The Good (and Bad) About The Fallout Series 

There are a couple of corrections to do since I got some points wrong. First with the Maximus being suspected that he put the blade in the boot, that was only revealed who did it at the end of the show where the said person who cut his leg in half did it himself because he was scared scared to go to the Wasteland, and on Episode 1 it looked like that Max has done it hence why we mentioned that we didn't get any scenes if Maximus put the blade in the boot at the time causing confusion. We were not supposed to know this on the first episode because of the way it got narratively setup. Other thing to correct about Dr. Siggi Wilzig at the beginning of episode 2, he carried the cold fusion technology chip in his neck that activates the energy plant in the Los Angeles by using Maldova's tech she managed to assemble in the observatory with NCR remnants following her, in the middle of the episode 8. Maldova invented this technology, and sold to Vault Tec before the bombs fell for them to just essentially "shelve it" as it was said in episode 7 in the flashback sequence with Cooper Howard after walking out of her speech. The remnants of the enclave, that we see at the beginning of the episode 2, had the resources and blueprints to make the said Cold Fusion part, and the doctor has been working on it for a long time before he escaped the place with the dogmeat, if we follow the timeline from when dogmeat was a puppy. Doctor HAD to go to Filly settlement because the elder woman who is a merchant at the shop that talked to Lucy, was assigned a task by Maldova to escort him safely to the settlement she resides in, where the ghoul also happens to be at to hunt for said technology that the raiders meant to intercept for a good bounty, having insider information from Maldova's people. Brotherhood of Steel knew about it too, for some reason. At the beginning of episode 8, when Maximus was taken by Brotherhood of Steel, after letting Thaddeus go to not let him go back to the camp with "the ghoul mutation" in progress that the Snake Oil Salesman has given him a vial of to regenerate his leg, (otherwise BoS would find out and kill him for having a risk of becoming a ghoul), Max's friend admitted that he put the blade into the boot and not Maximus. Maximus brought fake head with screwed up face by smashing it against a debris prior to being taken, while also letting Lucy go with Dr Siggi's head to get to her father, so BoS would take him back with the head back to the Elder, and turnaround the fate of his to not get executed, but lead BoS to where Lucy is going. To point at the vials that The Ghoul was taking, and the pouches that he had hanging off the wooden cross in episode 1, when he was in the grave, they were RadAways, as you can find them in video games to remove radiation from yourself. One the Amazon video website there's a clear picture of the two bags being labelled "RADAWAY" just like in the games. We can safely assume that vials were the RadAway (or confusion on Amazon's marketing) where Lucy got escorted to by The Ghoul to sell her for the vials presumably, but then he fell unconscious due to no dosage to treat his condition. He must've thought he wouldn't make it out alive, until Lucy managed to stop Mr Handy named "Snip-Snip" from taking her organs, and free the sane ghouls that were locked in the fridge by two waste landers named Huey, and Squirrel, then warning Lucy to not free the ones that are feral by saying she shouldn't release those, but she wanted higher karma, and the label on their respected fridge doors said that they were feral. Huey and Squirrel had a lot of those vials that The Ghouls takes throughout the show, and it makes us think that it must be something else to keep the ghouls sane and isn't RadAway/RadX, and is something new that is introduced to the show in order to keep them "sane", but that doesn't explain why so many ghouls that are sane are able to survive in video games since before the bombs fell to not go feral, so vials could be the same thing Thaddeus got, making us speculate that you can make ghouls now through potions. The water chip that was brought up in Episode 3, was not just a reference to Fallout 1 it may be easily missed for anyone to find the connection. It sounded like a punchline to make people more nervous but in the end there wasn't new overseer of the vault to begin with, hence why 2 people from the council kept talking as one overseer and they needed a reelection to do as soon as possible with Hank MacLean being kidnapped, forcing election to be "rushed", yet we know how it ends after Norm finds out how elections are actually "executed" by having only people from Vault 31 to be overseers. If there's any more mistakes I'll add them here.

Bro payed more attention to drinking sound effects than to the plot. This is why it’s on the slop channel

Wrong channel upload lil bro

Pyro naming Moldaver "Maldover" is a reference to where he was watching the show and didn't see any furry inflation experiments

My guy recognized that the drinking sound was wrong, but completely misunderstood everything that happened in the Maximus part of the plot 🤦

Bro tried to cook, inhaled to much smoke, passed out, burned the block down

gotta applaud you pyro, the fact that you watched all of the episodes and still manage to get obvious scenes wrong.

Bro titles this the good things of the show then proceeds to just utterly shit on it for an hour

Blud was not paying attention at all 😭

Oh dear god, he’s moving the main-channel content to the slop channel

timestamps: end of video: 1:18:40

The accuracy of this video makes me believe that you had the show playing in the background while you were scrolling through tiktok

Gulpers were introduced in the far harbor dlc not fallout 76

rewatch the series without the family guy on in the background and you’ll understand it

Holy. Moldaver did REVEAL to Lucy that the feral ghoul was her MOM, she even saw the necklace infused on the ghoul's skin

nobody looked at the bombs at the start because they couldnt hear it. you cant actually hear it until the shockwave hits because the pressure wave and soundwave travel at (roughly) the same speed

when pyro says Lucy's mom is from either vault 33 or 32 and that we can't tell which is bad writing while literally showing a clip with the mom in her vault suit with a giant 33 on the back really sums up how braindead this entire video was lol

The Ghoul healed the dog to use him to track the scientist. Yknow, the thing he literally says right after healing the dog.

Todd Howard did not create Fallout. He bought the rights to it from Interplay. Tim Cain was one of the main creators

39:35 Because he needs Lucy in prime condition to sell her for the most vials. He also probably wants to take no risk at all in destroying the head. He can't really predict exactly what damages the explosion will cause. 57:15 He just made up the part about the two people being retired NCR soldiers. They are scavangers who probably found the NCR armor and took it for themselves. The armor itself could be labeled as fanservice but the characters themselves aren't just random people who were created specifically just to show the NCR armor. The boy is the entire reason that The Ghoul could find the big base at the end of the show. 1:00:04 Vault 4 wasn't some random filler side story. It was used to create a deeper bond between Maximus and Lucy. This can be quite clearly seen when Maximus saw Lucy getting dragged away by the vault security guards. He was being bathed in luxury with popcorn, caviar, hot showers, sofas, a TV, etc. He was basically in heaven especially when considering that he was born and raised in the wastelands. But even though he was in heaven he still gave all of that up for Lucy. And when they leave Vault 4 this is also when Maximus reveals that he wasn't who he said he was to Lucy which is a very important detail about their relationship since Lucy didn't even know his real name before this. 1:15:21 Why did he complain about her shooting "some random ghoul" and corrects himself in the next line saying this this ghoul is Lucy's mom? He says that it is later revealed that ghoul is her mom even though it was revealed way before she shot her through the close up on the necklace. He is just making up these problems for more screen time.

Did pyro actually watch the show? Or did he just watch a string of clips on Twitter

Pyro bro what do you mean a non-ending, Lucy's arc of outgrowing her 'sheltered' girl mindset is pretty much complete with all the revelations of ep 8, Ghoul guy literally spells it out for her with the 'different animal' speech. That was the story arc of season 1, Lucy having her worldview shattered just like Ghoul and Maximus and experiencing first-hand the consequences that the struggle for power brings on people.

"Todd Howard the creator of Fallout and the Elder Scrolls" 2 franchises Todd Howard didn't have a hand in creating. Most well informed Pyro statement.

The reason the groups keep conveniently running into each other is because they're all tracking each other. Lucy has the pip boy tracker for the head, Maximus/Thadeus have the radiation trail to the Ghoul, the Ghoul's using regular tracking methods to find the others.

Bro was NOT paying attention to the show 💀

Bro really complained about the water drinking sound

Pyro: The ghoul sat at the dinner table is actually Lucy’s mother, Rose Pyro 5 minutes later: Lucy just shoots some random ghoul that wasn’t even part of the story Tbf that scene you called a “cop out” scene, really wasn’t set up to look like she was going to shoot Cooper Howard, they made it kinda obvious in the moments before it that she was going to put her mother down

Pyro: "I thought it was a Gulper from Fallout 76 but apparently its a new creature specifically for the tv show" The ghoul: literally mentions multiple times that its a gulper while using Lucy as bait

Bro Dane LITERALLY says he did it himself because he was scared of the wilds. The raiders are smart because they aren't raiders, they're with Moldaver, who is smart

Maximus didn't stick the razor in his friends boot, his friend did it to themselves because they were afraid to go into the wasteland.

What do you mean Hank just stumbled upon New Vegas? You can clearly tell he has been walking for days

One of my favorite nods to the fallout gameplay, Lucy when she walks up to the guy that drinks the purified water, she has her gun up pointing at him while being friendly, made me instantly think of when people would complain that players would walk around pointing guns right in someone's face while talking to them instead of holstering.

Pyro when the show isn’t called breaking bad or better call Saul

I think Pyro was actually watching Family Guy and Subway surfers while having the show on cause he missed the most obvious plot points

I actually liked that Hank MacLean just stole a suit of power armor and ran away because that's exactly what a person like him would actually do

Last time when you were this wrong, you were texting lewd things to a minor.

38:04 it’s at this point I realize I don’t think you get the comedy of this show. You’re so upset at so many things “wrong” with this show when they could be summed up with; this show doesn’t take itself to seriously, it’s a dark comedy. You say the phrase “shitty writing” and reference “the writers” in a negative light several times throughout this video when I think you’re just missing the forest for the trees. This is why we don’t binge an entire series in 1 day, write a script (probably while watching) all in an attempt to get a video out fast. Between the paragraph you left in the comments and the corrections you make with captions IN the video, I think it’s safe to say this is rushed af.

It's kinda funny how you can tell Pyro didn't pay attention while watching the show because almost everything he says never comes up again or is explained, is brought up again and explained.

For those saying this video should be in the main channel nah this is actual slop

"I hate how they canonized that Vault Tec dropped the bomb" it's been unspoken but pretty confirmed that it was vault tec Since 2008, the bomb in Megaton has a vault tec logo on it

I also think Maximus took so long to shoot the yao guai was because he saw the knights as human for the first time. All of his respect just completely melted away for the Brotherhood. He grew up worshipping the knights and then watches as one turns into a coward who ran away instead of standing and fighting. Titus (the knight) takes the helmet off and turns into another complaining, coward of a man, blaming everything on Maximus. Titus telling Maximus this is all his fault and that the Brotherhood are going to kill him for what he just did, but at the same time demanding he help him survive.

This dude musta been gooning while watching cause no way do you miss the mark this hard. He called it an oversight when thaddeus took to fusion core right from behind maximus but dont acknowledge that thaddeus needed a key to pull the core out, which solves the oversight.

Pyro: I’m gonna make an hour long video going over the good and bad of the Fallout show! Also Pyro: Maximus planted the razor in Dane’s boot! Pyro was definitely watching TikToks through most of it

15:20 why is this even a point? You watch too many shows and recognize an actor so this show is bad?

I’m so glad the comments agree that Pyro was either missing so much of the show’s details or that he just was being incredibly nitpicky because HOW can bro be saying shit like “ayo why didn’t vault 33 know that vault 32 was raiders” like bro there was a WHOKE EPISODE that explained that part💀

I think it's implied that when Maximus left the fridge when he was a kid that the brotherhood of steel guy used his rad-away to help him. It's why he knew that he had a surplus of rad-away in one of his sleeves in the knight armor. Also Maximus clearly dumped all of his special points into luck.

On a genuine note, i do feel like a lot of this is very nitpicky or simply not understanding the scenes. There are logical or at least stylistic choices to the things you've complained about. Like the beginning "raid" being orchestrated by Moldover, which just means that the raiders weren't acting like regular raiders for that matter, or how the freind got their leg cut up. Its assumed by everyone that its maximus but theres enough evidence to show that he isnt that petty towards his freind. Theres a lot more stuff that i dont really need to mention but seeing how fun the show is you should definitely rewatch it. Ps; the slow mo is a very obvious Vats reference and generally looked pretty damm cool

Comparing the fallout TV show to rings of power is insane

fucking laughed my ass off when he started to really care about the sound of the guy drinking water not being the same as in game... at that point I just stopped caring about his opinion on the show

I think the slow motion was supposed to replicate VATS

I thought it was implied vault 32 got massacred because they figured out the secret of vault 31. There was a message near the door between 32 and 31 that said "we know what's in there" or something like that

25:32 im like 99% sure he just didnt shoot the bear because the guy it was mauling was someone he didn't like and not "oh he forgor"

i thought the slow mo stuff was their way of doing VATS

Dogmeat being brought back from death actually served a dual purpose: she was able to track her previous master, which was useful to The Ghoul, and showcased that he still has a touch of humanity left. In his flashbacks you can see he has a close relationship with his dog (the dog even seems to be the catalyst for him finally calling his wife out on VTs shit, as they didn't allow dogs in their Vaults), and even tells Dogmeat outright that she isn't 'him'.

The water chip thing was actually explained, it was a manufactured crisis to get the lady from Vault 31 elected Overseer.

"It was no easy feat" bruh i know you are a youtuber and a streamer but even for you, how hard can it be for you to watch 8 episodes lmao

I've just watched the start and I'm surprised how he is firing blanks several times. The nuke went off behind skyscrapers, so the flash was not directly in view, and no one was looking directly at it. Their eyes would be fine. You can argue that the girl quickly looked at it, but the length of the flash is exagerated in the show. It lasts less than a second, so her eyes are fine. The flashes from the camera indoors is why no one felt off about the flash from the nuke outside. Unless you noticed the direction was off and was partially facing it you would just think it's another camera flash. (some should have noticed though) The vault died out 2 years ago. It was not when the raiders entered. They came with the mission of getting the McLain overseer and probably didn't know what they were walking into. Is it too surprising that they were cautious? The leader is with the NCR from what we can see later, so her hiring a bunch of thugs to help raid the vault wouldn't be too surprising. Her talking through the terminal to arrange the marriage so they can enter 33 isn't something I find unbelievable at all. And for all we know she had no real knowledge of what to expect from this vault, so this plan seems good to scope out their vault before the attack. He really must have watched this in the background without paying attention. Sheesh. If you have good criticism later in the video then good for you Pyro. I don't feel like being super critical and mostly wrong 3 times in a row makes me interested in watching more. I like to rant though!..... Does he look like Draco Malfoy?

Big props to Pyro not uploading such a long ass video on the main channel for the revenue

38:20 - “a group of people” I-is that what the hip new Fallout crowd are calling the fucking Enclave?!

wild that you compain about not seeing enough of kyle maclachlan but then conpain that no A rate actors die in the first episode

Trusting a Pyro review to be accurate and understanding of the show is like trusting pyro with your inflatable porn folder

27:18 that moment when pyro doesn't know what pholey work is 25:52 while yea bad word = le funny its something that everyone has probaly done in the games even in power armour 29:49 i really think pyro had this on his second or even third monitor as they both went to filly for good reason its not coincidence the doc needed transportation with the merchant and lucy needed info on the raider that took her dad 38:50 the ghoul calls them gulpers so they *probably* are 51:40 mfw im branded with heated steel (i cant make a noise cause it gives pyro the ick) 52:30 lucy put a tracking chip in the head she went to look for clues 54:58 it was not bombed in 2277 that's when shady sands started spiralling downward so all of new Vegas (2281) happens before the show so the ncr can still be a large presence in NV its estimated based of maximus and Lucy's age it was blown to smithereens sometime 2282/84 that is more deep iceberg info though 56:34 radiation is not a fluid its light and radioactivity is from stuff that is attached to like radioactive fallout (buzzword) so while unrealistic that a lead lined fridge would save you its in realism (monkey brain think work) and with advents on radaway and rad-x its entirely possible that he survived the bomb in the fallout universe. the sole survivor would have got a shit ton from the blast in the opening of 4 and survived without being a ghoul and if maximus was only in there for a short time and got rad away he would have been fine . the real killer would have been the heat that's the angle you should have took 1:11:55 they only start to burn if there on and it was formerly shady sands so there is infrastructure there 1:13:34 probably in shock as the guy in POWER ARMOUR just falls to the ground. and also just allow exposition??? stop putting everything though a super realistic cinema sins reddit lens 1:17:43 i know ive been ranting i know by my five bajillion comments but Jesus pyro you have misrepresented a great show by not paying attention to the materiel your "reviewing" you had it as second monitor slop while playing fat furry tycoon on roblox the rings of power comparison really? RoP rotten tomatoes audience score. 38% fallout 88% rotten tomatoes i always looked forward to your reviews as i always held you in high esteem for your great judgement and style of reviews but this is just horrible but if you even read this ima just be waved off as a fallout fanboy and i am a fan of the series both game and show so i hate to see a shitty rushed review on an actually pretty decent show i like how you said "good" in the title then proceed to take and hour long shit on the series

My brother brought up a good point about the bombs dropping in the beginning. Everyone was taking pictures and the cameras were creating flashes, so when the flash created by the bomb went off the people inside could have thought it was another camera going off.

Maximus didn’t put the razor blade in her shoe? She put it there herself, and she told it in the last episode

Pyro when the show isn’t old enough for him to watch 100 video essays to understand the plot

The water chip breaking was a ploy to allow betty become overseer, thus following the plan setup for the vaults

Did Pyro watch the show while scrolling on tic tok? There's so much basic information or nitpicks that were either explained in the show or just straight up wrong just a few from the beginning of the video the raiders were not in the vault for years. Maximus didn't put the razor in the boots. The vaults do not communicate with each other unless its something vital like a famine or trading members. The vault dwellers are naive and content so they wouldn't have the desire to break into other vaults. The raiders were NCR members. I could go on and on but I don't wanna

Vault 4 was part of Lucy's arc of learning that the Vaults are more sinister than she realizes or was told. The knowing look exchanged between the overseer and the other dweller when they asked Lucy what was your vault's experiment, and Lucy said they didn't have one... it sets her up to be more suspicious of her father when she learns the truth about him and Shady Sands, which is where a lot of the Vault 4 dwellers were from.

I don't understand why Maximus surviving a nuke in a fridge is such a gripe? Yeah, its unrealistic, but isn't the Fallout universe supposed to be a bit goofy? Also it's such an obvious reference to Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull that Im surprised Pyro didnt mention it.

the raider group werent just any raiders, they were smart and a quite large organization as seen in the last episode. the razer was not planted by maximus, the person did it themselves they admit it later in the show. the dog is not dogmeat, the show takes place after the games and we see the scientist raise the dog and take it with him. The launcher the guy uses is not the "rock it launcher" its the junk jet from fallout 4, also seen later in a shop. also the gulper was introduced in fallout 4 not 76 :)

hey pyro, fun fact, my uncle is walton goggins who plays the ghoul in the show. hes also in django unchained, karate kid and a bunch of other movies. so yeah, a pyrocynical viewer's uncle is in the show.

Crazy how the moment Pyro makes a review on the slop channel it’s one of the worst reviews he’s literally ever done

Pyro either didn't watch the show or watched it on the second monitor whilst ordering commissions on his main because he's missed so many obvious plot points and pretends they don't exist

"raiders are too dumb to possibly infiltrate" "Its too dumb for these raiders to push him against his own power armour" Gotta pick one.

Pyro needs to pay more attention to the show (even if this is the slop channel). It's explained in the show why the residents don't suspect anything (the previous overseer had passed away) and Maximus wasn't the one who stabbed Dane. 2 more things: that's not radaway that the ghoul is taking, and it is actually confirmed the dog is dogmeat, the ghoul calls the dog by that name Another: Maximus hesitates shooting the yao guai for a number of reasons, including Titus being a douchebag and Maximus being a bit cowardly. And the yao guai could've been a stunted one, and maybe Maximus got a crit lol

Lil bro watched the Cr1tikal vid and said let me make this a short film

Personally I love Maximus's character because his whole motivation is, "damn power armor is fucking sick I want some" and it is the most fallout thing in this whole show

dude, Lucy puts a tracker in the decapitated heads nose - that’s how she found Maximus when his power armor shut down.

23:04 The Ghoul in the show literally calls the dog Dogmeat it's like he didn't even pay attention.

Maximus hits a critical on the yao-gui, which was obviously a stunted yao-gui so it was probably about level 15. He’s been training since he was a kid it’s safe to say he’s like level 10ish. Critical hit on a sneak attack = instant kill. The fallout logic works

RIP MittenSquad

Pyro thinking they never explain what happened in Vault 32 is the reason why this slop is on the slop channel. The editors are saving our sweet summer child's whole career.

This show was so surprisingly well done that everyone is scrambling to nitpick the most insignificant details, or even just completely missing very obvious details and plot points in an effort to bring down anything Bethesda is attached to. I say this as a fellow Fallout New Vegas fanboy; despite some potential minor retcons and plotholes, the showrunners VERY clearly have a lot of love for the franchise and put a ton of effort into this show. Thank you for the slop

The ghoul calls the dog dogmeat in the show btw

I’ve never seen an individual waffle more for over an hour

around 18:00 mins you made a mistake. Dane placed the razor blade in their boot because they were afraid. Maximus didn't sabotage the boot.

50:42 "Somehow". My dude. That chest is in the distribution centre for radaway, which he specifically travelled to *because* there is a ton of radaway there. Also he didn't conveniently pass out right as Lucy leaves, it's because he was clearly holding up a tough persona which he could drop the instant he thought she was gone. Plus even if he didn't he was still waiting for his radaway.

the slow motion in the fight scenes is a reference to V.A.T.S

feral ghouls can still attack you even without their head

20 minutes in and you've already gotten so many things wrong

Pyro had the show playing on the background and he thought we wouldn't realize.

I feel like that the slo-mo was a stylistic choice to represent the targeting system in the games.

A video this long with so many bad takes should have been uploaded to the main channel

the beginning "raid" isn't a bunch of raiders, Moldaver has probably just employed raiders/mercs to do this job for her. If you actually watch till the end you realise that Moldaver is maybe a NCR member or just an entirely different faction from the remnants of Shady sands and whoever else. It also doesn't feel like a "realistic" take on fallout, it really does feel like a retelling of fallout vault terminal stories and tales that you hear in the games. Through out the show there is ridiculous shit that happens constantly and it's exactly how a normal game of fallout plays out.

Might have been a better idea to release the 8 minute version big bro. No but seriously a lot of this can be explained away if pyro payed like 17% more attention.

11:36 isn’t it revealed later that the group of “raiders” in the vault are remnants of the ncr? it’s possible moldaver selected these people knowing they were capable of disguising themselves but idk

Bro was watching the series with the Subway Surfers game on the bottom of the screen

Pyro really was watching subway surfer shorts while this was on in the background

This video really shows that his main channel videos have effort because the amount of things that flew over his head is insane

It wasn’t maximus who put the razor, it was the friend because they were afraid to go to the wasteland