Cinepals - FALLOUT 1x6 "The Trap" Reaction & Discussion!

Episode Date: April 14, 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

Cinnahals. We're continuing Fallout Season 1, Episode 6, The Trap, Achara's nickname. Okay, here we go. Oh, God, they better not, like, impregnate her with some nasty babies. Oh, my God. Can't end like this. No. Oh my gosh.

They always leave you with so many questions. I love how they keep bringing back elements of the past and just feeding them to us and giving us more of the ghoul's backstory without like giving us everything and then showing us even more mystery with this new vault, which as we predicted is pretty bad. This is properly weird.

Yeah. Like a lot of the advertising in the show like weird stuff that you all came to like the surface here it's weird and horrific like that thing with the the lady giving birth to the little like humanoid salamander second only to the cyclops yeah that was odd too i mean that's an interesting choice of how to make him look and i guess it worked really well because it is disconcerting because it's literally like a normal sized human eye but just in the wrong place. It's just kind of like recessed

between his forehead and his nose. Like your brain just interprets it as wrong. I can handle the nose on the forehead a little bit better than the eye, to be honest. His eye was the first effect I've seen in this. I take that back. The second effect I've seen in the show so far where I was like, that I could tell his effects.

Yeah. The first one was when Maximus was descending from the helicopter. There was just something weird looking about it when he was on the brotherhood. I didn't notice. They did a decent job with it. It's just something I picked up on.

It didn't bother me. This is something where I picked up on it and it bothered me a little bit, but I couldn't tell if I was bothered because of the effect not being more rendered or whatever, like, better. Or if I was bothered because it's just weird. It's just disturbing. Yeah. It just leaves me with so many questions. This must have been what it felt like when people were watching Lost because I never saw that show.

But I imagine that week to week, people just had more questions and then they would like commiserate. Yeah. Like what they don't understand. Oh, it's fun to see how deep the rabbit hole goes, right? And I wonder if maybe as we go along in the show or in this season or whatever, maybe we're going to find out that the people that we thought were good are actually not as good as we thought they were. And there's a sense that not everything is as it seems.

We're right to be distrustful of the vaults. And maybe it's going to turn out that Moldaver might not be as bad as we thought. Or maybe she is as bad. as we thought. And there's like another option, like a third option that we can go with. For some reason, the ghoul does not like her. And so we have yet to find out exactly what the beef is between them. And then there was tension between Moldaver and Lucy's mom, or Lucy's father, rather. Yeah. There's a lot of questions. There's a lot of history there that they're just kind of teasing to us as we go along. Yeah. They did an interesting job of having an arc within this

episode because Maximus, when he first got there, he was just like kind of put off by the situation. He wasn't sure what to make of it. Yeah, his instincts were like, this. feels wrong. Yeah, but then it got him. He drank the Kool-Aid and he was totally in. And he was like, no, but they gave me a row. They gave me slippers. They gave me caviar and blah, blah, blah, blah. It's very human. And then Lucy is the opposite because she came in feeling very comfortable right away. She's like, it's a vault. That's what vaults are great. And then slowly she's like seeing the, you know, that whatever, you're pulling back the layers of whatever. And it's like, this is not what I grew up with. This is wrong. The chalkboard and

the history of the sands and whatever, is that a legitimate outline? Is that what we take it as? As the audience, like, that's a legitimate through of, like, 200 years or whatever? I think so. I mean, it seems like the surface dwellers that they've brought down into the vaults. They are very proud of their culture in a way, like, to do that ceremony and stuff. It seems that they want to keep a record or a memory of their history, you know. I want to know why they're doing these experiments. Like, it's one thing to enslave people under false pretenses to get something from them.

Right. Like, if they're, you know, a section of people are cannibals, right? So you breed these people to be food. The theory I, you know, proposed. You don't know yet for sure. Yeah. Here, they're just like straight up experimenting for what? Like, these are freak results.

Why is this happening? Yeah. I am obviously still invested, but in the interest of full transparency with you guys, this was my least favorite of the episodes that we've seen so far. I think it has everything to do with Maximus. I haven't quite figured it out. I'm going to hold opinion until we finish the show. Uh-huh.

But thus far, like, this was the least favorite of mine. Not that I hated it. I liked it. If I'm ranking episodes, immediately I can see this one is not at the top for me. Oh, yeah. I mean, I'm still really enjoying it. There's so much intrigue for me that I'm like, every time we finish an episode, I just want to carry on and watch the next one.

And maybe that informed why Amazon was like, we'll just give it to you all at once. Because it feels like such a bingeable show. Absolutely. What I need more of in the next episode. is some fucking answers. The best rhythm for it is to set up questions in one episode. We need at least one answer to make us feel satisfied in the next episode. And then you can give us like three more questions, you know?

Well, we very much know that Moldaver, is that our name? She was there at the beginning of all of this. Yeah. How is she managed to maintain? I want to know her beauty secrets. Well, okay. 200 years. You're looking, that, yes, that, but.

She was also the one who helped the raiders break into the vault. Yes. So she was part of that cults and then she'd swapped sides at some point. Unless that's kind of an evolution of her goal. And I was wondering as well with the surface dwellers that were down there doing their ritual and stuff and the, what was her name? Like the Lady of the Flame or whatever. Maybe they have a secret mission to infiltrate vaults or something like that. You know, like get them from the inside.

side. I mean, these are all good questions. So I'm understanding your opinion, like, you just enjoyed Maximus through and through in this episode? Oh, no, he was like, I mean, he's all right. The actor is definitely playing into this kind of like dopey, gormless. See, I, okay, I would imagine he doesn't have a heck of a lot of control in this whole operation here. He's being told what he needs to do for the scenes, right? Oh, right. Yeah. He's his actor doing his job. His job. Yeah. Right. And so I'm like, okay, so I wouldn't necessarily put it on him that I have an issue. with this episode. It's like just the choices being made in the storytelling. Sure. He's just a function of it. Sure. And I mean, it is kind of funny watching him just kind of

be really just overwhelmed with all of the luxury that he's, you know, being offered here. In that regard, like, I can, I can buy his behavior. There was the choice in the writing to have less dialogue on his part. I don't know. I have to let it simmer and figure it out. You know what I mean? When she came to him and said, no, you were right. There's a problem. He was like, oh, but they gave me a wardrobe. A robe. And that was like the extent of his defense. It was just kind of played for laughs, maybe. Yeah, exactly. I think that's what it is. It's just like, now it's just ribbing. It's like, that's not what you set up in the last five episodes, dude. If we find out something in the food is making him behave differently, then I'm like, okay, fine, you win.

Right, because he keeps eating more of it, too. But if the food has no bearing on his behavior, it's weird because, like, wouldn't it have a bearing on her behavior as well then? If you think about humans, right, like obviously we want safety. We want security. And this whole time he's been living in a world, which is crazy. Perilous. Yeah, like people shoot at you, all of that. And now he's in a place which feels safe.

There's lots of food. That's true. So all of a sudden it's like, oh, this is really nice. He's not getting bullied. He's not getting bullied. He doesn't have to be on the run. Yeah. No, you're right.

Maybe he's just like, oh, this is so nice. Like, I just want to stay here. Like, if I've been out traveling, whatever, and then I wound up in a five-star hotel with full board and I didn't have to pay for it I'd be like I don't think I want to leave I think that is an inclination is to ask questions like why are you being so nice to me why are you giving this to me well yeah he did and then eventually he was just like you know what this is pretty nice yeah maybe he's doing everything right maybe the show's doing everything right and maybe at the other end of this one when we finish this the season I'll be like okay it wins but as at this moment I'm just like

something feels off about that still good episode yeah like I'm enjoying it so like if this is the only episode that I saw from the show, I'd be like, well, where does it go? And I'd have to, I'd have to finish watching it. Yeah, I'd have to finish. I'd have to catch up and I'd have to finish it. If this was the first thing, like if I walked into the living room and someone, like my mom was watching it. Yeah. You know what I mean? It's compelling still. It definitely has that very JJ Abrams kind of methodology in the storytelling. Not to give him the credit for that kind of storytelling, but it's like, it's just kind of like the lingering, you know, oh, there's more information. And so, oh, you need to watch more K-dramas. They do that all the time.

Yeah. You guys, thanks so much for hanging. I'm Jabby Koi. This is Acharakook. Peace out.