FALLOUT (2024) EPISODE 8 REACTION - NOW THAT'S HOW YOU END A SEASON! - FIRST TIME WATCHING - REVIEW 

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City is vegas

@@dlitylurlytutoyiytoixzaixzazax the spot where he stopped looked more like LAX than Vegas. It would make sense, since he was at the Observatory, and he traveled on foot until sunrise.

What a fantastic theme to explore for this season, seriously.

@@M4TCH3SM4L0N3 You can really see where they pulled plot threads from the various games. There's plot elements of all the games they riff off, but never directly copy.

The writing over this series has been absolutely phenomenal. Not since the I haven't seen such tight writing with such a richly complex internal structure of subtle foreshadowing and well-executed callbacks since the _Back to the Future_ films.

Witzig was the Oracle

WTH! WOW! INSIDE INFO! Thanks BOB!

also the reason why Skyrim was released on 11.11.11 Fuck... just realized that its been almost 13 years :(

​@@AleXxTM123 doesn't feel like it now, does it? 😢 my 360 went RROD just two years ago and I was still very much into my campaign

What a great observation! The knowledge of his own immortality affects everything he does and it's such a fascinating aspect of his character!

After all, what is the greatest weapon of mass destruction? Time 😉

Raul is never off the suspicions, the guy knows too much.

I think immortal is the wrong term. He can definitely die and almost turned feral as well.

@@revelation9125 Yes. I meant he can’t die of “natural causes”. But most definitely can be killed.

Apparently this is all set 10 years after new Vegas....BUT since new Vegas had many different endings Mr house could be alive or dead.

I watched this last episode by myself at, like, 3am and when the New Vegas reveal happened, I legit stood up and raised my arms in victory like I was Rocky and just made it to the top of those iconic stairs. I was already stoked on the show but knowing that New Vegas is coming next season...? Sign. Me. Up.

The House always wins...

I shouted "NEW VEGAAAAAAAAS!!!!"😂

Yeah, the fact that New Vegas become a canon make me shout "YEAH!!!" I kinda suspect this at the time they show Riot Gear at ep.7, But then final confirmation at the end just perfect. *chef kiss

There was so many little things like that making it so amazing. I also think when Cooper talked about Bakersfield meant something as well that we will find out in season 2. Bakersfield in game was home to vault 12 which intentionally had a faulty vault door allowing radiation into the vault, which turned all the inhabitants into ghouls and became known as necropolis. Perhaps Cooper became a ghoul in vault 12.

Also when the Ghoul (in this episode) specificly said "YOUNG Hank". One lived and aged the 237 years and the other just as old, but only LIVED a fraction of it.

Well, he did the same in the Vault. Close Lucy over the others

.. and it broke her heart ..

In my opinion, the story is written so well that it doesn't even bother how often the characters coincidentally run into each other.

Holy crap, never thought of that.

I caught it first time so I was surprised how many people miss it.

@@jamesh2401You know the saying, believing is seeing. 😉

Omg truee🥲

I'm hoping we get some of that stuff as flashbacks in Season 2, it would also be a way of explaining how the heck Moldaver was still around. Generally most things in the show have a hint as to the reason they happen, but that doesn't have any explanation at all, other than the assumption thay she may somehow have had access to cryo tech and been somewhere safe.

That would be the core of Kdrama

@@Scyth0r She was rich and had dealings with Vault Tec who bought her out so there is ample reason to think she got a prefered slot in some vault cryo program. Hell maybe she was in the empty tube in 111. Only one cryotube is unoccupied when you wake and the institute KNEW about the facility so Enclave would as well.

​@Scyth0r Well the reason is she was technically a part of vault tech - her work was bought out by vault tech, but she was likeley still workimg on cold fusion. If vault tech was gonna start humanity over - they're gonna need power. Heck Moldaver might have been in the management vault too.

Yeah, I feel like Max has been getting increasingly disillusioned ever since he saw Knight Titus for what he was but, you're right, in that moment with Dane, it really felt like he was finally fully done with his dreams about the Brotherhood. That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if the show gets some mileage next season out of the fact that Lucy left him there (despite her reasons being good). I'm interested to see how they'll play it. Will he think she was taken and is in danger and go on a mission to rescue her? Will he feel like she abandoned him, making him feel betrayed and therefore cling MORE to the Brotherhood for a while? Or maybe a combo (he goes to "save" her, only to discover that she left him there... and then he becomes a mini-antagonist for a couple of episodes)? If they go the "Max and Lucy are in opposition for a few episodes" route, I hope they don't spend too long on it. I always hated that in The Walking Dead when, every other season, they'd make Rick go too far down the "you have to be heartless in this world" path and make him a dick to everybody all season (and, the seasons in between, they'd make him too soft and trusting of everyone, but rarely if ever allowed him to land in the middle and just be a likeable main character). Once was okay, but they literally just had him alternate between extreme ends of the spectrum each season, and it got old real quick. Now that trope has become super tiresome to me and I kind of hope Fallout avoids it. I'd rather see Max feel trapped in the Brotherhood and search for a way out (and for Lucy) while still trying to seem loyal so they don't kill him. That's way more interesting to me than a trope-y misunderstanding that makes friends into enemies for a season before they eventually sort it all out (bc main characters).

@@johnplaysgames3120 I think they might be setting up a Brotherhood Civil War.

That it is. This is the first tv show I've been interested in since Battlestar Galactica from the early 2000s. Being a big Fallout fan, I was a major skeptic about this show until I watched it and thoroughly enjoy it.

I agree with you with the one codicil that this really only applies to video games that do not have established main characters that you follow. (Last of Us did a good job with that). The writers here had a blank canvas for characters. Writers working with established characters need to operate by different rules that take those characters into account.

The Last of Us: am i a joke to you?

@@lainwakura Didn't watch it. I stopped caring after you know what.

Agreed. I want the makers to do a bioshock and mass effect adaptation

It also very much applies to Moldaver. A lot of people think she's the "good guy" of this story... How easily they forget that she's readily admitted to being a hypocrite, and that she doesn't mind using Vault-Tec's methods herself, if it gets her what she wants; not to mention that she happily led a bunch of psychos to murder people in Vault 33, a lot of whom had nothing to do with her Vault-Tec corporate enemies, and whose great-grandparents weren't even conceived when she started her grudge. With the possible exception of Lucy, there are no true "good guys" in this story.....

And Hank

@@quwykxz I agree but I still think Moldaver is clearly the lesser of two evils, at least with what we know to date (Season 2 could show us more about her).

⁠​⁠​⁠ Ive seen alot of people say it doesnt make sense she wants to save humanity but she killed a bunch of people in the vaults- Then they completely forget that she said that to cooper, she knows that if she went into the vault and just kidnapped Hank without violence she wouldve lost- I dont agree with what she did but in this post war fallout world being 100% a good guy doesnt get you very far, even Lucy had to change to survive

@@quwykxz yep... exactly like the games. You never know how screwed up the story will be until the end and then everybody sucks and you have to pick the one that you dislike least ;)

I watched the ep for the first time yesterday morning and Lucy's mum haunted my thoughts through the whole day. Getting some sleep helped put the thought a little on the back burner but that reveal was utterly heartbreaking. You could almost hear the very moment Lucy's heart shattered

In Fallout 4 you can actually make them, via the robot workbench, to act as settlers, provisioners, companions, and they are fully customisable.

I don't think we have any reason to believe Moldaver is the reason Vault 32 discovered the truth. She hooked up with a band of raider Jet-fiends because she expected needing to fight her way through. If she had come from outside and told them the truth, I think more of them would have left, rather than died trying to claw their way into 31.

Yes, it's heavily implied the fall of Vault 32 wasn't Moldaver's doing. That happened on its own (and, apparently, as part of an experiment introduced to that vault; the hint is the video speaking of how mice behave when famine strikes). I haven't paused the episode where they learn it was Miss McClane's pip boy the one that opene the vault's door to see if there is a date; but in their little expedition Norm and his cousin realize the Raiders got access after the Vault dwellers of 32 massacred themselves. The timeline will need to be clarified further (just to set dates more accurately), but it seems like this: Shady Sands gets nuked; Miss McLane's pip boy stays in the surface (if Raiders knew how to use it to open the vault door right away, they needed to figure it out first or the device needed some repairs, that's unknown and a part of the story I'd love to see expanded); after that, and two years before the events of the series, the dwellers of Vault 32 discover something about "management" and violently revolt until none stays alive (we still don't know if this was a discovery on its own or it happened as a result of a second blight that spiraled out of control, potentially as a continued experiment in the vault); after Vault 32 falls, Moldaver gets access to the vault (to make some sense why McClane is not suspicious something happened in the vault, it's easy to assume Moldaver impersonated for a while the communications of the vault, just as Norm briefly pretends to be Betty; how long that game lasted, we don't know). Eventually, when Moldaver gets enough confirmation of what's going on and how to get easy access into 33; the wedding scheme starts (McClane, being the selfish individual he is, has had no reason to check how they are in the "still functioning" Vault 32, has no reason to question the recurrence of sick crops in the Vault and, even more so, has no reason to remember who Moldaver is; considering he nuked that problem all those years ago).

@@DocuzanQuitomos TBH I don't it was an experiment. 32 & 33 were a breeding pool to create a middle-management class, not a typical experiment, they actually don't want to cause problems for them. Either the blight thing was real and caused societal breakdown which also revealed the truth, or somehow the truth came out and they all went nuts with the existential horror of it.

I really don't think Moldaver would bother waiting for two years. If she had, the raider who talked to norm would have known something about what was happening. No, they figured it out on their own somehow, or something went wrong. I suspect we will learn in the next season, but i don't think it had anything to do with Moldaver.

@@DocuzanQuitomos Or they tested the crop failure on 32 to see if they would kill each other as their studies showed. Remember they had the vaults separate but 31 could have got them new seeds in a second by calling 33. They had coms so that means 33 and 31 decided to let 32 fall or 32 fell so fast that the overseer never got to call for help.

theres a lot of perks from the game that can be seen in the show, Maximus is likely Idiot Savant even :D The Ghouls DEFINITLY has Bloody Mess equipped...

​@@IH8YH the ghoul is also a legendary character build.

"An intelligent zombie"... Just like most people I've met... but minus the "intelligent" part, in most cases 😅.....

yeah. I expect to see her in flashbacks next season explaining wtf was going on with her still being alive.

Moldaver KNEW Cooper's wife, even bragging to him at their first meeting that she knew a side of her he didn't. The only way that happens is if Moldaver was part of VaultTec. She wants to subvert them and their insane designs on destroying and rebuilding humanity, but doesn't have the power, so she worked her way into their midst and went into cryo with the rest of "management" when the bombs dropped. That's got to be the only way, and the reason Hank said she was just like him.

​@@meadmaker4525she said vaulted bought up every company she worked for. They were trying to stop her cold fusion work so it's obvious she was part of vault tec.

@@Milner62 Yes. She was at one point. But a junior exec had more authority than she had, which was why she had to kidnap him. So she wasn't with Vault Tec at the end. So it seems like she shouldn't have been in a vault or at least not a good vault.

She is not lying about the general story (because the bits we see of her in the past are through Cooper's eyes, and he is not an unreliable narrator)... but her motivations and how she managed to survive all that time, that is open to debate (considering the different ways people have extended their lives in the universe of the game). Also we don't know when she realized her investigation was going to be shelved, if she realized the true extent of what was coming, what other allies she might have had, if she was close to Vault Tec members that were ignorant or not on board with the vault plan... The bits of her story that don't add up are because we have +200 years of conspiracy to fill just for her character :P.

I agree... Hank was awfully capable in that power armor... like he's worn it before... and i kinda doubt the smug younger Hank war it pre-war. He might be Brotherhood himself. So rather than Hank blowing up Shady Sands singlehandedly, it may have been the Brotherhood... theyve fought against the NCR on many occasions.

So true, her last okey dokey broke our hearts! What a wonderful detail that adds so much depth to her character!

I feel it's a very ominous, threatening, 'vengence is coming' tone. We may see an angry Lucy next season.

She's dead inside, her life was a lie. Sad seeing someone who was optimistic end up like this. The Ghoul has been where she's at and hopefully he can help her on their travels.

Um... how would a person get a slot in Vault 69? Is there, like, an application process or a waiting list or something? Asking for a friend.

Pretty sure that was vault 106

@@johnplaysgames3120 Ironically, it sounds a lot more fun than it actually was. According to the fic it came from, the man met a horrible end where he was essentially kept in a medically induced coma and milked for procreation.

@@garypeyman932 106, you're right. I forgot the designation. 113 was the Gary vault, wasn't it?

@@johnplaysgames3120 After working with several female colleagues. You don't want to be in that vault, buddy. ...whether you male or female.

Cannot wait!

The House Always Wins

My Dad had a Vinyl Long Play Record of INK SPOTS that I didn't really appreciate until I was 16 years old. I really got into The Blues then & still love it.

"We Three" was a nice choice in general but I also love how it fits with our new party of three -- Lucy, Coop, and Dogmeat -- heading off into the next part of the adventure.

@@CollideFan1 That's because the game was rigged from the start.

That's if house survives in 2291 in New Vegas. The strip looks quite decimated.

100% agreed! His performance in this was heartbreaking, intimidating and overall just fantastic! Cannot wait for season 2!

@@OfficialMediaKnights Have you guys seen Justified? He was exceptional in that, along with Timothy Oliphant, two superb actors at the top of their game. :)

I wouldn't say "no player has ever done". I'm a terminal geek. :p But yeah, would be nice if more people read terminals instead of bulling through the game. To each his own, I guess.

​@@jaeladarlingtrailersI wish there were more terminals in game. I always read every terminal possible and get upset when I see one that says terminal corrupt.

I always read the terminals (though I'm not always happy about it when there are a lot of them in a short time) because I like lore. That being said, I like when games are designed so that different types of players can play however they like. You like to immerse in the world and know all the lore? Here are some notes and terminals with info for you to explore. Just want to sprint through every scenario, twitch-shooting everything that moves with no interest in the world or the lore? No problem bc the lore is just an extra bit of icing on the cake, not at all critical to winning.

I usually read the terminal entries if for nothing else to acquire more info about whatever quest I'm currently on or to get info about another site, weapon, item, etc...

Also, from Max's POV, he doesn't know that Lucy chose to leave. The last thing he remembers, her Shady Sands-nuking dad was in power armor and knocked him the hell out. When he woke up, everyone was gone. For all Max knows, Lucy's power-armored dad kidnapped her and she needs to be rescued.

Question would be if it was only Hank who did it. Betty said they buried their mother together, implying it wasn't only Hank. It might have been them 2, or it was an order from higher ups. If shady sands got too attractive then Rose with the kids was just an extra trigger for Hank to push management to wipe out the unwanted new society

@@killerbas40 Especially since Moldaver mentioned that Shady Sands was living the post-vault dream and was actually thriving on the surface. That took me back to Norm's comment in the first episode when he tells Lucy that Betty and the others didn't want to go find Hank because then they wouldn't get to be in charge anymore. If Shady Sands succeeded and this rogue group of former vault-dwellers actually restarted civilization properly (before "Reclamation Day"), then Hank and Management wouldn't get to be in charge anymore.

The thing is, that whole concept is just a lie. VaultTec don't actually want the Vaults to succeed independently. They're all just experiments, built for the Enclave to swoop in and take over the best ideas. I'm betting that is what Season 2 is going to lean into, with Cooper's wife getting instructions from that shadowy figure.

I wanted to replay it but it no longer runs for me. It crashes every time. I am so sad. So I am replaying Fallout 4 instead.

New Vegas was fun but I never put the same number of hours into new Vegas as I did in 3. The Mojave wasteland was way too cluttered with POIs it felt small and there just wasn't as much variation in map it was all desert. In 3 you had biomes that just wasn't there for new vegas.

I've loved all the Fallout games since Fallout 1 and have always cited it as my favorite game franchise, all-time. I def loved New Vegas but -- and I know this isn't the majority opinion -- FO4 is actually my favorite. At one of my previous game jobs (I was a designer with Activision, EA, and several other small studios for 10-ish years), I worked with a guy who would go on to be a producer on the Fallout games and we used to talk a lot about FO3 and New Vegas. I always load my Bethesda games with mods (100+, usually) and I was obsessed with the settlement building mod (the name of which I can't remember) and would constantly talk to him about it, tell him how I wished it was part of the main game, etc. Although he was more of a Skyrim fanboy, he started playing more Fallout and playing with that mod. Anyway, he left our studio to work on Fallout 4 and, when it came out and had the settlement building in it, (1) I knew he was at least partially behind pushing that to be in, and (2) I LOVED it. I know it wasn't everybody's favorite aspect of that game but, man, it just added a whole 'nother level to the gameplay for me. The constant "Your settlement is under attack" messages when I was in the middle of a quest halfway across the map did get a little annoying (and probably could've been avoided by having that message/event not fire if you were in the middle of a critical quest moment elsewhere) but, tbh, was easily solvable by setting up the settlements to be able to defend themselves. After doing that, I could just choose to ignore those messages if I was busy, knowing my people would be fine without my help. Anyway, yeah, I agree that FO3 has great atmosphere and New Vegas has a fun, slightly silly vibe, but I feel like FO4 -- especially the beginning -- is closest to the look and feel of the show. If somebody was looking to dip their toes into a Fallout game for the first time after watching the series, I'd probably suggest playing FO4 just because I think it would feel more immediately familiar, vibe-wise (plus you get Codsworth right outta the gate, and that's a fun connection to the show). But, really, it's hard to go wrong with any of the games. They're all good.

Agreed about the mods. Every Bethesda game I play, I usually end up with somewhere in the neighborhood of 100-ish mods. Not all of those are critical, obvs, but the QoL stuff is def recommended and, presuming your computer is not a tater, I'd probably suggest some of the graphics mods too just to update the look a little. It's a great game but it's an old game and, y'know, looks it. Better graphics are not make-or-break but they definitely help with immersion if you're playing in 2024. Loved your observation about Bud, btw. I thought it was great that he was all about being one of the people in power post-apocalypse but, in reality, he ended up in a robot body that could be defeated by a mop handle blocking his path and was too small and slow to even stop Norm from slowly walking in to discover the vault's secrets. Bud became the opposite of powerful and that's awesome.

The pouplarity of this show has really blown up...

"Us vs Them. Us vs Them never changes..." doesn't quite have the same ring, does it? But, yeah, I see what you're saying. Tbh, that ties really well into the Fallout games too bc almost every game has a bunch of factions and they all kind of suck in one way or another. No group in the FO world is just straight-up good, leaving you to just pick the least of all the available evils when choosing a faction. It also goes back to Max's quote from that earlier episode when he and Lucy are standing on the edge of the Shady Sands crater: "Everyone wants to save the world, they just disagree on how."

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