The Reel Rejects - FALLOUT 1x01 Breakdown & Review

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Starting point is 00:01:17 Harry's. MJ a Tesla, ready to dive into this and see what the journeys is. Blah, blah, blah, blah. I was so smooth that whole intro. I got my Nucca Cola, my stim packs, and I'm ready to go. You just spoiled the whole show. all righty guys well if you're listening to us on apple or spotify we just watched the first episode of fallout now normally we'd like to really talk for a significant period of time but we got eight of these episodes that they drop all at once and i'm sure by the time we're reviewing this right over time we're at this point in video you've already watched like the whole show or something like that so uh yeah we'll talk for a little bit to give the first impressions there's no need to

Starting point is 00:01:57 really hyper-theorize about where the show is going to go down. Minder, I don't know this world. Michael knows the games very well. So Michael, as a fan of the games, what did you think, my friend, of the pilot for Fallout? You know, I came into this, absolutely terrified. I think they knocked it out of the park. They captured the spirit of the games.

Starting point is 00:02:23 I mean, the setup felt like the setup of, every great fallout game. The texture, the feeling, the dialogue, every part of it from start to finish was just, it was fallout. And they did not shy away from the violence. They did not shy away from the sex. They captured the music, the tone, the costume design, the prop design, the acting, the script. I mean, just like top to bottom.

Starting point is 00:02:54 And they did it in a way to where it felt so awesome. authentic to fallout and it feels like it's part of the universe, while it also feels wholly original, which I know is the goal going in. And I think that's something really neat. Like there is, uh, the intent here was that it's not a, a retelling of any particular fallout game as much as it is its own story just within the extended fallout universe. Uh, and I think that was such a smart move. And, you know, I've been saying for a long time, especially like since the last of us came out. Like, if you give video game producers the ability to be a active participant in the creative process, they're very good. You know, and I think historically big film studios and television studios have shied away from that. And because of that, you get these, like, really horrific adaptations. But between the last of us and now fallout, like, I think this has the opportunity to become, like we said earlier during the reaction, like a game. a throne scale series especially like knowing

Starting point is 00:04:01 the extent of the lore and where it can go and the way in which it is exploring this exposition through these like extremely personal and compelling characters I mean like I'm so interested in your opinion Greg just from

Starting point is 00:04:17 like somebody that has zero exposure no pun intended to fall out I also like maybe it's because of the state of the world. But, like, the opening sequence was just so horrifically jarring in a way that, like, as hard as it is to, like, play the fallout games and just be like, oh, the apocalypse, it's so scary. Like, the way that things are right now, it is kind of like a friendly reminder of how fragile things are.

Starting point is 00:04:50 And, like, we're in L.A. and to see L.A. like, go up like that. I was like, oh boy, oh boy. But yeah, and it's just like retrofuturism is a hard thing to capture and make it feel realistic, you know? Like, Fallout is inherently unrealistic, right? Like, it takes place in the future, but it feels like it's the 1950s. And you have these characters that are like kind of caricatures, you know, ridiculous, you know, and you have these like crazy juxtapositions of genres. And, I mean, you have something like the Brotherhood of Steel like this like,

Starting point is 00:05:24 odd religious cult uh that is like militaristic and then you have you know the vaults themselves which are just wild and to make that all work and somehow feel believable is just like an extraordinary feat of storytelling so i don't know i just had an absolute blast uh what did you think gregg i thought it was a fantastic first episode i really really thought that maybe we were just walking something that was going to be more world buildy i had faith in it because jonathan nolan and i'm a big fan of the west world show yeah so i even liked uh a lot of west world that a lot of people don't like so i'm like i'm not

Starting point is 00:06:03 i'm inclined to the voice of jonathan nolan overall i would say and i love how it's book ended with the ghoul character really showing the before and after with him uh specifically even giving you a chance at hope of you you watched him as the ghoul at the end See, like, what a lethal, badass he is. And I love how people were, there were men talking down to him at the beginning of this. And he kind of just took it. And then he, and then all here in the way far future, as he's morphed completely into this world, he is officially the gunslinger, not just playing a cowboy, men talking down to him.

Starting point is 00:06:43 And he whoops their asses. Like, it's such a great change of trajectory. And that's just one little example of why I think this show works so well is, They focus so much on the intimacy and the emotionality of the characters and they allow that to be the world building. There's so much at the time where I'm like, okay, I don't fully get like the entire ins and outs, but I never felt lost at the same time. Like you need to, as an audience member who's being introduced to this, I was like, I just need to latch on to what I need to latch on to right now. And then I'll further understand it as it develops, but I was never confused if that makes sense. There was never a scene where I was like, I really have no idea what they're talking about, you know?

Starting point is 00:07:29 And if I ever had a question, I was always like intrigued and trusted the show will take me to a place where I would eventually understand what's happening. And like the way how Jonathan Nolan directs, I think is so smart, even right from the prologue of when you first see like a robot in the living room, it's just kind of off in the corner. So that way you're just staying lived in with the humanity of it instead of just going flashy with the futuristic stuff. and they do that right out of the vault too with things that reflect like the hydrogen bomb dropping and you see like the corpses outside and then you go to the big scale shots like it was smart to constantly go intimate

Starting point is 00:08:05 then big scale versus big scale show budget yeah but more importantly like as a story I was hooked so much into the emotion of the characters Lucy if there's one little minor complaint for a pilot but it's just a pilot. And like I said,

Starting point is 00:08:22 the show that released it all the once. So it's meant to be binge. Yeah. And that's why I don't want to like spend too much time harping on a point like this is that not every story here is as equally interesting as some of the like the Maximus one. I'm like,

Starting point is 00:08:35 that's interesting. But it's really easy for me like with the loose you want, I'm way more a gravitated toward. So it's really just a preference at that point. Sure. And it's not. Those are going to converge though. Yeah,

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Starting point is 00:10:54 Till next time, Reject Nation. Till next time. I always admire a show with multiple POVs. Yeah, and I feel like it's a hard thing to pull off. And when it is pulled off successfully, I think it makes for like my favorite television. Absolutely. Because in essence, you're getting like five great shows. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:11:11 And that's what I mean. I think the melding a genre is they're excellently pulling off. Yeah. And the practical effects are wonderful. and I, it's smart, like they have a bit of that J.J. Abrams-esque touch where, okay, there's a mystery about her mom. She's going to go rescue her dad, but she's got to uncover answers along the way about the truth. So I think it's just a really smart pilot. Like for a first episode, it's very, very intriguing and it's grounded for something that's so large. I was surprised by, because, you know, like I've seen like other shows. that are adaptations. I think Last of Us did it really well for the most part,

Starting point is 00:11:50 but that is essentially retelling. That's a great point. I wasn't a huge fan of Avatar, the live action, wasn't a huge fan of that. Like some of it, there was overall, I was like,

Starting point is 00:12:02 this is like the opposite to what Avatar was doing. You know, we're just like information overload. You know, so I, yeah, and I like the visuals

Starting point is 00:12:10 and the violence and the irony that is constantly happening to. Yeah, it's cool. No, exposition's a dangerous thing. And I feel like they've found a perfect balance here. And again, I, and I've said it, you know, in other videos that we've done.

Starting point is 00:12:23 Like, the best way to experience great exposition is through, like, profound personal journeys. And I feel like they've set us up with such wonderful characters. I do think there was one giant mistake that was made. Where the heck is Ron Perlman? Every fallout should begin with war. war never changes like that's just like an essential and I don't understand why it's not there that's not a hard call of Ron Perlman and see on strike what's going on uh you know but other than that like I'm super jazzed um oh and the acting is amazing yeah the acting is is is top notch every actor here

Starting point is 00:13:04 is incredible yeah and uh and yeah I mean honestly I'm like kind of don't want to talk anymore because I want to watch the next one you watch the next one that's what's the next one guys I'll close it Michael, you do it Yeah Listen I hope that Everybody has taken

Starting point is 00:13:19 their iodine tablets And that you have A Geiger counter Or a Pipboy handy Because it is getting Radioactive up in here We'll see you on episode two Thank you for joining

Starting point is 00:13:30 And don't forget to leave a like And What was your favorite part of the pilot Leave your comments below We'll see you in the next one Michael B Omni media got to shout this guy out because i'm going to assume that right now he is also covering

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The Reel Rejects - FALLOUT 1x01 Breakdown & Review

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