What Makes The Opening Scene of FALLOUT Perfect?

[@ThinkStory]

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[@jitteryjet7525]

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

[@CFox.7]

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

[@jitteryjet7525]

@@CFox.7 Trolling. Trolling never changes.

[@CFox.7]

@@jitteryjet7525 😆

[@TraceguyRune]

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

[@therizinosaurus214]

The acting for the little girl is perfect. She does not start max terrer but starts at alarm and shock and builds to the terror slowly as the mushroom cloud forms.

[@SpinfoilHat]

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

[@wwaxwork]

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

[@fhoque48]

Had the same thought she really carried it home

[@NewfoundNewf709]

“Is it your thump , or mine? “ terrifying

[@SpinfoilHat]

@@NewfoundNewf709 yeah the way she delivered that line gave me chills, poor girl :c

[@hellfish2309]

I love the intro: clearly there’s context in sequence as to why Cooper might dread a picture w/ him givin the big thumbs up; but the context grows as we learn more about his life before the intro

[@unnamedchannel1237]

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

[@hellfish2309]

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

[@harvesterofeyes8813]

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

[@pogtuber5146]

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

[@tylerpaulson6689]

I got chills.

[@johniephillips9267]

The ironic thing about the vaults is even if you were rich enough to get in, you still weren’t entirely safe.

[@lilchaos9212]

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

[@aldrinmilespartosa1578]

Even the vault tec shareholders aren't.

[@L16htW4rr10r]

Pray you were lucky enough to get into Control Vaults.

[@BrianYoung82]

Control and power goes beyond just money.

[@marcoantoniobecerrarodrigu5989]

I love how his face changes, from when he thinks it's an explosion, until the mushroom cloud begins to appear from the nuclear bomb, it's cinema.

[@andydudley1775]

that man an oscor holder you know before shield even .

[@MrKrtek00]

he hopes it is an explosion...

[@zxyatiywariii8]

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

[@spawn9129]

One might even say...kino

[@zsszeli]

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

[@julyanpohl]

I was able to go to the World Premier in London. It was shown to us in a Bunker, built like the Bunker in the Series. Its insane how much effort they put into it. Primevideo really outdid themselves with it! Must Watch series!!!

[@TheRadMan.]

Oh that’s sick dude!

[@DanielGreen07]

Bunker? You mean vault?

[@zxyatiywariii8]

Wow you're lucky!

[@xman777b]

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

[@SD-vy7gj]

Massive waste of resourses for nothing.

[@vbmorris81]

It was a great intro....Walton is killing it as Coop and The Ghoul

[@pamelalansbury94]

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

[@antonycharnock2993]

I like how his character underlines the whole story.

[@enviritas9498]

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

[@daytripper9]

I absolutely love the way they designed the pre war fallout version of LA. I feel like it nails the pre war architecture of that universe perfectly. Makes me want a vfx breakdown video.

[@DavidBrackett385]

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

[@ThreeStar1011]

@@DavidBrackett385 Yes, the year was 2077. This takes place in an alternate universe where the Cold War never ends, and it's all a 50s/60s fever dream.

[@daytripper9]

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

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

@@DavidBrackett385Retrofuturism, the concept is that it’s supposed to be what the 50’s and 60’s imagined of the future and if their aesthetics stayed the same. In the Fallout Universe transistors/semiconductors never advanced much due to a few companies owning the patents and holding back innovations. But vacuum tube tech and atomic energy tech have both been pushed to its limits.

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

@@DavidBrackett385Here’s Fallout creators Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky playing the 1st game and talking about their design decisions such as the retrofuturism. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZXEm3qweLCFj9k

[@j.a.1785]

The intro gave me goosebumps. The whole show is great.

[@brainduffy3305]

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

[@benitofranklyn4237]

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

[@tinysnowz]

@@brainduffy3305 everyone knew

[@James-rm7sr]

The intro I have watched a few times now. It really is a great opening. The little girl man she did a great acting job makes you think a real bomb just went off and she saw it. The look on her face and voice inflection was perfect. Cooper realizing it and the face of the actor was spot on. You get a glimpse of pre great war America and it is just so interesting to see the difference. Then as the bombs drop how fast neighbor turn on neighbor. How many became ghouls? How many really survived the bombs.

[@iphone_4s]

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

[@James-rm7sr]

@@iphone_4s I think that is the job of a season 1. It reminds me of the Walking Dead season 1. It had you asking so many questions wanting to follow these characters. Although, they could treat each season more of a new series new characters outside of Cooper, but as a long time Fallout fan. I want to know if the NCR is still around. The brotherhood of Steel mentions that they conquered the wastelands. I took it as he is saying for a few years the BoS actually controlled America officially. I am not sure if there are still Supermutants as they are hinted at as more of like something not seen by these characters in sometime if at all. This can make the ending for New Vegas be that Mr.House ending and he bankrupted the NCR making it easy for the BoS to take them down. Yet, we do see a more ordered society for the most part. So after 4 the BoS is the new Federal government? Yet, they talk about the Enclave which is still around and fighting over the position of controlling the US?

[@justelias7615]

the choice of making the explosion slow instead of instant was genius, really feel the dread of a fate you can't escape

[@rjeizzay9619]

Except he did escape it

[@tylerpixel]

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

[@justelias7615]

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

[@rjeizzay9619]

@@tylerpixel so the cremated corpses and remains did

[@rjeizzay9619]

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

[@StandInTheFire]

I’ll sum up why the intro is great. Because it has Goggins. He’s been an A-tier tv star for over two decades. The Shield, Justified, Vice Principals, Righteous Gemstones, I’m a Virgo. He simply elevates every show he’s in.

[@S-N7]

Don't forget Invincible.

[@StandInTheFire]

@@S-N7 also forgot George & Tammy

[@pamelalansbury94]

Sons of Anarchy needs to be on the list

[@MrFetalposition]

and the Tarantino films

[@saucysven1505]

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

[@beetlewizard]

The line delivery from Janey's actress when she said "My thumb or your thumb?" sold me on the show immediately.

[@welcome2thesimulation820]

The Nolan brothers are just amazing and so creative when it comes to making movies/tv shows.... I watched this show so fast and now want the second season to start...

[@rangonick2005]

The Fallout intro is on par with "The Last of Us" intro, it just was so terrifying and was so well done

[@Alpha23TV]

Starting by focusing on Coop was genius: 1. We get to see how talented a cowboy/performer he is 2. The nuke… not much else to add here 3. Finally… Coop’s backstory is the foundation that they build on via flashbacks throughout the season… He connects to every major character in the show 4. I bet we will see Janie in later seasons

[@pogtuber5146]

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

[@antonycharnock2993]

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

[@zxyatiywariii8]

I wonder if she'll also be ghoulified?

[@stanley3119]

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

[@DENOhritko]

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

[@jungledynasty3554]

This show is soo good .. they nailed the aesthetical feel of Fallout ..easily the best video game adaptation of all time .. been looking forward to this forever, and it did not disappoint. I've already watched it twice. This show should win an Emmy.

[@seansilkworth1469]

For the little girl being as young as she is she has a very bright future, being able to display the emotion changes she did so visually is a rare talent especially at a young age like that!

[@andrewj1754]

She did an amazing job.

[@PhantomSavage]

Walton Goggins is a better actor with his eyes than I think just about any other actor I've ever seen. You can see just in his eyes alone go from confusion, concern, to realisation, to pure terror. Its not the first time his eyes have caught me off-gaurd as an actor either.. in the Tomb Raider (2018) movie he played the main bad guy, and there's a moment where he's where he shoots an overworked worker before pointing the gun at Lara, and I swear to god there's NOTHING behind his eyes... he looks like he has no soul at all in that scene, its terrifying. incredible actor.

[@dickenstom]

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

[@MBurgland]

It is impossible to make a "perfect" adaptation of one form of media to another. But, despite the complaining, this show was great. I can't wait for season two.

[@asant90]

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

[@Embedded-Nick]

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

[@kohlicoide2258]

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

[@bEtHeSdA_LAME_sTuDi0s]

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

[@kohlicoide2258]

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

[@spencersholden]

I am always intrigued by depictions of the Great War in Fallout. It’s THE defining moment in the series. A 2 hour event that ended everything. Stories of people going about their days, scientists performing experiments of FEV, and so much more.

[@Man77772]

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

[@spencersholden]

@@Man77772 most definitely. The best character in a Fallout.

[@tglake2894]

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

[@spencersholden]

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

[@WardyLion]

Teagan Meredith and Walton Goggins both did masterful acting work in reacting to the bombs falling. Meredith gets more and more frightened, while Goggins's subtle facial "droop" as awe gives way to horror were great.

[@MrKrtek00]

The reason I looked up the show is that I have seen this opening on YT (I do not know the game and was not invested anyways). I love how Cooper explains to his daughter that there is no escape... yet, his paternal instinct kicks in and runs for the impossible, whatever it takes.

[@INKSTARS1138]

I LOVED the intro! As you said it did a really good job setting up the story, and I wanted to see more of it. It did a great job of establishing the universe, and even if you didn't know anything about it.

[@RangerHouston]

I like how you can see the cold sweat form and the color drain from his face. Walton Goggins is fantastic

[@zjjohnson3827]

I thought the show was chickening out on gorey stuff when the glass exploded and *didn’t* graphically rip a room full of kids to ribbons (I say chickened out, but I am glad they didn’t go nuclear on what would have been a horrifically traumatic option lol), so I was very pleased to see they kept things bang on with gore after the time jump It also made things just seem better before the bombs fell in that people got socked in the face or tripped and fell over, but without blood, whereas after the bombs fell everything was the gorefest of exploding meatsacks we know and love

[@jromero9795]

As a fan who's played pretty much every Fallout game in the series, seeing the bombs falling made me think about everything else that's happening across the country this same moment- Washington D.C. getting completely bombarded, the defenses House laid in place shooting down warheads left and right, Nate and Nora being escorted into vault 111, a field trip of students at Lamplight cavern not knowing they'd ever leave that cave that day. Randall Clark in his truck while SLC and his family burn to cinders behind him. So many stories started and ended that day.

[@drewbadger68]

I love the little Justified reunion in Fallout between Goggins and Mykelti Williamson🙂

[@EstorilEm]

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

[@Aussie1276]

As a fan of the Games for over 25 years, I loved the intro and the character of Cooper so much that I have watched the whole series 5 times

[@Vile_Entity_3545]

No the walking dead when Rik comes across the zombie crawling across the lawn did it for me. I am not interested in zombie stuff at all but that scene hooked me there and then. The ghoul at the end was good though. I watched my first episode last night and hope it gets gripping like the walking dead did for the first 6 seasons.

[@zxyatiywariii8]

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

[@beniscooked]

I absolutely love how they really dug into the pre-war world. It was a fresh angle to take and they executed it FLAWLESSLY. This show is in a league of it's own - nothing compares, and I've been watching game -> cinematic shows and movies going back to Mortal Kombat, Super Mario Bros, Wing Commander all the way up through Last of Us / Witcher / Halo.

[@andrewj1754]

Her holding her thumb up thinking its going to be ok, and her face realising that its bigger than her thumb is 1 - amazing acting by the girl, and 2, just really hits me HARD.

[@TheStewieOne]

I moment that no one talks about is when the father of the house is getting his family to his own fallout shelter, his friend asks him to let him in along with his daughter and he tells him no room when his friend tries to say something else, that when the father punches him to the ground. That moment comes across as desperation, did he really want to punch out his friend with his daughter standing there? or was it that the only thing on his mind was his family and no one else. It reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode called The Shelter. Great episode, everyone should go give it a watch.

[@shamalow1819]

The intro was trully fantastic, one thing I really loved is the silence right after a camera flash as the bomb drop

[@ManabiLT]

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

[@shamalow1819]

@@ManabiLT yea! Trully a masterpiece of an intro

[@NH-ow8dy]

This entire first season (I watched in one day as Mondays are my one day off a week) was beyond words. I was enthralled. This even held my ADHD and clenched my attention the entire time. It was freaking perfection. I could go on...

[@misshavisham1287]

i hope in season 2 we find out more about how Cooper became a Ghoul, and why he adopted a cowboy bounty hunter personae.

[@noahdean9685]

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

[@misshavisham1287]

@@noahdean9685 interesting theory!

[@hamayunkhan1754]

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

[@hanli427]

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

[@icaroadriel7970]

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

[@drunkdonutboy]

I was hooked after that intro

[@sluny1]

I saw the intro, I was thinking, pure perfection!!!

[@doctorouroboros]

when i saw those nukes dropping my heart froze. i was like.. "oh shit. oh it's... o h ."

[@adamlewellen5081]

Goul isn't bad. A antihero for sure. He's a man on a 200 year quest to find out the truth.. sadly he will find out he knows more than most.

[@useful_mike]

This intro let you know "no one is safe in this show" epicly.

[@Kenneth_Rogers]

I started watching this yesterday (late I know) and being a massive fan of the video games and of the lore of the Fallout Universe, I watched the first two episodes through a different lens. The intro was perfect. I know everything about when the bombs fell and it still hit like a ton of cement when I saw more than one hit the city. This series is 15 stars out of 5!

[@jeremy1860]

The performances were absolutely phenomenal. If I were witnessing an atomic blast, I'm certain I'd be just as transfixed with fear as they were 😨

[@crazyman8472]

Rule of thumb; if you can see a mushroom cloud anywhere near you, it’s already too late. 💀

[@menghao737]

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

[@richardarriaga6271]

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

[@JDH___]

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

[@L33TNINJ4Grrl]

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

[@ManabiLT]

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

[@ncrxghost8075]

Really hope season 2 opens with what happens with coop and his daughter right after it cuts in season 1

[@sam_i_am3514]

Fallout 76 was my first game in this franchise. I haven't played the previous 75, but I'm so glad that Amazon was able to adapt my favorite game series so accurately. I'm also glad that Bethesda allowed to use the Creation Engine to create such incredible effects. Even such a billionaire as James Cameron could not recreate in Terminator 2 all this horror and atmosphere of a nuclear explosion as accurately as the small indie studio Amazon Prime did. This is 12 out of 10!

[@offsky9007]

Genius comment

[@diegosilang4823]

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

[@JDH___]

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

[@ManabiLT]

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

[@JDH___]

@@ManabiLT ITS. A. JOKE.

[@NikeZ-mr727]

The best intro I've seen since Mad Max: Fury Road 👌

[@BRADSPIG]

It was a great start to what seems to be a great series.

[@jackransom.]

I had some doubts about this show.. I still do to be honest, but that intro, after setting up the father/daughter duo trying to escape with the nukes dropping and the title drop literally gave me chills.

[@MGG87]

The show is amazing, period. From the references and easter eggs, to the characters and story. As you said, the intro is pure perfection, with every little detail carefully placed to lead up to the title. I for one can't wait for season 2 and have been playing all three (3, NV and 4) games to not only brush up on lore, but to also get my fix until the next season drops. Fun facts to add here. First, they want to do 10 (or 12, I can't remember exactly) seasons and if not mistaken, they have gotten the go ahead so far. Second, the set designers were so into the detail, that not only did they make COMPLETE paperwork, but were upset because they couldn't make the Vault halls to scale.

[@rogerland929]

So, so well done. Loved it!

[@Uisci81]

Been a fallout fan for years, I play them over and over. I know the canon of fallout so I really loved all the subtle ties and themes that I feel were 100% spot on!

[@HIR0SE]

Since I first heard they would do a Fallout tv show, I was reluctant to watch. Knowing how such endeavors usually end sour, I didn't want to get into it until seasons 2 or 3 were done. This intro changed my mind. I saw it on a YT short and it hooked me. All my worries went away and suddenly I was invested after 30 seconds.

[@Kdpainted]

It is truly a great intro, I really enjoyed the series on a whole

[@patrickdrury1480]

Fukken awesome analysis. Thank you. subbed

[@CJIrishLez]

I was worried this show would not be good. Like Halo is ok but not even close to the Last of Us. This entro told me this was going to be great and it was. Knowing it was its own storyline but taking from the games I think they did a really good job.

[@Fjarlock]

I NEVER cried over an intro before. I usually don't cry about stuff like this at all. So yeah the connection was there immediately.

[@Im_a_rock764]

“It’s smoke Jane, it’s just a fire”

[@simonfunwithtrains1572]

Set a terrifying depiction of the precursor to a nuclear war. stunning piece of TV. even if you don't know the game.

[@surferpam1]

Terrific plot summary. Thanks. I too would've liked some pre-history/run-up to the pilot episode.

[@OofieTV]

4:56 orange sky also plays on the diamond city radio!

[@jamesanthony8438]

And on Appalachia Radio in "Fallout 76"

[@CrispiestRiver0]

I remember watching like ahh that’s one that a bit off they’ll escape, and watching em get closer and closer, and being like oh fuck when the last went off. Idk if it was the sound or the visuals but I was in absolute awe and really captivated by that scene.

[@AqibA.C.]

Funny enough, I'd seen the intro on KZbin and then instantly binged the 1st episode right after. It had me hooked in _right_ off the bat.

[@JocelinCaron]

Not only the intro, I think all of the episodes are perfect!

[@tra-viskaiser8737]

I believe the thumb thing was for the davy crockett 1.5(or so) kiloton nuke. The explosion was just for shock, the radiation was the problem. So if you were close enough for the mushroom cloud to be bigger than your thumb, you would be fried. Smaller than your thumb, your fine from the radiation. I hope everyone watches everything about the american nuke tests. It teaches a lot.

[@cantionaleecclesiasticum5378]

Gimme links

[@tra-viskaiser8737]

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

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

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

[@mattt233]

Those don't look like dropped bombs. They would explode higher in the air if they were dropped. Those were ground burst bombs thus not a result of the war but the company so they can sell products.

[@antonycharnock2993]

I thought that so probably preplanted. Ground burst is the dirtiest way to create loads of radiation unlike an airburst where most of the radiation is spent in the initial blast like Hiroshima.

[@richardarriaga6271]

Bombs can be set to detonate on impact.

[@CatLover-gk8uu]

Spoiler warning Vault Tech Started the nuclear war. Those bombs were likely pre-planted in the ground to trigger the war.

[@NuclearFridge1]

​@@CatLover-gk8uu Probably shipped in under cover of night aboard unmarked trucks... 😢

[@VinceMancini]

Thought the exact same thing when I saw Fallout for the first time. Great video 👍

[@xman777b]

It was a *perfect* intro. Incredible

[@jamiehobson6336]

Honestly seeing the bombs drop left me terrified. Like it is so perfect that I couldn't imagine the amount of death that was caused by that one bomb. And then when you get to the ending and reflect back on the start it makes it even worst

[@joeylewis8615]

Fantastic intro to a fantastic season, loved every minute of it!

[@Wylie-ib9lu]

The intro the best I've seen in some time

[@ChrisVesgo]

I mysefl played fallout all my childhood, and now today as a dad, the introduction scene with Coop doing everything he can to save his little one got me terrified of being in the same situation and at same time how perfect the scene was, its just art The sound effects guy did an awesome job on that scene aswell, that uncanny sound playing when they rush to the horse gets you all riddled up and high expectation

[@TheTuubster]

Knowing about the events of an atomic bomb, the sequence took me out, because a) all electronics would shut off and b) the light flash of an atomic bomb would not be mistaken with the flash of a camera and c) the little girl would have gone blind immediately by the flash from the bomb.

[@glen1555]

I'd never heard of Fallout, video games have moved on since I bought an Atari from Woolworths just to play Space Invaders at home, but my youngest son said I would enjoy the tv show. And he was right. The opening is really well done. And I have binge watched the series twice in succession

[@ElsaLoui]

This was an excellent video!

[@georgesteffens7489]

It was incredible! As someone who knew of the games but never played them, I was interested in the show as a standalone piece to enjoy. And after this scene I didn’t want to stop watching what they would do next. I sure hope they get a season 2!

[@LexusLFA554]

2:06 Don't know why, but the left dad looks straight outta Happy Wheels. A really, really good intro. Love the music going along with it.

[@RichardStanczak]

I decided to watch Fallout based on a rave review I read about the Sherie in The Guardian. I did not even know it was a video game (I haven’t played a video game since DOOM). The opening scene left me absolutely gobsmacked. That was the best opening scene that I have ever seen for a TV series. Frankly, it was as good as the opening scenes for some iconic movies like Star Wars, Jaws, and Saving Private Ryan. Those were more action based than Fallout which was more about introducing the main character and the world he lived in. Great job on the video. You showed bits of Cooper that I did not remember seeing in the series. Are those scenes of him in the military coming in the next season?

[@OzmondBellrive]

If i had a Nickle for every time someone from the Nolan family made a nuclear explosion scene then I'd have two nickels. which isn't much but its weird it happened twice

[@snnify]

Just from the intro of the video I can say that all of the examples shown follow a simple troupe but it is difficult to pull off right-starting a show in medias res while giving thorough, but not overwhelming, exposition either through imagery, dialogue, or a diversion of expectations.

[@arashimifune2853]

Watched the show recently, had zero expectations and maybe that is why I loved it so much.

[@adnastu]

Prefect breakdown! … unbelievable show and man I loved the 3 leads … Walton is just sooo fuckin goooooood

[@jtmann2002]

The intro is perfect because it sets the stage for what’s to come and gets the viewer emotionally attached to one of the main characters

[@adamgarcia3092]

Great analysis

[@TOM2RN]

When I saw the ending, I thought he was headed for Seattle. I’ve never played the game. I did a little checking about vault locations. It said there wasn’t one there, but at Snoqualmie Pass. What does this mean? Well if you know Kyle’s filmography, he was in Twin Peaks as an FBI agent. It was filmed in Snoqualmie, Washington. I used to ski there in Snoqualmie Pass. I was wrong about Seattle, but was it intentional they used Snoqualmie Pass with Kyle being part of the story? For those of you who saw Twin Peaks you know what’s coming. “Damn fine cup of coffee!”

[@jamesanthony8438]

I just knew him from "Dune" (1984). He was the chosen one in that... Lucy's the chosen one in this. Chosen One is a family tradition! =)

[@mrjamezjc9845]

Watched this intro about 3 times, was so damn good!

[@MrFetalposition]

and it also foreshadowed the Ghoul's proficiency with the lasso.

[@maximthemagnificent]

This opening brought a tear to my eye.

[@sir_christmas_leopold_duckson]

My only complaint about the intro was the unrealistic depiction of the nukes. Not that it hurt the rest of the show for me. I just thought they could have done better with the explosions.

[@SimpleJackPC]

Don't forget the intense music that happens with the shot of the building collapsing!

[@ml0723]

Made me get behind Cooper even as I knew he’d be the Ghoul…not that i was ever going to not be in his corner. Whole reason why I watched the show in the first place was for him. The entire show was excellent and it was all for the same reasons. Compelling story, amazing acting

[@Snake75055]

Haven't watched it yet but it looks really good. Like its one of the few times I've seen a game get adapted into a show/movie and it turn out amazing!

[@akuma1201]

I like the Intro feels like im playing another ldc again. i like how they introduce other factors like BOS and Vault Dwellers. Still waiting for the Minutemen, Railroad, The Institute and some weird Settlers and hopefully lots of ghouls and mutated animals 👍🏼

[@andrewrivera190]

Character’s are more or less reflections of who we are in the spectrum of humanity. The fun comes in watching characters slide along the spectrum as they change. For Cooper, he is similar to Harvey Two face in that he starts one way and becomes another way but his old self is still inside somewhere. Now it is simply finding out how to live in the grey.

[@toddodell70]

Great video. Agree i was very impressed after seeing the intro and having worried that they would screw it up.

[@kidnamedsolid3547]

I really love how in fallout 4, when the tv broadcast about the nukes is on, when it ends that’s when the bombs drop. It’s the same thing in the show except they turn off the tv, so you know the bombs will drop, but you don’t know when

[@erickhart8046]

Nice tempted to watch the series i love Fallout.

[@VammainenLehma]

07:20 where’s the irony? How is show starting and ending with the same location ”ironic”

[@as7river]

It's a very common misuse of the word irony. Vsauce did a video on this and I honestly think it's fine, language is ever-changing and if people are giving irony a new meaning, it's just part of the natural evolution of language.

[@barbaralanders6049]

It's great. Shocking, well done, and immediately has characters you care about.

[@Iggins420]

The flashbulb of the camera deservres a mention... everytime it went off i thought "is this it?"