I love that Maximus and Lucy are wary of the vault for different reasons initially: Lucy isn't used to mutations, so she's suspicious because of that and not concerned about them helping out because she's used to that. Maximus lives on the surface and is more tolerant of different types of people but is suspicious because they're too nice haha. Really shows how our environment can change our outlooks.
Vault 11 - the vault was told they have to sacrifice a fellow vault dweller every year, or they would all be killed. They continued with the sacrifices, until there was only 5 left. The final five refused to sacrifice anymore. The computer then announced, for refusing to sacrifice fellow vault dwellers, they were shining examples of humanity.
It was not just the sacrifice that made it bad. It was all the political maneuvering and how stronger parties pick on weaker ones. Also how one overseer got her revenge on those who raped her and killed her husband by rigging the computer to do the selection.
Vault 75 was also a horrible vault. Kids seperated from their families, who were then killed, and raised as soldiers in a breeding program that killed most of them when they came of age except for aspiring scientists to keep the cycle going. Worst part is, we don't know the fate of the inhabitants. The vault is empty and inhabited by gunners. Who knows if anyone survived when the vault fell, however that happened.
There's also that implication with the final five that they were debating whether to end themselves to make sure no one finds out what happened, and one of the final five is implied to grab the gun, shoot the rest, and walk out as the only survivor.
The sacrifice was also determined by the Overseer election and the Overseer would be the one sacrificed, so you had reverse political campaigns where people were trying to get the other side elected
I found a unmentioned "Easter Egg", in episode 6. When the Ghoul was taken before "The President", we see President , he's a fat man wearing a white suit and white bowtie. His name is Sorrel Booker. Now, from 1979 - 1985, on the TV show, "The Dukes of Hazzard", the character of Boss Hogg, controlled the county, he wore a white suit and white bowtie, the actor that played him, was Sorrell Booke.
Axolotls are effectively immortal with their regenetation. That's a trait a mad scientist would want spliced into a human. Unfortunately, the results were axolotls with human traits instead.
Fun little switcheroo between Max and Gucy where he thought it was a cult and she thought he was being ridiculous and then vice versa. Telling people not to go to level 12 is like daring people to go to level 12.
@@StayFractalesqueWhile I kind of agree with your original point, about how it's pretty illogical how the 12th floor is handled, it's far from something that stopped me enjoying the show. By what you're writing it's as though you're oblivious to the fact humans do stupid things all the time, fail to explain themselves or their reasons to other people and act based on what they think is right, those are all realistic flaws of people.
Gulpers were an enemy type introduced in Fallout 4: Far Harbour. Giant mutated Salamanders, capable of swallowing just about anything smaller than them, including humans. These ones... are different. Genetically created by trying to make humans more resistant to radiation. The only similarity is the name and of course, that they both eat a lot.
@@imwiththeunderhills2128 I was VERY tempted to add that as it's a show I have binge watched through twice already and am both happy and sad that the next season will be the last. One of those rare shows where I honestly couldn't tell you who my favourite character is
Lucy finding Maximus stuck in his power armor is a reference to a random "special" encounter in Fallout2, where the player finds an enclave soldier in the desert, unable to move until the player oils them up withan oil can, conveniently sitting on the ground. This special encounter is in turn a reference to Dorothy finding the Tin man in "the wizard of Oz". Isn't that fun. Oh, and "Shady sands" is one of the towns in Fallout 1, so not the same place as "megaton" in Fallout 3 (unless I missed something)
Been ages since I played the original (never managed to start the 2nd one) so I was like hmm Shady Sands sounds familiar and once I realized where it was from I was super hyped
The "Morticia" lady in vault 4 is magnificently gorgeous. I can't blink when she's on-screen. Vault 4 is my favorite part of the season and the punishment was so great, hahaha
3:50 "A serious design flaw!" - Given that in the games, you _can_ step out of it with no power, it's probably better to rationalize Maximus' problem as inexperience. Like, he literally isn't trained on the PA, so he doesn't know where the trunk release latch is, and 'his squire' figured the same as well when he decided to swipe the fusion cell 🙃
When Cooper (The Ghoul) goes to look at the WANTED posters in the "President's" office, there is a poster of a wanted ghoul. It looks very similar to another ghoul named Ben in the live action fan-project "Nuka Break". (It's on RU-vid)
i have to assume anyone who doubts that Fallout is heavily inspired by A Boy and His Dog has simply not seen it. if the movie came out today, it'd be seen as being as faithful an adaptation of the games as this show is
@@samhainnc9416 The original creators said A Boy and His Dog was a massive inspiration to the series. The movie could literally be a Fallout game; the tone is very similar.
The fact you didn't freak out seeing Matt Berry (Codsworth) is a shame. Probably the funniest t.v comedic actor to come out of Britain in decades. Please watch a few episodes of What We do In the Shadows. It's 10000 % right up your ally.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-P9-V8ersVa4.htmlsi=n39V-ypn5b8eLeyX Have a free taster of Matt Berry... voicing a wildlife documentary about mating...
Maximus is such a himbo.. sure, brand the guy, explain the tennants in order; Protect the brother hood, protect the mission, protect the knight.. say you're the second knight titus not the first, tell the guy how knight titus died, explain what happened.. then open the mask.
Maximus said "the bombs" dropped when he was a kid. However, the current year that he and Lucy are in when they were standing in front of the crater that used to be Shady Sands is 2296. The "end of the world" bombs dropped in 2077. There is a LOT of contention when Lucy sees the "blackboard" with the timeline of Shady Sands, and it shows "The Fall of Shady Sands 2277" then shows an arrow to a depiction of a bomb exploding. There are some timeline issues in the game Fallout 3 Shady Sands is said to still exist in 2281. The rumor is that "The Fall of Shady Sands" began in in 2277 and sometime much later Shady Sands was destroyed.
The update for the PS5 and Xbox dropped for free today if anyone is playing on console. Believe it’s like the Skyrim update a few years ago providing new quests and all that crap they tried to get us to pay for.
A litle bit of trivia that I just found out (though should have already realized) is that the actress who plays Betty is also the same actress who plays Deadpool's blind friend in the movies.
In case you're wondering, Shady Sands is actually the (usually) first settlement that The Protagonist visits in the first Fallout Game. I say usually because The Fallout games are so open world that you could end up doing things in a vastly different order than the designers originally intended for you to go.
Man...I just did a playthrough where I got all the settlements before meeting The Minutemen. Fully built and populated, with defense and everything they need. Talk to Preston, and he still sends me to every single one of them, all 30+ settlements.
Makes sense. He wants them to join the Minutemen network. As was, they weren't part of it. Of course, if you helped build them all and you go, it should be a lot easier to convince them.
The A Man and His Dog poster is a homage to a film. A Boy and His Dog (1975) is a movie that has a vault/fallout shelter as a main component to the plot. One could say the creators of Fallout took a LOT of inspiration from this film.
The last two episodes are fantastic, and wrap up many things while leaving lots of great questions for future seasons. And the music remains phenomenal. Also, Simone - best intro yet. Shut up Preston, indeed
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, it'd be far easier to find people willing to have sex with you, than an ordinary, peaceful world. If for no other reason than a distinct lack of options.
One thing I noticed when I watched the episode with the gulper was that aside from the human-like hands and general fleshy coloration was that it also had very expressive human eyes. I thought that was curious and that it seemed very purposeful. I was very satisfied when episodes 6 and 7 gave an explanation that confirmed it.
I don't mind Preston's radial missions; every faction in Fallout 4 gives you those. I just want him to accept that we had his little chat about his feelings, and accept that I'm not going to sex him up, no matter how many times he keeps trying to have the chat again, over and over, until I find a way to nuke the Minutemen, or forever.
The experiment for the vault they found was "What could scientists do without the constraints of social rules". Basically scientists left to their own morals versus their need to discover.
Except nothing of this is good science, in science we isolate parameters and work with control groups and replicable results. Science is not just messing around and recording it.
3:50 The lack of an emergency exit system from the armor seems silly to me too, but perhaps in this reality of fallout power armor is meant to be used with the help of support troops.
One of the worst vaults is Vault 75. It was located under a middle school in Boston. Vault Tec would separate the kids from their parents,kill the parents,kill the less intellectual kids and conduct experiments on the smarter kids to make better and smarter children. Eventually they escaped...its such a sad and tragic vault. You can find it in Fallout 4.
There is a loooong list... Just reading some of the logs in FO3/FO4/FO76 it's actually hard to define the worst... Spoiler: Some are even mentioned later in the show.
Maybe not the worst, but my favourite vault was Vault 108, the Gary clone vault. Sneaking around that place listening to the Gary's call out to each other cracked me up.
I have seen people complain about how the Fiends are identified as cannibals here -- in New Vegas they were just very....very on drugs, that was their whole thing, and there was a questline where cannibalism for ONE character was tied into it, but -- this is set after New Vegas, and we have to remember Maximus is out in the world again for the first time since he was a kid. He likely only has what became rumors and ghost stories among the other recruits unless we see him being told otherwise. See also: What he thought the vaults were before talking to Lucy. Of course he would think that: by and large the most likely encounters the Brotherhood is going to have with Vaults on record are ones that have failed and have been overrun with creatures.
yalll are the only reactors that where smarter then me and my husband figuring out what happened in Vault 32. Props to you two for being Int 8 at least
The way I interpreted Vault 32 is the experiment was to see what happens to people in an unsurvivable situation. I assume they powers that be understood there would be no survivors, but the people in 32 realized they were in a Kobayashi Maru, which caused panic and lead to everyone to kill each other/themselves, expediting the results and forcing Vault 31 to adjust and split 33 into two groups because of the Raiders, blaming the entire thing on them.
The first scene of the first episode implied that the actor was probably blacklisted for being 'associated' with communism like the others. A taste of the real world history is often the scariest thing in an alternate history.
Hillarious that the commercial for Vault 4 shows that scientists are running the vault. When no one says no to a Scientist they can damage the world. They made most of the mutants.
The 3 worst have to be: Vault 11: The one where they were forced to sacrifice a person each year, only to be told it wasn't necessary when they were only 5 people left, and they finally refused Vault 95: A vault which was a rehab clinic for junkies. When it seems like people finally were clean, Vault-Tec opened a hidden compartment filled with drugs and people went berserk. Vault 68: 1000 inhabitants. Only one was a woman. Yeah, I doubt this one had a happy ending.
32:35 possible easter egg? A couple of years ago there was a fan made Fallout series called Nuka Cola; one of the Ghoul Wanted posters (bottom left) looks A LOT like one of the characters from that series
You guys didn't seem to familiar with the NCR (New California Republic). They were a major faction in Fallout 1 & 2. They made a reappearance in Fallout New Vegas.
I'd have to go with Vault 12 being the scariest to be assigned to. The bombs begin to fall, the vaults doors begin to close. All the vault dwellers are "safe" in their vaults. Except 12. The door was designed to fail and it never fully closed, allowing massive amounts of radiation into the vault. And all the vault dwellers of 12 would have known almost right away.
Dallas Goldtooth is great in "Reservation Dogs." Nice to see him break out into other roles besides comedy. He is fantastic in comedy though. And damn I love his car with the sliding doors in ep6. Real collector car.
