#was gonna try to include a deathclaw and radstag

[amazinglyegg]

Fallout x Don't Starve!!

[666prophet]

Fallout S1:E2 - The Target

More world building and starting the main storyline. To the general audience it might be a win. For the more knowledgeable and Fallout fans it’s a bit rough in my opinion. It’s zany and fun but over all light on moving along the story. Kinda feels more like a filler.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Spoilers and Deep Dive~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ok so we meet presumably the Enclave. Interesting that they are heavy on laser weapons since historically/canonically they were more fans of plasma weapons. We got a blink-and-you-miss tease of a super mutant. Obligatory dog insertion, although it’s funny they went with a Belgian Malinois to avoid the Dogmeat call back. Dr. Wilzig, I hope, has nothing to do with the FEV or I’m gonna flip shit. Storm troopers have better aim than that turret from 6ft away.

How the fuck did Maximus attach himself to Titus’ armor? Also cool I guess the vertibird just fucked off back to base? So no one is gonna call it a yao guai? Ok cool. Titus has a flashlight on his helmet and refuses to turn it on when exploring a dark cave? Got it. Titus has to be the most baby-back bitch made knight in BoS history. You ran screaming from a yao guai while in power armor. Then apparently died?!?!? That wasn’t a plot death at all 🙄. Also that yao guai went blow for blow with Titus but then went down with two shots to the head? I mean I have to give them credit for bringing back the 10mm pistol from Fallout 1 &2, but I don’t remember it being that strong.

The moron guy scene is just stupid and pointless. Unless you are trying to make survivors out to be idiots. The writers seem to not be able to make up their minds to whether power armor is a hulking heavy suit or just cool lightweight semi tough thing you wear. Maximus either has no idea or no care about using too much power and needing a new core to power it. The chicken fucker scene is just…😐. It also shows more of this thing of Maximus trying to be the new fighter for justice of the Wasteland. McScuse me! When did Tony Stark work on T60s? There is a jetpack for T60s in Fallout 4 but that’s a big loud heavy thing that takes actual fuel. Not some wrist jet things.

So I have A LOT to say about Filly. First off wow it’s amazing how many old Fords, Chevys, and Lincoln’s were just all around this one area. Also who the fuck brought all these Cessnas and 747s? Not a single in universe version of car or motorcycle is present. Like you guys didn’t even try to make things seem canon. Another interesting thing of note is there are no animals/bugs. No wild dogs, bloat flies, bloodbugs, mole rats, radscorpions, giant ants, iguanas, radstags or even deathclaws. We saw one yao guai, one brahmin, one radroach and the dogs from the Enclave site(including CX404). There were the goats but canonically the only goat like things that survived were bighorners and they are in the Mojave. Another curious thing is that they are no other ghouls next to The Ghoul (Goggins), not even feral ghouls or glowing ones. Now Ma June says "your kind isn’t welcome here", perpetuating the canonically held dislike/distrust of ghouls. So wouldn’t that make a ghoul armed to the teeth sitting in the middle of Filly kinda conspicuous?

Now onto the shoot out and fight with “Knight Titus”. Time for nerdy gun shit. Someone aims their PPSh, how they got a Russian submachine gun who knows. The PPSh was the basis for the styling of the combat shotguns in Fallout 3 & 4, but it was never a full gun in those games. We see our first instance of a pipe weapon which is nice. Now The Ghouls’ shotgun has never been seen in canon and is based on an MTs255 a Russian revolver based shotgun. The pistol used by Maximus is some weird Desert Eagle that’s never been in canon. Which is funny because you could have just used a Desert Eagle which was already in Fallout 1

The robot foot things is 100% tv show fabricated. Which I’m amazed that Ma June can even move so easily after being shot…in the knee….on her dominant leg. The reviving of CX404 was a nice touch. Seeing as we can all agree killing a dog is a no-no. Although she did attack The Ghoul about 20min ago, so I don’t understand why she would be so keen on tagging along with him. The ripper vibroblade being foldable is new and kind of odd seeing as that would compromise its strength. Lucy also amazingly gets over her crisis of faith over cutting a man’s head off quite quickly. Seeing as two days ago she wasn’t too keen on violence.

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This one was definitely a miss for me. It wasn’t terrible and not one thing made it bad. It was a lot of little things that just kinda rubbed me the wrong way. Making it feel more like a wacky silly filler episode. Which doesn’t bode well seeing as this is the second episode in the series.

Final Score - 5/10