Riddle me this. Vaults 31, 32, and 33 are located near Venice Beach, in Los Angeles. Which is called the Boneyard in Fallout. The Children of the Cathedral,Supermutant Nightkin, and The Master are located in the Boneyard on the coast. How did three Vaults escape the attention of the Master, his spy network, and his Supermutant Army?

There's a big difference between "unlimited" power source and "inexhaustible" power source. Nuclear reactors may be "virtually inexhaustible" but they do have they limits. There's only so much energy they can produce per hour. The inexhaustiveness manifest is that you can take advantage of this energy for hours and hours and days and weeks and months and years... just a semantic nitpick.

fortified elections are my favorite kind of elections in our managed democracy

She didn't sell the Cold fusion tech - the company she worked for was bought out by Vault-tec and took her invention as their own and locked it with a code only senior VT employees would know - from the ending it looked like it was just a vital component of cold fusion as it did nothing until it was placed in a much bigger device.

As a avid shooter you do not understand how hard it is to hit something in the leg especially if its moving thats why you always aim for center of mass.

Maximus suffers from low INT. Can't blame him.

Fun Fallout gore would have been if Lucy shot a guy with a 10mm, and he just completely explodes. Also, they could literally use the Mysterious Stranger as a Deus Ex Machina and no one would mind.

Ella Purnell actually admitted to playing through all the Fallout games in order to prepare for her role, she actually became a huge Fallout fan...

3:00 I thought he betrayed her as well at first. But remember, he promised her that he would bring Brotherhood soldiers earlier in the series to kill the woman who kidnapped the father. The dude actually just kept his promis.

There was no energy weapons anywhere even from the brotherhood the guys that almost exclusively use them

Its so painfully unimportant but here 1. Vaultec buys it password protects it shelves it. 2. Enclave recovers it recognizes it but doesnt know how to activate it because its password protected gives it to science dude 3.science dude double agent for NCR goes WOAH its here! And runs with it. 4. Moldaver is notified and thinks its high time to crack open a management vault. Shes got her squeeze's pipboy to do it. 5. Management obviously drifts in and out of activation and is given all sorts of access codes. Maybe they have one for everything? Like B00B5

Did anyone else get Star Wars Force Awakens Finn vibes from Maximus? Runaway dude in a battle suit meets a pretty girl and lies to her about himself to look more like a badass fighter, etc.

6:20 Makes perfect sense because you forgot about an important detail: Vault-tec bought off/stole all research regarding cold fusion from Ms. Williams pre-war, so they were the final *official* owners before the bombs fell. After the bombs fell, the Enclave probably stole/managed to find the tech, managed to bring it back up to snuff again, but it was still a piece of Vault-tec technology, so they couldn't unlock is full energetic potential.

The NCR reveal was the worst part for me. They're raiders all through the show until they're not.

The big part that I'm trying to figure out is. How are they defining the NCR because originally the NCR spanned all of Southern California and bits of Northern California. That's why they were expanding into Arizona and Nevada through the Mojave. Because they needed more land they had so many people and they needed the Hoover Dam to power their growing infrastructure. It was less dangerous for them due to finding actual working technology and being able to produce things once again. It's why they had a standing Army and why they had uniforms. They had the ability to actually produce new weapons, new armor, new clothing... Before FO4 the Fusion Core was able to power a city block for 200 years without a single dip in power generation.

I personally think the whole "communist" line of criticism misses the mark. Muldova (or whatever her name was) wasn't fighting an ideological battle for the communists, she was fighting an ideological battle against the mega-corperations that had virtually replaced the legitimate government. At best this is a "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" situation with the Reds, and in our real world she'd be what the Soviets referred to as a "useful idiot". But on that point, the Fallout vibe strongly evokes the McCarthy era Red Scare period of the real world cold war. People were accusing anyone they didn't like of being communists all the time. The "racist" or "transphobe" moral panic lunicy we see today is a reflection of those times, and we see the same patterns play out now as we do we do in the show (although somewhat less extremely than the satire of FO thankfully). So yeah, shes right when she says that communists are what they call non-crazy people, although that isn't quite the same as saying communists are the sane ones.

Honestly, I have mixed feelings on the show. Lucy was just about perfect for a vault dweller. The vaults themselves were very much in line with something Vault tec would do. I detest what they did with the NCR. It had a population of 700,000 people at last official count and stretched from the bottom 2/3rds of California all the way to Nevada. Losing one city, even the Capital, would not have caused the complete collapse that is shown in the show. By the time the show takes place you would have had an entire society much more similar to before the big war with electricity, sewer lines, and a pretty good stockpile of clean drinking water. The Enclave having the Cold Fusion device actually would make sense if they had stuck with the original story. Vault Tec , or at least the major big wigs, were part of the Enclave. The Enclaves plan going back to the second game was to literally leave earth to die off and colonize another planet entirely. Buying up cold fusion tech to horde for themselves makes sense. What doesn't is why the scientist decided to steal it and give it to one of the groups of people directly responsible for wiping out the Enclave in California. Going back to Vault Tec serving the Enclave I really disliked the scene where it showed the meeting between the major companies, especially how they showed Robert House as part of it. Vault Tec didn't have that kind of power. The enclave itself had determined the war was unavoidable. Considering the heart of the Enclave was the US government all the way up to the president their fatalism ensured the bombs would fall even if they had to push the button first. Vault tec did not have the kind of power that the show portrays. Vault tec was in it because they knew the war was coming anyway and their upper management wanted to save their own skins. Ghouls are shown in a really weird way. They can't make up their minds if ghouls are nigh on immortal or pathetically easy to kill. Ghouls were also common enough to have their own entire city within the NCR. There was no anti feral medication and regeneration in the way they portray in the show happens when ghouls were around a potent radioactive source, the kind that would microwave a normal person. The Brotherhood was not too far off from base but Maximus needs to get a fair bit more competent before he becomes a good character. He just isn't competent enough for this setting. Overall I liked the show but dislike what it means for the future of the franchise. I had already suspected Bethesda was going this direction from what they did with Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 but I still think they should have just left the West Coast alone.

One thing that bothered me was the power armor. When the super ghoul was fighting Max in his power armor, he was not hurting him with bullets. But at the end he takes on a group of Power Armors and can supposedly one shot them in a weak spot. And plus, he turns out the light leaving the brotherhood of steel in the darkness. No one has a light source anymore. Power armor use to have built-in light source.

"What did you expect? Welcome sonny? Make yourself at home? Marry my daughter? You've got to remember these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. Common clay of the new west...you know..."

So essentially. It's goddamn bethesda writing all over again but now in show form

Isn’t moldaver one of the scientist that worked on the cold fusion before vault tec bought them and took their projects away?? Wouldn’t it make sense she be looking for that during the pass two centuries, when you live that long you bound to have various resources plus she already had followers before the end of the world, i mean i don’t really need a show a tell for every little detail of how things came to be.

It has become a standard procedure to seek out known franchises (so they don't need to develop something new) and use them as a template, throw crap writing and cool effects/cgi at it, and boom, profits. Just think about all the disasters we've been getting. Rings of Power, Last of Us, Halo, Star Wars (Disney era)... I totally stopped watching live action stuff, I only watch animes now, or anime movies. Not perfect, but no wokeness and better content (better quality too), the story and character writing isn't atrocious. Another big difference is that you laugh because it's good, not because it's ridiculously bad.

Old Fallout Fan here - This show is a perfect example of how crappy entertainment is to the point where something that in my youth would of been seen as horrible, is seen as " pretty good" today. People are so use to shit they will take anything. That being said I think it was better then Wheel of Time, Witcher, Rings of Power, but its not good and is still part of the modern ESG "message" era. Best part of the show is Goggins as the Goul.

just FYI, the character you're supposed to focus on is Lucy.... she's the most direct reference to "the player" within *[this huge construct that is the Fallout universe]* Maximus and The Ghoul are just "exposed NPCs" "exposed" as in "you get to know about them", as opposed to actual NPCs that get no development at all (always speaking as within the construct) it's a tricky resource to pull out, as this would be one of the few times it's been tried, not counting other attempts such as Last Of Us, where pretty much every side character gets to be developed by cutscenes IN the actual game, since the game itself was designed and influenced by the cinematic medium, and plays like a movie. the original Fallout, wasn't.... the original Fallout was inspired by tabletop RPGS and written novels. *concepts*

It had good acting, good references, good props and world, but terrible terrible story writing

The raiders plot made sense to me. Moldaver knows about the cold fusion technology because she's the scientist who developed it. She knows that Vault Tec management have access codes to unlock it because she'd been investigating them since before the war. She knows that Hank is in vault 33 as well as what's in vault 31 because Hanks wife found out, ran away and the two of them met. All of this was laid out in the show. Personally, I liked the show. There is more to evaluating a show than just pointing out every plot hole or irrational decision characters make. The art direction, soundtrack, camera work, sets and props, costume design, were all pretty high quality. If I sat and carefully thought about every little thing, I could probably come up with a list of things to nitpick as well. But the storytelling and acting both were competent enough to not pull me out of the aesthetic experience of Fallout. This is a visual medium. If all you're going to focus on is the story, you might as well be reviewing books.

According to the original writers of Fallout, the vaults were for experiments to study human society in various circumstances for long term space travel. Like generation ships.

I think people are willing to forgive the idiocy of writing problems and the US concentric writing conventions that force some plot and editing problems. Mostly because the series is short. And just like Westworld Season 2, these editing/writing problems will derail story and characters will have to magic their way in/out of situations. These problems are likely due to SAG-AFTRA forcing new writers who might not have the capability to think about the repercussions of not planning out a central plot for each character and each faction. This is a long-long story with a ton of unmovable dates, unmovable characters, and unmovable factions. Westworld also has such a complex layout, because the reveal requires time to lay out the Season Arc in small steps, small bites of a larger conundrum. WW Seasons 2 and 3 fail on this, largely because the convolutions become a bit too artificial and contrived. The actions start to unravel, people travel magicallly to arrive at events or decide to leave/enter/walk around to the most convenient time/location. And, to get the action scenes, people have to be in a narrow set of events and make odd decisions. So, inevitably, with this much depth of story and certain beats having to open and close doors to areas, characters and revelations ... there has to be a planned out series of reveals and fleshed out events along the way, which makes storyboarding and action/effects planning cheaper. It has gaps and plot problems because the mystery / story is edited by accident. And, the plot requires hard-set moments, and hard-coded events in the lore, mainly to avoid walking into problems with future events and future episodes. e.g. the NCR. The Enclave. The Brotherhood. Vault-Tec. New Vegas. Space Stations. Ghoul factions. The Boneyards. The 2077 war and who knows about the conspiracy / aftermath, since few people were alive in the setting, and most records are counter-intuitive... is a long-running lore problem, because the purpose of the vaults is not set out, nor are the vault records collected by any third/fourth/fifth party that could use the results. It's supposed the Enclave is in charge, but ... there's a definite madness in planning for nuclear winter, with trillions of dollars of vaults designed and built in anticipation of disaster(s). The FO story also leaves open the rest of the world's population and where they could be, because the global population is an open problem for 'another day'. Along with the Cthulu / Space Aliens subplots that keep popping up along with Ghouls appearing before 2077 and idiosyncratic easter eggs, sic.

Moldaver didn't sell the cold fusion technology, Vault-Tec bought out the company she was working for and took the research for themselves. I'm sorry, but you clearly weren't paying attention to at least that part.

When I saw the NCR reveal the first thing I said to myself was, The Enclave lost to them? They were and are one of the most technologically advanced factions in the fallout universe. It was also a disrespect to the NCR as a faction as well, in fallout 2 and NV I viewed the NCR as an actual government and military force, not a bunch of Californian anarchy commies.

Having elaborate but stupid plans is the norm now. Palpatine was supposed to be this puppetmaster, but his plan was not to deploy his invincible armada.

My main question at the end was why was Cooper still looking for his family 200+ years later? Also, his family consisted of a little girl and his evil ex-wife. The only way they'd be alive is if they were either ghouls or in cryosleep. I guess it's possible Barb and/or Janey would have been frozen, but it seems someone as important as Barb would have needed to manage the vaults as much as she could after the bombs fell, so would have lived her remaining years underground and be long dead in 2096.

The gore was awesome lol. Lore wise, pretty accurate.

Just wanted add how the hell did no one recognize that no one that had come through from 32 was not from 32? As they would have done this exchange for Harpers (Lucy's friend/pregnant chick) husband who got down and dirty (by Harpers own admission) with the goal of pregnancy on the day of the exchange. So, that's a year, max. And the brother confirmed one of the corpses was at least 2 years dead. EDIT: Been told that it was Harper being traded into 33 to Bert from 31. I thought it was Harper that was transferred from 31 to 33 and then Bert to 33 from 32 to Harper. Confused due to the Harpers profile on the Prime stating that she is a native of 33. And the year estimate is wrong. As the exchange commenced on March 17 2294 for Harper according to the wedding dress. So, max 2 years. Sorry, but my points still stand.

Even from a non Fallout Lore / Fan perspective. I think anything deeper than a surface level analysis of Aesthetics and ''muh pot twists'' reveal a story that is, like Bethesda's usual work. Actually terrible, and only focussed on delivering set pieces. In retrospective, knowing what we know of Maldover, her group being NCR remains, her helping Vault 4, implying they would all know Vault Tec is torturing people. The attack on 33 makes no sense. It is contrary to her character and wholly unjustified. There is litteraly no reason they could not have simply kidnapped Hank with little to no violence. The Vault 4 Plot would not happened were people normal people and actually explained why there is mutants that the two new comers are clearly awkward about. There is actively no reason to hide floor 12, given they are only trying to help people who suffered from experimentation. Even then, if Maximus just found a stimpak in the hospital, the story would not have changed much at all. The city lighting up at the end is completely stupid. You telling me the electric grid was connected to an observatory? And that it was all intact from the nuclear bombs and 200 years of radiation, acid rains and rust?. It's again Bethesda showing they care about superficial scenes and not the build up. They care about the destination and not the road there. This show is just like Fallout 3 and 4. Most people play it and don't give it much thought. It's only a couple of years later, when dedicated fan go through with a deeper analysis, deconstructing the story, the plot points, the gameplay, etc. That we end up seeing how terrible and messy it is. Hopefully, this show will be quicker.

No one I watched has pointed out how Power Armour don't have voice modulators and it was made up only so the Maximus stuff can happen

Shad, TES and Fallout have had lesbians before it was even woke. I think Todd just has a kink for it.. Have you seen the box art for TES arena? And Morrowind, woo buddy!

Thank god. It feels like I've been taking crazy pills with how many people whose taste I trust have been praising this crap show like it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Definitely a show that's reception is as split as the Fallout fan base it's self

I think most people liked the show because of Walton Goggins (The Ghoul). As for the lore, yup, they shredded the game's lore. Like the ghoul serum, the NCR, NV's story, the reason why the bombs were dropped and the whole first two games now mean nothing.

Maximus did not betray Lucy at the end. That was his first real act of honor that he chose to do himself. He made a deal with Lucy that he knew he couldn't uphold because it was based on a lie that he was a Knight that had some control over the Brotherhood's actions. Pretty sure they learned the lady was at Observatory when they were together, so it's implied she would have told him before they split. I gotta rewatch to be sure. But, when Maximus has the Brotherhood go to the Observatory, that's him upholding his end of the deal he made with Lucy. To bring the force of the Brotherhood down on the people who kidnapped Lucy's father. It wasn't betrayal. It was the only way he could keep his promise to her.. it just didn't work out in the end.

Oz remember that Gecks weren't given to every vault, only the control vaults. Experimental vaults didn't have them.

“The Wizard of Oz” meets “Love and Monsters” with a dash of the seventies kids show “the Ark”. Place a group of writers in a room with a ton of Weed and “Fallout” is the result.😂😂😂

I disliked it, but it definitely had potential. The actors for the most part are great, the settings and costumes are great. The dialogue is usually pretty good. But then...they write jokes that should really only appeal to people under the age of 8; like a two minute long deflating balloon gag, with a suit of power armor. The relationship between Maximus and Lucy, was almost beat for beat the same as Rey and Finn...which is creepy and weird. Brotherhood of Steel's TOP CANDIDATE was a 90lbs mustache sporting, breasted they/them. I'm sorry...where are they getting their Hormone Replacement Therapy from? Where was them going to get HRT while scouting the wasteland? Should the Brotherhood rename themselves to the Themhood? Then you have illogical writing. How the BoS squire who steals the power core from Maximus, then out paces them with a mutilated foot. Or how Lucy just happened upon Maximus in the middle of the city. Or how Lucy crossed the wasteland with one foot bare, was limping from exhaustion by the time she get's to the destination, but her foot is totally fine. Stuff like that really brought the show down for me.

Maximus reminded me of a build I once did, in which I took all the points from INT and gave them to LCK.

I will never forgive what they did to the NCR.

it wasn't very good, you can enjoy some of the vault suspense and wasteland exploration, but in the end it's all very simple, uninteresting or just silly

Bethesda has been ruining the lore and world building of Fallout since their acquisition of the IP. They completely removed all the depth and complexity along with the moral ambiguity that made the originals so great.

It's so fucking funny how these guys act like they know the lore, while proving they have a borderline surface level understanding of the lore, and nuclear energy.

It's not terrible the problem is Bethesda being little envy gremlins and painting all over the west coast lore because they don't want it to exist because they cannot top it. If the show is canon than fallout 1 and 2 are irrelevant and New Vegas isn't even canon anymore, The NCR are just a raider gang, house is a mustache twirlingly evil monopoly man, the legion obviously wasn't ever a threat or they'd be steamrolling the collapsed NCR right now etc, it seems to be the show is more about purging the series canon of anything not Bethesda than it is about making a fallout show and that disappoints me and also bodes badly for future games going forward imo.

It wasn't complete trash, so it was good. Cause that's a good way to judge things. I got in a car accident and lost the use of 3 of my limbs, but since 1 still works, I'd rate the crash a 7/10. Would do again.

Todd simply does not care about lore, and apparently many "fans" who claim to have played all the original games, agree with him. These must be the people that think Fortnite with Fallout characters would make it a Fallout game. But since the show is poorly written with a plot that self-destructs by the end, we are just looking at another "turn your brain 100% off and you will like it" scenario. No.

I actually enjoyed it. It's not a gritty drama like shogun and it does capture the memberberry spirit of the games for me. Both my parents got hooked as well

For the people who see the fallout show as generally negative (1-5 out of ten), what scale are you working with. What game adaptations are your 10, 7, 5, 3, and 1 out of 10?

What's wrong with a weak, wishy-washy character who attempts murder? These are fictional characters, not real life people. Most good stories don't have people firmly separated into good guy/bad guy camps or virtuous/flawed camps. Flawed and even villainous characters can be some of the most entertaining. The whole setting of the franchise evokes a world where people struggle to survive and often compromise or even abandon their morals to do so.

44:49 What a weird comment about The Ghoul. Especially considering your past comments on the characters in shows like House of the Dragon.

Minor nit-pick. She didn't sell the cold fusion tech. The company she worked for was bought out by Vault-Tek before she coukd finish developing it. She wasn't the owner of the tech.

It’s ok shad, even though your younger brother jazza is getting 10 times the views you do and knows how to make actual art, you’re still valid bucko! Keep on the ai art battle maybe one day you’ll get some recognition 💀💀💀

I also didn't like it as someone who had played Fallout 1, 2, Tactics, 3 and NV. I don't know. For me, NV showed that things was progressing. The NCR has become a proper nation with working trains and supply trucks. Anecdotes from NCR citizens coming from California to gamble in Nevada would say how life back in the founding states is good and things was improving. The NCR congress enacting laws to protect Frontier Farms to even giving Free Food and Medicine to Freeside regardless of who you are. There's improvement and things is shifting to a better future. The show just justifies the Enclave's mindset and reasoning. There's no civilization in the Wastes. It must be wiped slate clean with the FEV as the people in the Wasteland will never develop or improve. They'll just kill each other over and over again. EDIT: I also have no idea why the Big Corporations thought nuking the world would improve there profits when there fiat currency would be gone and useless and since when has Shady Sands becone so close to Boneyard? Heck, why didn't the Five Founding states go ham into sending reinforcements to Boneyard? The Boneyard houses the NCRs treasury, it houses there printing press for money, and the first ever Post War University.

Havent watched but im guessing its "Meh" to "well... ill watch it..." but because tv shows are so terrible now its probably a "Its still better than Discovery" to "Its not that bad" level show, I usually dont outright hate something unless its absolutely terrible like Rings of Power, ive seen contradicting opinions but ive heard enough that imma watch some later today.

I thought the show was solid. Looking at the show and understanding the fallout lore, I believe the show did a much better job than most. However, that does not mean the show did not have major plot issues. The resolution of New Vegas being ambiguous was a major mistake. The nuking of shady sands off scene was a mistake. Making vault Tec seem like the ultimate bad guys degraded the understanding or the faith of the lore relationship between vault tec and the federal gov ( the enclave ). If the shadow people, who kinda looked like executive office of vault tec, were members of the enclave I think a lot of gripes with the show should be re evaluated.

A reminder, if needed, that every single idiotic point will have had to go through multiple people. Multiple people have said 'this is good, put it in!'

It would be hillariously funny if the man behind all of vault tec was Klaus Schwab.🤣

Seriously... You guys got so many things wrong within the first 10 mins of this review that I'm not ever sure how to start responding...

Thank god practically everyone else been compromised. It has all the modern Hollywood trope’s

13:25 No Tsunami, no earth quakes ... and NO control rods with graphite tips ;D

You're definatly in the minority for this one. The show was easily a 9/10 with some gripes that only hardcore lore people will have, the rest of us are over the moon that they didn't butcher the source material like every other video game adaptation.

I could only stand about 7 minutes of listening to the folly of 2 individuals who could not follow along with or were unable to remember the thing they are supposed to review.

The way I understood the lore, after reading all the computers and docs in the games as well as having watched a video a couple years back, it seems that the war that was going on was coming to an end and Vault Tec, having spent billions on the vaults and the experiments, saw that people began seeing no reason to buy a spot in them so their "window of opportunity" was closing so Vault Tec themselves decided to launch the nukes so they could carry out their plans. That is roughly what I got out of the in-game lore I am probably wrong if so I apologize I am merely stating what I got out of it all from the games sans having missed some stuff.

warning, extensive "um actually' incoming maximus is meant to be weak, he's asked in the beginning if he's weak and he said "i don't want to be". and maximus is apart of the brotherhood of steel, ofc he's gonna be morally corrupted. and in fallout murder for self preservation is a necessity for survival, especially when his life was also being threatened, and not every character has to be smart or navigate a situation you see fit, people don't do that in real life. y'all also mention how the "raiders"(gunners*) had no reason to know about the cold fusion, but its shown that muldaver is from the past and was developing cold fusion prior to the bombs dropping, so it makes sense that someone within the enclave with empathy continued her efforts and worked with her to finish it, because she clearly has access to resources most didn't like her own cryo pod. the password was a vault tech password to unlock the terminal, it wasn't a code specifically for cold fusion, cold fusion didn't exist yet, it was only theoretical pre war, her company hadn't yet gotten it working. in fallout 1, you find vault tech nukes, and in fallout 3 the nuke in megaton is a vault tech nuke, so them having a plan to drop the bombs isn't off base and it doesn't mean they actually did it. i will agree though, the cold fusion cell looked out of place in the fallout universe being so small and modernly futuristic, they di do the ghouls amorality very poorly, and the communist crazy line is really corny, and i'm relatively socialist. y'all are really bugged by an IMPLIED lesbian relationship with one of the characters only getting ONE scene? don't be so sensitive, and that's not amazon adding anything, fallout has had lgbtq+ characters since the first game, bethesda's fallout games are actually the only ones that determine the sexuality of companions based on the player character's gender, in 1, 2, and new vegas there are gay and lesbian companions that can only be romanced by being their preferred gender, and the creator tim cain is gay (and also agrees with the portrayal of vault tech). mr handies were a worker bot, there are mr handies that work in hospitals, on trains, as security, and mr handies have buzzsaws, there's cutscenes of them cutting bushes with them. fallout is notoriously mocking capitalist propaganda, it's painfully overt, watch tim cain discuss his intentions with the companies in fallout. and vault tech is an arms and defenses dealer, they only profit when there's war, y'all could not be more mistaken here. the brotherhood of steel wasn't meant to be portrayed as pure fascist, but rather on of the writers said they wanted them to feel like a misguided fraternity. also, no not all vaults have functioning G.E.C.K. kits, unless they retconned fallout 2's lore and i forgot. this show was made for true fans, and it doesn't contradict any major lore, tim cain himself said he liked that ghouls had to take radaway to not go feral, and that it was a good idea. the creator of fallout likes the show, and most fans are in love with it. sadly while there are valid critiques, almost every single one in this video falls flat. i will say tho, it's refreshing to hear someone dislike this show without making it overtly political and cry over gender and race.... until the "anti human" rant that feels very incel-ish, i don't think the sex scene was a critique of sexualizing women as much as just a flipping of that dynamic. but the gore porn was too much, and i think its a part of the fallout humor that doesn't translate well to film. "if you want to be edgy have a man save a woman" maximus saves lucy in almost every scene they have together, she'd be completely lost without the enclave defect, and the ghoul saves her in the final scene, when she rescues them approximately once each.

How dumb do you have to be to not realize that moldaver isn't an actual commie?

If you paid attention Mr. House didn't offer any suggestions for the vault experiments. He stayed silent and observed the meeting. In FONV Mr. House had prior knowledge of the threat which is why NV was fortified in the first place. It's why the platinum chip was made. Things didn't go as planned and the bombs were dropped early.

from what i understood, malderva basically "invented" cold fusion. vault tec then bought every company she was even remotely connected to and patented and made it their own. henry /hank mclean wasn't just any secretary, he was the assistant of barb, she was basically one of the head honchos as we saw. they probably wouldn't have hired him to be her assistant with the shit they are into if he wasn't qualified enough to their standards. i don't think the enclave knows how to create and use cold fusion. i think that one scientist created an ingredient needed for it. but vault tec has the actual tech you need to use to use the ingredient to create cold fusion. without that computer tech you probably can not create cold fusion in this universe and that thing the scientist created is probably useless without the vault tech tech. but it is a main ingredient which is why everyone wants it, after that it's a matter of getting your hands on a vault tech code and access to one of their cold fusion machines i think.

color me surprised, the toxic clickbait review channels doing nonsense reviews. You may not like it, that is subjective, is it bad? Nope. Change your business strategy, please.

Why wouldn't the management team have the access codes for the power tech?! He was chosen to be one of the few people to lead vault 33 or 32, that's not the job of a newbie, you assume he was low management because he wasn't part of the council, or because he was excited to meet an actor he loved? :))

vault tech launching the nukes could have been good if they were not looking for profit but wanted to use the nuclear holocaust as an experiment for their vaults.

The Strangest thing is, you have the coldfusion, thingy, how does that energy connect to all the lights around the wasteland? Did they dig all the energy lines before hand or is it energy wi-fi? The Blond vault girl Steph is also from Vault 31. And I think a story like what happend in Vault 32, dont remember if it was from Fallout 2, or 3, dont remember why they killed eachother though.

The Stotyteller and ED-E sitting around a camp fire in the Mojave openly weeping.....Shoddycast they destoryed your years of work in 8 hours

Gotta disagree with this take. Usually youre very on point, and the shkw has issues, but the three big issues that you had can be explained through game context. 1. Vault tech and the government were like 🤝🏽. Them having shared pre war tech and access isnt an issue at all. Thats how the Enclave located many Vaults in Fallout 2. They always knew where they were. As for Moldaver knowing, shes prewar. These Vaults Locations were already public knowledge and considering what she already knew about Vault Techs plan Pre War its not shocking she knew how itd extend into the post war. Furthermore, Henry was Bud's Buds. Bud being one of the heads wouldve been able to give his adjunctants much more authroity than expected, so Hank having the code makes sense. Lastly, I dont think Moldaver ever comes off as a good guy. Sympathetic, but not good. The Ghoul is supposed to be the correct one. He understands that everyone sucks so you have to be an ass too to survive. 2. Vault tech plan is kind of dumb, but that extends fo the entirety of the fallout franchise. The concept of the Vaults and Vault tech were never supposed to make sense as Vault Tech was always a moree ominous presence in the original and 3d games. In fact their plan is nearly 1 for 1 with the Enclaves plan in Fallout 2, which is to genocide all non Enclave survivors on the American mainland for the mere fact they arent Enclave. 3. The conflict in Vault 32 was likely a civil conflict. People committed suicide because their neighbors and friends were murdering each other in a weird Vault Loyalist vs Rebels. This happens in multiple different vaults throughout the games and is something that can be assumed given other examples throughout the series. I think the gratuitous violence of ot all was just to grab the audiences attention. It should just be percieved as a revolt and civil conflict about leaving the vault and focusing on the visual of it seems reductive. Lastly, for the clean up its simple. Robots. They likely had a Mr.Handy or Protectron staff that would be deployed given Authorization from vault 31 staff like the Overseers. As for the Brain in the Jar, its a staple for fallout. Its not supposed to make sense. Its a gag that ended up being lore so here we are. You just kinda gotta roll with it. P.S: As for the injections, I assume its a psychedelic that allows fpr the ghoul to better retain their sanity. Its always been cannon that what makes a ghoul feral is a lack of self identity after years and years. So the wasteland producing a drug to help them with that, just like a modern anti depressant or an imaginary demensia aid drug makes sense. In conclusion, I've found that many of your takeaways come from a casual fan perspective. While not wrong, they're missing key backgroudn information, interior and exterior lore points, that make the show make sense. I would agree if you were to say that a good show would've filled the gaps. However, most media tries to avoid exposition dumps, which explains why they wouldn't. Your critiques all make sense given the show was in isolation and not a part of a larger franchise. Outside of that context your review and critiques are excellent. I enjoyed listening and I hope you'll return to the games and then rewatch the show. I think youll find that the nkst significant plot hole in the show you dont address and is the thing that took me from rating it a 7 out of 10 to a 4 or 5 myself. The date that shady sands is destroyed.

43:10 false, not every vault some of the vaults have some. Just replayed fo3 vault 101 doesn't have one, and you eventually learn that you need a geck, so you look for a vault that has one. Only Vault 81 had one, could be wrong assuming the other vaults had one that was taken and used at some point, but I don't think that's the case.

A show that is critical to Tradition is being rejected by a guy whose brain is stuck in the 50s? Not a shock. And it just proves the writers right in their assumptions about America.

Isn't this show like a Fahrenheit 451 or a Hitchhiker's guide where the plot points are stupid on purpose as some form of satire?

1 out of 10? So the guy in red thinks the Fallout show is basically as bad as a show can possibly get? Costumes, sets, music, visual effects....so the show has NO redeeming qualities whatsoever? I immediately can't take anything he says seriously after that hyperbolic absurd rating.

I personally loved the show, it had its problems, but it felt like fallout, and that’s what matters to me. Maybe I’m biased, because I’m just thrilled to have a fallout show at all, and maybe that’s altering my view, but I feel like there’s some really good top notch stuff in there.

I overall agree with your premise, but there are definitely some false criticisms here: 12:34 Well Fallout isn't realistic in the slightest, even before Bethesda came on the scene. I wouldn't say that the cold fusion thing was that egregious. 12:54 No, not at all. Firstly, whilst nuclear fusion does exist in Fallout, it isn't that common, most things run on fission. Secondly, cold fusion is obviously superior to regular fusion since cold fusion can produce energy at room temperature, normal fusion can't. Also, fission is shown to be very irradiating throughout Fallout and radiation in general is shown to be pretty bad. To have relatively clean unlimited energy is a pretty important thing. 14:55 It was established in Fallout 1 that the Vaults had the locations of at least some other Vaults in their vicinity. Going off this principle, it makes sense for Lucy to know of Vault 4 since it isn't that far away from where her Vault is. 38:10 Mr. House didn't seem to be fully on board with it tbh. The problem was him being in the meeting whatsoever. Also, Sinclair looked wrong and shouldn't have been representing the Big MT. 39:52 That is never stated or implied. Cooper Howard calls her a communist, and while she doesn't outright reject the label, the only thing she does is criticise the oligarchy forming in the US and is pessimistic about the state of the Union. Remember that the US still had the Red Scare culture and they just threw around communist as a buzzword, just as the left throws around fascist as a buzzword nowadays. Even Cooper Howard is called a 'pinko' in the opening scene despite him very clearly being a capitalist and loathing communism. Furthermore, the NCR is explicitly a capitalist organisation and isn't nearly as left wing as Fallout fans frame it to be. The thing is that a lot of leftist Fallout fans support the NCR over the Legion and Mr. House (because the Legion is sexist and Mr. House is an autocrat who likes libertarianism), but the NCR itself is explicitly not left wing. For starters, it is clearly imperialist, and not under the guise of liberation/globalism which is what leftists use, but instead using the 'civilising mission'/'manifest destiny' rhetoric of Anglo-American history. Secondly, the NCR isn't woke at all. yes, they encourage women to serve, but that is clearly in a more 'starship troopers' way than it is about female empowerment - the NCR just wants more bodies to throw at the meat grinder. Lastly, they are pretty obviously oligarchical in their own right, with brahmin barons and water merchants holding a lot of sway in government. If Moldaver is an NCR patriot, then there is no way that she can be a communist.

it baffle me that people get mad when i say that fallout is incredibly mid, but i guess a lot of people only need decent visual effect to be happy.

Im sorry but characters are dumb in fallout, if you have played the games you know this. I personally think this was a very good adaptation. I think one of shads biggest problems that i have started noticing is that he needs to be told everything. I feel that shad does need to understand that shows that are supposed to have multiple seasons isn't going to have everything there to explain everything. There is a large gap between the ending 2077 scene and the opening 2077 scene so we don't know what actually accord between the scenes. Also please go look at the lore, once you do plenty of things fall into place.

i think the experiment in Vault 32 was one that was hinted at in two seperate ocasions in the series. I think that the experiment was about overpopulation! this experiment was mentioned in the CEO conference, where one of them had that idea. also, when the brother and the cousin first explored the wasted Vaut 32, the dweller that killed themself using a toaster was watching a dokumentary about an experiment with rats, where the rats were kept in a utopia, with unlimited food and water and without any threats. If you ask me, that was a hint to what was happening in the vault aswell. But we will hopefully see what was behind the vault trinity in season two

finally someone mentions the ghouls, that shit makes no sense at all

The Fallout show is just flat out overrated imo. Sure its not as infuriating as the Halo show or The Last Of Us, but that doesn't mean it has some incredibly glaring flaws with its stories and characters, as well as making needless retcons so it can hastily pass itself as canon to the lore. I didn't like what they did here, and I'm sure as hell not excited for a second season when it gets announced soon.

It seems like old school fallout fans ( 1, 2 and NV) don't like the tv show but normie just eat it up

I don’t really see it. I binged it and it was amazing. I tried watching it as if I didn’t know what fallout is all about, and it held up amazingly. No significant explanation as to what’s going on in the world and it simply takes us on a journey. I’d expect more to praise a production for finally showing rather than giving us hours of exposition and monologue.

If moldaver's people are from the NCR (meaning they're civilized) then why did they act like savages the whole time?

Thanks for the break down. It was a bit too.. 'modern climatized' for my liking.

Walmart decides to corner the consumer market by killing off 99% of the Earth's population in a nuclear war. Yep, that makes sense.

25:00 As for the vault that went mental we still don't know all the details and I'm fine with that. Not everything has to be spoon fed to the audience. As far as the show tells us it's very safe to assume the Vault found out about the cryo pods and that their overseer and others being part of Vault tech. Then we see the corpses of the Vault members, some have killed themselves, others bodies are positioned killing each other and a whole load of them are dead trying to break through the door into the cryo vault. From this it's pretty evident that whatever they found out made them either mad enough to start killing the cryo people or that the cryo people deemed the knowledge too dangerous and tried to kill everyone else. What's interesting though is the positions of the bodies, they all seem to be locked in a moment in time plus the overseers face is really messed up. My current theory is that a fail-safe was activated that released some poison or whatever and killed everyone in the Vault. I assume what they found out will be expanded upon in season 2.

There could be Mr handi robots in 31 that cleaned up 32. The one in 31 was a robo brain. Vault tech has been implied to have dropped the bomb. In Megaton the bomb has a vault tech emblem.

On title alone: neither did I. For me it worked as 'alternative timeline' Not as part of larger story.

Its implied in some of the games Vault Tec could have dropped some of the bombs. Also it doesn't say for sure they did in the show. I also didn't think this was an anti capitalism, was anyone actually a communist, or were they saying that label is applied to anyone who could be seen as an enemy?

The fact you guys don't like it means it is an amazing show which it is! You guys truly give I live in my moms basement energy.