Fallout - Episodes 1-3 Review

[00:00:00] Hello and welcome to the Radioactive Ramblings podcast, a show where we're going to be covering Fallout on Amazon Prime. I'm one of your cohosts Aaron. And I'm your other cohost,

[00:00:29] I'm Chase. Today we're going to be covering episodes 1 through 3 of Fallout. We are going to start with a spoiler-free section and with our general thoughts and impressions of the season so far before we get into a scene by scene breakdown of the episode.

[00:00:45] Alright, let's get right into it. So after watching episodes 1 through 3, I'm pretty excited about this show. I think if it's turning out to be a pretty decent show, you know,

[00:00:55] I think that they've really nailed the Fallout vibe. I think that they got it down in a way that I wasn't expecting. I was half expecting to open up this show on Amazon Prime last night and have it be shit. I was really expecting that, to be honest.

[00:01:10] I honestly did have high hopes for the show and I think so far they have delivered a lot of the CGI looked great. I mean, there are a few things to nitpick about but we'll talk about that later. But yeah, I think so far it is worth the time investment for sure.

[00:01:27] Absolutely. And just from watching the first 3 episodes, I know that they released the first 2 to some people who got early screeners and it makes sense that they would release the first 2 to those folks who got the screeners because it feels like those 2 are meant to be 1 continuous story.

[00:01:45] And then the third one is like you're really getting into this series. The first 2 episodes are very much the introduction. I think the actors are doing a really great job as well, if I'm being honest.

[00:01:55] There wasn't a single performance that I thought wow this fucking sucks. I watched all these characters really embody the factions, the different aspects of Fallout and they're all really funny, you know. They have the comedy down. They've got the comedic timing down which I wasn't expecting from the Westworld team because if I

[00:02:15] remember correctly from the 2 episodes of Westworld that I've seen, it's not a funny show. It's very much just a serious drama. And that's going to wrap up our very brief spoiler free section. If you haven't seen episodes 1 through 3 yet now would be a good time to head out. Come back to us later once you've watched those episodes.

[00:02:33] Spoilers for these 3 episodes as well as some spoilers for the Fallout games will be fair game during the spoiler section. Or if you don't care about spoilers and you haven't seen the episodes yet, feel free to stick around. Let's get into Episode 1.

[00:02:48] In pre-war America an actor named Cooper Howard accompanied by his daughter performs as a cowboy for a children's birthday party.

[00:02:56] Cooper is asked to give his famous thumbs up but he declines when the bombs drop Cooper and his daughter try to escape the blast on their horse.

[00:03:05] This is the opening to the show, right? And it really sets the vibe they've got some people in the background like making jokes about this guy Cooper Howard doing a birthday party.

[00:03:15] He's supposed to be a pretty big deal, it sounds like, but we don't really know too much about him at the point of this first scene.

[00:03:22] And the fact that he seems to be a pretty famous guy and he's doing a children's birthday party raises a lot of questions like how did he get to this point in his life?

[00:03:31] Why doesn't he want to do the little thumbs up? It had me laughing a little bit when the guy on the news was talking about how he didn't want to do the weather report because he didn't even know if there was going to be a tomorrow and everyone just kind of turns off the TV and ignores it.

[00:03:44] I think about the thumbs up thing or not the thumbs up thing about Cooper Howard. I think one of the moms mentioned something about Alamone or something when they're like why is he here doing a birthday party?

[00:03:56] So after the title card that reads 219 years later we open on Lucy McLean, a Vault-weller of Vault 33.

[00:04:05] And it looks like this is sort of trying to emulate the games a little bit where at the beginning you pick out all of your special skills, any thoughts on that.

[00:04:14] You haven't played much Fallout besides Fallout Shelter Race so you're not familiar with that.

[00:04:18] That's actually one of the only things I do know about in Fallout is that at the beginning of the game you can...

[00:04:24] It's like D&D with your stats where you get to choose your stat spread and I know that can max out your luck stat and have zero and everything else and stuff like that.

[00:04:33] You have complete control over that.

[00:04:35] I think when we were watching the show she kind of lying about some of her stats. She was like I'm not that great at shooting the gun

[00:04:42] and then it cuts to her target and she only hit the bull's eye or something like that.

[00:04:47] Yeah she seems like she's got the skills to survive in the wasteland even though her demeanor is very naive and sort of clueless about the workings of the outside world.

[00:04:57] She's definitely got the makings of a badass. It's not really come out yet but she's got the base there for that.

[00:05:04] I mean yeah, later on this episode when we see how the wedding turns out right we see that she does have skills.

[00:05:12] Yeah definitely. I think that she makes a comment here about the fact that there were no suitable marriage candidates for her and her own vault because most of the people in the vault are her cousins.

[00:05:24] They bring up that joke a few more times in the episode.

[00:05:28] Oh yeah right before she's supposed to meet who she's betrothed to, her cousin is like I love you.

[00:05:35] She's like it's okay to mess around with your cousin but not for marriage which was kind of crazy.

[00:05:41] That was a crazy bar that she dropped. I guess when you're living in a confined space with only, I mean how many people do we think live in this vault? A few dozen? A few hundred?

[00:05:51] I mean it's probably closer to like double digits or like low, low, triple digits right? I mean I'm assuming everyone was there for the wedding and like that didn't look like two to many people and it was both vaults or the quote unquote vault 32 and vault 33.

[00:06:10] Yeah to move on to the wedding we touched on that a little bit. We find out that the overseer of this vault is her father and he's actually not from this vault. He's from vault 31.

[00:06:21] We get a little bit of information about how these three vaults sort of work in tandem with one another do some trading.

[00:06:27] They're all seem to be connected via underground tunnels which is something unique. We've never seen two vaults be connected in this way before in the lore so I thought it was interesting that they decided to create three new vaults that were all connected to each other.

[00:06:42] Yeah, I mean one thing I don't get about the underground stuff is how are they growing corn? Like how does that work?

[00:06:49] I saw that they're like eating meat from it looked like spam for the wedding and like I'm assuming that's from like a limited supply because I don't are they raising livestock?

[00:06:58] I mean I have a lot of questions on how they're sustaining themselves for two hundred and nineteen years post nuclear fallout across the entire United States and probably beyond.

[00:07:09] Yeah, so in a lot of vaults they've got a fairly large crop field whatever they've got hydroponics on a few different levels in some vaults. Some of them have livestock.

[00:07:21] I think that to answer your question about how is this shit growing underground? I want to say they've got UV lamps in the farming areas and to talk about the farming area real quick.

[00:07:30] They've got a projector set up to pretend like they're outside which I thought was pretty funny.

[00:07:35] Yeah, supposedly it's showing them Nebraska.

[00:07:39] I enjoyed the fact that they are just beaming in images on a loop of the Nebraska countryside. They're not trying to show the outside world in California like before the war.

[00:07:49] So they're just straight up transplanting these people to a place that they will never see and aren't even close to with those projections.

[00:07:56] I guess anything to keep yourself sane when you're living underground for your entire fucking life.

[00:08:01] I would go pretty crazy if I couldn't see the outside world.

[00:08:04] I think this sanity thing is more about having people though for sure. I mean, I believe at least because they have a lot of amenities down there like games on their like wrist thing.

[00:08:15] They have a ton of stuff that I didn't expect to be down there.

[00:08:19] Alright, let's move on to the actual wedding celebrations.

[00:08:22] We see the quote unquote vault dwellers of vault 32. They are ravenous man. They're chowing down on that food. They're taking food off of other people's plates.

[00:08:32] They seem like they have an eaten in a while. That still tracks with the story that they've been peddling that this is a situation in which they're starving.

[00:08:41] They've told the people of vault 33 that their crops have failed. So that's the story that they've gone with and then we've got her father, the overseer delivering a speech about how their kids are going to be able to recolonize the wasteland safely.

[00:08:56] You kind of see the building suspicion towards vault 32s vault dwellers through her brother.

[00:09:04] They kind of cut to him and like show him observing weirder and weirder behaviors out of vault 32. Also going back to her father talking about how this marriage is off spring are going to be the generation of vault dwellers that repopulate the world.

[00:09:21] I think that's really interesting. And also kind of surprising. I didn't think it would take that that long for like the nuclear fallout settle.

[00:09:31] It's kind of surprising it took it's going to take like probably what like 230 240 years for the wasteland become normal levels of radiation.

[00:09:42] One of the main things to remember about all of these vaults is that they're all or not all but most of them are experiments and a lot of them are being lied to.

[00:09:51] So the majority of the population on the surface are actually descendants of vaults that opened a lot sooner. They're not all just survivors of people who managed to hide away from the blasts.

[00:10:01] A lot of vaults opened way earlier and some of them were never meant to open. And I think that whatever experiment is going on in this vault they definitely lie to these people about how long it would take for there to be livable surface radiation because vault tech at the end of the day are a bunch of fucking liars.

[00:10:19] Yeah, I think we get a little of that when we meet the scientists and the way he talks about how the banana flavored poison is like the one thing that they made that wasn't like super inhumane.

[00:10:31] Yeah, I didn't know that most of the people alive today in the fallout universe are descendants of earlier vaults opening up.

[00:10:39] Yeah, and they make a few comments during the wedding celebrations about not letting the wasteland change them when they leave the vault which is unfortunately what happens with most people when they leave the vault.

[00:10:49] They go outside, they experience the harsh realities of this new world and society kind of collapses. They don't exactly have their ideals left or they don't really have the space to be idealistic when the world is trying to kill them constantly.

[00:11:04] You know, you got to do what you got to do to survive in the wasteland.

[00:11:08] Yeah, it's hard when you have an ax a lot all the size of a bear trying to eat you.

[00:11:12] Yeah, hard to stand on your morals when an irradiated bear is mulling you.

[00:11:18] Next we find out that the vault dwellers of Vault 32 are a bunch of damn fakeers. They are raiders from the outside world and they've come to destroy Vault 33 and take their resources.

[00:11:31] That's not before Lucy and her new husband have a passionate night together.

[00:11:36] Night is a way to extrapolate that I guess it's more like fucking five minutes, I think.

[00:11:44] Yeah, and then it looked like he went over to Lucy's curtains and rubbed his balls on the curtains.

[00:11:49] Yeah, I was about to say I think he rubbed like the come off his dick on the damn curtains.

[00:11:55] Yeah, that was a moment. That was when I was like okay, this dude is definitely not from a vault because even if they'd been starving for a while and had a little bit less decorum than normal,

[00:12:05] a vault dweller would not be over there using the curtain.

[00:12:09] I mean she literally got up and checked his radiation right after that while he was drinking water out of a flower base.

[00:12:17] Yeah, she was like there's something not right here with this dude. It was also a little bit suspicious that the moment they get into her room,

[00:12:25] the vault dump soup came off right away that that man did not spare any time.

[00:12:30] Alright, let's talk for a second about the communal vault dress. That seems like at that point I feel like you just got to wear the vault suit to your wedding,

[00:12:38] right? I don't know if you really want to be wearing the communal vault dress. It's not going to fit everyone.

[00:12:43] I think it's honestly my disgust with it more comes with the fact that people are fucking in that shit and then you're wearing it too.

[00:12:53] If there was like etiquette to like take it off before pipe is lane, maybe it would be less weird and it's more of just like hey this is the nicest thing we have to wear

[00:13:04] and we're all gonna share it. Maybe Lucy is just the one that had to ruin it for everyone though.

[00:13:09] Maybe, but the woman who was talking to her before kind of sounded like she had a similar experience on her wedding night.

[00:13:17] Yeah once it's revealed that these vault 32ers are a bunch of damn fakers, the vault just descends into chaos.

[00:13:25] The raiders take guns from the armory, they're shooting at people, they've got pipes and knives and people are dying left and right.

[00:13:33] The vault dwellers are trying their best to put up a fight, but it seems like for the majority of the time that this conflict is going on.

[00:13:40] It definitely seems like the vault dwellers are on the losing side.

[00:13:44] Yeah what I kind of didn't understand though is why weren't they a little more cautious when opening up the door between the vaults?

[00:13:53] Obviously there's a security system set in place with the gatekeeper and such. I mean, I just feel like they have the telegram to communicate between with each other.

[00:14:05] I feel like there should be like a code that they need or something before opening the gate.

[00:14:10] This is vault dweller and then like they're fucking social security or some shit.

[00:14:14] Knowing Vault Tech they probably do give these people social security numbers and shit because they're all a vision of rebuilding America.

[00:14:23] They've got the bureaucracy to go along with it for sure.

[00:14:27] We find out that these vault dwellers who haven't been massacred have been taken and held for ransom over at the front or not the front.

[00:14:35] I think it's the passageway between Vault 33 and Vault 32, but in any case they're taken there and they're being held for ransom.

[00:14:42] The overseer comes and talks to the woman who was posing as the overseer and she asks if he knows who she is.

[00:14:50] It's revealed that this woman's name is Lee Moldaver. The overseer in fact does no of Lee Moldaver, which is suspicious.

[00:14:59] I don't know how he knows about the outside world. What does he know about this shit?

[00:15:04] Well, I mean clearly when she goes over to Lucy and says you look like your mother, I think that exposes the fact that either Lucy's mother was not a vault dweller or her mother and her father went outside the vault previously.

[00:15:19] And that's why her mother passed away.

[00:15:21] Yeah, that's a good point. The other theory I had about that was maybe the same thing happened to Vault 31 and that's why the father had to escape to Vault 32.

[00:15:31] Because we don't get any information about whether or not Vault 31 is still active.

[00:15:36] Oh, I thought the overseers besides like her father the other overseers were like we just talked to Vault 31.

[00:15:42] You're right, you're right. And they're fine.

[00:15:44] No, you are absolutely correct. I forgot about that. So Vault 31 is okay. Maybe he's lying though about where he comes from.

[00:15:51] Maybe or like you said, he could have just gone rogue for a little while explored the wasteland.

[00:15:57] I'm sure we're going to find out more about that if the overseer is still alive where we're going to get a lot of info once Lucy decides to get her ass over to Moldaver and get her dad back.

[00:16:08] Moving on to our introduction to a brotherhood of steel aspirin named Maximus.

[00:16:14] He's getting a shit beat out of him by his fellow recruits and we see a little flashback of him being saved by a brotherhood knight as a kid.

[00:16:21] At first when I saw him getting the shit beat out of him, I thought maybe he's just unpopular. Maybe it's hazing. I don't know.

[00:16:27] It was a little murky to me as to what was going on with that.

[00:16:31] Yeah, when I saw him getting the shit beat out of him and then but like I also saw like what they're wearing and I was like

[00:16:37] this looks very reminiscent of like US military and I was like maybe this guy did something to like give the class pushups or some shit like that to piss everyone off.

[00:16:47] I'm not saying it was deserved. Yeah, very well could have been which I think we get a little bit of info about that in episode three and it seems like it was more hazing related.

[00:16:58] Even though it seems like they were hazing him for a good long while, this shit seems to have been going on for months.

[00:17:04] He's getting the brunt of this abuse for a long time.

[00:17:07] Yeah.

[00:17:08] And we see a brotherhood of steel airship and a squadron of vertebrates arrive on the landing strip and we see for the first time some brotherhood knights clad in their T60 power armor.

[00:17:19] This was pretty sick to see the airship blow in and see the helicopters and the power armor.

[00:17:25] Yeah, I mean, I think the CGI there with like the giant blimp looking airship thing was really good actually and I think the vertebrates actually look really really cool.

[00:17:35] Yeah, for sure.

[00:17:36] And I'm not sure what kind of direction they're going with the brotherhood here. It seems like they're trying to make all brotherhood chapters interconnected in this time period because in the past few games they very much been

[00:17:49] if you're at the brotherhood of steel on the west coast or the brotherhood of steel on the east coast, they're two completely different organizations that are pretty much severed from each other.

[00:17:58] But they say something a little bit later in the episode that points to a possible reunification of the chapters into one cohesive brotherhood of steel.

[00:18:09] Which would be pretty...

[00:18:11] That would be a force to be reckoned with in the wasteland with all these chapters together and you know, you see the airships.

[00:18:20] The brotherhood of steel on the east coast has an airship so this could be the prid win from Fallout 4.

[00:18:25] We're not exactly sure they could just have more airships.

[00:18:28] So all these knights are here for a reason.

[00:18:31] They are going to be given squires from the aspirants that are in the boot camp here.

[00:18:36] Some of these select few recruits are going to be put on to a little team and it's going to kickstart their career into the brotherhood of steel possibly getting their own power armor and shit.

[00:18:47] Yeah, I mean we see that Maximus is on his hands in knees praying to become a squire.

[00:18:54] Yeah he definitely seems like he's ambitious. He's ready to move onto the next stage of his time in the brotherhood of steel.

[00:19:01] And spoiler alert, that does not happen. He does not get chosen and he has a little tantrum.

[00:19:08] When he started tweaking out I literally was like dying because the way he threw the tantrum was so funny because he broke the toilet seat, started like flipping the other side of it up and down.

[00:19:23] Yeah he really took his anger out on the latrine. Bro was supposed to be cleaning it.

[00:19:28] I wonder if that whole thing was scripted or if he improvised the flipping of the up and down of the toilet seat.

[00:19:36] Yeah, I wonder how much room they gave the actors to improvise because they all seem to have a really good handle on how their characters are supposed to be acting in this world and in the context of their situations.

[00:19:46] So I hope that some of the stuff is ad-libbed because it would be really funny. He seems to have that whole vibe of being honestly he seems kind of entitled you know.

[00:19:55] Yeah, I was going to say right here is where I feel like the downfall of his character started for me so far which is crazy because he was just introduced.

[00:20:05] But like because since his introduction was like him getting beat up for what we see as no reason.

[00:20:11] I was like I gave him a pretty high bar you know. I was like this guy's going to be one of the good guys that through hardship comes out with a heart of gold.

[00:20:20] And then his best friend gets selected for being a squire and he starts tweaking out on a toilet and I was like dude come on.

[00:20:28] Speaking about his friend who gets selected to be a squire, the friend wakes up. I think that the characters name is Dane.

[00:20:34] Dane wakes up puts on their boots. There are razor blades in the boot now Dane can't be a squire.

[00:20:40] Immediately a hood gets put over Maximus's head and he gets dragged away. I got to be honest. I think he did it. I think he put those razor.

[00:20:47] I do too dude because when they asked him if he did it and he like paused and he was like no but I'm glad that it happened.

[00:20:55] I was like nah bro fucking did it. Bro fucking did it. Yeah without a doubt in my mind, I think he did it.

[00:21:02] I don't know if they're ever going to say for sure whether or not he put the razor blades in there but it really everything is pointing to that.

[00:21:09] And we know he's petty enough to do it at this point only knowing him for what like 10 minutes we know he's pretty petty.

[00:21:15] Yeah also like the fact that he said he's glad it happened is like enough for me to be like yeah he would have done it.

[00:21:23] Even though if it comes out that he didn't do it the fact that he let that bar slip already makes me like not like him as a character.

[00:21:32] The cleric in charge questions him, asks him if he did it he denies it. It kind of seems like they're going to be putting him to death.

[00:21:39] And then at the last second he decides to say exactly what this dude wants to hear and be like oh gladly give my life for the Brotherhood.

[00:21:46] Just complete got Brotherhood propaganda spewing out of his gullet.

[00:21:50] To be fair though he was indoctrinated by being rescued by a knight as a child growing up idolizing that being taken into the Brotherhood because he had nowhere else to go.

[00:22:02] I mean it does make sense for his character to be that way. It's just he's kind of a shitty person on top of that.

[00:22:09] So the cleric in charge here then assigns him to the knight that his friend Dane was supposed to be assigned to.

[00:22:16] Knight Titus who just seems like a real stand up guy. We'll get into that later but yeah it seems like a real Brotherhood enthusiast here.

[00:22:25] Now the final piece of info that is revealed by this cleric to newly squired Titus is that there's a remnant of an organization called the Enclave and that's their mission is to try and destroy that.

[00:22:38] He says that they've gotten reports from the Commonwealth clerics, the highest clerics in the Commonwealth that there's an Enclave remnant out there.

[00:22:48] We're about to get into game spoilers so if you haven't played the Fallout games it's honestly kind of minor spoilers just stuff about the factions in the universe but if you are not inclined to hear anything about that, tune out now for just a little bit.

[00:23:01] Chase what do you know about the Enclave?

[00:23:04] Not a zero.

[00:23:06] Alright that puts us in a good spot here for me to yap at you about the Enclave.

[00:23:10] Now the Enclave is the remnants of the United States government and military, mostly military.

[00:23:16] These guys are straight up evil they are the ones who are like creating super mutants in labs. They're doing fucked up experiments. They are killing wastelanders.

[00:23:25] Their whole doctrine is pretty much kill everyone in the outside world because we need to destroy everyone who's had genetic mutation or corruption or even a little bit of exposure to radiation.

[00:23:36] They just want to kill everything and start over again.

[00:23:39] Epic!

[00:23:40] Yeah real great group of people right?

[00:23:42] No.

[00:23:43] Continued game spoilers. The Enclave are supposed to be gone. On the west coast the Brotherhood of Steel and the New California Republic stormed into their bunker, raided their oil rig.

[00:23:53] These guys are supposed to be gone so the fact that there's a remnant out here it's a little suspicious. I don't know how they got here.

[00:24:00] I don't know if they've been here the whole time or if this is like some other faction of the Enclave that's decided to post up here.

[00:24:07] But this group and the Enclave that are on the east coast, they were in DC and they were destroyed by the Brotherhood there as well.

[00:24:14] So it'll be interesting to see how they survived all that.

[00:24:17] Let's move on to Lucy escaping the vault with the help of her brother Norman and her cousin that seems like Norm kind of dropped the ball on this.

[00:24:26] He was supposed to hold the elevator.

[00:24:28] Bro had one job and he didn't do it.

[00:24:30] Well clearly he hates all the jobs he's given so...

[00:24:33] He does make that comment about hating every job he's been given. Kind of seems incompetent almost everything.

[00:24:38] So yeah they helped Lucy escape. She gets out, she sees the outside world for the very first time.

[00:24:46] And he was a little taken aback by the immediate presence of skulls and bones sitting around in a dry wasteland.

[00:24:54] Yeah I don't think that outside world is as she imagined.

[00:24:58] No and I would say as a person who's never been to California, this is what I imagine it looks like. This is my only frame of reference.

[00:25:06] Yeah that's exactly what it's like.

[00:25:09] Good to know. She does seem pretty happy to see the ocean though. She seems taken aback by that.

[00:25:15] She's probably never seen that much water in her life unless you're counting the fucking projections that they put on the wall.

[00:25:20] We see a group of ruffians outside of a little town, a little western looking town.

[00:25:26] And they approach a grave that's got some green shit in IV bags going into the ground.

[00:25:32] I have absolutely no clue what this green shit is that they're pumping into into the grave.

[00:25:38] Do you have any ideas about that? What it could be?

[00:25:41] So I'm assuming it's like nutrients or like some sort of food source because they said they were keeping them alive to like cut something off of whatever.

[00:25:49] It was in the grave every year. Yeah sounds like the man in the grave has gotten himself into a pretty bad situation here.

[00:25:57] We're going to find out it was probably his own doing not going to lie.

[00:26:00] Yeah he does it for the love of the game does do it for the love of the game when he steps out of that coffin.

[00:26:06] I knew it was over for those guys. I knew they weren't going to stand a damn chance against him.

[00:26:11] They should have killed him when he went for the chicken.

[00:26:14] I was half expecting him to like put on a show and bite the chicken's head off or something.

[00:26:19] Since we're talking about the goal now, I do think one of the CGI things that was a little awkward was his nose.

[00:26:27] Really? I feel like you could tell his nose was CGI'd off the entire time in the first three episodes.

[00:26:35] Really? I see. I didn't think his nose was too bad looking.

[00:26:39] I didn't notice anything bad about it. There were a few CGI things that I thought were a little shaky,

[00:26:44] but I didn't notice the note. I'll have to pay closer attention to that as we move on because I might have just missed that.

[00:26:50] Yeah I mean if you go back and look at it, I feel like you can pretty clearly see the fuzzy black outline.

[00:26:57] Not of his actual nose but of how they edited the skull nose gap into his face.

[00:27:04] You could see like the fuzzy kind of blackness of it.

[00:27:08] It doesn't really look like what I imagine a sunken nose would look like.

[00:27:13] I don't know. I feel like you could it wouldn't just be like a black void.

[00:27:16] That's true, but honestly that's a minor gripe for me.

[00:27:20] I think that the makeup that they did, I saw something on Instagram this morning of them putting on his cool makeup and they really committed to that.

[00:27:28] It was a it looks like it was a long process and they did pretty well.

[00:27:32] Yeah the makeup looked great in my opinion.

[00:27:35] And the ghoul gets offered to work a bounty.

[00:27:39] They try to recruit him to do a job with them and they say one last job, one last job.

[00:27:45] That's when he drops the line of that he does this shit for the love of the game.

[00:27:49] And then he grabs a piece of rope off the ground, a whip, something like that immediately.

[00:27:55] I think it was the rope that was holding him down in the thing.

[00:28:00] Because when he like gets it on the guy and then he pushes him into the coffin, it like goes with the coffin.

[00:28:07] So I think it's like part of the coffins contraption that like kept him in there.

[00:28:11] And he gets himself a little human shield to protect himself from the guy who's shooting garbage at him at high velocity.

[00:28:19] Yeah, what the fuck was that weapon when they first killed the first guy with that thing?

[00:28:24] And there was like a baby doll leg sticking out of him.

[00:28:29] So that is the junk jet and that's a real weapon in Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 I think Fallout 3.

[00:28:36] It's definitely a weapon in Fallout 4 but you just pick up junk across the wasteland

[00:28:40] and use them as projectiles and ammo in this fucking garbage cannon.

[00:28:45] Is it good in the games?

[00:28:48] I've never used it because I think it looks kind of stupid.

[00:28:52] But it's definitely, I want to say it's decent early game shit that you can get but yeah, it's good.

[00:29:01] It's an interesting weapon for sure.

[00:29:03] They've got some fun gimmick weapons in the Fallout universe and I'm sure we're going to see a few more of those as the episode goes down.

[00:29:09] Or as the episodes go on.

[00:29:11] So he kills the man, decides that he's going to take that bounty firm self and track down the guy who supposedly escaped the enclave.

[00:29:20] And that's the end of episode one.

[00:29:22] It was a pretty packed episode.

[00:29:24] Moving on to episode two we start out with a science facility and a man working with a dog that gets CX404 I would say burned into its skin.

[00:29:37] But he kind of takes the dog under his wing and protects it.

[00:29:40] You know, he does like some what in the facility looks like some illegal actions hides the dog from some sort of inspections that need to be done saves it from being incinerated because it's not up to spec on its weight at birth but yeah.

[00:30:00] Yeah, it looked like he forged the little document about the dogs weight right?

[00:30:05] Yeah, I think that's quite literally exactly what he did.

[00:30:09] Yeah.

[00:30:10] And he builds the dog a little bed in the wall which the dog seems very happy about that.

[00:30:15] The thing I didn't understand about what was happening with that is is he keeping the dog a secret?

[00:30:21] I would imagine that they've got a pretty tight leash on everything that's happening in this facility.

[00:30:26] So I don't know how he keeps sneaking it to his room or his quarters every single night to kind of give that dog a safe place.

[00:30:32] I'm glad he's doing it, but I don't know how he's managing to pull it off.

[00:30:35] Well, I know we did see that one scene where all the scientists were training their own personal dog.

[00:30:40] But I think I think every scientist has their dog.

[00:30:44] I think he just hides it probably at nighttime and morning time when they collect them and when they put them back in wherever they're supposed to actually be sleeping probably because there's like a scanner or some sort of thing that needs to be done.

[00:30:58] And one of the scenes where he's taking the dog on a little walk throughout this facility.

[00:31:03] You see someone wheeling a body under a tarp past him and it looks like there were some green feet sticking out so that could have been a super mutant that they were experimenting on.

[00:31:13] I thought that was a hand, I mean not to nitpick.

[00:31:16] No, it could have been.

[00:31:17] I might have missing that but I thought it might have been super mutant feet.

[00:31:22] Could have been a big hand, not quite.

[00:31:24] Either way it did look like a hulked out limb.

[00:31:27] Yeah for sure one of his little science buddies decides to enter his quarters bro immediately sees the dog and decides to sound the alarm.

[00:31:35] I feel like that's an extreme reaction.

[00:31:38] I thought he like saw the thing he was experimenting on first and started freaking out about that first.

[00:31:45] That's true.

[00:31:46] You saw like the pipe with like the blue shit in it or whatever.

[00:31:51] Whatever he put into his head in this scene, it seems to be pretty key to the story right?

[00:31:56] Yeah I mean it was literally like some glowing pill that he injected into his head the back of his head.

[00:32:04] I wonder what that's supposed to be representative of is that like anything from the Fallout games?

[00:32:10] I couldn't think of anything.

[00:32:12] I tried to think back to all of the Fallout games and think about like what possibly be in his head?

[00:32:18] Like what did he chip himself with that could be so important that it would change the future of who controls the whole wasteland, you know?

[00:32:25] And spoiler for the games again but a very minor spoiler.

[00:32:29] In a lot of the Fallout games you're looking for this thing called the Gak which is the Garden of Eden creation kit.

[00:32:34] It's this little kit that basically jump starts civilization again, gets green things grown again, clean water all that shit.

[00:32:44] It could be a component of that maybe something to do with that tangentially but I don't know.

[00:32:49] I'm guessing that this is a completely new invention or thing for the show.

[00:32:54] It could also be like information about the enclave that could change things.

[00:32:58] That's what I thought it was because at first I was like maybe it's something that could reactivate like technology before the Fallout or purify some sort of thing.

[00:33:09] But then I was like if it could purify something he would just give it to the enclave so they'd stop killing irradiated people and just purify them.

[00:33:18] But yeah I don't know what it could be. I'm assuming it's going to be some sort of information source that leads them to be able to take out the enclave or challenge them in the future.

[00:33:30] Yeah, it seems like the enclave they've got some resources at their back despite the fact that they're operating.

[00:33:36] I don't know if they're even operating in secret anymore because they're sending out people like bounty hunters.

[00:33:42] So that kind of signals to me that they've got people out and about doing PR work or contacting folks out in the wasteland to get them to do their dirty work.

[00:33:51] Yeah, I mean I guess they could be in secret if other people know about them.

[00:33:56] They just information leaks but yeah it doesn't seem like they're in secret considering all of these factions know about the enclave.

[00:34:03] All of these people have this bounty on this guy. Yeah, it doesn't make sense to me if they're trying to be like a shadowy organization if they have this huge public bounty out on this guy.

[00:34:17] The doctor and the dog do a little escape of the facility and they get attacked by an auto turret on their way out.

[00:34:25] Oh my god, this was one of the gripes I texted you about last night.

[00:34:30] I thought this was actually quite literally the goofiest part of the whole thing and maybe the worst part of all three episodes combined.

[00:34:39] I think it would have just been better if they had like a guy watching the perimeter and he got spooked by them in the dog like bit his face off or something but no, they have a sick auto turret that catches them.

[00:34:53] And instead of them like going a different way or hiding or coming up with like a smart way to get around it, they just run across its field of view and the auto turret misses every single of like the hundred bullets at sprays at them.

[00:35:08] While they're also running at the speed that I push my grandmother in her wheelchair.

[00:35:13] Yeah, they were fucking at a snail's pace. This thing is shooting at them fast like this is an automatic turret like machine gun with targeting systems and somehow it misses everyone.

[00:35:25] I sure hope that the enclave has better fucking security systems and guard somewhere around there because that thing is not doing anything to keep out intruders.

[00:35:34] Yeah, I mean no wonder they're not a shadowy organization anymore anyone could just walk in.

[00:35:39] Yeah, and this facility that they're in it looks like a lot of its above ground which is interesting the enclave their bunker folks they they like their underground facilities so I wonder what drove them to start operating up here.

[00:35:54] Yeah, I mean it also looked fairly large and advanced technology wise so I mean it would be interesting to see how they're up keeping that considering there's not many easily accessible resources in the wasteland.

[00:36:09] Yeah, for sure. All right moving on to Lucy exploring the wasteland a little bit is when she comes across a guy in a shirt and a cloth for pants.

[00:36:20] A loin cloth quite literally a loin cloth I'm pretty sure. Yeah, Rose trying to figure out his water filter to not a very successful degree and Lucy gives him some water to sip on and he just decides he's going to chug the whole thing which honestly good for him.

[00:36:38] He did what he needed to do to survive there. Yeah, he said something that I thought was kind of funny. He was like if someone gives you some water you drink the whole thing even if you're not thirsty.

[00:36:49] And then we find out that he's been shoving sand into his water filter hoping that that would give him some water. I don't know how he's made it this far on his own.

[00:36:59] Yeah, I don't know either and maybe his dad just passed away recently. Yeah speaking of his dad passing away his dad passed away in a little town over the hill called Philly and this guy seems to warn Lucy that Philly is a dangerous place.

[00:37:16] Everyone he's ever known that's gone to Philly. Dad gone six feet under don't go to Philly. Lucy goes anyways she goes over the hill down to Philly. This is very much a junk town. Yeah, it's given mad Max. Yeah, very much so given mad Max and she goes through the whole market.

[00:37:33] She has people trying to sell her stuff they're all trying to get her business. Surprise she didn't get the iguana meat immediately when she declines the iguana meat and he goes in for the you want to buy some dog meat instead.

[00:37:45] Crazy. She gets to the heart of this little town and seems to be heavily inspired by Megaton from the games which is the city in Fallout 3 in Wasteland of DC that is built around an unexploded or undetnated nuclear bomb and it seems to be really visually similar to that so it was kind of cool to see that in live action even though it's not the same town.

[00:38:09] They build around the bomb. They just they decided that was the best place for them to set up shop and it's a great landmark great landmark and in Fallout 3 there's even a cult that pops up that warships this bomb so yeah that cult becomes a bigger thing in Fallout 4 but we're not going to get too deep into that because I don't think any of that's going to matter for this show next we see the doctor in the dog sitting near a cave.

[00:38:39] Dog trots out of the cave holding a human hand that was certainly a shock it kind of reminded me of Game of Thrones when John Snow's wolf comes back with the frozen hand beyond the wall yes actually that was my first thought when I saw that was the human hand from Game of Thrones that some what's that dog's name ghost that goes comes back with so yeah they hear a roar come from the cave and the doctor and the dog they decide to book it away from this cave.

[00:39:09] It was when they hear the roar come from inside smart decision is just a few moments later we cut to the scene of Maximus and Titus in a vertebrae off on their way to do a mission they've been tasked to go to Philly and track down the doctor.

[00:39:24] Yeah, and this is kind of where we get our first real interaction with Titus who's suffice to say a fucking asshole yeah he takes off his crotch armor and throws it at Maximus and it was like clean it.

[00:39:38] So yeah Maximus like ask him like a question about the armor and it kind of shuts him up by making him clean his dick plate.

[00:39:46] I think Maximus tries to ask him something else and Titus just completely ignores it goes up to the cockpit of the vertebird and is like set us down on board I want to shoot something so not exactly a pillar of virtue that you would expect from an organization like the brotherhood.

[00:40:03] I thought it was pretty interesting the way that they decided to hoist them down from the vertebird instead of just landing it.

[00:40:11] Well, I know like paratroopers go down on a line from the helicopter but I feel like logistically with the power armor I would just make more sense to land instead of do all that.

[00:40:25] Yeah, actually that's that's something I forgot about why the hell do they make the poor guy carry that giant sack just for why get them just make the night hold his gun like I don't understand.

[00:40:43] I don't know what they're keeping in there like is that their rations for the next two months like that is a giant ass backpack Maximus and Titus move on.

[00:40:53] They find the cave that the doctor and the dog just escaped from and they find some evidence that their target was in fact here and Titus being the dick bag that he is tells Maximus to go investigate the cave.

[00:41:09] And an irradiated bear has taken up residence in this cave in the fallout lore these are called Yao guai and they're these hulking massive bears they're pretty scary they're a pretty tough enemy in the fallout games.

[00:41:26] Yeah, and when Titus makes Maximus going to like the deeper areas of the cave to check if the bear is there.

[00:41:33] We see Maximus turn around and notice the bear is standing right behind Titus and the bear attacks Titus and basically kills him not fully finishes him off but puts him in a critical state.

[00:41:52] When Titus is telling Maximus to give him a stim shot to save his life he's being an absolute asshole about it and Maximus kind of reaches his breaking point and just lets.

[00:42:06] He either lets Titus die or finishes him off it's unclear they cut away.

[00:42:12] Yeah when I took from that was after the whole razor blade incident that were both in agreement or Maximus was behind that shit I think he probably killed his night right.

[00:42:24] And honestly guy kind of deserved it I don't think either of them are particularly good people Titus was kind of asking for it with the whole belittling him while on death's door yeah back when it happened I was on the side of.

[00:42:41] Well he kind of got what he deserved but I think later on as the show goes on I see that Maximus isn't much better yeah especially when in episode three gets assigned to squire that we'll get to that later but it's kind of a dick to him too so once Lucy heads into the center of Philly and she comes upon this shop called Modunes I think it's Modunes and Poreum something like that stops in asks the woman who owns the place.

[00:43:11] What she knows about Moldaver and this seems to be a pretty dangerous question to ask because Modunes shuts that shit down stat. She tells her that if she sticks around it's going to be dangerous for her quit asking questions about Moldaver not a good idea.

[00:43:28] Yeah and then she kicks her out of the shop.

[00:43:30] Yeah hope kicks her out of the shop correct me if I'm wrong but I think that they also give us a quick glance at the ghoul who is sitting in the town center of Philly and yeah when Lucy walks into the shop like just before she walks in I believe they give us a quick glance at him just like sitting on like I want to say a porch of some sorts.

[00:43:54] And then when she gets kicked out of the shop she runs back into the scientist and his dog we cut over to Maximus testing out his new power armor this might have been one of my favorite scenes in this episode he's chucking it garbage around checking rocks and pieces of wood around at first when I heard the screaming.

[00:44:14] I thought that he fucked something up and like crushed someone when he was throwing shit around.

[00:44:19] Yeah I'm not gonna lie about he like collapsed the house on someone and he was going to be like fuck but he goes around and he sees a citizen in need someone is being attacked by a man and Maximus decides to grab the guy by the skull and let the guy go the man is very thankful that Maximus has helped him and yeah the guy.

[00:44:43] He walks away and we get a pretty significant piece of information a pretty significant piece of context for why these two were fighting man was fucking his chickens Maximus saved a guy who was fucking chickens so.

[00:44:57] So I'm just in here for Maximus at this point it really is I like how he just immediately went over there before asking any questions decided to take this poor guy by the skull and let the guy go without trying to be like what's going on here?

[00:45:12] We get a name for the doctor finally they name him as doctor willsig he enters the town and a shootout occurs around him. This is a pretty fun scene yeah I think honestly I thought the ghouls like weapon was really cool his like pistol with like the exploding rounds I thought that was really cool.

[00:45:34] The way that he was just tearing holes through people I have a question do you know like the conversion rate how much is a bottle cap representative of I don't know like a US dollar.

[00:45:46] Like yeah I think that a bottle cap is roughly a dollar like it's it's meant to be a fairly equal conversion I think yeah okay I could be wrong on that but I'm pretty sure it's meant to be a sort of equal conversion.

[00:46:01] Lucy tries to intervene and de-escalate the situation this was the scene that they released prior to the show coming out where she walks out with her dark gun.

[00:46:11] Yeah her tranquilizer she gives a whole speech about how the ghoul must be the aggressor in this situation and that if he feels any animosity towards her it's because he's the primary aggressor she's just an upstanding citizen here trying to de-escalate the situation.

[00:46:27] Yeah he is not very keen on listening to that shit he's like what the fuck is she on about right now.

[00:46:33] Yeah and then she shoots him with the tranquilizer and he's like this is one drop in a giant pool of drugs which I'm assuming is in relation to the IV bag

[00:46:45] and later on the I don't even know what you'd call it like inhaler type thing he's using which if I had to speculate is some sort of mix of pain killers

[00:46:55] that keep him from going feral. Yeah the ghoul seems to be less ghoulified than other mainline fallout series ghouls he's got something special going on with him I don't know if this is like specific medication or a radiated shit that had turned him into a ghoul originally and he's got to keep consuming it to stay alive

[00:47:15] maybe that's what was in the grave in the first episode right? Yeah I mean it's probably something of that sort that he needs because later on when he's dead he's like a person who's dead.

[00:47:25] Runs out of it he starts freaking out. Yeah could just be a simple case of him wanting his fix but I would imagine it goes a little bit deeper than that so shootout happens Lucy de escalates unsuccessfully then maximize shows up in his power armor claiming to be night tightest he orders the ghoul to stand down and they brawl in the streets this was pretty fun to watch it was cool to see the ghoul kind of get knocked on his ass a little bit before finally out smarting max.

[00:47:55] Maximus and then I think he messes with some systems in max.

[00:48:01] Misses suit by cutting a line near his neck and max miss basically goes flying out of the fight one of the things that I noted down here is when they're fighting and

[00:48:13] Max miss gets his foot stuck and the ghoul cuts the little line on his power armor he makes some comments about how basic training isn't what it used to be which kind of connects back to

[00:48:23] the first scene that we see him in when he's still a human he mentions that he was a marine for a number of years so he likely got some power armor training when he was in the Marines.

[00:48:35] There's a fun little call back yeah it's probably also just a day get max miss for being sloppy with his power armor considering it's the first time he's ever used it.

[00:48:45] Yeah it doesn't seem like max miss has gotten any power armor training like not even in case of emergency here's what you do type of thing but then again when we see him in the classroom at the beginning he doesn't seem to be a very good student of the

[00:48:58] brotherhood the ship that he's supposed to know it kind of seems like he's neglecting to study what he needs to be studying and kind of just focusing on the whole fighting aspect of the

[00:49:08] brotherhood without the other shit to go along with it. Yeah I think he said something about his old motivation being he wanted to hurt the people that hurt him basically and I'm sure we're going to get some more clarification on that of who hurt him could be the enclave could be a group of

[00:49:23] raiders could be anyone at this point if I had to speculate I would say it's probably something to do with moldaver right like they're going to try and interconnect that a little bit or maybe it's going to be a group of vault

[00:49:36] dwellers that were Lucy's parents. Oh imagine a connection a connection back to Lucy that would be pretty pretty sweet we move on to Lucy and Wilsig making a run for the hills we see

[00:49:52] in the middle of the road. Yeah I think it's really a good idea to go across the

[00:49:54] little stretch of wasteland called the shit hole really is that's what we she refers to the two it as is the shit hole which is interesting now they keep going will

[00:50:08] be really watching them put on that prosthetic like we just need to take a moment and talk about yeah they like grind it is stumped down and then

[00:50:18] put up like fake foot on the bottom of it shows nasty there was a pool of blood down there which in our preview

[00:50:25] episode I had mentioned that fallout is a universe that doesn't shy away from violence and Amazon is a studio with a history of not

[00:50:33] violent so this show is pretty bloody and gory a lot more so than I was expecting I thought that they would kind of tone it down a little bit

[00:50:40] being a video game adaptation but they've really leaned into it it's it's gory it's nasty to look at Wilsig and Lucy make a run for the hills

[00:50:49] he's got one leg that has been replaced with a prosthetic because it got shot off it's not a particularly good prosthetic

[00:50:55] it looks like a big hunk of metal not really not what you would call high-end limb replacement so they're hobbling across the wasteland

[00:51:03] together Wilsig reveals that he just can't go on anymore he tells Lucy that he took a cyanide fell and that the only important thing about

[00:51:11] himself is the chip that's in his head so once he dies he wants Lucy to saw off his head take the head with her to mold

[00:51:19] yeah I don't know why he didn't just have her like cut out the chip in all honesty when we get into the next episode at the very beginning of Lucy's spot

[00:51:28] it looks like there might be some safety measures in place to prevent anyone from taking the chip out of the head

[00:51:34] that is true she like touches it and it looks like trick you'd say er

[00:51:38] it also looked like the process to get it in was fucking crazy so it's definitely got some safeguards to prevent anyone without the correct access from taking that stuff out

[00:51:48] all right I think that's the end of episode two moving on to episode three now we open up with back and pre-war times we see Cooper Howard starring in a western film

[00:51:59] it's kind of funny to me that he's starring in a western film given the fact that he takes on this persona of like a cowboy

[00:52:06] in the aftermath of the apocalypse

[00:52:10] it's interesting that he kind of gives off this air of being like a pacifist

[00:52:14] he was like I don't really want my guy to execute the criminal

[00:52:18] I just want him to arrest him he's the sheriff got to follow the legal paths

[00:52:22] yeah clearly some crazy stuff has gone down between then and now which we're gonna keep getting tidbits of and piecing together

[00:52:33] but I think his past is really interesting compared to his present

[00:52:38] so we move on to present day what would we call that

[00:52:42] we move on to what's currently happening in the universe

[00:52:45] and we see Lucy carrying willsiggs severed head across the wasteland

[00:52:50] while maybe by the ink spots plays she then sits down shoves a tracker up willsiggs noses of precaution

[00:52:57] this is definitely going to come in handy later right the whole tracker up the nose nonsense

[00:53:02] yeah I'm assuming because later in the episode as we're gonna discuss some other people get their hands on the head

[00:53:09] she's not with them we cut back to Maximus repairing his armor he chains it up to some sort of rig to try and fix it up a little bit

[00:53:20] but one of the pieces of his armor is pretty fucked up he can't get it repaired so he goes into town to haggle with a merchant

[00:53:28] then he sells a tooth to make up the difference in price for the repair fee

[00:53:32] and the repair seems pretty immediate and not very costly

[00:53:37] he definitely got swindled a little bit on that one per should have negotiated a little bit harder

[00:53:42] yeah I mean didn't seem like the person really cared to help him out though so

[00:53:47] now I'm wondering do the brotherhood of steel members not get paid

[00:53:52] like are they not given a little stipend for being a part of this military organization

[00:53:57] because Maximus seems pretty broke he's got four bottle caps to his name that are sitting in his shoe

[00:54:02] yeah I mean I'm assuming their form of pay is like housing and food and such

[00:54:09] like considering the state of the wasteland their situation is better than most scavengers

[00:54:15] and what you'd call wasteland people

[00:54:19] yeah absolutely Maximus gets back to his armor after procuring the repaired piece

[00:54:25] and there's some scavengers at his armor the second I saw him leave that armor

[00:54:30] I knew that this was gonna happen I I saw that coming from a mile away

[00:54:35] yeah I don't know what he was thinking leaving the armor that shit was gonna get fucked with immediately

[00:54:41] I mean that's a crazy piece of technology

[00:54:45] and we know people are gonna be all over that also he didn't bring any weapons with him either

[00:54:51] and also when he stole the armor from Titus or after he killed Titus and stole the armor

[00:54:58] he didn't like go back into the cave and get the giant gun

[00:55:02] he didn't get his pistol that he used to kill the bear with he didn't get any of

[00:55:07] he didn't get his giant squire pack with all the survival gear and shit that he didn't

[00:55:14] like I don't understand Maximus is just a idiot

[00:55:17] yeah he he seems to have no common sense seems to be really arrogant about his abilities about his capabilities

[00:55:25] like when he gets back up and tries to go back over there with the tire iron and a toilet seat

[00:55:31] to fight these four massive dudes I was like oh my god bro you are such an idiot why are you going over there

[00:55:38] and he gets the ship beat out of him again if he wasn't pinned up against the power armor

[00:55:42] and didn't have access to the one hand he would have been dead

[00:55:45] I thought a weird part about that scene though is when he killed that guy with the power armor

[00:55:50] I mean the other guy like freaked out right away I was like there's no way this guy is that freaked out about that

[00:55:56] I mean like yeah it's a weird way to see someone die but let's not pretend like this guy probably hasn't seen like a thousand people die

[00:56:03] I mean didn't they all just live through that giant shootout where they watch the ghoul blow chunks off of people like 30 people

[00:56:11] I feel like in the time that we've spent in Philly we've seen so many people die not only in the shootout

[00:56:17] but in the very beginning when Lucy enters the town some guy and another guy bump into each other

[00:56:22] and the other guy smacks him to the ground and starts beating on him with a hammer

[00:56:26] like this is a violent place with no rules

[00:56:29] yeah in all honesty I felt like that one situation was kind of just lazy writing because

[00:56:35] I mean what did we get out of it you know like he gets back and he gets his ass beat and that's it

[00:56:42] it seems to be a trend for Maximus just to get the shit beat out of him in every situation

[00:56:47] yeah I mean I feel if they wanted to like do something where like they ended up breaking something on his suit

[00:56:53] like I feel they could have had them break his calms that way instead of him just breaking it himself

[00:56:58] you know I just feel like there's no point for that scene

[00:57:02] speaking of the radio after he deals with the scavengers who try to get his power armor

[00:57:07] he gets a call on the radio asking him why they haven't checked in yet

[00:57:11] more specifically asking Knight Titus why he hasn't checked in yet

[00:57:15] so Maximus pretends to be Knight Titus and declares that Maximus is dead

[00:57:21] they say we can send you a new squire no worries man we got you

[00:57:25] we've got plenty of these fuckers laying around over here we'll just air drop you in another one

[00:57:29] he tries his best to avoid that because he wants to do a whole lone wolf thing as to not reveal his cover

[00:57:34] yeah it turns out that the squire that they air drop in for him is none other than his old bully Thaddeus

[00:57:41] before we get on with Thaddeus and his squire

[00:57:44] I just I think this is one part in the series that I got a little confused with

[00:57:50] like what is Maximus's plan you know

[00:57:53] I think he literally could have just told the truth and been like Titus died in battle

[00:57:58] and I'm the last remnant I need rescue or whatever I didn't know how to use the radio

[00:58:03] because I have no training in the armor

[00:58:05] I think he's cut off his only source of making it back into the brotherhood now

[00:58:10] because I guess if he like I mean we heard what he said earlier

[00:58:13] he was like I'm gonna do the contract and get the guy

[00:58:17] and they're gonna accept me for that

[00:58:19] but I feel like now that he's lied about being Titus

[00:58:22] they're gonna be like dude what no

[00:58:25] I think that this once again points to him being a fucking idiot

[00:58:29] because his plan right now is go capture the target bring it back to the brotherhood

[00:58:34] and hope that they are so thrilled with the fact that he got the target

[00:58:38] that they're going to forgive the fact that he pretended to be Titus

[00:58:42] and promote him to be a knight which is such a long shot

[00:58:45] because even if he does bring back the target

[00:58:47] why would they forgive him for everything he's done?

[00:58:50] Why would they trust him again

[00:58:52] they're never gonna send him on a mission when he just lied about everything

[00:58:55] even if he got the mission done

[00:58:57] No yeah even though this is being hyped up to be one of the most important things that anyone could do for any group

[00:59:04] even if he completes it he's gonna get back and they're just gonna be like

[00:59:08] well this was his second time being an absolute liability to us

[00:59:12] he said he didn't betray his other friend but then he betrayed Titus

[00:59:17] or pretended to be Titus

[00:59:19] like we can't trust this guy

[00:59:21] I don't know what they're gonna do with that moving forward

[00:59:24] I think that eventually he's going to have a break from the brotherhood

[00:59:29] that's kind of my theory

[00:59:30] I think that eventually we're gonna see the ghoul

[00:59:32] we're gonna see Lucy and we're gonna see Maximus working together

[00:59:36] I think that Moldaver and the Enclave are gonna be this greater threat

[00:59:40] that they all have to sort of come together to face

[00:59:43] and that might force Maximus to really question whether or not he wants to be a part of the brotherhood

[00:59:47] he might have to go through some real character development

[00:59:50] and not just be a little dipshit like he's been for the first three episodes

[00:59:54] Yeah I'm not gonna lie so far Maximus might be my least favorite character

[00:59:59] The Brotherhood of Steel in the past two Fallout games, minor spoiler by the way

[01:00:03] are all very idealistic, very committed to the cause

[01:00:08] and in some ways a lot of their members are committed to helping people in the wasteland

[01:00:13] in the outside world which was not the original Brotherhood doctrine

[01:00:17] The original Brotherhood doctrine was avoid helping people

[01:00:20] just get the technology and get out

[01:00:22] but it seems like they've kind of gone back to that from what the games have done recently

[01:00:27] where they've made the Brotherhood

[01:00:28] this generic good guy faction

[01:00:30] they've gone back to the roots of Fallout 1 and 2

[01:00:32] where these folks are basically cultists in this military order

[01:00:37] speaking of the way that the Brotherhood is organized

[01:00:40] they talk about their being high clerics in the Commonwealth

[01:00:44] Traditionally the leaders of the Brotherhood have been referred to as elders

[01:00:47] so I don't know if they've just made a substitution and decided to call them clerics

[01:00:51] instead of elders to go with that sort of religious culty vibe

[01:00:55] or maybe they've decided that in the ten years that have passed since Fallout 4

[01:01:01] that the Brotherhood is undergone a restructuring

[01:01:03] where instead of having elders at the head there's maybe a council of clerics

[01:01:08] something like that

[01:01:10] so I'm interested to learn more about what the structure of the world is looking like right now

[01:01:14] Yeah me too because I feel like we've done a lot of character deep dives

[01:01:18] in the first three episodes kind of figuring out who these people are, how they act

[01:01:23] but I feel like we haven't really explored a lot of the world and who runs it

[01:01:29] I'm gonna save some of my feedback on that for our wrap up at the end of this podcast

[01:01:34] which is coming up soon but I have some gripes about what they've done with

[01:01:39] the lore and the world building not necessarily gripes just things that I'm a little bit confused about

[01:01:45] that they might answer these questions by the time we get to the next few episodes

[01:01:49] but I've definitely got a few things that I'm not quite happy about in these episodes

[01:01:54] but moving on we see Lucy come upon this flooded city which I think is just more of L.A. ruined

[01:02:01] I don't think that she's gotten far enough to really get outside of that general area yet

[01:02:06] she sees this flooded ruined city and she gets attacked by a creature called a gulper

[01:02:12] which is an axolotl with a bunch of human fingers in its mouth

[01:02:16] this thing is freaky looking like a scary ass monster

[01:02:19] yeah I think they did a good job with the CGI on the monsters the bear looked good

[01:02:24] the gulper looked good and the water effects looked good too

[01:02:29] I agree with you now the gulper ends up getting the head from Lucy

[01:02:34] and swallows willsigs head and Lucy's like shit what are we gonna do now

[01:02:39] but she doesn't really have time to come up with a plan because immediately the gul ambushes her

[01:02:44] the gul is now accompanied by willsigs dog he nursed it back to health

[01:02:49] which shows a little bit of compassion from him we see him break the tough guy exterior

[01:02:54] for a minute when he nurses the dog back to health and brings it with him

[01:02:58] he very much tries to give off the air that he doesn't care about anything but I think that deep down

[01:03:03] he's got a soft heart in there somewhere

[01:03:06] I thought he just nursed it back to health to track down willsigs head from the scent

[01:03:10] it very well could be but I'd like to think that some of what he had in the pre-war times

[01:03:15] of his humanity is still in there somewhere and I hope we get to see that a little bit more

[01:03:20] not that I don't like his character as this cold, ruthless mercenary

[01:03:24] but I'd like to see him be a little bit more three-dimensional

[01:03:28] uh Maximus and Thaddeus track the gul and they find willsigs corpse

[01:03:33] and the two of them sort of are debating over what the hell is happening

[01:03:37] and who cut off his head and Maximus is like oh it had to be the gul

[01:03:42] there's no way that vault dweller did this even though it was loosey who decapitated willsig

[01:03:48] yeah and I think we didn't mention it but earlier when Maximus gets his squired meet him

[01:03:54] he sees it's Thaddeus and he basically just immediately repeats like the cycle of fucking with your squire

[01:04:02] that pushed him to the edge with Thaddeus which is another point that really made me disliked Maximus

[01:04:09] I know that Thaddeus was not good to Maximus but at this point Thaddeus doesn't know its Maximus

[01:04:15] he's treating him basically like godly figure before him and I don't know

[01:04:20] I think this just is another point that proves Maximus is just an asshole shit head in my eyes so far

[01:04:28] yeah the scene where he tells Thaddeus to climb up a dead tree to look for apples because he's hungry

[01:04:34] I was like come on man there's no how does Thaddeus even keep a straight face

[01:04:39] well he's asked to do this shit like he's being given the most ass-in-eye tasks possible

[01:04:45] the gul has loosey strung up by the river and starts using her as bait for the gulper

[01:04:53] he's like why are you torturing me what did I do to you and the gul delivers this whole speech about how there used to be studies back in the old days before the bombs

[01:05:01] and that a study came out saying that torture is an effective and tells her I'm not torturing you I'm using you as bait

[01:05:07] not that Lucy can really tell the difference at this point because she's getting abused pretty hard here in this scene

[01:05:15] yeah and then they finally get the gulper and Lucy defends herself by grabbing one of the gul's bags

[01:05:24] and smacking the gulper in the face till it leaves her alone

[01:05:28] gul runs over to the bag and sees that his medicine that's been keeping him going or so I think is broken

[01:05:35] and he starts freaking out at Lucy

[01:05:38] he says something about how gulpers digest slowly and takes Lucy on a journey somewhere else

[01:05:45] yeah I am gonna be interested to see the gul doesn't have any more of this stuff as far as we know

[01:05:51] so I wonder if his condition is going to start to deteriorate and Lucy's gonna have to take the lead or maybe Lucy's gonna leave him

[01:05:58] I don't know what's gonna happen with that but gul is definitely gonna be struggling in the next episode without a doubt

[01:06:04] yeah he seems like a major major character though so I know he's definitely not done for because of this

[01:06:11] for sure we cut back to the vault where they're having a vault wide meeting and there's not a lot of people left in this vault

[01:06:19] there's seriously like their population is depleted they're kind of fucked here

[01:06:24] even more fucked than they would have benefit was just the raiders that got to them

[01:06:28] because we have someone who I'm assuming is the vault mechanic coming onto the scene to say that the water chip is broken

[01:06:35] and they've only got two months left of clean water

[01:06:38] yeah and then they have a disagreement about what they should be doing with their imprisoned raiders

[01:06:46] with some people believing they should kill them off or let them die

[01:06:51] while others think they should try a extended rehabilitation process

[01:06:58] we get to visit these imprisoned raiders which this was another little gripe that I had about this episode

[01:07:06] was I thought that the raiders all left with the when the father and or when the father was taken prisoner by Lee Moldaver

[01:07:16] Moldaver Moldaver something like that when yeah when the father was taken prisoner by Moldaver

[01:07:21] I thought that the raiders would have just left with her but apparently they captured some of them

[01:07:26] which I don't really know how that happened it seemed like the yeah it didn't make sense to me either

[01:07:31] I thought they would have all killed each other in battle escape

[01:07:35] I don't I don't know in what way they would have been able to I mean it looks like the vault dwellers were losing the fight too

[01:07:43] so yeah I don't know how they would have subdued them I guess maybe there were the ones that Lucy tranquilized I don't know

[01:07:53] yeah definitely could have been because it didn't seem like other than Lucy tranquilizing these folks

[01:07:58] it didn't seem like they had a whole lot of fight in them

[01:08:02] they didn't seem to be fighting back a whole lot they were just kind of doing the bare minimum

[01:08:06] except for the lady who got the fork in the eyes she was she had her machine gun and she was going ham

[01:08:11] during the fight scene in that first episode to go back to the water chip for one minute I'm going to give another game spoiler warning

[01:08:17] the water chip being broken is a direct reference to the first fallout game

[01:08:22] your character is sent out to the wasteland to get a new water chip for their vault by the overseer

[01:08:27] and that's basically that's how the plot of fallout one kicks that off is you get sent out to the wasteland to repair the water chip

[01:08:34] so I don't know if anything is gonna come of this other than it being just a fun little reference

[01:08:39] to the first fallout game or if it's going to be a pretty major plot point

[01:08:42] the next scene we come upon in this show is when Thaddeus and Maximus find the gulper and fight it

[01:08:50] where Thaddeus is almost eaten by the gulper but Maximus manages to pull Thaddeus out of the gulper's mouth

[01:08:57] while also pulling the stomach of the gulper out of its mouth and tearing it open

[01:09:02] while killing the gulper at the same time and they find Will Ziggs head

[01:09:07] and Thaddeus is grateful to Maximus for saving his life

[01:09:12] I thought that this was going to be a scene where Maximus might reveal who he actually is to Thaddeus

[01:09:18] because they seem to have this bonding moment earlier in the episode

[01:09:21] where Thaddeus seems to kind of open up to Maximus about how it wasn't personal

[01:09:27] what he was doing to Maximus it was very much just kind of a hazing thing

[01:09:31] that doesn't make it any better let me clarify that it was just hazing

[01:09:34] but it seems to soften Maximus up to Thaddeus a little bit

[01:09:37] and then with them fighting side by side and Maximus saving him

[01:09:41] I'm waiting for that final reveal where he finally finds out that Titus is dead

[01:09:46] and it's Maximus in the armor. It should be a pretty big moment

[01:09:49] and I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet to be honest

[01:09:52] because I know Maximus isn't sleeping in that armor

[01:09:55] he's got to be going to sleep

[01:09:57] I mean he must be right

[01:09:59] I guess so but I feel like that's either sleeping in the armor

[01:10:04] or they've only been together for a day

[01:10:07] That is true when did he air drop in?

[01:10:09] was it that same day that

[01:10:11] It was not long before they run into the gulperm pretty sure

[01:10:15] because he air drops in and I think it's literally like right before they find

[01:10:20] the body of Dr. Willzig

[01:10:24] so let's give them the benefit of the doubt

[01:10:26] and say that they've only been together for a day

[01:10:28] and that's why Maximus hasn't come out of the armor

[01:10:31] because when Thaddeus was trying to refill his water supply

[01:10:35] and opens up the back of his helmet he was freaking out

[01:10:37] he was not ready for that to happen

[01:10:39] so yeah now Maximus and Thaddeus have possession of the head

[01:10:44] and by extension the chip inside of it

[01:10:47] so they're the ones in control in this game of

[01:10:51] pass the pickle what is it what is that

[01:10:53] a fucking called pickle in the middle

[01:10:55] what is that shit

[01:10:57] HOPPATATED?

[01:10:59] Yeah this game of HOPPATED that they're playing with the head

[01:11:01] What the heck are you trying to say dude

[01:11:05] Holy shit maybe you're too irradiated

[01:11:09] So this game of back and forth that they're playing with the head

[01:11:13] they've got possession now

[01:11:15] They've also got the dog with them

[01:11:17] I don't know why the dog decided

[01:11:19] not to follow the ghoul and Lucy when they sort of

[01:11:23] Well because like I said before

[01:11:25] the dog was just following the scent of Will's egg

[01:11:29] and now that they have the head

[01:11:31] they've got the dog

[01:11:33] Remember the dog stayed at the like dog after

[01:11:37] the ghoul took Lucy to get his medicine or drugs

[01:11:41] or whatever

[01:11:43] That's very true

[01:11:44] I know that the dog is chip too

[01:11:46] I wonder if more than maybe just him following

[01:11:48] I thought that he didn't get the chip in the dog

[01:11:50] Wasn't that the whole thing

[01:11:52] I thought that the dog was put as well

[01:11:54] Is that he gave the dog from getting chip

[01:11:56] or do you mean chipped with like the special chip

[01:11:58] that he made

[01:12:00] I think that the dog might have the special chip in it too

[01:12:02] I don't think it does

[01:12:04] Maybe that's a scene I miss

[01:12:06] In episode two at the beginning

[01:12:08] when he's with the dog and they've got

[01:12:10] the whole introduction to Will's egg and

[01:12:12] I'm gonna call the dog dog meat from now on

[01:12:16] It's definitely gonna be its name

[01:12:18] In every single follow game

[01:12:20] the dog which looks exactly like this dog

[01:12:22] that is with the player character

[01:12:24] The dogs are named dog meat

[01:12:26] The dog companions

[01:12:28] So I'm just gonna call the dog dog meat from now on

[01:12:30] Yeah

[01:12:31] So Will's egg and dog meat leave

[01:12:33] And I was pretty sure

[01:12:35] that I saw Will's egg put the same long chip tube

[01:12:38] into him

[01:12:40] But I could be wrong on that

[01:12:42] Maybe dog meat

[01:12:44] The goal used on the dog

[01:12:46] It could be

[01:12:48] I need to go and do another watch of these episodes

[01:12:50] before we do our next

[01:12:52] I don't remember that chip

[01:12:54] but it's completely possible

[01:12:56] I did make ramen while watching the episode

[01:12:58] It could be

[01:13:00] So onto the final scene

[01:13:02] of episode three

[01:13:04] In the pre-war times we see Cooper Howard

[01:13:06] and his wife talking about doing this commercial

[01:13:08] Cooper Howard comes out in a vault suit

[01:13:10] and doesn't advertise him for a vault tech

[01:13:12] Tells them that they're doing God's work

[01:13:14] and that any

[01:13:16] true red-blooded American

[01:13:18] is on their side

[01:13:20] Yep, and then while he's doing

[01:13:22] like the photo shoot for the ad

[01:13:24] he suggests a thumbs up

[01:13:26] While wearing the vault suit

[01:13:28] that we see

[01:13:30] like the vault tech mascot does

[01:13:32] And I think that's

[01:13:34] what the guy was referencing

[01:13:36] when he was at the birthday party

[01:13:38] and he asked him to do the thumbs up

[01:13:40] Yeah, so it looks like the vault boy

[01:13:42] the little mascot for vault tech is

[01:13:44] Or at the very least

[01:13:46] the gesture he's doing is

[01:13:48] based on the one and only

[01:13:50] Cooper Howard

[01:13:52] So I'm sure we're gonna get into his falling out

[01:13:54] with vault tech

[01:13:56] because by the time the bombs drop

[01:13:58] he seems to have a pretty

[01:14:00] hateful relationship with vault tech

[01:14:02] He wants nothing to do

[01:14:04] with them anymore he doesn't want to be remembered

[01:14:06] for the thumbs up

[01:14:08] Let's get into any final closing

[01:14:10] thoughts and feelings on the episode

[01:14:12] Chase, we're three episodes

[01:14:14] into the season. How are we feeling

[01:14:16] so far about this show?

[01:14:18] I think so far it's definitely

[01:14:20] like a mid-8 out of 10

[01:14:22] you know like 8 point

[01:14:24] something out of 10

[01:14:26] And that's not bad for sure

[01:14:28] I think it's so far really good

[01:14:30] It's definitely ramping up

[01:14:32] near the end. It's getting

[01:14:34] more and more interesting

[01:14:36] by the end from what we've seen

[01:14:38] Yeah I'm with you

[01:14:40] I think placing it somewhere

[01:14:42] in the 8-8 and a half ranges

[01:14:44] probably where I would put it to

[01:14:46] in these first three episodes

[01:14:48] I will say I enjoyed episodes

[01:14:50] 1 and 2 significantly more than

[01:14:52] episode 3. I thought episode 3

[01:14:54] was kind of on the slow side

[01:14:56] and not a lot happened for the plot

[01:14:58] but I think that they were doing

[01:15:00] a lot of important setup for the rest of the season

[01:15:02] that is gonna take us to a place

[01:15:04] going in the next few episodes

[01:15:06] Really I'm not gonna lie

[01:15:08] I thought episode 2 was the least

[01:15:10] enjoyable out of a 3-a-thought

[01:15:12] episode 3 was actually my favorite

[01:15:14] because I think they did a lot of

[01:15:16] character background and character building

[01:15:18] in episode 3. I felt like

[01:15:20] I really got to learn a lot about

[01:15:22] who we are watching in that episode

[01:15:24] We did get to spend a lot

[01:15:26] more time with them as people

[01:15:28] there was a lot of fighting going on

[01:15:30] in that episode that kind of

[01:15:32] yeah I mean the fights were definitely

[01:15:34] really enjoyable but I do feel like

[01:15:36] we did spend a lot of time

[01:15:38] on it when it could have been cut

[01:15:40] down especially since

[01:15:42] episode 2 was that the long one

[01:15:44] the like really really long one

[01:15:46] no that was episode 1

[01:15:48] yeah it was episode 1 that was a little

[01:15:50] bit longer. I just felt like

[01:15:52] episode 2 was mostly the fight

[01:15:54] and I felt like I don't really get to

[01:15:56] know anyone you know it's the beginning

[01:15:58] of the series I'm trying to figure

[01:16:00] out who our protagonists are

[01:16:02] what what drives their actions

[01:16:06] you know and I felt like episode 3

[01:16:08] gave us a lot of information on that

[01:16:10] I agree

[01:16:12] and earlier in the podcast

[01:16:14] I mentioned that there were a few

[01:16:16] gripes I had with the way

[01:16:18] that they're doing the lore

[01:16:20] and the world building. I've got

[01:16:22] one burning question for

[01:16:24] this series where the fuck

[01:16:26] is the new California

[01:16:28] foundation?

[01:16:30] okay I was going to say the same thing

[01:16:32] because I remember you telling me about how

[01:16:34] they're really big part of the fall

[01:16:36] out like universe

[01:16:38] and I think that's like

[01:16:42] basically what mold

[01:16:44] over is a part

[01:16:46] of right or something

[01:16:48] of that sort

[01:16:50] and I feel like we haven't even heard

[01:16:52] a peep about them which is

[01:16:54] crazy considering they're supposed

[01:16:56] to just

[01:16:58] organized group of any

[01:17:00] surviving

[01:17:02] like city

[01:17:04] in fall out

[01:17:06] yeah

[01:17:08] it's especially

[01:17:10] concerning that we haven't seen

[01:17:12] anything from them yet

[01:17:14] not concerning for the series

[01:17:16] but concerning for the state

[01:17:18] of the new California Republic

[01:17:20] because these vaults

[01:17:22] that Lucy comes out of

[01:17:24] the city of Los Angeles

[01:17:26] and the city of Los Angeles

[01:17:28] and the numerous settlements

[01:17:30] that is a part of the NCR

[01:17:32] is called the angels

[01:17:34] Bonyard or just

[01:17:36] more simply the Bonyard

[01:17:38] and it's the collective name

[01:17:40] given to the ruins of the city

[01:17:42] of Los Angeles

[01:17:44] and the like numerous settlements

[01:17:46] that sort of popped up in there

[01:17:48] and the whole like urban

[01:17:50] area when the new California

[01:17:52] was there

[01:17:54] and they were

[01:17:56] in a lot of parts

[01:17:58] like the city

[01:18:00] and so

[01:18:02] they've got some explaining

[01:18:04] to do for why we haven't

[01:18:06] seen any of that because

[01:18:08] I feel like Philly

[01:18:10] should be core NCR territory

[01:18:12] you know

[01:18:14] if it's a city

[01:18:16] if it's a town

[01:18:18] that exists in the ruins of L.A

[01:18:20] Yeah, so the Boneyard is one of their major cities.

[01:18:24] And it's definitely in the ruins of Los Angeles.

[01:18:28] It's not their capital.

[01:18:29] And so maybe it's possible that the Boneyard could have collapsed.

[01:18:33] Maybe the NCR has fallen on hard times

[01:18:36] and a few settlements have collapsed.

[01:18:37] They've lost some ground.

[01:18:40] The last time we see the NCR,

[01:18:41] they're not doing super hot internally.

[01:18:45] They've got some political struggles going on.

[01:18:48] They're at war and they've got political factions

[01:18:53] vying for power that sort of threatened to tear the NCR apart.

[01:18:56] We don't get any resolution to that

[01:18:58] in the last game that we see them in.

[01:19:00] So it's possible that the NCR could have collapsed

[01:19:03] in the last 10 years.

[01:19:04] I hope not, especially since in the trailers

[01:19:07] and promotional videos,

[01:19:08] we see the NCR flag in one of the vaults.

[01:19:13] We haven't seen that in the show yet,

[01:19:14] so it's gotta be a vault that we haven't seen yet.

[01:19:17] But yeah, we see the NCR flag there.

[01:19:20] And we also see a sign saying welcome to say,

[01:19:26] we also see a sign saying something about Shady Sands,

[01:19:29] Public Library and Shady Sands is the capital of the NCR.

[01:19:34] So I think we're gonna see them at one point.

[01:19:37] I like your theory that Moldavers somehow involved

[01:19:40] with the NCR.

[01:19:41] I think that right now that's probably the best guesses

[01:19:44] to who she's involved with.

[01:19:48] Yeah, it just makes sense to me considering

[01:19:50] she's not involved with the enclave clearly, right?

[01:19:54] And not the brotherhood also.

[01:19:57] I think one thing though,

[01:19:59] not we shouldn't get too ahead of ourselves on is,

[01:20:02] I mean, LA is pretty big.

[01:20:04] California is pretty big.

[01:20:06] She's only been on the surface for like a day and a half now.

[01:20:14] On foot too.

[01:20:15] So it's entirely possible she just hasn't run into

[01:20:19] the settlements yet.

[01:20:21] That's very true.

[01:20:22] She could have just been in parts of the ruins

[01:20:25] of Los Angeles that are maybe a little bit more

[01:20:27] on the wild wasteland side.

[01:20:29] They're not as closely under NCR control.

[01:20:31] Yeah, we don't really know the state of anything

[01:20:34] in this world.

[01:20:35] It takes place 10 years after the last Fallout game.

[01:20:38] So things could be really different.

[01:20:40] We don't know if the brotherhood might have come

[01:20:42] into conflict with the NCR and that's why they've

[01:20:45] lost control of the region.

[01:20:47] Yeah, we'll just, that's something to keep an eye on

[01:20:49] as we continue.

[01:20:50] All right, before you go into our outro,

[01:20:53] do we have any other closing thoughts or theories?

[01:20:57] I think that as for theory crafting

[01:20:59] and speculation on the future of the show,

[01:21:02] that's about all I've got.

[01:21:03] How about you?

[01:21:04] No, the biggest theory I had was the mold over stuff.

[01:21:09] But other than that,

[01:21:11] I think the other theory I mentioned before

[01:21:13] was maybe one of Lucy's parents being a non-valtweller

[01:21:18] that somehow got into the vault.

[01:21:20] And that's how they know about mold over.

[01:21:22] And that's how mold over knows about her mother,

[01:21:25] but I don't know, other than that.

[01:21:27] Yeah, I think that that's a pretty good theory.

[01:21:29] Moldaver definitely seems to know Lucy's mother somehow.

[01:21:32] At first when she made that comment,

[01:21:34] I sort of thought it was an illusion to when

[01:21:36] the father says you look so much like your mother.

[01:21:38] I thought maybe she was just trying

[01:21:39] to fuck with Lucy, but the more I think about it,

[01:21:41] I think that it's definitely alluding

[01:21:44] to her knowing Lucy's mother personally.

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