The Reel Rejects - FALLOUT 1x03 Breakdown & Review

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Starting point is 00:01:30 Citizens of the Reject Nation, we're here to watch Fallout, Episode 3. Been loving this series thus far. It's so good. Did you change? Yeah. You did. I did. We just watched episode, too.

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Starting point is 00:02:22 All right, Michael. I'm ready to do this. We're going to have a great time. And it's going to be vault-tastic. Wow. irony genius genius genius genius this really makes me want to play the game dude you'd love the games like it's just a really good show that's a wonderful show i don't i don't feel like i'm missing out on anything and i've ever and every game gives you just a different part of the world

Starting point is 00:02:47 where it's just you could enter from any point and it's it's that's what i love about it my first game was fallout three and you know i think that's what i love about it like just it's super accessible super fun moises areas he seems so familiar it's got like a nicolodian show or so moises areas the name is familiar um damn yeah damn that's really engrossing shit dude it's really engrossing i'm having the time of my life i'm like super bummed that uh there's only one season out and yeah i i i'm just like i just want to watch this forever Walting Goggins is killing it. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:03:31 Oh, absolutely. Like, you can see how they're the same guy, but he kills both timelines. Yeah. Well, I think that's such a very Jonathan Nolan skill set, too, as a director to be able to... Yeah, they did something like that in Westworld. In Westworld, yeah. I mean, that was to me what, like, lured me into season one, like, all those reveals. But, yeah, just the...

Starting point is 00:03:56 The juxtaposition, between the two and like and they're not giving in at all like which I think would be like an easy thing to want to like have his character have like even a little bit of a heart at any point God I love how freaking ruthless he is I love it oh this is nothing there like he's so ugly he's so nasty yeah and it's just the heartbreak and the pain and the suffering is just like it's so palpable and of course he's met with this character that is just like the epitome of this like of like the childlike wonder encapsulated of the american dream it's just like the craziest funny thing in the world um it just gets me really excited like i i know i'm i love a character trajectory i love a character arc and yeah i what's exciting about what they're doing with lucy is not only will she change internally but you get to see like a physical transformation happening like she's literally being put through all kinds of trials yeah and she's gonna completely evolve that's like my prediction and an obvious one that the show is even telegraphing for you like on

Starting point is 00:05:11 episode two like yeah yeah she's gonna change yeah well she has to she has to and she's gonna have to make choices and i think that's my favorite like i said in our last reaction like one of the best parts of fallout is that it's a role playing game and you have to make these critical choices and you have to choose you know down to like what kind of moral arc are you going to keep what sort of decisions are you going to make what factions are you going to back and ultimately what long lasting impacts are you going to have on the wasteland and I think for her where she started and where she's ending like it always begins with this personal journey but ultimately that personal journey for

Starting point is 00:05:58 whatever reason always has this profound impact on the larger world. And I'm just excited for her because I feel like, I don't know. After the things that she's experienced and seen, who knows which way she's going to go. And obviously, she's under a lot of, like, duress and influence. And you've got all these, like, really compelling characters. But they've just, like, really captured the magic of the world. I don't want to get, like, too excited about the future. But part of me is like wondering, I mean, I'd be shocked if we don't get a season two. It all depends on how well this doesn't do. Better do well.

Starting point is 00:06:38 Better do well. Watch the show and watch it over again because I really want a season two. But I hope that we don't come back to these characters and almost like just go to another, like, unique story if they were to continue this each season. That would be interesting. Because I feel like it's just such a big world And this is the first time in a long time That we've been on the West Coast in the Fallout universe And I've really loved it so far

Starting point is 00:07:05 And I think like the crazy thing is like There's like some big parts of the West Coast Narrative story wise that like We haven't even been introduced to yet That I'm super jazzed about And I think the fact that they haven't even scratched that surface yet And they've already like given us so much It just bodes so well for the rest of the sea

Starting point is 00:07:25 season and and like speak so well to the writing there's a lot of things they could have like easily given into in the writer's room from just like the lore that they're playing around with but instead they've like they've stayed focused they've stayed character driven and i feel like for for new fans like yourself like what a wonderful entry point yeah i'm not at all um even the only time i like thought of the game was when when she lost ahead and they were trying to like retrieve it for for brief seconds the only time i thought of of the game of like oh i could see how this is kind of like a video game level but most of the time i'm you know you could you could watch a lot of those like movie adaptations that that had happened yeah and you're like i'd rather just play the game because even if i don't really know the game i can tell this is a game i'd just rather play the game and and and so with watching this i'd never get an inkling of that and make it so that's what me it's only when you go to the credits at the end that I go, oh, you know, it would be cool to step into this world. But I do love the way they're doing the storytelling overall, like with Maximus as well.

Starting point is 00:08:32 He's out of like the three, he was the one who I didn't quite feel like his character portrayal was quite at the same level. Sure, sure. As Lucy and the ghoul. But this episode brought it up to there where now I'm like, okay, now I'm like equally invested in his story as well. adding his squire was a really smart choice and is also putting him into like a weird paradigmic sort of situation and obviously he has to get caught at some point

Starting point is 00:09:04 and that reckoning is going to be really interesting and tough for him but yeah it's it's a fun dynamic and I think ultimately like for him it's like he wants to be this thing and for nothing without the suit you shouldn't have the suit at all is the quote i just got yeah no but that's exactly it's the ira back uh and and you know he's he's on his way you know he's peter parker and uh and we we think he can

Starting point is 00:09:35 get there so yeah i i'm so curious uh i mean obviously like in our little silo you and i love this i'm so curious how the rest of the world is reacting to this well there's a couple other things though i want to mention yeah please the vault storyline oh yeah wow sorry we totally glazed over that um because without like i i didn't when we were first cutting back to it yeah my first reaction to it was like huh i think the show's finally doing something i'm not all that interested in watching the i wasn't i wasn't that interested and then once they started introducing like reforming the prisoners and you see how the rest of the world views vault society.

Starting point is 00:10:23 What's it called? Vault dwellers? Wild dwellers, yeah. Use vault dwellers and how it's like this utopia of sorts. Sure, sure. And then you introduce this element into that. Yeah, yeah. You're like, oh, shit, you're going to get a taste of like the emotions.

Starting point is 00:10:40 The real world. And like the divide happens there when there's so much like rules and, um, Everything is, there's order, you know, and there's no, and now things are going to get out of hand. And I love, I love that of how the chaos is like seeped in there. Into the, well, and I don't want to get like too into it. And I don't think that they're really exploring. It's not really the show to explore it as much as like fallout in general. But every vault is a social experiment.

Starting point is 00:11:16 in that there is a particular like vault tech as a company when they built each of them there was a like yeah what if these are all like controlled experiment areas where they have a prolonged period of time where they can test people

Starting point is 00:11:34 these three being together is clearly that controlled setting of like oh can we have these like three that can form in essence a mini society and how can they interact trade and work together as a really fascinating kind of like uplifting one some of them were like really really messed up throughout the games of like like all different sorts of like torture and gaslighting and all different sorts of things uh and what's interesting is this vault was clearly not set up for this sort of like messed up experience uh and it it's fun to watch this sort of like ethical dilemma where these people have genuinely lived like the ideal vault tech dream that was marketed and promised yeah uh and and it's interesting because

Starting point is 00:12:23 like you had all these characters that i think prior to the the pilot and being attacked like i don't think you know the the woman that that lost her eye and her husband would have called for like the murder of prisoners yeah um but now they're faced with like a water crisis and And that's such an interesting to create like a fascinating moral dilemma. I also think it's like it's the funny little things that they do. So for instance, like they have a really fun mobile game called fallout shelter where you're basically an overseer and you get to like have characters and you assign them to different things in the vault and you have to like make sure there's enough. water food and power and then you have to like defend against raiders and send people out and make babies and keep the whole ecosystem alive and it's like a really fun like i've spent way too

Starting point is 00:13:27 much time and admittedly a little too much money on this stupid little mobile game uh and it's kind of fun because like you're kind of posed with some of those like ethical dilemmas in the game itself and so it's like so funny to just like see it put into this context um and then it's just like the little details throughout the show too of like like like uh when it regurgitated the head seeing like the toaster and all those like random items that like when you're like checking the loot on the body and you're like why is there a toaster on this creature you know like why is there you know um that creature by the way excellent work thank you to g2a for sponsoring this video g2a stands for gate to adventure your portal the digital entertainment offers everything from

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Starting point is 00:15:18 deals today and discover why g2a is your essential gateway to adventure and savings in the digital world oh my i mean but that's that's like fallout well number one it was so well done um that is the one and and i'm sure it was like a deliberate choice uh because if you play it the fallout games like it's like hard to go like 10 feet without running into something that is just like abysmal and terrifying I think in a show experience, you want to reserve that so it has impact. Yeah. And I think they've been very like wisely conservative with it. Yeah. And it's been impactful and I've got a gut feeling that we'll probably see a lot of it towards the end. Um, particularly like some of the, well, I'm not going to say anything

Starting point is 00:16:05 more than that. Um, well, it feels very, I think like it's a very thoughtful show. Yeah. And it ruminates and I like I love the I love the character interactions you know watching watching what Maximus is doing and getting confused here with the power and like Lucy and the ghoul interacting is so compelling like those two in a scene together is like a fantastic what they represent is so yeah especially because he was in so many ways what she aspires for the world to be I want to look at who plays lucy she is so good she's phenomenal i got to look her up she is like freaking amazing yeah i second that i suppose she got i keep saying like lucy actor without like saying her actual name is ella pernell what oh that name is so familiar what has she been in

Starting point is 00:17:05 she's london uk she's in miss pettiguin's home for peculiar children That's the Tim Burden movie. I mean, I've never seen that movie. Then she's in Kickass 2, which I don't remember at all. And that was... Congrats to her. Any years ago that, yeah. Yeah, so this is like their first really big...

Starting point is 00:17:27 Oh, she's an Army of the Dead? Who's an Army of the Dead? I don't remember that. Oh, yeah, yeah, Kate. She's the daughter of Dave Bautista on that. That's all I remember. Whatever. Oh, she's the voice of Jinks and Arcane?

Starting point is 00:17:41 Have you seen Arcane? Oh, brilliant show. Brilliant. I've heard good things. Brilliant, yeah. Good things. Anyway. I love her.

Starting point is 00:17:49 She's amazing. I'm very excited for it. It's always nice when you, like, you see somebody, you're like, oh, your career just got a much-deserved booster. Yeah, she's fantastic. Anyway, we got, uh, how many, eight? Okay. You've got a fiber of a system. That's it?

Starting point is 00:18:05 That's sad. Yeah. I want more. I'm not going to lie, guys. Whenever, before we're about to film, like, all right. Another hour. let's do it and then when we're watching I'm like this is really good

Starting point is 00:18:16 I don't even want to like talk no that's exactly I'm just really enjoying this yeah no it's it's honestly one of the hardest parts of reacting is like I want this for me no but we want to share it with all y'all I just want to binge it like everyone else and just like be quiet at watching it all yeah yeah I really but it is kind of cool to have a show like this

Starting point is 00:18:37 that is such a experience for a fan of the IP and then for myself to be a newcomer to come from because I'm just like I'm just pure storytelling right here and I'm like this is damn good this is really good storytelling no it's a and I think that's the fact that they have achieved both says everything you need to know about the series well I think it's so was where you're telling me the fact of that it's not based on it's not a retelling of any story just takes place with the same world and it's following that trajectory like this could be a video game installment essentially for you're telling me

Starting point is 00:19:05 and I think that was the smartest decision they could have made because if they were doing a retelling it would I think that's the problem that happens with with the most adaptations and and I think I think that was an idea of Todd Howard's who gets like so much hate and so much love Todd Howard is the creator of like the new generation of fall he's the boss man over at Bethesda got it um and like his involvement in this series and I think his partnership with Jonathan Nolan has really been like the secret sauce to pulling this off yeah um because he's just like like has played a role in making some of the greatest

Starting point is 00:19:46 RPGs of our time and and I don't know I just I think that approach to like respect the creatives and and give them the breathing groom to create something original and I think the respect goes both ways right like Jonathan Nolan clearly respects the fallout IP and I think you know Todd Howard and the fallout team clearly respect jonathan nolan and the creative team in the writer's room that they've put together um and and frankly the uh the ensemble of directors uh and and the whole crew i mean top to bottom it's been really phenomenal what but he's not the creator of this show right was he like he's nothing like he directed these episodes but is he like uh imagine like an executive producer of

Starting point is 00:20:34 the show i think he's an ep yeah yeah he's got to be like an ep yeah it's definitely got to be a producer. The Nolan is driving as a guy who just like direct something he'd have to at least be a producer.

Starting point is 00:20:44 Yeah. It's like the ones who are credit on writing all the time are Geneva and Graham Wagner at least in the episodes that we watched.

Starting point is 00:20:52 Well, Geneva and Graham. Well done. Yeah. Way to go. What else have they done? Giving all the credit to Jonathan Nolan

Starting point is 00:20:58 and we're like, we should also like credit the people who keep coming up on the ridden by. Yeah. No, that's a very good point. Geneva,

Starting point is 00:21:06 Captain Marvel and Tomb Raider. That's funny. Because Tomb Raider also had Walton Goggins in it. Well, that's how this goes, right? Yeah. So you find your people. Another video game adaptation. Graham Wagner.

Starting point is 00:21:19 Oh, in Portland. Yeah, Silicon Valley. Great series. Damn. Those are two very different backgrounds of it. But you know what? That's such a great. Silicon Valley is such a interestingly perfect comp in that like weird drama comedy.

Starting point is 00:21:35 Like, it's the genre bending. Yeah. That's fascinating. Anyway, I had a great time, man. Yeah. Want close this out, buddy? Yeah. Listen, to those who have joined us in the journey so far,

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Starting point is 00:22:13 Wow. No wonder he's good at genres. He gets the best of both pieces. Ah, waka, waka. Bye, everybody. You know, John, Gabriel, I'm constantly getting, like, different vibes from him.

Starting point is 00:22:28 You know, like, we were always doing these archangel shoutouts about him. And I just, like, stop it. I'm an atheist. Devout. And I'm just trying to define what his personality is, between that like was he offended by that assuming that he's probably like a super good

Starting point is 00:22:45 hearted guy due to him being an archangel because when i read it tonally it seemed like he was on the defense about sure but i wasn't exactly sure if he was on the defense or if that was just the way i was receiving you're just being humble because he doesn't want to play up the fact that he is that pious and you know uh descent from on high it's like imagine an atheist who was like that that kind and giving but has no beliefs. That's kind of like crazy, right? It's the purest forminist. It's the most purest form of an angel

Starting point is 00:23:17 when you think about it. That is true. Like there is no sense of trying to serve for any greater gain. I've pledged no allegiance other than that I will do what is good and right always. Not to try to get to heaven, not to try to satisfy some outside force or entity.

Starting point is 00:23:33 It is just to be good. And like how you've been here consistently. contributing your hard-earned dollars our way every single month. So you're probably better than an angel. You're like a, you're like a super-duper angel. You're like a super duper angel. You're like, you're like a super sane angel, you know? Keanu Reeves is probably an angel.

Starting point is 00:23:57 If we were, yeah, if this was city of angels, it wouldn't be Nick Cage. It would be Keonner Reeves and Megarime. It would be, I can't imagine. Based on Gabriel. That's right. You are the inspiration. And we thank you for that. Appreciate you, Gabriel, for despite not believing in anything that you believe in being a good person regardless.

Starting point is 00:24:19 Thank you. Thank you.

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The Reel Rejects - FALLOUT 1x03 Breakdown & Review

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