“I don’t know if you’d wanna eat that chicken at this point, it’s got a special sauce….” Might be one the grossest and funniest thing I’ve heard in a MINUTE 😭😂
"Okay, so how many people should we get to read for the part of Knight Titus? We need someone who can show him to be just the most unlikeable piece of shit possible in just a couple of minutes." "Michael Rappaport is available." "Oh, good, that'll save us some time."
"Didn't she just get stabbed?!?" Stimpacks. Stimpacks. My fallout character's body mass should be more bullet lead than person flesh at this point. Stimpacks.
I also love how she takes one, but still needs later healing (like playing the game), whereas any companion you have that needs to be healed, you hit them with one stimpack and they jump right up. Just like the dog.
Fun meta things: Lucy holding a weapon up to someone as she greets them in a friendly manner is a nod to the games. Most players will just forget to holster their weapons when talking to neutral or even friendly NPCS.
the dog ( Dogmeat, an easter egg from the original mad max movies ) was supposed to be terminated for being the runt of the litter, but he falsified her record and tattoo to keep her as a companion..
I feel like the Enclave boi saw Lucy sleeping with no shelter and a lit fire, thought “This poor little idiot,” and decided to watch over her until she woke up. Turns out it’s a good thing he did with the Radroach.
So that injection the ghoul gave wilzig's dog was a stimpak. In game it is able to restore considerable amounts of you're health and heal broken limbs and it acts pretty fast. Hence why it was able to heal the dog very fast.
Boy, as soon as I heard you say "no hurting dogs" in the intro, in THIS episode, I audibly said OOF. One of the perks you can take when leveling up in Fallout is "Bloody Mess," which gives your charachter a little extra damage and also makes people have a chance to EXPLODE into chunky salsa upon death. Suffice to say the Ghoul definitely has maxed out that perk tree.
Doesn't have anything to do with "bloody mess." The gun fires miniature rockets, like bolters in Warhammer 40K, and converting humans into salsa is just kind of what rockets do.
@LazzyVamples It's not a gyrojet weapon like a bolter. It's a MTs255 Shotgun Revolver that has been sawed off into a pistol. The ammo appears to be custom explosive rounds.
But Fallout gamers know how this work. When the, ehh, "telex" came through, the portrait of the dog had the name "COMPANION". So we know the dog is a companion ala Dogmeat, and we know companions can't be killed in the game (except New Vegas hardcore mode iirc), only incapacitated until healed with a (game style magic) stimpak.
The slowmotion effect during the Filly shoot out is a game mechanic known as V.A.T.S. The Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System, or V.A.T.S., is a queuing system for Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, and Fallout 4
the whole interaction asking for direction, from asking politely at gunpoint, to the "she died there once" to the improvised "let's live together" was pure wasteland weirdness I adore
@@mintjulius275 I try that too, but just yesterday, when i cleared the the zoo in Nuka World i was talking with Cito and just in the moment i clicked on the answer, his gorilla pushed me out of the dialoge menu and i shot into the wall right behind Cito, with the radum gun that does explosive damage, turning Cito hostile.
The music choices in this episodes (and in the show in general) are straight from Fallout 3’s radio station - I love the music and it adds so much to the retro future vibe
He is mine as well. After watching the trailers before the show came out, he piqued my interest. I've always had an interest in fallen/damaged characters.
Definitely. Once he showed up, I told my friend: doesnt matter if he is meant to be morally black or grey... but Cowboy Ghoul is my favorite. (and still is). I even ordered his action figure to give him some more love.
“‘Cause you drive that thing like a f*cking shopping cart!” is not a remarkable line. It’s even a little clunky. But Walton Goggins makes it sing. Just a master of his craft.
Being killed by a baby doll arm... That was a gun from Fallout 4. The gun is called a Junk Jet. It taps into your inventory and uses the junk column as ammunition. I think the game mentions, "You haven't lived until you've killed someone with a teddy bear."
Missed opportunity here; should have used the "bad doll" from Death Stranding (the one associated with "other tech" that Combat Veteran/Mads Mikkelsen is obsessed with - those not knowing the lore/story in that game is gonna be wtf, lol. To clarify, that game is Kafkaesque in its delivery, Metaphorical in its messaging, and Philosophical in its message, so definitely not a game that suits everyone - it's a complex mess to decipher). The love scene in Ep1 clearly references GTAs Hot Coffee mod (no love scenes without Hot Coffee), and also another non Fallout game was referenced as someone mentioned but I can't recall what it was atm.
35:10 - “Didn’t she just get stabbed??” Fallout Stimpaks, gotta love ‘em! Lucy used one in Episode 1, remember. It’s a game sci-fi hit point recovery thingy, in the show it’s for acute wound trauma.
But for some reason, the time when she used a stapler to close the would I think duct tape would have made more sense. Unless they're gonna make duct tape more of a thing in later seasons.
@@gottagowork You do know they use basically a stapler irl to close wide wounds right? I had em after a surgery a few years ago. The tips just kinda desolve after awhile and they pull em right out. Source? My gallbladder removal.
I love that the Ghoul's pistol, with its explosive rounds, makes a "Phoot!" sound like a grenade launcher. Great sound design. Terrific edit! Loving the cover-ups! ❤
The rusty syringe The Ghoul uses on the dog is a "Stimpack", Knight Titus askes for one from Maximus, Lucy uses one after she was stabbed in ep01. Its the game's version of a healing potion.
"Will you still want the same things when (you have changed)"? This line is a key to the whole show. Remember it and watch the main characters answer the question at some point in the story.
@@vampdan It's true for all Fallout games, and RPGs in general I think. There's always a severe ludonarrative dissonance, where you have quests and goals, things your character wants, but once you as a player interact with the world, what you want is something completely different. Props to the first Fallout for sticking to its deadline as a reminder that you can't dillydally around all day because you got stuff to do, and props to FNV for giving you a million different ways to finish the main quest to accommodate what you as a player might want to do.
10:45 True story: shortly after we moved to Vegas, my wife and I were driving around and there were some tumbleweeds up against the fencing on an overpass we were driving across, and she asked what they were. “Tumbleweeds,” I said. “Tumbleweeds are real?” Spent her whole life in New York/New Jersey, and she’d thought they were made up for movies, and had just caught the mind of the public to the point they had to keep having them in westerns and the like. Very intelligent woman, my wife, but a bit sheltered in some ways. ❤
You have to keep in mind it's a video game adaptation and they stick pretty closely to how one works. This means that if you find a healthpack in the game, you are immediately healed. The same applies to the series. As long as the dog and every other person is still breathing, it can be cured immediately if one have a healthpack.
One of the great things about this show is not only how it captures the world of fallout but how it also alludes to the gameplay. You may loathe Knight Titus and rightfully so in the context of the show, but you can also laugh at him when you realize he is the typical player character of the games("I'm bored, I want to shoot something" leading to getting sidetracked for the purposes of loot gathering and killing enemies and leveling up.) He has exactly the same reaction to meeting a Yao Guai that I had. (Fuck, Fuck, FUCK, FUCK). He also has the same casual disregard for the lives of NPCs that most players have. Another allusion to the gameplay is when Lucy meets the man who is trying to filter sand. She points her gun at him while trying to carry on a conversation which many a player would do as they would simply not bother putting their weapon away before engaging with NPCs. This led to the surreal experience from the NPCs perspective of calmly trading with a complete stranger and carrying on a respectful conversation with someone who is holding you at gunpoint.
Lucy pointing her gun at water filter dude appears to have been an intentional nod that players more often than not forget to holster our guns when talking to NPCs (or outright don't even know that it can be holstered).
I played a load of RPGs back in the 80s and 90s, and _Fallout_ was the first game I ever played in which you have to disarm before talking to some NPCs. Which makes sense, but it's just a mechanic I hadn't seen before _Fallout._ I definitely loved the implication, that it means Lucy's a complete noob to the world she's entering
From the Games: -those sentry turrets are notoriously inaccurate and often unable to hit something standing a few feet away -stimpacks will heal pretty much anything -the first Fallout game had a dog companion named Dogmeat. The companion AI was not that very good so he kept getting seriously injured in fights and you had to heal him a lot
@@Dark__Thoughts Fallout 1, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, Fallout 4 all have a "Dogmeat" lol (and they're a different breed almost every time!). Further, there's a whole slew of Robodogs, Cyberdogs, and even more regular dogs all through the Fallout franchise!
The AI is very good at predicting where Dogmeat has to be to be in your way and being annoying. I shoot him almost as often as the enemy, when i lose my patience trying to get around him.
Secret pet, yes. It was implied through the montage that cx404 was slightly underweight and so should have been incinerated. He saved the puppy and kept it privately in his quarters/lab.
And the moment she walked through the house with the skeleton family is the sort of visual storytelling you see all over the games as you wander in the open world. One of Bethesdas strong points is the way they fill their worlds with little story moments like that, and you can more or less deduce what happened.
@coltonholman8842 he did obviously care for the dog though, seeing as once his project was completed he continued to care for her until the day his betrayal was revealed to the enclave.
@@wildmoose3979 I mean maybe, sure did seem like he wasn't going to be able to get rid of him descretly. Maybe but idk. As far as him taking the dog into the wild he was going to need protection cuz obviously he's not very aggressive.
21:42 The song is Betty Hutton - It's A Man (1951).I remember vibing to this song in Fallout 4 while exploring The Commonwealth lol Also GameSpot released *The Complete FALLOUT Timeline Explained!* over a week ago so If you want more insight into the timeline of the universe then I highly recommend reacting to it. No spoilers for the show it solely focuses on everything before the events of the show.
I love Michael Rapaport's appearance in this, lmao. It's like the writers went "Okay, we need the viewers to hate this character. I've got the perfect guy for it". As much as I love the other characters, I think The Ghoul is definitely my favorite. He steals the show every time he's on screen. He has the best lines, an interesting story, and is just... the biggest badass. The quintessential anti-hero, IMO.
I'm sure Mr Rapaport is actually a lovely man, but he has the most punchable face/energy ever. It's amazing. Every role he's in, you want to smack him. Still, if you're the face everyone pictures when they specify a particular type of role, you know you're on the right track.
I was unaware everyone hates that guy until reading discussions about the show. All I know about him is his role in Boston Public and the Chappele Show. Still don't know why he's an asshole but I assume there's a good reason
Yeah, this episode highlighted several ongoing factions across the fallout games, as well as repeat critturs. The mutated bear that chomps Titus is called a "Yao-guai", from a Chinese word literally translated from "strange creature". Rad Roaches are mostly harmless to humans except en masse, and can be dealt with with any hand to hand weapon. (Giant Rad Scorpions are terrifying!)The two headed cows are called "Brahmin" and often serve as pack animals for overland caravans that travel long distances between settlements. We meet a former scientist of the Enclave, which still claims to part of the USA, (they even have a US President supposedly in charge.) A new location is Filly (an excavated landfill). It fills the same role in this story as Megaton in Fallout 3. (A town very close to your Vault that is your first introduction to modern "civilisation".) Again, the combat is very reminiscent of the games, bloodily over the top. I completely agree about the need to protect GSDs at all costs! I grew up with GSDs and I love them (and am mildly racist to all other dog breeds)
Don't think we've seen rad scorpions yet except in Coopers Cowboy (opening sequence, so not a spoiler) costume broidery where its sawn into the shoulder pads.
The reason you were getting 'I Am Legend' vibes is because both The 2007 adaptation of 'I Am Legend' and Fallout as a whole are both either heavily influenced or outright based upon 'A Boy And His Dog' by Harlan Ellison. There are arguments that it even created the post-apocalyptic wasteland as a genre. Even the 'projector room' design of the show's Vaults are a throwback to the indoor-outdoor areas of the underground bunker found there. There's even a cheeky parody poster on one of the walls later in the series.
While Ellison may have influenced the game, via the film adaptation in 1975, "I Am Legend" was from the 1954 post-apocalyptic horror novel of the same name by Richard Matheson that was influential in the modern development of zombie and vampire literature and in popularizing the concept of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease.
@@lestatdelc The reason I brought up the 2007 movie as mentioned in the video, was because the faithful dog companion does not exist in the book. The closest it came was briefly finding a stray dog that almost immediately died.
I was surprised by how ineffective Knight Titus was fighting the Yao Guai (the mutated bear), but in fairness to him, Yao Guai are bloody terrifying! Running away shouting "fuck fuck fuck!" Is definitely something I've done at least once in one of the games. There are wasteland creatures that are even more menacing - one in particular that I'm thinking of, which sadly doesn't make it into this season - but I won't say anything more about that since the odds are good it will appear in Season 2.
I think you’re mixed up. The creature is a Yogi Bear, based on a thing in Native American mythology. The Yogi was feared for its obsessive hunger for picnic baskets, the ability to speak human languages, and its strategy of exiting stage right. It probably thought Knight Titus was a Ranger, the Yogi’s chief enemy. Yao Guai, or Yu-gi-oh as it’s sometimes known, is a card game and an animated series based on the card game. Don’t worry, a lot of people get this mixed up.
Rapaport being revealed as Knight Titus was absolutely hysterical, lol. And yeah, those stimpacks are basically the game's version of a first aid kit, and they can literally fix crippled limbs within seconds, so the "video game logic" that pops up is 100% accurate. Well, almost... a stimpack wouldn't fix Wilzig's destroyed foot, lol. Also, you called out Mad Max, which actually did have some influence on this world. There are several armor/outfit sets (and probably some weapons) in the series that are directly influenced by Mad Max, and the dog being a companion is also a big reference to it (a dog companion is available in pretty much every game).
Her pointing the gun at that guy asking for directions, that's literally an in game reference to players having their guns drawn in the game while trying to talk to people.
You bought back some funny memories. I remember driving out to California I was in the desert in Texas and I saw a tumbleweed for the first time and it scared the crap out of me. I thought they were just in movies.
Brilliant censorship on the severed hand! I was dying. You understood the assignment and you get an A++. Extra credit for the vault boy head replacing the exploding head in the Filly shootout.
The "needle" used to heal the dog is the same type Lucy used to heal her stab wound. It's a reference to the game where "stimpacks" heal damage from falling from a great height, to getting stabbed, to gunshot wounds.
You have to admire the juxtaposition between Walton Goggin's character between how he was prior to "the great war" and how he changed now as "the ghoul". Also, you will see Lucy's growth from naive vault-dweller to wasteland wanderer.
To say that us fans of the games were surprised at how well they nailed the "feel" of Fallout is a HUGE understatement. Literally everything is perfectly represented. Everything from the way the VATS system works (the slow motion bullet following) to the cartoonish physics and over-the-top weaponry, right down to the clash of horrible post-apocalypse and the dark optimistic comedy. Even the incredibly overpowered "main character" stats are so on-brand that it's hard to imagine a more faithful adaptation in recent memory.
They're cute, but even more messed up, at least when you can see them up-close. This might just be the most well-groomed brahmin in the whole Fallout universe.
Wilzig is from the Enclave which is the remnant's of what was the US government, they worked close with Vault-tec and have records of all the vaults so they are well familiar with them. The Ghoul used a stimpak on the dog which is the in game healing item and it heals near instantly, same as one did Lucy, stab wounds are nothing for a stimpak to heal.
He hit the dog with a stimpak, which is what Knight Titus was asking Maximus for - it's an almost supernaturally effective healing agent, taken straight out of the Fallout games.
10:08 in fallout 76, those are notorious for never hitting a shot. In fallout 4 though, they do hit very well. I found it so funny it didnt touch the guy 😂
I do find it very fun that they play the stimpacs straight. Like 'yes these things cure everything, no we're not going to pseudoscience this shit. It's a video game logic, deal with it!'
If your editor didn’t tell you that Ella Purnell voiced Jinx in Arcane then you would have found out pretty quick in your comments. On every reaction I have watched there is always someone (often the same person) commenting that tidbit of information.
Based on the poncho the guy who got killed by the baby arm was wearing, and the fact that the Ghoul's torturer was named Don Pedro, I would guess they were in Mexico. "The one thing I wasn't expecting was a radioactive bear. And Michael Rappaport." That statement was redundant, don't you think? Ring App: "Does anyone else hear gunshots?" Me: "Yeah, but I'm almost out of bullets."
Stimpaks contain powerful medicines that promotes (i.e. stimulates) the body’s healing abilities to almost instantly heal wounds that are not immediately fatal. Which is why Lucy and the dog were able to recover from their stab wounds almost immediately. Even damage/broken limbs can be healed unless there was too much damage (i.e. missing a limb). In the games they are plentiful for gameplay sake, but realistically I imagine they would be more rare than that in a cinematic setting such as this.
5:00 They never say where he was buried, but it had to be close enough to LA he could walk there in a few days (maybe week. Because they made a big deal about him going back to California, I would assume he was buried in Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, Or Baja California. All of which a person could walk to LA in less than a week or 2.
Ella Purnell's Powder/Jinx performance was brilliant. Watching this, you pick up on some of the rasp/gravel that was so unique but I was very surprised when I finally made that connection through IMDB.
The dog is a great callback to dog companion named Dogmeat in the Fallout games. So, if you hear people refer to CX404 as Dogmeat, you'll know why. There has to be a Dogmeat in anything related to Fallout.
FYI - the whole 'how did that turret not hit anything' is a throwback to some versions of the turrets in-game... basically they just spit bullets and don't hit shit. :P
I don't know if you've played any of the games since you've watched this, but if you have, there are so many little references and easter eggs for game fans, on almost every frame of this show. From the slow-mo during the gunfight (resembling VATS) to the way the old lady marks a location on Lucy's map and sends her on a side quest, to the way the Brotherhood knight runs away from the bear once he realizes he's way too low level for this cave...just constant fun references that assure that the people writing this show know the games too.
Obligatory Michael Emerson related suggestion -- he's fantastic in Person of Interest. It's worth a watch. (It might even be worth considering as a show to react to.)
@@Dularr Absolutely a concern. One nice thing about it is that it finishes on its own terms. There are no maddening cliffhangers. The show comes to a satisfying conclusion that pays off the 100 or so episodes.
You know Michael Emerson as Ben Linus from "Lost", but I remember him more as Harold Finch from "Person of Interest". He actually owns Belgian Malinois, which is why Bear in "Person of Interest" and Dogmeat in "Fallout" are Belgian Malinois, when Dogmeat was always depicted as a German Shepherd in the game.
Awesome, I was hoping to see you back to this soon and here it is! Oh and I love the Dark Side Shirt! I had one I finally had to retire, I should frame the faded remains. I wore that shirt to death.
41:00 - I'm sure others have mentioned it too, it's a Stimpack, the same thing Lucy used when she got stabbed in the stomach. They're basically magic healing potions for all intents and purposes. They only heal physical injuries, not disease or radiation. They're mostly pre-apocalypse technology so they're not super common for the average folk, but they're not exactly rare either. They can be found/scavenged in vaults and pre-war ruins and some higher tech factions can produce them too.
"There's no hurting dogs"
*episode starts with a newborn puppy being thrown into a fire*
The look on her face was absolutely priceless lol.
Call me sick but I genuinely love this opening
So we see the enclave aren`t the good guys. ^^
@rakat2746 Well, yeah, first time I played Fallout 3, the first thing they did when they showed up in Project Purity was kill Dogmeat
I know godamnit, I almost tapped out right then and there. Had to see Angela's reaction though.
“I don’t know if you’d wanna eat that chicken at this point, it’s got a special sauce….” Might be one the grossest and funniest thing I’ve heard in a MINUTE 😭😂
Believe me when I watched the edit, I cracked up laughing and just shook my head. Sometimes the grossest stuff comes out of my mouth.
When i tell you i hollered 😂😂
@@funnylilgalreacts as long as the gross stuff aint going into your mouth i think you win at everything forever.
@@funnylilgalreacts lol agreed here, oh jeez angela
I guess for some people it might be a plus.
"Okay, so how many people should we get to read for the part of Knight Titus? We need someone who can show him to be just the most unlikeable piece of shit possible in just a couple of minutes."
"Michael Rappaport is available."
"Oh, good, that'll save us some time."
I also laughed really hard at the Rappaport reveal. Such a dick character and was totally perfect.
Ahahahahahahahaha, it's so true
"Didn't she just get stabbed?!?" Stimpacks. Stimpacks. My fallout character's body mass should be more bullet lead than person flesh at this point. Stimpacks.
Yep. You don't question how stimpack heals anything. It just does. It's a Fallout logic. It's a wonder drug.
@@susah135 Whenever anyone asks what's in a stimpak, the answer is "health"
I also love how she takes one, but still needs later healing (like playing the game), whereas any companion you have that needs to be healed, you hit them with one stimpack and they jump right up. Just like the dog.
"Serums that will make you regrow a whole new foot."
Ha ha, that could never happen.
Or could it?..... hmmmm.....
really depenmds on *what kind* of serum it is. cough ... F.E.V ... cough.
Fun meta things: Lucy holding a weapon up to someone as she greets them in a friendly manner is a nod to the games. Most players will just forget to holster their weapons when talking to neutral or even friendly NPCS.
the dog ( Dogmeat, an easter egg from the original mad max movies ) was supposed to be terminated for being the runt of the litter, but he falsified her record and tattoo to keep her as a companion..
"That guy was fucking my chickens."
Sends me everytime. Nothing can prepare you for THAT and the delivery is just...
👌
It's Maximus' slow turn to watch the guy run off that sells it for me
Every time I see that guy afterwards, my reaction is "Chicken fucker!"
@@VegetaLF7 But then he forgets about it when he discovers the flames on his hands xD
Turrets completely missing its target is very game like ;)
Good ol’ Mk1 Turret
That's why you got to line up a row of em lol
Lore accurate current made me happy 😊
I don't know in fo4 in survival those things can kill you insanely fast.
@@DaDunge obviously when you’re at the hardest difficulty it will make the game harder…
I feel like the Enclave boi saw Lucy sleeping with no shelter and a lit fire, thought “This poor little idiot,” and decided to watch over her until she woke up.
Turns out it’s a good thing he did with the Radroach.
So that injection the ghoul gave wilzig's dog was a stimpak. In game it is able to restore considerable amounts of you're health and heal broken limbs and it acts pretty fast. Hence why it was able to heal the dog very fast.
Also related, Jim's Limbs were supposed to be used in conjunction with a stimpak in order to stop the bleed-out.
Boy, as soon as I heard you say "no hurting dogs" in the intro, in THIS episode, I audibly said OOF.
One of the perks you can take when leveling up in Fallout is "Bloody Mess," which gives your charachter a little extra damage and also makes people have a chance to EXPLODE into chunky salsa upon death. Suffice to say the Ghoul definitely has maxed out that perk tree.
Yeah, I didn’t expect incinerated puppies that’s for damn sure
Doesn't have anything to do with "bloody mess." The gun fires miniature rockets, like bolters in Warhammer 40K, and converting humans into salsa is just kind of what rockets do.
@LazzyVamples It's not a gyrojet weapon like a bolter. It's a MTs255 Shotgun Revolver that has been sawed off into a pistol. The ammo appears to be custom explosive rounds.
@@patrickwaldeck6681 Looking at it, I think you're right. Either way, it's whatever ammunition he's using that's causing the mess.
But Fallout gamers know how this work. When the, ehh, "telex" came through, the portrait of the dog had the name "COMPANION". So we know the dog is a companion ala Dogmeat, and we know companions can't be killed in the game (except New Vegas hardcore mode iirc), only incapacitated until healed with a (game style magic) stimpak.
Stimpacks are magical. They work on video game logic, they can mend broken bones and lethal gashes if you take them in time
The slowmotion effect during the Filly shoot out is a game mechanic known as V.A.T.S. The Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System, or V.A.T.S., is a queuing system for Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, and Fallout 4
34:15 Before the bombs and the birthday party the Ghoul was a soldier, Power Armor is Old World Tech.
He mentioned to his daughter he was in the Marines, so he most likely wore it and knows everything about it. Actually I know far more but spoilers. 😉
He was a marine
He was at Anchorage Alaska I believe
FO is based on alt 50s era including the tech.
"Pretty, but probably toxic." Sums up my entire High School dating experience.
Good one
"Walton Goggins 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰"
"There's no hurting dogs 😠"
* cackles evilly *
😂😂😂😂
Haha, i'm already excited about her reaction to that 😂😁
the whole interaction asking for direction, from asking politely at gunpoint, to the "she died there once" to the improvised "let's live together" was pure wasteland weirdness I adore
The reason for her gun being out was because (per the show runners) in the game you often forget you have your gun out when you talk to NPCs.
And the chicken fucker. His outfit, his "toodle doo" and the way he runs off. Absolute Fallout character.
I always keep my weapons holstered when walking around town or interacting peacefully with npcs for rp reasons, but yeah I get it
@@mintjulius275 I try that too, but just yesterday, when i cleared the the zoo in Nuka World i was talking with Cito and just in the moment i clicked on the answer, his gorilla pushed me out of the dialoge menu and i shot into the wall right behind Cito, with the radum gun that does explosive damage, turning Cito hostile.
@@mintjulius275 I keep my gun holstered in case my hand slips on the controller and I accidentally agro the town because I shot a guy on accident.
The music choices in this episodes (and in the show in general) are straight from Fallout 3’s radio station - I love the music and it adds so much to the retro future vibe
They are from all the games and then some, not just Fallout 3.
The Ghoul is easily my favorite character in the show. Walton Goggins is such a boss actor. Steals every scene he's in.
I ended up going back and watched The Shield again because of watching him in Fallout. Crushed it in both roles!
@@richardtaylor1652 The Shield is one of the best shows ever made, and he was a big part of it. He was such a hateable yet sympathetic character.
He is mine as well. After watching the trailers before the show came out, he piqued my interest. I've always had an interest in fallen/damaged characters.
Definitely. Once he showed up, I told my friend: doesnt matter if he is meant to be morally black or grey... but Cowboy Ghoul is my favorite. (and still is). I even ordered his action figure to give him some more love.
“‘Cause you drive that thing like a f*cking shopping cart!” is not a remarkable line. It’s even a little clunky.
But Walton Goggins makes it sing. Just a master of his craft.
Being killed by a baby doll arm... That was a gun from Fallout 4. The gun is called a Junk Jet. It taps into your inventory and uses the junk column as ammunition. I think the game mentions, "You haven't lived until you've killed someone with a teddy bear."
Originally, Fallout 3 as the Rock-It Launcher (at least in concept).
Missed opportunity here; should have used the "bad doll" from Death Stranding (the one associated with "other tech" that Combat Veteran/Mads Mikkelsen is obsessed with - those not knowing the lore/story in that game is gonna be wtf, lol. To clarify, that game is Kafkaesque in its delivery, Metaphorical in its messaging, and Philosophical in its message, so definitely not a game that suits everyone - it's a complex mess to decipher). The love scene in Ep1 clearly references GTAs Hot Coffee mod (no love scenes without Hot Coffee), and also another non Fallout game was referenced as someone mentioned but I can't recall what it was atm.
That thumbs up that replaced the hand dogmeat brought to her dad made me laugh 😂😊
I love that the stimpacks from the game has the same inexplicable ability to heal any kind of wound.
Yea, they do a real good job turning game mechanics into plot devices
35:10 - “Didn’t she just get stabbed??”
Fallout Stimpaks, gotta love ‘em!
Lucy used one in Episode 1, remember. It’s a game sci-fi hit point recovery thingy, in the show it’s for acute wound trauma.
New reactors: how can a stimpak heal bullet wounds and knife stabbings?
Veteran fans: it just works!
@@randomcourier 😆
I feel like it's a coagulate mixed with a natural tissue booster to regrow wounds back faster and pain killers.
But for some reason, the time when she used a stapler to close the would I think duct tape would have made more sense. Unless they're gonna make duct tape more of a thing in later seasons.
@@gottagowork You do know they use basically a stapler irl to close wide wounds right? I had em after a surgery a few years ago. The tips just kinda desolve after awhile and they pull em right out. Source? My gallbladder removal.
knowing fallout lore watching someone worry about what mutated animals there could be: 'oh you are not ready'
I only played the old ones... but power armor should still suffice against a mutated bear, no?
That turret scene was 100% game accurate; those things wouldn't hit the broad side of a barn even if it was built around them.
I don't know, when I build them it's true but enemy turrets at survival can kill you suprisingly fast.
@@DaDunge Well, yeah, you cranked the difficulty up to the maximum.
In early FO, turrets would absolutely destroy you unless ypu had stronger armour.
I love that the Ghoul's pistol, with its explosive rounds, makes a "Phoot!" sound like a grenade launcher. Great sound design.
Terrific edit! Loving the cover-ups! ❤
That sound is so satisfying!
We ALL want to think we've got a little John Wick in us in regards to losing a pet. Most of us would just cry in the shower instead, though, lol
Absolutely me.
Honestly, if someone literally & intentionally murdered my beloved pet, I'm not sure what I'd do.
@@Dark__Thoughts I'd go to prison.
Why not both?
The rusty syringe The Ghoul uses on the dog is a "Stimpack", Knight Titus askes for one from Maximus, Lucy uses one after she was stabbed in ep01. Its the game's version of a healing potion.
"Will you still want the same things when (you have changed)"? This line is a key to the whole show. Remember it and watch the main characters answer the question at some point in the story.
It's the principle reason the first Fallout game doesn't end when you save the vault.
@@vampdan It's true for all Fallout games, and RPGs in general I think. There's always a severe ludonarrative dissonance, where you have quests and goals, things your character wants, but once you as a player interact with the world, what you want is something completely different. Props to the first Fallout for sticking to its deadline as a reminder that you can't dillydally around all day because you got stuff to do, and props to FNV for giving you a million different ways to finish the main quest to accommodate what you as a player might want to do.
10:45
True story: shortly after we moved to Vegas, my wife and I were driving around and there were some tumbleweeds up against the fencing on an overpass we were driving across, and she asked what they were. “Tumbleweeds,” I said.
“Tumbleweeds are real?”
Spent her whole life in New York/New Jersey, and she’d thought they were made up for movies, and had just caught the mind of the public to the point they had to keep having them in westerns and the like.
Very intelligent woman, my wife, but a bit sheltered in some ways. ❤
You have to keep in mind it's a video game adaptation and they stick pretty closely to how one works. This means that if you find a healthpack in the game, you are immediately healed. The same applies to the series. As long as the dog and every other person is still breathing, it can be cured immediately if one have a healthpack.
Except broken bones. Just like the game (on harder difficulties)!
@@BigSeth1090 Need a medbag for that.
One of the great things about this show is not only how it captures the world of fallout but how it also alludes to the gameplay. You may loathe Knight Titus and rightfully so in the context of the show, but you can also laugh at him when you realize he is the typical player character of the games("I'm bored, I want to shoot something" leading to getting sidetracked for the purposes of loot gathering and killing enemies and leveling up.) He has exactly the same reaction to meeting a Yao Guai that I had. (Fuck, Fuck, FUCK, FUCK). He also has the same casual disregard for the lives of NPCs that most players have. Another allusion to the gameplay is when Lucy meets the man who is trying to filter sand. She points her gun at him while trying to carry on a conversation which many a player would do as they would simply not bother putting their weapon away before engaging with NPCs. This led to the surreal experience from the NPCs perspective of calmly trading with a complete stranger and carrying on a respectful conversation with someone who is holding you at gunpoint.
"It has a special sauce inside." eeeew Angela you absolutely did not have to say that...eeewww 🤣
10:15 " I've only had Arlo for a day and a half, but if anything happened to him, I would kill everyone in this room and then myself."
-Rosa Diaz
Lucy pointing her gun at water filter dude appears to have been an intentional nod that players more often than not forget to holster our guns when talking to NPCs (or outright don't even know that it can be holstered).
I played a load of RPGs back in the 80s and 90s, and _Fallout_ was the first game I ever played in which you have to disarm before talking to some NPCs. Which makes sense, but it's just a mechanic I hadn't seen before _Fallout._ I definitely loved the implication, that it means Lucy's a complete noob to the world she's entering
From the Games:
-those sentry turrets are notoriously inaccurate and often unable to hit something standing a few feet away
-stimpacks will heal pretty much anything
-the first Fallout game had a dog companion named Dogmeat. The companion AI was not that very good so he kept getting seriously injured in fights and you had to heal him a lot
Fallout 4 also has a Dogmeat dog companion.
every game has a dog companion
@@Dark__Thoughts Fallout 1, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, Fallout 4 all have a "Dogmeat" lol (and they're a different breed almost every time!). Further, there's a whole slew of Robodogs, Cyberdogs, and even more regular dogs all through the Fallout franchise!
Dogmeat dying often is a staple of the franchise.
The AI is very good at predicting where Dogmeat has to be to be in your way and being annoying.
I shoot him almost as often as the enemy, when i lose my patience trying to get around him.
Secret pet, yes. It was implied through the montage that cx404 was slightly underweight and so should have been incinerated. He saved the puppy and kept it privately in his quarters/lab.
And the moment she walked through the house with the skeleton family is the sort of visual storytelling you see all over the games as you wander in the open world. One of Bethesdas strong points is the way they fill their worlds with little story moments like that, and you can more or less deduce what happened.
It's not implied at all. She was fractionally underweight and he wrote down 10 oz anyway.
And I also don't think he did it to save the puppy necessarily but instead to be able to power his own project
@coltonholman8842 he did obviously care for the dog though, seeing as once his project was completed he continued to care for her until the day his betrayal was revealed to the enclave.
@@wildmoose3979 I mean maybe, sure did seem like he wasn't going to be able to get rid of him descretly. Maybe but idk. As far as him taking the dog into the wild he was going to need protection cuz obviously he's not very aggressive.
21:42 The song is Betty Hutton - It's A Man (1951).I remember vibing to this song in Fallout 4 while exploring The Commonwealth lol
Also GameSpot released *The Complete FALLOUT Timeline Explained!* over a week ago so If you want more insight into the timeline of the universe then I highly recommend reacting to it. No spoilers for the show it solely focuses on everything before the events of the show.
The donut shop is called "Slocum's Joe" and was a popular coffee and pastry shop before the bombs fell.
The 'CX' that all the dogs have stands for 'Canine eXperiment'.. and yes, you did get the little Easter egg that 404 meant 'Not Found'. :D
“I’m here for the ghoul”
“There’s no hurting dogs”
Me: oh…oh no
Yeah, that was a gut punch
@@funnylilgalreacts luckily they have stimpacks like in the games. instant healing
@@funnylilgalreacts or a gut stab? eh? eh?
I love Michael Rapaport's appearance in this, lmao. It's like the writers went "Okay, we need the viewers to hate this character. I've got the perfect guy for it".
As much as I love the other characters, I think The Ghoul is definitely my favorite. He steals the show every time he's on screen. He has the best lines, an interesting story, and is just... the biggest badass. The quintessential anti-hero, IMO.
I'm sure Mr Rapaport is actually a lovely man, but he has the most punchable face/energy ever. It's amazing. Every role he's in, you want to smack him. Still, if you're the face everyone pictures when they specify a particular type of role, you know you're on the right track.
I was unaware everyone hates that guy until reading discussions about the show. All I know about him is his role in Boston Public and the Chappele Show. Still don't know why he's an asshole but I assume there's a good reason
@@mintjulius275 Oh, they don't hate HIM, they hate his characters. The man is AMAZING at playing people you want to hit.
He's also despicable in Murders in the building, he's great at playing east coast asshole
@@mintjulius275
Rapaport is a good dude. He's good at playing the role of an asshole, but the man himself is not a asshole.
Yeah, this episode highlighted several ongoing factions across the fallout games, as well as repeat critturs. The mutated bear that chomps Titus is called a "Yao-guai", from a Chinese word literally translated from "strange creature". Rad Roaches are mostly harmless to humans except en masse, and can be dealt with with any hand to hand weapon. (Giant Rad Scorpions are terrifying!)The two headed cows are called "Brahmin" and often serve as pack animals for overland caravans that travel long distances between settlements. We meet a former scientist of the Enclave, which still claims to part of the USA, (they even have a US President supposedly in charge.) A new location is Filly (an excavated landfill). It fills the same role in this story as Megaton in Fallout 3. (A town very close to your Vault that is your first introduction to modern "civilisation".)
Again, the combat is very reminiscent of the games, bloodily over the top. I completely agree about the need to protect GSDs at all costs! I grew up with GSDs and I love them (and am mildly racist to all other dog breeds)
Belgian Malinois*
@@nvcn86 I stand corrected! Apologies for the error.
Don't think we've seen rad scorpions yet except in Coopers Cowboy (opening sequence, so not a spoiler) costume broidery where its sawn into the shoulder pads.
The reason you were getting 'I Am Legend' vibes is because both The 2007 adaptation of 'I Am Legend' and Fallout as a whole are both either heavily influenced or outright based upon 'A Boy And His Dog' by Harlan Ellison. There are arguments that it even created the post-apocalyptic wasteland as a genre. Even the 'projector room' design of the show's Vaults are a throwback to the indoor-outdoor areas of the underground bunker found there. There's even a cheeky parody poster on one of the walls later in the series.
While Ellison may have influenced the game, via the film adaptation in 1975, "I Am Legend" was from the 1954 post-apocalyptic horror novel of the same name by Richard Matheson that was influential in the modern development of zombie and vampire literature and in popularizing the concept of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease.
@@lestatdelc The reason I brought up the 2007 movie as mentioned in the video, was because the faithful dog companion does not exist in the book. The closest it came was briefly finding a stray dog that almost immediately died.
@@aeneasfate - Ah gotcha.
"What else changed?"
I hope you dont have a fear of scorpions...
More than once In Fallout 4 the static spawn of scorpions near Parson's had me leave the surface of the Earth for a moment.
I was surprised by how ineffective Knight Titus was fighting the Yao Guai (the mutated bear), but in fairness to him, Yao Guai are bloody terrifying! Running away shouting "fuck fuck fuck!" Is definitely something I've done at least once in one of the games.
There are wasteland creatures that are even more menacing - one in particular that I'm thinking of, which sadly doesn't make it into this season - but I won't say anything more about that since the odds are good it will appear in Season 2.
tbf he had no weapon after it broke his assault rifle. I've definitely run away from things for less.
@@canadian__ninja Yeah, there is that. This is why you bring more weapons with you in the wasteland lol
Let's hope they show it in season 2 cause I was really hoping that we'd see an encounter of a this particular wasteland creature
Well, if we're thinking of the same creature, its skull does make an appearance, so we're definitely getting that in S2.
I think you’re mixed up. The creature is a Yogi Bear, based on a thing in Native American mythology. The Yogi was feared for its obsessive hunger for picnic baskets, the ability to speak human languages, and its strategy of exiting stage right.
It probably thought Knight Titus was a Ranger, the Yogi’s chief enemy.
Yao Guai, or Yu-gi-oh as it’s sometimes known, is a card game and an animated series based on the card game.
Don’t worry, a lot of people get this mixed up.
Everyone's ears perked up when they heard this 2:15. Like "Oh sweety. This episode might not be for you."
Rapaport being revealed as Knight Titus was absolutely hysterical, lol. And yeah, those stimpacks are basically the game's version of a first aid kit, and they can literally fix crippled limbs within seconds, so the "video game logic" that pops up is 100% accurate. Well, almost... a stimpack wouldn't fix Wilzig's destroyed foot, lol.
Also, you called out Mad Max, which actually did have some influence on this world. There are several armor/outfit sets (and probably some weapons) in the series that are directly influenced by Mad Max, and the dog being a companion is also a big reference to it (a dog companion is available in pretty much every game).
Her pointing the gun at that guy asking for directions, that's literally an in game reference to players having their guns drawn in the game while trying to talk to people.
You bought back some funny memories. I remember driving out to California I was in the desert in Texas and I saw a tumbleweed for the first time and it scared the crap out of me. I thought they were just in movies.
Oh my gosh the special sauce joke just made me groan in a way I never have before. I didn't even think of the implication until hearing that.
😂
That replacement foot scene is serious full-body-clenching territory. AAAARARGGHGHGHGH,,,,, (shudder)
Brilliant censorship on the severed hand! I was dying. You understood the assignment and you get an A++. Extra credit for the vault boy head replacing the exploding head in the Filly shootout.
The ghoul is an absolute scene stealer, he’s got maxed out stats
Just finished the entire series yesterday. Loved it. Looking forward to the reactions.
You were udderly disturbed by that cow! I can't wait for more reactions!
Shout out to your editor for the hilarious censor icons! 🤣
The "needle" used to heal the dog is the same type Lucy used to heal her stab wound. It's a reference to the game where "stimpacks" heal damage from falling from a great height, to getting stabbed, to gunshot wounds.
You have to admire the juxtaposition between Walton Goggin's character between how he was prior to "the great war" and how he changed now as "the ghoul". Also, you will see Lucy's growth from naive vault-dweller to wasteland wanderer.
To say that us fans of the games were surprised at how well they nailed the "feel" of Fallout is a HUGE understatement. Literally everything is perfectly represented. Everything from the way the VATS system works (the slow motion bullet following) to the cartoonish physics and over-the-top weaponry, right down to the clash of horrible post-apocalypse and the dark optimistic comedy. Even the incredibly overpowered "main character" stats are so on-brand that it's hard to imagine a more faithful adaptation in recent memory.
35:00 Reviving the dog with stimpack and the dog on general is a reference to Dogmeat the companion dog from the games.
The knight freaking out was the funniest
Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck...
I love the brahmin (2 headed cow) i find them so cute in the games ❤
They're cute, but even more messed up, at least when you can see them up-close. This might just be the most well-groomed brahmin in the whole Fallout universe.
@@ninjatoriumnova2483 Could have been worse, she hasn't seen a RadStag. :T
10:06 It's a reference to the games, where some turrets will spew millions of bullets and still not hit you. :)
Wilzig is from the Enclave which is the remnant's of what was the US government, they worked close with Vault-tec and have records of all the vaults so they are well familiar with them. The Ghoul used a stimpak on the dog which is the in game healing item and it heals near instantly, same as one did Lucy, stab wounds are nothing for a stimpak to heal.
You're the first reactor I've seen link the chicken f*cker with Super Troopers... that was literally my first thought at the reveal 🤣🤣🤣
He hit the dog with a stimpak, which is what Knight Titus was asking Maximus for - it's an almost supernaturally effective healing agent, taken straight out of the Fallout games.
as always amazing reaction, love how you connect so much to the characters :) can’t wait to see your reactions to the later eps!
10:08 in fallout 76, those are notorious for never hitting a shot. In fallout 4 though, they do hit very well. I found it so funny it didnt touch the guy 😂
I do find it very fun that they play the stimpacs straight. Like 'yes these things cure everything, no we're not going to pseudoscience this shit. It's a video game logic, deal with it!'
If your editor didn’t tell you that Ella Purnell voiced Jinx in Arcane then you would have found out pretty quick in your comments. On every reaction I have watched there is always someone (often the same person) commenting that tidbit of information.
Your editor continues to be amazing!!
Thank you for the great editing work you do!!
Based on the poncho the guy who got killed by the baby arm was wearing, and the fact that the Ghoul's torturer was named Don Pedro, I would guess they were in Mexico.
"The one thing I wasn't expecting was a radioactive bear. And Michael Rappaport." That statement was redundant, don't you think?
Ring App: "Does anyone else hear gunshots?"
Me: "Yeah, but I'm almost out of bullets."
those were not spaceships those were remnants from F-4 Phantoms (Vietnam war era fighter jet)
Stimpaks contain powerful medicines that promotes (i.e. stimulates) the body’s healing abilities to almost instantly heal wounds that are not immediately fatal. Which is why Lucy and the dog were able to recover from their stab wounds almost immediately. Even damage/broken limbs can be healed unless there was too much damage (i.e. missing a limb).
In the games they are plentiful for gameplay sake, but realistically I imagine they would be more rare than that in a cinematic setting such as this.
This show is so good, glad it’s getting a season 2
The shoot out scene is essentially a showcase of game mechanics you can acquire in the computer games. They are called "Perks"
5:00 They never say where he was buried, but it had to be close enough to LA he could walk there in a few days (maybe week. Because they made a big deal about him going back to California, I would assume he was buried in Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, Or Baja California. All of which a person could walk to LA in less than a week or 2.
Ella Purnell's Powder/Jinx performance was brilliant. Watching this, you pick up on some of the rasp/gravel that was so unique but I was very surprised when I finally made that connection through IMDB.
The dog is a great callback to dog companion named Dogmeat in the Fallout games. So, if you hear people refer to CX404 as Dogmeat, you'll know why. There has to be a Dogmeat in anything related to Fallout.
All I can say is "Wait for it... Waaaiiiiit...." 😉
Except for New Vegas, where we had Rex.
FYI - the whole 'how did that turret not hit anything' is a throwback to some versions of the turrets in-game... basically they just spit bullets and don't hit shit. :P
The dog being named cx 404 and the dog not being found for most of its life is such a funny thing to me
Michael Rappaport didn't need to act for this role, just be himself!
Rapaport does play a good asshole but that's cause he's a good method actor.
Fun ep!
That editing, so funny. Enjoyed everything in this reaction. :D
I don't know if you've played any of the games since you've watched this, but if you have, there are so many little references and easter eggs for game fans, on almost every frame of this show. From the slow-mo during the gunfight (resembling VATS) to the way the old lady marks a location on Lucy's map and sends her on a side quest, to the way the Brotherhood knight runs away from the bear once he realizes he's way too low level for this cave...just constant fun references that assure that the people writing this show know the games too.
Obligatory Michael Emerson related suggestion -- he's fantastic in Person of Interest. It's worth a watch. (It might even be worth considering as a show to react to.)
That is a lot of episodes.
@@Dularr Absolutely a concern. One nice thing about it is that it finishes on its own terms. There are no maddening cliffhangers. The show comes to a satisfying conclusion that pays off the 100 or so episodes.
@@mikecase2372 103 episodes is not bad. I thought it went on for more than five seasons.
Excellent series. I can't quite look at Jim Caviezel the same anymore, but Michael Emerson is amazing in it.
14:58 Nicely done, editor!
You know Michael Emerson as Ben Linus from "Lost", but I remember him more as Harold Finch from "Person of Interest". He actually owns Belgian Malinois, which is why Bear in "Person of Interest" and Dogmeat in "Fallout" are Belgian Malinois, when Dogmeat was always depicted as a German Shepherd in the game.
That golf bag that Maximus has to lug around is hilarious. I almost expected the knight to ask for a 9-iron at some point.
I just started the video but I love your puns, keep em coming lol 🤘
Awesome, I was hoping to see you back to this soon and here it is!
Oh and I love the Dark Side Shirt! I had one I finally had to retire, I should
frame the faded remains. I wore that shirt to death.
In the game , that hypodermic is called a stimpack that has regenerative healing properties.
41:00 - I'm sure others have mentioned it too, it's a Stimpack, the same thing Lucy used when she got stabbed in the stomach. They're basically magic healing potions for all intents and purposes. They only heal physical injuries, not disease or radiation. They're mostly pre-apocalypse technology so they're not super common for the average folk, but they're not exactly rare either. They can be found/scavenged in vaults and pre-war ruins and some higher tech factions can produce them too.
@funnylilgalreacts The "spaceships" on top of filly entrance are actually F-4 phantoms vietnam era fighter jets
Lucy is one of the best characters ever clueless, naive and always optimistic she’s so dizzy she makes my head spin.
Your reaction to Titus running is *chefs kiss. 😂
The Healing Syringe is called a Stimpak and it's healing the same way it does in the games. Stab it in, and magically heal from most injury.
The music in this show is perrrrfect.
It was the music from the first Fallout game that I loved most. And to hear those songs again, is just golden :)