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Something to remember about Maximus is that he was raised in a fanatical militaristic cult that is already on him for potentially sabotaging Dane (the person back at camp who had their foot ripped out of the boot). In the game lore, the Brotherhood of Steel is portrayed as very unforgiving and dogmatic, which is probably why Maximus is so paranoid and makes questionable decisions.

@NerdishReact

Ай бұрын

Right! It's can be frustrating sometimes as a viewer but it makes perfect sense to his character. Well said!

22:10 "He stole it from the fiends." Ahem. He *looted* it from the fiends. Very important distinction. He "foraged" for resources. :)

@NerdishReact

Ай бұрын

Lol we apologize for the confusion, it won't happen again 😆

I adore the music in this show. What a difference a daaaaay maaakes...

@NerdishReact

Ай бұрын

It's so perfectly chosen! One of out favorite aspects of the show

Everyone says it's wrong for Maximus not to say his real name, even though he's in that position because he said his real name.

@NerdishReact

Ай бұрын

True! That's a good point.

Algorithm-boosting long comment. ☺ Glad you guys are having fun, I'm back in Fallout 3 because of it. Here we see both the bad parts of Maximus' snap decision-making and trust issues (Thaddeus) and the good (the Fiends). For reference: he lied to Lucy about his name because he knows literally nothing about her. Trust is a rare commodity in the Wasteland, especially with a secret that could get you killed, and he had just burned himself by telling the truth. For the suit, there is an internal release (at least in the games). Maximus still hasn't read the manual. 😆 It's also why he's a better shot out of the suit. He knows about the external suit release because it's how he got Titus out originally. This show is so well-written, it's crazy. All the details and explanations for the mysteries are there, and all the pieces fit together.

@NerdishReact

Ай бұрын

Thank yo for commenting! Right! We see Maximus trying so hard to make the suit work, and for some part, it does. But we feel like he's so much better without it. Maybe it's something he's not ready to accept yet.

I’m so glad that you guys are enjoying the series. The next three episodes they start to explain more & more. I can’t wait until you get to the final episode. It’s going to blow your mind. 😊

@NerdishReact

Ай бұрын

Yeah! This is such an amazing show!! We can't believe we didn't know anything about it until it got recommended. We haven't seen the final one yet, next week will be our last recording of Fallout for now. Thanks you for always supporting! It means the world to us

17:00 The show's writing is next level. Up until know Maximus seemed untrustworthy, with the lies, letting Titus die, attacking Thaddeus when he had objections to the plan, etc. But here, he takes Lucy's gun, shoots the two fiends, and *immediately* gives the gun back to Lucy. And the show doesn't make a big deal out of it at all, to the point that a lot of people miss the significance: untrustworthy people are themselves not trusting, but Maximus clearly trusts Lucy. So if he doesn't have trust issues in general, why did he do all the other "bad" things? Because he is *utterly terrified* of the Brotherhood of Steel. He has been in full-on fight or flight survival mode this entire time, and that's why he has been making bad decisions. (This is just my personal interpretation, I have no sources to back it up.)

@Scyth0r

Ай бұрын

Yep, he clearly 'wants' to trust people, but he keeps getting burned. Also the people yelling 'don't trust him' when he asks for the gun completely overlook that he gives it right back, despite being totally unarmed at that point. 🙂

@NerdishReact

Ай бұрын

We agree! He just needed to get to know Lucy a bit better to know he could trust her. But when it comes to The Brotherhood, things are more complicated. We can see his character developing thanks to him being in other situations besides The Brotherhood.

9:50 It’s not the same thing. Lucy is taking radaway for radiation poisoning. The Ghoul takes “Vials” to keep him from going feral. If it was the same I think everyone would just call it what it was instead of vials. Also the radaway wouldn’t help the ghoul at all since ghouls regenerate while irradiated. Taking radaway would make him vulnerable to wounds.

@NerdishReact

Ай бұрын

Ohh thank you for explaining it!!

@gottagowork

Ай бұрын

Ghouls are not invulnerable, not even glowing ones (not in the show yet). Trust me, I've unlived quite a few of them in my days, and I'm suspecting so have you. The regenerative process from radiation works, but at a much slower rate. The reasons "our" ghoul appear invulnerable sometimes, is ref "very, very large bucket of drugs".

11:21 See? Art!!!

@NerdishReact

Ай бұрын

Lol right!

Maximus has good aim, but if you watch the first episode again closely you will see the ghoul shoot the gun out of Maximus' hand. The ghoul has better aim.

@Scyth0r

Ай бұрын

The Ghoul figured out how to use V.A.T.S without a Pip-Boy. 😁

@NerdishReact

Ай бұрын

Right! But The Ghoul has had two centuries to work on his aim hahaha even though we are sure he was a pretty good shooter from his cowboy days.

17:45 Graphic design is alive and well in Vault 33!

@NerdishReact

Ай бұрын

Lol such a blessing for artists

Shady Sands is a big deal in the first two Fallout games, you spend a lot of time there. It was originally founded by people who left a Vault, so seeing it as a crater was massive for old-school fans.

@placeboobshere5458

Ай бұрын

Shady Sands was important in Fallout 2 sure. For Fallout 1 it was a forgettable side quest.

@NerdishReact

Ай бұрын

It's really cool that the producers we're so faithful to the original source! We're glad it was the case.

@Scyth0r

Ай бұрын

@@placeboobshere5458 If my memory isn't failing me (entirely possible), I think it's the first town you enter in Fallout 1 right near the start of the game, and it's basically a bunch of shacks. So you experience the whole progression of the town, from humble origins through major political significance, and ending as a crater.

@placeboobshere5458

Ай бұрын

@@Scyth0r Yeah, it only becomes an important event if you played the other games. But imagine you're playing Fallout 1 and all you do is get a rope and kill some stuff for the town. The rest of the game is elsewhere. I dont even think I ever went back to Shady Sands after getting the rope. I didnt even kill any scorpions.

Yes there were multiple bombs,the ones during the war and the ones still around

@NerdishReact

Ай бұрын

Right! Such a horrible realization 😪

Your comment “I don’t trust this music” was funny to me because you had just mentioned seeing her grafted finger. And the song being played was Herb Alpert playing “Ladyfingers”.

@NerdishReact

Ай бұрын

Hahaha right! We didn't know that

Late to the party, as usual... I think Maximus' difficulty (at this point in the series) is that he wants very much to be heroic, but experience has taught him to survive at any cost. So whenever he is faced with a big decision, these two headspaces conflict and he has to choose which one he's going to be. So far, he's had bad luck with these choices.

Such a build up of mystery in this show!

@NerdishReact

Ай бұрын

Yes, and it's so well done!

Betty: "the raiders destroyed so much, but not our spirit!".... yeah Norm knows Vault 32 personel died 2 years ago, killed each other, commited self harm, etc. Also he knows during Vault 32 renewal they destroyed the terminal Norm saw her mom's pipboy opened the vault for the raiders. Also "I buried it with her, me and your father".... Might be truthful! Remember episode 1? they carried the fallen to the vault 33 "compost" room. "buried" most likely means surface.... The voting most likely were digitally manipulated for 200 years so in the secret voting always vault 31's representative won in vault 33 every single time.

@NerdishReact

Ай бұрын

It's so messed up! We want to know the truth so bad and we hope Norm can uncover more.

Nice hat! :)

@NerdishReact

Ай бұрын

Thank you!! 🤠❤️

Great episode even without the ghoul

@NerdishReact

Ай бұрын

Absolutely! We enjoyed it anyways.

as a squire he is supposed to know how to shoot , he shot the bear , etc, he also caries a huge canon in the sqquire bag to shoot heavy targets . he just doesn't know how to shoot with the suit .

@NerdishReact

Ай бұрын

Right! He's really skilled on his own. We know the suit comes with a lot of awesome perks, but if you don't know how to use it, then it becomes a hindrance.

@eglantinepapeau1582

Ай бұрын

@@NerdishReact yep ! can't wait for your next reaction of this ✌

"Too much" but still cool.

@NerdishReact

Ай бұрын

Hahaha agreed!

The whole 'bombs fell when I was a kid thing' was REALLY confusing at first. I personally think this is one of the few mistakes in the script; if nothing else Lucy should have said something like 'what, you're 200 years old? Dude.'

@MolnarG007

Ай бұрын

The script is perfect. Lucy thinks Maximus was taught lies. Bombas fell 200+ years ago. Then she finds out NCR, not only humans survived on the surface but there are huge factions, civiliations without the vault's reclamation day. And to make things clear they again showed Maximus's memories as a kid sop we realise too a new nuclear explosion happened 10-15 years ago.

@codegerman71

Ай бұрын

What do you mean? It was suppose to be confusing so we the audience feel the need to watch to learn the truth.

@NerdishReact

Ай бұрын

We were definitely confused and were already thinking about how the timeline had gotten so messed up, but it made sense in the end. As viewers we don't want to think something so horrible as the bombing could happen again, but we are confronted with the reality of how easily history repeats itself.