Cinepals - FALLOUT 1x7 "The Radio" Reaction & Discussion!

Episode Date: April 15, 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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Thanks so much for coming back. Here we go. What? What did he see? Oh, my God. How dare you, show? How dare you? What was it?

Oh, man. God flipping, dang it. Oh, man. Dang. Oh, shoot. I can't take it. Oh, my goodness. Oh, what a cliffhanger.

We just want to know. Can we know? We have to watch the next episode, obviously, to find out. But, like, they really are leaving us with, like, so much excitement and questions for the next episode. Oh, man. I'm like, I'm trying to rack my brains as to what it could be. Or maybe they just don't have that many people there at Vault 31. And it's just like a farm for leaders.

This is not good for my system. I'm not good at this. If I start watching any episode of 24, I have to watch to the rest of the season. I can't. I can't just walk away. I just can't. I got to keep going. It's like an incomplete task.

I'm pre-mad because I know this is how the show is going to, the season's going to end. And don't gong on it. If this season doesn't. get renewed for a two, I'm going to be so fucking limited because there's going to be answers that we'll never get. Yeah, that's true. I have a feeling they'll leave it with a big question mark as well. We're nearly at the end of the season and there's still so many questions that we need answered. What the heck is Moldaver's deal? What the heck is going on in the vaults? Well, Moldaver was essentially like the communist. Right. Yeah. Yeah, but like what's her deal now?

well it evolved into the raiders so you had this perception of the raiders as just being these like kind of scavenger type people who were just evil and whatever but like which they are they are like scavengery type people but they have they have their own code perhaps yeah their own principles and agenda but i'm sure it must have evolved you know like everything in this show is literally like okay we all have our principles and our ideals right but then when the bomb drops what happens The people that we actually are, they come out. So it's like, how do you deal when the world is falling apart and you're just struggling to survive? I'm happy with how they've surprised me a couple of times because they, the writers know the tropes to expect, you know? For instance, I think it was the previous episode. Lucy was on the ground hiding and the guy, the scientist person walked in, the bunch you threw acid on, walks in, he gets suspicious. the typical thing that'll happen in a moment like that is you get the POV shot of him coming around

and who magically she's not there. Yeah. Instead, they flipped it on its head and he went back and hit the button already because he knew something was suss and he was ready, right? That was cool. My other expectation which I already expressed

was Lucy finds out he's been lying this whole time and she's mad as hell. They just undid that. She came clean and she was like, cool, we're still good. Let's Bonnie and Clyde this shit. In a way, like I find that believable. I mean, yes, you would probably feel maybe upset that someone had lied to you,

but in his situation, it's like, or in their situation, in fact, it's like you don't know who you can trust up there. And also, she's had enough of her innocence taken away where she realizes that being on the surface, sometimes you have to do things that maybe don't align with who you are morally all the time. I'm just happy they skip the whole apology jail, you know? Oh, yeah. You know how you always have that scene in a movie where the characters or in a show where the characters find out it's like oh now i can't talk to you for like 30 minutes or something i'm so mad at you yeah they just skipped all that yeah it's like no no we're still good here i get it i get you i believe me i had to throw acid on someone's face it was a mess the wasteland does shit to us that's so i'm really

happy with that i'm just preemptively concerned i'm going to be frustrated with this blue balls we're gonna have um with the end of the season i'm enjoying maximus more in this episode yes absolutely He's really grown, and I think it was telling at the end where he was like, no, you know, you should go take the head and find your dad, I'll handle this or whatever. And you see that look in his face, which is like, he's smiling for her, but then when she walks away, he's kind of like, I know what's going to happen here. He's going to have to deal with all these people and the fact that he let his night die and all of that. And they're probably going to kill him and torture him if he can't find a way to get out. Though, I guess one critique I want to share is that I appreciate the endeavor for levity in this wasteland story. Sometimes the jokes are just not landing for me quite as I would like them to.

And I'm like, okay, well, you know, it's like a little inside meh or ha ha. But it's not, it's not anything like a gopah. Like when in early on, when Lucy was like, you can't treat people like this. You know, there was the contrast of what you're expecting, you know, and her response to this very crazy situation. And so we have that sort of privileged perspective as the audience of like, girl, you got the whole wrong attitude about this situation. There's a lot of hilarity in there. In the more recent episodes, some of the levities kind of lost on me. Not that I don't get the joke.

I'm just like not tickled as much as I would love to be. And I think it's because I'm getting more compelled by the dramaticness of it all. Yes. Yes, absolutely. I mean, that's what I was going to say. It's kind of like as you get deeper into the story, you're more sucked into the conspiracy of it all. And like, oh my gosh. What's the truth? What's the lie as they're continuing and finding out more stuff?

Yeah, because I'm like, I kind of don't care about the jokes as much as the story now. And I just want that, I want that meaty story. Yeah, you just want to know, like answer some questions, please. Yeah. It was cool, though, that we found out where the finger-mouth monster came from. Yeah. And we find out, furthermore, that it wasn't some evolution natural in the wild from being exposed. It was a scientific effort to find out how to create.

a resistance to the radiation. And it's just an experiment that went wrong and got out. Yeah. That is wild. I actually really appreciate that part of the story and finding that out. Like, they gave us an answer. Well, I wonder what they're trying to say, if anything at all about science and, like, experiments and stuff.

Because part of the reason that we know what we know is because of experimentation, you know? But then it's like, okay, if you had an entire. community that was run by scientists, is it possible, like what happened here, where they would take it too far, where they would be so concerned about the science, more so than the morality of testing on people and the well-being of humans and the humans that are their subjects that they would just like go so far and, you know, take it to that level. Yeah. But I guess, you know, if you don't experiment, then you don't know.

It's like, well, how can you find a happy medium? Should they have been testing on, you know, animals or something else instead? And I know, like, you know, there are lots of people who don't agree with that either. It's like, so what do you do? I would love to think that a community of scientists doesn't lead to that. Yeah. And that we would be more careful and cautious. And, you know, there is, you know, historical precedent for messed up experiments.

And there's the Tuskegee experiments. There's the stuff that happened in World War II. Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, there's a lot of, you know, shit. It's like darkness and not to mention the little thing called 2020. And so there's, you know, depending on your perspective on that, you know, there's all kinds of stuff. And so, yeah. Well, and also you see how the hierarchy as well within the world, right?

Because there was a stuff with his wife where she was like, no, I'm doing all this work so that we can get in the good vault. And if we're to believe that every single vault has experiments going on, who are the people that they decide are the people that they should experiment on? Yeah. And obviously they don't care about the so-called commies either, you know? So there's definitely this kind of, yeah, hierarchy that's happening here. I am happy and I'm frustrated all at once. You guys, thanks so much for hanging out.

Looking forward to the final episode. I'm Jabby Koeh, this is. All right, Cook. Peace out.