What Makes The Opening Scene of FALLOUT Perfect? 

My teeth were chattering. The scene really caught the emotion of The End.

thanks captain obvious for the vid that did not need to be made

@@CFox.7 Trolling. Trolling never changes.

@@jitteryjet7525 😆

It's confusing because the characters should have died from the nuke. Why is he looking for his daughter now?

truly. she really made the whole scene for me because i'd expect that kind of acting from older actors but the way that girl started with alarm, shock, and that slowly creeping terror in her eyes. absolutely fabulous acting for someone so young!

That little girl sold it. If her look had been less believable it would have taken you out of it, but someone so young nailing that look of slow dawning terror and her trying to figure out if she misunderstood was spot on.

Had the same thought she really carried it home

“Is it your thump , or mine? “ terrifying

@@quasar7096 yeah the way she delivered that line gave me chills, poor girl :c

He was doing the thumbs up but because the fabricated threat of nukes is close he does not think is still in good taste todo

@@unnamedchannel1237 yes that’s what I meant by “in sequence” context, as in context offered in the same scene; but if you watch all the episodes and learn more about him, there’s even more to his story that informs why he refuses the 👍

Nice catch. It's interesting to see him going from joyfully giving the thumbs up in his first Vault Tec promo to blowing Vault Boys head off some 200 years later

Yeah, in 7 minutes this scene tells an entire story that we haven't even seen yet. It gives so much context to this character.

I got chills.

that man an oscor holder you know before shield even .

he hopes it is an explosion...

Even I can see that, and I suck at reading people's facial expressions. Excellent acting!

One might even say...kino

That scene was top tier. It really made me feel like that I was there watching that mushroom cloud emerge. I probably would have the same reaction as him and wouldn't believe my eyes. Great acting!

I love how he’s doing his cowboy voice as a ghoul even though he doesn’t have to. Maybe there’s a bigger reason for that but I’m only on episode 5😊 I agree Walton Goggins is absolutely killing this role as he does in everything he does. Even though the characters might be kind of similar, I see him as a separate person in each one.

I like how his character underlines the whole story.

@@pamelalansbury94 Maybe he's playing a character as a kind of coping mechanism.

What year was it ? 2077? Why was everything retro? I don’t get it

@@WaltDBrack Yes, the year was 2077. This takes place in an alternate universe where the Cold War never ends, and it's all a 50s/60s fever dream.

@@ThreeStar1011 Yeah, I’m pretty sure in that universe vacuum tubes were more popular and continued to be used over other more advanced tech, so that’s why everything looks so retro and bulky.

@@WaltDBrackRetrofuturism, the concept is that it’s supposed to be what the 50’s and 60’s imagined of the future and if their aesthetics stayed the same. In the Fallout Universe transistors/semiconductors never advanced much due to a few companies owning the patents and holding back innovations. But vacuum tube tech and atomic energy tech have both been pushed to its limits.

@@WaltDBrackHere’s Fallout creators Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky playing the 1st game and talking about their design decisions such as the retrofuturism. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3dajGzCKRYw.html

Yeah, it really showed how Vault-Tech played EVERYONE for their own gain.

Oh that’s sick dude!

Bunker? You mean vault?

Wow you're lucky!

be thankful no one sucker punched you, when you tried to get in.

Massive waste of resourses for nothing.

Except he did escape it

@@rjeizzay9619 He's a ghoul, he didn't escape it

@@rjeizzay9619 technically he got the worst of it, now he has to live forever without his daughter

@@tylerpixel so the cremated corpses and remains did

@@justelias7615 200 years isn't forever, and... well I won't spoil it for you

He found about the nukes before that party so why in the world did he not tell anybody prior to doing that party.

They actually messed up with this one, the opening scene should have been the life inside the vault, then flashback to cowboy, then raid

@@brainduffy3305 everyone knew

Its just dumb to think an adaptation would be perfect. Even if it was exactly adapted, where would the fun be?

Also, from what perspective could we even begin to consider it perfect? An outsider who is just interested in a good show will have a different idea of perfect than the hardcore fallout fans. In today's age of video game adaptations, I think we can consider any show that becomes as successful as Fallout just did should be considered perfect. It's not often we get something like this. Look at what they did to Halo, for example

​@@asant90This is the funny part.. i mean Peter Jackson takes also some "creative Freedom" *Looks to Tom Bombadil or the Oathbreaker before Minas Tirith* and still people praise the movies until today. Its a great Show and i really enjoy watching it.. i mean the first scene with the BoS Knights was *chefkiss*

​@kohlicoide2258 to be fair Tom bombadil was hot garbage and the worst of tolkeins writing weaknesses. There's a reason that even many hardcore old head readers completely skip his chapters in the book;they're ass

@@bEtHeSdA_LAME_sTuDi0s Its more about how nitpicky some "fans" are in specific areas because "Its not like in the book/game!" but often some more.. rough thing gets ignored because "its cool" Thats the point i want to make, like people complain sometimes even about small stuff (like the actor fits not to 100% the book descripton.. i know some that complains about that Hermine Granger in Harry Potter was not "ugly enough") but when HUGE Lorebreaking bullshit happens like the Oathbreaker before Minas Tirith its like "Yahh.. happens i guess?"

Love your take but after finishing the show the intro has so many new questions regarding Coopers character like you said how many became ghouls or charchrilled but in the end cooper is hunting down the main characters Dad/Overseer because he knows where his family is but that got me curios. Cooper doesnt say his wife or daughter but "family" so that implies that even though he became a ghoul after the bombs or later on HE was able to get his daughter too a vault or my guess vault 31 but if he knows where they are but no pipboy to get inside? SO MANY QUESTIonS

@@iphone_4s681 I think that is the job of a season 1. It reminds me of the Walking Dead season 1. It had you asking so many questions wanting to follow these characters. Although, they could treat each season more of a new series new characters outside of Cooper, but as a long time Fallout fan. I want to know if the NCR is still around. The brotherhood of Steel mentions that they conquered the wastelands. I took it as he is saying for a few years the BoS actually controlled America officially. I am not sure if there are still Supermutants as they are hinted at as more of like something not seen by these characters in sometime if at all. This can make the ending for New Vegas be that Mr.House ending and he bankrupted the NCR making it easy for the BoS to take them down. Yet, we do see a more ordered society for the most part. So after 4 the BoS is the new Federal government? Yet, they talk about the Enclave which is still around and fighting over the position of controlling the US?

Don't forget Invincible.

@@S-N7 also forgot George & Tammy

Sons of Anarchy needs to be on the list

and the Tarantino films

all these replies shows just how much of an amazing and underrated actor Walton Goggins is, he really nails any role he is given and I mean any role, he hasn't flopped once, only cooked

We might see Janie but what i think will occur is that Coop still has a romanticized notion that she might still be a good human being, even though she's probably been trapped in the same cycle of violence as he has over 200 years. Assuming she wasn't just frozen as a little girl, anyways.

Even the scene where he revives the dog gets explained "What about Roosevelt Mum?"

I wonder if she'll also be ghoulified?

I think it would be an intresting dynamic to see if she is still frozen up. How would she react to her father becoming a ghoul? Would the Ghoul soften up? If Janie is still frozen it must be a total whiplash for her. Nonetheless we have to see what her fate ultimately will be. The burnig question I have is what happend in between the time when the bombs first dropped and Cooper Howard became the Ghoul. How did he lose Janie? Did the mom take her to the shelter without Coop?

Also people calling him "commie that pays alimony" despite in the next flashback we get to see he's happily married and literally can't be commie at that moment

If you're talking about your immediate survival, you're wrong. You can see the mushroom cloud from miles away, as long as you aren't within the blast radius or immediately downwind of it, you can make it. Even within the blast radius, you can survive under cover. You're only truly screwed at ground zero, where a miniature sun appears and vaporizes anything in its vicinity. You won't even have the time to register it happening before you're ash in the wind. If you're talking about the fate of the world, then yeah, you're right, it's already too late once you've seen the first cloud. The rest are coming, and even if you survive, civilization won't.

That guy in Japan who got nuked twice in 1945 would disagree. His boss didn't believe him when he got nuked one time.

@@richardarriaga6271we use hydrogen bombs now they are much more destructive

RU-vidr Kyle Hill does an awesome video on this concept, and other nuclear war concepts. It honestly comes down to a multitude of factors when it comes to your life expectancy in nuclear fallout. In short, if a bomb falls and you're not immediately vaporized or painfully roasting alive, there's absolutely no point in sticking your thumb out to see if you're dead or not, as its redundant. Seek shelter.

@@JDH___ The nukes used in the _Fallout_ universe have yields more comparable to the ones in WWII than today's nukes. Definitely larger yields than the Hiroshima & Nagasaki ones, but not multiple orders of magnitude larger like our modern ones. That's why they hit Los Angeles with so many of them.

I loved Randall Clark’s story the most. He didn’t even get to be with his family when it happened

@@ManEditz777 most definitely. The best character in a Fallout.

​@ManEditz777 Definitely the best. I think as far as second place, the Germantown Police HQ logs from FO3 are worth a mention. It's haunting as the nurse describes the degenerating situation, nurses wearing bandanas to hide their hair is falling out from the victims, etc..

@@tglake2894 I don’t remember that. I will have to look into that.

Watch him in the first season of The Shield that is exactly what I thought about him.

When Rick went back and searched for that zombie, to put her to rest . . . "I'm sorry this happened to you" . . . that won me.

Limehouse! I thought that was great too. Don’t forget Knight Titus was Daryl Crowe (it was kinda subtle but I had a major “oh $hit” moment when it finally hit me. There’s got to be some other Justified characters in there too, that show had great chemistry.

Maybe he managed to get to a vault with his wife and child however vault security personnel said they can only allow one woman and a child in, so he sacrificed himself and tell his wife and child to get inside the vault and after that he lost his memories when he became a ghoul!

@@noahdean9685 interesting theory!

​​@@noahdean9685 he doesn't lose his memory though

@@noahdean9685I dont think he would want to enter himself, given what he learns of Vault-tec. And given the season ending there may be a lot more to it as well.

@@noahdean9685 That's unlikely. [SPOILERS] According to the final episode, he doesn't know where his wife is, and I imagine they weren't even together anymore once the bombs dropped. The reason I say this is because in the intro scene we see people wondering why the famous Cooper Howard has fallen into doing child birthday party shows, we don't see his wife, and Cooper doesn't want to do the thumbs up, mostly probably because it's also associated with Vault Tec which at that point he was already aware of what they were doing, so I suppose he or his wife left (maybe she found out about the spying device). Also, it's shown in Vault 31 there was where the important people at Vault Tec were sheltered.

That and the slowly rising tones used afterward. That really amps up the tension of the sequence.

@@ManabiLT yea! Trully a masterpiece of an intro

Genius comment

@@offsky9007 I did not know Fallout have "previous 75" and the special effects made by "creation engine" lol. I do wish James Cameron adapted Fallout into more a blockbuster movie, perfectly suited his style, maybe adapting Fallout 1 and Fallout 2.

“Fallout 76 was my first game in the franchise” how have your vital organs not shut down yet

There's not 74 previous games, there's only four main games ( _Fallout,_ then _Fallout 2 - 4_ ) as well seven spin-offs, one of which is _Fallout 76._ The first two weren't first-person games like 3 & 4 are.

@@ManabiLT ITS. A. JOKE.

Gimme links

@@cantionaleecclesiasticum5378 let me go get the link for the wiki davy crockett article, it tells the various radiation distances. And the old 1960s film about it tells the other information and shows what it looks like. I say the davy crockett, cause its the only one that has a small enough mushroom cloud, and the needed radiation to end a person from the sort of distance that a thumb would cover the cloud. Even little boy or fat man would have a cloud much bigger than a thumb at semi safe distances. The nukemaps site helps a lot with seeing what the boom can do..

@@cantionaleecclesiasticum5378 youtube.com/@Atomic_Tests_Channel?si=T82qZVW5jcJh3Wns

@@cantionaleecclesiasticum5378 youtube.com/@atomcentral?si=gZpzhfVy9xpCvST7

And on Appalachia Radio in "Fallout 76"

It’s still got it’s weird moments….. but it’s certainly superior in quality compared to other game shows that have released in recent years ((looking at you, Halo 😔)). However, there are some weird adaptations they’ve gone with for ghe story that kind of feel out of place. I’ve played Fallout 3, New Vegas and Fallout 4, and I cannot think off the top of my head one single incest joke in those 3 games. In the first episode they make a full on Incest joke, they show a guy wipe his dick off on a curtain after having sex, they’re ceaselessly swearing on the surface world. I get that sure, that’s probably going to be the reality of such a world. Incest would definitely run rampant if left unchecked, and I’m sure raiders and what not would swear. But at the same time, while people do swear in the games, it doesn’t feel forced. In the show, the swearing feels genuinely forced, like they didn’t have any other way to convey “These are dirty, nuclear radiated waste landers,” so they just gave them swear every other word. . All the main settlements in the games, with people genuinely trying to rebuild some semblance of society, people don’t swear that often in the games. People try to act civilized, “As long as you’re within these walls, you act kind to others. If you don’t, we’ll throw you out, and if you harm others or steal; death sentence and we move on.” In the show, however, it takes place 9 years after the events of Fallout 4 and people are just brutally savage to each other even in main settlements. There are virtually no rules. Despite the fact that about a decade prior to this show taking place, the Institute in the main fallout storyline defeats their enemies on the east and have spent 9 years using Synths to push out to the rest of the US and bring technological and medical advancements to the remaining human population. I haven’t gotten far enough to see if this plays out in this story; but that’s how it should be in the fallout universe 9 years after fallout 4 takes place and concluded as a story.

Nukes seem to work a little bit differently in the fallout universe. In the games you can use nuclear rocket launchers at close range and be left completely unscathed.

Poetic license, makes the scene more dramatic.

I think that was a ground detonation..

Low yield and far enough away you might not go blind. Those were like the bombs dropped on Japan, not strategic nukes that would be used in modern war.

It's Fallout universe, your realism doesn't work here when it comes to nukes.

Even Lanius probably doesn't have karma as low as her.

physically yes. In a nano second