A comprehensive review of the Fallout show Season 1

Here is my complete deep-dive review of the first season of the Fallout Show. It starts with a short spoiler-free review and then dives into a spoiler-heavy comprehensive review of setting, writing, plot holes, effects and CGI, retcons, mistakes, lore, and everything the show does right (and wrong).

#Oxhorn #Fallout #Fallout76

[taylormullis]

Anyone else watch with subtitles on and notice the overseer of vault 31 was listed as "Brain on a roomba" lmfao

[ChibaBanana]

The Ghoul didn't wing against Maxiumus because he didn't have Armor Piercing round. In the last episode the camera even zoomed intk the bullet to show what type of ammo he is using.

[Kuhndog]

Maximus thinking Fiends were cannibals was intentional and not a lore mistake. You can tell he is talking out of his ass which is something he does often. Recall back to the classroom when he couldnt identify technology.

The show often implies he is sheltered, indoctrinated, and slow to catch on.

Maximus made the mistake. Not the writers

[guilhermeroyama]

I love how Lucy represents so well people when they are first introduced into the Fallout universe.

Lucy - "Is that a Knight!? Wow!"

*A few episodes later*

Lucy - "Wait, aren't the Brotherhood the good guys?"

The Brotherhood - "Well, about that..."

[shanepye]

I felt the funniest subtle nod to the games is when the scribe empties his 10mm pistol at two people and doesn’t hit a thing.
😂

[baxturkey]

It’s pretty obvious that the enclave guy knew everything about the vault, and Lucy because of his connection to Moldaver

[bizbe]

Lucy and maximus with the whole "pop like a pimple" thing. Makes sense in character. Lucy is awkwardly social while Max is socially awkward. Both have no idea how to handle emotions and feelings.

Max was raised as a child to be a soldier and knows nothing else.

Lucy was raised to be bred. Sex is just sex to her, nothing else.

They are both learning to be well... human.

[robsolf]

20:00 One of the first things Lucy tells Wilzig is that she's looking for her dad, and tells him her dad was kidnapped by Muldaver. Wilzig is trying to deliver the cold fusion tech to Muldaver, so he likely knew who her father was as part of the plan.

[kaynoism]

That line between Max and Lucy I think was really funny. I like to think of it as a failed skill check lol

[jbc]

I think most people are missing the nuance around the awkward Lucy/Max 'flirting' in vault 4. It's to show that the apocalypse doesn't just destroy physical civilization, it also destroys social civilization. The two characters don't know how to flirt, it's not a part of either of their factions. Vault 31 has arranged marriages and I think it makes sense that they treat sex more like a tool to repopulate/sustain the vault and that's why they're so open about it. Then Max being ignorant about the details of sex shows how a lack of proper education can really affect peoples conception of 'basic' things and it might also be playing into the religious nature of the brotherhood.

As for the scene itself, it starts with Max saying 'you smell nice' to Lucy, likely just making an observation since he probably hasn't smelled many nice things in the wasteland. Lucy is confused at first but thinks back to her vault education and she says "oh"(she clearly comes to the conclusion that Max is flirting with her) and so she proceeds to ask about sex. She's been shown to be a very blunt and open person so that all tracks for me. The dialog is definitely awkward and 'cringe' but I think that's the point. Think about how awkward you were the first time you talked to someone you were attracted to. Then multiply it by 1000 because of a lack of education, massively diverging social structures, and the literal apocalypse.

Max does come off like he's 'high' on something but I think that also makes sense, though the actor may have played it up a little too much. He's been living with the brotherhood for at least a decade now, he's never had 'nice' food or anything like that(maybe as a small kid in shady sands but he was like 6 when that got nuked so he wouldn't remember much). He's clearly overwhelmed by everything and not thinking strait, which again makes sense to me.

Overall I think there are plenty of little things to nit pick about, including in that scene, but I think most people are missing the point of the scene as well.

[fbgmduck]

Hank not "recognizing" the "Overseer of Vault 32" eludes to the fact that the entirety of Vault 31 is a storage facility for popsicle Overseers waiting to be thawed in an order chosen before the bombs dropped.

[LikeTheBuffalo]

in "that scene": max says "you smell good." lucy know she's been days out in the wasteland, far from anything resembling a hot shower or soap. she even smells herself for a second. then she realizes that "you smell good." is max responding to her pheromones. being a smart, liberated vault dweller, she jumps to the correct conclusion that he's attracted to her and figures that they could just as easily pass the quarantine time by banging one out as they could just sitting there twiddling thumbs. but the Brotherhood's celibacy propaganda has its hooks too deep into max's mind

[theonewhoshitposts]

Not sure if you saw ox but Jonathan Nolan and Todd Howard just had their first interview after the premiere aired and confirmed that the “fall of shady sands” is separate than the nuke launching stating that the nuke launched shortly after the end of new Vegas

[Iamjustherek]

Honestly, the conversation in Vault 4 really put Maximus in perspective for me. It really solidified for me the fact that “oh yeah, he’s a child soldier raised in a weird military cult primarily surrounded by other weird maladjusted child soldiers. He’s never talked to a civilian woman as a grown man who he’d be physically attracted to.” And Lucy, I mean “cousin stuff was alright as kids but obvs that’s unsustainable” lol she’s basically been groomed to be a breeder and is overly blunt about sex.

Also this is the first time since each of them left their factions that they felt safe. I can see their bodies switching from fight or flight right into rest and naturally feeling drawn to each other. Maximus has been obviously crushing on Lucy in a childish “pretty girl” way and I can imagine Lucy seeing him as her hero and recognizing him as good breeding stock because of his physical prowess.

[chrismatteson]

The best line in the show for me was “Now, that right there is the closest thing we've had to an honest exchange so far.”

[MisterBewst]

During prohibition many bars became ice cream parlors, and the social event of drinking became getting ice cream. Hence the ice cream social reference

[adrianbenitez]

I think the first time Cooper saved CX-404 was purely to use her to track Wiltzig’s head, then started warming up to her once we saw more flashbacks.

[funki]

17:48 oysters are considered an aphrodisiac and considering that Maximus is a young lad who never had sex this scene makes sense. And well - you are SUPPOSED to cringe at this. It's intentionally written to show how weird and naive they are. How open for sex Lucy is is already hinted at in the first episode where she just says okey dokey and is not weirded out by her new husband

[channeldeleted]

I thought the power armor was a plot hole too until I realized that the ghoul uses special bullets when he fights the brotherhood in the final scene whereas versus Max he doesn't

[opposedhealer]

I remember thinking back when Django Unchained came out that “that one bad guy has a really great walk”. Still stands, Walton has an instantly identifiable walk and I knew it was him immediately. I hope he gets all the work he wants and lives a happy, full life.