The Reel Rejects - FALLOUT 1x07 Breakdown & Review!!!

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Starting point is 00:01:21 I love it too. Man, it's just... Fallout is so good at being so many things at once. You keep crediting fallout and not really the creatives behind the show. Well, I... Well, no, and full credit to the creatives behind the show, specifically, Greg. Not specifically Greg. Greg had nothing to do with the creative behind the show.

Starting point is 00:01:45 You don't know that. I know that. Definitively. You have no idea what I do when you're not around. Who directed this episode? I think it said Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass, the Civil Rights Act is? Yeah, and, uh, like the Frederick Douglass.

Starting point is 00:02:00 Catherine Keener or something. Okay. Well, Frederick Douglass came back from the weird thing for Frederick Douglass civil rights after us. He's got that special, he's got that special juice keeping him around. Frederick Douglass is a cool. That feels offensive. So I'm going to tread lightly on that subject. It's not offensive.

Starting point is 00:02:19 Uh, no, I, I think they have just somehow managed to capture the lightning of, fallout in a bottle and have done such a perfect job at bringing it to life in a way that feels like so new and refreshing and I just I love that like every time that I think I've got something figured out they totally upend it and they do it in the most wonderful unexpected ways sure like when we're in this like vault experiment thing I get like this whole like cockamamian conspiracy in my head about where we're going and then they just now we're going to take it a completely different direction and it pays off in this like weird fun hysterical way that still moves the plot forward but in an unexpected way and that challenges the morals of the characters and that puts them on these kind of interesting you know almost like like any great role playing series has these like interesting moral quandaries that challenge the characters continuously and it's just it's it's so freaking fucking fun. And I think there's so many different dimensions and the fact that we're hopping between so many POVs. And I literally, there's not a single POV that I'm like, God damn, this one again. Like, I'm jazzed to be with any of these characters for any amount of time. Now, do I have favorites? Absolutely. Like, I wish we had more flashbacks. Like, I would love to spend more time in the pre-war drama just because I find it so fascinating. I would also love to just spend more time, uh,

Starting point is 00:03:57 I think, like, Lucy is just such a great protagonist. I think they really knocked her out of the park in particular. And the ghoul is such a compelling character. You know, but I just, across the board, the show has just been, it's just been a fun ride. And as a Fallout fan, I'm, like, contextually trying to put the clues together about, like, this was a good, they gave a good little tease because there was that minute when you had the two guys. eyes in the father and the son in the new california republic ranger outfits where i was like oh hell yeah like the ncr is like really coming back this episode um and like timeline wise i like finally mentally figured it out my brain so this takes place after all the current games

Starting point is 00:04:47 so we really don't know anything about like where the new california republic is at and i think that's really really interesting in that like they've really they have a genuine blank canvas uh and i think it's it's fun like for for a fan that's really into the lore and exploring all of that there's been so much for me to like dive back into and to like go back and like i've been like a couple hours earlier just like deep diving into like oh yeah like back and like fall out one and two like you literally are like there at the founding of like shady sands and like you see how this like little village in the actions of your character like plays an essential role in creating this city that ultimately ends up becoming the sprawling government and I just think it's so cool that they've

Starting point is 00:05:38 managed to like tie something back from the very beginning of this fallout uh experience in universe into something that is like now you know a hundred years later uh and in this whole new medium uh just it's just freaking amazing and i'm just having so much fun and it's honestly more than anything it's so fun experiencing it with you as somebody that is new to the universe uh and just like watching your excitement and seeing how you react to so many of like the fallout isms um and also just like it's an inherently cinematic world right like um and it's it's amazing to watch it adapted to screen and it's amazing to see how you are taking it in and there's like one of the big complaints i think about fallout is that it has up until fallout 76 anyway which has a lot of

Starting point is 00:06:32 mixed feelings about it has always been like a single player game and so it's a very solitary experience even though it's universally beloved by fans it's not something that you ever get to enjoy with somebody else and so that's been really kind of fun to be able to experience this world with somebody that I care about and to like be like oh I'm so glad that I'm not alone and finding like that weird fucking stuff like really enjoyable and like knowing that like odd sense of humor that it like really finds it's like it's happy place on and the strange juxtaposition of like humor and genre bending uh just it's like so validating and so enjoyable but enough me gregg what did you think of this episode

Starting point is 00:07:18 I thought it was, I thought it was another really solid episode. Who's the guy who, the guy with the messed up foot who's now a ghoul? Thaddeus. Thadius. The way this show can take characters that initially I kind of write off at first, go, I'm not too interested in what they're going to be doing with this guy. And then they managed to make them really interesting. A lot of that does come down to good casting, but also,

Starting point is 00:07:47 there's a certain kind of pitch for the writing that you do have to find for these characters because everyone has to be on the same note about the world that they inhabit and I feel like this is the kind of show where maybe it is the game where they all had the time to get to know what the tone of it is what impresses me most about the casting here and the direction overall is that the reason why I think we can cut around to so many characters and characters who are in a variety different types of personas but still constantly flows as everyone still feels like they're a part of the same show they're all part of the same world and a lot of the same like he had like certain kind of reactions when he was in that fred armisen scene and i'm like in this world this reaction

Starting point is 00:08:38 from this guy to how he's responding to these revelations makes so much sense sure sure and And you have to be on the right to because I'm like, oh, I'm just kind of like hearing the script. And I'm going and I'm imagining someone who's going like so dramatic or so heavy or playing too much into comedy. Yeah. And I'm like, but everyone in that scene, they all have the right tone. And I think that is probably the hardest thing this show had to get down. Yeah. And I feel like this, this is one of those episodes that really demonstrates that because you need to have this great middle ground where you can go to the past.

Starting point is 00:09:15 like I love those flashbacks and it's interesting with our ghoul what I love so much about the ghoul character is he's like trapped he's in this present moment in this journey but he's also trapped before the what's the event called when this all happened

Starting point is 00:09:33 when it I mean it's it's a hydrogen not a hydrogen hey that's my project no what's it called available now on Amazon dot com no I mean it has a lot of names to but what do they what does there is there a term that they have for the 50s event the

Starting point is 00:09:51 well it it happens it's not like a particular and it's the day the bombs fell okay so it's 277 it's the the great war the whatever you want to call so yeah we'll call it we'll call it that like he's trapped between that and the moments leading into the great before the great war right and it's all the the whole journey of his time at the wasteland as a ghoul is not something he really ruminates on. Maybe if they keep Walton Goggins around, they will. I feel like out of any of the characters, he might be the, even though he's like kind of the scene stealer.

Starting point is 00:10:23 I could also see him being the one he'll go. I hope that he does it for him. I want him to stay forever selfishly, but... He's an amazing actor, but as a character, it seems like he should find his rest. Kind of tortured. Yeah. Shout out to Ask the Pro for sponsoring us. So some fun facts about me.

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Starting point is 00:12:01 and itchy nose due to allergies. Thank you again, Astopro, sincerely. Because he has had so many, he's probably one of, he's the only character really alive who, at least in his mind, could have perhaps actually stopped this from a current. Yeah, that's probably a part of the torture, yeah. Yeah, it's a hefty weight. Not to mention losing your wife, presumably daughter.

Starting point is 00:12:30 I mean, there's still the question mark of the woman that he's looking for if it's not, you know, because that was, I don't know, how they phrased the language there in the previous episode. has me wondering if he's looking for someone else or holding out hope. I'm not sure. I mean, we'll probably find out in this case. Which would be kind of interesting because if his daughter is a ghoul and survived as well, she is still a kid, at least in a physical form, even though she's grown up mentally. That'd be interesting.

Starting point is 00:13:02 But I think the whole story in the vault four, clarify that with me a tiny bit of what they were saying with it when it came. to Chris Parnell. Yeah, so basically in the Vault 4 situation, originally the scientists that were there decided to start running experiments on an assortment of test subjects. So the monsters that we're seeing are originally humans?

Starting point is 00:13:32 We're all originally humans. So like even the one in the water, as I showed here, was originally human. Those were just original, just normal people that were turned into all different sorts of creatures. those creatures for what purpose

Starting point is 00:13:45 just for the sake of scientists being scientists you know the same reason that like Dr. Mengela and like the Third Reich did awful things like in their mind it was like for science ultimately the experiments killed the scientist

Starting point is 00:14:01 and then took control of Alt 4 and then after shady sands fell they let in the survivors and so all of the people with like the weird physical deformities were all the descendants of the original test subjects

Starting point is 00:14:17 of Vault 4. Got it. But they were under the impression that they were doing that. They were still doing that themselves. Yeah. Okay, but they didn't explain the cult worshipping thing.

Starting point is 00:14:27 Well, the cult worshipping thing comes from apparently at some point in shady sands. People started believing in this sort of cult but that happened prior

Starting point is 00:14:45 to the bombing of Shady Sands or whatever explosion of our of our woman who encountered our ghoul yes who has a name Greg which is Rosemary Nope

Starting point is 00:14:59 Michelle Nope Um Um Marr you're getting warmer What is it And that is a fallout character name What's her name?

Starting point is 00:15:11 I don't know Dang it. Comment in the section below. Okay, so when they're like worshiping her at the altar there at the very end. I mean, no, at the end of last episode, do they view her as like some type of liberator of sorts? I'm trying to put that mystery together myself. Because it kind of seems like what her intention was in the first episode.

Starting point is 00:15:34 All I know is that she is not a figure that I am previously familiar with from the fall. out universe and she definitely did not exist at least to my knowledge in the new california republic at least in the last time that we were there in fallout new vegas um so part of me is kind of curious if she maybe had something to do with it going i'm wondering if the over i feel like she's very anti-vault and i think the overseers um my theory is that these overseers have the longevity lifespan that she has you know there's a lot of different ways that this could go down but there's one way to find out and that's for us to watch the very final episode and how what did y'all think of this episode leave your comments down below don't forget to hit that

Starting point is 00:16:27 like button if you enjoyed our reaction and do us a favor and if you want to be aware if there's any impending atom or nukes or hydrogen bombs on the way hit that notification bell We'll be sure to tell you we will react to it in real time. Greg, do you want to show them what our reaction would be if one goes off? Whoa. And that probably would be back. Whoa. I like that.

Starting point is 00:16:53 It's crazy. I don't understand anything like that. Do you think we can upload faster? All right. We'll see you on the next one. Chris Whamoff. Christopher, listen up, buddy. I saw that.

Starting point is 00:17:08 you showed up in Greg and Coy's a recent live stream. And he didn't show over yours. And thank God he didn't because really it's way too much pressure when you come around now. All right. I try to live up to your example each and every day and yet. And yet, you know, I feel like if I was actually in your presence, even from just across the internet in a live stream scenario, I would be flustered. I would be flummoxed.

Starting point is 00:17:34 I would be all of a of a tizzy just trying to figure out, you know, know, oh my goodness, you know, is there something I can do to help Chris? Because Chris, all you do is to show up and help us. I just notice he only contributes, pretty much mainly contributes to big bucks when I'm around. You know, that is something I've just had to come to grips with, all right? My precious, precious body is worth that much. I don't wonder why this doesn't happen when I'm not there. It's why I'm going to the gym again, Chris, because now I want to be worth your love, no matter how much,

Starting point is 00:18:08 you know, pleasing and, you know, betrayal of my own personal self I have to do to get there, even though fitness generally is a good idea. And I'm sure you have a good fitness regimen, which I would be embarrassed about myself to see upon beholding your beautiful, gorgeous body. So, Chris, keep on staying away from me. And keep on, keep it on supporting the G train. Because it's the only train worth of riding, I'll tell you. That's the word around here.

Starting point is 00:18:36 I love you, Chris. Stay sexy.

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