The Reel Rejects - FALLOUT SEASON 2 EPISODE 7 REVIEW – DOING THE RIGHT THING MAKES IT WORSE?!

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Starting point is 00:00:43 Michael Greg Greg Greg Greg gosh you know I got to reserve my my spoilers here but I think this is a good television you know yeah it's good TV it's good TV yeah do you have any idea what's happening right now dude please any idea I just want you to experience it And I don't want to ruin the finale for you. Thanks, man. So how are you feeling? You know, I want to start with the things that we can comfortably talk about. Definitely. Yeah, we don't want to ruin it for the audience. Which, uh...

Starting point is 00:01:16 Sorry, guys. We've entered the part of the series where it's so hard to keep my mouth shut. Yeah. But I'm doing it. I'm doing it. My God. Well, first off, I want to start with the beautiful, I think it was episode two of this season when we were back in time in Shady Sands. And you saw what this little boy wanted to become like his father.

Starting point is 00:01:49 And obviously he went through a tumultuous breakup with the brotherhood. And I thought this was such a beautiful way for Maximus to get back to himself. It was just absolutely beautiful. especially in a season where I do feel like Maximus hasn't been as featured as heavily. Sure. It was nice to give him some really strong moments. Strong moments and also just the citizens of New Vegas having the same exact reaction to me seeing the New California Republic and then being so happy to see them back. I think just sort of he got to play the hero that he's wanted to be and convinced himself the brotherhood was the way to do that.

Starting point is 00:02:28 but I think saw the reality that the brotherhood is something to be feared, not something necessarily to be revered. I was so happy with Lucy this episode, making the not difficult, but at the same time, probably insanely difficult choice to lock Hank up. But also, what a dumb move on his part to have the NCR Ranger be Butler.

Starting point is 00:02:53 That was probably not the move. Provoke. Yeah, provoke. the ghoul get into play with the poetry of his previous decision and his current decision. And then just the whole Canadian subplot line was so much fun, so unexpected. What do you think's going to happen to her? I don't even know what she's doing to begin with. How can I know what's going to happen her?

Starting point is 00:03:19 Well, she's like locked in a room right now. She doesn't want to die. So what's going to happen, Craig? She's going to have an honest conversation with everybody. She's going to open that door. Yeah. I'm going to say, let's take some deep breaths. And let me just calmly explain.

Starting point is 00:03:37 And they're all going to hear her out because they're a bunch of idiots. And they're going to... I actually hate that that's probably exactly what's going to happen. She's just going to talk her way out of it. It's a big understanding. She was a double agent for the U.S. government infiltrating the evil Canadians. You view her as a double agent? No.

Starting point is 00:03:56 What do you think she is? I think she's a survivor. I mean, absolutely, yeah. What do you think her big plan is? Is it to tear down from within in some way? I mean, I think her goal was to remove the competition in the form of the neighboring vault and ensure her own survival and the survival of her new family that she started, even though she had zero interest in her child.

Starting point is 00:04:19 Because it seemed like she did want Chet to say yes so she could protect Chet. It's still like there's a part for that actually wanted to protect Chet. Oh, interesting. But there's a defense mechanism that prevented. Yeah, maybe by mayor. she also becomes a legal citizen. She's playing the long game, guys. It's a green card marriage.

Starting point is 00:04:37 200-year green car. That's your way. Genuinely, I assure you, we are the only reaction channel to have come to that conclusion. We have figured it out. Let's talk about the ending. Yeah, I know exactly what's happening.

Starting point is 00:04:57 I'll let you take it away. No, I mean, what do you think? I don't know what's happening. happening. I'm literally at a point. This is like lost to me. Yeah. Oh, you're at like lost the series. Yeah. Is that why they brought Michael Emerson in? It's like I only watched season three of loss. What crazy season to start with. And I stopped. But every episode was, I don't know what's happening. I don't know. But I am engaged. That is where I'm at with this show. Well, I cannot put on my smart hat right now. I don't. I don't think it is a a spoiler to say that a room called the mainframe that has a bunch of wires attached to a brain may indicate that her consciousness is being used as a mainframe. Yes.

Starting point is 00:05:44 I thought they were going to reveal it was house's consciousness. I thought it was brilliant that it was her because does that imply that she's a prisoner they're using or that she's a traitor? I think she's a traitor. Trader, right? I think what a smart way for the very bad people to install. an incredibly poor speaker as to representative for the good people and a user as sort of like a willing idiot that can, you know, or in the... It's hiding in plain side.

Starting point is 00:06:15 Do you take it to the president? We know you can't trust the president. Yeah. Well, and I thought that was sort of a brilliant... Let's take the one person that we think is... Is... Sorry. I pull up a fun fact from Michael.

Starting point is 00:06:33 Did pull a fun fact. Yeah, he plays Rombus in the original Fallout game. That's why I got excited. Clancy Brown. Yeah. I thought it was clever to have him play the president, which there's a lot of interesting lore around the president. And yeah, it's really, I have so many things I want to say that I don't want to say out loud to you, Greg.

Starting point is 00:06:57 And I'm sorry, guys, I know that you want me to just spout my soul right now. No, no, no. Well, I'll talk about other stuff. Yeah, please, please. Okay. I'm just, I'm so excited for you and for the audience because I think I know exactly where we're going now. And it's a magical place, Greg. And it's a theory?

Starting point is 00:07:20 It's less a theory and more a... Obviously this is happening? I think we veered into the obviously this is happening category. Okay. This episode. Okay. Yeah. I think we know who fans.

Starting point is 00:07:37 But you know what? That being said, these writers, at every single instance, have subverted my expectations. And I'm sure that they are leveraging those who have played the games and know the lore in a clever way to throw us off. Well, I'll say. I patch lady. What's her name? Kim Basinger. Stephanie.

Starting point is 00:07:55 Stephanie. She was a character that for a while, I feel like the show was trying to make her seem more. interesting that she actually was. I was always like mildly interested. But in this one episode in the flashback, I'm pretty sure that was Natasha Hensridge. We should have looked it up. Yeah. I'm desperate to know if it was Natalia. There's some people out there who are going to really want to know if that was Natasha Hensdress. They have credits. And do you know what Natasha Hensrich is? I don't think so, no. I'm sure when you say what she's been in a space. Have you seen species? Oh my God. Species. It's great. It's about this alien who's trying to get him.

Starting point is 00:08:32 and pregnant the whole time. Oh. And that's why I knew her from. Been there. And then they made species, too, or it was about a guy. But they needed to bring her back in. He wanted to spread his seed. There's another one that I ever saw.

Starting point is 00:08:43 It was like a video on. It was like straight to DVD. Remember those? I remember DVDs. Anyway. Yeah, Natasha. I just wanted to know if that was true. I'm wondering if all at five is going to take place in Canada now.

Starting point is 00:08:58 Do you think they would go out of their way so much for that? So I liked a lot of I like that whole backstory with her that was a really cool like reveal because to see a survivor who would like meddled their way in to this power position makes you weirdly root for her all the sudden versus being like who's what's this bitch doing all these people? Yeah. Why is she so bad? Yeah. It was a really like refreshing. Oh, it wasn't her. Damn.

Starting point is 00:09:25 It was some other person. That's a real bummer. They should have got Natasha Hens. It was Natasha Hensrich. that's all I know Michael brought nothing to this video I recognize someone and I'm Michael and and like the ghoul the maximus teaming up I thought was really awesome the fight scene with the death clause was fun there was something in the VFX of the death clause that reminded me of like a 90s movie and it was comp I could see people being divided on it I liked it I thought it worked

Starting point is 00:09:58 really really well really really worked for me yeah I didn't find myself like, they gave us the really scary before. Reject gang, I have been thinking an awful lot lately about what does health truly mean for me. I don't just mean aesthetically because last year I made this whole big ordeal about like dropping 50 pounds because I just wanted to try to get those photos for the first time ever in my life. I did it. Then afterwards I was like, well, I kind of want to go back to eating whatever the heck I want, which has led to a lot of ups and downs in my journey. And now I'm at this point where, well, I'm realizing. I kind of need sustainable energy.

Starting point is 00:10:32 And I am older now. So what is like ways to maintain being healthy without going all crazy about it? And so I've gotten back on to some healthy foods that I love to enjoy because that's part of the key. And a big part of that has been Heel baby. And I'm specifically wanted to shout out this flavor right here because we got a bunch of Hewle products at the office. And the one that the team tends to gravitate towards. I'm talking many of the hosts. It's specifically this delicious chocolate peanut butter flavor.

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Starting point is 00:12:03 However, it is something I decided to go back to before the ever partner back up with us. So, thank you, Huell, for being a part of my life in more ways than one. This one just felt so much more. I felt like I was watching tremors. I hope that the VFX people take that as to compliment that. No, I enjoyed it. It had like a weird almost stop motion animation vibe to it. Yeah, it definitely felt real.

Starting point is 00:12:31 Yeah, it was real fun. And getting and sending some cool violence with that and to not even know the people of, what's the Vegas land called? Freesite. Freeside. Yeah, to not even really know who they are, but then to fear for them in that moment when the doors went tumbling down. Yeah, you carried away more than I did. I was like, oh, no. There's just innocent people who were rooting for this guy.

Starting point is 00:12:50 He looked like a hero to them. But I think that's sort of a beauty is that he is the inspiration that's going to remind them that they can fight for themselves. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Or they're all going to die. I'm enjoying the characterization of what's become of Lucy and Norm because they have their dad who, it is a testament to like nature versus nurture because,

Starting point is 00:13:09 you know, he says at that one point that I wish we had a normal life. And she's like, we did have a normal life. And you see this dichotomy of belief systems that are battling against each other from the ironic sense of because of how he raised her, you know?

Starting point is 00:13:25 And the same thing when he was not being able to subscribe. His morality and fatherhood. created sort of the ultimate antithesis to his endgame worldview. And what is a real morality in this sense when it seemed like it was a falsified thing that he was like putting up? Because now that he's out here in the wasteland and at a Baltek, he seems to have a subscribe to a very different kind of belief systems. Interesting because I think he's always believed it.

Starting point is 00:13:51 I just think it looks so different in practice when you're in the safety and comfort of a vault as opposed to the harsh reality of the wasteland. And especially when you're comparing it to what came before. You know, which I think like that's something that one of my favorite parts of this series is sort of exploring. And I feel like we do this with the 1950s all the time where it's like we idolize like white picket fences. Everything was great. And like it was actually kind of terrifying. It was not the best time in history.

Starting point is 00:14:21 But I think for those that were around and for those looking back, the nostalgia of it, has a very, very powerful thing that can sometimes lead to unexpected negative consequences as you try to apply that nostalgia to the present. Yeah, that's very true. With Cooper's disillusionment of him actually going to the other political side, you know, think about his journey. He thought these were just a bunch of commies, you know, and he decides to literally free this person, bail this person out. go to the president he's so hopeful of course he wouldn't trust any like the whole system's a joke to him now so why wouldn't he has no choice he's become

Starting point is 00:15:06 a product of the system in a way of the cynicism and the reality of the system why would you he would have no hope in anything at this point and so I love like you see in the past him having hope like we're doing this we're going to save the world save our family I'm going to go to the president president of America and family she's all fucked up you know no and and and And I think that's been the underlying theme of this season. And I think just an overarching theme of fallout as a franchise is that when we place all of our trust and faith and morality and institutions, we are inevitably going to be disappointed. Definitely.

Starting point is 00:15:43 Because institutions are created by humans. And humans are inherently human. Yeah. And a lot of it is self-serving, but posing as helping the community. you know but at the end of the day we're going to go to Canada yeah where everything's good in Canada well I'm really glad that uh you know in fallout and forgive me fallout super fans for getting this wrong but I think it was the fallout one uh intro maybe fallout two intro um but there's just like this brutal shot shot of uh two US soldiers in power armor in annex Canada the guy on their knees and they

Starting point is 00:16:25 kill him. And it's sort of like this like really powerful iconography that set into motion, sort of the backwards nature of this world. And we haven't really addressed it in, in any fallout games really since, seeing that sort of brutality like play out and like what that experience was like for people that were under that annexation. But I think there's something so relevant to like, and that's from its, from its own. said fallout has always been sort of a let's poke all the holes in society in a way that allows people to sort of disconnect it from our actual society but that is still touching on our real society yeah um and uh boy how do i just feel like this show is hitting in so many like profoundly

Starting point is 00:17:18 relevant ways um we're all season long we've been like pointing out like oh that's sort of similar to And the crazy thing is like, House was around since before, like Elon Musk was common vernacular. It's not like all of this is coming up as a, as a reaction to what's in the news, as much as it's a reminder that like sometimes a really powerful piece of media and storytelling like fallout is predictive in being able to see what's to come.

Starting point is 00:17:52 That's pattern recognition. Yeah. And that's sort of. to the, you know, it all really comes down to a simple notion. War never changes and the writing's on the wall and we see it time and time again. And yeah, I mean, honestly, like, not to get political, but like after the news this week, this was a really old episode to. Don't get political in this political show. I'm not getting political on the show.

Starting point is 00:18:19 But all I'm saying is like, oh, man, feeling absolutely helpless that even the good. guys in the government are bad guys and that a single individual has no power to change things and that innocent people are going to be harmed and turned into iterations of themselves that would be previously unthinkable there's just something to be set about how great the show is well that's the other side and then i'll let you do your thing is a lot of this season is a lot about the choices of who you want to be a lot of this is about identity and can't you be can you make the right choice can you do the good thing in spite of all things saying it might not be worth it in spite of everything saying like will it really amount to anything in this world

Starting point is 00:19:06 can you still be good you see that's like a big thing of this entire episode even write down a chet you know can you do the right thing it went all odds seem against you what's the right thing the right thing yeah because you can do the right thing and it can still blow up in your face and I think that's the like with Cooper with coop yeah I mean I think that's exhibit a and I think that that's sort of the brilliance of how they've gone about um they clearly didn't give the audience the satisfaction of giving any one unique ending to fall out new Vegas as the canonical uh setting that we would inherit with the series right and they kind of point out that no matter what your decisions are there's going to be consequences.

Starting point is 00:19:53 And I don't know. It's an impressively meta sort of achievement for storytelling. And, you know, just kudos to the writers. I think the other fun thing is that you can come into the show with absolutely no brainpower and still enjoy the heck out of it. That's true. Speaking of no brain power, you take this away. Airmuff time.

Starting point is 00:20:12 I'll just step out of the room. Yeah, step out of the room. We'll just be a couple minutes. Hello, Rejects. All right, guys, it's Earmuff. time, so many things to say. One word that I just wanted to shout over and over and over again, enclave, enclave, enclave. It's so clear that the congresswoman was an enclave agent that they installed to have her trick, coop to giving the fusion. I was not expecting it. I thought there was a

Starting point is 00:20:44 brilliant reveal, but that is the most enclave thing to have imagined. Thaddeus, he clearly is not turning into a goal he absolutely took the FV and is becoming something else what sort of crazy creature he's going to turn into I don't know do you think he's going to be a super mutant I kind of feel like they're going to go a different angle with it maybe do like uh yeah you know like a a talking death claw perhaps uh oh boy I just have so many thoughts so here's here's where I'm a little bit stumped so we saw like two episodes ago uh Mr. Mr. House, his decrepit corpse dangling out of his pod indicating that we went with the ending where House was destroyed.

Starting point is 00:21:29 So I'm curious how his consciousness survived, or if maybe that was just to send us off track. Either way, I 100 trillion percent think that Mr. House is going to become a synth that is going to connect us to the Brotherhood. But I'm really interested because I think we're getting set up. for our big bad, obviously being the enclave. But there's the Commonwealth. And I feel like there's been so many little seeds planted that we may end up going to D.C. Either way, this has just been like an absolute blast.

Starting point is 00:22:05 I think seeing that sort of politician turned into artificial intelligence play out, that's like the most enclave fallout thing that I could possibly imagine. So I had an absolute blast. I would love to hear what you guys think. I absolutely also want to say, I didn't mention it last week. Is that Marcus, the Super Mutant from last episode? I feel like that's the only sort of logical character from the originals that's directly connected to a lot of the chaos with the enclave. What happened after Jacobs Town?

Starting point is 00:22:45 he seems like a very logical character to sort of connect the dots with. So let's see what happens. All I know is that I'm having the most fun. What do you guys think? I want to hear your theories down below. I promise you, I read every comment, and I will absolutely respond with my thoughts to your theories.

Starting point is 00:23:04 And honestly, you guys have been like spot on so far. But House is going to be a cent. The enclave is going to be the big bad. And I think that we are going to find ourselves heading east or maybe north in the next episode. But anyway, I'll see you next time. Thanks, guys. Greg!

Starting point is 00:23:22 Yep. And that's why I think Lucy's real dad is the cool. Oh, hey, Greg. Okay, bye.

The Reel Rejects - FALLOUT SEASON 2 EPISODE 7 REVIEW – DOING THE RIGHT THING MAKES IT WORSE?!

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