@chefchildbeater2900 Without a doubt, she's definitely safe because he makes a whole point about "Where is my family" Meaning he knows they are alive So I think you're right. He got her to a vault, but something probably happened with him being thrown into the wasteland probably because he was irradiated during this and they refused him entry
@@wellthen.......9384 I think what happened is that coop was removed from the vault's guest list after being found out by vault tec, but his daughter was still on it so he had no intention of saving himself, just getting her to safety
@@belltolls1984ikr! I hope that someone makes a video where they play out the events side-by-side since both the opening of the show and the opening of fallout four are around, actually the same time like 10 minutes or so and happen at the same time
As much as i recognize the powerhouse that is Walton Goggins. I gotta point out his co-star she really nailed this one moment. Especially once she realized the cloud was bigger than her thumb. Her sudden change in motor functions with the absolute shock in her facial expressions really sold it for me. It’s impressive to stand out when you have Goggins on screen. 📺
That got me thinking, does the thumb thingy actually works in Fallout universe? Cooper turned into a ghoul later on (off-screen) I wonder if his daughter turned as well..
@@titan_tankerI think they came up with that for like duck and cover era nukes, these are definitely a lot more powerful and also even if they weren’t the sheer volume of them would render it pointless
Also listen to Oppenheimer music score. My favorite track: Ground Zero. Also helps that the bomb looks like a massive demon, swallowing the landscape; something humanity should never have spawned.
For me it’s the fear Goggins’ character probably felt knowing he could not protect his little girl.. that’s a feeling that hits deep when you’re a parent. Powerful stuff!
as a father of a one year old son who's currently running around my living room playing peekaboo with me with the curtains watching stuff like this with kids feels me with dread.
@@Tcrrordont get me wrong, it is a really good tv show but it helps a lot tha its a recreation of the first game and the game was a hit for how well writen it was
It's actually kinda weird, cause we don't know how he got from spying and getting the crucial knowledge to playing a party cowboy with his daughter. I guess he wanted to think they wouldn't go through with it?
@@HDreamer I think we'll see more of how the divorce happened come S2. But I don't think she had much control over the timeline of when the nukes fell, she was just the mouthpiece that suggested the plan at the big money meeting. There was that dude she was looking up to in the shadows, and we don't know who that was yet.
@@austinpittman1599 I agree, I think this scene is somewhat in the future after he listened to vault tech plans, here it doesn't seem like the super star he was. The guys in shadows I believe are members of the Enclave
Walton fuckin rules dude. His face barely changes from when he says "It's just a fire" to realizing that it's a bomb, but there is so much fear etched into his eyes. He was the perfect cast for this
Nuclear annihilation still scares me more than any horror movie. Maybe because it's still a possibility. Love the Fallout games but seeing a depiction in live action always seems to give me chills.
A pale odd girl coming out of your TV to unalibe you? Not happening Zombie outbreak? Not how animals work, dead flesh cannot move, there is no metabolism and thus no energy for muscle movement Alien invasion? An anthropocentric genre since no advanced spacefaring civilization would bother spending the time and resources to travel, invade and occupy a primite world lightyears from their own. But Nuclear warfare, oh boy yeah it's real I can only imagine how it was like in the 60s, but do I feel Nuclear dread right now. It's a eery problem. Out of your control. The elites in the big capitols decide whether the world will burn or not for their own personal whims. It might be an extreme fear, but everytime I travel to Lisbon for university, I wonder if I am gonna be a sitting duck waiting to be pulverised if Russian missiles launched by a madman who has made more than enough nuclear threats overwhelm and anihilate us. Small scale nuclear warfare is unfeasable becaude of MAD, there will always be a retaliation, and that retaliatioj brings retaliation, and soon you have a chain reaction much like the ones happening inside them bombs and you pass a point of no return. You might as well give it all you got. Definetely the world wouldn't be decimated completely, just warring factions (which unfortunately includes my country as its in NATO), but even if you survive, famime from the aftermath of such an event would kill most of the world's population. Cowboy here has the right mindset. Best not think about the what ifs, even if they're knocking on your door.
The nukes in Fallout don't have too much of the "blinding flash" like our nukes because there's something different about how the yield was done in their universe. They were made to use less of a yield but make the areas surrounding more radioactive out of spite, which was why so many are launched at one area. The world ended within an hour and 90% of all life died. Scary thing is Fallout 76 showed that there were still plenty of nukes to SPARE even after all of this!
@@tymeier7570 pretty much, the idea was to make the nukes much more terrifying which works right up until MAD stops working, then its just horror leading to unholy devastation and places that centuries later will be rapidly lethal, the idea was your typical fallout verse nuke is only in the 200-750kT range on average and has alot less thermal shock (less fireball) and more fallout so fallout nukes arnt incinerating everything in direct sight for miles on detonation, but they are making the whole area hazardous for centuries, by comparison the typical ICBM warhead in existence in the real world tends to be between 600kT and 2MT and carries enough thermal shock that the detonation would have instantly destroyed most of the city near the detonation site
This is a realistic depiction of how a real nuclear strike would happen. Most people assume it's just going to be one large bomb that's dropped on a city like Japan. Unfortunately, they figured out that multiple smaller bombs spread over an area do more destruction than a single large bomb. Also it makes it much more difficult to intercept multiple incoming warheads. The only real difference between this scene and real life is that it appears these nukes are going off at ground level whereas they would actually be air burst to cause more damage from the shockwave, but if you want to cause more fallout as they show is called then you do want a ground burst.
@@totemictoad4691the blasts actually seem to be much smaller in the 20-50 kt range. Given Fallout is based on the 50’s and the bombs would likely be relatively obsolete pure fission designs (think Mk3 fat man to mk6) considering how dud bombs are depicted in game. These detonations are powerful, but based on irl test footage I’d place them well within tactical yields. Given they are ground-bursts as well, their destructive potential is further reduced. The odd thing is that they doubled down on pure fission ground-bursts (as opposed to the “clean” thermonuclear airburst) rather than mix and matching between pure fission airbursts and thermonuclear ground bursts. Then again, thermonuclear or boosted fission weapons may not have been designed.
This scene is really haunting. It at first lulls you into a sense of security, and for those non fans, it may even seem kind of soothing and all that. And then…the bomb drops, and the whole mood changes in an instant, reminding you that this is the world of Fallout after all. It seemingly comes out of nowhere, and I can just imagine first time non gamers watching going like “Wait a minute. What’s going on here?”
ive played both games watched both shows and although i could predict both the fallout one just resonates because that shit could actually happen only we'd all just be dead.
At the same time in other places around the US: Randall Clark was returning to salt lake city after days spending alone in the wilds when his car suddenly stopped, he recognize it as an EMP and promtly covered himself from the flash. His expertise as a survivalst helped him but he would never see his wife and son ever again... Vera Keyes got stuck in her hotel room at the sierra madre, screaming for sinclair´s help, the hotel holograms recorded her last days looking for him meanwhile a malfunction with the emergency broadcast, caused the Gala Event's broadcasting being routed via the emergency announcement system caused the advertisement for the casino's grand opening to be sent across the airwaves making Vera the eternal ghost that welcome victims of the Sierra Madre...
In all seriousness, we can only hope that this scene never becomes a reality. For the sake of our children and theirs. We fantasize about it, but reality will be so much worse.
It's inevitable, unfortunately. Whether by mad tyrant, ai, or simple human error it will happen eventually. It almost happened before in 1983 due to a glitch caused by sunlight reflected off of clouds. But a man named Stanislav Petrov decided to disobey his orders and not launch "retaliation" nukes which prevented nuclear war.
@@GooberTrooper420 Nah that was the 80s bud completely different. We are 40 years in the future our computers simply put are way better, our satelites are way better, nuclear arms in launch condition are at a historical low. The so called mad tyrant theory is just mindless fear mongering, in reality a rogue state like NK on steroids launching wouldn't cause a nuclear war only a limited exchange between 2 nations probably totalling less then 80 warheads total. AI is an overblown threat. Human error is the only moderately realistic one and even that is unlikely the actual process to a launch a nuke is very difficult for a reason. It's not inevitable i's not even likely to happen especially in modern times
Right?! The panic mixed with innocent hope that maybe the size difference of a few centimeters would make all of the difference and make everything alright.
I was blown away by how good this show was. Video game adaptions have a really bad history of being terrible but this show was amazing. You can tell there was actual passion put it in, that it was made by actual fans of the video game series.
This honestly gave me flashbacks to when I played Fallout 4 for the first time. One moment I'm just a housewife, the next I'm racing to the nearest vault to save both myself and my family's lives...
For me, it was the flashbacks to what I did to Caesar's Legion. Sent those slaving Roman weaboo football cosplayers to the stone age. Guess there is a silver lining to every nuclear grey cloud. Gotta love Fallout.
This part actually scared me a little bit because it was so calm and Serene and then when the first bomb dropped I knew that something was about to happen.
Las bombas nucleares de este mundo no han llegado a ser termonucleares son más pequeñas y más radioactivas, pero hacen menos daño explosivo@@gavinderulo12
Love how they incorporated the whole 'thumb' idea into this scene. Always makes me think of the iconic Vault Tec Boy thumbs up image...made all the better by Cooper literally doing a photoshoot and giving the thumbs up.
As a Fallout fan since the first game this series and in particular the intro/pre war scenes are everything that I could have ever hoped and dreamed for.
Agreed, by the time the Fallout splash logo came up on the screen, I was on the verge of tears. In the games, you only ever really see one nuke, here there's multiple and the way the music climbs. And to think something like this could theoretically happen is what makes it even more scarier
@@tymeier7570i mean in the fallout universe i assumed they perfected nuclear weapons so theirs are a lot more potent(and damn near everything is nuclear powered)
T2's depiction was vastly more accurate than this and still hasn't been matched. This little girl should have been blinded by that flash and received third and second degree burns quickly afterwards. The shockwave would have knocked that house off its foundations. The amount of time between the flash and shockwave also makes no sense; these explosions are happening in slow motion for some reason. The last three explosions don't even have shockwaves. All in all, these are nowhere near as destructive as they would be in real life.
@@CrazyHorseInvincible Its just Atomic bombs use in Fallout world, they never advance into Hydrogen bomb unlke in T2 which is definitely more deatrutive.
@OnSomeDumbShit The only issue in this scene is the fact the girl not blind. Actually explosions like this cannot be heard at a distance of a 100 miles. This is LA and the town itself can have 469 square miles of land. The reason it was briefly quiet was the drop distance.
Flash would be almost instantaneous. Blast wave travels about 784 mph and tapers off as it travels out. Speed of sound is 760 mph. You'd be knocked on your ass or incinerated, WELL before you'd ever hear it.
@@robertf.atrozskin3596well fallout bombs are quite diferent, in fallout 3 your character neither gets blind by the explosion, in 4 too, maybe its a bethesda thing because in new vegas you dont get to see the nuclear explosion and the zion canyon veteran almost goes blind by the nukes
Lets be honest, his daughter would've been blinded instantly if this were real. Other than that this scene was literally one of the most compelling nuke attack scenes ever!
yea they had the camera flash at the birthday party to make it seem like they wouldn't have noticed, but it would have been extremely bright, like see your bones through your skin bright. this is still by far the best nuclear bomb scene in move history. better than anything oppenheimer did
@@billystrife7049 it looks like it's about 10 miles or more away. they would not have been instantly vaporized. these look like bombs in the 20-50kt range.
In audiovisual narration is considered a cheap resource. Not saying it's bad, nor that it doesn't fit some things, of course it does... But the fact that they pulled it off like that, "show not tell", is amazing.
The brilliance of using something "old fashion" such as a horse compare to cars that had to opened taking a minute then having to start the ignition taking more time while Cooper is already on his horse with his daughter out the gate already
There's more; what a lot of people don't know is that a nuclear bomb also releases an EMP wave that kills all electronics, including car batteries. Cooper took the one ride that doesn't run on electronics. With that said, the reason most people don't know about the EMP part of nukes is because the nuke part of nukes usually makes it irrelevant.
I really glad we got another look at the bombs dropping in fallout. We only saw it for like 2 seconds before entering vault 111. But the fallout tv show did a great job showing pre war society.
Favourite bit of the scene, when the bomb drops it initially seems odd that Cooper's daughter is the only one to notice, not even Cooper himself sees it. I think this is simply because firstly most are focused on watching Groknak on the TV but there's also a person taking photos with a flash, so the flash of the initial explosion is ignored. Because of this, we then get a great build up and moment of realisation from Cooper. Without the above, the bomb would hit and it would be immediate chaos. Fantastic scene.
The actual reason it isn't noticed is because the explosion is extremely inaccurate. The flash camera would not have made the blast less noticable, because the flash from a nuke is so intense the main characters would've book cooked alive in an instant, and every item on screen would be scorched from the heat.
@@PK_Droid your right about one thing It could not have been heard at this distance because explosions like this has a doppler effect ranging up to 100 miles. Considering this is LA and the bomb dropped somewhere in city, that's a good distance from the bomb. LA is 469 square miles, so the sound detection couldn't been heard at this distance.
Christoph Waltz does it too in the interrogation at the beginning of Inglourious Basterds. Changes the entire tone of the scene with just a few facial muscles. It's amazing how good some actors are at that!
@@Erwooten23 It will be only if you are in the death zone. For example, in Hiroshima, the people at 2km from the death zone began to have a variety of painful and terrifying deaths. Some people (near the death zone) began to "melt" alive... like hot candles. Others were litteraly cooked alive, their eyes melted and their skins fell off.... Others remained with their skin so burnt that they were cruchy. Others had their muscles practically like a liquid. There are descriptions of people that lost their muscles exposing their skeletons while moving. Other began to lost burnt fingers and arms... worst of all, they had in common that they were alive for hours feeling the pain of severe burnt parts and exposed nerves, entire families wandering in a painful death in a wasteland where before were their homes... some survivors named them like "ghosts" (probably this story was the inspiration of the ghouls design).
Honestly I’ve never finished any fallout game, it was too difficult for me when I was younger😂 but after seeing the first episode I can’t help but want to get into it. Even if you haven’t played the game this is definitely worth a watch
@@pdawg4209 That's fine, 3 & 4 are for the new gen. But 1 and 2 is classic, even Tactics. If you can play the first game first before the latter but it doesn't really matter anyways each are cult classic specially the first game where is story is just waiting to be remastered or remake
I always thought this captured the day the bombs fell better than FO4 did. In FO4 the only other person you talk to who's worried about the threat is the Vault Tec rep. Here, they're talking about it on the weather, the adults are trying to hide it from their kids, there's so much more insanity here than there was in FO4. It's a much more powerful scene.
I'm actually wondering how is nobody talking about how the shockwave puts down all trees and blows away those lounges like they're from cardboard, breaks all windows, yet not a single person gets any sort of pushback... It actually reminds me of the sheer stupidity of Rings of Power when Galadriel takes the full blast of the pyroclastic flow in her face and she's not dead. I simply can't take a show seriously when it starts like this and continues with a girl leaving by herself when she looks like she's not even gonna last an hour.
@@vladgheneli Fallout has always been lose on nuclear physics even in the games, this is the same universe where a little bit of can make a coackroach a million times bigger and can be just as easily removed from a product called “Radaway”.
His expressions from when he says “it’s just a fire” you can see in his face he almost believes it himself, but then when the mushroom cloud gets bigger how his entire expression changes and the gravity of what’s going on is hitting him.
This was what sold me on the show. It looks like it took inspiration from 4’s own nuke scene, but this one felt so much more terrifying. You see Cooper’s daughter looking scared while absolutely no sound plays, he tries downplaying it as a fire, then you see that mushroom pop up and that look on Cooper’s face turns from scared concern to sheer terror.
While I was watching this part the fucking tornado sirens went off in my town and bro I got scared af 😂 this show got real feeling to it and I’ve never even played the games
I love how many people complain about the inaccuracy of the nuclear explosions for two reasons: -Oppenheimer couldn't get it right, either. -This is a world where radiation creates literal mutants. It is not hard sci fi.
I dunno what it was about "Is it your thumb or mine" that got me, but HOO boy that sent a chill up my spine! That first episode was so much better than I was expecting, can't wait to tear into the rest
It's just so surreal and absolutely terrifying. The American way of life standing still in time forever like that. No matter how many times Bethesda drops them I cry every damn time.
