For a bit of context, the games are a satire/dark comedy, and they aren’t in the past, it’s an alternate timeline where the microprocessor was never invented, or remained in it’s early infancy (transistors and vacuum tubes remained the main processing tech) , so all tech is bigger and chunkier, atomic power became the norm, and the aesthetics of the 50’s/60’s continued to be the main style.
Iirc one of the destinctive splits was Vacuum Tube Technology advancing farther than it did for us, that coupled with the "Atomic Age" stuff gave rise to that "clunkier" and more stylized look everything has (and kept said look as it's shown by 2077 the "50's future vision aesthetic" still rung strong and true).
They really put their minds to making this show near perfect. U can see the way they set everything up. What's best is that this show is canon to the story/games and takes 10yrs after fallout 4 what I've heard 🤔🔥💯
@@magician_aleks2726sure it isn’t 10 years before? Because the prydwin being around means either it was rebuilt or never destroyed in the first place and I’m not sure i like either of those things
@@commandercorgi there are multiple prydwins. there's multiple different locations that the BOS occupies. also, there's no canon ending in fallout 4. btw, fallout 4 takes place 210 years after the bombs dropped. you get that info in the beginning from codsworth. the show is 219 years after.
@@Gadget-Walkmen Alien and Aliens actually fits in with a similar genre called "Cassette Futurism" whereas Fallout is "Atom Punk", love both to bits thought, awesome all around
@@UNSCPILOT Yeah I know, The Alien franchise more in line with late 70s and 80s technology and their vision of what futuristic tech would look like based on the fact that those movies were made in those years.
The woman playing Lucy is Ella Purnell, she was the voice actress for Jynx in Arcane. Apparently, she just makes any video game adaptation she touches turn to gold. They absolutely nailed this series.
Fun fact: the female vault dweller played by ella purnell is the VA for Jinx from arcane. The ghoul played by walton goggins is the VA of Cecil from invincible. Lastly the overseer, the father of the vault dweller, was the OG actor of Paul Atreides from the 1984 Dune movie
The brother absolutly has the highest perception and intelligence skill out of everyone else there, but he sacrificed his strength and charisma to do it haha
Id say hes a 7 str 10 end. Feller got jumped multiple times in the series and got some good licks in on his attackers especially when his power armor was damaged by the ghoul feller and had to improvise
NOT A SPOILER...the shelter that the family hoped in when the bombs went off when the white guy punched the black guy. It was not a Vault..... It was just a fallout shelter. So basically a deep basement.
@@phoenixwrong1150 the initial blasts and fallout sure….Afterwards probably not. It’s been predicted that 90% of the population would die, not due to the bombs or radiation but to starvation. No electricity nationwide means you can’t pump fuel means you can’t deliver food. Unless you have a farm it’s gonna be rough times.
The real world 1950s saw regular people buying fallout shelters due to the Cuban Missile Crisis among other anxieties about nuclear war. They have since come back into fashion as billionaires build their own vaults on Hawaii (Zuckerberg) and New Zealand (Peter Thiel) to ensure their survival and insulating them from the troubles of The Poors.
Honestly, that raider in the beginning really did have the best day. He got to eat great food, have clean water to drink and got to fuck the main girl while being a throw away character.
FR if he had realized after his fuckin awesome day that he had it pretty good and just said "yeah I'm from the surface, still your husband though, don't go out there, stay here with me I'll protect you babe" he coulda kept the good life
25:49 Ghouls can live for a very long time, if not forever. Assuming that they haven't gone feral or are killed by other means. It's just that they can no longer age due to the radiation.
I'm pretty sure Hancock or somebody said they all go feral eventually. Although some do seem to have... Aged better than others like a certain Representative
@@FemboiMars the show might have canonized that Ghouls can stave off becoming feral with that special chem he was taking, which is probably Ghoul blood or something
No clue if it's intentional or how it works in the games, but the squires carrying all the stuff for the knights sent me. It reminds me of making your companion carry all your stuff in video games so you have more inventory space
@@BrandonDenny-we1rwI mean yes but that’s also what squires did for real knights too, they would carry their weapons and armor, if the knight wasn’t actively using it and they would also help put their armor on the knights
@@transientanuspeople have grown up with movies and videogames and space explosions Most people would have to think it for a second before realizing that the explosion would be silent until the sound had time to reach you
yeah and no one is racist in the show. they hate each other for political views. thats why that dude called goggins a "pinko" which means someone who is not quite a red (commie) but a commie sympathizers/tolerator. Any US citizen should really know this, it was really important to our post ww2 attitude and how McCarthyism influenced US politics.
That's the only thing I really had issue with, and even then it was mild. They should have made it a tad more obvious that the opening was in 2077, a brief shot of a calendar in the background could have worked. But again, very minor quibble
And he's in there because Walton Goggins worked with him on Justified, another TV show that is fire because of his performance (and all the other performances).
So Ghouls are mutated humans who've survived an ungodly amount of radiation and survived, and as a result they can stay alive for centuries. They're one of my favourite parts of the Fallout universe!
Same, maybe someday well get to play as one... They could even maintain the Rads System simply changing it from "too many Rads kills" to "too many Rads turns you Feral"!
Vault-tek existed pre war and created 120 something vaults. The family going in a underground shelter at the start of the episode was not a vault-tek one. Just a regular personal one and they a 100% died.
the nukes go off in 2077, it seems futuristic and retro because they kinda based it on what people in the 50s-60s thought the future tech would be like essentially
@@Dell-ol6hbthey are taking flash pictures inside the house It doesn't make sense because a nuke flash can make you blind but also those people inside should be shredded by the glass flying at them at such speeds
The Fallout world is actually set in the future, but is based on the 1950s aesthetic and mentality. Some things that may help you understand the universe and style of the show. 1) Nuclear power became common place. They use it to power everything from their homes to their cars. 2) The transistor wasn't created until much later and never really caught on. Which is why vacuum tubes are in everything and things look more clunky. Microelectronics were basically never a thing. 3) Fallout tech burns oil at about three times the rate our world experiences. This is what led to resources being so scarce and the world tensions. 4) Radiation is somewhat magical instead of instant death. Can still kill you, but sometimes it doesn't or not right away. 5) Some of their tech (especially medical) is way advanced compared to where we are (hence the stimpack Lucy uses when she's stabbed. It's a drug that causes the body to accelerate the healing process to be almost instant). Other tech is way behind. They also LOVE enhancement drugs. Steroids and ability enhancers were basically sold like gum is here. Ironically, with the last decade of overmedication in America I really feel like we're getting close to matching Fallout, it's just not as cool. 6) It crosses the line constantly between 'light' and 'dark'. One moment you'll be laughing at the sheer ridiculousness of a situation and 10 minutes later you'll come across some of the most depraved acts humanity is capable of. With all that in mind, and as a long time fan of the IP, I feel like the show captured the essence and spirit of this wacky place perfectly. Excited to see where they go next.
This episode got me heated because buddy drowned that guy in the pickle barrel for no reason. I would be pressed if someone did that in an apocalypse situation 😅
your forgetting this was in a vault tech vault. after 200 years they still have nuka cola to stock in the nuka machines. its fair to assume they have pretty much endless supplies
Hell yeah. Also. A key component of this timeline is that the transistor hadn't been invented by the time of the war. Everything was still vacuum tube tech. They also went all in on nuclear power.
I am so sick reading this misleading info on reaction comments. It is a vast misconception that it wasn't invented, it just was not that widespread and kinda rare. And before you ask for proof, the whole misunderstanding happens mainly with people who joined the game series only on 3 and then on. Anyone who played first 2 games would remember that in the first one the reason you as vault dweller went out on a quest was that the control chip on the water purifier was malfunctioning so the vault (13) needed a replacement or would run out of water. And at a point you could find and arrange send them a caravan loaded with water thus gaining couple extra months time to solve the problem. (Chips are comprised of "printed" micro circuits on a very small scale that are forming thousands of semiconductors/ transistors). And in second game as a descendant of the original vault dweller (who after his surface experiences and social exposition changed him and was not allowed enter back in the vault so he had founded a village in surface) you are send to find a suitcase that has inside a laptop with Congress library plus instructions on genetical alteration of plants as well seed samples called the holy GECK (Garden of Eden Creation Kit). Because your crops are failing and GECK allows adapting seeds to present environment. The laptop i mentioned as well your average pip boy would be impossible to make without transistors.
I love that you can make guesses about the character builds of the main characters. Maximus clearly used intelligence as a dump stat to boost his luck. Lucy is definitely a skill-heavy build. The Ghoul is the standard ranged combat build with high dexterity, perception, luck, and small arms skill.
I get why you'd think that, but I think Maximus would have to have higher intelligence. For one, given that his ONLY source of knowledge comes from BoS teachings, he seems very knowledgable in that regard. And two, he can repair Power Armor and has a lot of knowledge about it, seemingly more than the other recruits shown as he identified the T-60 model.
Seeing Lupa so excited and giddy just made me so freaking happy! This is one of the first times I've ever been ahead of you guys and watchef a show. I'm so excited!
It’s so satisfying seeing a good adaptation of a series you love. I was cautiously optimistic since I saw the first trailer and the show surpassed my expectations.
Since you guys are gamers, let me try and explain the first two Fallout games. Back in the late 90s, everyone was saying that computer RPGs was a dead genre. Developers just stopped making them for a while. So when Fallout 1 came out, RPG fans were starving for content of any kind. What we got was a completely standard RPG full of all the things CRPG fans love (right down to the isometric graphics, which were already dated by then). Game-wise, what was new was the sandbox-style game world, your decisions affected the world and how different factions treated you, and the setting. Back then, RPGs were *always* fantasy D&D knock-offs. The setting blew everyone's minds so much that a lot of us overlooked the sandbox stuff and faction stuff that is now pretty standard in computer games. What really made the setting pop was the writing and art direction. As you can see from the show it is a wild collection of stylistic influences, from a retro-future vision of the future from the 60s and 50s, the 40s/50s music, the absurdism, and and the dark, dark humor. As you'll see from the TV series (which gets the tone absolutely right), the humor is as black as the withered soul of a Texas Republican. One of the big positives of the Fallout series is that something about the setting and backstory makes it so that even bad writers can cook up some really interesting commentary on the modern world in the subtext. The Enclave gets a brief mention in this episode. They are basically the remnants of the American government. While the subtext around the Enclave shifts from game to game, most of the time, they are villainous representations of the bad imperialist/colonialist elements of the American government. The Brotherhood of Steel started out as a group dedicated to the preservation of pre-war (meaning pre-apocalypse) technology. They came to venerate pre-war technology as holy relics and it became a kind of demented religion. Inevitably, they leveraged their tech advantage into a military advantage. Their religion is kind of nutty. The Vaults were created by Vault-Tek, a pure evil corporation. These are full of the descendants of wealthy people who could afford to buy their way in. Everyone outside the Vaults are the less-well-off people who were left to suffer the full consequences of the nuclear holocaust in the face. Because Vault-Tek is pure evil, many Vaults were unwitting participants in truly insane social experiments. Vault 33 looks like one of the lucky ones that were used as a control for the other experiments. Ghouls are humans who were warped by radiation and other nastiness in the nuclear wasteland. They tend to live very long lives, but are also prone to going "feral," after which they become like zombies. Mutants are mentioned in the show, but not on-screen. They would be expensive to implement in live action because they would have to be CGI. Before the war, the military used the FEV (Forced Evolutionary Virus) to try and turn humans into the perfect soldiers. It didn't go right. They are big, green, have a lot of muscles, and aren't very smart (they were supposed to receive orders, not give them), but they are also pretty nuts and can only reproduce by using FEV to turn more humans into mutants. Because of the nuclear war, they escaped the lab they were created in. Rad-roaches are in the show. They will get explained in the show, so no need for me to say anything. Rad-scorpions are like rad-roaches, but are modified/mutated scorpions and much larger. I don't honestly know if deathclaws are in the show, but they are kind of a big deal in the game, so I assume they will show up later. They are genetic abominations created by the pre-war military with the intent of using them as soldiers for close-quarters fighting. They can take a lot of damage (it takes multiple shots to bring them down), and have a devastating melee attack. They tend to form packs (which is what makes them even more dangerous), and a small number of them are intelligent. Like the mutants, they escaped the lab they were created in because of the war, and they turned out to be very well-adapted for the post-apocalypse world.
1996 a year before fallout we had Elder Scrolls 2 and Diablo. In 1997 we got Ultima Online, Final Fantasy 7 as well as fallout. You need to remember there just weren't many games on pc released in the late 90's period let alone specific genres. PC gaming in the late 90's had like 10 releases a year. So its a bit of a misnomer to go Computer RPG's was a dead genre. When there wasn't any games releasing on pc to begin with.
24:26 no that was not anti gravity, that was a man jumping in power armour 😂 and the logic of his squire carrying the bag is thats the squires job, hes a follower so he carries the players loot
10:11 The vault jumpsuits are radiation resistant, so even if they check on them when they enter, the detector wouldn't spike. Wasn't until Lucy check on the guy without the jumpsuit that she was able to get a correct reading.
@@SuperCaspermanthat suit is irreplaceable in my equipment when i was playing until i got and wore Kellogg's "armor" (because his clothes are pretty cool). they did good reference if they had thought of that.
He's never seen the show before so there's nothing he can spoil. This show is not following a games story. And he didn't play it that much since he didn't know what a ghoul was lol
The shelter that the family went into was not a Vault-Tec vault, it was a normal shelter, possibly for tornados or something. You'll learn all about the vaults so I won't say anything on what those are all about.
I am hyped that you guys picked up this series, I love yalls reaction and yalls synergy, and being entertaining while being entertained. Looking forward to watching your journey for these next 8 episodes!
Walton Goggins is in Righteous Gemstones with Danny McBride as Uncle Baby Billy. He is great in that as well. It's on HBO and they renewed it for another season.
The vaults were built before the bombs dropped and were an insurance policy to preserve civilization. Theres more to it then that but youll find that out as you watch. The shelter at the beginning was just a standard fallout shelter not a vault.
The shot of Cooper running to the horse with Janey and you see the mushroom cloud and the skyscrapers crumbling is one of the most horrifying shots I’ve ever seen in any movie or television show.
I love the raider fight scene with Lucy. It's amazing how people assume a strong dude (that's a killer also) wouldnt be an issue for a smaller woman. If Lucy had a gun to start though.. (she did what she had to and took advantage of his stupidity)
Ghouls are people who’ve been heavily irradiated and their skin basically falls off. They have elongated life spans too so some ghouls have been around since before the war.
haha it is true about that square thing. A lot of the people in the vaults are trained in different things, but they are fighting people who basically born into fighting and fight non stop vs those that fight as like a sport in their offtime. They definitely lack real battle experience but not all of them are just completely helpless.
28:55 Vault-Tec had build the valuts way before the bombs dropped. The 200 years skip is the necessary time to the radiation levels to be halved, and things starts to live again...
The words you're looking to describe Fallout style are both atompunk and dieselpunk. I think it's a unique aesthetic that we literally don't see in other games. I love the games since I was in middle school million years ago and love it still 😂
I binged watched this show. Im glad you guys are reacting to this. Fallout 3 was my absolute fav. It's def nostalgic and makes me want to play 3, new vegas and 4
Ghouls can live for a very very long time, they turned from the radiation and don't need to eat or sleep. There's also feral ghouls who are pretty much like zombies There's even ghouls from before the bombs that are still alive
the minute i saw monty, me and my friend was watching and i go "who is this billy loomis lookin ass, he's a serial killer dude, just look at that hair!" lmao
Lupa, when you said you played a little of 3 and 4, i didn't think that meant you didn't make it to the first town in 3 where you literally see one of these ghoul dudes for the first time lol. Roshi can definitely play 4 cuz the rpg mechanics are basically nonexistent except for level up options and weapon crafting
Fallout takes place in an alternate or parallel world where history went in a different direction after World War II. Some tech had major advances while other areas did not. The opening scene when the bombs dropped took place on October 23rd 2077. Some people when irradiated became ghouls, who are effectively immortal.
So happy Walton Goggins is finally getting his flowers and lead roles after all these years as being the best goddamn side character in every movie and show he touches. It's about time somebody gave this man the spotlight. Justified, The Hateful 8, The Shield, The Righteous Gemstones, Vice Principals, the man don't miss.
Seen it come up a couple of times, so here's a helpful little Fallout timeline! *Bombs drop - 2077 * Fallout 76 - 2102 * Fallout 1 - 2161 * Fallout Tactics - 2197 * Fallout 2 - 2241 * Fallout 3 - 2277 * Fallout: New Vegas - 2281 * Fallout 4 - 2287 * Fallout TV show - 2296
Oh Sick. Thanks for reacting to another great show. We have been spoilt recently for series with Shogun, Fallout, Beef and Bear. Walton Goggins is one of my fav TV actors, ever since The Shield and then SOA bruh the difference between those two characters, wild.
Incredible first episode!
I binged this show it was great
YESSIR 😁💥
With her dad, the OG Paul Atreites 👍
The fallout timeline is actually in the future around 2077 or something, it's just that at the time everyone had adopted the old time aesthetic
Great show!
For a bit of context, the games are a satire/dark comedy, and they aren’t in the past, it’s an alternate timeline where the microprocessor was never invented, or remained in it’s early infancy (transistors and vacuum tubes remained the main processing tech) , so all tech is bigger and chunkier, atomic power became the norm, and the aesthetics of the 50’s/60’s continued to be the main style.
Iirc one of the destinctive splits was Vacuum Tube Technology advancing farther than it did for us, that coupled with the "Atomic Age" stuff gave rise to that "clunkier" and more stylized look everything has (and kept said look as it's shown by 2077 the "50's future vision aesthetic" still rung strong and true).
Excellent breakdown 👍
Yeah, they basically used those "world of tomorrow" films from the 50s to build the aesthic.
"the microprocessor was never invented"
They were invented, but transistors were regulated, rather than breeder reactors.
Ive actually never known this and Ive played the games or 10 years now!
I loved how Lucy's introduction basically involved her telling us which fallout game skills she specialized in.
They really put their minds to making this show near perfect. U can see the way they set everything up. What's best is that this show is canon to the story/games and takes 10yrs after fallout 4 what I've heard 🤔🔥💯
@@magician_aleks2726sure it isn’t 10 years before? Because the prydwin being around means either it was rebuilt or never destroyed in the first place and I’m not sure i like either of those things
@@commandercorgiisn’t that NOT the prydwin from what I’ve seen in other comments
@@commandercorgi there are multiple prydwins. there's multiple different locations that the BOS occupies. also, there's no canon ending in fallout 4. btw, fallout 4 takes place 210 years after the bombs dropped. you get that info in the beginning from codsworth. the show is 219 years after.
@@commandercorgi i think prydwen is a class of ship rather the name of one ship
It's retrofuturism. What people in the 50s-60s imagined the future to look like.
Same thing with the first Alien movie as well!
Its atompunk
@@Gadget-Walkmen Alien and Aliens actually fits in with a similar genre called "Cassette Futurism" whereas Fallout is "Atom Punk", love both to bits thought, awesome all around
@@UNSCPILOT Yeah I know, The Alien franchise more in line with late 70s and 80s technology and their vision of what futuristic tech would look like based on the fact that those movies were made in those years.
@@Gadget-Walkmen Yep. Cassette-futurism is what I like to call the Alien film's aesthetic.
The woman playing Lucy is Ella Purnell, she was the voice actress for Jynx in Arcane. Apparently, she just makes any video game adaptation she touches turn to gold. They absolutely nailed this series.
She's one of the best, alright.
She'd be perfect for Chel from Portal as well.
@@ShasOFish and elizabeth from bioshock infinite
Her agent must be a huge gamer 😂
Fun fact: the female vault dweller played by ella purnell is the VA for Jinx from arcane. The ghoul played by walton goggins is the VA of Cecil from invincible.
Lastly the overseer, the father of the vault dweller, was the OG actor of Paul Atreides from the 1984 Dune movie
Don't forget Betty is in deadpool as blind Al
@@JellisX891 I thought she looked familiar, that's why
That's freaking awesome
I KNEW THAT GHOUL MF SOUNDED FAMILIAR
ohh i havent watched it yet, knowing it has Ella Purnell has me so hype lmaoo thx for this
The brother absolutly has the highest perception and intelligence skill out of everyone else there, but he sacrificed his strength and charisma to do it haha
Id say hes a 7 str 10 end. Feller got jumped multiple times in the series and got some good licks in on his attackers especially when his power armor was damaged by the ghoul feller and had to improvise
Also 1 charisma and low int
@@inputcontrolled490 You meaning Norman or Maximus?
@@inputcontrolled490original comment is talking about Norm, not Maximus.
@@Doc-Blitzkrieg yeah I meant maximus I read brother and thought brotherhood of steel
NOT A SPOILER...the shelter that the family hoped in when the bombs went off when the white guy punched the black guy. It was not a Vault..... It was just a fallout shelter. So basically a deep basement.
Also probably not racism, probably just a "my family only" situation.
Soooo....did they have a slight possibility of surviving?
@@phoenixwrong1150 the initial blasts and fallout sure….Afterwards probably not. It’s been predicted that 90% of the population would die, not due to the bombs or radiation but to starvation. No electricity nationwide means you can’t pump fuel means you can’t deliver food. Unless you have a farm it’s gonna be rough times.
The real world 1950s saw regular people buying fallout shelters due to the Cuban Missile Crisis among other anxieties about nuclear war. They have since come back into fashion as billionaires build their own vaults on Hawaii (Zuckerberg) and New Zealand (Peter Thiel) to ensure their survival and insulating them from the troubles of The Poors.
@@ryanhampson673 Fallout shelters can withstand what we saw as long as the missile did not hit point blank to 30 miles then they could survive.
Honestly, that raider in the beginning really did have the best day. He got to eat great food, have clean water to drink and got to fuck the main girl while being a throw away character.
Most successful raider Mook out there.
FR if he had realized after his fuckin awesome day that he had it pretty good and just said "yeah I'm from the surface, still your husband though, don't go out there, stay here with me I'll protect you babe" he coulda kept the good life
yeah not the worst way to go
Great reaction ❤😊
Given the reality of the wasteland that's probably the best day anyone can ask for.
When misunderstanding information in the episode causes you to accidently make an accurate guess lol.
It's like getting the right answer to a math equation even if you completely messed up the process.
@@peggedyourdad9560 fair comparison :)
The Sheeragan is insane
@@Kronos74 which guess do you mean ?
25:49
Ghouls can live for a very long time, if not forever. Assuming that they haven't gone feral or are killed by other means. It's just that they can no longer age due to the radiation.
I'm pretty sure Hancock or somebody said they all go feral eventually. Although some do seem to have... Aged better than others like a certain Representative
The reply is right, canonically all ghouls go feral eventually so the “extended lifespan” is nowhere near permanent and comes with a heavy toll.
@@FemboiMars the show might have canonized that Ghouls can stave off becoming feral with that special chem he was taking, which is probably Ghoul blood or something
@@maddoxioyeah for some reason people call that a retcon as if scientists can’t find out new shit everyday, especially in the fallout universe lmao
@@Yuh_zhimmy oh yeah for sure. It's believable that they'd probably find a "cure" to feral ghouls. Hell, they have FEV cures so
No clue if it's intentional or how it works in the games, but the squires carrying all the stuff for the knights sent me. It reminds me of making your companion carry all your stuff in video games so you have more inventory space
Its 100% intentional and was extremely hilarious
@@BrandonDenny-we1rwI mean yes but that’s also what squires did for real knights too, they would carry their weapons and armor, if the knight wasn’t actively using it and they would also help put their armor on the knights
💯😂
squires are basically knight bitch boys
It reminded me of Kevin Hart carrying a big ass bag in jumanji
*"Flash, bam, alakazam"*
*Just like that, human civilization was literal toast*
Real
Cooked extra-crunchy by a Vault-Tec toaster.
Out of an orange colored purple sky
Can we show some love to Roshi for being the first reaction channel to realize that “speed of sound” exists during the opening scene!
Right?!?! No body realizes this
No? You don't get a pat on the head for pointing out the obvious.
it's funny because other people never even saw the Flash at the start
@@transientanuspeople have grown up with movies and videogames and space explosions
Most people would have to think it for a second before realizing that the explosion would be silent until the sound had time to reach you
Almost every reactor pointed out the shock wave 😭
Its base in a alternate future with 50's style era. But the nukes goes off in the year 2077
yeah and no one is racist in the show. they hate each other for political views. thats why that dude called goggins a "pinko" which means someone who is not quite a red (commie) but a commie sympathizers/tolerator. Any US citizen should really know this, it was really important to our post ww2 attitude and how McCarthyism influenced US politics.
That's the only thing I really had issue with, and even then it was mild. They should have made it a tad more obvious that the opening was in 2077, a brief shot of a calendar in the background could have worked. But again, very minor quibble
2077 is gonna be the year. We're either getting nuclear fallout or cyberpunk corporations. Hell, maybe both.
"Wake up, samurai. We have a world to nuke."
-Johnny Silverhand, 2077
@@nullakjg767 How can you say racism doesn't exist in Fallout? Definitely not as in black v white v asian v etc, but as in humans v muties v ghouls
"I have never played a single Fallout game in my life"
Oh, excellent. Blank canvas.
Same here, but I have been exposed to a lot of the fallout game lore.
The actor that got kicked into the coffin from the ghoul portion of the episode is Bubba from forest gump.
And he's in there because Walton Goggins worked with him on Justified, another TV show that is fire because of his performance (and all the other performances).
So Ghouls are mutated humans who've survived an ungodly amount of radiation and survived, and as a result they can stay alive for centuries. They're one of my favourite parts of the Fallout universe!
Same, maybe someday well get to play as one...
They could even maintain the Rads System simply changing it from "too many Rads kills" to "too many Rads turns you Feral"!
@@-libertyprimev1-902u know that could be a set-up for a fallout version of a "marceline & simon" type story
@@DIGITALGH05T who?
"Allegedly" mutated from radiations, it is not sure. If so, they will be the only "creatures" heavily mutated by only radiation in the entire game.
@@-libertyprimev1-902radiation heals ghouls.
Vault-tek existed pre war and created 120 something vaults. The family going in a underground shelter at the start of the episode was not a vault-tek one. Just a regular personal one and they a 100% died.
For sure
i thought you guys weren't gonna be reacting to this.. THIS IS SO FREAKING EPIC!
In every video, literally every single one, there’s a schedule graphic, a patreon current watch list.
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@X3MAntics that's what I thought. there are previous videos at the bottom schedule that say Its already on Patreon.
@@X3MAntics Bruh, I never realised and i've been watching Roshi since they started Korra wtf i gotta go to the eye doctor or something💀
Oh my gosh freaking epic sauce! You win the internet!!! Please fuck my wife!!! Reddit on!!!!
They still need to react to scott pilgrim takes off
the nukes go off in 2077, it seems futuristic and retro because they kinda based it on what people in the 50s-60s thought the future tech would be like essentially
The catch-all term for it is "Atom Punk" and its absolutely one of my favorite styles ever since I first found Fallout 3
"Cuba Gooding Majors!" 😂
So spot on
You mean “Denzel Gooding Majors” 😂
Walton Goggins is a scene stealer in this series - I hope you guys love it!
16:42 i lost it when lupa said " next time baby " referencing terrence Howard's war machine 😂😂😂
That went over my head😳
That first mushroom cloud just sends chills doesn't it. Can't wait for y'all to see the rest
holy shit I cant wait for their reaction for episode 8, fucking floored me
idk how nobody else noticed that big as fuck flash of light long before the pressure wave hit
@@Dell-ol6hbthey are taking flash pictures inside the house
It doesn't make sense because a nuke flash can make you blind but also those people inside should be shredded by the glass flying at them at such speeds
The reason why the raiders' radiation wasn't detected immediately because they're wearing valt suits which has some resistance to radiation
Walton Goggins literally always delivers, he's HIM
The Fallout world is actually set in the future, but is based on the 1950s aesthetic and mentality. Some things that may help you understand the universe and style of the show.
1) Nuclear power became common place. They use it to power everything from their homes to their cars.
2) The transistor wasn't created until much later and never really caught on. Which is why vacuum tubes are in everything and things look more clunky. Microelectronics were basically never a thing.
3) Fallout tech burns oil at about three times the rate our world experiences. This is what led to resources being so scarce and the world tensions.
4) Radiation is somewhat magical instead of instant death. Can still kill you, but sometimes it doesn't or not right away.
5) Some of their tech (especially medical) is way advanced compared to where we are (hence the stimpack Lucy uses when she's stabbed. It's a drug that causes the body to accelerate the healing process to be almost instant). Other tech is way behind. They also LOVE enhancement drugs. Steroids and ability enhancers were basically sold like gum is here. Ironically, with the last decade of overmedication in America I really feel like we're getting close to matching Fallout, it's just not as cool.
6) It crosses the line constantly between 'light' and 'dark'. One moment you'll be laughing at the sheer ridiculousness of a situation and 10 minutes later you'll come across some of the most depraved acts humanity is capable of.
With all that in mind, and as a long time fan of the IP, I feel like the show captured the essence and spirit of this wacky place perfectly. Excited to see where they go next.
This episode got me heated because buddy drowned that guy in the pickle barrel for no reason. I would be pressed if someone did that in an apocalypse situation 😅
I was like “not in the damn pickles” 😂😂😂
If you didnt like pickles you might see it as a win
your forgetting this was in a vault tech vault. after 200 years they still have nuka cola to stock in the nuka machines. its fair to assume they have pretty much endless supplies
Ey, now we have pickled human.
Just binged this yesterday and thought “Roshi needs to get on this masterpiece.”
You guys are in for a RIDE. 😭🙏
Hell yeah.
Also. A key component of this timeline is that the transistor hadn't been invented by the time of the war. Everything was still vacuum tube tech. They also went all in on nuclear power.
I am so sick reading this misleading info on reaction comments. It is a vast misconception that it wasn't invented, it just was not that widespread and kinda rare. And before you ask for proof, the whole misunderstanding happens mainly with people who joined the game series only on 3 and then on. Anyone who played first 2 games would remember that in the first one the reason you as vault dweller went out on a quest was that the control chip on the water purifier was malfunctioning so the vault (13) needed a replacement or would run out of water. And at a point you could find and arrange send them a caravan loaded with water thus gaining couple extra months time to solve the problem. (Chips are comprised of "printed" micro circuits on a very small scale that are forming thousands of semiconductors/ transistors). And in second game as a descendant of the original vault dweller (who after his surface experiences and social exposition changed him and was not allowed enter back in the vault so he had founded a village in surface) you are send to find a suitcase that has inside a laptop with Congress library plus instructions on genetical alteration of plants as well seed samples called the holy GECK (Garden of Eden Creation Kit). Because your crops are failing and GECK allows adapting seeds to present environment. The laptop i mentioned as well your average pip boy would be impossible to make without transistors.
I love that you can make guesses about the character builds of the main characters.
Maximus clearly used intelligence as a dump stat to boost his luck.
Lucy is definitely a skill-heavy build.
The Ghoul is the standard ranged combat build with high dexterity, perception, luck, and small arms skill.
Ghoul also loves using VATS and has the Bloody Mess perk
Maximus has a 1 in everything and a 10 in luck, he sucks at literally everything
@@Dell-ol6hb nah, he's got plenty of strength and endurance too.
I get why you'd think that, but I think Maximus would have to have higher intelligence. For one, given that his ONLY source of knowledge comes from BoS teachings, he seems very knowledgable in that regard. And two, he can repair Power Armor and has a lot of knowledge about it, seemingly more than the other recruits shown as he identified the T-60 model.
@@Soullesshero You can have high repair and low intelligence just like you can have low charisma and high speech
Seeing Lupa so excited and giddy just made me so freaking happy!
This is one of the first times I've ever been ahead of you guys and watchef a show. I'm so excited!
I finished watching the series yesterday and the cast absolutely crushed it with their roles.
It’s so satisfying seeing a good adaptation of a series you love. I was cautiously optimistic since I saw the first trailer and the show surpassed my expectations.
I'm so glad everyone is loving this show. As a fan of the fallout games and lore it's so satisfying to see more people getting into this.
I love how not everyone catches that “activity” happening in the barracks but when people do they are like wtf!!?!?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Walter goggins was in Django too. he is absolutely legendary as the ghoul here and steals the spotlight for sure.
He got so little screentime and he still managed to be my favorite. Of course the pre apocalypse characters are always my favorite.
The year is 2077, fallout is set in a 1950s theme because technology didn't advance is it would of, things are mostly ran by nuclear power
The bombs fell in 2077 and then about 200 years pass, but yes.
culture didnt advance.
"cuba gooding majors" lmao
Probably my favorite reactors on youtube, yall are real ones for reacting to fallout. Big up Jamaica 🇯🇲 👊🏾
Big up yuh self Evan👊🏽
"I'm not gonna judge." moment later "Cousin F'er"
Since you guys are gamers, let me try and explain the first two Fallout games.
Back in the late 90s, everyone was saying that computer RPGs was a dead genre. Developers just stopped making them for a while. So when Fallout 1 came out, RPG fans were starving for content of any kind. What we got was a completely standard RPG full of all the things CRPG fans love (right down to the isometric graphics, which were already dated by then).
Game-wise, what was new was the sandbox-style game world, your decisions affected the world and how different factions treated you, and the setting. Back then, RPGs were *always* fantasy D&D knock-offs. The setting blew everyone's minds so much that a lot of us overlooked the sandbox stuff and faction stuff that is now pretty standard in computer games.
What really made the setting pop was the writing and art direction. As you can see from the show it is a wild collection of stylistic influences, from a retro-future vision of the future from the 60s and 50s, the 40s/50s music, the absurdism, and and the dark, dark humor. As you'll see from the TV series (which gets the tone absolutely right), the humor is as black as the withered soul of a Texas Republican.
One of the big positives of the Fallout series is that something about the setting and backstory makes it so that even bad writers can cook up some really interesting commentary on the modern world in the subtext.
The Enclave gets a brief mention in this episode. They are basically the remnants of the American government. While the subtext around the Enclave shifts from game to game, most of the time, they are villainous representations of the bad imperialist/colonialist elements of the American government.
The Brotherhood of Steel started out as a group dedicated to the preservation of pre-war (meaning pre-apocalypse) technology. They came to venerate pre-war technology as holy relics and it became a kind of demented religion. Inevitably, they leveraged their tech advantage into a military advantage. Their religion is kind of nutty.
The Vaults were created by Vault-Tek, a pure evil corporation. These are full of the descendants of wealthy people who could afford to buy their way in. Everyone outside the Vaults are the less-well-off people who were left to suffer the full consequences of the nuclear holocaust in the face. Because Vault-Tek is pure evil, many Vaults were unwitting participants in truly insane social experiments. Vault 33 looks like one of the lucky ones that were used as a control for the other experiments.
Ghouls are humans who were warped by radiation and other nastiness in the nuclear wasteland. They tend to live very long lives, but are also prone to going "feral," after which they become like zombies.
Mutants are mentioned in the show, but not on-screen. They would be expensive to implement in live action because they would have to be CGI. Before the war, the military used the FEV (Forced Evolutionary Virus) to try and turn humans into the perfect soldiers. It didn't go right. They are big, green, have a lot of muscles, and aren't very smart (they were supposed to receive orders, not give them), but they are also pretty nuts and can only reproduce by using FEV to turn more humans into mutants. Because of the nuclear war, they escaped the lab they were created in.
Rad-roaches are in the show. They will get explained in the show, so no need for me to say anything.
Rad-scorpions are like rad-roaches, but are modified/mutated scorpions and much larger.
I don't honestly know if deathclaws are in the show, but they are kind of a big deal in the game, so I assume they will show up later. They are genetic abominations created by the pre-war military with the intent of using them as soldiers for close-quarters fighting. They can take a lot of damage (it takes multiple shots to bring them down), and have a devastating melee attack. They tend to form packs (which is what makes them even more dangerous), and a small number of them are intelligent. Like the mutants, they escaped the lab they were created in because of the war, and they turned out to be very well-adapted for the post-apocalypse world.
Thank you for explaining all this! What a great summary! I never played any Fallout game but really love the show. A lot of stuff makes sense now.
1996 a year before fallout we had Elder Scrolls 2 and Diablo. In 1997 we got Ultima Online, Final Fantasy 7 as well as fallout. You need to remember there just weren't many games on pc released in the late 90's period let alone specific genres. PC gaming in the late 90's had like 10 releases a year. So its a bit of a misnomer to go Computer RPG's was a dead genre. When there wasn't any games releasing on pc to begin with.
With how roided up are bodybuilders are today you would not need CGI for supermuntants lol.
to answer roshi question, yest vault-tech vaults (the ones numbered) existed BEFORE the bombs dropped
He'll see as he continues to watch
oh my god I have been WAITING for yall to start posting Fallout. Can't wait to see yall really start to get into it!
24:26 no that was not anti gravity, that was a man jumping in power armour 😂 and the logic of his squire carrying the bag is thats the squires job, hes a follower so he carries the players loot
"You're not Nat King Cole!" PUNCH lmao got me with that one
10:11 The vault jumpsuits are radiation resistant, so even if they check on them when they enter, the detector wouldn't spike. Wasn't until Lucy check on the guy without the jumpsuit that she was able to get a correct reading.
Lol you actually believe that 😭😭☠️
@@SuperCaspermanit’s legit, in fallout 4 the vault suits give you a +10 in radiation resistance
I didn't even catch that, clever! The show makers had really really good attention to detail for the Fallout Universe
@@SuperCaspermanthat suit is irreplaceable in my equipment when i was playing until i got and wore Kellogg's "armor" (because his clothes are pretty cool). they did good reference if they had thought of that.
i never played the games, but this show made me want to play them
Lets goooo!! This show was really good and the games are a must play.
Lupa so happy look at him smiling and trying not to spoil
He's never seen the show before so there's nothing he can spoil. This show is not following a games story. And he didn't play it that much since he didn't know what a ghoul was lol
Spoil what 😐.. the context is provided in the show.. playing the games doesn't mean much ...
Yall got mad when I said spoil huh
is making a correction, "anger"?@@rubi6330
@@rubi6330 no one is mad, just saying how it’s not possible my dude
Been waiting for this one, thank you very much yall.
The shelter that the family went into was not a Vault-Tec vault, it was a normal shelter, possibly for tornados or something. You'll learn all about the vaults so I won't say anything on what those are all about.
I am hyped that you guys picked up this series, I love yalls reaction and yalls synergy, and being entertaining while being entertained. Looking forward to watching your journey for these next 8 episodes!
Walton Goggins is in Righteous Gemstones with Danny McBride as Uncle Baby Billy. He is great in that as well. It's on HBO and they renewed it for another season.
Your intro alone sold me on your show, look forward to more reactions! 🥰
The vaults were built before the bombs dropped and were an insurance policy to preserve civilization. Theres more to it then that but youll find that out as you watch.
The shelter at the beginning was just a standard fallout shelter not a vault.
The shot of Cooper running to the horse with Janey and you see the mushroom cloud and the skyscrapers crumbling is one of the most horrifying shots I’ve ever seen in any movie or television show.
I love the raider fight scene with Lucy. It's amazing how people assume a strong dude (that's a killer also) wouldnt be an issue for a smaller woman. If Lucy had a gun to start though.. (she did what she had to and took advantage of his stupidity)
Man I am so excited ya'll are watching this and the fact not everyone is familiar with the universe makes it even better.
That curtain thing is actually something that happens in hotels.
Just get some toilet tissue or a napkin dawg 😭
@@sanicboi9187 I don't do it! Jeez I have respect. It's way more practical and less time consuming to just use the pillowcases.
Ghouls are people who’ve been heavily irradiated and their skin basically falls off. They have elongated life spans too so some ghouls have been around since before the war.
As someone who plays fallout, this show is a modern masterpiece.
Yo, I have to say that intro is lit! I was just scrolling through and had to click the vid just to tell you how great it is. Kudos!
15:24 “Cuba Gooding Majors.” Ayo! 😂😂😂
haha it is true about that square thing. A lot of the people in the vaults are trained in different things, but they are fighting people who basically born into fighting and fight non stop vs those that fight as like a sport in their offtime. They definitely lack real battle experience but not all of them are just completely helpless.
We gottta have a Fallout 3/NV/4 let's play after the show
Binged the whole 8 yesterday lol great series. Looking forward to season 2
Youll find out about the origins of the vaults in later episodes
Also for those who dont know this NEVER EVER PULL OUT THE SHARP OBJECTS WHEN YOU GET STABED unless in the possession of a miracle drug
Roshi might not be interested in playing the games, but he might like watching some of the lore videos, it's an interesting IP
28:55 Vault-Tec had build the valuts way before the bombs dropped. The 200 years skip is the necessary time to the radiation levels to be halved, and things starts to live again...
Y'ALL HAD ME WAITING
Damn can’t wait for this series. AoT and Code Geass review was amazing
Welcome to the community, Roshi gang. There’s a vault in need of your help. It’s marked on your map.😎👍
The words you're looking to describe Fallout style are both atompunk and dieselpunk. I think it's a unique aesthetic that we literally don't see in other games. I love the games since I was in middle school million years ago and love it still 😂
YOOOO been patiently waiting for thissss
Sheera look like she's runnin on no sleep! Get some rest girl! lol
I was about to Fall out of my seat when I saw the notification for this one
I see what you did there lol
I binged watched this show. Im glad you guys are reacting to this. Fallout 3 was my absolute fav. It's def nostalgic and makes me want to play 3, new vegas and 4
About time you guys reacted to Fallout. The show is amazing and rivals the last of us
juss wanna say been watching yall for years now and luv yall reactions
Ghouls can live for a very very long time, they turned from the radiation and don't need to eat or sleep. There's also feral ghouls who are pretty much like zombies
There's even ghouls from before the bombs that are still alive
the minute i saw monty, me and my friend was watching and i go "who is this billy loomis lookin ass, he's a serial killer dude, just look at that hair!" lmao
Lupa, when you said you played a little of 3 and 4, i didn't think that meant you didn't make it to the first town in 3 where you literally see one of these ghoul dudes for the first time lol. Roshi can definitely play 4 cuz the rpg mechanics are basically nonexistent except for level up options and weapon crafting
Fallout takes place in an alternate or parallel world where history went in a different direction after World War II. Some tech had major advances while other areas did not. The opening scene when the bombs dropped took place on October 23rd 2077. Some people when irradiated became ghouls, who are effectively immortal.
So happy Walton Goggins is finally getting his flowers and lead roles after all these years as being the best goddamn side character in every movie and show he touches. It's about time somebody gave this man the spotlight. Justified, The Hateful 8, The Shield, The Righteous Gemstones, Vice Principals, the man don't miss.
Really excited to see your 3 Body Problem reaction, so I hope it comes to youtube.
Seen it come up a couple of times, so here's a helpful little Fallout timeline!
*Bombs drop - 2077
* Fallout 76 - 2102
* Fallout 1 - 2161
* Fallout Tactics - 2197
* Fallout 2 - 2241
* Fallout 3 - 2277
* Fallout: New Vegas - 2281
* Fallout 4 - 2287
* Fallout TV show - 2296
Nice I’m glad I get to watch this with you guys
WWWW FALLOUTTT
24:46 That was a doll's foot fired from a Junk Jet, this weapons uses actual junk as ammunition.
Oh Sick. Thanks for reacting to another great show. We have been spoilt recently for series with Shogun, Fallout, Beef and Bear.
Walton Goggins is one of my fav TV actors, ever since The Shield and then SOA bruh the difference between those two characters, wild.
8:56 “yeah, IM A BREEDER” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Walton Goggins is also voice actor for Cecil Stedman in Invincible.
Lmaooo i love yall man, when i saw the dude wipe his fluids on the curtains i was listerally like "gawd damn animal" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hell yes! Been looking forward to this reaction. Such a fun series!
YESSS i didn’t think you guys would react to this 😊 can’t wait to see how much you guys enjoy this show
I wonder if the tone of fallout is weird for people who havent played the games, its very unserious but serious at the same time
Overseer Al Ghaib said "Death by Pickle!"
Maximus is basically The Mandalorian: Bezos Edition.