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!”
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
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...
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.
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 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.
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.
@@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)
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.
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.
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 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.
Thanks to the drinkers review I bothered to watch this even though I had to watch an ad in the beginning. (I don't do ads, which is why I have a RU-vid premium membership, which is the only streaming service I actually pay for.) I'm going to make it short and sweet. I haven't had television in my home since 1997 but I have streamed a few shows and binge-watched a few shows in the last 5 years. I'm on episode 5 of this and I'm absolutely blown away. I've never seen anything like it. It's absolutely first-rate storytelling and I love the character development as you said. The way the past unfolds in this show is absolutely brilliant.
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!
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
@@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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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
@@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.
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."
@@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?
@@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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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)
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 🤣
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.
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.
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.
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"
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.
@@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.
@@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
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.
I was pleasantly surprised with this series and am looking forward to the next season. I thought that to myself too, they need to explain the factions a bit more.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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
DIALOGUE??? It's absolutely god-awful writing in most of the show and the characters for the most part are laughable. Did you play the games and that's why you like it?
The Ghoul may be wearing ballistic weave armor which next to power armor is the most highly coveted armor. I think that is why he is more powerful on top of having his Ghoul abilities. As a player of the game, the show exceeded my expectations. I am looking forward to Season 2. They did a good job staying true to the concepts of the Fallout Universe.
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.
The thing I remember about fallout the most is my personal lifespan of the games. Being 10 years old when I played fallout 3. 12 when I played new Vegas and in high school at 17 when I played 4. Now, I’m 26 and enjoyed the show. It’s nice seeing that a franchise was able to grow up with me and give me vast experiences at different stages of my life. It’s like an old friend that appears once in a blue moon… and you’re never upset when it happens. Only brings back good memories
Ummm I thought all these grifter channels like Geeks and Gamers and Mauler WANT it to be okay to rescue women again?? lol this show has the female needing help… she isn’t a “I dOn’T nEeD nO MaN” feminist 😂
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.
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.
@@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
When you see the flash at the 6 minute mark, and you see Cooper's daughter turn and hold out her thumb, then her ask him, "Was it your thumb, or mine?," it had me hooked on the fact that there was going to be real character and emotion put into the story arcs. Glad that my cautious optimism paid off. Keep up the fantastic content, Drinker.
Nah when NO ONE else at the party noticed massive flashes of light that lit up the entire house and the room inside and a massive mushroom cloud enveloping the city below yet she is ONLY ONE that saw it before the second bomb.. nah that took me right out if it and the show was nonsense from there.
Was happy to check this one out, always trusting the curation of the drinker. Bjt I must say im very confuse now. I had to stop after 30 minutes of the first episode, I really hope the drinker did not fall to a big fat check by amazon. But it sure looks that way this time.
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.
I was absolutely certain they'll make him a f*king running joke who exists just to show how awesome the girl boss is. Never felt this good about being wrong, ever.
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.
@@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?
I was absolutely sure they will fail. But after watching, I don't know if it could be done any better. Bravo, bravo! I really hope S2 will not make a slip.
Are you for real? There's nothing they could've done better? Like the horrible NPC dialogue for example or that no character seems to feel any pain or that characters just teleport when the plot needs them to, etc.? That's all perfect to you?
