Fallout TV Show: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

[@Scowleasy]

Please all I want is a door opening to a wall that has “fuck you” spray painted on it, it would be so funny

[@generalmcterror2718]

Omg that would be the funniest scene of the show. Having Lucy be all hey I found the way all cheery and when the door opens have her just absolutely disappointed. Meanwhile Coop says some off handed comment like that was unnecessarily rude of someone. Or something to that effect.

[@FecklessandKekless]

Right before a huge raider ambush. It would go crazy

[@brunoactis1104]

So the only thing you want from season 2 is a single laugh at fanservice? Do you own funkpops by any chance?

[@Vicus_of_Utrecht]

​@@brunoactis1104your anencephaly is showing

[@Jerthy100]

I still think that is the best joke from the games XD It's just perfect.

[@BigCowProductions]

10:20 This moment where The Ghoul kills Roger, it is actually super merciful and good. Cooper knew Roger was gone, and was going to become Feral. That's no life. He wanted him to have a good wholesome memory and a semblance of lucidity before he went out.

[@RicPendragon]

Exactly how I saw it, died with a smile on his face, more than most Wastelanders can hope for. Was a nice mercy, while also teaching Lucy what has to be done when a Feral is too far gone

[@nicholashaynes660]

Yeah it felt like one of those moments that rly humanize the ghoul. If he was only hungry he would’ve just killed Roger and sliced him up, but no, he waits until Roger is distracted. His last thoughts of his mom’s apple pie was really touching

[@solaireofastora5999]

And proceeds to take his stuff afterwards like every Fallout player. "Maybe God have mercy on your so- HOLY SHIT 16 CAPS!"

[@obsidianv3]

Reminded me of the ending in the book of mice and men

[@Mobysimo]

@@obsidianv3 Think of the RadBunnies, Roger

[@jonleonard1555]

On the point of the "anti-feral" drug for the ghouls, I feel like it could be a placebo. There could be some pre-war drug that gives the sensation to ghouls that they feel better, but there are several examples of ghouls from pre-war times that did keep their sanity for the 200+ years, and had no indication they took such a substance.

[@YazzPott]

I could see this being true. However, Roger outright states they have been taking this for a loooooong time. “That is a lot of phials.” Curious to see how they explain it, and if it actually has been in use for, possibly, centuries, how they justify it never being mentioned or shown.

[@Pali729]

There's plenty of medications where once you start, you're never supposed to stop, such as many heart medications. It would be perfectly on brand for Fallout that someone post-war created an anti-feral drug that does in fact stop feralization, but withdrawals from the drug actually accelerate the descent into feral status, making the user completely dependent on the product forever. Big Pharma, Big Pharma never changes.

[@AesirUnlimited]

It’s a retcon. Ghouls haven’t shown any indication of needing this drug before because they haven’t needed it before. Not saying it like it’s a good or bad thing or anything. But it’s certainly a retcon.

[@WidowMakerOU812]

Has it been confirmed at all thats what the drug does? I'd be curious if it's some other type of Chem that he's addicted too. Ghouls have been known to be addicted to chems

[@kaz5807]

@@AesirUnlimited Or it could be used by different ghouls depending on how they were ghoulified. This drug could be used by ones who are still irradiated and always pose of risk of ferality.

[@GorgonFreemint]

I think the secret man in the window during the Vault Tech conference was G Man. Prepare for unforseen consequences.

[@Vicus_of_Utrecht]

🤔

[@corypowercat7277]

But his eyes weren't glowing.

[@Man77772]

You mean the guy from skibidi toilet ?

[@kikosawa]

​@@Man77772in the flesh

[@ijneb1248]

Nah it was easy pete pulling the strings behind everything

[@mrmc101]

i feel like the moment where maximus flies off like a cartoon character is almost like a wild wasteland moment, its so dumb and over the top

[@justnoob8141]

So… who have Wild Wasteland? Cooper or Maximus?

[@UpsetFather]

@@justnoob8141 Gotta be Coop imo

[@ijneb1248]

​@@justnoob8141definitely thaddeus my man was out here regrowing limbs

[@thekiwibird37]

@@justnoob8141 Us, clearly. Either that or we were allowed to collectively share in on Coop's drug-fueled lunacy.

[@DanteVerde-pt9zc]

@@justnoob8141 It's Cooper... Maximus has the Idiot Savant

[@Max-lx2bh]

They got to Shady Sands by way of...fast travel.

[@Undead_Beholder]

But they would've needed to discover the location first. So they got to Shady Sands, then fast traveled back to LA

[@kainschilde209]

@@Undead_Beholder Maximus is from Shady Sands. Location discovered.

[@eddieguerrero2364]

One little thing I liked was how the Hollywood sign lit up at the end and you see it’s sponsored by Nuka Cola totally fits the fallout universe

[@jakel.1724]

i liked that too. i chuckled

[@Nakeethus_Hunter]

Fallout was never about Capitalism

[@leviticusprime4904]

@@Nakeethus_Hunterfallout can be about that if it wants, but that doesn’t have to be the only theme of fallout.

[@PresAlexWhit]

21:09 The issue with this is that Mr. House claims the bacteria will inevitability end his life even if he was slightly exposed. Also, since the House ending is reliant on the NCR being stable enough to provide caps, if the NCR fell, perhaps Vegas fell aswell. Along with the Tunnelers moving to the Mojave.

[@Meowmeow0506]

He also said cats were extinct. Point is, people can be wrong. I do not think it's a reach to assume that Mr. House was in a delirious panic after 200 years of what was essentially isolation and having his whole wold crashing down. I think he was just afraid. I do not think it'd be a retcon or anything to assume he didn't die and was just locked out of his network

[@ArthropodJay]

@@Meowmeow0506 Honestly cats not being extinct is the only retcon im glad fallout 4 did because i like cats

[@PresAlexWhit]

@@Meowmeow0506 Cats didn't exist in the Fallout Universe any capacity until Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 (two games released after Fallout: New Vegas) and is thus a retcon. I like the existence of cats in the Fallout Universe so I'm glad they added them, however at the time he said it, he was 100% correct. Not only that, but cats only appear on the East Coast, so as an immobile individual who only woke up from a coma relatively recently, you can give him some leeway. Also, cats aren't directly relevant to his immediate survival so House simply stating something one off as a side comment and him saying something that only he would know about are two completely different things. Just be honest, it's completely foolish to think he's incorrect in this situation. He could have survived for hours, week, months, but 15 years is an inane prospect, especially with the chaos and destruction surrounding Vegas.

[@Pali729]

Just throwing it out there, what if House had already downloaded a copy of his consciousness to a computer (seems within the scope of Fallout tech) and just played dead till the Courier left. House has enough ego to have contingencies to make sure he never truly died, he fundamentally believes he's the only hope for humanity.

[@PresAlexWhit]

@@Pali729 Eh maybe but why wouldn't he have already and also, does he simply play dead throughout the Yes Man ending too?

[@aabbccdd4710]

It's good that they gave 1 INT builds representation with Maximus.

[@sonicwave779]

Some of his lines straight up sounded like 1 INT speech options.

[@Jackothy]

He also has 1 charisma. Lucy straight up asked him if he wanted to fuck and he fumbled it

[@periwinkle2486]

@@sonicwave779 "You wanna make my cock explode now?"

[@brendan9868]

1 INT, 1 Speech, 10 endurance, 10 Luck Interesting build for sure

[@jpisback]

Nahhhh he was a Little higher than One. He was smarter than Thaddeus imo, and Definitely smarter than the dude with the Water still that he kept putting sand in and wondered why he got no water 🤣🤣🤣

[@jakejager]

The main female actors was so good I had no idea she wasn't American. Her American accent is on point and her behavior is so perfectly the 1950's style the vault dwellers would have.

[@jango7889]

Radking isn't American either

[@jakejager]

Is Radking in the show?

[@afungai1649]

@@jakejager I wish

[@jakejager]

@@afungai1649 LOL! Case closed then right? 😉

[@jamieking8011]

I think Chet is going to have a redemption arc in Vault 32.

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

I love that brave little manlet.

[@spagelsmegal]

@@Lobsterwithinternet He’s our guy

[@gameinguy]

Maybe he'll be the one to rescue Norm somehow

[@josephpeters7076]

@@Lobsterwithinternet Am I missing something? Isn’t Chet like 6ft 3?

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

@@josephpeters7076 That's the joke.

[@saffronic3026]

My theory about the bombs is that Vault Tec wanted to drop the bombs, but china sent them 20 hours earlier, which is why Howard wasn't in vault, why Mr House's calculations were off by 20 hours. The Yangtze Captain says he launched the bombs in boston, so China definitely struck, and according to the Enclave and the Switchboard, China launched first

[@ThisIsMyYouTubeAccount1]

And wouldn't that be a convenient hand-wave for the writers?

[@kuroshi7766]

@@ThisIsMyKZbinAccount1 I mean, it'd make sense. If some cowboy actor could spy on that meeting, then that goes without saying that China could and probably did have some form of spying done on what is frankly one of the biggest closed door meetings in the entirety of America. So they likely had foreknowledge that Vault-Tec was about to drop a nuke and went, 'Well, might as well strike first'. The only thing unbelievable about it all is the fact that Coop managed to do that in the first place.

[@Ricardo_Rick]

When the boston bomb hit the war had already started tho, remember, before the fallout 4 mc got to the vault (the moment where the bomb hit boston) there was already other detonations detected in the us

[@swissarmyknight4306]

@@ThisIsMyKZbinAccount1 Not a handwave. There was a persistent risk in the cold war of one side suspecting a first-strike attempt and launching a pre-emptive first strike of their own, and submarines using MRBMs could be used as a first strike. We don't know that Vault Tec actually did launch first, only that they planned to either do it or provoke it. Such a plan leaking could very well have provoked the PRC to launch first. Hell, Vault Tec could have executed their plan to create a nuclear war by leaking their plan to create a nuclear war and letting politics do the rest. You're jumping to conclusions.

[@Mrbongos]

I have a feeling that in Season 2 it will show that Vault-Tec didn't want to truly drop the bombs, dropping the bombs hurts their bottom line. The fear of the bombs is their bread and butter. Maybe when all of the vaults were deemed ready? Yeah, sure - because then it's the next step of all of their experiments. But not all of the vaults were ready on 10/23/77. They could only get them ready with a continued river of money and keeping people terrified of the nukes were the lynch pin. I think VT 'dropping a bomb' would be perhaps to manipulate some minor country to test a nuke to show they were now part of the nuclear stage, or perhaps stage an accident in a non-US test facility. Something that would breed fear, which was their primary product.

[@Skyblue1022]

You have no idea how much I lost my shit when I watched Hank MacLean step on that Deathstalker skull in the middle of the desert and telling my boyfriend, "Looks like he is taking the suicidal direct route to New Vegas" and then panning to the skyline of the strip. I don't know if I have ever made a clever joke that came true like that before.

[@IrishZOMBIE117]

Regarding the reveal of New Vegas my folks (both unfamiliar with the game) thought the final shot showed Seattle. Which was really funny to me.

[@corypowercat7277]

I saw a lot of that to.

[@kikosawa]

The Pacific ocean has dried out entirely or something?

[@Ricardo_Rick]

@@kikosawa i mean, could be considering there is so much desert now

[@CKVMP]

@@Ricardo_Rick no

[@Chag69420]

The wrist boosters aren’t necessarily a retcon. Could just be a variant replacing the more cumbersome jetpack. This would still allow them to re-add it if they do need a super-heavy boi to fly into battle with a mini gun.

[@DC-it2ng]

I always interpreted it as more of a "last ditch effort" to escape a losing battle instead of something to be used in combat

[@PewTheToaster]

Imagine Hank gets to the 38 and it's just Yes Man left behind by the Courier. Yes Man and Robert have a dynamic of Yesman using House as a toy lol

[@Man77772]

Imagine if Hank was the courier

[@gwendeerlin]

I have a feeling we will have a scene much like described in the video where House is alive on life support but not connected to the machines. I can imagine the scene now "JESUS FUCK HANK IVE BEEN LOCKED IN HERE FOR YEARS YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW BORED IVE BEEN" then he just snaps back to being all calm and normal.

[@minatoyukidoorkun3305]

@@gwendeerlin That's impossible. House states the bacteria in the air will kill him, taking him out of the machine for even a second is just a slow death for him

[@heyooooooooooooo]

My biggest issue with the show was the handling of the NCR. I don't inherently have a problem with them being reduced in power, but the way it is handled feels unnecessarily abrupt and vague for a group that has been built up for so long. While I'm aware Todd said that it's unlikely this is the last we'll see of the NCR, I don't think the show should have necessitated such a statement from him in the first place. As far as I noticed Maldaver's group (who don't even feel like they needed to be the NCR) is referred to as the NCR point blank, not as a splinter group or a smaller detachment, their base is labeled as the NCR headquarters, and no other formal presence of the NCR is shown or really alluded to at all. I'm hopeful they'll reintroduce the NCR as a significant faction once again in due time, however their handling in the first season is disappointing for me nonetheless, especially when it seems they have no problem ever expanding the Brotherhood's power.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

The story of 1/2 and New Vegas is a perfect trilogy showcasing the rise and fall of the NCR. Even by New Vegas the NCR was on the ropes. We saw them start in 1, rise to power in 2, and saw their decline in New Vegas. I think that’s a good story that is just fine as is. No need to keep forcing the NCR into everything.

[@cardboardanalysis7283]

You realize that they built up the Brotherhood to be the big Villians of the tv show right?

[@Plight_]

​​​@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116no, They weren't declining. They were "declining" in the Mojave and In the Mojave alone Odd you say that given what Bethesda does with the brotherhood of steel. Getting the spotlight in every Bethesda game. They literally traveled across the United States twice now. Edit (three times mb, forgot 76)

[@insert_apathetic]

@@Plight_just letting you know that I hate the way they nuked shady, however after Tandis death , there is no possible way to deny that the NCR would decline, especially with Kimball who probably died in Shady.

[@RexVergstrong]

@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 "No need to keep forcing the NCR into everything". This is more true about the BoS which were practically dead in the area and now act like the Eastern branch. But because Bethesda has a hard-on for muh Power Armor knight they have to act completely out of character from before.

[@eliclaunch123]

The problem with the destruction of shady sands is that the NCR is basically a country made up of several cities, towns, and states. Along with 700,000 citizen. Just nuking the capital wouldn’t have ended the NCR. Another thing is I’m afraid that they will turn the New Vegas storyline in season 2 into a brotherhood of steel vs enclave conflict, because I can see Todd Howard doing that for the TV show, because no one outside the video game know who the enclave is. I think the first season is great except for the lore.

[@cheekyrabbit]

But even in New Vegas, the soldiers biggest complaints were how thinly stretched they were for manpower, supplies/resources, you name it. It seemed like the NCR was wounded then. Everybody is like, "It's too big to fail". Look at Rome, look at the US right now. Failure happens, and it is usually complicated and multifaceted.

[@goodtimejoe1325]

@@cheekyrabbit Well they should have depicted it as such then. Just nuking a single city and telling us they called it quits doesn't make the faction justice

[@thebighurt2495]

@@cheekyrabbit The Mojave theater wasn't stripped for resources because the NCR was. Chief Hanlon said the bulk of the Rangers were either back home or in Baja. The Mojave's line of supply was cut in half with the loss of the Divide. The local NCR Command was changed from Hanlon and Colonel Hsu to a political appointee buddy of the President's (Gen. Oliver). It was also said that the Brahmin Barons were essentially buying up the senate, which could imply imminent factionalization. The NCR wasn't broke. The Mojave territories were stuck under incompetent command, trying to funnel their logistics through a huge bottleneck and reeling from the casualties of Operation Sunburst and the 1st Battle of Hoover Dam. Between the Legion putting it's back into the fight, the Crimson Caravan and Van Graffs further screwing up local logistics and shipping and the incredibly poor timing of the Fiends on the rise and Vault 34 leaking rads into the water table, the Mojave NCR were just at their worst possible state at the exact moment The Courier showed up.

[@redblue5140]

@@cheekyrabbit When civilizations fall they are taken over by new governments. The entire populace aren't randomly killed off. Where are those remaining hundreds of thousands of people, and what government is in charge? Who defeated the weakened NCR? The Brotherhood? Even though they had almost zero established presence in the area? I understand that Bethesda wants their mascot faction in charge instead of Obsidian's but the way it is explained is nonsense.

[@phtevenj]

my favorite line HAS to be "that is a very tiny drop in a very very large bucket of drugs"

[@excalibrrimcold9354]

Though if you just disconnect mr house he directly says that he won't last long due to germs as this has been the first time that his chamber was opened, exposing himself to the contaminated air. There is also a possibility that one of mr houses cut fates like joining the ncr after his bunker of securitrons was destroyed can be made canon.

[@Steel-101]

Cooper Howard is a really cool character. It feels like he’s a mix of John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart. I also like how he’s the origin of the Vault Tech mascot 😁👍🏼. In my opinion, the best parts of the show are the pre-war flashbacks. Cooper discovering Vault Techs true intentions is a legendary scene. Awesome video man!

[@kyleellis1825]

I just felt they happened to soon and thse shuld have been S2 things. I wanted more wasteland in my season 1 of fallout.

[@ThisOnesCrabby]

Absolutely I loved Walton gogons in most everything he's in but he was perfect in this

[@GW2_Live]

One thing that bothers me is in the last episode where the Ghoul talks about the flaw in the power armor chestplate welds, but why didnt he know that and just kill maximus in their first encounter?

[@markcarpenter6020]

That's actually addressed in a throw away line. That armor has a different lining from normal.

[@justaliteralgoat5639]

The lining could be one explanation, or he was just toying with him since he could tell Maximus had no experience in it

[@CloudBlitzer]

His armor has special lining. It was referenced multiple times

[@justaliteralgoat5639]

@@CloudBlitzer The lining wouldn't fix a major flaw, if that was the case then they would have definitely had it be standard issue

[@TheTeremaster]

Tempered lining + the ammo. Cooper was clearly loading specialised ammo into his revolver before the fight with the knights. It's likely he didn't have any of the special AP when he fought maximus because he was expecting raiders at best, so he was packing just those HE-like rounds. Whereas at the observatory he knew he'd be running into the brotherhood so packed the appropriate tools. It would track with the lore because the NCR canonically shredded the brotherhood with high power ballistic weapons.

[@ijneb1248]

The set design was insane, It felt like the show was pulled straight out of the games, even down to the small details like the yellow construction lights on the ground

[@ballchungus1900]

Imagine if radking was called freakyking

[@schlop1771]

and instead of talking about fallout lore he ate deathclaw ass and sucked their toes

[@KuroToaster2199]

Groovy

[@wooba4227]

And instead of making fallout lore videos he ate arse and sucked toes

[@grigglegroggle]

Seek Atom

[@joenathan8594]

to quote the man himself... "kinky"

[@DrWifePipe]

The prop department killed it

[@eeebee6166]

Yea literally, the props were ass. The power armor looked like some kids amateur cosplay and they tried to make the voice sound like a 40k space marine 😂😂😂

[@jordonturner9559]

​@@eeebee6166 the armor looked great. Straight out of fallout 4. Could you have made a better suit? And the voice thing is a little off but I like it. It's perhaps a little too deep for my taste. But literally everything was pretty much a 1 to 1 recreation of things seen in the games.

[@eeebee6166]

@@jordonturner9559 The armor looked like it was made out of plastic and the action in the armor looked even worse lol. "Could you have made a better suit" Yea if I had Amazon's resources I could. But I didn't make this show so it's not my problem. So by "1 to 1 recreation" are you talking about the power armor doing voice changes to sound like a WH 40k space marine? The arm jets that made them fly around like they're on a Saturday morning cartoon? The "ghoul medicine" that looked like mountain dew piss and magically keeps them from going feral? Or was the the woman with the mustache that the writers wrote into the show solely to have a tranny to use "they" pronouns? Yea, so much 1 to 1. Shady Sands being in the wrong place, power armor face plates lifting up, the BOS having basically an American flag with their own logo even though they literally seceded from the US government upon discovering the FEV experiments, vaults being literally connected together, the power armor helmets wobbling all over like a bobblehead. That's just off the top of my head. Clearly you didn't watch the show or play the games, did you Amazon bot? 🤣

[@eeebee6166]

@@jordonturner9559 Well I've replied twice and magically my comments aren't appearing. Basically i pointed out all the reasons you're wrong, so i'm not surprised. It's forbidden to complain about this show on youtube because they're inherently anti-factual lol

[@jordonturner9559]

@@eeebee6166 sounds like lies and bs. If you can't explain your reasoning for the props being bad that's not KZbins fault.

[@jc130ful]

"YOU SHALL BE LEAVING NOW GOOSY, WITH THIS 2 WEEKs OF SUPPLIES "😂

[@degenerateangel6891]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the guy who plays the Vault 4 Overseer the voice actor for Jerry from Rick and Morty?

[@bingbongballer1398]

One thing i hope they clear up or at least mention in the 2nd session is how the master did not break in the 3 vaults in la

[@spagelsmegal]

Finally someone else thinking about the first game when comparing the show

[@YazzPott]

Possibly couldn’t find it? He wasn’t able to find 13 until the Vault Dwellers existence gave it away.

[@generalmcterror2718]

It’s really easy to assume he missed them, couldn’t get in them, or couldn’t get to them amongst many other possible scenarios as to why he couldn’t get to them.

[@TheToodinho]

They wont because its not important

[@citizenoftheworld2694]

@@YazzPott vault 13 was hidden in a cave and far to the north of the masters base of operations and with a mountain range between it and the mariposa military base. It makes sense that it would be hard to find. The masters base is a vault inside Los Angeles. I simply don’t believe that their where three more vaults in LA that the Unity somehow never noticed. Three vaults filled with exactly what he was looking for. Also their was already a vault In LA in the first game (it doesn’t have a number) completely unrelated to this trio of connected vaults.

[@lyras.9161]

It feels weird to rank set design so high, but I honestly agree. They lived and breathed the source material, everything was either a perfect recreation or something I wouldn't even shrug my shoulders showing up in a 76 patch or 5.

[@joshchandler13]

I had an issue with the squires being adults. Squires have always been children, as far as I remember, throughout the games. 🤘🏼

[@jordonturner9559]

It could potentially fall down to different chapters handling rank differently. Instead of being an initiate its a squire. And well in medieval times a knight especially a well known knight would have a squire to either tend to them or to train them to become a knight. It's possible that with this chapter initiates turn Into scribes while squires are trained to eventually become knights. That's just my thoughts though the show doesn't suggest this at all.

[@intboom]

Amazon likely removed the "China launched first" option because leaving it in would negatively impact their ability to work in China.

[@cje5997]

They might allude to it or change it in china like how the remake of red dawn had nearly all of the Chinese symbols replaced with North Korean ones.

[@intboom]

@@cje5997 I don't think they even mention who the war is against in the TV show

[@Lethal_Spoon]

it would be absolutely hilarious if the canonical ending for new vegas is that the courier died in his grave

[@eriottomakurashi]

The dream theory!

[@Plight_]

People keep saying the tunnelers couldve destroyed the strip, but the tunnelers are adverse to light. I don't see the writers wanting to fight off tunnelers during the whole of next season. Everyone is already upset that they destroyed shady sands now if they destroyed every settlement in new Vegas too? That would be asking for hell

[@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem]

Light and loud noise. So the Strip would be quite literally the best place to survive the tunnelers.

[@IpromiseIamnotabot]

Honestly. I’m a bit upset that The Cloud didn’t find its way to Vegas ala Fallout Dust mod. That was always a threat on the horizon regardless of who won the Mojave.

[@bringurownvibe]

people are too hard for Dust. A lot of the writing in it is honestly goofy af. It's a worst possible scenario post ending, its not the best thing to make good film or writing from

[@Doctor_Grubious]

Honestly I just interpreted that as "They're gonna sink New Vegas" because I'm an idiot

[@IpromiseIamnotabot]

@@bringurownvibe I just think that a lot of New Vegas dlc had left these threats that would eventually reach the Mojave. I think it would be cool to see The Cloud had hit the Mojave followed by the tunnelers resulting in regions collapse. Then at least a Nuke in the region would make sense within existing lore.

[@Fehn_Fennec]

That final episode with Lucy’s father in power armor, I just couldn’t not see the Five Nights at Freddy’s movie Climax.

[@DrFeelgood1127]

Yes, I thought the same thing

[@drekkful]

Spoilers! 😂

[@420CAK]

When you finish NV with yes man he literally says he’s going to shut down to incorporate code he found in House’s mainframe into his computational matrix. I get the feeling we’ll see a spilt personality Yes Man with House still existing in YM’s code fighting for control

[@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem]

That wouldn't make any sense. House was just connected to his network, not actually part of it. If anything other than the House ending ends up being what they go for, then he's dead, and there is absolutely nothing of him left there. And, as the other person said, the devs have confirmed that Yes Man really was just upgrading, nothing more.

[@WeyounSix]

Jonathan Nolan (The Producer of the show) said specifically that he lost a significant chunk of his life to Fallout 3, so even though the show picked the more modern fallout aesthetic (which I do think is more cohesive), it's clear from what they showed in-show and from Nolan's words that they took big inspiration from the older games as well. And setting it on the west coast in order to also appeal to those classic fallout fans was a great way to go about it if I'm honest.

[@giovannicervantes2053]

Also we gotta remember fo3 is a minor remake of the first 2 games by combining the water plot the mutants and the enclave

[@plutoniumrocks]

Setting it on the west coast was a big mistake. The showrunners wanted the aesthetic to be similar to Fallout 3 and 4, so the NCR and any major factions had to go. This single move destroyed thirty years of established progression of lore in New California, THEN destroying Vegas completely throws out the plot of New Vegas as well. It's like like answering the question of "Who gets to rule the Mojave" with "Nobody, they all died off-screen."

[@giovannicervantes2053]

@@plutoniumrocks yeah the handwaved answer of "everything's fucked now again" sucks

[@azzamat001]

The faceplate thing: As a practical matter, having a removable/openable faceplate on a suit of armour makes perfect sense and has real world historical precedence. In the later medieval period as suits of armour started to be made out of more rigid material (what most people think of when they think of a knight ... plates of metal head to toe) many/most helmets were constructed so that parts of the face protection could be temporarily removed by the wearer so that they could get a better view of things, or have a quick drink/food, get a breath of fresh air, or issue orders/have a conversation, when not directly involved in a fight. Sure, the power armour allows all of those things while fully encased, but as humans we all feel less comfortable and more constricted when our faces are fully covered. Think about all the cry babies that couldn't stand the thought of wearing a cloth mask for short periods of time during the Covid pandemic and would have full blown temper tantrums any time they were asked to do so. So while I get that traditionally Fallout power armour suits didn't have opening faceplates, it is both a harmless change and makes sense from an in universe persepective and a TV production perspective (You sometimes need to show the actor emoting while interacting with another actor, which would be very difficult if you couldn't just convieniently flip open the visor). I've been with Fallout since 1997. On the whole I thought the show was pretty good. There was the odd bit that didn't fit previously established lore, but I didn't much care. The look, feel and tone was very Fallout, to the point that it almost felt like watching a playthrough at times. It wasn't perfect, but it was more than good enough, and I hope season 2 keeps it up. Good video, by the way. :)

[@knavenformed9436]

Thesedays RadKing is the only fan channel I like to listen for fair takes so this has been a long while coming

[@JGCO115]

I find the idea of the NCR and Caesar's Legion being fragmented into different groups like the one Moldaver leads in the show following the Second Hoover Battle a much more likely outcome, especially since Talking with NPCs of both sides of the war in FNV you get the feeling that things aren't going so well. This is especially true for the legion since Caesar is dying and Lanius is seen as unfit to rule by other high ranking members leading to a possible mutiny, only season 2 will tell.

[@Chag69420]

She was there as a child, so she had the location marker. They must’ve fast traveled 😂

[@s7robin105]

I've somewhat softened from my initial reaction to the series. But I guess my overall feelings depend on how the NCR is addressed in season 2.

[@YazzPott]

This is exactly my feelings as well. Any problem I have has the chance to be fully okay if season 2 is done correctly, only time will tell

[@eeebee6166]

Its reactions like this and lead to garbage shows like this where woke idiots take good IPs, cram their politics in, and then sheep like you just accept it

[@aaronlaughter6471]

Totally reasonable. Im hoping we see a Helios 1 type battle, the full might of both the NCR and Brotherhood going at it..... while Legion does its thing.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

I’m glad it’s canon that Vault Tec did the Mouse Utopia experiment.

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

I'm also glad they made Vault-Tec a more powerful group than the Enclave. /s 🦞🙄

[@JohnDoe-rh8tp]

@@Lobsterwithinternet I mean shit they worked for the government and outright went over them I mean it’s possible they started the war

[@ijneb1248]

​idk i really like the idea that vault-tec even mamaged to outplay the shadow government, it makes them so much more sinister as opposed to just another tool used by the enclave

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

@@baneofbanes No, it isn’t in the show.

[@Samm815]

@@Lobsterwithinternet Then who was the man in the Shadows?

[@udamthewaster9454]

Glory to atom. We're is tato lore

[@wesleybutler1868]

Fr. Are Tatos not a post war mutation? Why are the vault 33 dwellers farming post-war irradiated food species

[@kotzpenner]

@@wesleybutler1868 this is like Jet being pre war

[@akuokami1677]

Pretty sure the wastland guide has it, don't remember what page off the top of my head

[@AshtonDoyle3]

Thats like asking for pheasant roast lore, you need to chill

[@skellymen2395]

@@wesleybutler1868 well they could have gotten the tatos from outside the vault

[@basabromander2778]

The Vertibirds in the Vegas Shot may indicate an attempted invasion of new vegas by the NCR at some point, which would open up both the Legion and Mr.House endings to be cannon, with the invasion taking place some time after that.

[@TheTeremaster]

My theory is it's the House/NCR ending that got cut from FNV. House becomes an NCR subject after the destruction of the securitron buker, and after the bombing of shady sands makes his gambit to break away again leading to all the destruction we see in the streets

[@kohio1992]

In the first episode the father at the birthday party says he was able to get him to do a kids party was because of alimony, we have to assume then that his wife left him and he lost his job. So he had some sort of custody over the girl and so the mother couldn’t control where they were when the bombs fell even if she knew.

[@kevenblackworks1906]

Theres also the possibility that the Tunnelers destroyed Vegas. Ulysses said they would do so eventually. EDIT: Keep in mind folks. The Strip gets all of its power from Hoover Dam. If the Tunelers attack the Mojave, they could very well destroy Hoover Dam, cutting off power from Strip. Even if House canonicly wins the war, once Hoover Dam is destroyed, he doesnt have enough power in his generators to maintain the strip. The strip falls into into darkness, and Tunelers swoop in and kill everything, including the heavily armed Securitrons. They can burrow super quickly, have poisonous claws, and can tear through power armor and a deathclaw in seconds. Tuneler are more OP lore wise than people realize. Qoute from Ulysses to further clarify: "They'll start emerging throughout the Mojave in time, might be years. Probably less. They breed fast, hunt in groups, more than enough to bring down the strongest in the Mojave. Once they draw blood... Seen them tear apart deathclaws... Deathclaw might get some, but the rest will swarm it, tear it apart, like Denver hounds."

[@paragonrobbie9270]

I would hope that's the reason, but I don't trust the writers to know what Lonesome Road was let alone use any NV DLC story beats.

[@GeneralsAlert]

Then again, Ulysses likes to talk a lot.

[@akuokami1677]

Ulysses was just running his mouth he clearly spent too much time in the divide to be anywhere near a stable mind

[@ToyotaCorolla-en2mv]

​@@akuokami1677you have very poor media literacy if you think that about Ulysses. The guy is smart and wise in many ways, the only thing he's unreasonable abt is his grudge against the courier but even with that he can be talked down from nuking the NCR. He knows exactly what he's talking about 90% of the time

[@bjornolfactory9363]

Either way, New Vegas is dead. And they will destroy what is left of it's lore. And I'll be there to laugh at all the shills when it happens.

[@spagelsmegal]

For me the ugly of this show is how they basically ignored fallout 1s locations by having the vaults in LA

[@generalmcterror2718]

Eh to be fair it’s not far fetched the Master and his army could have missed them or couldn’t get in or get to them to begin with. Lots of possibilities there

[@TheToodinho]

You mean like fallout 1 misplclaces bakersfield/vault 12 on the map?

[@Pali729]

I dont see a way around it while also making people happy with the West Coast thing. Fallout 2 covers the breadth of California, there's not really a place to put it. Vault 31-33 is a special case for Vault-Tech, so it's entirely plausible it was kept off any maps or materials that would normally lead people to the location of vaults.

[@tree7677]

@@Pali729A better idea would to have just written the show in a way that doesn’t conflict with a 20+ year old established franchise. We shouldn’t have to justify things like these or have conversations about potential lore breaking changes, the people in charge of a multi million dollar project should take care not to mess with lore, whether Godd Howard approved it or not

[@Pali729]

@@tree7677 there was never any making everyone happy. If they didn't put it on the West Coast, there'd be even more whining and moaning. It's not changing the lore to say the Master didn't get EVERY vault in California, and as the show clearly demonstrates, those vaults largely stayed closed and completely isolated, so why would anyone in the first 2 games be talking about them?

[@marcusfowler2562]

It seems everyone has forgotten that at the end of Lonesome Road, depending on the ending you choose, Ron Perlman says that nukes fly into "The heart of the NCR". Maybe, just maybe, the Courier lost at the end of Lonesome Road or even if they deactivated the nukes its not too much of a stretch that Hank could have somehow reactivated at least one since he obviously knew the lay of the land

[@D_ROCK_8791]

Crazy how they put their vault in Santa Monica pier a hop, skipping a jump away from the cathedral and the MASTER……

[@LampDoesVideogame]

Man, the Fallout series has the chance to do the funniest fucking thing imaginable, and make Todd Howard the real big bad behind the entirety of Fallout.

[@JGCO115]

>Todd Howard with Mustache shows up on the Lucky 38 Screen.

[@cje5997]

but... thats how it is already

[@ryanbusch2885]

The forearm jets seem likely to be meant as stabilizing feature to help the back mounted ones, they’re just getting used in bits and pieces due to scarcity in the post war

[@anonymousfigure4726]

I get that, but the face on the helmet opening up is what kills it for me

[@YazzPott]

Thats true they could be stablisers, buuuuuut it launched him waaaay in the sky, more so than the back mounted ones have ever accomplished.

[@justnoob8141]

@@YazzPottwell, it could also double as slow fall

[@TheTeremaster]

@@anonymousfigure4726 I mean considering a brotherhood elder got killed because he took his helmet off, a faceplate isn't exactly an unwise modification

[@aaronlaughter6471]

@@anonymousfigure4726 I disagree, the face plate reminds me of knight, its the jet arms I hate.

[@saladinbob]

Best thing about it by far was the music from the games. It never gets old listening to the Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald who is one of the greatest singers of all time.

[@allhandsondik7803]

Also made me realize how much we need some Cash on the radios.

[@jjuzimackin8941]

Yes Ella is too cold

[@yoyobird8427]

i.... couldnt stand the music... way overused... some would be good but it was my only real grip

[@PalleRasmussen]

I do miss the NV tracks though, with the cowboy feel.

[@ExternalDialogue]

The original score was fantastic too! I love how much it takes notes from the Fallout 1/2 OSTs, parts of the Ghoul's theme takes heavy inspiration from the track that plays in Necropolis and there is some influences from Metallic Monks in the Brotherhood Theme.

[@GrantFunkyFrabe]

Even though the power armor is shaky when its open, they did a great job at making it sound and look sturdy when it was being used otherwise. I was surprised when the bear was able to take Titus down because the armor seemed to me to be sturdy enough to survive and take it on

[@snakeeyes941]

i still think they did Sinclair the dirtiest, dude had little to do with big mountain in the game but was their representative for some reason, and they made him old and fat even though sinclair was probably in his 40's at the latest and was likely of average build.

[@ChazzBox]

I imagine they changed Sinclair's appearance to help differentiate him from Mr.house.

[@mitch8695]

THIS!!! That tbh is my biggest issue with the show. Vault Tec droppin bombs first, cool thats been long theorized Shady Sands, aight I can read a flow chart But having Sinclair rep Big MT instead of Mobius / Klein (or whatever names they were going by pre-war) was no cap disappointing.

[@trentdavis9809]

He was an incel in the Sierra Madre dlc, so I think the look fits.

[@TheToodinho]

@@mitch8695 you mean scientists that have no place in a board room full of CEOs, yeah makes sense. I swear people are inventing the weirdest reasons to hate on the show.

[@Pali729]

It seemed Sinclair had a very close and longstanding business relationship with the Big MT. Its not entirely unlikely that the scientists at Big MT would ask this high profile businessman to represent their interests at this business meeting, that kind of thing happens in real life.

[@thebighurt2495]

It just struck me, Maximus was fairly civil during his brief Vault Dweller stay because he grew up in the NCR. He wasn't necessarily used to *luxuries* per se, but he was to basic, functional civilization.

[@KirkulesTM]

To those that are new to the show, the location of shady sands, the power armors dollar store Ironman thrusters (despite there already being _jetpacks_ ), Houses character (honestly that whole boardroom scene had me so disappointed that _this_ is the depth of these peoples creativity) as well as many of the other lore inconsistencies/ret-cons is fairly important. When establishing a new entry in a _series_ a certain degree of established rules or "lore" should be respected. And if you cant find a clever solution around a major plot hole (or "past lore that the current creators aren't beholden to" ~ some game/movie critic idk) don't blatantly contradict past creators works/characters and change them into something they clearly were not and please don't dismiss the _lore_ as "silly game logic". That last part (and honestly most of this) wasn't directed at RadKing, just had to get that off my chest.

[@jordonturner9559]

I see a lot of people complaining about the power armor face plate thing but havent seen a peep about the fact that maximus was trapped in his armor after his fusion core was stolen and the ONLY way he could get out was a manual release from the outside? This sounds like a serious and fatal design flaw. I think there should be some way for an operator to get out of the armor from the inside in the event of a problem like that or some kind of malfunction.

[@TheTeremaster]

Especially because that in itself is a massive retcon. It's very clearly stated that even the fusion core power armour can function without a core. Just to a much lesser extent.

[@jordonturner9559]

@@TheTeremaster it would make sense that they would have some sort of manual hydraulics for the user to operate without power. If the core is out of juice or in the event of an emp.. it would make sense for the user to not only have a way to get out of the armor by themselves but also be able to move the armor a few feet either to hide it before bailing or maybe help isn't too far and you could just walk the suit over.

[@thatssoderek2188]

My biggest power armor nitpick is the fact that you cannot exit the suit without a power core. No manual eject method while inside the suit? Absolutely terrible design. Especially in the show as we even see Max inside while the power is out his visor still says backup power or whatever. Feels like they just added it to let the plot happen and I really hate lazy writing like that.

[@ijneb1248]

This is pre-war American technology, the same kind of people that made power armor also designed hazmat suits that oxidize to the deadly chemical they were specifically built to combat

[@CKVMP]

So you agree New Vegas exists? ;) ​@ijneb1248

[@ijneb1248]

@@CKVMP who doesnt?

[@sl00tym4g3]

what if there is but Maximus hasn't read the manual

[@snausages43]

My best explanation for that is Maximus simply didn’t know how to get out because he wasn’t formally trained to use it. Also fusion cores seem to last way longer in the show than in the games, so maybe they didn’t put an emergency escape because the cores are meant to last for years.

[@voidpuppy5145]

8:50 My mom has never played the game but we watched together n she basically immediately identified new Vegas. "Is that the strip?" He's in las Vegas?!??" Followed by "what the hell is that" (deathclaw)

[@puddingpop6058]

I dont like the implication that ghouls need that drug to keep frok going feral. It implies there was some type of anti feral meds made before the bombs dropped. Otherwise, how are any ghouls that turned right after the bombs dropped still sane?

[@tylerleach8796]

Or, you know…it’s Radaway? Why am I the only person who came to that conclusion?

[@kyleellis1825]

@@tylerleach8796 You have no idea how glad I was that you also came to it. I felt like a sane man in a crazy world.

[@puddingpop6058]

@tylerleach8796 we see the vault girl being given radaway. It's not the same stuff. Plus why would a ghoul need radaway? They love radiation.

[@tylerleach8796]

@@puddingpop6058 because too much radiation on a ghoul can turn them feral? What do you think makes a ghoul feral in the first place?

[@puddingpop6058]

@tylerleach8796 not true. We see sane glowing ones. Which have been exposed to alot of rads. If it is radaway that's stupid. But it's not because we see the girl being given radaway on a IV drip and the medicine the ghouls need is a inhalant.

[@AmySavage6]

I was extremely sceptical of the show, bit from all I've heard it's better adapted than most. EDIT: The one thing, purely lore, that the LA setting makes extremely awkward is the Master. He was in LA, he never discovered all these vaults, they never knew of him, not even the cathedral going off. True PER 1 stuff. I would've hoped for another middleground outing. Chicago has been teased forever, the show could've made it theirs, but no. Can't have everything unfortunately...

[@millardbaldwin7650]

I personally didn’t like the retcon of ghouls needing drugs in order to not go feral. My head cannon is that the drug dealers around those parts has made a placebo drug to trick ghouls into buying it. This would track with how ghouls are treated through out all the games. Another issue I had was that gulpers were sorta implied that they were made by vault 4, but they are somehow in far harbor all the way across the continent in fallout 4. Those were my only issues lore wise. Narrative wise I really disliked how everyone was connected/ already knew each other. The twist of all the overseers being prewar was cool, but it was kinda dumb how cooper personally knew the overseer. Like the amount of coincidences in this show took me out of the immersion at time.

[@tylerleach8796]

Or that it’s just Radaway. That’s also a good one and it makes it more interesting.

[@Plight_]

I think the two gulpers aren't the same. Two people in two far away places just came up with the same name for two different creatures

[@kyleellis1825]

@@tylerleach8796 That's what I thought it was.

[@Mobysimo]

I think the Gulpers are just a case of two abominations with the same name The Gulpers in Far Harbor look more like giant salamanders and they live in trees. The one in the show looked like a messed up Axolotol

[@YazzPott]

Also annoying they called them “drugs” and not “chems” to begin with

[@Shoelessjoe78]

As excited as I am for season two I can honestly say I don't care what they think is canon. We all play this thing our own way. I only follow what happened in my world. A comic or TV show doesn't change my play through.

[@ItsYaBoiV]

I think this is a really good adaptation. Obviously it's got issues, but I felt they were handled respectfully enough that they don't draw me out of the show. Walton Goggins def stole the show for me, and I am stoked that Cooper and Lucy are continuing to travel together at the end. It's fun enough that non-fans like my mom got into it, and the side story with the vault was just as interesting as the main stuff going on.

[@TheYellowTuxedo]

I’d get chills if season two started at the top of the lucky 38 and you see a screen kick on with House’s face 😊

[@chardaskie]

As someone who also watched with a Non Fallout fan as well it was interesting to see what peaked my interest more than hers. She was into all of it and learning about the lore and world (She has since started a run on F3) But me who has played all but the OG games I was mostly interested in the Goul/Coopers storyline and definitely Vault 31-33 mystery. Something I don't understand is why have some random newcomer be the guy who blew up shady sands? We have a in game reason for it to be nuked with Lonesome Road.

[@TheToodinho]

Because the newcomer is part of the story of the show? Its like saying in NV "Who is the newcomer Ceaser guy and why he is such a threat to the NCR came out of nowhere"

[@DC-it2ng]

I'm pretty sure just the Long 15 was nuked after Lonesome Road if you choose to launch them at the NCR, but maybe I missed something

[@kitharley6159]

I find it funny that so many people seem to think Barb would be in Vault 31. That's Bud's Buds, which is made up of people from his executive assistant training program. Barb was no assistant (except maybe to the shadowy figure at the meeting)!

[@honestj3rk187]

Don't forget what Ulysses said about the Tunnelers, "They'll start emerging throughout the Mojave in time, might be years. Probably less. They breed fast, hunt in groups, more than enough to bring down the strongest in the Mojave. Once they draw blood... Seen them tear apart deathclaws... Deathclaw might get some, but the rest will swarm it, tear it apart, like Denver hounds".

[@ArthropodJay]

Yeah and theres a deathclaw skull in the mojave we see

[@corypowercat7277]

That theory is weak and can be blown off quickly.

[@ManatoonProductions]

I love what you did with the titles and I loved how you went over the flaw implications of the show without going feral.

[@zakkbatman410]

If Joshua Graham shows up. I lost..

[@puddingpop6058]

If they want a season 3 they'll do that season 2.

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

Auslander suche Joshua Graham?

[@feliciaf8]

Same 🤣🤣😭 please at least mention him. If he actually showed up, i would throw my pc off lol

[@feliciaf8]

Plot about taking out the remnants of the Legion and they(MCs) come across him? ​@@TheDanishGuyReviews

[@Mrbongos]

This is making me feel old, purely by the fact that the guitar riff periodically playing - most easily heard at 26:59 is the riff used for, typically, tension moments or at commercial cuts for the Made For TV 1994 The Stand

[@annareifer2249]

Because of the hinged power armor helmet. I think this expansion is actually extremely logical. Not only from a cinematic point of view. If you just imagine this situation: A group of soldiers in full armor somewhere on a battlefield during a ceasefire. They have to eat something. Completely removing their helmets would be a huge risk if they were attacked at that moment. If they can only open part of their helmets, they would still be very well protected and could eat something quickly.

[@jordonturner9559]

It's also someone of a nod to medieval knights. Brother hood of steel has knights soo..

[@popeofsimps2924]

For the rocket boosters on power armor, I think there’s a good reason in lore for them While the jet packs would be best during combat, the boosters could let a paratrooper unit adjust and slow their fall without adding the excess weight of the jet pack, as they’re shown to be able to lift power armor, wouldn’t shock me if a fall that’d do an ingram to someone normally would just be run of the mill thanks to the boosters

[@iZonz]

I’ve been waiting for this one

[@ctdaniels7049]

I agree on the set design and props. Very cool stuff. I do have a bit of an issue with the ghouls though. It feels like ghouls with spoken are way... cleaner. Like I get they're not just dissolving, but they're just a bit rubbery to me. Which feels super weird from a special effects point of view, since there should be a small army of people at this point who worked on stuff like The Walking Dead. 🤔

[@pedroleitevik5523]

I cant believe they made the fallout dust mod Canon Seriously from 19:00 to 21:37 is basically just describing the backstory from that mod, hell the post credits vegas looks like it came out from dust They made fallout dust canon

[@diegoprodriguez]

Seeing Lucy’s reaction to Shady Sands’ billboard and her holding the NCR flag, was a great character work from her. All this time she’s been preparing to save the world and humanity was already thriving to some degree.

[@paragonrobbie9270]

It was really a mixed bag for me. It does what I was worried most about and doubles it: making West Coast Fallout match the East. I absolutely hate everything looking like it's been only 20 years since the war instead of 200+ years and the fact that the Enclave and Brotherhood are shoved into where they don't belong. Shady sands could be nuked, sure, but that doesnt excuse the complete lack of NCR control, citizens or military outside of the remnants we see at the end. It's like the writers and Bethesda are hellbent on never doing anything new without destroying what came before.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

The NCR was already collapsing in New Vegas. I swear NCR fan boys are wild. Y’all just can’t accept that the first 2 games and Vegas told us a complete story of this society. You don’t see Legion fanboys crying that Caesars legion didn’t last more than 1 game.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

In New Vegas you already know Shady Sands isn’t the capital. The politicians are all corrupt, and power lies in the hand of trade caravan companies. The NCR was already dead in New Vegas. Yet people like you seem to think that they’re a stable and powerful state…

[@PalindroneV2]

​@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 NCR was in no way a collapsing society by the time of NV. They're a highly functional society with industry and trade. Their hold on the Mojave is unstable but that is due to mismanagement of their forces. It's not even their only military campaign as they have an ongoing expansion south into Baja which appears to be going well.

[@video-luver769]

​@@PalindroneV2 Except NV literally doesn't back that up. It's clear that none of y'all actually paid attention to literally ANYTHING any of the NCR characters in NV actually said.

[@paragonrobbie9270]

@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 It's not a matter of wanting to have the NCR stay alive, it's the matter of it being realistically fallen. The NCR was going downhill for sure in NV, their government was increasingly corrupt and losing power to the brahmin barons along with them stretching their military too thin across too much land to handle. This wouldn't leave California and its surrounding areas as barren as Shady Sands though. The reason Legion fans aren't mad is because there's no need to be when California wasn't established as Legion home territory. I'm pretty certain they'd be mad if we saw Arizona only having a single handful of Legion left though.

[@gelliaramadis522]

I really enjoy the Chet and Norm dynamic, something about the duo hits me in all the right places.

[@lordm0918]

I’m not one of the ones who cares all that much about the face plate, but the issue I see is there was an old brotherhood elder who died because he took his helmet off to look around and a poison arrow grazed his neck and killed him. That sounds like solid evidence you could never face plate. Also it does look a little goofy.

[@DikaWolf]

The armors get modified every game with no explanation. There doesn't need to be a lore discrepancy for it, as the show happens 9 years after Fallout 4. The faceplate and hand jets can just be upgrades.

[@richter6699]

The dumbest thing by far is the scene where the Ghoul starts one shotting Brotherhood Knights because of an ancient defect in the CENTER MASS of the armor. That's not a lore issue, its a common sense issue.

[@DikaWolf]

@@richter6699 It was actually below the center mass on the lining bellow the chest plate. Maximus points directly at it on Titus's armor when he commented he had that area upgraded hence why the Ghoul couldn't affect his armor the same way. Well that and the Ghoul didn't have armor piercing rounds at the time, during his first encounter with Maximus (which by the way is lore accurate as armor piercing rounds do go through power armor in the games like it wasn't even there).

[@jordonturner9559]

I think the face plate thing is meant to be a nod towards medieval knight who often had helmets with plates that could lift up to show their actual face. And since the person wearing the power was a "knight" it might be a little nod to that. The one big issue I had a problem with was that the armor apparently has no way to release the user if they're fusion core is removed so they are Essentially doomed. This seems like a major Design flaw.

[@walterbison]

@12:13 Never mind the location of Shady Sands but what about it getting nuked? It happened recently and yet Lucy and the BOS bro just stand on the edge of the crater...with no rads? I let the radstag fawn with only one head go but this just doesn't make any sense at all.

[@mackenziegoodwin459]

It seemed to me they got "regular" bombed and not "nuclear" bombed, despite the mushroom cloud graphics.

[@hunterbruce]

i watched the show by myself the first two nights it was out and then i rewatched it with my mom over a few weeks. she only questioned three things, what the hell did Lucy use to heal after she was stabbed, why did Maximus trade bottle caps for repair services, and what was Hank looking at in the ending. honestly if those are someone’s biggest questions about the show having not played the games then i’d say they did a pretty good job introducing people to the series. she’s definitely looking forward to season 2

[@peterpackard45]

if you have a way to square away vault 33 existing in such close proximity to the masters cathedral, this might be salvageable

[@The_Alt_Vault]

Love the Vid, id love to see some theory videos about what's going on with the Brotherhood and the Enclave, as well id like to hear your take on the theory that the Brotherhood incorporated the remnants of the Legion following the death of Caesar.

[@Rad_King]

Bet! I have some plans for upcoming videos where I will look at some of these things :)

[@FecklessandKekless]

>[Brain-on-a-Roomba] Is that an actual caption? It's both really funny AND an ad

[@lordmegastronz4198]

The bad: no deathclaw! AAAARGH

[@Captain-Jinn]

Minus the few lore things people seem to be either up in arms about or mildly annoyed with, I honestly don't think we could've gotten much better for a Fallout show. Compared to most video game adaptations, this is pretty much right behind The Last of Us in terms of quality; and that had the massive benefit of being a 1-to-1 retelling of an already critically acclaimed story.

[@jordongotthold5006]

So Bethesda chose the worst possible ending being the petty little children they are although watching the show did prove to me that they were attempting to basically destroy the results of the first two and new Vegas anyway so so them picking the worst possible ending of New Vegas as Canon isn't that surprising

[@peterrabb7288]

Well, the problem with the date is that everyone is looking at the wrong blackboard. Yeah, in that flowchart, there is an arrow between 2277 and the bomb. On the main blackboard earlier, there's only three drawings, the last being the nuke, and above that the date is clearly 2277. So Todd retconned the show, practically.

[@patrikhjorth3291]

I have to say, I agree completely with you in this video. About jet nozzles on power armour: they have it in Fallout 4, and I don't mean the jetpack. There is an upgrade for power armour legs that enhances the AoE when landing after leaping. I don't remember the name of the upgrade, but it suggests that the legs contain some kind of braking thrusters, which would help explain how power armour completely negates fall damage in the game. I personally think that it would have made more sense in the show to replace the full jetpack with the same kind of jets mounted at the feet, for exactly the reason you mentioned. Also, Chet is a perfect character. He has the classical movie hero look, clean, muscular and conventionally handsome, but he turns out to be a coward nearly to the point of uselessness. This also makes him the perfect contrast to Norm.

[@RicPendragon]

There's a theory that Shady Sands relocated closer to/merged with the Hub once they had enough roots to expand and the make a full civilised city, even public transport

[@alexandrecleyton7601]

How can a yao guai kill a man inside a power armor and die from a 10mm shot to the head?

[@trentr9762]

Bethesda logic and terrible writing

[@Unlexian]

Tbf the guy didnt do himselves any favors running

[@johnstewart2981]

@@trentr9762how is a basic nitpick terrible writing lmao?

[@tylerleach8796]

Crits, man. You seen what a critical headshot can do?

[@Plight_]

​@@johnstewart2981it isn't? A rusty T-45 was able to take hits from a death claw in fallout 4. But a T-60 can't take a bite from a bear?

[@xedalpha1]

I love lore channels. There's just something so chill about putting one on to go to sleep to. With regards to who started the war it answers why we never see bombs being dropped in fallout 4 or the series. As though they were planted there. I was fine with ghouls needing serums to prolong their sanity since there's been hints that low neurotransmitters etc contribute to it. That there's a general serum like a multivitamin for ghouls feels fine. As for the armour I just handwaved that away as the brotherhood upgrading the t-60 over the years to be more in line with the X-01's jetpack and improving on it

[@jessemach5817]

Keep in mind the canonical ending to fallout 4 is that the brotherhood of steel or minutemen won because we see the prydwen in show if you zoom in on the shot

[@kyleellis1825]

That's just another airship. Not the prydwen.

[@owenlaramore9622]

@@kyleellis1825 it says Prydwen on it in the show if you pause and zoom in I think

[@kyleellis1825]

@@owenlaramore9622 That's weird because we already know they have multiple of them.

[@owenlaramore9622]

​@@kyleellis1825 it is weird I feel like it wouldn't have been hard to change the name to caslewyn or whatever on the 3d model

[@video-luver769]

​@@kyleellis1825 Eh, that could have been an oversight, but I think the more telling thing is that the old guy tells them that it was an order that came directly from the "Elder from the Commonwealth". Now, that's obviously a bit of a stealthy reference to Arthur Maxson, but it's vague enough that his death isn't directly refuted. But still, that does seem to imply either the BoS or Minutemen endings are at least soft canon now.

[@thepie193]

Getting little bits of info about the NCR was real cool, Until the flag reveal of the NCR with the fallout theme playing, really just got me in the mood to replay New Vegas for the umpteenth time, I have absolute faith in the team of this show and I'm at the edge of my seat just thinking about how New Vegas will be portrayed, seeing the city I've roamed its chem induced poverty stricken gambling fueled streets I've walked countless times be displayed in a show, just seeing the Lucky 38 towering over Vegas again filled me with pure glee and excitement of what's to come.

[@shadowseek27]

Only thing i really hated was the kinda nonsense nuking of shady sands, it felt like one of those random things that people who have no idea how to write do in order to increase the stakes of the main story or something. Idk it just felt bad. Which is so weird because everything else was pretty well written.

[@kyleellis1825]

Unless we find out Vault 31 has a bunch of nukes, how did Hank nuke a city if he'd been in a vault the whole time?

[@travisbishop782]

I liked it because it gave some environmental storytelling, like what the games are known for.

[@Captain-Jinn]

@@kyleellis1825 I wouldn't be surprised if 31 had at least a few tricks up its sleeve considering it's effectively Vault Tec HQ at this point.

[@kyleellis1825]

@@Captain-Jinn I feel like the BoS would have tracked down the source of a nuclear launch in the last 15 years if it was Vault 31 though. It just feels like a lot of the action set pieces got the set up rushed into not making as much sense as they could have with a couple more episodes to space things out.

[@WardyLion]

The alterations to power armour could be simply explained by the BoS constantly developing and refining the technology. The issue I have with the new rockets is whether such small motors could lift power armour and have it fly as it does. Still, I’m not losing sleep over it.

[@briansneary7535]

Titus was horribly done, there is no way that guy would ever get the rank of knight, let alone a squire.

[@thegreatgoobert5847]

Yeah I think he was a bit too pathetic, but it's not like the brotherhood is immune to corruption. But honestly it kinda makes sense if maxson is still running everything, that guy is a fucking idiot.

[@falloutelderscrollsfan692]

i feel like in the original games you see knights who are dicks. hell, even in fallout 4 there is Knight Rhys at the Cambridge Police station who only serves as a foil. Ig they made titus mean so we would be slightly less against maximus for siding against him

[@TheToodinho]

Yeah all brotherhood members are perfect ubermesch there couldnt be any cowards and fuck ups in their ranks, the brotherhood is just so perfect as the games have shows us

[@Trolly_bowly]

Or the fact that the ENTIRE show would not have happened because the geiger counter is ALWAYS on so they would have detected the radiation from the raiders instantly

[@briansneary7535]

@@falloutelderscrollsfan692 He was incompetent, it's not about his personality

[@Nakeethus_Hunter]

The books in Shady Sands show libraries stopped tracking booking in 2276 and why would Hank lie about Lucy's mothers death if he nukes it later and we know she could easily have broken in using her Pipboy as Moldover does years later Its clear the writers didn't care about the lore and Todd and shills for Bethesda are playing damage control because Shady Sands has never been referred to as the first capital in games, only as THE capital

[@MrHoxworth]

I'm gonna say Bethesda should have stayed far away from West coast since they can't keep their own lore straight how could they keep the OG lore straight

[@hermos3602]

You do realize that Bethesda owns the franchise, not you. They can do whatever they want with it.

[@courier6932]

@@hermos3602 Am I obliged to ackowledge the shitty alterations and implications the IP holder does to a franchise? (I hope you get this one right)

[@Moltengamer67]

For shady sands I think it could be that the og shady sands isn't what was destroyed but rather assimilated the boneyard which the show calls shady sands. This could be because the og shady sands was destroyed after new vegas or fell on hard times so people migrated to the boneyard, made it shady sands, it fell and returned home. Plus note that shady sands being destroyed plus the bomb implying that the city fell before it was destroyed. Not when it was destroyed