The Reel Rejects - FALLOUT 2x02 Breakdown & Review!!!

Episode Date: December 24, 2025

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Michael Tesler, Michael Tesler, I always have this notepad ready to write stuff down, and I rarely do. I wrote Commonwealth relics of a war because I felt like these were words I'd forget. What I learned in boating school is. Yeah,

You were about to ask me something. Yeah. Yeah. You know. What did you think of this episode, Craig? No, no, too bland. Too bland of a question. How do you feel compared to the last episode of where we are going?

You had thoughts about where we would go with Maximus. Yeah. A lot of this was Brotherhood heavy, introducing Commonwealth and a potential civil war. And I know this is an element that you were getting giddy about during. And how was it? paying out for you so far well uh first off i felt like this episode felt more like the first season than the first episode of this which uh of this season which i appreciated um and that it felt like a continuation of a lot of the themes that we're playing with this episode covered so much it's hard

to remember that we started with shady sands and being you know there at the moment of impact that played out, I thought, so brilliantly in setting up Maximus' arc for this season. He finally sort of achieved what he was hoping to achieve. Now he is in a position where his philosophies and who he really is are being put to the question, which I love that through each one of our three main POV characters, we are exploring the moral dilemmas and the choices of a player, but in different ways. I would even say now we have a fourth in the form of Hank.

Yeah, I completely agree. And I'm glad that they're doing that, and they're not just leaving him as a sort of a fifth in the form of norm. Oh, yeah, unless we forget. We'll see where his arc takes him. I mean, maybe he is the true star of the show. I like seeing the parallel, just dawn on me right now, of how they're paralleling.

a bit of a journey between Hank and Norm of what they're both doing. Oh, interesting. Yeah, there's certainly a meekness to both of them that one has overcome and one is overcoming. And that's a tough shadow to... I mean, do we know how much he knows

about his father? I'm trying to remember from... I don't think he learned the whole truth. He was unpacking all of like Vault 31, but there's a fun duality kind of happen. happening with them because Hank is a false leader towards the people in the vaults, but also he's secretly what appears to be working for Robert House, right, at the Vault Tech guys.

And then you have Norm, who is taking on this leader, managing role for Vault Tech when he's not to lead these people and stuff. So there's, in some ways, he's more like his father than Lucy is. And Lucy is the one who has the close connection and seemed. to be the one who's a really good point. Like Lucy's the one who has taken on the role, the guide that he has instilled the lessons, even if that wasn't who he really was underneath.

And Norm is sort of evolving to be, even though he's much more good-hearted, some of the actions he's taking show a little bit more of that, that willingness to be a little bit more mischievous and a liar. To do what it takes. Yeah, do what it takes. More like his dad. Well, and it's interesting too because I'm not sure that I've,

by just yet that Hank serves a house I think Hank serves Hank even though he called some oh you mean and then you know you know and I mean

that's the I think and that's also perhaps where the two of them exist in a similar trajectory to where there is a certain selfishness whereas you know we have in the form of his sister somebody that is

in every sense of the word selfless perhaps to a fault or a vault one might say waka waka no I I totally

I totally agree I love how they are playing into you are seeing everything that is wrong with the brotherhood while also you see the potential

of like what it can be which is a great sort of common theme that I think they've managed to capture from the games because like Maximus every player the first time they see power armor they're like, I don't care what I have to do

I'm going to get that power armor and the easiest way to get the power armor is to go through the brotherhood and I think there's something really interesting happening obviously the setup for the commonwealth and even seeing the commonwealth representative

I didn't get the character's name but jump off the vertebrae at the end Oak male I guess we can just call by his human It's very, just to draw the eye and make you go, Camille Mongeon! Exactly what it would be.

But I think the, his like swagger and sort of the instant, that is in so many ways everything that Maximus wants to be. And I wonder if he is going to fall into a sort of another

false idol sort of situation where definitely. He sort of continuously puts these people on the pedestal instead of being the person on the pedestal. himself this episode is brought to you by prize picks the app that finally let me crash my wife's fantasy sports click yes i used to overhear her and her friends bonding while i sat in the corner

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not just the father figure but what the father figure represented which is a way of living, a way of life, a philosophy and it's tough because to his point and I mean he said it directly in this episode to his knowledge

this is the best there is. There's not another alternative. The best I can do is try to make this just a little bit better. And I think that seeing the different factions and the different viewpoints this season is inevitably going to have that personal impact on Maximus's journey and character growth.

I have to say, I think in terms of shows, and tell me if you disagree, I think in terms of shows that show different character POVs and are in that sort of world-building stage, that this is top tier, like Game of Thrones level top tier from jumping from one to the other, and nothing ever, despite the absurdity of it all, everything feels very real. And very, you know, I mean, even in, like, how they set up shady sands and seeing that, like, it felt so tangible. Like, you can see it. You imagine it that felt genuine and lived in. And I feel like they've done a good job of that so far for all the other, you know.

And it's something we've talked about in the past. I feel like Walking Dead really struggled with trying to figure out how to take that leap. Definitely. You know, so in terms of the characters that you are like, this is my reason for wanting to watch every week. Like, who's... Waltz and Goggins out easily. Yeah.

I mean, yeah, it's like they paired up the two that are... I love Maximus. I do. I love Maximus. And I like the storyline that we're getting with him. And I actually find what we got with him more impactful than what we've got with the Gould and Lucy so far, honestly. I feel like there's been like information dispersed

and good teases of dynamics to... come but there hasn't been much of a real strong evolution outside of some of the more surface stuff of you know budding dynamics and quipping and the potential to learn about hope humanity and for her to become a little bit more like him and get a little bit more cold than the soul kind of reminds me of the rough start to the dynamic in the first season of ossoca in a way like i feel like they're they're saying the things but i'm not feeling just yet. Which is interesting

because in the first season I thought it was it was so much it was so important the biggest strengths was watching her point of worldview get like slowly

shattered over time from her experience with him and it seems like the little bit of that has been sort of walked back this season maybe that's what I'm feeling

where I'm like some of that growth isn't there but I also have a hunch that the setup that we landed on this episode with where she is

and the fact action that she is with, which I'm so curious as a non-fallout. Well, I think the thing that's missing for me, honestly, with Lucy is that we, she had such a specific journey in season one and where it ended with her having to shoot her ghoul mom and then her dad being confronted with the truth. And it seems like her personality is just right back to where it was before. When I'm like, oh, I kind of wanted to see who we just are was a couple days ago, carry on that personality more.

Yeah. what's the fallout of her of all those revelations and of that growth and maturity and and maybe what her demeanor would be like now versus just go back to default person on which i guess in some ways arguably more human yeah but i think it just this just happened maybe that's exactly what they're playing with like maybe at some point early on this season we are going to have the needed breakdown that she didn't have time for because She immediately had the action of I need to find my father. That's fair. But who knows? I have to say, like at this point, with the intentionality of everything, the intentionality to detail, how all the different dots can act, I have a hard time imagining that they aren't going to make us rue those words that we just... Yeah, yeah, perhaps. But that's just the optimist to me.

Okay, dokey. Yeah. Creature was cool. Lobster King. What was it called? Lobster King. Rat lobster. Is that going to be our next t-shirt?

Lobster King. What was it? It was a rad scorp. A rad. A rad? Like radiation. Scorp. Like scorpion?

That's a scorpion on a lobster. And it pincers. Like a scorpion. Like a scorpion. And it had pincers. Like a scorpion. Yes, Greg. Well, you know.

It looks like a lobster. Yeah. Have you seen holes? no i haven't really we have a shy of the buff i haven't seen it guys he hasn't seen holes please like yell at him in the comment section but i do like holes oh don't at the exact reason you're thinking of i like bagel holes that the show keep going deeper and deeper you know what i mean oh oh a tunnel of love gross um well gregg i uh i have to say if i had the rate this episode

I would say I really liked it yeah I would say uh 4.5 holes out of 5 yeah can we have a new official rejects

grading system yeah we'll go by holes four holes out of five holes yeah I say four and a half holes four and a half holes right yeah no this was this was top to your television

I was at the edge of my seat you were literally not just because my back hurts no mine code's my back hurts well guys what did you think about this episode though there's so much to unpack so much for next week.

I'm excited for what's to come. Leave your thoughts down below in the comment boxes. Don't forget to buy your ghouls have a nice day shirt. Gules just don't want to have fun. That's what I'm talking about, baby. All right, we'll see you guys soon. Reject, leave your thoughts down below.