Its an alternate timeline of earth, its technically the future, the bombs dropped in 2077 and the show takes place in 2296. In Fallout's timeline the microchip was never invented so the computers stayed really basic as did any technology that uses microchips, so the cars, cameras, TVs were all really old school. The culture is also kinda stuck in the 1950s its kinda like what people in the 50s thought the future would look like. But there is also a lot of technology that is really advanced like weapons and medicine and nuclear stuff.
@@jesses5463 Well, I mean, he wasn't necessarily wrong even though he didn't know specifically why he was right. There probably wouldn't be a supply chain specific enough for film to even begin to get developed let alone for photographs provided in an easily way afforded way for mission specifics for random Paladins for the Brotherhood. They hoard technology but, I doubt they know how most of it works or even have the means to make any of it work properly.
They could, in their free time, go watch the intro portion of Fallout 4 to get a better idea on how and why the world evolved the way it did in this alternate timeline.
Remember when the cowboy's daughter asked him about if the bomb was going to drop, he said "Us cowpokes we take it as it comes" and then he repeats that as the last line of the episode...😀
I've wstched this episode with four separate friends and none of the noticed. I was shook. Either they pay no attention or have awful observation skill and memory.
I didnt catch the line immediately and i knew they were the same person going in lol. Different people are noticing different things as they watch. At that moment i was realizing Honchos actor was Bubba from Forrest Gump, which was the last role i saw him in.
More importantly, it's a lot harder for a horse to get stuck in traffic than a car. Rush hour of people leaving the city at the end of the week is bad enough. You know anyone who survived the blast is gonna be trying to get away from the city/fallout as fast as possible which means the roads are gonna be gridlocked.
I've played a few of the games. One of the most entertaining things about this show is how they managed to capture the look and feel of the games. It's really amazing. The attention to detail is far beyond what shows like this usually attempt.
After watching your reaction to Tropic Thunder I had to subscribe. I enjoyed that so much! Btw, Fallout is a game I used to watch my son play. This is the only game I ever got hooked on. I still play and I am an old lady.
Series essentials without spoiling anything, The year in the show is 2296 and takes place in the same timeline as the games but is the furthest story line in the time line of events of the Fallout universe. Lucy is a vault dweller. A bunch of vaults were constructed before the war to house those financially able enough to purchase a home within them for their family. She's the descendant of the survivors and as vaults go hers is a rather good one and she's an excellent byproduct of underground living as it was intended. Maximus is member of the Brotherhood of Steel. The Brotherhood is a surviving group of humans that were once a large military unit and their families from California that survived the war by taking shelter in a reinforced underground military bunker. They're a technology cult that hoard technology because they believe humanity will doom itself to oblivion if allowed to use technology in irresponsible ways that will domino effect to a nuclear war all over again. They once ruled the California wasteland but, fell on hard times after a series of conflicts with the human settlements that were already developing on the surface. They are being supported by that massive airship you see which came from their Eastern chapter on the East coast(the Eastern chapter is explained if you play the games Fallout 3 and 4). The Ghoul is...a survivor. Ghouls specifically are humans that survived the war by sheer luck. The radiation of the Fallout of the war didn't kill them but instead made them somewhat immortal but the trade off is explained in this show and if you play, well, practically any of the Fallout games. Also, don't worry about not knowing that much about the games, the franchise, or the lore. This is an original story set in the timeline of that world after all of the games so you're getting a unique look into the world of Fallout and it's told in a way that even non-fans can sort of understand what's going on. It's not going to Mandalorian season 2 you with a bunch of lore details and references you won't understand without context. It's pretty cut and dry...of course, for us in the know there's a lot of issues, debate, and questions but, that's for us to worry and nerd out over.
Sooo glad you guys ended up liking it so far!! The Fallout video game series is probably my favorite, and one of the best of all time, and the show is an incredible addition to the universe. I believe the show has done it the justice it deserves. Can't wait for you two to keep watching, looking forward to the next episode 💛💙💛💙
Whenever you see a tree in Fallout, I knew their daddy back when he was a beggar in The Hub (real life Barstow), back when I first played Fallout 1 in 1997. His name is Harold. He's probably still alive and watching over us through the leaves. He was once a caravan guard who got mutated. Then he was the mayor of a town called Gecko in Fallout 2. He traveled to Maryland in the Capital Wasteland and mutated into a tree and was worshiped as a god (which he kept trying to stop, but they wouldn't stop) in Fallout 3. His seeds and the pure water from Project Purity regrew the plants of the wasteland. He was a good man and the father of all the trees. That's how deep the lore in Fallout is.
Thanks for sharing that! Since I never played Fallout (but I love this series!) I'm learning about the game's universe from it's players while watching reaction videos. I enjoy it when people explain and expand on the back stories and Easter Eggs in the show. Hadn't heard this one yet. 😊
Hey, guys. Long time Fallout Fan here to clear it up. So, the opening scene is in 2077. Basically, Fallout timeline split from ours around the 60's because of a few factors, the biggest being huge advancements in nuclear tech but less advancement in things like transistors that allow for small computers and phones (That's also why the Pipboys on their wrists exist, they function like a smartphone for them). It also stayed culturally frozen innthe 50's, paranoid about communism and doing shady government shit. Around the 2060's, resources started getting so scarce that there were wars all over the globe, culminating in the Great War of 2077. Won't spoil exactly how that happened, but the nuclear war lasted half an hour and basically wiped out human society on the surface, American or otherwise as far as we know. So then, you have about 200 years of TONS of shit happening, but luckily you don't need to know much of that for the show. Short version: The Brotherhood of Steel started as the remnants of the US Army and have this techno-knight deal going. They believe it is their sacred mission to horde pre-war technology and science so it doesn't fall into the "wrong hands". They're not exactly "good guys", but they're usually at least nice enough to tell you to fuck off or fire a warning shot at you. In the wasteland, that's borderline polite. The Enclave is a tough one to explain, but basically they're the pre-war American shadow government in exile. They were the ones doing a lot of shady stuff pre-war, and after the bombs fell they went mask off fascist and started trying to exterminate the wasteland to "reconquer America". They're like a much more evil version of the Brotherhood. The guy at the end is alive because he's a very special type of mutant called a ghoul. A ghoul is a person that got irradiated in a rare way that leaves them with heightened resistance to radiation and generally more survival capable, but their tissue turns necrotic and dead and eventually they "go feral" and basically turn into zombies. Hope some of this helps, great watch y'all!
It would be better to describe the Brotherhood of Steel as having stemmed from rogue elements of the US Army remnants post Great War...... the Remnants of the US Army and Government are the Enclave.
Viewers don't need to know any of that to enjoy the show. In fact, lots of people would even consider this stuff spoilers. This is only the first season of a TV show so we have no idea how much of this stuff might be covered in future episodes.
@michaelhoward142 (A) They asked questions, I made commentary in the comments. It's pretty standard. (B) If it's a spoiler, maybe don't go to the comments in the first place? It's not my job to shield you or any other grown adult from reading something online (C) calling background lore spoilers is wild. This isn't some deep lore about Op Anchorage or Vault-Tec's skullduggery, its stuff you could find on a wiki post in 30 seconds(D) Considering the next season is at least a year or two out, it's safe to say this is all the story we're getting for a while, and therefore it's fair to discuss it on those merits. Christ, it's smooth brain whining fans like you that have nearly sucked all the joy from this setting.
@@theshamurai32 I don't give a F about spoilers for myself -- I've played the games multiple times starting with the very first one. I'm simply calling you out for posting spoilers in a place where spoilers are inappropriate. Do you not think this show might address more background lore in future episodes? But, hey, why should they bother when there are people like you who'll tell everyone all about it.
Lots of comments here that will short-circuit your brains with information you don't need to know to enjoy the show. If you're interested in learning the history and background of the game world, here it is. Otherwise, don't bother. Glad you're reacting to this and very happy you're already enjoying it.
There is vaults all over in the threat of nuclear war with china, and the thing on their arm is a pip boy it displays status effects and more in the game, there is factions what you’ll see soon
Alternate timeline that split in 1955. Instead of going for technological software advances, this timeline opted for hardware advances instead. Opening scene takes place in 2077
Trust your instincts. Your reactions and guesses are pretty spot on. Where episode 1 introduced you to the world and the characters, episode 2 will introduce the major ongoing story.
Now you are young, to those of us growing up during The Cold War that intro is what we feared would happen- every day. But we lived our lives. When I teach my The History of The Cold War classes, I always start by showing them a five minute video of nuclear explosions with eerie music, to make your generation understand what it all was- and what you will have to get used to again with Putoloni's sabre-rattling (though he is too much of a coward to do it). During the Cold War, the USSR was planning to open the war by dropping 600+ merely on my little Denmark. The game is set in an alternative timeline, where the transistor was never invented, so everything used vacuum-tubes like early computers. And thus the timeline starts diverging from ours in the year after WW2, and progress is generally much slower. But there is also no Cuban Missile Crisis, Long Island, etc, and no reckoning with its past, so the US carries on in a sort of Truman-Eisenhower Superamerica with nuclear powered cars, etc. But in the 21st century fossil fuels and other resources starts running out, and The Resource Wars starts; where Europe, Africa and The Middle East is torn apart, and China invades Alaska to get the last remaining oil resource on the planet. And in 2077... Boom. And oh yea, the US turns authoritarian semi-Fascist, a bit like Starship Troopers. Oh, and The Brotherhood of Steel is like Nazis, but against non-Humans. Anyway, think of the game and series as set in a sort of retro-futuristic post apocalypse, IE a future as imagined in the fifties, but then add a nuclear exchange of superpowers. In the games you find all those tragic and dark stories as you explore the Wasteland, the series show them, but both do a very good job of what good SciFi should; holding up a dark mirror to humanity- and with Fallout it is really dark.
In Fallout after dropping bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki the world focused on nuclear technology. It's one of the reasons why there is a 50s/60s and Sci-Fi feel to it. During the bombs dropping America was at War with China over resources. Other countries might be involved too.
The folks trying to run in their cars are wasting their time - their cars won't start. All electronics stopped working at the moment of detonation. Cowboy had a better chance on his horse.
Our modern cars, yes, because we've built more complex electronics into them, but mid-century cars are more likely to survive due to their simpler mechanics and engine than modern ones. Plus, an EMP is a side-effect of a nuke that travels in a wave and while it will fry delicate circuitry, especially if it's on, some tech actually still survives and plus can have EMP shielding. And, in the lore, Fallout cars actually use micro-fusion, giving them more longevity.
The birthday family was prepared because the nuclear war tensions had been going on for ten years. Even in reality, people in the 50s and 60s made bomb shelters because of the cold war. What they were experiencing in the Fallout timeline was much more intense. War had actually been going on for a while and resource shortages (oil, etc.) had made it worse. the USA had actually annexed Canada and Mexico for their resources and as mentioned in this episode, there had already been battles in Alaska with China, which involved the use of power armor. The radio broadcast that the woman turned off was talking about tensions heating up and the President's whereabouts was unknown (he had already moved to a secret bunker). Then the TV has the weatherman saying on-air that he couldn't do the weather when he didn't even know there was going to be a next week... all signs of just how tense things were getting. Also, about the bombings... even today in reality, some targets have multiple warheads assigned. A big city like NYC or Los Angeles will surely have several to do as much damage as possible. Some strategic places will also have several, even if they're small in area, just to make sure that at least one warhead gets through and with the idea that it may take multiple warheads to insure destruction. And in the Fallout world, it wasn't just Los Angeles that was bombed.... thousands of bombs rained down for two hours all across the country (some guesses are near 10,000 bombs dropped total around the world).
The nukes in fallout aren’t like the real ones we have. They cause mass destruction, and produce increased radiation. However the blast radius for them are very small. At least by nuke standards.
What you’re seeing in the first scene is the year 2077 of a 1950s retrofuture (which is to say a version of the future imagined by people of the past, in this case the nuclear-powered conspicuous consumption perpetual Cold War Americana utopia imagined by the people of the 1950s). If you were comparing the history books between the real world and Fallout’s timeline, everything would be familiar up until just after the end of World War 2. After that point you’re looking at a world without microprocessors, running on advanced vacuum tubes and transistors, cars running on nuclear fuel cells, food getting preserved to last for centuries via radiation sterilization, miracle drugs to treat injuries, domestic service robots, soldiers in power armor, the annexation of Canada during the Resource Wars, China becoming the dominant power in the Communist bloque all while America culturally stagnated and harkened back to the styles and music of the 1950s up until Asia and the US saturated each other with atomic bombs in 2077. Then the next scene jumps 219 years forward from THAT.
Fallout is different. A large part of Fallout is unnecessarily excessive violence and deeply dark humor. But in this universe you can tell damn good stories. the soundtrack is outstanding, and the show manages to delight new viewers like you and hardcore fans like me. That was a difficult task because, as I said, fallout is different. Nice reaction btw.
Mair is in the right, sure its based on our world, but basically everything after 1945 is alternate history. this is a world where the transistor was never invented, USSR never fell and the cold war never ended, its alternate history.
I recommend the channels Oxhorn and EpicNate, they make really good lore videos and there won’t be any spoilers since the videos were made years ago. Will just fill you into the lore and history of Fallout.
Ghouls are pretty much immortal(and highly durable) due to their radiation mutations. The Ghoul looks like he mutated and has been wandering the wasteland for over 200 years
as messed up as the concept of a breeder is to this movie... there is actually a hentai game made in 2021, where you are in charge of breeding a local vault... so yeah, don't ask me how i know that !!!
Two recoccuring dreams haunt me in the only two i have. One is being pulled out to sea by riptide, which is scary enough. The second is seeing the aftermath of an atom bomb heading my way. Thank god the devastating effects are enough to cripple everything/one. Otherwise, there would've been at least two more bombs dropped in the 40s or 50s, the world wouldve already been a harsh environment by the tiem most of us were born
China dropped nukes on US, Vault Tec subscribers went underground to their purchased vault cabin, and the main vault locked behind them, sealing them in. Only certain workers and soldiers allowed on the surface, everyone else "lives in the vault and dies in the vault." Breeders weren't in the game, ppl however chose their mates and their children became workers in the vault and had a placement test to see where they would work in the vault. More details are in the game Fallout 3 😎
Fallout is great, however, I am suprised a lot of reactors are watching this before SHOGUN. I would highly suggest SHOGUN if you want to really watch an epic masterpiece that is going to be up for tons of awards this year. But i will definitely be following you on this one as well :)
This show was so good i downloaded Fallout 3...Welcome to 2077, their history diverged from ours soon after WW2. Lucy = New Player...Max = Mid-level player & The Ghoul = Advanced. YT videos give you background info on this world if you're interested.
I totally agree with Sophie if you're going to put time in making reaction videos you got to watch stuff that people are going to be interested in And are going to watch to get you views.
"Is it just America or the whole world that got nuked?" The thing about a nuclear attack is that when one nation makes the big decision to nuke you, some of their first targets would be your nuclear sites, to try to prevent you from firing back. This is why you would basically have to launch everything immediately when you see the nukes coming - you probably won't be able to respond after. This is what starts the chain of everyone shooting everything at each other, all at once.
Keep going, you guys will not be disappointed. It’s not perfect, but compared to most shows today. It’s pretty amazing. The anthology series “Fargo” and the creator also made a series based on some Men characters that is amazing
The dislikes on this video are from people that are angry you don't know the Fallout lore. Ignore them, they're idiots. You've never played the game, OBVIOUSLY you don't know the lore lol. Just enjoy the show, the ending is pretty good.
what you were saying about the US being attacked isn’t true unfortunately, i think when they dropped every country dropped theirs too, so it’s a total wasteland all over the world and irradiated
I just remembered why I stopped watching this channel. Mair really needs to stfu when Sophie is theorizing, cause he has no idea what he's talking about and literally ruining her actually good ideas.
He seemed to catch on pretty quickly and had to keep explaining basic things to her. She seems disinterested and reacts like a juvenile because she doesn’t understand the most elementary concepts. Pretty frustrating to watch actually.
The three Mai characters are based on the player's charakters of the games. In the Fallout games you, as a player, can build the stats of your charakter, just as you like to. So, the Ghoul is pure dexety, a shooter. Lucy is a character build. And Maximus got strength and endurance. He's a great melee char.
Its an alternate timeline of earth, its technically the future, the bombs dropped in 2077 and the show takes place in 2296. In Fallout's timeline the microchip was never invented so the computers stayed really basic as did any technology that uses microchips, so the cars, cameras, TVs were all really old school. The culture is also kinda stuck in the 1950s its kinda like what people in the 50s thought the future would look like. But there is also a lot of technology that is really advanced like weapons and medicine and nuclear stuff.
yeeeaa.... I think that might be a bit to complex for them to understand xD
Sophie was asking all the right questions. Mair didn't want to think too hard about it.
@@jesses5463 Well, I mean, he wasn't necessarily wrong even though he didn't know specifically why he was right. There probably wouldn't be a supply chain specific enough for film to even begin to get developed let alone for photographs provided in an easily way afforded way for mission specifics for random Paladins for the Brotherhood. They hoard technology but, I doubt they know how most of it works or even have the means to make any of it work properly.
@@SiouxTubeNaw he was def being pretty dismissive 🤣
They could, in their free time, go watch the intro portion of Fallout 4 to get a better idea on how and why the world evolved the way it did in this alternate timeline.
Okay yall had me cracking up because this is an actual reaction of people that know nothing about the games and I am here for it.
Remember when the cowboy's daughter asked him about if the bomb was going to drop, he said "Us cowpokes we take it as it comes" and then he repeats that as the last line of the episode...😀
I've wstched this episode with four separate friends and none of the noticed. I was shook. Either they pay no attention or have awful observation skill and memory.
@@DazHotep6EQUJ5low perception roll
I didnt catch the line immediately and i knew they were the same person going in lol. Different people are noticing different things as they watch. At that moment i was realizing Honchos actor was Bubba from Forrest Gump, which was the last role i saw him in.
“How is he gonna get away on a horse.”
You need to startup a car. You don’t need to startup a horse.
More importantly, it's a lot harder for a horse to get stuck in traffic than a car. Rush hour of people leaving the city at the end of the week is bad enough. You know anyone who survived the blast is gonna be trying to get away from the city/fallout as fast as possible which means the roads are gonna be gridlocked.
I'm actually laughing because doing something for profit is the most Vault-Tec thing you could do. Very on brand
Let’s go!!!! Goggins is a killer actor. Went underrated for years. Now he’s everyone’s favourite.
He was incredible in Justified and Sons of Anarchy
This really is his break out role, and I am here for it.
You don’t have to decipher everything in the first episode and you won’t. So just enjoy! 👍🏼
I've played a few of the games. One of the most entertaining things about this show is how they managed to capture the look and feel of the games. It's really amazing. The attention to detail is far beyond what shows like this usually attempt.
Thanks for being honest Sophie about the profit stuff, I actually really appreciate that for real.
In fallout universe micro processors were never invented which is why everything is bigger. They focused more on war technology than anything else.
Transistors actually were invented, just much later on and weren't all that popular.
also why the computers are all like super old school when it was just green text on the screen and nothing else.
@@rileytruax766 they are also referred to as terminals. the computer itself is elsewhere.
@@toomanyaccounts lol ok if were gonna play the semantics game the full name is actually a computer terminal so....
@@rileytruax766 they are dumb terminals. they have no processing power in them. they connect to a mainframe
Great reaction guys! Fallout is my favorite game series I got deep into the lore. I love seeing you guys experience the universe for the first time.
After watching your reaction to Tropic Thunder I had to subscribe. I enjoyed that so much! Btw, Fallout is a game I used to watch my son play. This is the only game I ever got hooked on. I still play and I am an old lady.
Series essentials without spoiling anything,
The year in the show is 2296 and takes place in the same timeline as the games but is the furthest story line in the time line of events of the Fallout universe.
Lucy is a vault dweller. A bunch of vaults were constructed before the war to house those financially able enough to purchase a home within them for their family. She's the descendant of the survivors and as vaults go hers is a rather good one and she's an excellent byproduct of underground living as it was intended.
Maximus is member of the Brotherhood of Steel. The Brotherhood is a surviving group of humans that were once a large military unit and their families from California that survived the war by taking shelter in a reinforced underground military bunker. They're a technology cult that hoard technology because they believe humanity will doom itself to oblivion if allowed to use technology in irresponsible ways that will domino effect to a nuclear war all over again. They once ruled the California wasteland but, fell on hard times after a series of conflicts with the human settlements that were already developing on the surface. They are being supported by that massive airship you see which came from their Eastern chapter on the East coast(the Eastern chapter is explained if you play the games Fallout 3 and 4).
The Ghoul is...a survivor. Ghouls specifically are humans that survived the war by sheer luck. The radiation of the Fallout of the war didn't kill them but instead made them somewhat immortal but the trade off is explained in this show and if you play, well, practically any of the Fallout games.
Also, don't worry about not knowing that much about the games, the franchise, or the lore. This is an original story set in the timeline of that world after all of the games so you're getting a unique look into the world of Fallout and it's told in a way that even non-fans can sort of understand what's going on. It's not going to Mandalorian season 2 you with a bunch of lore details and references you won't understand without context. It's pretty cut and dry...of course, for us in the know there's a lot of issues, debate, and questions but, that's for us to worry and nerd out over.
Sooo glad you guys ended up liking it so far!! The Fallout video game series is probably my favorite, and one of the best of all time, and the show is an incredible addition to the universe. I believe the show has done it the justice it deserves. Can't wait for you two to keep watching, looking forward to the next episode 💛💙💛💙
Whenever you see a tree in Fallout, I knew their daddy back when he was a beggar in The Hub (real life Barstow), back when I first played Fallout 1 in 1997. His name is Harold. He's probably still alive and watching over us through the leaves. He was once a caravan guard who got mutated. Then he was the mayor of a town called Gecko in Fallout 2. He traveled to Maryland in the Capital Wasteland and mutated into a tree and was worshiped as a god (which he kept trying to stop, but they wouldn't stop) in Fallout 3. His seeds and the pure water from Project Purity regrew the plants of the wasteland. He was a good man and the father of all the trees. That's how deep the lore in Fallout is.
Thanks for sharing that! Since I never played Fallout (but I love this series!) I'm learning about the game's universe from it's players while watching reaction videos. I enjoy it when people explain and expand on the back stories and Easter Eggs in the show. Hadn't heard this one yet. 😊
Hey, guys. Long time Fallout Fan here to clear it up. So, the opening scene is in 2077. Basically, Fallout timeline split from ours around the 60's because of a few factors, the biggest being huge advancements in nuclear tech but less advancement in things like transistors that allow for small computers and phones (That's also why the Pipboys on their wrists exist, they function like a smartphone for them). It also stayed culturally frozen innthe 50's, paranoid about communism and doing shady government shit. Around the 2060's, resources started getting so scarce that there were wars all over the globe, culminating in the Great War of 2077. Won't spoil exactly how that happened, but the nuclear war lasted half an hour and basically wiped out human society on the surface, American or otherwise as far as we know.
So then, you have about 200 years of TONS of shit happening, but luckily you don't need to know much of that for the show. Short version: The Brotherhood of Steel started as the remnants of the US Army and have this techno-knight deal going. They believe it is their sacred mission to horde pre-war technology and science so it doesn't fall into the "wrong hands". They're not exactly "good guys", but they're usually at least nice enough to tell you to fuck off or fire a warning shot at you. In the wasteland, that's borderline polite.
The Enclave is a tough one to explain, but basically they're the pre-war American shadow government in exile. They were the ones doing a lot of shady stuff pre-war, and after the bombs fell they went mask off fascist and started trying to exterminate the wasteland to "reconquer America". They're like a much more evil version of the Brotherhood.
The guy at the end is alive because he's a very special type of mutant called a ghoul. A ghoul is a person that got irradiated in a rare way that leaves them with heightened resistance to radiation and generally more survival capable, but their tissue turns necrotic and dead and eventually they "go feral" and basically turn into zombies.
Hope some of this helps, great watch y'all!
Don't even try explaining 😂 I don't think she's gonna get it 💀
It would be better to describe the Brotherhood of Steel as having stemmed from rogue elements of the US Army remnants post Great War...... the Remnants of the US Army and Government are the Enclave.
Viewers don't need to know any of that to enjoy the show. In fact, lots of people would even consider this stuff spoilers. This is only the first season of a TV show so we have no idea how much of this stuff might be covered in future episodes.
@michaelhoward142 (A) They asked questions, I made commentary in the comments. It's pretty standard. (B) If it's a spoiler, maybe don't go to the comments in the first place? It's not my job to shield you or any other grown adult from reading something online (C) calling background lore spoilers is wild. This isn't some deep lore about Op Anchorage or Vault-Tec's skullduggery, its stuff you could find on a wiki post in 30 seconds(D) Considering the next season is at least a year or two out, it's safe to say this is all the story we're getting for a while, and therefore it's fair to discuss it on those merits.
Christ, it's smooth brain whining fans like you that have nearly sucked all the joy from this setting.
@@theshamurai32 I don't give a F about spoilers for myself -- I've played the games multiple times starting with the very first one. I'm simply calling you out for posting spoilers in a place where spoilers are inappropriate.
Do you not think this show might address more background lore in future episodes? But, hey, why should they bother when there are people like you who'll tell everyone all about it.
It only gets better from here
Lots of comments here that will short-circuit your brains with information you don't need to know to enjoy the show. If you're interested in learning the history and background of the game world, here it is. Otherwise, don't bother.
Glad you're reacting to this and very happy you're already enjoying it.
There is vaults all over in the threat of nuclear war with china, and the thing on their arm is a pip boy it displays status effects and more in the game, there is factions what you’ll see soon
Fantastic series!! Love the video games! I can’t wait to see your guys reaction to this show!!
Alternate timeline that split in 1955. Instead of going for technological software advances, this timeline opted for hardware advances instead. Opening scene takes place in 2077
This show is so faithful to the vibes of the game, with references and easter eggs in every shot. Best video game to tv adaptation ever done, easily.
Trust your instincts. Your reactions and guesses are pretty spot on. Where episode 1 introduced you to the world and the characters, episode 2 will introduce the major ongoing story.
Get ready to be entertained and be confused.
Not gonna lie. I kinda live hearing someone just say its nice to make money of of reacting.good luck
Found y’all because of this, gonna stay tuned thats for sure
And watch your hands before I rub your eye through the screen vro
I welcome non-Fallout fan reactions. It’s interesting to hear the feedback. 😊
We need more of this.
Love the honesty!
Been waiting for y'all to get on Fallout. LFG
Now you are young, to those of us growing up during The Cold War that intro is what we feared would happen- every day. But we lived our lives. When I teach my The History of The Cold War classes, I always start by showing them a five minute video of nuclear explosions with eerie music, to make your generation understand what it all was- and what you will have to get used to again with Putoloni's sabre-rattling (though he is too much of a coward to do it). During the Cold War, the USSR was planning to open the war by dropping 600+ merely on my little Denmark.
The game is set in an alternative timeline, where the transistor was never invented, so everything used vacuum-tubes like early computers. And thus the timeline starts diverging from ours in the year after WW2, and progress is generally much slower. But there is also no Cuban Missile Crisis, Long Island, etc, and no reckoning with its past, so the US carries on in a sort of Truman-Eisenhower Superamerica with nuclear powered cars, etc. But in the 21st century fossil fuels and other resources starts running out, and The Resource Wars starts; where Europe, Africa and The Middle East is torn apart, and China invades Alaska to get the last remaining oil resource on the planet. And in 2077... Boom.
And oh yea, the US turns authoritarian semi-Fascist, a bit like Starship Troopers. Oh, and The Brotherhood of Steel is like Nazis, but against non-Humans.
Anyway, think of the game and series as set in a sort of retro-futuristic post apocalypse, IE a future as imagined in the fifties, but then add a nuclear exchange of superpowers. In the games you find all those tragic and dark stories as you explore the Wasteland, the series show them, but both do a very good job of what good SciFi should; holding up a dark mirror to humanity- and with Fallout it is really dark.
In Fallout after dropping bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki the world focused on nuclear technology. It's one of the reasons why there is a 50s/60s and Sci-Fi feel to it. During the bombs dropping America was at War with China over resources. Other countries might be involved too.
The folks trying to run in their cars are wasting their time - their cars won't start. All electronics stopped working at the moment of detonation. Cowboy had a better chance on his horse.
Our modern cars, yes, because we've built more complex electronics into them, but mid-century cars are more likely to survive due to their simpler mechanics and engine than modern ones. Plus, an EMP is a side-effect of a nuke that travels in a wave and while it will fry delicate circuitry, especially if it's on, some tech actually still survives and plus can have EMP shielding. And, in the lore, Fallout cars actually use micro-fusion, giving them more longevity.
no becuase only high altitude nukes generate emps does no one fact check themselves anymore
@@TorrentCompanyBlues also you know the fact only high altitude nuke generate EMPS
Dudes in suits are Brotherhood of Steel as far as I know
The birthday family was prepared because the nuclear war tensions had been going on for ten years. Even in reality, people in the 50s and 60s made bomb shelters because of the cold war. What they were experiencing in the Fallout timeline was much more intense. War had actually been going on for a while and resource shortages (oil, etc.) had made it worse. the USA had actually annexed Canada and Mexico for their resources and as mentioned in this episode, there had already been battles in Alaska with China, which involved the use of power armor. The radio broadcast that the woman turned off was talking about tensions heating up and the President's whereabouts was unknown (he had already moved to a secret bunker). Then the TV has the weatherman saying on-air that he couldn't do the weather when he didn't even know there was going to be a next week... all signs of just how tense things were getting.
Also, about the bombings... even today in reality, some targets have multiple warheads assigned. A big city like NYC or Los Angeles will surely have several to do as much damage as possible. Some strategic places will also have several, even if they're small in area, just to make sure that at least one warhead gets through and with the idea that it may take multiple warheads to insure destruction. And in the Fallout world, it wasn't just Los Angeles that was bombed.... thousands of bombs rained down for two hours all across the country (some guesses are near 10,000 bombs dropped total around the world).
The nukes in fallout aren’t like the real ones we have. They cause mass destruction, and produce increased radiation. However the blast radius for them are very small. At least by nuke standards.
Very good series, you'll enjoy the ride you are going to see.
What you’re seeing in the first scene is the year 2077 of a 1950s retrofuture (which is to say a version of the future imagined by people of the past, in this case the nuclear-powered conspicuous consumption perpetual Cold War Americana utopia imagined by the people of the 1950s).
If you were comparing the history books between the real world and Fallout’s timeline, everything would be familiar up until just after the end of World War 2.
After that point you’re looking at a world without microprocessors, running on advanced vacuum tubes and transistors, cars running on nuclear fuel cells, food getting preserved to last for centuries via radiation sterilization, miracle drugs to treat injuries, domestic service robots, soldiers in power armor, the annexation of Canada during the Resource Wars, China becoming the dominant power in the Communist bloque all while America culturally stagnated and harkened back to the styles and music of the 1950s up until Asia and the US saturated each other with atomic bombs in 2077.
Then the next scene jumps 219 years forward from THAT.
Your sketch at vault 32 really had your eyebrows going /\
Fallout is different.
A large part of Fallout is unnecessarily excessive violence and deeply dark humor. But in this universe you can tell damn good stories. the soundtrack is outstanding, and the show manages to delight new viewers like you and hardcore fans like me. That was a difficult task because, as I said, fallout is different.
Nice reaction btw.
Mair is in the right, sure its based on our world, but basically everything after 1945 is alternate history. this is a world where the transistor was never invented, USSR never fell and the cold war never ended, its alternate history.
I recommend the channels Oxhorn and EpicNate, they make really good lore videos and there won’t be any spoilers since the videos were made years ago.
Will just fill you into the lore and history of Fallout.
Pretty much 2077 with a 1960s aesthetic kinda like the Jetsons and they went to war with China over resources
Glad this is finally here!
Horses move car don’t the EMP (electromagnetic pulse) from bomb fries the cars electrics.
only high altitude nuke generate emps and those only explode you guessed it, very high altitudes
Ghouls are pretty much immortal(and highly durable) due to their radiation mutations. The Ghoul looks like he mutated and has been wandering the wasteland for over 200 years
Wait till yall get to end if your curious try n learn the places the games took place
The setting of Fallout is basically the 50s version of the future. What ppl in the 50s thought the future would look like..
The armour and aircraft are pre-war tech.
as messed up as the concept of a breeder is to this movie... there is actually a hentai game made in 2021, where you are in charge of breeding a local vault... so yeah, don't ask me how i know that !!!
Why'd that intro gave me a cashier getting upset receiving 0 tip after turning the monitor type of vibe
"Their vitamin D levels got to be low". Best comment I've heard 😁😁😁😁
Great reaction.
Yassss I love this show
Two recoccuring dreams haunt me in the only two i have. One is being pulled out to sea by riptide, which is scary enough. The second is seeing the aftermath of an atom bomb heading my way. Thank god the devastating effects are enough to cripple everything/one. Otherwise, there would've been at least two more bombs dropped in the 40s or 50s, the world wouldve already been a harsh environment by the tiem most of us were born
make that money! 😂
China dropped nukes on US, Vault Tec subscribers went underground to their purchased vault cabin, and the main vault locked behind them, sealing them in.
Only certain workers and soldiers allowed on the surface, everyone else "lives in the vault and dies in the vault." Breeders weren't in the game, ppl however chose their mates and their children became workers in the vault and had a placement test to see where they would work in the vault.
More details are in the game Fallout 3 😎
I'm here to see two confused faces, let's gooo :)
Fallout is great, however, I am suprised a lot of reactors are watching this before SHOGUN. I would highly suggest SHOGUN if you want to really watch an epic masterpiece that is going to be up for tons of awards this year. But i will definitely be following you on this one as well :)
This show was so good i downloaded Fallout 3...Welcome to 2077, their history diverged from ours soon after WW2. Lucy = New Player...Max = Mid-level player & The Ghoul = Advanced. YT videos give you background info on this world if you're interested.
Leavin a like for your *PROFIT*
I totally agree with Sophie if you're going to put time in making reaction videos you got to watch stuff that people are going to be interested in And are going to watch to get you views.
Don't be embarrassed to profit. The more you profit the better you are for your country. So long as you aren't putting people down to profit.
"Is it just America or the whole world that got nuked?"
The thing about a nuclear attack is that when one nation makes the big decision to nuke you, some of their first targets would be your nuclear sites, to try to prevent you from firing back. This is why you would basically have to launch everything immediately when you see the nukes coming - you probably won't be able to respond after. This is what starts the chain of everyone shooting everything at each other, all at once.
Keep going, you guys will not be disappointed. It’s not perfect, but compared to most shows today. It’s pretty amazing.
The anthology series “Fargo” and the creator also made a series based on some Men characters that is amazing
Very good game adaptations!
Alternative Earth 2077 war starts then add 219 years.
16:40 even bro's had enough of it 😂
The dislikes on this video are from people that are angry you don't know the Fallout lore. Ignore them, they're idiots. You've never played the game, OBVIOUSLY you don't know the lore lol. Just enjoy the show, the ending is pretty good.
Now you guys have finished band of brothers will you consider watching the pacific?
what you were saying about the US being attacked isn’t true unfortunately, i think when they dropped every country dropped theirs too, so it’s a total wasteland all over the world and irradiated
Shopie is a vault dweller , truely
i would love you to react to true detective s1 and fargo s1. They are bangers true detective argubly the best season ever made.
I should send y'all my 100 best movies list.
Watch attack on totan as y’all first anime on the channel and it being one of the most popular shows ever I highly recommend it
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Are y'all going to finish reacting to The Boys? Season 4 is coming out soon!
Maybe not enough people are watching. She did say "Why bother watching something if it doesnt profit them?"
Whats crazy is looking at those eyebrows lol 😆 😂
He seems annoyed lol same bud
Watch "signs" with Mel Gibson it's a great movie
@mair&sophie… do me a favor …go and play “Fallout 4” ….
You guys defiantly don’t work for vault-tech
Sky 2.0 it's a ceiling
HEY!!!YOU NEED WATCH PSYCHO(1960YEAR) AND MISERY(1990) BEST HORRORS!
I just remembered why I stopped watching this channel. Mair really needs to stfu when Sophie is theorizing, cause he has no idea what he's talking about and literally ruining her actually good ideas.
100% Mair is annoying now
He seemed to catch on pretty quickly and had to keep explaining basic things to her. She seems disinterested and reacts like a juvenile because she doesn’t understand the most elementary concepts. Pretty frustrating to watch actually.
6:52 It was China that dropped the bombs as the USA and China had been fighting a war for a few years by this point mostly in Alaska
Well according to the show that's not how it happened but I'm not going to give any spoilers and spoil it for them.
That's not accurate
The three Mai characters are based on the player's charakters of the games.
In the Fallout games you, as a player, can build the stats of your charakter, just as you like to.
So, the Ghoul is pure dexety, a shooter.
Lucy is a character build.
And Maximus got strength and endurance. He's a great melee char.
Yeah guys, it’s been a long time since you uploaded Better Call Saul and ended up deleting the whole thing… I’m gonna unsubscribe sorry
Nothing like helping the black community by making the main black character stupid, weak, and incompetent. We’re helping right?
Copying & pasting the same thing but on a different video eh?
The attention seeking is crazy 😂🤣
@@PhenomVR and yet youre the one who can’t respond
@@DrFeelgood1127 what for?
Maximus is worthy of the suit. Get your head out the sand
@@SwiftJustice people offended by masculinity and heroism eat this normie soup up.
Bro's girl giving heavy Madea vibes 😂
Fargo and Legion will blow your nips off! Both were made by the great Noah Hawley. A must watch
Dude please just do solo reactions for this. She's making it hard to enjoy your reaction. She misses everything.
They said "A BREEDER" go back to school sweetheart 😂