I tried to focus on the big picture and things that would help orient TV only viewers without hitting you over the head with random details from the games. There is a lot of potential for a multi-season story. Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins both did a stellar job and seeing Kyle MacLachlan in the final sequence was such a treat. Let me know what you think.
Your comment about the brotherhood and "pimple popping" also doesn't make sense as well since in the opening shot of the barracks in the brotherhood of steel, there is clearly a dude jerking off under a blanket. I was like....wtf, that dude's just jerking off in the barracks with other dudes all chilling in there?????? lol Somehow he's just very, VERY sheltered still.
yep, this is why this series is appealing the general audiences and long time fan-lite like myself. It is not for the hard-core fans. Also good for more Fallout remakes and Fallout 5, marketing wise. I even read an online review from a hardcore fan that trashed this series, gave it a 0, and call anyone who likes it, not human, at the end of the review. Why so serious?
Huge plot hole in episode one after watching all 8 episodes. How did Hank Maclean not recognize Lee Moldaver and the other raiders when they entered from vault 32 given his knowledge of the outside world.
@@ryry187 Lee did get older than how she looked in Episode 8 flashback and likely Hank thought she originally died in the old world and couldn't lived looking like this without being a ghoul.
The ghoul is my favorite character, the background, the lone cowboy style, the fact that he is directly attached to the lore of the show. He is a screen thief 😂
I don't think I would want to last that long in an apocalypse like THAT. That's what blew me away about the character. But maybe we all would endure that for our kids if we had some evidence they were still alive.
Groggins is phenomenal. He steals the scenes and the duality of his character is an awesome thing to watch. He should win some awards for his performance.
I saw someone who worked on the sets commenting on a video the other day, just goes to show even down to the set designers, everyone is interested in how it’s turning out. I was very skeptical but I’ve already watched the series nearly 3 times lol
Honestly at first it felt weird having fallouts extremely bizarre humor on screen, like the cousin stuff in the first episode. but with every episode it feels like they honed the feeling of this universe more and more.
It was the humor mixed with horror that makes it authentically Fallout…. The pregnant lady getting forked in the eye and then going ham with the tommy gun (?) was just so perfect
Probably the biggest easter egg nobody talks about is when the tech comes out in Vault 33 and says the water processor chip is bad and they will be out of water in 2 months. This is the opening quest in the original Fallout game.
I was so mad that they didn't just go and take the water chip from the fallen vault next door. Instead they are splitting up and colonizing the ruined vault. I don't understand the choice making of that little sub plot
what was interesting about ep 1 is when they dug up Ghoul, saying that he is only brought up every few years to be tortured by Dom Pedro. I hope season 2 explores that more
Man I was soo skeptical of the show (maybe cause Starfield sucked), but ended up getting the feels and quite a few laughs from this show. Hope they keep the quality.
I just binged it all in one day. I loved it. I never played much Fallout, aside from quite a few dozen hours of the OG game back in the day, and it definitely left its mark fro back then. Anxiously waiting for season two.
Was brilliant. The actor who plays the ghoul needs to get some award. The way he created that character was out this world. Really enjoyed it and can’t wait for season 2
I just wanted to say… once again..…You’re the best around for recaps and critiques. I think you’re criminally under appreciated in the Almighty algorithm. Keep killing it !
Never played the game, knew nothing of the show, and loved every episode of this amazing season one. Great actors, amazing characters, and an actual arc of the story. Well done, very well done! Can’t wait for season two
Bruh this has been a golden era for us gamers who want to share these worlds with our significant others. I can confirm this show is totally enjoyable for complete new comers. Plus even as a dispicable ghoul, Walton Goggins is just too charismatic to not keep your eyes glued no matter who you are or what he is doing on screen.
Pete Peppers series rundowns are the best. They are entertaining and thought-provoking and present sides of characters that show their own inner-dilemmas. His Fargo rundowns are great too
@@enightc Oh I'm probably going to experience nuclear fallout... so let me cause nuclear fallout myself. How is that any "better"? Gotta love when idiots start thinking
@enightc But the bomb wasn't inevitable, which is why she said they should be the ones to drop it. There was a huge chance there'd be no nuking, and then vault techs' whole scheme would've ended, so they had to drop bombs to keep on going
@enightc brother no it isn't😂😂. You are responsible for killing billions to sell a product. The world wasn't going to war. Until sure proposed drooping the nukes. There no way to shape this being the "right thing"
I agree with the show creators. This is just another story in the Fallout universe. They did it well enough for it to be considered canon. This medium is for everyone. Not just for gamers. 😊
I played through Vault 34 the other day after watching the show. While reading the terminal entries couldn't help but think Norm would be doing the same thing in Vault 32 a couple decades later. It really is pretty seamless.
@Noxidsignorantia If you think about the destruction of the Divide (main supply lines to and from Vegas/California) than it's feasible Shady Sands was also destroyed and due to the NCR being spread so thin its not even mentioned or known of by most people. It is a stretch but I'll accommodate some suspension of disbelief- the wasteland is pretty fragmented in the spread of information and most wastelanders are not very well educated either.
Cooper being the original vault boy is something I completely missed. That’s so awesome, they did such a good job with this show and Walton Goggins is becoming my new favorite actor. I’ve known about him since the Shield.
A great metaphor not mentioned in this video is when Coop drops the listening device shaped like a little bomb into the trash. I think it's meant to symbolise that Coop feels like he dropped the bomb himself, and he carries with him the weight of his responsibility for not doing enough to stop it.
A great metaphor not mentioned in this video is when Coop drops the listening device shaped like a little bomb into the trash. I think it's meant to symbolise that Coop feels like he dropped the bomb himself, and he carries with him the weight of his responsibility for not doing enough to stop it.
The random and short Michael Rappaport cameo cracked me up! I heard him cussing in that New Jersey or New York accent and knew it was him then it showed his face and got a good laugh from me. I was happy to see Ben from "Lost" too.
As someone with ridiculous amounts of hours put into Fallout 3, New Vegas, and 4, I didn't think much of 2277 "Fall of Shady Sands" because I interpeted that as a different chalkboard point from the drawing of the nuke explosion because of the arrow. I simply didn't read "fall" as utter nuclear destruction. The First Battle of the Hoover Dam occured in 2277 and while the NCR defeated Caesar's Legion, they paid for it with ridiculous manpower losses themselves. In New Vegas itself 4 years later, it is explicitly a theme uttered by countless non-player characters that the NCR is spread too thin and could be on the verge of collapse, partly due to the aforementioned losses. So I just took "fall" as meaning a decline and that sometime later in the 2280s was when Hank McLean did what he did. It would more or less line up with Maximus (he of the fridge) and Lucy (remembering the sun as a very young child) being in their early 20s, as I assumed them to be just from their appearances, with the show occuring in 2296. Even if this all turns out to be a production error, I can work it into my head-canon for the aforementioned explanation. And if that's the one thing "real" fans are griping about, that means the show must have done everything else very well in respect to the lore, I certainly feel the love put into it.
100% how I read it too and what I think the producers were going for. I think a lot of people are reading it wrong thinking that "fall" means that was the date shady sands was nuked. 2277 fall was just a down turn in the settlement before it was nuked
This was confirmed by Todd Howard and Johnathan Nolan in a press junket interview, yes. Shady Sands fell in 2277 but the nuking of Shady Sands happened later, and presumably after 2283 (after the events of New Vegas).
Honestly, looking at the in-game timeline, alot of explosion happened between 2277 and the current events. Honestly we need to know the canon events of NV
I get what you saying g that looking at the chalk board time line showing the important dates but why wasn't there a date of the nuke dropping on shady sands. After all eveyone in vault 4 are survivers of the nuke so surely they should.have put the date under the nuke of shady sands to put this all to bed.
I hadn't played the games at all, but how could I not watch something with Walton Goggins? I binged the fudge outta season 1 and loved every second of it. I don't know if Goggins kind of stays on the fringe in Hollywood by his own choice or not, but regardless, he deserves some spotlight for this show and for all his previous work. I was straight up glued to this show.
the reason i don't think the bomb dropped on shady sands in 2277 is because of the age of maximus. the story is about 19 years after 2277, and Maximus looked between 6 - 8 yrs old when the bombs fell. he seems like he's 19-21 ish in 2296, which maybe makes sense being an aspirant possibly ready to become a squire (but i don't know if theres a thing about age in the BoS, maybe you can be a 30 year old aspirant). Maybe his naivete makes him seem younger. On the chalk board, the bomb comes after the fall .. we don't know what the fall means. but at the same time, you'd think they'd put a date or year on a very significant event like the end of your way of living as you knew it.
We know *from the show* that Lucy's father had the nuclear bomb set off in Shady Sands when she was about 4 to 5 years old. It was not part of the original massive nuclear war. It was a couple hundred years later.
Pete, great video as always. Cant wait for your prediction and question video. Elle really shined in this coming off of yellowjackets, good thing she froze to death in season 1, she had to get to the vault.
I agree with the beginning: I played Fallout games since F1. I played the rest but always come back to F1 and specially F2. My girlfriend doesn't give a shit about videogames, and hates violence on show, plus she is always going early to bed. We started watching and she endured the beginning of the first episode. We ended going to sleep at nearly 6 am after watching all the first season. She was hooked, and I even explained a bit about the lore. Not like she cares much, but she's waiting for next season. I loved it. OCD told me that some stuff like Mad Max civilians where weird. Then I remembered my fav games had like 2-3 models for NPC's and in any case all aesthetics is on my head. I found the humour preserved, the aesthethics spot on, and the old and new easter eggs so many that despite having played those games for 27 years I still need help to catch up. An excellent show!
I do enjoy that the show still keeps it very open as to who dropped the bombs first. Since it's canonicity is official, it just throws another wrench into theories with more questions. For example: Mr. House in FO: New Vegas said he couldn't get his anti-warhead defense system completed in time to shoot down all the nukes aimed at Vegas, missing two while shooting down the rest.
@@RedStar441Not every good work of fiction has to still have mysteries at the end. Sometimes fiction can tie up all loose ends and still be good. But with regards to who was the first to drop the bombs, I have to admit I am still thinking over it, and it does take away some of the intrigue on the Great War.
I was already super hyped that this series was happening. But when I found Baby Billy (Goggins) was in it, that just put it over the top. The fact that this series did not disappoint (considering it's hype), and infact exceeded expectations is amazing to me. Especially when so many franchises that have seen television or film adaptation have been such massive let downs. Everyone from the developers, producers, showrunners, writers, and actors all delivered an absolute A1 product/performance. Season 2 cannot arrive soon enough. Also, the actor playing Lucy is insanely beautiful and talented. Grade A+, would take out to dinner and respect her personal boundries. And Walton Goggins may just be one of the greatest actors of our time. Main character potential, with character actor talent
As a 42 year old life long fan of the Fallout series. You guys did a fantastic job. I always imaged it a little more mad max...however, this TV series is damn good. Well done ... you all should be proud of this work.
On the matter of who did and did not get put in Vault 31. . .having worked in Corporate America, when you find a phenomenal assistant, *you do everything you can to keep them with you.* Real-world anecdote, but I know a high-level executive that had the same receptionist and executive assistant (two different people, mind you) for nearly 30 years, across SEVEN different firms. His receptionist finally retired three years ago, and her shoes have been tough to fill, according to the executive assistant.
I played fallout 4 when I was a kid. Over 6-7 years ago. I probably got 20-30% of the way thru the game. I don’t remember much but I’ll tell u this show made me fall in love with fallout lore😭
This is so cool to have a breakdown! Although I'm a little sad they didn't release it weekly as we mightve gotten episode by episode recaps, bah! Cheers, v enjoyable 🍻
Lucy, Maximus, and the Ghoul represent your playthroughs. Lucy is your first, where you get your butt kicked, learn all the rules the hard way, and eventually realize those points spent in charisma are a waste. Max is your 2nd. You spec for armor and heavy weapons only to discover while awesome it requires too much in terms of fusion cores and ammo. Ghoul is 3rd, when you think hmmmm let me check out this VATS thing. You commit to that crazy ghoul build and figure out where to find that awesome revolver.
A theory of mine... we can see the Vault Tec nuke exploding in the Intro of the show. The explosion looked very different from the other 3 explosions seen in the video. Infact there was quite a delay maybe multiple minutes until the other 3 bombs went off just a few seconds after each other. I'd argue what they see over L.A. is Vault Tec starting the war dopping maybe one or a few bombs also in other cities. Now the US propably start their nukes. A few moments later the chinese submarines (which we know from the games are hiding near the US coastline) nuke the city with multiple warheads. Am I makin sense here? :D
That's the vibes I got from Fallout 4, that Vault-Tec provoked the start of the war, not necessarily dropped all the bombs themselves, just kickstarted it.
I would add to your comments. How could Mr. Howard's daughter and himself look into the blast of a detonation without retinal damage? It should have been super bright from what history we've seen via film. Down scaled Suitcase bombs of low kiloton yield? Did not see vapor trails of missiles. Still looking forward to season 2. 4.2 out of 5 stars. Very good acting from cast and aesthetics..
AHHH! You're right! Vault-Tec didn't have to drop ALL the bombs. They just had drop the FIRST one. Start the chain of dominoes. And that bomb might have just been planted. So the US is caught unawares. But they read it and start firing their bombs. Good observation.
@@Cyberfender1 Just curious, how to you derive the .2 points after 4/5? Haha, always wondered that when I see scores like that. But yeah, show actually did really well. Stayed true to the games like Last of Us. Unlike Halo.....
I was someone who overall knew very little about the Fallout universe, and have to say, I am duly impressed by how much exposition they dumped without it feeling forced. There are likely many many things I missed, but I feel I have a rough understanding of what was going on and am incredibly appreciative of that.
So the timeline question in the show has two main theories. One is that it is believed to be a mistake since 2277 was when the events of Fallout 3 took place. So it is believed to be an error that they simply did an oops on important dates. The other theory is that the "Fall of Shady Sands" was more a metaphorical fall as in political corruption and the NCR moving its forces to Vegas leaving itself vulnerable, etc. and then some time after is when a bomb was dropped on the capital fracturing the NCR into independent factions. Which for NCR fans might mean that the NCR was victorious at Hoover Damn, but this triggered Vault Tec as finally realizing they were to much of a threat after this victory so the bomb was dropped and fractured the once united republic.
That's what I took it as and I'm hoping that New Vegas shows the real remnants of the NCR. Could be they made it where they combine endings have House shelter the remainders of the NCR within Vegas. For a price that is.
this show seriously was the perfect example of how good a series can be adapting a video game title as long as its done right. Goggins absolutely killed it in season 1 and now I cant wait for season 2
She was very wealthy (sold multiple companies to Vault Tech) and was running a meeting called Hollywood Forever, they probably had some other form of life preserving stuff for the ultra wealthy.
Rewatched and she tells Coop that her tech was bought and shelved. Moldaver is a inventor like Tesla who had their best ideas stolen and suppressed, like Tesla she had a hand in many different tech and perfected some, like cryogenic suspension.
Honestly I think one of her companies made the cryo chamber and that's one of the companies that vault-tec bought off her. Remember she said vault-Tec bought a couple companies off for her. The last four companies she worked for.
Maximus didn't try to take credit for the kill in the end. He told his buddy that he didn't, who for whatever reason ignored this and proclaimed him the hero of the hour anyway. Sure he could have protested with more vigor, but he certainly didn't do some calculated move to make himself stand out either.
I think they did that because Maximus told them right before going that he was gonna bail with Lucy. Maybe they tried to make him stay for the glory of having taken out the enemy leader idk
@@catsinburg8626 Could be... and it would also sort of add a slightly more positive aspect on his self-mutilation. If he hadn't injured his own foot to avoid going into the Wastelands, Maximus wouldn't have gone out there to gain experience and consequently might not have fought so well and bravely in this battle.
This game made it able to make spin offs in all types of ways. The fact that there so many vaults leaves a lot up to creativity. I'm glad that they really took detail in the items, which made it easy for the studio set team. Everything is on a list already, they just need to make every item. Just hope they pace this well, this can easily drag out or burnout... Walking Dead or Firefly...
I think the show is a good example of the reverse that video games have been trying to be - more like movies. Instead, Fallout asked “how can we make this series more like the video games.”
The fall in 2277 is the first battle of Hoover Dam when president Kimball sent the majority of the NCR military to the Mojave which would have rather obvious negative political repercussions (Hoover Dam being basically an unknown). The fall of Shady Sands is not the “bomb” event because it’s the continual arrow of the time line and not boxed in with 2277… I honestly don’t understand the communities failure to understand how a timeline works
I have fallen to The Dark Side - All those years spent ignoring the "Free Amazon Prime Trials" that come with every order were cast away in one second of blind passion.
@@chrisweir6886 that studio should be taking notes from this fallout series on how a game adaptation is done. even if its not to the T of the actual games at least it stays true to the source. i felt insulted watching the first season of halo, they had the story written out for them and they were too arrogant to stick with what already worked.
Goggin was phenomenal in Justified. So happy he's getting more recognition than ever. Though the more he talks about fallout, the more it becomes obvious he's got no idea what's happened in the games 😂
Alot of stuff like shopping carts still look on pretty good shape for being over 200 years old. Little stuff like that makes the amount of time passed feel off Unless that was supposed to be shortly after the nuke went off.
Synths don't grew up, in the game Synths soon realize that their different from other people by growing or injuries and as you said about their behavior cause Synths have trouble analyzing their thoughts and behavior when their are something new the've encountered, I think the series want to preserve that introduction for further season
Yeah I really noticed his odd behaviour when Lucy asked him if he thought the one eyed overseer looked odd and Maximus said “lots of people have one eye”.
Another little wink towards the players that I haven't seen anyone point out yet was that little conversation about how everyone seems to hate that strings song which is ofc the only one that plays on the Minutemen radio 24/7 in F4 ;)
How did Moldaver survive 200+ years??? The show never even hinted as to how that happened, I wouldn’t think she would’ve gotten a cryotube as she was the leader of a group that was opposing Vault-Tec
I'm sure they will explain. My out of left field guess is cloning. She might re appear in the current time.line again as a wtf moment. Or maybe just get the actresss back for flashbacks and she is in fact gone from the current time line. Just a thought I had when watching
i think it will explore in the next season. She probably knew she couldn't fight them before they dropped the bomb so needed to be the only one who knew what was really going on, therefore it makes sense she would get in a cryotube to keep her cause alive.
I never played the games but I was still captivated. It's a pretty usual story which, is what kept me engaged because there are too many predictable stories out there. Thanks for the review Pete.!
Man I loved your "Twin Peaks: the return" videos and it's dope to see you covering another show I thought was quite slick and coincidentally has Kyle Maclachlan
@@ThomasRBarton AFAIK it wasn't stated that she was born either in Vault 33 or in the surface, but we do know that she's been to Shady Sands as a kid with her mom as we see in her flashbacks.
walton goggins being sus about the no-dogs-allowed policy is VERY fallout style. love how he meaningfully incapacitated the dog because he knew he would revive him and finally get his own dog (after 200+ years)
As someone who hadn’t picked up a controller since I was in middle school, I really appreciate these well done game adaptations for peaking my interest and getting me into gaming as an adult. I had no idea the amount of rich story telling, interesting lore, and overall fun I was missing out by dismissing video games!
Goggins----hold his beer. He has stolen everything he's in. Justified had me sucked in. Django and The Hateful Eight was great. The Shield (underrated) Honorable mention: Shanghai Noon
Goggins said in an Interview why he really likes the American western genre, mentions John Wayne and the Sergio Leone sketti westerns like "Once upon a time in the west". BTW Eastwood was not in that one but still highly recommend people see it! ( Peter Fonda, Charles Bronson, Jason Robards and a lot of timeless, great, supporting character actors too.) Then you will see where Goggins gets his influences regarding The Ghoul and why his acting was so superb!
Great Video review again Has there ever been a series where the audience decided the outcome certain story scene outcomes in a season/series. I would guess somethng like that would be time consuming but having the series then end determined on how we would vote could be funny i think... as in shoot or film different outcomes on certain scenes?
Black Mirror had a choose your own adventure style season with different endings. I don't hear people talk about it much though and Netflix hasn't made any other series like that.
I'm the gamer between my wife and I. She hasn't played anything past old-school Sonic games. I knew it was a good show when she told me after episode 3 not to watch any episodes without her. We're both loving it.
Great review, Pete. Thanks! Just watched the show. I guess that is a hit. Never played FALLOUT, but i think the universe is awesome. Glad you liked it too.
My theory is that she was an original resident of vault 4 which had their own cryogenic chamber. Another theory, she's a descendent of the original moldaver?
It might be a reference to Bear. Or it might come from "A Boy and his Dog" which is referenced by "A Man and his Dog". Or it might all start with the need to have a dog to track his head as a plot device and then they layered in PoI references and Old SF Story references over that.
@@macmcleod1188 wth Don Johnson excellent post Apocalyptic flick but the dog is the brain in that one but in both they hunt for pre-war tech, food, etc
Great recap! Goggins was amazing. The stim pack thing killed me for Lucy's pentrating injury. Medically so unrealistic, but your explanation gives it some 'validity' (I didn't play the games.)
I might have missed this but did the show ever explain how the flame mother (idk how to spell her name) lived for 200 yrs? Did she hav her own cryopod that was different from Vault Tec? Idk much about her lore besides her owning a company that was on the brink of creating cold fusion until Vault Tec bought them out, so i'm making an assumption that she also had some funds to make some cryopod or did she come from Vault 4?
@scientistforscience wait, hav u watched the entire season yet or not yet? The latter of ur question was alrdy answered in the last episode. Lmk if u want me to just clarify it here 😅
@@DragonoidForm Yep I totally forgot about why she needed Hank. But I do remember, hah. I did see confirmed that we do not know how she survived and that it might be a topic for a 2nd season. Thank you so much for your offer! Very nice.
@@scientistforscienceyou really should pay attention when you watch it and not be on your phone while it’s on. If you actually pay attention, you won’t look like a complete dumbass not knowing shit that’s explained on the show like why she kidnapped Hank
Fantastic series, the last 10 minutes of episode 8 I was on the edge of my seat! There is easily enough fallout content for more than just another season. There is so much open land and factions to touch on, no doubt they can go wrong!!
8:30 The chems seem to be needed, his friend was asking for the drugs and turned without it. Also he seems to start losing control of his body without it as well.
My guess is that since she was the original creator of cold fusion that she might have also figured out cryogenic stasis chambers. That's my headcanon until something more substantial. lol
@@Atari_Safari agreed, she some how, had one for herself in another vault and or a chamber made to survive the nukes. and it was near shady sands cause she is clearly a leader of the ncr of some sort
She was on the verge of discovering cold fusion before the company she worked at, got bought out by Vault-Tec. She must've had her own Cryo pod or something. Each industry contributed their own unique technology to the vaults etc.
what i don''t get is ; if Vault 32 was raided years ago, AND the overseers communicate with each other all the time, why did they go thru with the marriage and how did they not know that Vault 32 is already raided?
I had never even heard of the ‘Fallout’ video games before binge-watching this excellent - and rollicking - adaptation. So, your background info is appreciated. Similarly, I had never heard of Walton Goggins either but what a revelation. I do so enjoy when an alternative universe is just familiar enough to provide a modicum of context before something completely novel is introduced becoming simultaneously jarring and fascinating. Would I exchange my Apple Ultra watch for that sleek Pip-Boy?
I can't imagine seeing Walton in this for the first time. You need to watch Justified and for a Laugh Son's of Anarchy episodes. By far one of the best character actors working. Unicorn was a pretty tender sitcom.
