The Reel Rejects - FALLOUT SEASON 2 EPISODE 6 REVIEW – VAULT-TEC IS SO MUCH WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT!!

Episode Date: January 21, 2026

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With fusion, and they are mysterious. Okay. And it is very hard to do this. And he said that there's a war coming. We need you ready. He's specifically... Ron Perlman. Ron Perlman, the actor said that.

I just have to really quick. Ron Pearlman, who is the opening narration voice for Fallout 3 and beyond. Also in Blade 2. And Hellboy. I think everyone goes to Blade 2. And I also, he is in my future fictional series Rolling Thunder. Oh, he's actually the star of my fictional movie that came out. And I have a real dog.

Yeah, that was, it's so funny because all of season 1, if you recall, I kept waiting for him to appear. to say it and to have him appear as a super mutant excellent i wanted him to appear under someone taking a shit in a bathroom stall and just go like in blade two war never changed it's like bend out me just the first me every time i've had beans more never changes i love that gregg that's beautiful i met ron perlman once i am ron perlman yeah i met real ron perlman yeah not fictionally how was that it was interesting because all night women were going up to him and was always really kind and like smiling. Hey.

And then the second I went up to him. He's like, so stupeas. Can let it go. Just like, do you mind if I take it for? I was like, yeah, let's do it. Yeah. Like, it's the least interested to take it on. Wow, that's great.

Except for like two seconds. He was like chatting up with anyone else. Oh, well, we'll have him on the channel. It must be me in the way I come across. Yeah. He's not tall. He's a short guy. Is he?

He's so. He seems like giant? I mean, he's shorter than me. I feel like he's broad. But I never necessarily imagined him as super tall as much as I imagined him as super a generous wingspan. He's got to only be like 5-7 or something.

Wow. I'm tall. I'm pretty sure. Look, we've got to look this up. Before we go any further. Before we go any further. We got like 10 minutes to talk, but we must find out really quick.

If Ron Perlman height and then Michael take it away. Ron Perlman height. Six foot. No, that's so a bunch of six foot lies. I met this guy

in person. Were you wearing heels when you met Ron Perlman? Like I was looking down at I'm 510. There's no way. Also,

did we actually confirm that it is Ron Perlman in the credits? I mean, it has to be Ron Perlman. I mean, it looked just like him and you recognize his voice.

Yeah. I mean, that's, yes. Which I'm very proud. I didn't spill his name out. Like you did. I mean,

I know that's literally your job. They showed his face. Spoiler, spoiler, spoiler. See if they give his name. Oh, he's not even in the credits. And Ron Perlman. Okay. Excellent.

And six foot eight actor, Ron Perlman. All right, Michael. So please take it away on why you were so excited because of the war never changes. You already said what you said, right? Well, that and freaking super mutants. That's one of those from the very onset of adapting fallout to TV. Something I was always. worried about is like how are they going to handle the more fantastical elements and it's a little bit

easier with a ghoul just by virtue of the fact that they're relatively human the sinus nose yeah um but i was really concerned that you know implementation of super mutants wouldn't wouldn't be done well and uh i feel really great about it um really i don't know anything about what a super mutant is but i feel like they can get away with like a bunch of weird creatures nothing seems out of this realm yeah had that weird fish thing with the hands and the mutated people. Yeah. I mean, that's a, this is a fellow mutant in that regard. QXman 97 theme.

I assume they're playing it over me talking. Yeah, so, I don't remember what they're reacting to. Oh, they're watching saltburn. I can hear people screaming. That's how I feel when I have a wound and people put salt in it. No, wait, they already watch salt burn. I forgot what they're watching. Anyway.

Michael, so this episode, we have Hank and Lucy at the office workplace, which is great. That was great stuff. Talk about it. Talk about what it's thematically talking about. Be smart. Well, philosophically speaking, no, I thought it was a clever, all's quiet on the Western Front, to use that as sort of a him literally trying to. pick up where they left off.

And he is very clearly wanting to give her enough rope to allow her to reach her own conclusions. And I'm actually really enjoying that. The easy thing to do would have been to put the device on her. And the very act of him not doing that is him genuinely wanting her to believe in his vision and to see it. and I think he was hoping that her time in the wasteland would have, if she had maintained the essence of who she is, would make it so that she feels compelled to allow for this type of technology to exist

and the never-ending conflicts and cycles. But it's a fascinating dynamic. I mean, you take a father and daughter and everything you know about this person is a lie, I mean, they've quite literally committed an enormous war crime, dropped a literal atom bomb on the last great bastion of human civilization. Yeah. That's a tough thing to get over, but it's also how do you separate those feelings?

Oh, those feelings. Jesus Christ, Gregory. But I think the really interesting thing is that they are exploring the same themes with our wonderful, uh, uh, ghoul. Oh my Lord.

You got it. You got it. Jesus Christ. Sorry, guys. Sorry, when I interjected last time, you seemed upset.

I was very upset. I wasn't upset. I wanted to let you get there. Coop, uh, but Coop is sort of going through similar motions, right? Of like, we're seeing the challenges that he faces,

trying to reconcile some, that he loves and the decisions that they've made. And I think the lesson they're trying to teach us there is that, like, don't jump to conclusions. I mean, we were all convinced that Coop's wife was in on this because she wanted to be in on this, whereas, like, she is a pawn in a faceless game in the same way that Michael Emerson's character is a pawn in this game where whoever is the real puppeteer is using all these individuals and a lot of ways.

mind controlling them. Yeah. Thematic. Yeah. It's cool. I think it's really cool stuff. I didn't ask. When you do it, it hurts my feelings. I'm sorry.

I thought I'd try to do what Craig does and it's really hard. What did you think of this episode? I'm genuinely really, really curious what do you think the enclave is based on the limited bit of information that we've heard so far? And do you even care? I have no idea.

I was going to like spit off some stuff, but I was like I literally have no clue because this world of fallout similar to it's actually like thematically the world of fallout is thematically very similar to severance in so many ways.

Oh sure. Like while one is like an apocalyptic landscape but both seem to deal with the idea of you know, zealots and corporate culture and mind control being replaced, hive mind thinking.

And I love the way it works. I was like, but usually those who are in the religious factions in these worlds are not the people at the top because usually people politicize religion in order to control and weaponize. So, when we first met him, it was in the church and it felt like really hell on earth. So I was like, oh, maybe there are some type of, like, cult, religious, like, people.

I'm like, no, usually it's the inverse. You think the mutant is involved in the enclave? Why did he mention the enclave again? He was saying that they are the bad guys. I was like, oh, this is a really interesting. I'm curious where you're going here. I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know who the enclave is. But I do know that that whole scene with Hank and Loo Lucy was so beautiful because they don't really get much scenes together in the first season. They're only in the first episode together and then they get some screen time shared in the last. And this is the time when the truth of who they are is all out on the table of who she's changed into. And I like what you were saying about how he was hoping that the wasteland might have opened her eyes to where he doesn't have to control her in any way. She would just naturally subscribe to this belief system when you're seeing a guy who's literally, mind controlling people while trying to

manipulate the mind of his own daughter, you know, and it's cruel shit. And I, it's also like the violence in this episode was particularly brutal, you know? It's crazy that you say that considering last episode we saw Kup get

a whole just like, yeah, but we've seen people get like impaled on spikes before. Oh sure. But there was something. Once you've seen one spike impaling. You've seen all right. Yeah, once you see one bad. When you see the guy like when he's like pulling himself up you can like your feeling

you're feeling the actual I have to say do you think this is the first time in cinema that there's ever been a camera pull through somebody's hole in their chest? I don't know about the chest but we've seen it like

in the head before and stuff but the they're so loud over there I don't think you guys can hear I don't know if they're watching something scary. They're freaky the hell out right

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Yeah. Just hurts too much to think about it. Yeah. Well, there was like an ugliness to it that was important to drive home, especially since they're doing themes that are meant to convey to stuff that we are dealing with in real life America right now, you know? I think the, the thing I loved most about. Sorry,

yeah, by one semi-smart thought, which might be not smart, but let's see what happens when I talk, is there was parts of what was happening with Coop that literally felt like he was crucified

and then being reborn in a church, like resurrected in a church. Oh, it's fun because I was about to say the smart thing that I was going to say because I'm smart. Yeah, yeah, definitely. I felt that in that moment

that Coop was trying to pull himself up. Yeah. literally he was literally in in a last ditch effort to get back to his humanity and like relying on his humanity get up to well and and and i think the the juxtaposition of he literally needs to take his meds so that he doesn't turn into a feral ghoul and he's using the thought of his daughter and his own name to try to keep him, keep him present long enough to stop himself from turning. I mean,

it's such a, it's such a beautiful thing because I feel like it echoes so much of his journey these past two seasons where we've seen these, like hints of humanity, these hints of humanity. And in order to survive, he suppresses it. But in order to really survive,

to really achieve what he wants, he needs to find it again. And, and I love your, you know, the allegory of the church. Well, I'd like to how he, when he was, remembering most movies cut to flashes of these people, but they just relied on, in order to convey that this ghoul is human,

they just relied on the acting in that moment and didn't cut to imagery. Well, and then to use that transition cut at the very end as they take us out of that moment to then him being drunk on the bed and, sort of seeing the beginning of his descent into losing the essence of his humanity, which, you know, I think the betrayal of his wife, and that's what I'm so curious about, do you think that before him and his wife got separated at the end, that he knew the truth that she was not? Yeah, I think there's more, like, the set up of, I think that's why he's looking for her.

Sure. because I think they were supposed to unite. And I think in some way she's actually not, I think the narrative has told us that there was that divide, and then he probably took his daughter and ran away with her, and then the bombs dropped and everything, as we saw in the beginning of season one. And now I think there was actually a bigger plan

because she literally pulls out the fusion in front of him and shows him what this is, is probably educating him on it, and he was talking about a bigger plan. And he was supposed to unite with it. I don't know why else you'd be, like, really looking for them. So that's actually a really interesting thing is that we know that Coop is with his daughter when the bombs drop. Yeah.

So where is his wife? And at what point does his daughter end up with the wife? And does he end up separate from all? I think we're going to see the continuation of that scene and watch, like, where their rendezvous point was and then how they get separated. Yeah. Because I think they, like, took her for some reason. They thought she was valuable, but they wanted to kill him off. Well, and it's an interesting thing that at this moment in time,

we know that she has the fusion, but we know that eventually it ends up in Michael Emerson's hands. But we also see that this was the start of their, it seemed like it was their first conversation. Their real conversation. Yeah. Oh, her and Michael Emerson.

Yeah. Well, and I thought it was interesting that he made very clear that everything that he's saying is not what he wants to be saying. Yeah. And ultimately his rebellion and his time standing up

and fighting back is when he breaks out and delivers the... Yeah, so I imagine they were probably in cahoots too. Yeah. The passing of... this you know yeah anyway uh good stuff earmuffs uh i i worry i'll hear you so i'm just going to step out of the room yeah touch myself for a little bit oh no my mom watches this gregg gonna go it's raining the tin no jesus yeah all right rejects we're here it's time earmuff time

uh first off i just want to say thank you to everybody who's been so receptive to this. If you enjoy this segment where there's lots of spoilers related to the game, please leave a comment down below. I would love to know what I can do better and do differently, but it's really nice trying to hold it all in. So obviously, we just saw the Super Mutants for those Super Fallout fans. As we know in the original Fallout games,

especially as we're first introduced to the enclave, there is some really, really cool Super Mutant connections, and it's been really fun to watch them build up the FEV throughout the entire course of this season. I am super interested to see what sort of network and active war is sort of happening in the underbelly against the enclave. Part of me wonders if we're going to see the New California Republic again. I also wonder if perhaps this super mutant that we met maybe somebody from Coop's

past or a familiar face, you know, that underwent unwillingly the, the, the transformation into a super mutant. I'm definitely really curious where Mr. House's story is going to continue on. I really think that the introduction of him and sort of his role here is to be that connective tissue that's going to connect us to the Commonwealth with him ultimately reappearing as a as a as we saw at the end of the last episodes. You could actually see the decrepit arm of him sticking out of the tank, which I think implies very clearly that in this

fallout timeline, the fallout New Vegas ending resulted in House not being alive anymore in his original human physical form. So yeah, so I think we're looking at season three since I think we're seeing perhaps a coalition with the super mutants and what's left of the New California Republic and the enclave is alive and well. And perhaps there is a new president, eaten or, you know, some kind of amazing story there. But what do you guys think? I'm super excited. I think that the direction this is going is setting us up for many wonderful seasons of fallout to come. So I'm going to call Greg back in now. Greg! It worked. And anyway, so that's what I think it would be like if Greg had a real dog. I was just playing catch with my fictional dog.

Want to close it out, buddy? That's it right there.