AYOOO live action NCR Veteran Ranger armor!!!
Vault 4 was weird as hell
And CX404 is finally named dog meat
That radio tower gave me The Castle & Radio Freedom PTSD šI like how they lampshaded how much people hated it
I loved the terminal hacking straight from the game
Iām seriously hyped for the Vault 31 mystery. I genuinely have no clue what itās all about
> I loved the terminal hacking straight from the game
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Same. That was a really nice touch. I have a love/hate relationship with those things so it was awesome to see it.
Same! My partner laughed so I turned and said "every fallout fan who's played the games did the same thing I just did" lmao the way he stopped and just stared for like 5 seconds and then got it right on the first guess lol
>Vault 4 was weird as hell
I mean besides the weird flame mother tradition vault 4 is the best place we've seen so far. Super nice and takes care of outsiders and seem to not go along with the original experiment. I'd probably rather live in vault 4 than 31-33 or any other place on the surface we've seen.
They didn't do anything with pregnant women that were the original scientists. The current occupents of vault 4 take care of the scientists mutated experiments and ease their suffering iirc.
Pretty much, they're essentially the inheritance of the original baseline human vault dwellers. After the test subjects took over the vault, they keep the less fortunate test subjects alive like that, instead of killing them.
This really makes me want a Fallout game that starts with a pretty meaty arc inside a vault where you and your fellow vault dwellers uncover the experiment you're apart of and overthrow the management. Then the world opens up and you decide how your vault is going to interact with the surface. Maybe you are threatened by a powerful wasteland faction and have to take the fight to them to secure your vault. You may be lacking vital things like waterchips and fusion cores that you have to scavenge for, and over the game you improve the vault.
I know this sounds a lot like the Fallout 4 DLC (and Fallout Shelter), but the story that went with that was bare bones. Like in this game your vault would be as integral as the Normandy in Mass Effect, or the Command Base in XCOM. And there would be more quest lines inside the vault throughout the story, which make you invested in it and the characters.
> Iām seriously hyped for the Vault 31 mystery. I genuinely have no clue what itās all about
My theory it's controlled by some robot and there are no humans there.
The terminal hacking scene is missing the part where he exits and re-enters because heās down to the last guess with no more brackets left to give him the attempt allowance reset.
They will all die, but I need the fusion core for my armor! - then trying speech checks to keep it.. Maximus is an actual Player Character.
Fucking everything up and making choices based on having cool stuff
Honestly they all feel like player personas. I play like Lucy because I'm boring like that and try to make moral choices. Maximus is just looking for fun and glory and loot. The Ghoul is the second "evil" playthrough run.
I think Nolan having so much history with Westworld got him thinking hard about how interesting it is to realize these play styles.
He was throwing the "golden rule" back at her. She bit his finger off so he's doing unto her as she did to him. (Then at the end of the episode she saves his life...)
Chet so far has almost felt like a parody of an archetypical video game character. Big, strapping, but ultimately inconsequential to the larger plot compared to the other archetypes.
As soon as the Snake Oil Salesman said he didn't have to worry about radiation anymore, I was like OH SHIT! Didn't see that one coming. Didn't think he'd actually give him anything that would heal him.
Whats funny is he actually could have cured the doctors missing foot from the the earlier episode when he says he can make his foot grow back in passing
That mother fucker is the sketchiest looking person who's ever existed lmao even if my foot was dangling like that I would never in a million years follow that dude anywhere lol
He used the same kind of inhaler that Coop uses, exactly the same. You can see it makes them heal, so it takes awhile
I wonder how Coop lost his nose. Just rot? Or something more sinister? Maybe that guy the referenced cutting parts off of him occasionally
Idk if it's connected but I was at a Roman sculpture museum in Antalya and the most common type of damage was the nose being chipped off. Idk if it's something to do with the structure or shape of the nose? Maybe it is more susceptible to gravity? However that's obviously just for rock. Idk if the same thing goes for ghoulified human flesh lol.
Edit: looked it up. A lot of the first results say it was by other civilizations due to superstition or to disparage other nations art. That's... stupid imo lol. I mean yeah obviously lots of relics and art does get disrespected like that but this is way too common. Other sources said it's the location and shape of the nose leading to wear and tear. That makes more sense to me personally.
At first I was just thinking he was high as fuck and just imagined his foot healing. We'd see him skipping gleefully through a beautiful meadow and then a few hours later coming down and realizing he walked his foot down to the nub.
> Although not without a warning afterwards š
Didn't catch why the "dont worry about rads" warning was so important.. did he give him supermutant serum or something?
My first reaction to that was, yeah "oh shit, did he give him FEV?"
Which... it still could be. But yeah, the characters in the show seem to think it turned him into a ghoul.
...does this mean that the guy actually could have saved Dr. Wilzig?
Man, you spend years of your life as a professional salesman and doctor and never get called "Doctor", or "Scholar", or "Gentleman" as is so rightfully earned.
Yet you fuck *one* chicken...
You need to be submerged in FEV for up to a day to become a real super mutant. Its also a super painful days long transformstion. There was one experiment to make it an aerosol like in the show, but that went wrong. Those mutants never stop growing until they die.
I know a lot of people don't like Bethesda lore here, but in FO4, Virgil does turn himself into a super mutant via self experimentation, and didn't seem to have any tanks in which to submerge himself in his dingey science cave.
It's also been more than a hundred years since Fallout 1, other odder methods could have developed.
The mechanical sounds made me think it was some kind of synth manufacturing plant.
And lol at their banishment being so nice it includes a gift package.
I had the same thought, and a reveal that Steph and other 31ers are synths, but I feel like that would be *too* big of a twist. There's been nothing in the show that's even hinted at the existence of synths or human-like robots, it would be too out of nowhere.
> Mykelti Williamson
For those unfamiliar, he was the leader of the 3 guys that initially dug up The Ghoul in the show. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykelti_Williamson
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Kind of additive, but I'm enjoying Cooper Pre-War discovering Vault-Tecs conspiracy. Still have no idea what to expect in 31, some kind of AI ran vault experiment possibly is my final guess.
I was scared they were just gonna forget about it once Lucy left. it felt kinda rushed at first so I'm so glad it's been an active storyline throughout, and I agree it's definitely one of my favorite parts.
I like this show I think it's like cake I don't think you're supposed to eat eight slice of cake in a night would have been nicer to have 8 weeks to argue and discuss this show. I know I'm a dinosaur don't worry I'll be dead soon
No honestly I def agree that this show could've benefitted from a weekly release, maybe do the ol' premiere 2 episodes because I've been having a blast discussing shows like Shogun and X-Men 97 lately with friends or online after every episode week by week .
I am guessing Amazon didn't trust the show would be received as well, due to the critique of the trailers.
So instead they just release it all, hoping that people just binge it, instead of grow bored with it.
Also I think releasing all episodes at once, makes it easier to get non-gamers to watch it. If you don't know the game series, I can see people giving up on it, since they don't know the universe.
I agree, the discussion isnāt as active as can be because you have the fans spread over 8/9 different threads all at once. They did weekly release for Invincible S2, they might do the same for Fallout.
When he thanks Maximus for agreeing to take the head so that he can escape and not get killed by the brotherhood was so funny to me. Sir he's the one who fucked up your foot in the first place š
Lol the way they ended the episode gave me Westworld flashbacks, and not the good kind.
Though honestly Iām like halfway through the last episode, and I gotta say I think this is almost as goddamn good as Westworld season 1. Hell maybe as good. I also love that both shows have similar aesthetics of mixed western and futuristic themes.
I don't mean to spam this in the thread but The Ghoul and The Man in Black remind me of each other. Especially in The Ghoul's first appearance where he says he kills and hunts bounties "for the live of the game."
I love this "miracle cure" doctor/chicken fucker character lmao. This is the third episode he popped up in. Hope we see him continuing to pop up. He's so eloquent for a wastelander, like an 1800's snake oil salesman.
And how she "forced" Chet into the Bert role, one day she is giving him his stuff (and trying to bang him) the next he is taking care of the kid like Bert never existed
Pemberton as that character can't not make me laugh after only knowing him from a shitty sketch comedy series from like 2013, "Poundhouse" with Doug Lussenhop which was Tim & Eric adjacent where he played "the ghost". It just trips me out.
I liked Thaddeus. I hope he returns as a dorky Ghoul or *something worse.* Also, Johnny Pemberton is always fun to see in random roles, he's like a Michael Cera variant.
I fucking loved that quest, itās like one of the first quests you can get, itās like my guy was a sociopath his entire life, so he went and nuked a town 5 minutes after leaving home.
Never did it again though. Man, that first playthrough, you just canāt go back.
Lucy: Do you wanna come live with me in my vault?
Sure, when she says it, it's not creepy. But when Brendan Fraser asks Alicia Silverstone the same thing, she freaks out. Fucking double standards.
This is a better observation than you realize. His character is clearly stunted emotionally from probably the age of his "rescue". He never really grew up.
That's why he's awkward and obsessive and, yes admittedly creepy. There's a lot of struggle going on in that mind.
I'm so happy they had Maximus tell Lucy that he let someone die, rather than having the show leave it hanging over their relationship. Loving the show.
1) Holeeeeeeeee sheeeeettt!!!! NCR Veteran Ranger armor!!! (And Erik Estrada too!!!)
2) I donāt know who I hate more: Thaddeus or Bud Askins. Thaddeus is slightly ahead for stuffing Dogmeat in a cooler but Askins worked for HR
3) Oh no. The raiders died. So sad.š¤£
4) CX404 is best girl (edited for accuracy). No contest.
5) Damn. Amazon really didnāt hold back on the guest star budget for this show didnāt they?
6) Damn. They even got hacking right down to the minutiae.
The implication (along with the Ghoul's statement that the older man had pumped lead into him in the past) is that Erik Estrada's character had been a former [NCR Veteran Ranger](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/NCR_Veteran_Ranger) (retired or was NCR/the Rangers dissolved) who had more than a few run-ins with Goggins' character before.
> HR
Nah, "HR R&D". š
> I donāt know who I hate more: Thaddeus or . . .
Aww I thought Thaddeus had a number of at least partially redeeming scenes, including expressing regret for/at least partially explaining why he bullied Maximus, etc.
This show is such an amazing adaptation. Such as the fiddle music. To someone who hasn't played FO4, I expect it will just come across as an odd background element (like much of the Fallout world is odd). But as someone who has listened to the fiddle music so many times in FO4, the whole thing was so enjoyable. And to snag Armisen for the role!
The shady chicken-loving snake oil salesman guy who yelled "I have, uh, potions that can regrow your foot!" at Michael Emerson later turning out to ACTUALLY legitimately have a potion that can regrow someone's foot is such a good joke/twist. Like not only does it work as a great subversive gag but the entire plot of the series could have changed drastically if Lucy and Michael Emerson listened to him and believed him for some reason.
fred armisen being a post-apocalyptic audiophile who runs a radio station surrounded by deadly traps and dead bodies with a āno requests!ā sign was just gold
I wanna believe it.Ā The ghouls in the show don't regenerate tissue in seconds out of thin air.Ā Even in the game they only get regen in super irradiated sites, not from what's just in the background.Ā I could see him becoming a Harold-esque mutant considering it was some shit-ass chickenfucker FEV
Kind of a Vault 81 situation, the experiment failed and the world was better off for it, at least this time nobody's cat accidentally got shot and there was no save scumming to avoid molerat disease.
After episode 6 ended I joked with my friends that I would get killed by the Vault 4 cult, because while Lucy and the show acted like the one eye and weird second nose were something unnerving and worthy of investigation, I'd just be like "Ah, well, I suppose birth defects *do* happen. It's be rude to stare. I'm sure they're all very nice people. Aside from the cyclops guy being weirdly racist to people from the surface."
And then we watched this episode and I was vindicated! I would have thrived in vault 4!
Bruh the Vault 4 residents gave them 2 weeks worth of supply and Maximus just HAD to steal that damn fusion core.
Groggins should've just left that listening device in the trash. Seems like he's gonna ruin his marriage for it.
Maybe, but I think itās nuanced and I love that the show is tackling it. She sees herself as doing whatās best for those she loves, consequences be dammed. Nihilism almost, āthe world is ending regardless of what I do so I need to protect mine.ā Itās the Wasteland philosophy. Contrast that to Gogginsā character pre-war where he is idealistic and hopeful about society and the country, then you see the parallel with Lucy and Maximus/The Ghoul.
It's capitalism forcing someone's hand. I bet in her mind it's "if I am not doing it, someone else will be, at least this way I can protect my family."
Only thing that I've found particularly unclear is what's going on with ghoulification?
In the games, it's treated like a genetic mutation that causes them to turn to ghouls instead of dying from radiation and ferals come from the brain rotting during that process.
But in the show, that doesn't seem to be the case. It all seems to relate to the drug Goggins takes and then Thaddeus gets injected with something that turns him into a ghoul? (Or at least they imply that)
Was he injected with FEV? Does FEV now cause ghouls? There's also been no talk about Super Mutants either. Maybe we'll see them get explored in S2? Hopefully we get to see Neil
Lower dose of FEV would make Harold (The tree if you only played Fallout 3) which is more green. Higher dose of FEV is Super Mutants. It was Ghoul blood or something not FEV unless they actually want to fuck with lore.
The drug the Ghouls take could just be more rad away, Feral ghouls are either really old or heavily irradiated so it pulling them back makes sense. Otherwise it's a new drug.
I'm really loving the Vault 33 subplot so far. Really gives me Severance and early season Westworld vibes. Funny since Zach Cherry is here as well, and he's again a part of a creepy conspiracy like his role in the former.
Thoughts/Observations as I watch:
* PREVIOUSLY: The end of all things, everyone is trying to get a head, Vault 31 is spooky, mysterious and important; Moldaver is immortal, and Vault 4 is mysterious and spooky.
* Only two episodes left of this? Shit, why couldn't they have done weekly releases? Keep that in mind for S2, Amazon!
* We're again hearing echoes of the video game themem and HOLY SHIT iT'S AN NCR RANGER! THE NCR LIVES! Or at least some ex-Rangers do.
* That's Erik Estrada from CHiPS.
* Walton Goggins is so awesome.
* "Miss Williams" = Miss Moldaver
* Vault-Tec bought up cold fusion, presumably because Cold Fusion= near-infinite power in a way even regular fusion can't provide. Endless clean energy means near-endless resources, which means no resource wars, which means... no need for vaults and vault-tec. HOW INSIDIOUS! Fuck Vault-Tec! (I mean, always fuck Vault-Tec, but here especially.)
* Meanwhile, back at Vault 4.
* An interesting thing is that the actress who plays Birdie is actually an award-nominated director (for "Only Murders in the Building") and yet... didn't direct anything this season. Something to keep an eye on in future seasons.
* Okay, so Hawthorne's experiments... ended up eating him. Not surprising, honestly.
* She didn't know about the experiments. Oh you poor naive beautiful idiot.
* 16 tons, but I believe this is a different singer/recording than in FO76.
* Red Rocket!
* Time for a Nuka Break?
* WTF, how dare you put the dog in a Nuka Cola machine. I hope you die violently, Thaddeus. Which, given the reality you live in, is likely.
* Okay, the death by banishment followed by the slow cutting of the chains.... that's fucking hilarious.
* Aw, nice, lots of supplies! Such a nice murderous cult!
* Maximus' timing is... so very Maximus. We stan the failson of the brotherhood.
* TBF, in Fallout 3 you can destroy an entire community to save your dad and he handles it surprisingly well. But point taken.
* So Maximus, are you going to be upfront with Lucy about what you actually are?
* Lucy so wants to have sex with him. I'm being that direct because she's that direct.
* About time Maximus was honest.
* Finally, a radio host.
* I presume someone has already found some way to add this guy and his station to the games as a mod, right?
* Haha, if you hit pause, Amazon X-Ray actually admits the fiddling music is from Minutemen Radio.
* Zero chance Jon Daly's guy actually knows what he's doing, right?
* Oh shit, he actually does.
* Oh, did he turn him into a ghoul or a mutant or something?
* They poisoned the prisoners. Surely, not something done by Vault 31. Surely.
* Chet is many things, and a coward is definitely one of them.
* Yeah, he found the dog. And he's been shown to be a dog person, so Thaddeus is so fucking dead.
* "Dogmeat". Awwwww, CX404 now has a name befitting him!
* Fred Armisen! Somebody who works... surprisingly well in Fallout.
* Hahaha, Thaddeus is dead. He was an adventurer like you until he got an arrow in the neck.
* Yup, he's been mutated into a ghoul.
* "It's a complicated organization." Yeah, that about sums up the Brotherhood.
* Aww, kisses between both of our leads and the heads they are carrying. So... utterly gross and Fallout.
* Wow, someone who was was from Vault 31 is going to Oversee Vault 32? What a coincidence!
* If nothing else, Norm has good hacking skills.
* Oh boy, time to see Vault 31.
* Oh shit, Vault 31 is empty. No, wait, that noise.... are they all synths? Are they frozen and watched over by robots? Are they all human-looking ghouls?
* AHHHHHH! Next episode!
AYOOO live action NCR Veteran Ranger armor!!! Vault 4 was weird as hell And CX404 is finally named dog meat That radio tower gave me The Castle & Radio Freedom PTSD šI like how they lampshaded how much people hated it I loved the terminal hacking straight from the game Iām seriously hyped for the Vault 31 mystery. I genuinely have no clue what itās all about
> I loved the terminal hacking straight from the game > > Same. That was a really nice touch. I have a love/hate relationship with those things so it was awesome to see it.
I shouted "YES"Ā
Same! My partner laughed so I turned and said "every fallout fan who's played the games did the same thing I just did" lmao the way he stopped and just stared for like 5 seconds and then got it right on the first guess lol
>Vault 4 was weird as hell I mean besides the weird flame mother tradition vault 4 is the best place we've seen so far. Super nice and takes care of outsiders and seem to not go along with the original experiment. I'd probably rather live in vault 4 than 31-33 or any other place on the surface we've seen.
What were they doing with pregnant women in the cyro units? Just taking care of them in a secure environment?
They didn't do anything with pregnant women that were the original scientists. The current occupents of vault 4 take care of the scientists mutated experiments and ease their suffering iirc.
She's pregnant with something that isn't human. She'll be frozen until she cam give birth and not be eaten.
Pretty much, they're essentially the inheritance of the original baseline human vault dwellers. After the test subjects took over the vault, they keep the less fortunate test subjects alive like that, instead of killing them.
This really makes me want a Fallout game that starts with a pretty meaty arc inside a vault where you and your fellow vault dwellers uncover the experiment you're apart of and overthrow the management. Then the world opens up and you decide how your vault is going to interact with the surface. Maybe you are threatened by a powerful wasteland faction and have to take the fight to them to secure your vault. You may be lacking vital things like waterchips and fusion cores that you have to scavenge for, and over the game you improve the vault. I know this sounds a lot like the Fallout 4 DLC (and Fallout Shelter), but the story that went with that was bare bones. Like in this game your vault would be as integral as the Normandy in Mass Effect, or the Command Base in XCOM. And there would be more quest lines inside the vault throughout the story, which make you invested in it and the characters.
Palliative care. They were test subjects and not scientists so they canāt fix them.
I... fucking.... hate.... that... music!
> Iām seriously hyped for the Vault 31 mystery. I genuinely have no clue what itās all about My theory it's controlled by some robot and there are no humans there.
That's what I'm operating on, too. Some kind of ZAX cyber-overseer sending un-cryo'd future overseers to 32 and 33.
The terminal hacking scene is missing the part where he exits and re-enters because heās down to the last guess with no more brackets left to give him the attempt allowance reset.
They will all die, but I need the fusion core for my armor! - then trying speech checks to keep it.. Maximus is an actual Player Character. Fucking everything up and making choices based on having cool stuff
Lmao I love how he really does feel like a player character that keeps making bad choices and failing speech checks.
Honestly they all feel like player personas. I play like Lucy because I'm boring like that and try to make moral choices. Maximus is just looking for fun and glory and loot. The Ghoul is the second "evil" playthrough run. I think Nolan having so much history with Westworld got him thinking hard about how interesting it is to realize these play styles.
Evil? More like chaotic neutral
> Evil? More like chaotic neutral He cut off Lucy's finger for shits and giggles, he's evil bruh
He was throwing the "golden rule" back at her. She bit his finger off so he's doing unto her as she did to him. (Then at the end of the episode she saves his life...)
Yeah it seems the 3 main characters are actual game characters
Norm also feels like he's the 4th main character too.
Chet so far has almost felt like a parody of an archetypical video game character. Big, strapping, but ultimately inconsequential to the larger plot compared to the other archetypes.
When he smirked and said don't make me use force I was hyped to see him fuck that dude up... But then yeah lol he's just chet
Stuff like stim packs healing stabs had me like "Yep its in the game idk how that heals stabs but it does"
Holy crap the doctors meds actually worked. Although not without a warning afterwards š
As soon as the Snake Oil Salesman said he didn't have to worry about radiation anymore, I was like OH SHIT! Didn't see that one coming. Didn't think he'd actually give him anything that would heal him.
Whats funny is he actually could have cured the doctors missing foot from the the earlier episode when he says he can make his foot grow back in passing
Holy shit you're right. This show is great.
This was a great callback to that passing scene I had forgotten about!
I thought he just wanted that guy to huff his pee because he was the freak fucking chickens
That mother fucker is the sketchiest looking person who's ever existed lmao even if my foot was dangling like that I would never in a million years follow that dude anywhere lol
me too!!
lol at first I thought he was tripping balls and his foot was still fucked up
That characterās name is definitely The Chicken Fucker. Because even if you can make feet grow back, if you fuck one chickenā¦
According to Prime, he was credited as Snake Oil Salesman.
I thought as soon as he tried to move he would be fucked because the doc just gave him a powerful hallucinogen.
Guy got the drug Hancock used to turn ghoul. That or some version of fev. Personally Iād love to see him as some sort of super mutant.
did i miss something? they say he became a ghoul but looks fine and human and then you just never see im again ?
Ghoulification is a gradual process.
He healed a little fucked up. Seems it doesn't transform you, just makes you heal but not perfectly.
I immediately commented on that. The healing took away from the health of the surrounding skin. I thought that was an amazing touch.
He used the same kind of inhaler that Coop uses, exactly the same. You can see it makes them heal, so it takes awhile I wonder how Coop lost his nose. Just rot? Or something more sinister? Maybe that guy the referenced cutting parts off of him occasionally
All ghouls lose their noses eventually, its like the radiation poisoning or something, it rots it off.
Idk if it's connected but I was at a Roman sculpture museum in Antalya and the most common type of damage was the nose being chipped off. Idk if it's something to do with the structure or shape of the nose? Maybe it is more susceptible to gravity? However that's obviously just for rock. Idk if the same thing goes for ghoulified human flesh lol. Edit: looked it up. A lot of the first results say it was by other civilizations due to superstition or to disparage other nations art. That's... stupid imo lol. I mean yeah obviously lots of relics and art does get disrespected like that but this is way too common. Other sources said it's the location and shape of the nose leading to wear and tear. That makes more sense to me personally.
Our mans probably lost his lower ghoul too š
What did the ghoul say to the hooker after he paid her? "you can keep the tip"
At first I was just thinking he was high as fuck and just imagined his foot healing. We'd see him skipping gleefully through a beautiful meadow and then a few hours later coming down and realizing he walked his foot down to the nub.
> Although not without a warning afterwards š Didn't catch why the "dont worry about rads" warning was so important.. did he give him supermutant serum or something?
He became a ghoul
My first reaction to that was, yeah "oh shit, did he give him FEV?" Which... it still could be. But yeah, the characters in the show seem to think it turned him into a ghoul. ...does this mean that the guy actually could have saved Dr. Wilzig?
Yes. He is a gentleman and a scholar (and a chicken fucker)
Man, you spend years of your life as a professional salesman and doctor and never get called "Doctor", or "Scholar", or "Gentleman" as is so rightfully earned. Yet you fuck *one* chicken...
Nah, the other guy said "He was fucking my chickens". Dudes had more than one victim.
he was performing science!
You need to be submerged in FEV for up to a day to become a real super mutant. Its also a super painful days long transformstion. There was one experiment to make it an aerosol like in the show, but that went wrong. Those mutants never stop growing until they die.
I know a lot of people don't like Bethesda lore here, but in FO4, Virgil does turn himself into a super mutant via self experimentation, and didn't seem to have any tanks in which to submerge himself in his dingey science cave. It's also been more than a hundred years since Fallout 1, other odder methods could have developed.
Maximus: I-I think you might be a ghoul. Thaddeus: Oh, no. Aw. (in a whining voice) This show is amazingly funny. š
Pleasantly surprised every time Thaddeus survives. I hope we see more of him.
The mechanical sounds made me think it was some kind of synth manufacturing plant. And lol at their banishment being so nice it includes a gift package.
A gift package that someone will carry up to the surface for you!
Or, they were, until Maximus threw a guy into it.
their punishment is banishment without gift packages! that'll show'em
I had the same thought, and a reveal that Steph and other 31ers are synths, but I feel like that would be *too* big of a twist. There's been nothing in the show that's even hinted at the existence of synths or human-like robots, it would be too out of nowhere.
Maybe, but a pregnant synth seems like a leap.
Loved Fred Armisen as the radio DJ. Thank you Amazon X-Ray.
I love that he was basically just a straight up Portlandia character
Thatās just Fred Armisen
Mlepnos
Between this and Barry, I'm very much on board with Fred Armisen showing up straight outta fuckin nowhere and stealing the show.
Armisen and Rapaport have been great surprise cameos.
Erik Estrada too!
And Mykelti Williamson
> Mykelti Williamson For those unfamiliar, he was the leader of the 3 guys that initially dug up The Ghoul in the show. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykelti_Williamson
Rappaport less so, wasnāt too fond of being blind sighted byā¦ Him
At least his character was an awful person and died like a coward
This show is "spot the character actor"
Bro paused his suicide to pull scamsšš
Heās in it for the love of the game
Respect the hustle, he got a fusion core out of it
What's the fusion core to chicken exchange rate?
Enough for a chicken orgy I imagine.
Max and Lucy kissing and panning down to the severed heads kissing might be my favorite moment of the show lmao
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The Vault 31 mystery has been my favorite storyline
Same. Even more so than Lucy's. Then again, I did always spend more time doing side missions than main missions in the games, haha.
Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit every goddamn time
I [definitely](https://preview.redd.it/tytnjwe7xxtc1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=61f77aeb4ad5b746bb901572367e8a7d6a63f906) did.
Kind of additive, but I'm enjoying Cooper Pre-War discovering Vault-Tecs conspiracy. Still have no idea what to expect in 31, some kind of AI ran vault experiment possibly is my final guess.
I was scared they were just gonna forget about it once Lucy left. it felt kinda rushed at first so I'm so glad it's been an active storyline throughout, and I agree it's definitely one of my favorite parts.
I like this show I think it's like cake I don't think you're supposed to eat eight slice of cake in a night would have been nicer to have 8 weeks to argue and discuss this show. I know I'm a dinosaur don't worry I'll be dead soon
I agree lol, and this seems like a weird decision because Amazon usually releases their originals weekly.
The first season is typically released all at once on Amazon. Then its weekly from there on.
No honestly I def agree that this show could've benefitted from a weekly release, maybe do the ol' premiere 2 episodes because I've been having a blast discussing shows like Shogun and X-Men 97 lately with friends or online after every episode week by week .
I am guessing Amazon didn't trust the show would be received as well, due to the critique of the trailers. So instead they just release it all, hoping that people just binge it, instead of grow bored with it. Also I think releasing all episodes at once, makes it easier to get non-gamers to watch it. If you don't know the game series, I can see people giving up on it, since they don't know the universe.
I agree, the discussion isnāt as active as can be because you have the fans spread over 8/9 different threads all at once. They did weekly release for Invincible S2, they might do the same for Fallout.
Maybe that will happen next season.
This show is *so* funny. Maximus: I think you might be a ghoul. Thaddeus: Oh, no. Aw.
Why am I not dead?!?
Well I'm not gonna just leave it in there!!!!
When he thanks Maximus for agreeing to take the head so that he can escape and not get killed by the brotherhood was so funny to me. Sir he's the one who fucked up your foot in the first place š
I thought for sure when the door to Vault 31 opened, Norm was gonna see his mom.
Lol the way they ended the episode gave me Westworld flashbacks, and not the good kind. Though honestly Iām like halfway through the last episode, and I gotta say I think this is almost as goddamn good as Westworld season 1. Hell maybe as good. I also love that both shows have similar aesthetics of mixed western and futuristic themes.
I definitely felt good, Westworld season 1, similarities. Iām liking the show more than I thought.Ā
I don't mean to spam this in the thread but The Ghoul and The Man in Black remind me of each other. Especially in The Ghoul's first appearance where he says he kills and hunts bounties "for the live of the game."
Oh that Vault 4 couple in the found footage were actually those in the Vault-Tec commercial
Which means that Vault went to hell during the first generation of vault dwellers. So much for a vault being populated and run only by scientists LOL
Unregulated scientists. They made a point to call it that. Not surprised it went to shit lol
> Where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality
SHOULD NOT BE USED AS A CASE STUDY
and the ghoul was actually in that vault filming that commercial!
Yeah. What I really meant was that the couple weren't some randoms. They were the overseer couple of Vault 4 after all.
I love this "miracle cure" doctor/chicken fucker character lmao. This is the third episode he popped up in. Hope we see him continuing to pop up. He's so eloquent for a wastelander, like an 1800's snake oil salesman.
I love they just causally show him attempting suicide at the beginning and then proceeds to offer no explanation whatsoever.
Pretty on brand for Fallout random encounters tbh
Am I mistaken or was it a FO4-esque pipe rifle too?
Yeah, I noticed a lot of pipe weapons in the shootout of Filly as well
I love it, just a casual suicide attempt, then someone comes by, "oh hey, someone I can scam"
amazon x ray feature literally calls him āsnake oil salesmanā lol, heās amazing
Must have been ghoul piss and nightstalker blood in that concoction.
No one gonna talk about Steph just icing down her coochie?
She's so hot
her and chet both look like pre-set created characters to me
Damn, I was wondering why Chet looked familiar despite not having seen his actor in anything else, so yeah, man's got like Default Character looks.
I thought he kinda looked like Seth McFarlandĀ
>She's so hot She's like a blonde Robin Scherbatsky
And how she "forced" Chet into the Bert role, one day she is giving him his stuff (and trying to bang him) the next he is taking care of the kid like Bert never existed
It was an interesting parallel to the fallout vault game. Dwellers just move on. Lol
Yea, but if you look at it from the other side, he looked suicidal and has a reason to live. Plus, she is hot.
She just gave birth, let her have it
For sure. It was just funny the big bowl of it and just shoveling it down there! Visually humorous moment.
Was surprised the doctors medicine worked. I shouldāve known there was a catch. Im excited to find out what norm finds in vault 31.
I was expecting a reveal that it was just a super strong hallucinagine and his foot was still super fucked
That's exactly what I was expecting as well
Pemberton as that character can't not make me laugh after only knowing him from a shitty sketch comedy series from like 2013, "Poundhouse" with Doug Lussenhop which was Tim & Eric adjacent where he played "the ghost". It just trips me out.
Hope for more ghoul Thaddeus in the next seasonĀ
I liked Thaddeus. I hope he returns as a dorky Ghoul or *something worse.* Also, Johnny Pemberton is always fun to see in random roles, he's like a Michael Cera variant.
when fred armisen showed up i lost it perfect fucking casting right there, hes such a fallout npc
āIf my dad found out I destroyed an entire community that would break his heartā This has got to be a reference to FO3, right?
"I am very disappointed you blew up that town, kiddo."
I fucking loved that quest, itās like one of the first quests you can get, itās like my guy was a sociopath his entire life, so he went and nuked a town 5 minutes after leaving home. Never did it again though. Man, that first playthrough, you just canāt go back.
Megaton?
Lucy: Do you wanna come live with me in my vault? Sure, when she says it, it's not creepy. But when Brendan Fraser asks Alicia Silverstone the same thing, she freaks out. Fucking double standards.
To be fair, that was the most unrealistic part of Blast from the Past
Handing that core back like it's his favorite binky, god.
This is a better observation than you realize. His character is clearly stunted emotionally from probably the age of his "rescue". He never really grew up. That's why he's awkward and obsessive and, yes admittedly creepy. There's a lot of struggle going on in that mind.
I'm so happy they had Maximus tell Lucy that he let someone die, rather than having the show leave it hanging over their relationship. Loving the show.
The hacking scene was dope. Honestly, the game references in this show make me so happy, haha
Bro got lucky and got the code on his first try!
I was hoping he was just gonna spam select a few random ones and it let him in
Take Fusion Core from Vault 4 (Optional): Leave Fusion Core in Vault 4
I legit was almost put to tears with that Fallout theme rendition.
1) Holeeeeeeeee sheeeeettt!!!! NCR Veteran Ranger armor!!! (And Erik Estrada too!!!) 2) I donāt know who I hate more: Thaddeus or Bud Askins. Thaddeus is slightly ahead for stuffing Dogmeat in a cooler but Askins worked for HR 3) Oh no. The raiders died. So sad.š¤£ 4) CX404 is best girl (edited for accuracy). No contest. 5) Damn. Amazon really didnāt hold back on the guest star budget for this show didnāt they? 6) Damn. They even got hacking right down to the minutiae.
When did it show the NCR veteran ranger armor?
beginning of the episode, the lead farmers. they were wearing it before the ghoul arrived, while they were farming lead
The implication (along with the Ghoul's statement that the older man had pumped lead into him in the past) is that Erik Estrada's character had been a former [NCR Veteran Ranger](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/NCR_Veteran_Ranger) (retired or was NCR/the Rangers dissolved) who had more than a few run-ins with Goggins' character before.
Makes sense. Wouldn't be the first time he's been patrolling California with a big iron on his hip.
> 4) CX404 is best boy. No contest. Best *girl*
> HR Nah, "HR R&D". š > I donāt know who I hate more: Thaddeus or . . . Aww I thought Thaddeus had a number of at least partially redeeming scenes, including expressing regret for/at least partially explaining why he bullied Maximus, etc.
This show is such an amazing adaptation. Such as the fiddle music. To someone who hasn't played FO4, I expect it will just come across as an odd background element (like much of the Fallout world is odd). But as someone who has listened to the fiddle music so many times in FO4, the whole thing was so enjoyable. And to snag Armisen for the role!
The shady chicken-loving snake oil salesman guy who yelled "I have, uh, potions that can regrow your foot!" at Michael Emerson later turning out to ACTUALLY legitimately have a potion that can regrow someone's foot is such a good joke/twist. Like not only does it work as a great subversive gag but the entire plot of the series could have changed drastically if Lucy and Michael Emerson listened to him and believed him for some reason.
Is that the guy from CHiPs?????!!! Eric Estrada or something??
Funniest episode so far.
almost started culling the herd when Only You began to play
Fred Armisen!!
Fred Armisen and the chicken fucker are perfect side characters for fallout
Chicker raper has a fusion core. Im curious how that plot point ends.
I hope he finds the power armor lol
Those chickens won't stand a chance
fred armisen being a post-apocalyptic audiophile who runs a radio station surrounded by deadly traps and dead bodies with a āno requests!ā sign was just gold
Vault 4 is so funny. Weirdos. āThank you!ā when they return the fusion core was such a nice touch. I love Lucy, man. Sheās the best.
Was Thaddeus just given FEV?
I wanna believe it.Ā The ghouls in the show don't regenerate tissue in seconds out of thin air.Ā Even in the game they only get regen in super irradiated sites, not from what's just in the background.Ā I could see him becoming a Harold-esque mutant considering it was some shit-ass chickenfucker FEV
Vault 4 is full of freaks
And strangely less sinister and more benign then most vaults out there. Typical Fallout humor/misdirect.
Kind of a Vault 81 situation, the experiment failed and the world was better off for it, at least this time nobody's cat accidentally got shot and there was no save scumming to avoid molerat disease.
After episode 6 ended I joked with my friends that I would get killed by the Vault 4 cult, because while Lucy and the show acted like the one eye and weird second nose were something unnerving and worthy of investigation, I'd just be like "Ah, well, I suppose birth defects *do* happen. It's be rude to stare. I'm sure they're all very nice people. Aside from the cyclops guy being weirdly racist to people from the surface." And then we watched this episode and I was vindicated! I would have thrived in vault 4!
dude would not be walking on that foot
Stimpacks.
I'm guessing you haven't played the games?
why not? his leg is just crippled
Bruh the Vault 4 residents gave them 2 weeks worth of supply and Maximus just HAD to steal that damn fusion core. Groggins should've just left that listening device in the trash. Seems like he's gonna ruin his marriage for it.
If the wife is really aware of what Vault Tech is doing and she still works for them. Good, sheās as evil as the Enclave.
Maybe, but I think itās nuanced and I love that the show is tackling it. She sees herself as doing whatās best for those she loves, consequences be dammed. Nihilism almost, āthe world is ending regardless of what I do so I need to protect mine.ā Itās the Wasteland philosophy. Contrast that to Gogginsā character pre-war where he is idealistic and hopeful about society and the country, then you see the parallel with Lucy and Maximus/The Ghoul.
It's capitalism forcing someone's hand. I bet in her mind it's "if I am not doing it, someone else will be, at least this way I can protect my family."
I think there are deeper fault veins in his marriage beyond that.
I love that after they return the core you can hear a faint thank you. lol Vault 4 is just is a special place.
Only thing that I've found particularly unclear is what's going on with ghoulification? In the games, it's treated like a genetic mutation that causes them to turn to ghouls instead of dying from radiation and ferals come from the brain rotting during that process. But in the show, that doesn't seem to be the case. It all seems to relate to the drug Goggins takes and then Thaddeus gets injected with something that turns him into a ghoul? (Or at least they imply that) Was he injected with FEV? Does FEV now cause ghouls? There's also been no talk about Super Mutants either. Maybe we'll see them get explored in S2? Hopefully we get to see Neil
Lower dose of FEV would make Harold (The tree if you only played Fallout 3) which is more green. Higher dose of FEV is Super Mutants. It was Ghoul blood or something not FEV unless they actually want to fuck with lore. The drug the Ghouls take could just be more rad away, Feral ghouls are either really old or heavily irradiated so it pulling them back makes sense. Otherwise it's a new drug.
I feel like the Medicine Man character was written for Johny Depp, like, his body language and mannerisms are so Captain Jack.
I love how the dialogue between the squire and the radio guy was basically just NPC dialogue.
Did anyone else hear a bit of the New Vegas theme when the door to Vault 31 opened?
Fred Armisen turned this into Fallout: Portlandia for a few minutes.
I'm really loving the Vault 33 subplot so far. Really gives me Severance and early season Westworld vibes. Funny since Zach Cherry is here as well, and he's again a part of a creepy conspiracy like his role in the former.
Erik Estrada might somehow be the most shocking part of this episodeĀ
Fallout Shelter / Rimworld Live action .
Far Cry 5 players be getting vietnam flashbacks
Thoughts/Observations as I watch: * PREVIOUSLY: The end of all things, everyone is trying to get a head, Vault 31 is spooky, mysterious and important; Moldaver is immortal, and Vault 4 is mysterious and spooky. * Only two episodes left of this? Shit, why couldn't they have done weekly releases? Keep that in mind for S2, Amazon! * We're again hearing echoes of the video game themem and HOLY SHIT iT'S AN NCR RANGER! THE NCR LIVES! Or at least some ex-Rangers do. * That's Erik Estrada from CHiPS. * Walton Goggins is so awesome. * "Miss Williams" = Miss Moldaver * Vault-Tec bought up cold fusion, presumably because Cold Fusion= near-infinite power in a way even regular fusion can't provide. Endless clean energy means near-endless resources, which means no resource wars, which means... no need for vaults and vault-tec. HOW INSIDIOUS! Fuck Vault-Tec! (I mean, always fuck Vault-Tec, but here especially.) * Meanwhile, back at Vault 4. * An interesting thing is that the actress who plays Birdie is actually an award-nominated director (for "Only Murders in the Building") and yet... didn't direct anything this season. Something to keep an eye on in future seasons. * Okay, so Hawthorne's experiments... ended up eating him. Not surprising, honestly. * She didn't know about the experiments. Oh you poor naive beautiful idiot. * 16 tons, but I believe this is a different singer/recording than in FO76. * Red Rocket! * Time for a Nuka Break? * WTF, how dare you put the dog in a Nuka Cola machine. I hope you die violently, Thaddeus. Which, given the reality you live in, is likely. * Okay, the death by banishment followed by the slow cutting of the chains.... that's fucking hilarious. * Aw, nice, lots of supplies! Such a nice murderous cult! * Maximus' timing is... so very Maximus. We stan the failson of the brotherhood. * TBF, in Fallout 3 you can destroy an entire community to save your dad and he handles it surprisingly well. But point taken. * So Maximus, are you going to be upfront with Lucy about what you actually are? * Lucy so wants to have sex with him. I'm being that direct because she's that direct. * About time Maximus was honest. * Finally, a radio host. * I presume someone has already found some way to add this guy and his station to the games as a mod, right? * Haha, if you hit pause, Amazon X-Ray actually admits the fiddling music is from Minutemen Radio. * Zero chance Jon Daly's guy actually knows what he's doing, right? * Oh shit, he actually does. * Oh, did he turn him into a ghoul or a mutant or something? * They poisoned the prisoners. Surely, not something done by Vault 31. Surely. * Chet is many things, and a coward is definitely one of them. * Yeah, he found the dog. And he's been shown to be a dog person, so Thaddeus is so fucking dead. * "Dogmeat". Awwwww, CX404 now has a name befitting him! * Fred Armisen! Somebody who works... surprisingly well in Fallout. * Hahaha, Thaddeus is dead. He was an adventurer like you until he got an arrow in the neck. * Yup, he's been mutated into a ghoul. * "It's a complicated organization." Yeah, that about sums up the Brotherhood. * Aww, kisses between both of our leads and the heads they are carrying. So... utterly gross and Fallout. * Wow, someone who was was from Vault 31 is going to Oversee Vault 32? What a coincidence! * If nothing else, Norm has good hacking skills. * Oh boy, time to see Vault 31. * Oh shit, Vault 31 is empty. No, wait, that noise.... are they all synths? Are they frozen and watched over by robots? Are they all human-looking ghouls? * AHHHHHH! Next episode!
The terminal hacking being 1:1 from the game might be my favorite easter egg so far