Fallout [Amazon]

Brief_Lives · 18-12-2025 04:48PM

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yea, i get what you mean.

But that was a fun episode, i am really looking forward to this season.

Walt Goggins is a a master.

jj880 · 18-12-2025 04:54PM

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Think I need a refresh on some season 1 stuff. I thought he was going to crack the brain out of the glass and eat it the way he was looking at it. Overall enjoyable episode. Goggins always brings it. Makes me want to rewatch Justified.

breezy1985 · 18-12-2025 04:56PM

Thought the same about eating the brain.

First episode done a good job of reminding me where everyone was and it was a lot of fun too. Slipped right back into the comedy aspect of the show.

adaminho · 18-12-2025 05:40PM

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200 year old radioactive cowboys, mutant creatures and giant metal robot suits are fine but neural implants (which exist now) are too far?

Dogsdodogsstuff · 18-12-2025 06:07PM

Goggins is great in everything he does.

If you haven’t seen him in Righteous Gemstones look up “misbehavin” song, it’s hilarious (in the context of show anyway) and very catchy.

Sorry to take it off thread , my wife just mentioned it when I was watching new episode.

Unearthly · 19-12-2025 05:50PM

Have known about Walton Goggins since his Shield (2002) days. Great actor.
Good start to the season. It’s a very well made show

AMKC · 21-12-2025 10:52PM

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Its the way it was just stuck on the person and all of a sudden it works. Ye right. Its not that simple. It would need to be done in a surgical room and possibly under on X-ray.

Iseedeadpixels · 21-12-2025 11:38PM

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Have you played Fallout games? There's a device called the Mesmetron which controls npc's....It's also fantasy/sci fi, judging by your profile pic you should be well used to it.

AMKC · 21-12-2025 11:41PM

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No I dont play games.

Iseedeadpixels · 22-12-2025 12:18AM

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Its based on the games which are whacky at times, Aliens, talking trees, a mysterious npc that appears out of nowhere to help you randomly etc.

AMKC · 22-12-2025 12:57AM

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Awe ok.

TheValeyard · 22-12-2025 07:45PM

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Ah the Mysterious stranger lol.

Presuming you noticed the VaultTec Sales man from Fallout 4 in that episode?

Good solid start to the season. As a massive fan of Fallout New Vegas I'm interested to see where they take this.

Penn · 22-12-2025 07:58PM

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He's Lucy's brother (Hank's son), he's discovered that Vault 31 just houses frozen Vault-tec execs from the pre-nuke days who are gradually being unfrozen and put in charge of the other two vaults (33 and 32). So he's discovered his father wasn't born in a vault, but was essentially reanimated from frozen.

It was generally the weakest part of the first season, but hard to know what it'll lead to. But yeah, total B-story add-to-the-lore material rather than anything important so far.

Iseedeadpixels · 22-12-2025 09:58PM

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I did, I wonder does he appear again....

AMKC · 22-12-2025 10:11PM

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Awe ok. Thank you for that.

AMKC · 08-01-2026 04:50PM

That was a good episode that.

CajunSurprise · 08-01-2026 10:42PM

Not enjoying this season as much as i did the first one.

expectationlost · 15-01-2026 01:35AM

finding it hard to follow so many different threads and remember the lore.

Homelander · 18-01-2026 02:18AM

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I thought that as well but honestly I think a big part of it is not being able to binge it freely like the first season. Having to wait week to week makes it more frustrating waiting for the threads to fall in place.

Stepping back though, I think it's a good season.

I'm also a major Fallout game fan, and I can't for the life of me understand the vocal minority of "fans" trashing the show over apparent erasure of lore. As someone who's played thousands of hours of the game combined, it's completely fine.

Sure, a few things were changed here and there, but broadly the show is remarkably faithful to the games story, and visually it's practically faultless. There's so many little details in practically every scene that only a game fan would recognise.

I don't even know what sort of show those people were expecting. And I say that as someone who considered the "Halo" TV show a total abomination.

CiaranW · 18-01-2026 03:50PM

Yeah, I love the games. Especially Fallout New Vegas and I am really enjoying this show.

OmegaGene · 20-01-2026 11:33AM

that was a mad ending I didn’t see coming with yer man going out the window

MICKEYG · 20-01-2026 09:48PM

Not enjoying this season as much as last.

It feels like it is just a series of set piece events, loosely connected. Maybe it is building to a crescendo.

Potatoeman · 21-01-2026 06:33PM

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The lore in the games is inconsistent too. Many things in the games don’t have proper explanations. There is also a shift from 1 & 2 to the Bethesda games. The one gripe I have is the bombs being dropped by the corps for profit? That makes zero sense within the world as ridiculous as the setting is.

BP_RS3813 · 21-01-2026 06:44PM

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In the games they never actually said who 100% dropped the bombs.

And since we are taking the shows lore not the games - Mr.House implied that the vault tech people at that meeting wouldn't do it and referred to them as 'idiots'.

Possibly the peolple who Hank and Barbara are working for (Game fans will clock it).

It seems to me they are building towards the reveal of the (unsure how to do spoiler thingy)

TheValeyard · 30-01-2026 04:47PM

Really enjoying the season. The Ghoul is just a brilliant character. Loving the mix between the retro pre war and post war world.

Has me listening to lots of the music from the games. Gotta play some sixteen tons and The Wanderer next.

Tony EH · 05-02-2026 12:53AM

In two minds about the whole thing. Played all of the first person games and liked them, except for 76 which I just couldn't get into at all. New Vegas is easily the best of the lot. Yes Man is probably one of the funniest game characters ever.

But this show…I dunno. Not really feeling it in too many places. Plus, that Maximus lad is awful…and Macaulay Culkin? Jesus…that was bad.

In its favour the set design is absolutely spot on and the music choices are excellent.

S3 is a goer, but I guess we'll have to wait another 2 years nearly to see it.

McDermotX · 05-02-2026 09:46AM

Extremely clunky in it's execution, not terrible by any means, but the last episode is a perfect example of the lack of focus that it's always teetered around. Jumping from story thread to story thread will little semblence of natural flow fighting against the odds to resemble a season ender - thankfully Goggins' presence, and past and present story holds it together just enough to keep interest there, plus the overall production levels are as impressive as always.

They are massive plus points in its favour to overcome it's many faults, and it's making a decent enough fist out of a muddled and vague source material. Helps that it remains a fun diversion for an hour a week, but it probably has suffered in it's overall promotion and word of mouth with the general public with that schedule.

breezy1985 · 05-02-2026 10:28AM

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Not sure what the story is with Maximus. He seems to be trying to play it totally emotionless like as if he is autistic or something. That or just a terrible actor which is probably more likely.

Hopefully he is just Lucy's sidekick from now on.

Penn · 05-02-2026 10:30AM

It was an okay season. Some good parts, but an awful lot of setting things up for next season rather than resolving anything of importance this season (with the exception of Lucy searching for Hank and his story for now). The whole story with Lucy's brother could have been easily skipped altogether and it wouldn't have made much of a difference, it seems its only point was for extended lore and references, and to demonstrate "Hey, this Vault-Tec company… kinda shady…". Similarly with what's happening with Stephanie in Vault 3X(whichever number they're in). Maximus had a strong first half of the season but then was just fighting things for action scenes while other characters did important things. Even Lucy felt a bit sidelined and spent most of the last few episodes staring at things in disbelief with her giant eyes. Was also expecting a lot more from Mr.House through the season but he felt a bit wasted.

Walton Goggins is really holding the whole show together. The links between past and present can be great and his performance even in the Ghoul makeup is terrific.

Tony EH · 05-02-2026 07:33PM

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Never seen the lad before in anything, so I don't know whether it's a lacking in talent on his behalf or a directorial issue. But seeing as this is a TV show with numerous directors, I'm erring more on the former than the latter. Also the Brotherhood of Steel storyline is just as meh as hell. There are no interesting characters involved there at all. But honestly, the lion's share of the weight is being carried entirely by Walton Goggins as far as character is concerned.

I'll stick with it just because someone had the balls to make a Fallout TV show. But I don't know whether I can do these 20 month waiting times between each series. Judging by previously, that means S03 won't hit us until October 2027. That's nuts.

Between S01 and S02 I not only forgot what happened in the entire first series, I forgot that there was even a series at all!

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Fallout [Amazon]

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