Hello everyone recently a new teaser trailer for The Fallout TV series which will be available to watch on Amazon video on the 12th of April has come out and I would like to talk about not only the trailer itself but also the reaction to it hence why this video is titled
Review SL rant we will start with the review where I will talk about what I liked and just any general thoughts I had on the trailer and after that I’ll talk about the opinions and reactions of certain people and why I think they are wrong but without any further Ado let’s get
Into the review side of the video I have removed the audio for copyright reasons Vault 33 looks very very similar to vaults in Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 obviously this is a bit of a clash of Aesthetics because this is the West Coast but I still want to appreciate
Just how accurate it looks to the games it is really impressive even if it’s a bit different than what the older game vaults looked like which does make sense because although we know it’s on the east coast it’s obviously inspired by the entire series I love that the first
Thing we see outside the vault is a skull just showing how dangerous the world actually is I think this shot of Santa Monica Beach really Nails the half destroyed aesthetic that a lot of the Fallout environments go for where there’s been a lot of damage but it’s not like
Obliterated same can be said for this little area here and I really love how this rad roach looks it looks really good to the games our main character getting scared of tumble weed is like really accurate to the Fallout New Vegas experience got to love God Todd in this
Scene an unnamed character is telling Lucy the Vault dweller’s name that Vault dwellers are an endangered species and that she should really turn back home because he doesn’t believe she’ll be able to adapt to the wastelands harsh environment I really like this line because it acknowledges just how rare
Vault dwellers and unopen vaults should be by this time period in the Fallout Universe for reference the show takes place 9 years after Fallout 4 however based on the fact that the overseer is her dad and he is probably a good character this could be one of the
Vaults which is simply for human preservation and it has no experiment which could explain why people have been in there for so long but we’ll have to see how that plays out within the show itself she’s immediately shown how harsh the Wasteland is which I think is really
Cool now on to Maximus because if you didn’t know this show is going to follow three separate protagonists I really like how the Brotherhood is steel ver birds look in here basically everything in this section of the trailer looks super realistic like look at that set of power armor like that looks
Amazing classic dog meat Shenanigans again another great shot of the Brotherhood this action sequence reminds me of some of the more messed up vault experiments so I’ll be interested to see what this looks like within the show this town looks very similar to megaton which some people don’t like but
I think it really fits and it also looks really good in real life I can already tell that fight scenes with the ghoul are going to look amazing and I’m interested to see his character because apparently it’s supposed to be a morally gray kind of deal not going to lie this
Scene seems really random and I don’t know what the context is going to be see what I mean about the fight scenes also this looks really accurate to like Fallout 4 Raider settlements it’s really cool to see a truly mutated character within the TV show cuz I feel like
That’s been pretty rare besides the increase of DBS in Fallout 1 and two and the psychics who have been rare but throughout the entire series I’m also interested to see what this means for Vault 32 I mean if he’s mutated then they must have opened the vault at some
Point and they seem to be pretty tolerant because he appears to be the overseer so I’m interested to see what that means for Vault 32 and the society that they’ve built because that seems really interesting please remain calm this Mr handy looks incredible I’m really excited to see how that looks in the
Actual show because that’s really impressive this really reminds me of Fallout 3 and your relationship with your father in that game and the emotion on the actor’s face is really good so I can tell that’s going to be a great scene more scenes with the Brotherhood and Maximus you have to wonder who
They’re fighting in this scene love the inclusion of a yaa if that briefcase has a Geck it would make a lot of sense for what everyone is fighting for and what the central plot of the show will be and personally I love the usion of gex
Whenever they’re in any of the games so I’m looking forward to that this is the first piece of original content and law that has been added due to the TV show that we know of and it is horrifying it’s a mutated Axel with human fingers for teeth and to me this screams forced
Evolutionary virus it’ll be really uh horrifying to see on screen and uh honestly this could be really cool in Fallout 5 when whenever that comes out in 10 years more Vault Shenanigans a ship that looks like the pridwin but isn’t and then we have the final scene of the
Trailer where we see the bombs dropping and a light flashes on the screen which that effect is quite good and this relates to the ghoul character before the ghoulification and of course shows Los Angeles being bombed now that I’ve broke down the trailer and talked about what I
Specifically liked about it I’m going to talk more broadly about the trailer but also all of the information we know about the series so far first off the fact that we get three main characters who all have independent stories but will eventually meet up with each other
Some way through the series is really cool I like it because it will show us many different sides of the Wasteland obviously there’s the Brotherhood of Steel stuff there’s the stuff with the ghoul and of course our vault do character but in interviews with the director they’ve mentioned that they
Want to do things with morality and and different sides of wasteland morality so it’ll be interesting to see how each character interacts with that and what their definitions of moral things are going to be especially when it comes to the Brotherhood of Steel but also the ghoul because in interviews it’s been
Said that he’s more of a gray character so he’ll be doing good and bad things or he has some sort of moral code but he isn’t afraid to do things that some others wouldn’t when it comes to other characters I want to know more about Lucy’s father The Vault 33 overseer
Comes to mind because he seems like he’ll be her main story or main priority is finding him but the thing is is that Vault overseers don’t exactly have the best reputation from the advertising and the little that we’ve seen of him he seems like a good guy but we really have
No idea and I’d love to see if he is just like that kind of good person so kind of based off the Fallout 3 dad but obviously he wasn’t overseer or there’s more to him because we don’t know why he’s leaving or what’s going on in the
Shots where they seem separated and of course there’s the Vault 32 overseer who I mentioned previously from the trailer it looks like he’ll only be a side character but the idea of a overseer who has a mutation and how that affects everyone and what the culture is like
There I think there’s a lot they could do with that and I hope that they do I hope that he has some kind of interesting thing or vault 32 is a particularly unique Vault or has a particularly unique culture the only other character who I think will have some kind of importance
Relevance or uniqueness to them is the person running away from the machine turret with dog meat on a leash that’s all my thoughts on the characters what I’d like to talk about next is the setting in a lot of the environments are these very warm yellows mixed with the
Light blue of the sky or sea and this is very reminiscent of the old west coast games as well as New Vegas which of course makes sense because it is set in the same location but I just wanted to to mention how much it really fits with
That Vibe and the color scheme of those games and then there are a few shots that really remind me of Fallout 3 with those blues and greens it’s really dark and cold and I’m glad they’re using inspiration from multiple games then we have these very Lush dark green areas
With a lot of trees like look at that contrast that is beautiful this is not really a common thing within the games unless there’s a GE or the area was relatively unaffected by the Great War but visually it looks stunning and we have no idea if there will be an
Explanation or not so it doesn’t really matter right now there’s even snow which really reminds me of the Fallout new Vegas snow lodge because they have trees and snow there so really great environmental pieces as I mentioned before this looks exactly like the Fallout 4 Raider settlements like down
To every minute detail it’s uh really great every single aspect of it looks like it came straight from Fallout 4 the final aspect of the trailer and what that means for the show in general is basically the costume SL practical effects department and I have a lot of good things to say about
This not only in the shape but in the color as well the Vault looks not only really similar to the games but also really good the same thing is true of the Vault suits they look so much like the later Fallout 4 Vault suits I mentioned it before but the red roach in
Both these scenes looks really well done and of course we have the ver Birds which look just like they look really accurate and they look believable in my opinion really love these shots when they’re actually inside and of course I have to mention just how good the Practical effects are for the power
Armor it just looks so good I will say this hand looks kind of cheap but it’s not too bad amazing shot of a more open area in a vault this town just looks really really nice basically this entire fight scene with the ghoul I mean it just looks so realistic to the
Games I’ve already said it like three times it just looks so good look at those computers and that overseer window honestly this turret is a little plasticky but I still think it holds up pretty well that Mr handy is fantastic and I like these somewhat believable explosions and that yuy does not look
Bad at all same with the Axel it looks quite realistic for being CGI this ship by the name of the castlein is quite impressive and of course final scene of the trailer is the nukes dropping and personally I think this looks pretty good except I feel like the bomb and the explosions could
Have been a bit bigger but I think it’s mostly accurate to how it’s depicted in Fallout 4 I’ve put a link in the description to the original trailer for if whatever reason you’re watching this but haven’t watched the trailer or you want to rewatch the trailer now that you’ve
Heard my thoughts on it and of course that version will have sound now that my review and general thoughts and opinions of the trailer and other information we know about the show is over I want to rant about some of the opinions I’ve seen about the show based on the trailer
And I want to kind of debunk them or give evidence or ideas to otherwise and as we go through these opinions they’re going to get from relatively tame but I can debunk them or show that they’re wrong or at least give my opinion on them to just terrible terrible opinions
Where they don’t really deserve a response but I’m going to do it anyway the first thing I want to mention is people bringing up the castlewind which looks a lot like the pridwin and the thing about the pridwin is that it’s supposed to be somewhat unique because
It was built using the remains of The Enclave crawler base at the end of Fallout 3 however I would like to point out that we have no idea what the West Coast looks like at this point and the Brotherhood of Steel could have got the these kind of resources from any other
Part of America just because it seems unique from the games we’ve seen doesn’t mean that it couldn’t be recreated in another place without The Enclave crawler just using a lot of different resources so I would say this is a bit of a non-issue cuz it’d always be a
Reasonable explanation on how to make it plus it does look very similar but it’s not the exact same it has like a really like straight triangle kind of edge when the pridwin was much more of like a an ovally kind of cylinder shape but you know it’s it’s just a bit pedantic
Another thing I saw commented about the series is that somewhere it was mentioned the Brotherhood of seal were going to be the good guys and I genuinely couldn’t find that anywhere but I did find this piece of an interview with the director it’s a little bit of the Marine cause it’s a
Little bit of the knight’s Templar it’s this weird kind of fusion Nolan says which is the director in the absence of a federal government you just had all this military hardware lying around who would get it and how would they maintain control of it the answer is the Brotherhood answer is the Brotherhood
Which Nolan describes as being fued by a mutated version of patriotism religion loyalty and fraternity now I don’t think this exactly sounds like good but it does sound pretty accurate to what the Brotherhood is still are like in the majority of games besides three they think they’re doing the right thing but
They’re often misguided and it is the sense of loyalty and even like a religious thing to do with these old Knights kind of thing and the Very loyal to each other but xenophobic to everyone else this sounds exactly like the Brotherhood even the original Brotherhood so I don’t know what
Anyone’s problem with this is another complaint I’ve been seeing is the amount of greenery in the trailer and how in the Fallout games there isn’t really much Greenery because the trees don’t regrow but I would like to remind people there are areas with green trees like
The ski lodge in Fallout new vagus and the Oasis in Fallout 3 however the show could just completely ignore the non-growing aspect and make it have a lot of trees or this could just be an area not really affected by the bombs but I don’t really think this is a
Massive deal cuz it’s always just been a tiny Fallout Quirk but I don’t think it’s like essential to its DNA or anything I’m not really too fast if they change it another complaint I keep hearing is where is the NCR where is the NCR well they’re not really shown in the
Trailer which makes sense cuz it’s a teaser trailer and none of our three characters are really involved with the NCR except the ghoul could technically be a fugitive right right but the thing is this is a leaked image but this is clearly an NCR flag so they’re very much
Going to be in the show they just haven’t showed us yet which makes sense so I really wish people would stop freaking out about the lack of NCR they’re very clearly going to be represented in the show now so far these issues haven’t been that bad I can understand people’s perspective on this
And why they think this but I think it’s clear that with a little bit of thinking about it and showing certain evidence I think it’s pretty pretty clear that these things won’t actually be an issue but these next two I’m really annoyed by particularly the last one that’s
Probably the worst thing I’ve been seeing and unfortunately I’ve been seeing it the most out of any complaint one of the more annoying complaints I see is that this is ruining the law or it’s going to ruin the law of the games and honestly until we actually
Know in the show explanations for things we’ll never know if they actually ruin or change anything so I don’t think there’s any Point getting upset in the trailer also if something hasn’t been shown that’s in the old games it doesn’t actually mean that it’s not there it
Just means they haven’t shown it in this two-minute trailer uh so I really don’t think it’s something to worry about just yet they could ruin parts of the law but we just don’t know that they have yet there’s nothing to guarantee that for all we know there’s an explanation for anything
That might be out of place it’s just way way too early to talk about them ruining the law and honestly it’s been like a hundred years since the original two games so they could change whatever they want really because it’s been so long now if you’re like me and you were
Excited about the trailer and you reading comments on the actual trailer or other people’s breakdowns of the trailer and you’re a normal person I want to stress that then you probably really disappointed by certain comments you saw and you can probably already guess what I’m about to say but for
Those who haven’t been reading comments very often it’s about this show being called woke the term woke has been so watered down by right-wing politics and rightwing media that at this point it basically means anything that isn’t CIS white straight man who is stoically traditional however it used to mean
Being aware or awake of issues faced by African-American people and then later on basically being socially aware of any social issues going on so can you take a guess at why the right-wing crowd which unfortunately seems to be a big percentage of the Fallout fan base I
Mean sorry to fro shade at the original fans but considering that the game came out in the ’90s kind of makes sense it’ be like a bunch of 50 40y old men wouldn’t it but it is quite a shame and I’m sure there’s a lot of younger men
Here as well in these comments but it is quite terrible but the reason it’s been called woke is for like three reasons but the main one is oh my God she’s a woman my main character can’t be a woman ah it’s not like you know women play
These games or whatever for one and you can always be a woman in the games but also it really shouldn’t matter to you that much the gender of the character like that’s so ridiculous that they think they’re going woke just by having a woman in it no women
Exist I mean not only is it ridiculous that apparently being woke is a bad thing you know caring about minority and social issues is a bad thing but that’s besides the point it’s like they don’t really know what franchise they like or they have no media literacy and they think all the
Bad guys are the good guys like they unironically think that the onclave is based and it’s not just like a joke cuz I like the joke but they’re actual fascists and that was the point of Fallout too don’t genocide the muties for no reason right it’s really plain
And simple to see I mean the whole Fallout franchise started out as criticism of America and the American government and American culture and it has continued to be like it has always made fun of patriotism nationalism imperialism it is what you would like it’s the definition of a woke series if
You want to use that stupid terminology for woke right it’s always been socially aware and talked about social issues the only reason the Great War happened is because of of mass consumerism the world ran out of resources because they used them so recklessly that they just flat ran out
And they didn’t do anything renewable with them mix that with militaristic and anti-communist propaganda The Fallout series is pretty much just a parody of the Cold War and if it continued on indefinitely like this cannot how does no one notice this if you’re actually a
Fan of the series and you say woke like how are you a fan of the series and you also believe that do you just not watch any of the scenes or listen to any of the dialogue or care about it at all is your media literacy that bad honestly
And when we talk about the lgbtq community which the antiw work crowd always loves to hate the Fallout Series has always been very Pro The lgbtq Fallout 2 was the first game in all of history to have a lesbian wedding Fallout New Vegas has Veronica and arcade gon two prominent characters
Which are both gay and in the older games as well as Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas you could pick between two different perks but you could actually pick both which would insinuate that you were either gay straight or bisexual I literally saw a comment saying that they
Were going to introduce ghoul riots and I believe it was either Super Mutant or synth wres but I’m sure people have said both and I’m like literally yes that’s what so much of it has also been about you can be mean to ghouls but that always gives you evil karma and so much
Of it is like oh people mistreat them because of how they look and it’s not exactly fair to them same thing with since just because they’re different they get mistreated wow that doesn’t sound like an allegory for something totally so to say that the TV show is
Special in being woke or that Fallout has succumb to wokeness is just plainly untrue if you look at the history of Fallout and also hateful bigoted and stupid and it really pains me that there’s such a big part of the community that genuinely feels this way in conclusion The Fallout TV show is
Actually looking quite good it seems like the people working on it really understand the comedy the messaging and The Vibes of the Fallout Universe it seems like they’ve got really good characters and stories going on the Practical effects look amazing the environments look great and there are a lot of people with some
Okay questions which can be easily answered and also a lot of people with some really terrible terrible takes which we will not be respecting and just in conclusion like the title says the Fallout TV show is looking great ignore the hate I hope you enjoyed this video remember to like subscribe
And comment what you liked what I can improve on what you thought about the trailer and what you thought about my thoughts on the trailer uh I’d really appreciate it if you guys subscribed particularly today because uh this is one of the videos that I’ve worked the hardest on like
Ever took a lot of editing I’m pretty proud of it I just thought I should mention that and I’ve been sweet tripod I’ll see you on the next video
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