Cinepals - FALLOUT 1x5 "The Past" Reaction & Discussion

Episode Date: April 12, 2024

Amazon, MGM and Bethesda Studios bring us the live-action adaptation of popular video game "Fallout". Starring Ella Purnell (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Never Let Me Go, Kick Ass 2), Walton Goggins (Justified, The Hateful Eight, Predators) and Aaron Moten (Emancipation, Father Stu). Join Jaby and Achara as they get immersed in the world of Fallout for the very first time and see vault dwellers, raiders, the Brothers of Steel, ghouls and more!   Join our Patreon www.Patreon.com/JabyKoay for the full length reaction to this show and many others ans subscribe to our YouTube channel for the cutdowns www.youtube.com/@cinepals   SOCIAL MEDIA ~CinePals~ Twitter, Instagram, & TikTok: @TheCinePals   ~Achara Kirk~ Twitter & Instagram: @AcharaKirk   ~Jaby Koay~ Twitter & Instagram: @JabyKoay

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Here we go. This is one of those episodes where people go, wasn't as good as the last one, but I still really liked it. Because you can't have everything be like a high-level banger, right? Of course. Yeah, some of the episodes have to be a little bit calmer as a means to just sort of fill in the context between other episodes, so it's a bridge. Right.

But I think that they still, like, had very compelling breadcrumbs. I can't speak. I think they still had compelling breadcrumbs in this episode where you're just like, what's going on? What, that leads to what? And so I had fun with this, nonetheless. No, I enjoyed it because I think it's dropping some really important clues as to what might be going on. And now also we've got Lucy and Maximus teaming up, you know? And it ended with another big question mark, which is, what is vault for?

And also with all of the information that Norm has found out about Vault 31 and potentially, like, he doesn't know what's going on exactly with 32 and 33 underneath Vault 31, but there is something really weird and suspicious going on. And so now there's a sense of distrust of the vaults. And here's Lucy. She's in her element again, and she's so excited, but it's like, what do vault dwellers do to people from the surface if they ever catch them? You know? Like, what? Well, he wasn't tied up. He wasn't bound.

He wasn't put into prison. He wasn't, but yeah, they weren't, but, you know, we don't know. Right now, I trust no one. I don't trust people on the surface, and I don't trust people in the vaults. So there's like so many fascinating things going to. on. In the first episode, we got introduced to our villain, right? We don't know where she came from. We, like, she might have also been a vault dweller at one point as well. We have yet to encounter her again, but seems that word on the street, people are afraid of her. Yeah. Like,

as soon as her name was mentioned in that pawn shop, it was like, get out of here, your bad news. We don't, no, it's not worth the trouble. Get out. So she's got a reputation as being a badass kind of individual. Why? What? Like, what, what, what is the history here? What is the history with her and her mom and pops like did her mom leave like was her mom actually buried or was her mom in on things too? Yeah. Like there's so many compelling questions. So many

questions and like even now I'm thinking back to her dad and his behavior in episode one so many of the vault dwellers in episode one were freaking out when the raiders came like they didn't know what to do they were like sitting ducks. They were all just

like oh my god you know But then her dad just swoops in and is taking out people like a badass. And at first I thought I was like, well, of course you would. Your daughter is in danger. Of course you would. Maybe he's got these skill sets because he's, you know, been out there and done stuff or there's something secret about him. And now I'm just like, Vault 31, what is going on with you? I need to know.

I'm still assuming some kind of cannibalism thing. It's like this idea that they have set up to keep people in check, to keep the, you know, the ponds doing pawn things. You know what I mean? But really, it's like the people are orchestrating things, pulling the strings, just for control. He said he was a kid when the bombs dropped, and we saw that. Yeah. He was safe inside the fridge. Is the lifespan longer?

Because it said, when we saw the bombs drop when the ghoul was in his human form, that was 220-something? 219 years ago. Yeah. So is he, like, is the lifespan? much longer. Is that the implication? It could be that or I just thought it was that there maybe were more instances of bombs being dropped than they knew of or that they were taught down in the vaults. They learned their version of history that whoever runs the vaults wants the people in the vaults to know. So they are controlling the dissemination of information and everything. Whereas up on

the surface, a whole bunch of other stuff has been happening. And so like everything that she knows has been brought into question because like even their whole goal of repopulating the earth seems stupid now because clearly the earth or America has a population. There are people. I don't know if it made the cut in any of the reactions, but at one point I mentioned seven eaves. Yeah. The book your dad turned me on to. I never finished it. But the premise of the book was that like the moon was falling apart. Yes. And it was breaking into like so many pieces that it was essentially going to become like asteroids raining down upon the earth. And so they were going to take a select group of people into space, kind of like Wally,

to keep them alive, and everyone else was going to be left behind. Those people ended up becoming underground dwellers for many, many years. And then at some point, the people who were sent into space come back. And so you have two factions of people now. I never got that far in the book. But just the notion of like these people go underground, someone's going to survive up top. And so, you know, you got... Evolution, right?

Yeah. So you get those factions of people who happen to survive the blast, and they end up having their own thing going on and like underground as a whole of the world, almost like being, you know, in the ocean, there's all kinds of stuff going on with dolphins and whales. We don't understand. We don't think about, don't know about.

And so it's just fascinating to think about these two, you know, parallel worlds. And then they intersect at some point and things go bad. I remarked upon how funny it is that in the vault, they still have all of these things that as a society we hold as, you know, being important. like democracy, like, you know, keeping things orderly, clean, having leaders and all of that. Whereas as soon as all of that infrastructure fell apart on the surface, then suddenly it was like

every person for themselves, you know, like, yeah, they're probably still our leaders. Like, obviously, Moldova is a character that is a leader of the Raiders. And I'm sure there are other factions as well that have, you know, they're important people. but it's certainly not like how it is in the vault. The vault is like the last bastion of all the societal values, you know, and they're still holding on to that. And then so it's just interesting to kind of see what happens if all of the rules disappear. And it's all predicated on a lie.

Very curious to see where this goes next. Looking forward to it. Thanks so much for hanging out. I'm Jabby Kauai. This is Achara Cook. Peace out.