The Reel Rejects - FALLOUT 1x08 Breakdown & Review!!!

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Starting point is 00:01:26 Message privately with everyone. This video is brought to by Astopro. We got to start the show, Michael. Gosh. And how? Let's watch the show. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Michael, dude, this was, this is a journey, man.

Starting point is 00:01:49 I was, uh, I was like gripped from beginning to every episode. every single episode was so good everyone was thought provoking enriching character driven different that's probably one of the biggest takeaways i have was like they did something different every single episode yeah they explore something different every time and the revelations here you know what i love so much about it and i do want to hear your thoughts about um what they did with the with the very in the flashback when walton gorgans is listening in i love how they manage to keep these truth bombs huh no pun intended these truth bombs in a way where it's they're getting this exposition but it's so telling of the relationship of the wife and and uh and their dynamics and what led

Starting point is 00:02:50 to them being a part as established in the first episode that as you're getting getting this exposition which is like oh man how terrible it's also character narrative simultaneously is it is so uh it is shocking what i i'm so curious for you as someone who like knows the fallout world is there something in here in this particular episode this final episode that you thought was like wow that was surprising that was shocking other than of course getting the Vegas set up. I'm like so, no pun intended, blown away by this episode. And you've known me a long time.

Starting point is 00:03:36 I'm not usually left speechless. I usually always have something. I'm going to just align your mic a tiny video. Align. There you go. The fact that Voltaic. managed to in essence obliterate the new California Republic

Starting point is 00:03:59 at its height of power is like so devastating that history in essence like repeated itself and I think that is like such a like oh it's like such a sucker punch but also it's it's so it makes perfect sense there's been a lot of indication

Starting point is 00:04:28 like I'm one of those people like when you play the game and you go through like all the different like faults and all the different buildings you come upon the different consoles and you can like read all the different entries I'm one of the people that reads every single entry just to digest every bit of the Lord

Starting point is 00:04:48 and like you can contextually like put together that the question was always like who dropped the bomb first this confirmed but not necessarily confirmed right like it indicated that we could drop the bomb first but it didn't say definitively that we did drop the bomb first but it further adds fuel to the fire that we may very well have dropped the bombs on ourselves everything we have to have do you know anything about the behind the scenes of who they They must have worked in conjunction with the video game creators that if they're going to mess with this is Todd Howard is the executive producer on the project and this is all canon. Yeah, so. And so and it was really smart because this takes place, I think about 10 years or so after Fallout 4, which is the last canonical piece of, of the Fallout 4. Vegas was before Fallout 4? Yeah, just a little bit before. And yeah, I mean, it's it's pretty crazy. you know the kind of the

Starting point is 00:05:54 interesting thing about fallout lore though and it's kind of hard to explain it right like it's a role playing game so in every fallout game you decide what happens which means game to game they have to kind of decide ultimately

Starting point is 00:06:13 what happened even though that might not be the path that you went sure so in this one the Brotherhood Steel, like, clearly got wrecked. And so I'm really curious, like, in New Vegas, there's a lot of different, like, options that you could have gone with. There's a lot of different factions that may or may not exist anymore that are going to

Starting point is 00:06:36 add so many interesting elements. And I thought that was a really interesting part about this, is this basically implied that, like, like, the enclave, which we only really saw in the Michael Emerson in the opening episode or two. the scientist and stuff. So, like, they, like, it's so interesting to me the choices that they made, but really, like, for you, did you feel like it was all comprehensive?

Starting point is 00:07:09 Like, did it all? There were times I had to, I'm not sure, I feel like I've only had to ask you a couple of questions. Yeah. I feel like for the most part, that's what I find so enriching about when you're telling me these things is I didn't feel lost for the immediate story

Starting point is 00:07:26 nor was it just about like I don't it wasn't like watching tenant I kind of get what's happening right now but it looks cool so I'll just watch it like I was able to get involved in the story and the characters and I could understand what was happening and I just I think the show did a really

Starting point is 00:07:45 like they extracted the right DNA per scene and per introduction of like even with the brotherhood and stuff just to get enough and then you talk and I'm like oh I could get like expanded knowledge if I play the games and get all that and I think that's the fun thing about even playing the games right like some people are literally just in it for like I want to build a fort you know like like I want to just like experience like the horror of like exploring an abandoned vault or whatever it is and I think that's what's fun about this show is. is if I'm like a fan of just like horror or I'm like a fan of action, like just in this final episode alone, we did so much genre hopping and it was so seamless. And it's just like one moment

Starting point is 00:08:31 the helicopters are flying up and you're like, man, this is like, you could start playing like Cretan's Clearwater Revival and like, you know, fortunate sun. You'd be like, man, that's a great Vietnam. You know, the next thing you know, you have the, just the muzzle flash going off and you're in an action film

Starting point is 00:08:47 or in a horror film rather. and it's like it's brilliant you know what i just realized what this show did yeah it told you the vault tech lie you know it starts off where Kyle McLaughlin the dad Henry you're in vaultic and it looks like they're the heroes they're the protagonists and then he's kidnapped by the baddie and the ghoul's a bad guy all these things and as the story progresses by the time you get to the end. It's the complete opposite. And I don't, I don't want to spoil any of the games in any way, shape, or form.

Starting point is 00:09:27 But that's where Fallout, I think, always succeeds the most, is that you will always begin your adventure with a very, I think, a good, clear moral understanding of who you are and what you stand for and what your objective is and the realities of the wasteland and then the realities of like really brilliant writing and character development will send you on this really fantastic journey that will ultimately always end you in that situation where maybe it's not your dad that you have the gun pointed at the head at but you always have that sort of quandary and you know I found there was a moment in this episode where you had the POV of Lucy and Maximus and they're both going through these decisions and I'm like experiencing it as though I am playing that character and I thought that was like it's it's one of those things that for a role playing game adaptation is such an impressive thing to achieve on screen. You know, I think the Last of Us did such a phenomenal job at capturing, I think, the personality and, like, the spirit and the character.

Starting point is 00:10:53 This was able to capture a whole element of choice and decision and nuance that I don't think I've ever really seen done before in a video game adaptation of television. And, you know, full credit to the Last of Us creative team, and a lot of the interviews with the fallout creative team, they were praising The Last of Us for paving the way of being like, oh, no, this can be done. You were a big fan of The Last of Us, right? I was a huge fan of the game and the... The Last of Us 2 is arguably my favorite game of all time.

Starting point is 00:11:31 And I really did love the show. But that is the different. though is that is an adaptation of a very specific story sure where this is a continuation next is this is an original story sure in the same world that is also a continuation of timeline or from like the others yeah so yeah it's so it's a different it's a different experience and I'm like this is probably what they should be doing more of depending on what you're adapting like if you're if you're adapting if you're adapting the world of this it makes yeah it may it makes

Starting point is 00:12:02 more sense because because yeah I think I think the way they introduced the world via through the characters is what makes it so excellent like they they wrote great protagonist and I love how in the end they all get what they want but it's not what they want it's not ultimately what they wanted like Maximus gets the victory of getting knighted and it's it's everything rings false yeah she finds her dad and truth bombs you know and finds her mom too yeah well like that was devastating I think of they know The writing team on this show, I'm at a take it sounds like the games do it, but the writing team on this show, what I just really commend them for is we've all seen the mistakes that happen where it's like you're either going to get so much information, but it's not really tied to your characters. And then here you're not even really noticing it because it's so seamless.

Starting point is 00:13:00 They weave it together in a way where you're like, oh shit, I'm getting all the information. but it's also completely driving the narrative of the characters. I know I sound like a broken fiddle record. That's clever. But we have experienced every bit of exposition through the lens and perspective and the organic journey of each of these characters. And it has made it so much more palpable and enjoyable

Starting point is 00:13:28 than just like a never-ending lore dump. And frankly, it's like the first time that there has been a multi-P-O-V show, at least in recent memory that I can think of, that I've, like, actually really enjoyed, like, probably since, like, House of the Dragon, if there's any others that have... That's a really good point.

Starting point is 00:13:51 Because, yeah, I mean, like, we're not just talking about video game adaptations that fail it. It's, like, book adaptation shows fail. It's an anime adaptations. It's a hard media. It's a hard thing when there's a big world in the bench of rules. It's like, oh, you've got to really construct character

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Starting point is 00:15:53 And then I'm, like, I'm almost imagining, like, what does that writer's room look like? Or it's like, well, I like to play as a character that leans towards the Brotherhood of Steel. Well, I like to play as like a gunslinger kind of bad character. Well, I like to play as the goody two shoes that is a do-gooder that helps everybody. And eventually, they'd probably realize, well, give him a little bit of everybody in that. And ultimately, and maybe this wasn't their end goal, but in a way, they've organically achieved. And I know if there's any walking dead listeners here, hi, say it, anything. Once who live.

Starting point is 00:16:32 Thank you. But like something that I've complained about the Walking Dead, not the ones who live, but the original series, is that it really struggled in transitioning with the multi-POVs and trying to become this like faction-based drama. It was like either two exposition heavy trying to be this big thing and it lost its like special character like connective tissue and I just couldn't figure out what it was. this show has somehow managed to, without losing that personal touch, still create this bigger world where I can almost imagine it, whether through spinoffs, whether through just the continuation of this main thread of storyline, they've now set up like, there's a really interesting power vacuum. Now they're setting up this idea of rebuilding the world and there's power coming back and there's a need for civilization. There's a lot of interesting stuff that they can do to make this more macro while continuing to experience it through the lens of these characters in a way that feels organic and right. That is that is one of the, this is one of the best seasons of television I've ever seen. Full stop.

Starting point is 00:17:42 Even looking at Walton Goggins, it's like he was giving two completely different performances, right? The, in the 50s or whatever, 50s? Yeah. the retro 50s in the 20s. But it's supposed to like feel like Yeah and it's retro futuristic Yeah

Starting point is 00:17:59 But it's the 27th. Yeah, that's what I meant. So that and then Where he is 200 years from now As the ghoul And then by the time you get to hear Right with that one line I'm like looking for my family

Starting point is 00:18:11 And then when he's talking to Lucy You see that oh You see the full tethering Of how it's come full circle This performance that it is the same Like you always knew it was the same character You could see where the line is, but then once you, like, peel back a little bit of that, get rid of that mystery, it, it's like, bam, it all marries together so, yeah, so perfectly.

Starting point is 00:18:31 Yeah, and it's like, it was like haunting, you know, and unsettling. Yeah. And, uh, funny and weird. I was, I was really, I think this is one of the best season ones of, they could totally botched season two, but. No, it's, it's never too late to botch season two. But I think it's a season one. That's one of the best... No, I think it's, without a doubt,

Starting point is 00:18:54 my favorite pit of television I've watched this year. Yeah, no, it's a powerful TV. I think the thing that's most powerful about it is, I don't have the least favorite episode. I don't... Like, I can't think of an episode that I... They all sort of bleed together at a certain point. It was just a cohesive across the board.

Starting point is 00:19:12 I enjoyed every minute of it. Yeah. All right, outside of the ghoul, who is your favorite character? Lucy, for sure. Okay. I love Lucy. I love Lucy.

Starting point is 00:19:24 They didn't realize what I said. I mean, like, it's the funny thing is like, when the ghoul's on screen, he is, he's the most captivating. Sure. I mean, Walton, God, it's really hard. Yeah. It's phenomenal. It's really hard to be Walton Goggins. Like, Walton Goggins is like an amazing actor.

Starting point is 00:19:46 It's got to be loose. Who's yours? I love dog meat He's a very good boy Sure He's done a very good job Despite being put into some very precarious situations Absolutely

Starting point is 00:19:57 I mean I think Lucy's I agree A phenomenal job The The There's just like some subtle acting Out of

Starting point is 00:20:11 What is the name of the Overseer And the which one which overseer uh in vault 33 oh um forget her name what's her name oh man that's gonna drive me crazy um debby debby i her performance like is that it yeah i think it is no but actually yeah yeah well i i'm sally debby one of those little debby little sally little sally little little little debor anyway uh no i i i I thought the way that she was able to just like subtly terrify the actual living hell out of me.

Starting point is 00:20:55 Yeah. And when you go back, like to rewatch this and re-contextualize that like the woman with the eye patch, Debbie, all these characters are from the past and our middle management and played an active role in the end of the world. That is horrific. Yeah. And it's such a dense, fascinating layer to all of this. So, yeah, I mean, I, I thoroughly enjoyed, I just, I think the Vault Tech plot, Voltaic has always fascinated me.

Starting point is 00:21:29 And, and I think the scary thing is, like, as crazy as it sounds, it's also not that crazy sounding. I think the only part of the show that I, I, we're about to fight. It's not about the Voltaic. It was Jello. It was gelatin, right? What? The only part of the show that I

Starting point is 00:21:57 thought was a little perfunctory of like, okay, yeah, they're the lead, so they're going to do this. But I didn't quite, I love them individually, but I didn't quite feel for it was the romance. Maximus and Lucy. It was forced.

Starting point is 00:22:14 It was the one part of it. It also, like, these two don't know, don't have romance in their lives, so it makes sense they would fall for each other fast. But it didn't strike me so much as romance as much as like, they're just like buddies. Two kids, two kids that are of sexually mature age who feel things and who have not ever had any expressions of like physical intimacy and touch. Like, I don't know. It didn't strike me as like, I think they might be confusing it as. that because they have no education or exposure really. Yeah. But like

Starting point is 00:22:49 you know, Lucy also just, the way in which they talked about sex, like they don't strike me as the type that really have a good have their no pun intended head wrapped around it. Yeah. Yeah, that's

Starting point is 00:23:05 true. That's fair. But no, I agree though. I mean, Maximus is interesting because I would ebb and flow with the but also it's like it's a character that's been through some crazy trauma and grew up in like a military cult so I love how soft he was like in his performance you know like I think that surprised me because when you always imagine like a character in a suit like that you imagine him sounding like tougher like

Starting point is 00:23:33 it is his voice he had a soft boy like he played it like a boy the whole time yeah it's like he was that same boy who lost his home you know I thought he actually did an excellent job I feel like that's a performance that could probably be overlooked honestly and maybe perhaps criticized but i actually really loved what he was doing well i'm all right i'm gonna give like a weird interesting as like the resident star wars guy and the real rejects a lot of that is everything that i wanted out of like the stormtrooper arc for for jen boyega for fin like this idea of like a stormtrooper who becomes just comparing black people who wear suits there it is Mass. Is that what you're doing? Is that what you're doing, Michael?

Starting point is 00:24:14 No, just somebody that from a very young age was indoctrinated into a military cult. That worked his way up. I already talked your way out of that one. I had my talking points ready to go, Greg. I brought the receipts. Well, I had the comments ready to go for you. I had the receipts, sir.

Starting point is 00:24:34 That being said, both of them are fantastic actors. I think John Boya, boyega, was given a horrifically awful. full script um but i think i think this has been really neat and i think the other cool thing that they've set up now is that uh maximus is now in a position of of actual power and influence and i'm curious to see what does that mean for the paradigm of of balance in the wasteland and like you know i'm just i'm so god i'm just excited uh and i really hope that they've started filming right now as we're speaking um but greg final thoughts final thoughts man i'm i'm i'm like a 10 out of 10 on this show

Starting point is 00:25:22 are you going to play the games dude i'm still making my way through red titter redemption too i picked that up a couple months ago and you're never going to finish it's a very long like i'm only on the chapter of three but that i'm playing this for like you are never 50 hours finished gregg you're never going to get there it's not going to happen dutch i've heard so many people be like dutch is one of the best villains i'm like he's not even like a villain yet what is going on you just got to keep giving him his money you got to give him his money you got to give it so that we can all get out of here gregg arthur arthur arthur morgan i'm telling you That's the game. That's all I'm out in the game so forth.

Starting point is 00:26:13 I will say this. If nothing else, you should play New Vegas before season two. If nothing else. I'd like to play because the funny part, here's the funny part about this entire journey. Yeah. I have no clue what the game play would actually be like. Although, that's the, but yeah, when you were like, yeah, this reminds me of like if we were going on a mission. I was like, that's funny.

Starting point is 00:26:39 Because it's probably not right. That's not how that word. Because, yeah, like, you watch the last of a show and you're like, I mean, you fight zombies and shit and you hunt. Like, it's probably easy to, like, correlate what the game might be like. Yeah. And then for me here, I'm like, I still have no clue what the game would actually be or feel like or what the gameplay would be. If this was accurate to the game, we would still be in Vault 33, and I would be looking through every single drawer for any piece of scrap until I am over encumbered and can't walk fast anymore. The game sounds forever.

Starting point is 00:27:18 The game sounds like very long. The thing about Bethesda games, Greg, is that Skyrim came out over a decade ago, and people are still playing. playing it. Fallout 4 came out over a decade ago and people are still playing it. I continue to play these games over and over and over again because they are just marvelous and magic and no matter how many times you play through, you find new things each time. And I think that is just apps, like absolutely magic. Absolutely.

Starting point is 00:28:00 So anyway, final thoughts, 10 out of 10 from me. Honestly, I'm like giddy with radioactive. I got a smile as big as Maximus. Greg. And how? Hey, we'll see you on season two. In the meantime, what did y'all think of this amazing show? Did you love it?

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