Fallout Season 1
SPOILERS TOTAL. You've been warned.
(First watched 2024-04-10) Well... it's definitely Fallout. And I do mean that in a good way. Not everything seems exactly like I would've imagined the games come to life, but it's no more different than I might expect Fallout 5 to be from what came before. Except for more blatant discussions about incest, maybe.
We haven't seen numbered vaults connected before, but as much as they all differed from each other, some of them being set up in a community of communities seems reasonable enough. Though for being direct neighbors with at least telegraph communications between them, they seem surprisingly disconnected. Enough so nobody caught on that they were all fakes. They've apparently connected every few years, so even aside from sending messages back and forth you might think somebody would be looking for some familiar faces from previous visits.
(First watched 2024-04-10) I haven't quite figured out Maximus. On the one hand, he could really be the guy trying to do right, and legit thinking that the asshole knight he was assigned to not worthy of his role. But on the other hand... he could just be full of himself and jumping on excuses to further his own advancement.
The show sure doesn't shy away from the ultraviolence and exploding limbs.
(First watched 2024-04-11) Maximus digging himself in a hole with the Brotherhood. Not just refusing to help his knight, which they wouldn't have anything but his word as the survivor to go on, but now actively impersonating said knight to continue the mission. Props to him, though, for not being quite as much of an asshole to his new squire, at least when it comes to dealing with dangerous monsters.
I realize it's a macguffin, but I do wonder what's in the head. We've seen people with implants before, but... that one just seems to be sitting in the side of the head, not a brain implant or vision or anything like that. I don't suppose he just stuck the equivalent of a USB stick in his neck, though? But if it was doing anything else... I don't think we saw him make use of any abnormal abilities when he was living.
I thought Vault 33 would basically be a memory once Lucy left, but nope, we're still cutting back there and seeing what her previously unmotivated brother is getting up to now that there are major things going on he cares about.
(First watched 2024-04-11) Ghouls needing to take a substance to keep from going feral seems like it would be a pretty big change from the way things have worked. But I think they mean it's only necessary once a degrading process has begun, to stave off the inevitable indefinitely.
So Vault 32 now seems like a standard Vault, in that something crazy caused everyone to die... just most of the ones seen in games didn't last hundreds of years before reaching that point.
Nice to hear Matt Berry.
108: The Beginning 2024 April 10