Opening scene from Fallout TV Show season 1 episode 7. All rights and media belong to Amazon and Bethesda. Don't forget to subscribe. Join my Discord server / discord
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People mad that some scavengers have NCR ranger gear are the same people who don’t mind taking the gear off of corpses or stealing it for themselves in game
I thought the comments the Ghoul made about there "still being some of your lead in me" and the son being radicalized by Moldover definitely pointed to an affiliation with the NCR. The old man was probably a ranger before Shady Sands got blown up.
@@Lung-Stealer it's just the Fallout theme in general, the arrangement played on the violin for 4 and the show are the same for 3 and New Vegas but just with a wind instrument.
If Adam is former NCR but still think Moldaver and her remnants are crazy, it could imply that hers arent the only NCR remnant/faction around, maybe original NCR is still alive, or splintered to smaller groups
@@WRAAEEE What we have to understand about Moldaver is that she came to Shady Sands talking to people about how she was going to bring them Cold Fusion energy, and that she continued to pursue this goal well after Shady Sands was bombed. I'm sure that for a lot of NCR folk just trying to survive, her vision of resurrecting the NCR, leading a revolt against Vault-Tec, and the methods she employed might seem like she really was just another Cult-Leader. She must have seemed crazy to all the people who were just trying to move on and focus on their survival.
@@firstlast9846 That doesn't seem likely to me? The Ghoul mentions that he thinks that he still has some lead in his body from Adam, which makes sense if Adam was a Ranger.
@@sightstrikemaster There is no confirmation of that. We know NCR has decline, but not that they are utterly gone. We see two groups of remnants after all.
@sightstrikemaster Don't know if you've played FNV but they mentioned shady sands was the former capital of the NCR. They're still around, like how somehow the enclave are still around.
I like the difference in tone of this theme playing in the show. In the games it feels brutal, harsh, and strong. In the show it feels somber and hopeful, that despite how cruel the world is, how ever many times humanity fucks up, there will always be good people fighting the good fight.
Fallout 4's rendition is pretty hopeful too, in my opinion. It meshes well with the game's theme of rebuilding from the ground up after the worst has come and gone, uniting everyone under a common cause, and the hope for the future it brings.
The theme plays during the end credits of that episode as well. There it's eerie and almost has a touch of the spookiness of "beyond the wall" in GoT (same composer).
Lmao, everyone talking about NCR veteran rangers when the armor is actually Desert Rangers uniform originally - organisation predating the NCR, a member of which you meet and can recruit back in the OG fallout. They just happened to ally and merge with NCR eventually, a memorial (desert ranger and an NCR trooper shaking hands) to which you can see in New Vegas at an outpost.
whoever thinks the NCR no longer exists in any capacity is just naive I'd say, a faction of that size and level of organization doesn't get completely wiped out by losing their big city, they may fracture into multiple administrations or keep on existing in some other form, my guess is that there's a provisional NCR government out there with many internal issues but still kicking nonetheless. There could even be a successor faction that is comprised of desert rangers, who basically impose a military administration rather than a civilian one.
@@lagginghippie870 I think this is more of a fan theory statement than it is pointing out any failures in the show. Nonetheless, your comment deserves a thumbs up because I find comments that sound like crotchety old grandpa's complaining funny.
@@borissand3891Bethesda made fallout good lol, without them the original 2 games wouldve faded away and been forgotten, Now fallout is quite literally the only heavy hitter franchise that Microsoft has left
I like how between this and the scene in Vault 4 where Lucy finds the flag, the main theme from the games is taking on the role of the NCR's theme in the show. Which I'd say bodes well for the NCR's place in the future of the series
For everyone worried the NCR is gone. Shady sands was one city in a country of 700 thousand, only about 5% of their total population. The remnants we see are likely just remnants in the region after the NCR chooses to withdraw from a now re irradiated wasteland. Vault City for example is a part of the NCR and I suspect is a fairly large city now, probably comparable to shady sands before it was nuked given it’s advanced technology and support of a larger economic system.
@@ByrgenworthGraduate Yeah all the Obsidian fanboys are seething and still crying that the people who paid attention were right all along. They're so obsessed with their hatred for Bethesda they're actually upset now that Shady Sands wasn't nuked before New Vegas it makes them look bad for being a bunch of cry babies.
If the House ending is canon, then I could not have been good for the NCR to walk back empty handed. I think nefarious types within the NCR like the Van Graffs were waiting for something like Shady Sands to happen and they are back to being petty warlords. NCR exists as a people but they are not a civilization anymore.
Yup, it's a legend of a scene, and definitely an homage. Copied in Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds, here, and I'm fairly certain many other TV shows and films
Season 2 is gonna have Lucy and Cooper in the Mojave, I can feel it. With everything that Todd has been saying in interviews, and how season 1 ended, New Vegas and the NCR are gonna play a HUGE part in season 2.
i sure hope so , im not a fan how shady sands and ncr was handled in season 1 but i will say this at least shady sands is an important plot point and is even the origin of maximus that being said the ncr would continue to be a target of vault tec and ncr would like to have "some words" with them
I'm fascinated by clearly a return of the Brotherhood of Steel to Power on the West Coast. sounds like the East Coast took over leadership (from the highest authority in the Commonwealth), and came out west to help.
@@hengineer Given the East Coast looted all the Enclave goodies in DC and T60 stocks in the Commonwealth while the West got crushed by the NCR and was reduced to armored raiders in hiding, yeah, it shouldn't be surprising that the former would now be strong enough to call the shots. On top of being his own kind of badass, Maxson also has his name's legacy to go by.
I like to think Adam and his wife were NCR rangers, explaining how they have the armor. Then his wife died and his son wears the mom's old uniform when they go out. Of course now the daughter is gonna be the one wearing it when shes old enough.
In FO 1Desert Ranger were a different faction descendant of the Texas Ranger. They allies with NCR to fought Legions. If Bethesda and Nolan choose neither faction took Hoover Dam (status quo always the solution), there's a chance the Desert Ranger return to their original state, protecting Nevada and Arizona from raiders,etc.
The F1 desert rangers were based off of the desert rangers from Arizona in the wasteland series, so if you're wondering how they're doing, Colorado was a shit show lmao, dope game though
My personal theory is that they want to give us an optimistic approach with the NCR. In fact, that maybe we'll get and NCR character arc, with a Courier-like character. Think about how they are making us think the NCR is dead, yet how the show portrays it as a good faction, compared to the BOS or Vault-tec. I imagine Todd and the team are purposefully weakening the NCR to make it do a comeback with a lone character that'll enter the show. This is especially true if NV canon ending is "The house always wins", where the NCR are pushed away, yet the Courier still remains near the Strip, leaving the possibility for a sort of "legacy" to be awakened after Shady Sand's bombing.
I do hope that NCR won't become some kind of "GOOD GUYS" in series, because they aren't supposed to be and it would only ruin the fun. But I would like to think that NCR would yes, make a comeback, and look like they're on good side, but then main characters would discover their taxes, lyings and corruption and would be kinda "meh, they're the same as others". Which would be amazing
It‘s a losing game lol. If they appear in the sequel seasons idiot fanboys will proclaim victory that the „fan pressure won, bethesda is forced to reverse decisions“ or some shit because they have zero narrative foresight and media literacy.
What people don't seem to realise is that the Ranger armour is pre-war Riot gear. The Rangers aren't the only ones who use it but they are the most well known
This is an amazing echo of the first cover of Fallout 2, showing a Tribal wearing a defaced Brotherhood Helmet. When one society falls, another rises from the ashes.
Dude you get it. When I looked back at this scene, I realized that they probably scavenged that armor. I mean a gas mask with an air filter would be great in a desert and those dusters would keep the sun of their backs. Not to mention the helmets dont even fit the dad and they had to be held together by wires.
@@R3GARnatorI think he meant the ncr soldier armor we see in nv Im guessing the ones at the observatory were probably not enlisted soldiers but just people who couldn’t let go of shady sands
People complaining about them shiting on the NCR *The series proceeds to play the MAIN THEME of the game everytime something NCR related appears on screen*
FR and they're complaining over something so minor such as a location change and a date change, like it completely ruins the lore of every fallout game (it doesn't). Like we could've gotten a Halo situation where the show's writers just shit all over the established lore to do their own thing to make a shit-sandwich but we got something that is actually really good and follows 99% of the lore. Heck I know some TV shows that don't even follow 99% of its own lore.
Why do you take enjoyment from fans being upset about unnecessary lore changes? I will never understand you people who always have to take the opposite stance @Kris.G
@@retrotechgames-diyrepair4691 They're most definitely just settlers who found the armor probably lying somewhere (maybe on dead rangers) and are trying to use it to keep the sand and the dust off their face, they just dont know how to properly put it on, or its heavily damaged pieces
One thing I love about cinema is that orchestral music has been the standard for impactful and memorable film scores for nearly the entire existence of cinema.
When atomic fire consumed the earth, those who survived did so in great, underground vaults. When they opened, their inhabitants set out across ruins of the old world to build new societies, establish new villages, forming tribes.
As decades passed, what had been the American southwest united beneath the flag of the New California Republic, dedicated to old-world values of democracy and the rule of law.
Strange they're using the Fallout 3 & 4 music for moments that reflect the New California Republic. As far as I can recall, the only reference to the NCR was in Fallout 4 in Kellog's memories and that didn't feature this music. It's akin to seeing the original Star Trek series characters (Kirk, Spock etc.) entering the scene and the Star Trek Voyager theme begins to play. Since New Vegas was done by the same composer who did Fallout 3 and 4's theme, I wonder why they didn't try using that game's theme in callback moments like this.
@@Captain_Matias_Torres Again with this dumb narrative lmao. If Todd hated New Vegas he would've petitioned against putting ANYTHING new vegas related in the show. It's clear you just have a hate b0ner
@@Captain_Matias_Torres Lol, if Todd hated NV he never would've let anything NV related into the show in the first place and would've taken place in the east coast instead, but hey "bethesda bad obsidian good" Also to completely kill this false narrative, here is everything the fans "claim" to be Todd's distaste for Obsidian (which at this point wouldn't even make sense since they're both part of the same company) 1) "Bethesda screwed Obsidian and only gave them 18 months!" Routinely debunked by Chris Avellone (main writer of the New Vegas DLCs), who said that the team thought it was "fair" to make a game in 18 months considering the engine and most of the assets were already made. Of course, didn't turn out well at release because of the numerous technical issues. Obsidian also had the habit of always picking extremely closed deadlines with their previous games. This wasn't some forced deadline and they could have easily asked for more time at the start if they fully looked at the scope of the programming, but they didn't. Still, they delivered one of my favourite games of all time. 2) "Bethesda screwed Obsidian with the paycheck because Metacritic gave the game an 84 instead of an 85" Again, debunked by Chris Avellone, I will now proceed to give the quote completely his own words from Fallout Apocrypha (and if needed Twitter) as my source: "The 'Metacritic bonus' if the game got above an 84 review score was something Bethesda offered above and beyond the New Vegas contract. We didn’t ask for this, they offered it, and it was our responsibility to hit that review score. We did have to have layoffs at Obsidian around this time period, but the bonus from Metacritic wouldn’t have prevented that from happening." Unless you have a severe lack of skill in reading comprehension, I think this is pretty self explanatory. 3) "Todd howard hates new vegas!!!" There is quite literally no way I can debunk this, because people will believe what they want to. Todd has said in an IGN interview (IGN Unfiltered #43) that he thinks the guys at Obsidian did a fantastic job. The new vegas/interplan fanboys (not the regular fans, I'm talking about the obsessed ones) want to paint Todd out to be a monstrous entity that personally nuked their hometown or something (well I guess its sort of true lmao). I am not a fan of Todd's lies or his recent games, but to blame him as the center piece for obsidian and interplay's "fall out" (lol) is being ridiculous. I am not a fan of current bethesda, but without them, Fallout would've died as an indie title (we wouldn't get the planned Van Buren game either) and we never would've gotten this show or new vegas for that matter.
Fuck this scene made me emotional and just love the violin it's all calming and shit. We need to see more of the NCR ranger outfits like this in season 2. We need to see if they were part of the NCR rangers or how they got the outfits to begin with
People nitpicking about who these guys are are completely missing a beautifully shot, heavily atmospheric scene with a gorgeous, curiously uplifting rendition of the Fallout theme.
i think he is a former NCR ranger, and after shady sands was got nuked he just become ordinary suffice dweller. but why fallout theme show up every time they show NCR?
I don’t think these guys are NCR rangers but rather people who looted dead ones, or broke into an armory. NCR isn’t dead, but it does look like anyone left in the Shady Sands area has been left to their fates while the rest of the NCR recuperates. Kind of like how the NCR (as well as the Legion) abandoned their soldiers in the Divide.
@jaredwmac Yeah, the only NCR left in the LA area are remnants like Moldovers crew up at the Observatory. Cut off and not really part of the NCR at large any more, but still holding onto some of the gear and ideals
@@alexlyster3459 i assume they relocated their capital to either Vault City, The Hub or New Reno. It did said that Shady sands was the first capital of the NCR so they probally changes their capital after New Vegas
Yes. I think they either bought it online, or rented it from a cosplayer. It's cheaper than commissioning a company to make them from scratch. And it shows how it doesn't fit the old guy.
It appears like the helmet looks off because it actually is off. You can see the spots where the helmet is supposed to connect to the mask are disconnected, causing the helmet to be misaligned and set back. This is meant to show that the scavengers aren't actually NCR rangers, and use the armor without really understanding how it works
Two prospectors walking around in some of the best armor you can get. Armor they have no business wearing, that they had incredible luck to scavenge. This is a random encounter!
@@donduseigneurpsaume915he’s more than likely talking about how weird the helmets look. They sit way too high above the mask. It’s actually quite glaring.
@@zacharymccants7922 The helmets are damaged. You can see that it's missing the bolts which usually connect the helmet to the faceplate. You can even slightly see into the guy's head on the inside. They designed it to intentionally look that way.
@@thescarecrow897no? You can clearly see that the helmet and face covering are almost completely detached. There are even screw holes that aren't screwed in to connect them. They're also very dirty and ragged of course, and they completely missed the back brace on the back of the armor! I'm guessing, they'll do it properly in season 2 and the rationale is that these are just scavvers that found it/the father gave up fighting a long time ago.
@@absolutezerochill2700You know how NV has weapons and armor with a durability bar, and you repair them by scrapping more gear? Well, I'm thinking these dudes have the equivalent of a ranger armor with 1/4 of the durability bar.
No, I don't think so. Maybe Lucy's father, but I don't have anything to back it up other than that he seems too cool/used to the outside world for only being there a short time.
man this comment section really proving that fallout fans have the most surface level understanding of literally anything in front of them and the method of "show-don't tell" is a completely foreign concept
Still better than the grind and cash grab that is 76 Atomic Shop. Some people really like shit gloated over their throat with dad's credit card @@bunnitomoe3866
I really loved the show, I just wish the ncr outfit didn’t look like it came from the spirit halloween store. Some guy on reddit pulled off a way more realistic cosplay
Seems like the helmet and mask are separated by the lack of whatever those 2 holes on the sides hold, both the helmet and mask have those holes, they are not connected correctly and the helmet falls due to that.
Fallout 3 and 4 have this melody in their themes. Fallout 4 has more violin in it which makes it sound more similar to this. But eventually this is the fallout theme and that's why I put that title
I cast my own bullets using lead I pull from the ground on public lands. It was neat to see that part of the reloading process portrayed in the show. The lead I dig out is usually on the surface, so I rarely actually dig.
It's heavily implied that the dad was a former veteran ranger, the Ghoul even mentions 'Some lead still being in him' from their last meeting, so clearly he was skilled enough to survive meeting the Ghoul, which in the show, is not a luxury many get.
Why is there so many people ripping on the idea of these two scavengers having those suits? The NCR didn’t even freaking make the elite Ranger armor. They’re specialized prewar riot suits that were scavenged from police stations in the Boneyard by the NCR, they were just assigned to the elite Rangers because it was the best gear the NCR had at its disposal short of Power Armor. These guys could have gotten those suits from literally anywhere other than a dead NCR ranger.
I think they shouldn't have done this. I dunno what they were thinking that they have to cocktease the NCR or even reference a dubious date that is very important to the events and flow of one of the most popular game in the series. But it kinda does mix signals as to what they're implying with the lore. You either go big or go home, and if they're not even planning on handling NCR in the first place it's best to just leave it well enough alone so that people won't question what they wanna do. Or just say "yeah they moved somewhere"
@@battleangel4833 That's not a problem to me, since at least it explains why nothing was ever retconned. Although I'm a little concerned with the fact they said they will not handle New Vegas in a massive way but pull stuff like this. If they are gonna handle it, fine, let's see where it goes, but they said they're gonna leave it alone, so I'm a little confused. I don't really equate NCR as destroyed just because Shady Sands got bonked, it just wouldn't make sense since NCR is pretty big, for them to even kick BoS out of the West coast in the first place.
@@battleangel4833 Just from the stuff going around, and yeah of course the games are canon, honestly more reason for me to be skeptical. I don't trust Todd and Bethesda in general to do the West coast justice. But we'll see...
Never played the game before watching the show, all I thought when those two guys came on screen was: "huh....I don't know why but those masks seem unnecessarily noticeable" didn't even occur to me it was a direct reference 😂💀
