It really just seems like the writers and Todd made a mistake and are now just retconing it out with the 2284 nuke date. Anyway I would legit only give this show a 4/10 it is not a well thought out piece of media but it is a fun watch and they have pretty decent stuff in it, just don't think to hard about the narrative just as you would a standard Bethesda property.

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Other thing with Vegas is Ulysses mentions that Tunnelers will start to work their way into the Mojave. So I see ending either: NCR wins, but still licking their wounds after Hoover Dam, then their capital exploding led them to abandon Vegas to chaos and creatures. Yes Man in which case the natural chaos and disorder of the area let tunnelers work their way in starting at more frontier towns. Either ending the Courier is said to be at Big MT per that DLC's ending so either not present or somehow killed admist all the fall

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Overall I think the show is great, I'm glad to see the mainstream acknowledging that video games have artistic value and showing that to whose without interest in gaming. It's kinda annoying how they keep the wasteland in the same perpetual state (Enclave and BoS well and alive and no large factions emerging to form new nation states), and it makes me wonder how Vault-Tec actually nuked Shady Sands? Presumably they had Enclave do it but how does Enclave seem to have unlimited resources despite getting blown up in every damn game?

Who created the ghoul serum and why? Are they still in production or is there a very limited supply? Perhaps there's a connection with the shady salesman who turned Thaddeus into a Ghoul...

What's the music that plays at 19 minutes? Sounds awfully familiar.

1) Considering that food is scarce, it could be that what there IS to be found and eaten is of low nutritional value, naturally some individuals with poor metabolisms would eventually develop weight problems. This is common in Latino America for example, poor people can become rather fat despite not being able to afford much food. Unless you're joing, in that case I am fucking stupid and a clown 2) In FO2 we are shown behind the president a big map of various Enclave bases all around the world. The US was a large and very powerful country before the war, it is safe to presume that even if the Oil Rig was destroyed, they still had secret bunkers and bases all over America. Personally what bothers me about the Enclave is how shallow and bland as a faction are. They were beaten back so many times in so pathetic ways that I can't help myself from rolling my eyes when the writers try to present them as these "Big threats". I would rather see descendents of these Enclave enclaves trying to carve a future for themselves. 3) My personal headcanon is that all ghouls are their own thing, is not really a race but rather people being afflicted by different but superficially similar set of conditions. 4) I don't know what the show gained from taking place in the West Coast, was it for fan service and shock value?. Why bother with this region if you're going to nuke it back to small settlements and raiders, now it looks worse than it was in FO1. Todd Howard's comment about the ultimate fate of the rest of the Republic is so vague btw. He didn't want to give any final answers to what happened to them because he still needs them for future entries but at the same time refuses to show them as anything other than minutemen with cowboy hats because we they need conflict. The wasteland will always be stuck in a perpetual state of constant struggle for survival because of the writers. 5) Isn't these technically the east coast? They were sent from the Commonwealth to the west, otherwise I can't explain the T-60s. We know they don't recruit adult outsiders but meaby they take in orphans? The Midwest brotherhood certainly did that at least. 6) FALLOUT DUST IS CANON AYYY LMAAOOOOO

Sadly I think season 2 is going to play it safe and have a "stalemate" outcome for the Mojave with no clear winner as not to upset anyone. I feel like a house victory would have been best from the PoV of the TV series as this is the one that most likely allows viewers to see an intact Vegas strip

the oil rig self destructs because of Frank Horrigan, a lot of Enclave members had already left before the oil rig exploded.. in 76 the game is set 25 years after the great war so it kinda makes sense that the Enclave are there.

Will just like the vid. I don't wanna get spoiled either, since I'm somehow piqued.

In the show the airship the brotherhood had was the Prydwen from fallout 4 meaning that somehow the east coast sec has a greater influence over the west coast sec. Also that damn chalk board was and still in the bane of my existence. Other than that I enjoyed my time with the show.

I think that anti feral serum is something developed on the west coast between Fallout 2 and the Show. Ghouls are only getting older so would make sense they would need to develop a way to counter becoming feral. Thought it also might be interesting if they need to use ghouls to create it, like a soylent green thing. That way it would make sense why they were keeping ghouls prisoner at the Super Duper Mart.

Shady sans was nuked just after new vegas

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So in short, it's Bethesda Fallout: The TV Series, and can only be enjoyed if you don't ask question or think while watching.

Just finished watching the show and it was okay. I think the show did a really good job at portraying the evil and insanity of the managerial elite, which is in keeping with Fallout's themes and satire. Overall, I'll give it a 3/5. Positives: Set and costume design CGI Tone and comedy Themes Lucy and The Ghoul Negatives: Writing and story Stupid character decisions Why was Shady Sands nuked? Maximus

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I kinda wished they had some Lovecraftian horror in the show but there's still hope.

A pretty fair and even handed review. I have pretty much the same thoughts. The show was very competent on many levels. But I am watching closely to see where the new lore developments take us. There is too much up in the air to make any definite statements about it right now. I'd give season one an 8.5/10.

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Dude there are PLENTY of overweight characters in all Fallout games. The elephant in the room (pun intended) being Gizmo. Nothing in the show suggests that Vault 33 runs efficiently. Norm is even scolded for his lack of motivation but isn't really punished because of that.

The fact is bethesda fallout doesn't conflict with the original meaning and only enhances it in many ways, as well as take away but silver lining and all.