What a BANGER of an open! And of course the rest of the episode! We have not played the game and know nothing about this world. Looking forward to the rest of the season. What was your reaction? Badd Medicine Arcade (Gaming channel) ua-cam.com/channels/HIstVk00GtduPIXlJLdC3A.html Early Drops & Full Reactions on YT Memberships & Patreon: www.patreon.com/baddmedicine Backup channel Subscribe here ua-cam.com/channels/1CLUwA27dz-94o3FR0o3xg.html
Can't wait for y'all to play Fallout 4 on the other channel. (Think Skyrim, but with guns and radiation. Different "factions", or guilds, and you'll have an idea. (Fallout and skyrim are both Bethesda)
There are some really good fallout lore videos explaining a lot of the nuances and details you wouldn’t get unless you’ve played the game. After I watched a few, i had an incredibly opened eye for how much effort they put into this show as far as details go. Btw, this show has some of the best visuals and set design that I’ve ever seen.
Fallout Takes Place in the Year 2077 so its the ALT Future not the Past, they never invented the Microprocessor so they still Use Vacuum Tubes so they are advanced but also Backwards , Nuclear power is the Norm and Giant Corporations Run the show with NO Restrictions as they Own everything!.
A small thing, but something I appreciated from the writers when rewatching the show: in that intro scene, they made a point of showing that the birthday boy's father kept taking photos throughout the whole party. It's possible that the reason why no one noticed the bomb flash at first was because they had been seeing the camera flash all day long.
@robotko_ruslan in our earth sure. In Fallout nukes can be the size of a football with a mushroom cloud the size of a tree and no blinding flash. Oh well
@@adventuroushermit2590 I can understand it with a mini nuke for Fat Man launcher, but not for a full size nuclear bomb used in that scene. In Honest Hearts DLC for Fallout New Vegas there are personal logs of a man who survived the bombs that dropped in Salt lake city. He was not blinded because at the moment of an explosion he looked at the opposite direction, but people standing next to him were looking at the explosion and got blinded.
@@robotko_ruslan Seems like everyone was distracted by the TV thus not looking at the nuke flash directly. The camera flash bulbs would have desensitised their eyes.
Not the microchip, but transistors. And it's not that they weren't invented, but that they were invented way later on than in our world, so technology evolved to be more like most like 50s sci-fi tech.
@@eddmario A microchip (also called a chip, a computer chip, an integrated circuit or IC) is a set of electronic circuits on a small flat piece of silicon. On the chip, transistors act as miniature electrical switches that can turn a current on or off. Next time you feel like saying something, do some research first. Maybe just accept that you're not knowledgeable and don't say anything at all.
@@eddmarioTransistors definitly excist in fallout, circuits do not work without them. Semiconductors specifically was what wasn't invented. Transistors are used to make, computers and fm/am transmittors, recievers and amiplifiers. The most common type of ttransistor in fallout are vacuum tube transistors.
@@READY_OR_NOT From official Fallout wiki: In the Fallout series, one of the aspects of the divergence is the fact that transistors did not became as popular, with vacuum tubes continuing to be the dominant building block of electronics into the 21st century, and the term "chip" typically (but not always) refers to processing units using vacuum tubes, such as the water chip. You are welcome. Now go do some exercising and calm down. And btw silicon is actually whats missing in Fallout. From Quora: The technology that is “missing” in the Fallout universe is silicon. We developed silicon chips that make transistors tiny, like microscopic tiny. We did that partly because using transistors for computing used tremendous amounts of electricity. One of the reasons that early computers were so rare was the demand for that electricity. In the Fallout universe, nuclear power provided that electricity. There was less of a need to miniaturize (which reduced energy usage), so the switch to silicon did not happen.
@@CliffuckingBooth nice way of reconstructing my words to fit into some kind of fantasy argument you obviously have been waiting to have but I specifically said MICROCHIP!!! as did the original post. I was also just copy pasting the actual definition from an online textbook. Choke on your own repulsity and reap that sweet shame.
I was too distracted by the fact that she didn't get her eyes burned by the nuke. There's quite a few flaws in the representation of the nukes in general there that would've made them and the beginning much more devastating and dramatic, but I guess also Cooper's survival much less believable.
I think you are drastically overestimating the blindness risk range of nuclear blasts. Light follows the inverse-square law -- the intensity falls with the square of the distance from the source. The majority of modern nukes in the world today would probably only pose a blindness risk within a 4-5 mile radius during the day, farther at night if the eyes were adjusted for darkness. Now something like Tsar Bomba? That's a different story. But that first blast was more than far enough away that if it was one of the more common sizes in the 0.5 megaton range, she would have been more than far enough away to, at worst, just be dazzled the way anyone would looking at something like, well, a flash bulb.
Chronological Order of the Fallout Games: - October 23, 2077 - The Great War, day the bombs dropped. - Year 2102 - Fallout 76, Survivors from Vault 76 reenter the wilderness of West Virginia. - Year 2161 - Fallout (1997), The Vault Dweller leaves Vault 13 and travels through Southern California - Years 2197-2198 - Fallout Tactics, The Warrior battles for the Midwest - Year 2208 - Fallout: Brotherhood Of Steel (2004), is thought to take place in Texas though it is unclear [Considered non-canon, added for reference] - Year 2241 - Fallout 2, The Chosen One wanders through California, Oregon, and Nevada. - Year 2277 Fallout 3, The Lone Wanderer searches through the remains of Washington D.C. for their father - Year 2281 Fallout New Vegas, The Courier is on a quest for revenge in the deserts of Nevada, Arizona, and California - Year 2287 Fallout 4, The Sole Survivor has escaped their vault into the Commonwealth, formerly Massachusetts - Year 2296 Fallout the Show, The wilds of California are set on a course for chaos with the actions of Lucy, Maximus, and The Ghoul
Apparently canonically New Vegas story line happened just before the show starts. The whole show is pretty deceiving in how it portrays for example the ncr.
@@ricksanchez369 Technically the latest game in the series would be Fallout Shelter Online, but the latest mainstream game would be Fallout 76, the online game. Fallout 5 is still mostly just rumors and speculation
Oh honey..as gamer that played them..this did more than deliver..they hit this out of the park! And it’s set in Retrofuturism (what the past thought the future would look like)
I haven't played the game, but I'm glad that they delivered this for you. I'm not being sarcastic, I promise. I am a HUGE the last of us fan and I was blown away with the TV series, so I know the feeling of seeing a beloved video game not being destroyed.
The deal with Ghouls is that they were people once who were exposed to massive radiation but somehow survived. Most ghouls are feral, meaning they are basically zombies. Ghouls don't really age so some Ghouls are people from before the war.
IIRC the lore is that the vast majority of people still get sick/die from radiation exposure like in real life, but for some reason certain people with genetic pre-disposition turn into ghouls instead.
@TehIdiotOne It is genetic, Billy the Kid and his parents all had the ghoul gene, also The Children of Atom have developed a mutation/evolution where they became immune to radiation
Ghouls are not created instantaneously; they are slowly turned. They are not immediately feral, they initially retain their reasoning like Cooper, radiation heals their body, but accelerates their brain deterioration, aka zombification.
To answer a couple of your questions and to give you some spoiler-free background. There are a total of 122 vaults across the US. Every vault is unique and was built with a specific purpose. It is not normal for vaults to be interconnected, so Vaults 31, 32, and 33 are already special in that aspect. These 3 vaults are in Santa Monica, California. This series is not a retelling of any of the video games, but is an entirely new entry into the Fallout franchise. The TV show stays very true to the lore and tone of the games, and to my understanding, is actually considered canon. The show is absolutely littered with easter eggs and references to the games, but you don't need to play any of the games to understand what's going on. A fan of the games will probably understand a lot the context a bit faster, but the show does a very good job of explaining everything you need to know. You guys are in for a ride. Welcome to the Fallout universe!
@@Alexs.2599 This is a huge part of the intrigue of the show. If the comment you’re responding to was avoiding spoilers, what made you go “hmm, yep, I’m gonna say this thing that spoils a huge twist of the show if someone hasn’t interacted with the source material”
Fallout is Retro-Futurism. A future based on the 50's ideas of what the future could be. In the Fallout world they never went all-in on transistor technology and stuck with Vacuum-Tubes and punch machines, pushing that tech further than we ever did. They also went all-in on Nuclear energy and were able to create chems like Rad-Away to overcome radiation, Stimpaks {used by Lucy when stabbed} to heal, UltraJet {red puffer used during the Raid Wedding} to enhance combat, with much more to come. Ghouls are people who have been overdosed with radiation but not enough to kill them outright. There are degrees of ghouls ranging from "looks normal with some ghoul traits" to "talks normal looks dead" to "28 days later" feral, you'll see soon and probably already have by now. The drip bag hooked up to Coop/TheGhoul is something new to the show and not in the games {yet}, a drug to keep Ghouls from going Feral, which I'm sure we'll find out more about over time.
i could be wrong but i think the drip bag and same with the little bottles the ghoul uses later on might be radaway, the liquid in the drip bags looks very similar to the radaway bag we see lucy use later on, my guess would be ghouls use radaway to prevent radiation build up and going feral
The thing Lucy injects herself with is a Stimpak, an item from the game that is pretty much a "catch-all back to 100hp" item Other Easter eggs involve (That we can see on your cut): Lucy discussing skills, repair, science, and speech are in fact skills in the game. The little cartoon of the vault dweller, the Vault Boy, is a recurring thing. The Book from the Book Club is a special consumable that improves your skills temporarily The giant watch, the Pip-Boy, is the main menu in the game. The Bobblehead is an extremely rare item that would improve a skill permanently Sugar Bomb, the father's term of endearment, is a consumable in the game. This might be a stretch, but that goddamn jar Lucy uses to fight back, i swear to god I've seen that same model from Fo3 to Fo76 The flying ship, there is another hovercraft like the one in the game called Prydwen in Fo4 The T-60 is only one of the many, many, maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaany armor models the series has had. The yellow structure, where the armors rest, are the workbenches in-game where you create and modify them. Nuka-cola is exactly what you are thinking. You encounter it literally everywhere, and it restores HP in the game. The squire carrying that big bag like a caddy is actually something you do in-game with the various companions you can befriend in-game. Dogmeat is almost everyone's first companion, a German Shepherd. The baby arm is shot by a gun known as the Junk Jet, you can stuff anything in there and it shoots it out at lethal speed. That was fun, keep it going guys, what did i miss?
Also, the guy who died to a baby leg was killed using the Rock-It launcher. A weapon you can make that shoots any junk items you come across in the wasteland.
Was trawling through a “fallout show reaction” search every day since I finished it, waiting to find your vid, can’t wait to see the whole series with you!
For sure, but /and it also helps that Fallout is one of the best, if not the, stylish games ever. The way theyve done the 50s retro futurism, the design, the cartoons, the mr handy, the aesthetics of it all of it. It ties dark dystopian / nuclear annihilation with goofy comedy superbly. The world of fallout is an amazingly beautiful creation done so so well. Someone please name another game/series that even comes close.
Tbf there hasn’t been many video game adaptations. Let alone good ones. Great show. Has a couple of flaws and plot points so I wouldn’t consider it fantastic but it is still pretty good
I want to give a lot of context and I really hope you guys see this because I feel this will help with your understanding of the show: In terms of the games, this show has its own original story. It's set in the world of the game and that's what has made this adaptation so good. They have meticulously incorporated all elements from the game into it. The sets, the character motivations, the music, everything. I also love that they don't really feel like they need to explain anything. Those familiar with the games won't need an explanation. Those unfamiliar can easily piece together a lot of what's going on just by the way things are presented on screen and are later revealed in future episodes. The gore. Now that is straight out of the game. In the game you can customize your character with a set of perks that can help you out in the wasteland. Some are there just to make things more interesting. One of those perks is known as "bloody mess" which makes it so that enemies die in very gory fashion. It's easy to see that some characters in this show has that perk. Let's talk about Lucy. The way she's introduced is also pretty much out of the game. She's telling us her attributes, her skills. Fallout is mainly an RPG (Role Playing Game) and one of the first things you do is pick your character stats and their main perks. Considering she was raised in a vault shows in her demeaner and it's pretty much how all players start off in the game. The Ghoul. Radiation is poison, but there are cases of people being mutated by it and turned into these creatures known as ghouls. There are two types. Walton's character is one of the conscious ones. Able to think, talk and function. Others go feral and are by all intents and purposes zombies. They're immune to radiation and are known to be able to live for a long time, though they're not immortal. I don't feel the need to explain the Brotherhood of Steel because the show does an awesome job going through who they are and what their motivations are. Now for the vaults. Vault-Tec, the company behind the fallout shelters, constructed 122 vaults across the United States. I'm not going to say much because there's plenty to spoil. All you need to know is that the designs, looks, functions and everything is pretty much 1:1 straight out of the video games. Even the sounds of the doors, computer terminals and everything. In this first episode you learn that Vault 33, 32 and 31 are connected to each other. This is not the case with the rest of the vaults. Each vault has its own design and mission. You'll learn more of this as the season goes on. In the game you learn more of this by finding and exploring these vaults. The device on the vault dwellers arms are known as Pip-Boys ((Personal Information Processor). In the game it's basically you're in-game menu system. It keeps track of your health, status, inventory, weapons, can detect radio transmissions, play games, etc. In the show it serves the exact same purpose. They use it the way it's meant to be used and that is excellent. Aside from that you have all sorts of things in the background which are all from the game as well. From the bottles of Nuka Cola to the stimpack Lucy uses to heal her wounds. Shows like these, shows like The Last of Us, truly shows that you can make entertaining media based on video games if you truly understand and respect the source material. I could go on more but I've already said enough. You've started a journey into quite the franchise. If you're up for it, considering you guys are playing things like Red Dead Redemption, you should consider playing Fallout 4 on your gaming channel. If you love the show you'll most likely love that game. No knowledge of the previous games is necessary and it includes all the elements seen in the show. I hope you enjoy the rest of the season, and remember: War... war never changes... Edit: Oh! I almost forgot! Yes, the guy was killed by a plastic baby leg. The fat dude was using a weapon known as a "Junk Jet." It's basically a trash shooting gun. In the games you're able to pick up pretty much any piece of trash you can find, be it for crafting, getting resources, selling for caps (bottlecaps are a currency in the Wasteland), etc. Most of it is just junk though. For the most part it would be useless except for that gun. It takes any piece of trash from your inventory and uses it as a lethal projectile.
As someone who only played Fallout 4 and Fallout shelter I know I didn’t catch all the references but it makes me want to play the games now so much. Excited to experience this show with you all again!
I noticed Diamond Dave pointing at Lucy's brother at 9:25 , he is Moisés Arias, who you guys recently saw him as Bonzo in the 2013 movie Enders Game (which you guys recently reacted to). The actress playing Lucy is Ella Purnell, who voiced acted as Jinx (Powder) in the Netflix animated show, Arcane. And speaking of voice acting, Walton Goggins did Cecil in Invincible. And as a fan of the video games, the setting, lore and easter eggs are amazing. Amazon did a splendid job.
I use to sneak into my older brother’s room while he was out with friends or at school and play fallout 3 on the dl. I’m only now realizing my brother 100% knew this and just had the grace not to delete my saves. I watched the show with him and the excitement between all my siblings was amazing. We’re all obsessed thanks to older bro who gave his music taste and video games to his sisters 😂😎 10/10 loved the show the ghoul was an incredible character
About Oak's "sounds pretty fast" comment on 200 years being safe after nuclear war, it's actually much slower than in reality. Most of the isotopes created in a nuclear explosion decay fast enough that within a matter of months, most areas would be safe for habitation. The duration of radiation hazard in Fallout is a vast overcorrection that the series uses because the games needed the bombs to be relevant to the post-apocalyptic world. In reality, radiation would be mostly safe within months, and back at normal prewar background levels within a few decades. Radiation is generally what people first think about nuclear bombs. Its intangibility and its horrifying effects give it a sort of macabre mystique. But really, the most devastating aspect of the bombs are the shockwaves, and in a large scale scenario, nuclear winter which would starve billions. To go even further, fallout is primarily generated by ground blasts, but in a war, in which destruction of cities and military assets is the goal, airblasts would be used, which generate very little fallout, making radiation even less of a threat. In short, radiation is very dangerous when it is present, but it ain't all it's hyped up to be.
For sure. It's why Hiroshima is still inhabited. (That said, as you note, fallout is generated mainly by ground blasts, and the intro does show that at least some of the bomb attacks in _Fallout_ were ground blasts.)
@@rhonafenwick5643 Spreading nuclear fallout (hehe) is very much the purpose of them I think. Or at least is meant to be a destruction multiplier, as instead of 1-2 large bombs (maybe more, since I’m pretty sure that’s LA) they instead used countless super low-yield nuclear weapons that detonated either on impact/near ground level.
The opening to this show is so epic. The sheer terror of the bombs dropping, and knowing they wouldn’t survive based on what he said about the thumb… it’s terrifying to think about. My dad watched this show with me and he told me that when he was younger that they were constantly terrified of bombs dropping during the Cold War and I can’t imagine what that feels like.
As a kid growing up in the 70s and 80s, the thought of nuclear annihilation was just one of those things you just lived with (and had occasional nightmares about).
@@folcotook3049 As a millennial who didn't grow up with that constant reminder, I STILL had nightmares about it. Lol. Still do, occasionally. That opening was tough.
@@beetlebob4675 My nightmares were probably most frequent after watching The Day After (TV movie about nuclear war) as a kid (I was around 10 or so). It was set enough to where I lived that I was pretty familiar with the locations and watched places I knew and had visited get blown to heck.
The vaults actually were located in the vicinity of population centers so those assigned a spot in a vault would be able to get to them on short notice. The baby leg was shot from a gun from the games: the junk jet. It fires whatever random debris you can find to stuff in it. On whether they got it right or wrong, this OG player (back to Fallout 1, 1997) thinks they got it very right. This is set in an alternate future where the timeline splits off from ours some time after WWII. Technology is mostly vacuum tube and atomic energy based which is why the tech is so bulky. Essentially think of every "world of tomorrow" type film from the 1950s/early 60s and that's the world of Fallout before the nukes fell. The US also was culturally stuck in the 50s, hence the clothing, cars, and music. If you'd like an intro into the great war of 2077 that won't really have spoilers for the TV show, check out the intro from Fallout 1: ua-cam.com/video/hG3uBgQmTnk/v-deo.html (remember, this is a game from 1997, so temper your expectations on the graphics quality).
The level of excitement I felt when I saw that you guys did this is insane. I don't think I've ever clicked on a reaction video so fast! I have finished the whole season. As an avid fan of the games, they absolutely nailed it. It's 100% Fallout. I don't know how they pulled it off, but damn! It's so amazing. The tone is perfect, the satire, sets, costumes, humor, everything. My biggest complaint is that we only have 8 episodes so far. And maybe also that they didn't include any [REDACTED] but I suppose they have to save some things for season 2. Just a few notes, the item that Lucy injected herself with after getting stabbed is called a stimpak. It's one of the healing items in the games. Lucy herself would be the player character in the games. Most of the games (not all, but most) have you start as a vault dweller who for whatever reason has to venture out into the Wasteland. In this episode, when the projector gets damaged it catches on fire, and you can see the projection burning up the background, which I thought was a really cool way to sort of mirror what happened to the real world when the bombs fell. Great video, and I can't wait to see your reactions to all the episodes and hear your thoughts on this truly outstanding show!
That gun is from the game, it's called the Junk Jet. You load any piece of junk, that'll fit in the magazine hopper. Every time you pull the trigger, you launch a piece of highspeed junk at your target.
YOU GUYS!!! SHOULD watch show Yellowjackets, unique twisted show..Lucy actress Ella is in it. Absolutely amazing show and full of 90s great soundtrack! Also Christina RIcci & Juliet Lewis
It’s so funny seeing everybody cringe at the cousin thing, but when you think about it, when you’re trapped with like 50-100 people for hundreds of years eventually everyone is going to be related to everyone lol. It’s still gross regardless, but it makes sense 😅
@@Burke1O1 cause they are looking at it from an established social norm that its inappropriate/forbidden to be romantically or sexually involves with those you are related to. So an outsider's perspective on their part is expected.
I actually started to play Fallout because of the show. Also fun fact: Lucy's actor played Fallout 4 to prepare for the roll and she also voices Jinx from Arcane.
Enjoy. And don't skimp on the older games too - the isometric Fallout 1 and 2 that started it all are wonderful games, and New Vegas was more in that vein too (being made by ex-Interplay and Black Isle devs who did the originals). Fallout 3 and 4 just lacked that old charm somewhat. Bit of an outlier since it's not a RPG but a tactics game, but Fallout Tactics is a pretty tough but fun game, too.
Honestly, same. I've seen my brothers play Fallout and it looked intriguing, but I never got into it. But after seeing this, I borrowed the whole game series from my brother, going right back to the original PC RPG. This show's sucked me into the universe hard
As someone who has played every fallout game ever released, from the first one released in 1997 to fallout 76 and played through several of them multiple times, the amount of subtle fan service is amazing. Everything from the Junk Jet, a gun thta literally fires junk, the Syringer that Lucy uses that shots syringes or Grognak the Barbarian playing on the TV before the bombs fall. Those are just to mention a few. Fallout is my favorite game series ever and I freaking loved this show.
As a fan of both Walton Goggins and the Fallout games, I was really excited about this show and it did not disappoint. It's definitely one of the best video game adaptations ever made.
I need to re-watch to double check but I really wish they had stated explicitly that the bombs fall in the FUTURE, 2077, not the 1950s because it's a massively common misconception. Like, it's so common that I believe the majority of people think it.
5:14 Appleton Oak picking up on stuff RIGHT AWAY! The actress who plays Lucy is in Yellowjackets- that is absolutely a show you need to watch, by the way.
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I had to wait to watch your reaction until I'd seen the show and I'm so glad you guys are covering it! I'm a HUGE Fallout fan and I've played all the games (except 76) and this show really nailed it for me. The easter eggs are in every scene and even the paintings and food (Iguana Bits for sale? No thank you - if you know, you know...) GREAT to see you enjoying it! Can't wait to see the other reactions
“Baby Leg??” - the gun in the game is called a JUNK JET. It shoots any Kind of scaps and metals around the wasteland. Fun fact , Just wanted to explain that for you guys 😎
I've only played Fallout 4 & Fallout Shelter, this show certainly exceeded expectations, great adaptation of the franchise! Suits looked cool, great dialogue. Oak "I wouldn't lean against that in a white shirt" Answer looks at Quinn's white tshirt 😄 I can't wait to see more of your reactions to this! Gonna be a awesome journey! 😀
Lisa Joy and husband Jonathan Nolan created HBO's Westworld (among others) and created this adaptation. They always seem to create a distinct feel for their series. From the production design, to the score, to even the credit sequences, their shows are amazing.
Welcome to the Fallout Universe! I have *thousands* of hours in Fallout 4 (been playing since release), as well as 76 and New Vegas, so I was super excited for this show! I can't wait to see you watch more of these. I do wish you had someone there to explain some things, like stimpacks and Raiders, but I think you're getting the general idea. Love all your reactions, and I'm so glad you're doing this series!
the actor that plays cooper howard, the cowboy/ghoul character, does the voice for cecil steadman in invincible, youll be able to hear it more and more throughout the show
The beginning section of the episode still gives me absolute chills and goosebumps. Sets the tone what Fallout really was all about. To get the context of the beginning, the whole world is already in shambles. In a previous decade before the Sino American War, EU and the Middle East pretty much call it quits. They nuked each other because of the Resource Wars as it affected them hard. Also the 21st century in the pre-Fallout period was already in a bleak future. The world's resources are running low and America already resorted to use nuclear technology. The countries around the world are in turmoil and the hurdles are far from over. There was the plague that killed millions around the world. The world's last resource remains on the case of oil. Deposits of oil was only up and running in the state of Alaska. China sees this as an opportunity and survival. Thus they are gonna take it by force. That kickstarted the Sino-American War. The entire war was happening for about a decade since 2066 to 2076. In 2077, it gets from bad to worse from there. US illegally annexes Canada by doing the counter attack in Alaska. They sucessfully pushed them out by occupying and passing through Canada. US and the Asian allies are now invading Mainland China for having the war to have an quick end. And just as China and the United States are having a war in the background, the average folks keeps their mindset on peacetime just as everything will be alright. And victory was already in sight. Unfortunately everything was not going to be okay. The nuclear exchange occured in 2 hours and that signifies the end of the Sino-American War, especially the whole world as societies crumbled in the nuclear exchange. This is what it states in the Fallout-universe game lore. For more context that the stuff you see are technologically-locked in the era of the 1950s and 1960s. The date where the old world ended and entering into a new world was in October 23, 2077.
So hyped for this one as a huge fallout fan !The references are perfect ! In the game you can be good, bad or nuteral and the 3 main characters are interpretations of that I love the details !
Each Fallout game is about a specific vault and there are like 122 or 129 (can't remember) vaults. The vaults that are focused on in the show are not in the games. But my understanding that the story being told in the show is cannon to the Fallout universe. So the stories are unique, but set in the world the games have set, if that makes sense. And I have only played Fallout 3, so I am not a super knowledgeable about the world of Fallout. But they definitely nailed the world of Fallout in this show, at least in my opinion! I fell in love with the show. I watched it all in 2 days. One of the best, if not the best, show that was adapted from a video game. can't wait to go on this journey with you guys!
It captures the overall feel of Fallout, without being as dark as the first two while still respecting the world building. Bethesda fallout is what most fans know and want. I like both, but this show is later Fallout for sure. Fun show so far.
Oh yeah and for anyone who might not know the weapon that was used to shoot the plastic baby leg into that guy at 25:28 it's called a Rocket It Launcher and they are on Fallout 3 and can shoot any junk or crafting item at enemies and it actually does kill them
It's a fantastic series with awesome performances. Each episode is a banger. The beauty is that you don't need to have played the games to get the story but if you have its a goldmine of Easter eggs.
So great you noticed the "justified" connection 😊 I also knew nothing about the game and I only watched this because of Walton! And his character here was superb 🙌 can't wait to continue watching your reaction guys 👍👍👍
I played Fallout 3 and 4 and know some of New Vegas. Finished this season a couple days ago and loved most of it. Looking forward to watching you guys go on this journey.
At the end of World War 2 we went down a different time line, geared toward Nuclear energy, Transistor wasnt invented till much later (or something like it), and the US is stuck in the 50's. There was resource wars. Which led to the end. I am not giving anything away with the show. This is Fallout history.
The attention to detail will be lost on those who haven’t played FO4. For example, the “vases” for wedding flowers. Aluminum cans. 😂 Ubiquitous in the game. Even tiny details like the bolts on the walls. All the references to things in ALL of the games. And the ghoul referring to distractions! You’ll want to watch again after spending some time in the wasteland. DC, Commonwealth, Mojave. ❤ your takes on the show.
fallout is an alternate future of the world, as the people of the 50s would have imagined it, hence why its futuristic but still with an oldies cultural feel
@Oak and yes you are right about the actor for Lucy's brother. It is the bully from Ender's Game. I binge watched the whole series and you guys have a lot to look forward to. I thought it was great and as a fan of the games think it did very well staying true to them.
I've never played Fallout, so I have yet to learn about the lore. However, I really LOVED this show, and the fantastic sets, practical effects and acting by Walton Goggin, Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten and Moises Arias were all outstanding in this show. The haunting and terrifying opening in this episode alone had me sold. I appreciate how well this series doesn't need you to rely on the lore of the game, yet it still keeps you engaged. I'm sure the Easter Eggs must be huge for fans of the game.
The thing about the "easter eggs", theyre really arent that many... By that i mean, easter eggs and references are usually a non functional piece of eye candy. They didnt easter egg the show to death... they made all the in game items functional pieces of the show. The outfits were great, the sets were fantastic... and they had stimpaks because thats simply what they used, out of a medkit on the wall. One of the raiders used an inhaler drug called Jet because that what they use... raider camps is where you find that in game. They didnt force a bunch of fan service in, they just used what was natural in that built world. And didnt bother discussing it. I feared they'd EXPLAIN a bunch of stuff and they didnt. The only real easter eggs may have been a few Traits (in game you choose bonus traits every few levels that give advantages) like Bloody Mess, Ghoulish, and nightvision.
As a long time fan of the games, this was definitely a love letter to the gamers! But it is equally entertaining for those who know nothing about the games at all. My mom has been watching it with me and she likes it, which surprises me because I didn't think it would be something she liked. You're in for a treat! If you do plan to play the games, Fallout 4 may be the closest to the show design-wise.
Loving the series, and looking forward to watching your reactions on all of this. They're doing a great job of adhering to the feel and lore of the game. I highly recommend playing Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, and Fallout 4
They way I heard it explained was this story takes place within the established world, but doesn't necessarily follow the stories of the games themselves. So to me, that just means this is simply a new story in the world of fallout.
Only thing I know about fallout is a speedrun I saw of a guy using a revolver to teleport through the whole map, it was the wierdest thing. So far Jinxe's and Cecil's performances are gold. looking foward to this. I'm actually watching them as you guys watch them.
I'm so happy to see you guys doing this series. I can't wait to see your reactions for the rest. It is really loyal to the games in my opinion, which really surprised me. Enjoy!
You guys should play one of the games! Fallout 3 or New Vegas would be great. I really liked this first episode. And Walton Goggins is amazing as always
Technically speaking in Fallout lore the Great War is a separated war than the American/Chinese war even tought the former caused the latter. The previous war was over after America defeated China at Anchorage. Then China retaliated by starting the Great War immediately after. A war that lasted for only 2 hours.
Great reaction, as usual, gentlemen. This show is a video game adaption and uses video game logic in certain situations. For example, the large syringe Lucy uses after being stabbed is a Stimpak, a medical item from the games that insta-heals wounds and regenerates health points and in later episodes other miraculous healing potions come in handy. And the gun that shoots the baby doll leg is a Rock-It launcher, a weapon from the games that fires all sorts of junk items in an exaggerated and unrealistic manner.
The nice thing about the fallout world is while there is a canon timeline so to speak, each story & its characters is self contained, but has universal factions and concepts that you really don’t have to know anything about so this is a fine way to start!
If you didn't know the pier and ferris wheel pictured when Lucy leaves Vault 33 is the Santa Monica Pier, a relatively famous landmark of Los Angeles, California
That contraption that u saw that shoots basically junk at people is called the Rock-It-Launcher. The barrel is huge so it can shoot pretty much use anything as ammo. Dishes, tin cans, teddy bears, pool balls, basketballs, baseballs, books, lawn gnomes.😅 U guys need to play these games. They r so addictive. And the music while your fighting is so awesome and out of place but at the same time it fits. The Fallout universe is insane. Imagine listening to Frank Sinatra or Bing Crosby while absolutely murdering everyone or being a good guy. I love this show so far.
This show captures the feel of the games perfectly. If you'd played one of the games you'd see so many easter eggs from the game. From the obvious Nuka-Colas, to the little bobblehead of the Vault-tec boy, to even the little odds that in the game you'd collect as sources of scrap materials. The show is fantastic
The feel of the show is 100% the feel of Fallout. The humor, violence, gore, and the overall world itself. It is really making me want to dust off my copies of the Fallout games. It's good to see that even people without much knowledge of the game can enjoy it, and there are also plenty of Easter eggs for the fans as well.
What a BANGER of an open! And of course the rest of the episode! We have not played the game and know nothing about this world. Looking forward to the rest of the season. What was your reaction?
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you guys should check out Atmic Blonde or Prisoners, both are amazing
When's raid coming out
Can't wait for y'all to play Fallout 4 on the other channel.
(Think Skyrim, but with guns and radiation.
Different "factions", or guilds, and you'll have an idea.
(Fallout and skyrim are both Bethesda)
There are some really good fallout lore videos explaining a lot of the nuances and details you wouldn’t get unless you’ve played the game. After I watched a few, i had an incredibly opened eye for how much effort they put into this show as far as details go. Btw, this show has some of the best visuals and set design that I’ve ever seen.
Fallout Takes Place in the Year 2077 so its the ALT Future not the Past, they never invented the Microprocessor so they still Use Vacuum Tubes so they are advanced but also Backwards , Nuclear power is the Norm and Giant Corporations Run the show with NO Restrictions as they Own everything!.
A small thing, but something I appreciated from the writers when rewatching the show: in that intro scene, they made a point of showing that the birthday boy's father kept taking photos throughout the whole party. It's possible that the reason why no one noticed the bomb flash at first was because they had been seeing the camera flash all day long.
This is exactly the reason they even show the camera flash right before too ❤
lol the flash from nuclear bomb would literally permanently blind you. You wouldn't mistaken them.
@robotko_ruslan in our earth sure. In Fallout nukes can be the size of a football with a mushroom cloud the size of a tree and no blinding flash. Oh well
@@adventuroushermit2590 I can understand it with a mini nuke for Fat Man launcher, but not for a full size nuclear bomb used in that scene. In Honest Hearts DLC for Fallout New Vegas there are personal logs of a man who survived the bombs that dropped in Salt lake city. He was not blinded because at the moment of an explosion he looked at the opposite direction, but people standing next to him were looking at the explosion and got blinded.
@@robotko_ruslan Seems like everyone was distracted by the TV thus not looking at the nuke flash directly. The camera flash bulbs would have desensitised their eyes.
In the Fallout universe, the microchip was never invented, which is why they are in the future, but all of their electronics are vacuum tube-based.
Not the microchip, but transistors.
And it's not that they weren't invented, but that they were invented way later on than in our world, so technology evolved to be more like most like 50s sci-fi tech.
@@eddmario A microchip (also called a chip, a computer chip, an integrated circuit or IC) is a set of electronic circuits on a small flat piece of silicon. On the chip, transistors act as miniature electrical switches that can turn a current on or off.
Next time you feel like saying something, do some research first.
Maybe just accept that you're not knowledgeable and don't say anything at all.
@@eddmarioTransistors definitly excist in fallout, circuits do not work without them. Semiconductors specifically was what wasn't invented. Transistors are used to make, computers and fm/am transmittors, recievers and amiplifiers. The most common type of ttransistor in fallout are vacuum tube transistors.
@@READY_OR_NOT From official Fallout wiki: In the Fallout series, one of the aspects of the divergence is the fact that transistors did not became as popular, with vacuum tubes continuing to be the dominant building block of electronics into the 21st century, and the term "chip" typically (but not always) refers to processing units using vacuum tubes, such as the water chip.
You are welcome. Now go do some exercising and calm down.
And btw silicon is actually whats missing in Fallout. From Quora: The technology that is “missing” in the Fallout universe is silicon. We developed silicon chips that make transistors tiny, like microscopic tiny. We did that partly because using transistors for computing used tremendous amounts of electricity. One of the reasons that early computers were so rare was the demand for that electricity. In the Fallout universe, nuclear power provided that electricity. There was less of a need to miniaturize (which reduced energy usage), so the switch to silicon did not happen.
@@CliffuckingBooth nice way of reconstructing my words to fit into some kind of fantasy argument you obviously have been waiting to have but I specifically said MICROCHIP!!! as did the original post. I was also just copy pasting the actual definition from an online textbook. Choke on your own repulsity and reap that sweet shame.
Omg that little " is it your thumb or mine?" Is just so bone chillingly horrifying
I personally hate little kids acting, they usually have a hard time acting “organically” but she did an awesome job projecting her fear in that scene.
Even before that, the little sound she makes when she first puts her thumb up.
I was too distracted by the fact that she didn't get her eyes burned by the nuke. There's quite a few flaws in the representation of the nukes in general there that would've made them and the beginning much more devastating and dramatic, but I guess also Cooper's survival much less believable.
@@Dark__Thoughts This isn't "Oppenheimer" or anything serious. This is based on a video game and for entertainment. It's not meant to be realistic.
I think you are drastically overestimating the blindness risk range of nuclear blasts. Light follows the inverse-square law -- the intensity falls with the square of the distance from the source. The majority of modern nukes in the world today would probably only pose a blindness risk within a 4-5 mile radius during the day, farther at night if the eyes were adjusted for darkness. Now something like Tsar Bomba? That's a different story. But that first blast was more than far enough away that if it was one of the more common sizes in the 0.5 megaton range, she would have been more than far enough away to, at worst, just be dazzled the way anyone would looking at something like, well, a flash bulb.
Chronological Order of the Fallout Games:
- October 23, 2077 - The Great War, day the bombs dropped.
- Year 2102 - Fallout 76, Survivors from Vault 76 reenter the wilderness of West Virginia.
- Year 2161 - Fallout (1997), The Vault Dweller leaves Vault 13 and travels through Southern California
- Years 2197-2198 - Fallout Tactics, The Warrior battles for the Midwest
- Year 2208 - Fallout: Brotherhood Of Steel (2004), is thought to take place in Texas though it is unclear [Considered non-canon, added for reference]
- Year 2241 - Fallout 2, The Chosen One wanders through California, Oregon, and Nevada.
- Year 2277 Fallout 3, The Lone Wanderer searches through the remains of Washington D.C. for their father
- Year 2281 Fallout New Vegas, The Courier is on a quest for revenge in the deserts of Nevada, Arizona, and California
- Year 2287 Fallout 4, The Sole Survivor has escaped their vault into the Commonwealth, formerly Massachusetts
- Year 2296 Fallout the Show, The wilds of California are set on a course for chaos with the actions of Lucy, Maximus, and The Ghoul
Good listing of the history
Apparently canonically New Vegas story line happened just before the show starts. The whole show is pretty deceiving in how it portrays for example the ncr.
Great thank you
And whats the newest fallout game?
@@ricksanchez369 Technically the latest game in the series would be Fallout Shelter Online, but the latest mainstream game would be Fallout 76, the online game. Fallout 5 is still mostly just rumors and speculation
Oh honey..as gamer that played them..this did more than deliver..they hit this out of the park! And it’s set in Retrofuturism (what the past thought the future would look like)
I haven't played the game, but I'm glad that they delivered this for you. I'm not being sarcastic, I promise. I am a HUGE the last of us fan and I was blown away with the TV series, so I know the feeling of seeing a beloved video game not being destroyed.
So fun fact: Lucy's actress also voices Jinx from Arcane.
oh damn lol thats interesting
I knew I liked her voice for a reason lol
@@DBT1007 descend to madness more like :D
She's also british with a believable american accent
@@Rexxsar101 She's great in Yellowjackets
The deal with Ghouls is that they were people once who were exposed to massive radiation but somehow survived. Most ghouls are feral, meaning they are basically zombies. Ghouls don't really age so some Ghouls are people from before the war.
IIRC the lore is that the vast majority of people still get sick/die from radiation exposure like in real life, but for some reason certain people with genetic pre-disposition turn into ghouls instead.
@TehIdiotOne It is genetic, Billy the Kid and his parents all had the ghoul gene, also The Children of Atom have developed a mutation/evolution where they became immune to radiation
Ghouls are not created instantaneously; they are slowly turned. They are not immediately feral, they initially retain their reasoning like Cooper, radiation heals their body, but accelerates their brain deterioration, aka zombification.
And then there are the few ghouls that turned into ghouls because of drugs. Hancock as an example.
Just curious, why was Walter Goggins’ in the ground as a ghoul, and what were they using him for? What was that yellow stuff in the IV?
To answer a couple of your questions and to give you some spoiler-free background. There are a total of 122 vaults across the US. Every vault is unique and was built with a specific purpose. It is not normal for vaults to be interconnected, so Vaults 31, 32, and 33 are already special in that aspect. These 3 vaults are in Santa Monica, California. This series is not a retelling of any of the video games, but is an entirely new entry into the Fallout franchise. The TV show stays very true to the lore and tone of the games, and to my understanding, is actually considered canon. The show is absolutely littered with easter eggs and references to the games, but you don't need to play any of the games to understand what's going on. A fan of the games will probably understand a lot the context a bit faster, but the show does a very good job of explaining everything you need to know. You guys are in for a ride. Welcome to the Fallout universe!
Yep this is a great series so far. Yeah there 122 vaults and a alot of them are purposed for experimentation. It's actually a dark concept.
@@Alexs.2599 This is a huge part of the intrigue of the show. If the comment you’re responding to was avoiding spoilers, what made you go “hmm, yep, I’m gonna say this thing that spoils a huge twist of the show if someone hasn’t interacted with the source material”
Fallout is Retro-Futurism. A future based on the 50's ideas of what the future could be. In the Fallout world they never went all-in on transistor technology and stuck with Vacuum-Tubes and punch machines, pushing that tech further than we ever did. They also went all-in on Nuclear energy and were able to create chems like Rad-Away to overcome radiation, Stimpaks {used by Lucy when stabbed} to heal, UltraJet {red puffer used during the Raid Wedding} to enhance combat, with much more to come. Ghouls are people who have been overdosed with radiation but not enough to kill them outright. There are degrees of ghouls ranging from "looks normal with some ghoul traits" to "talks normal looks dead" to "28 days later" feral, you'll see soon and probably already have by now. The drip bag hooked up to Coop/TheGhoul is something new to the show and not in the games {yet}, a drug to keep Ghouls from going Feral, which I'm sure we'll find out more about over time.
Ghouls were also exposed to the fev to some degree weren't they? Or am i remembering fo3 wrong lol
In a nuclear winter, their technology is an advantage. durable and easy to repair.
@@kingjellybean9795 ghouls are one of the few mutant types that *aren’t* a result of Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) exposure.
i could be wrong but i think the drip bag and same with the little bottles the ghoul uses later on might be radaway, the liquid in the drip bags looks very similar to the radaway bag we see lucy use later on, my guess would be ghouls use radaway to prevent radiation build up and going feral
It's not an ultrajet, though. Ultrajet is extremely powerful drug for ghouls, ordinary raiders use jet.
The intro takes place in October 2077. Its the future, just culturally locked.
Edit: Commented before discussion, yall figured it out.
Wake the fuck up, vault dweller, we got a wasteland to explore.
Nuclear power without inventing the transistor.
Yeah it's an alternative version of our world that among other things never focused development on transistors.
@@Chumppi That's not true, transistors do exist in the Fallout universe
@@jonsnow1951 Not until it was too late for them to even begin to enter the civilian market.
The thing Lucy injects herself with is a Stimpak, an item from the game that is pretty much a "catch-all back to 100hp" item
Other Easter eggs involve (That we can see on your cut):
Lucy discussing skills, repair, science, and speech are in fact skills in the game.
The little cartoon of the vault dweller, the Vault Boy, is a recurring thing.
The Book from the Book Club is a special consumable that improves your skills temporarily
The giant watch, the Pip-Boy, is the main menu in the game.
The Bobblehead is an extremely rare item that would improve a skill permanently
Sugar Bomb, the father's term of endearment, is a consumable in the game.
This might be a stretch, but that goddamn jar Lucy uses to fight back, i swear to god I've seen that same model from Fo3 to Fo76
The flying ship, there is another hovercraft like the one in the game called Prydwen in Fo4
The T-60 is only one of the many, many, maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaany armor models the series has had.
The yellow structure, where the armors rest, are the workbenches in-game where you create and modify them.
Nuka-cola is exactly what you are thinking. You encounter it literally everywhere, and it restores HP in the game.
The squire carrying that big bag like a caddy is actually something you do in-game with the various companions you can befriend in-game.
Dogmeat is almost everyone's first companion, a German Shepherd.
The baby arm is shot by a gun known as the Junk Jet, you can stuff anything in there and it shoots it out at lethal speed.
That was fun, keep it going guys, what did i miss?
Also, the guy who died to a baby leg was killed using the Rock-It launcher. A weapon you can make that shoots any junk items you come across in the wasteland.
@ThtJustinGuy the earlier version of the Junk Jet
No, the guy was using the actual Junk Jet, you can see the multiple tubes/pipes running on the outside.
This is what I called love for the game
@@ThtJustinGuy I believe the wep that launched any junk lying around is the Junk Jet, I could be wrong
Was trawling through a “fallout show reaction” search every day since I finished it, waiting to find your vid, can’t wait to see the whole series with you!
Same here, was waiting for their reaction.
This is easily the best Videogame Adaptation Ive seen. Everything in this show is 100% fallout through and through. Its so good.
For sure, but /and it also helps that Fallout is one of the best, if not the, stylish games ever. The way theyve done the 50s retro futurism, the design, the cartoons, the mr handy, the aesthetics of it all of it. It ties dark dystopian / nuclear annihilation with goofy comedy superbly. The world of fallout is an amazingly beautiful creation done so so well. Someone please name another game/series that even comes close.
Agreed and I don't even like Fallout but I'm happy for their fans
Tbf there hasn’t been many video game adaptations. Let alone good ones. Great show. Has a couple of flaws and plot points so I wouldn’t consider it fantastic but it is still pretty good
@@trevorsmith572 the Super Mario Bros movie was good
What Lucy injected into her body is called a Stimpak and they are able to heal broken muscles tissue and bone.
"So it's in the past, but it's a futuristic past."
Um actually, it's in the future but it's a retro future.
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Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter
Patrolling the nuclear winter almost makes you wish for a Mojave
profligates like you belong on a cross
Nuclear wintering patrol the Mohave makes you wish
Patrolling the capitalist democracy almost makes you wish for an utopia.
Well that is what Metro is for haha
The black woman in the vault is blind Al from deadpool, his roomate.
Thats why she looked familiar!
@@rachelfondeur Yeah, I kept thinking she looked so famliar to me. Then in one scene the way she was looking made me realize it was her. ^_^
Yup, Leslie Uggams. Legendary actress who's 80 years old and still kicking ass in the industry.
I guess she found the cure for blindness and the 5 kilo of cocaine.
yup Leslie Uggams! 70's actress!
Your Jetsons comparison was the first moment I felt y'all "got it". That was the perfect description. It's like a Jetsons world gone all wrong.
They did so much justice for the games it is genuinely a 10/10 adaption
I want to give a lot of context and I really hope you guys see this because I feel this will help with your understanding of the show:
In terms of the games, this show has its own original story. It's set in the world of the game and that's what has made this adaptation so good. They have meticulously incorporated all elements from the game into it. The sets, the character motivations, the music, everything. I also love that they don't really feel like they need to explain anything. Those familiar with the games won't need an explanation. Those unfamiliar can easily piece together a lot of what's going on just by the way things are presented on screen and are later revealed in future episodes.
The gore. Now that is straight out of the game. In the game you can customize your character with a set of perks that can help you out in the wasteland. Some are there just to make things more interesting. One of those perks is known as "bloody mess" which makes it so that enemies die in very gory fashion. It's easy to see that some characters in this show has that perk.
Let's talk about Lucy. The way she's introduced is also pretty much out of the game. She's telling us her attributes, her skills. Fallout is mainly an RPG (Role Playing Game) and one of the first things you do is pick your character stats and their main perks. Considering she was raised in a vault shows in her demeaner and it's pretty much how all players start off in the game.
The Ghoul. Radiation is poison, but there are cases of people being mutated by it and turned into these creatures known as ghouls. There are two types. Walton's character is one of the conscious ones. Able to think, talk and function. Others go feral and are by all intents and purposes zombies. They're immune to radiation and are known to be able to live for a long time, though they're not immortal.
I don't feel the need to explain the Brotherhood of Steel because the show does an awesome job going through who they are and what their motivations are.
Now for the vaults. Vault-Tec, the company behind the fallout shelters, constructed 122 vaults across the United States. I'm not going to say much because there's plenty to spoil. All you need to know is that the designs, looks, functions and everything is pretty much 1:1 straight out of the video games. Even the sounds of the doors, computer terminals and everything. In this first episode you learn that Vault 33, 32 and 31 are connected to each other. This is not the case with the rest of the vaults. Each vault has its own design and mission. You'll learn more of this as the season goes on. In the game you learn more of this by finding and exploring these vaults.
The device on the vault dwellers arms are known as Pip-Boys ((Personal Information Processor). In the game it's basically you're in-game menu system. It keeps track of your health, status, inventory, weapons, can detect radio transmissions, play games, etc. In the show it serves the exact same purpose. They use it the way it's meant to be used and that is excellent. Aside from that you have all sorts of things in the background which are all from the game as well. From the bottles of Nuka Cola to the stimpack Lucy uses to heal her wounds. Shows like these, shows like The Last of Us, truly shows that you can make entertaining media based on video games if you truly understand and respect the source material.
I could go on more but I've already said enough. You've started a journey into quite the franchise. If you're up for it, considering you guys are playing things like Red Dead Redemption, you should consider playing Fallout 4 on your gaming channel. If you love the show you'll most likely love that game. No knowledge of the previous games is necessary and it includes all the elements seen in the show.
I hope you enjoy the rest of the season, and remember: War... war never changes...
Edit: Oh! I almost forgot! Yes, the guy was killed by a plastic baby leg. The fat dude was using a weapon known as a "Junk Jet." It's basically a trash shooting gun. In the games you're able to pick up pretty much any piece of trash you can find, be it for crafting, getting resources, selling for caps (bottlecaps are a currency in the Wasteland), etc. Most of it is just junk though. For the most part it would be useless except for that gun. It takes any piece of trash from your inventory and uses it as a lethal projectile.
Fun fact: For those who don’t know, Lucy McLean is played by the same person who did the voice acting work for Jinx in Arcane
"you gotta imagine they put these vaults somewhere people wouldnt randomly stumble upon them"
yeah, about that... 😂
As someone who only played Fallout 4 and Fallout shelter I know I didn’t catch all the references but it makes me want to play the games now so much. Excited to experience this show with you all again!
I noticed Diamond Dave pointing at Lucy's brother at 9:25 , he is Moisés Arias, who you guys recently saw him as Bonzo in the 2013 movie Enders Game (which you guys recently reacted to).
The actress playing Lucy is Ella Purnell, who voiced acted as Jinx (Powder) in the Netflix animated show, Arcane.
And speaking of voice acting, Walton Goggins did Cecil in Invincible.
And as a fan of the video games, the setting, lore and easter eggs are amazing. Amazon did a splendid job.
He’s my second cousin hahahahaha RRRRICOOOO
@munkeynz Don't forget that Goggins also had several scenes with Honcho (Mykelti Williamson) in the show "Justified".
Ella Purnell is also well known for her role in _Yellowjackets_
I definitely love the appearance of the junk gun
voiced jinx, not powder tho
I use to sneak into my older brother’s room while he was out with friends or at school and play fallout 3 on the dl. I’m only now realizing my brother 100% knew this and just had the grace not to delete my saves. I watched the show with him and the excitement between all my siblings was amazing. We’re all obsessed thanks to older bro who gave his music taste and video games to his sisters 😂😎 10/10 loved the show the ghoul was an incredible character
About Oak's "sounds pretty fast" comment on 200 years being safe after nuclear war, it's actually much slower than in reality. Most of the isotopes created in a nuclear explosion decay fast enough that within a matter of months, most areas would be safe for habitation. The duration of radiation hazard in Fallout is a vast overcorrection that the series uses because the games needed the bombs to be relevant to the post-apocalyptic world. In reality, radiation would be mostly safe within months, and back at normal prewar background levels within a few decades.
Radiation is generally what people first think about nuclear bombs. Its intangibility and its horrifying effects give it a sort of macabre mystique. But really, the most devastating aspect of the bombs are the shockwaves, and in a large scale scenario, nuclear winter which would starve billions. To go even further, fallout is primarily generated by ground blasts, but in a war, in which destruction of cities and military assets is the goal, airblasts would be used, which generate very little fallout, making radiation even less of a threat.
In short, radiation is very dangerous when it is present, but it ain't all it's hyped up to be.
For sure. It's why Hiroshima is still inhabited. (That said, as you note, fallout is generated mainly by ground blasts, and the intro does show that at least some of the bomb attacks in _Fallout_ were ground blasts.)
Hell, isn't the Elephant's Foot in Chernobyl close to being safe to get close to soon?
@@eddmario It’s still pretty damn dangerous but it has gone down, yes
@@rhonafenwick5643 Spreading nuclear fallout (hehe) is very much the purpose of them I think. Or at least is meant to be a destruction multiplier, as instead of 1-2 large bombs (maybe more, since I’m pretty sure that’s LA) they instead used countless super low-yield nuclear weapons that detonated either on impact/near ground level.
The opening to this show is so epic. The sheer terror of the bombs dropping, and knowing they wouldn’t survive based on what he said about the thumb… it’s terrifying to think about. My dad watched this show with me and he told me that when he was younger that they were constantly terrified of bombs dropping during the Cold War and I can’t imagine what that feels like.
As a kid growing up in the 70s and 80s, the thought of nuclear annihilation was just one of those things you just lived with (and had occasional nightmares about).
@@folcotook3049
As a millennial who didn't grow up with that constant reminder, I STILL had nightmares about it. Lol. Still do, occasionally. That opening was tough.
@@beetlebob4675 My nightmares were probably most frequent after watching The Day After (TV movie about nuclear war) as a kid (I was around 10 or so). It was set enough to where I lived that I was pretty familiar with the locations and watched places I knew and had visited get blown to heck.
You’re living through it. Ukraine.. Gaza..
The vaults actually were located in the vicinity of population centers so those assigned a spot in a vault would be able to get to them on short notice.
The baby leg was shot from a gun from the games: the junk jet. It fires whatever random debris you can find to stuff in it.
On whether they got it right or wrong, this OG player (back to Fallout 1, 1997) thinks they got it very right.
This is set in an alternate future where the timeline splits off from ours some time after WWII. Technology is mostly vacuum tube and atomic energy based which is why the tech is so bulky. Essentially think of every "world of tomorrow" type film from the 1950s/early 60s and that's the world of Fallout before the nukes fell. The US also was culturally stuck in the 50s, hence the clothing, cars, and music.
If you'd like an intro into the great war of 2077 that won't really have spoilers for the TV show, check out the intro from Fallout 1: ua-cam.com/video/hG3uBgQmTnk/v-deo.html (remember, this is a game from 1997, so temper your expectations on the graphics quality).
In for a wild ride with this one, Walton Goggins has yet to miss
He wasn’t very good in that last _Tomb Raider_ film, but I blame that more on the shitty writing…
The level of excitement I felt when I saw that you guys did this is insane. I don't think I've ever clicked on a reaction video so fast!
I have finished the whole season. As an avid fan of the games, they absolutely nailed it. It's 100% Fallout. I don't know how they pulled it off, but damn! It's so amazing. The tone is perfect, the satire, sets, costumes, humor, everything. My biggest complaint is that we only have 8 episodes so far. And maybe also that they didn't include any [REDACTED] but I suppose they have to save some things for season 2.
Just a few notes, the item that Lucy injected herself with after getting stabbed is called a stimpak. It's one of the healing items in the games. Lucy herself would be the player character in the games. Most of the games (not all, but most) have you start as a vault dweller who for whatever reason has to venture out into the Wasteland.
In this episode, when the projector gets damaged it catches on fire, and you can see the projection burning up the background, which I thought was a really cool way to sort of mirror what happened to the real world when the bombs fell.
Great video, and I can't wait to see your reactions to all the episodes and hear your thoughts on this truly outstanding show!
Ella Purnell, who plays Lucy, also voiced Jinx in Arcane - she's a great actress
You should watch her in Yellowjackets as well, a brilliant show
That gun is from the game, it's called the Junk Jet. You load any piece of junk, that'll fit in the magazine hopper. Every time you pull the trigger, you launch a piece of highspeed junk at your target.
YOU GUYS!!! SHOULD watch show Yellowjackets, unique twisted show..Lucy actress Ella is in it. Absolutely amazing show and full of 90s great soundtrack!
Also Christina RIcci & Juliet Lewis
One of my favorites it's insanely good
The Nolan Brothers and Their Nukes. - A great genre to watch.
It’s so funny seeing everybody cringe at the cousin thing, but when you think about it, when you’re trapped with like 50-100 people for hundreds of years eventually everyone is going to be related to everyone lol. It’s still gross regardless, but it makes sense 😅
Why is it gross?
@@Burke1O1 cause they are looking at it from an established social norm that its inappropriate/forbidden to be romantically or sexually involves with those you are related to. So an outsider's perspective on their part is expected.
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Why isn't it? @@Burke1O1
@@Burke1O1bro pls delete this
The game literally has a perk that you can choose that cranks the gore up to 11, love to see them leaning into that!
I actually started to play Fallout because of the show.
Also fun fact: Lucy's actor played Fallout 4 to prepare for the roll and she also voices Jinx from Arcane.
Enjoy. And don't skimp on the older games too - the isometric Fallout 1 and 2 that started it all are wonderful games, and New Vegas was more in that vein too (being made by ex-Interplay and Black Isle devs who did the originals). Fallout 3 and 4 just lacked that old charm somewhat.
Bit of an outlier since it's not a RPG but a tactics game, but Fallout Tactics is a pretty tough but fun game, too.
@@agp11001 Thanks I will enjoy them all.
@@CosmicAether Or be a true gamer and combine 3 with new vegas. makes it the best fallout imo.
@@varrusironfist4335What do you mean by combining those games? Gonna start playing fallout soon.
Honestly, same. I've seen my brothers play Fallout and it looked intriguing, but I never got into it. But after seeing this, I borrowed the whole game series from my brother, going right back to the original PC RPG. This show's sucked me into the universe hard
Potentially my favorite reaction channel, can’t wait to watch this with you.
As someone who has played every fallout game ever released, from the first one released in 1997 to fallout 76 and played through several of them multiple times, the amount of subtle fan service is amazing. Everything from the Junk Jet, a gun thta literally fires junk, the Syringer that Lucy uses that shots syringes or Grognak the Barbarian playing on the TV before the bombs fall. Those are just to mention a few.
Fallout is my favorite game series ever and I freaking loved this show.
the opening scene when the bombs drop is just so horrifyingly, but beautifully breathtaking, it really pulled me into the show right away
As a fan of both Walton Goggins and the Fallout games, I was really excited about this show and it did not disappoint. It's definitely one of the best video game adaptations ever made.
I need to re-watch to double check but I really wish they had stated explicitly that the bombs fall in the FUTURE, 2077, not the 1950s because it's a massively common misconception. Like, it's so common that I believe the majority of people think it.
5:14 Appleton Oak picking up on stuff RIGHT AWAY! The actress who plays Lucy is in Yellowjackets- that is absolutely a show you need to watch, by the way.
🏴☠️ Gents please check out Black Sails. I think this serie is right up your alley. Black Sails is an American historical adventure television series set on New Providence Island and written to be a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island. Black Sails was ahead off its like and for some reason never hit the mainstream, but it is very much loved amongst it fans. And hits high scores everywhere. Black Sails has real life Pirates, its gritty, heavy and yet nothing is rushed in Black Sails. It crafts an interesting story with well developed characters to carry it. Whether you find yourself siding with Captain Flint, Charles Vane, John Silver, or any other of the key character; they all bring something special to the show. It is truly a much watch!!
Black Sails and The Expanse are two shows I really wish they reacted to.
@@nokta7373 same, they are so so good and I am sure they would enjoy them
I had to wait to watch your reaction until I'd seen the show and I'm so glad you guys are covering it!
I'm a HUGE Fallout fan and I've played all the games (except 76) and this show really nailed it for me. The easter eggs are in every scene and even the paintings and food (Iguana Bits for sale? No thank you - if you know, you know...)
GREAT to see you enjoying it!
Can't wait to see the other reactions
Oh it met my expectations! The atmosphere and tone are perfect!!
I'm SO happy you guys are doing this one! Excited 🤩
YUSSSSSSs. Ive gone through it 2 times so far. LETS GO 3 TIMES! WOOOO
Nice homage to "The Good, The Bad, The Ugly" w/ the title cards, good=Lucy, Bad=Brotherhood, Ugly=the ghoul lol
“Baby Leg??” - the gun in the game is called a JUNK JET.
It shoots any Kind of scaps and metals around the wasteland.
Fun fact , Just wanted to explain that for you guys 😎
fun fact the actress for Lucy is also the VA for Jinx in Arcane
I've only played Fallout 4 & Fallout Shelter, this show certainly exceeded expectations, great adaptation of the franchise! Suits looked cool, great dialogue.
Oak "I wouldn't lean against that in a white shirt" Answer looks at Quinn's white tshirt 😄 I can't wait to see more of your reactions to this! Gonna be a awesome journey! 😀
You should play new vegas and fallout 3 the best ones in the franchise
@@gtmo55mack20 well I do have Fallout New Vegas in my video game library, just gotta find time to play it! 🎮
Lisa Joy and husband Jonathan Nolan created HBO's Westworld (among others) and created this adaptation. They always seem to create a distinct feel for their series. From the production design, to the score, to even the credit sequences, their shows are amazing.
So stoked you guys are doing this series!! Hope you guys enjoy it as much as I did. Keep up the good work guys, sending love from Canada!
Takes a talented director to lighten the serious nature of a show like this with so many great comic lines. It just works so well.
"Maybe they put them in the middle of nowhere so people wont randomly stumble upon them."
Me who just randomly stumbles upon them in the games. 😮😂
Welcome to the Fallout Universe! I have *thousands* of hours in Fallout 4 (been playing since release), as well as 76 and New Vegas, so I was super excited for this show! I can't wait to see you watch more of these. I do wish you had someone there to explain some things, like stimpacks and Raiders, but I think you're getting the general idea. Love all your reactions, and I'm so glad you're doing this series!
the actor that plays cooper howard, the cowboy/ghoul character, does the voice for cecil steadman in invincible, youll be able to hear it more and more throughout the show
The beginning section of the episode still gives me absolute chills and goosebumps. Sets the tone what Fallout really was all about.
To get the context of the beginning, the whole world is already in shambles. In a previous decade before the Sino American War, EU and the Middle East pretty much call it quits. They nuked each other because of the Resource Wars as it affected them hard. Also the 21st century in the pre-Fallout period was already in a bleak future. The world's resources are running low and America already resorted to use nuclear technology. The countries around the world are in turmoil and the hurdles are far from over. There was the plague that killed millions around the world. The world's last resource remains on the case of oil. Deposits of oil was only up and running in the state of Alaska. China sees this as an opportunity and survival. Thus they are gonna take it by force. That kickstarted the Sino-American War.
The entire war was happening for about a decade since 2066 to 2076. In 2077, it gets from bad to worse from there. US illegally annexes Canada by doing the counter attack in Alaska. They sucessfully pushed them out by occupying and passing through Canada. US and the Asian allies are now invading Mainland China for having the war to have an quick end. And just as China and the United States are having a war in the background, the average folks keeps their mindset on peacetime just as everything will be alright. And victory was already in sight. Unfortunately everything was not going to be okay. The nuclear exchange occured in 2 hours and that signifies the end of the Sino-American War, especially the whole world as societies crumbled in the nuclear exchange. This is what it states in the Fallout-universe game lore.
For more context that the stuff you see are technologically-locked in the era of the 1950s and 1960s. The date where the old world ended and entering into a new world was in October 23, 2077.
Absolute banger of a show, glad you’re doing it!
Yet another BaddMedicine series to binge. As a huge Fallout fan, this show did not disappoint.
Never played the game, but I watched the whole series in 1 go and loved every moment of it.
So hyped for this one as a huge fallout fan !The references are perfect ! In the game you can be good, bad or nuteral and the 3 main characters are interpretations of that I love the details !
Each Fallout game is about a specific vault and there are like 122 or 129 (can't remember) vaults. The vaults that are focused on in the show are not in the games. But my understanding that the story being told in the show is cannon to the Fallout universe. So the stories are unique, but set in the world the games have set, if that makes sense. And I have only played Fallout 3, so I am not a super knowledgeable about the world of Fallout. But they definitely nailed the world of Fallout in this show, at least in my opinion!
I fell in love with the show. I watched it all in 2 days. One of the best, if not the best, show that was adapted from a video game. can't wait to go on this journey with you guys!
fallout 2 and new vegas don't have any specific vault to them. And they didn't nail world of Fallout, atleast not the originals and new vegas
Same here, I binged this series over the weekend. Love it!
It captures the overall feel of Fallout, without being as dark as the first two while still respecting the world building. Bethesda fallout is what most fans know and want. I like both, but this show is later Fallout for sure. Fun show so far.
Love how the opening with the actual fallout just stuns people. Absolutely great show. I cant wait to see it with you guys
They put so much love and detail into this show, exceeded all expectations
I agree Oak, no to the prearranged marriage. Love the camaraderie between yall. Such fun
Oh yeah and for anyone who might not know the weapon that was used to shoot the plastic baby leg into that guy at 25:28 it's called a Rocket It Launcher and they are on Fallout 3 and can shoot any junk or crafting item at enemies and it actually does kill them
It's a fantastic series with awesome performances. Each episode is a banger.
The beauty is that you don't need to have played the games to get the story but if you have its a goldmine of Easter eggs.
So great you noticed the "justified" connection 😊 I also knew nothing about the game and I only watched this because of Walton! And his character here was superb 🙌 can't wait to continue watching your reaction guys 👍👍👍
I played Fallout 3 and 4 and know some of New Vegas. Finished this season a couple days ago and loved most of it. Looking forward to watching you guys go on this journey.
stem pack is like a heath potion back to full health. remember the people in the vaults where all scientists.
At the end of World War 2 we went down a different time line, geared toward Nuclear energy, Transistor wasnt invented till much later (or something like it), and the US is stuck in the 50's. There was resource wars. Which led to the end. I am not giving anything away with the show. This is Fallout history.
Fun fact, in a real nuclear apocalypse, there would be little to no radiation after like 2 weeks.
In lore, some vaults opened up after 25 years.
The attention to detail will be lost on those who haven’t played FO4. For example, the “vases” for wedding flowers. Aluminum cans. 😂 Ubiquitous in the game. Even tiny details like the bolts on the walls. All the references to things in ALL of the games. And the ghoul referring to distractions! You’ll want to watch again after spending some time in the wasteland. DC, Commonwealth, Mojave. ❤ your takes on the show.
fallout is an alternate future of the world, as the people of the 50s would have imagined it, hence why its futuristic but still with an oldies cultural feel
Patrolling the mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter
very original
@Oak and yes you are right about the actor for Lucy's brother. It is the bully from Ender's Game. I binge watched the whole series and you guys have a lot to look forward to. I thought it was great and as a fan of the games think it did very well staying true to them.
I've never played Fallout, so I have yet to learn about the lore. However, I really LOVED this show, and the fantastic sets, practical effects and acting by Walton Goggin, Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten and Moises Arias were all outstanding in this show. The haunting and terrifying opening in this episode alone had me sold. I appreciate how well this series doesn't need you to rely on the lore of the game, yet it still keeps you engaged. I'm sure the Easter Eggs must be huge for fans of the game.
The thing about the "easter eggs", theyre really arent that many...
By that i mean, easter eggs and references are usually a non functional piece of eye candy. They didnt easter egg the show to death... they made all the in game items functional pieces of the show. The outfits were great, the sets were fantastic... and they had stimpaks because thats simply what they used, out of a medkit on the wall. One of the raiders used an inhaler drug called Jet because that what they use... raider camps is where you find that in game. They didnt force a bunch of fan service in, they just used what was natural in that built world. And didnt bother discussing it. I feared they'd EXPLAIN a bunch of stuff and they didnt.
The only real easter eggs may have been a few Traits (in game you choose bonus traits every few levels that give advantages) like Bloody Mess, Ghoulish, and nightvision.
The baby doll leg was shot out of a gun called The Junk Jet. A weapon that can load anything into it and fire it out. Hope that clears it up! lol
Fantastic reaction with the right copyright cut. Well done. Fallout is freaking gold
As a long time fan of the games, this was definitely a love letter to the gamers! But it is equally entertaining for those who know nothing about the games at all. My mom has been watching it with me and she likes it, which surprises me because I didn't think it would be something she liked. You're in for a treat! If you do plan to play the games, Fallout 4 may be the closest to the show design-wise.
Loving the series, and looking forward to watching your reactions on all of this.
They're doing a great job of adhering to the feel and lore of the game. I highly recommend playing Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, and Fallout 4
You guys remember Jinx from Arcane, right?
Well turns out, she's not just a phenomenal voice actor. She's also a phenomenal actor actor.
We're doing it, baby! Love your guy's reactions and I am very excited for this one.
They way I heard it explained was this story takes place within the established world, but doesn't necessarily follow the stories of the games themselves. So to me, that just means this is simply a new story in the world of fallout.
Only thing I know about fallout is a speedrun I saw of a guy using a revolver to teleport through the whole map, it was the wierdest thing. So far Jinxe's and Cecil's performances are gold. looking foward to this. I'm actually watching them as you guys watch them.
I'm so happy to see you guys doing this series. I can't wait to see your reactions for the rest. It is really loyal to the games in my opinion, which really surprised me. Enjoy!
You guys should play one of the games! Fallout 3 or New Vegas would be great. I really liked this first episode. And Walton Goggins is amazing as always
Just to clarify, the war had already been in full swing by the time the bombs dropped. The bombs were more or less the end of the war.
Technically speaking in Fallout lore the Great War is a separated war than the American/Chinese war even tought the former caused the latter. The previous war was over after America defeated China at Anchorage. Then China retaliated by starting the Great War immediately after. A war that lasted for only 2 hours.
This entire show certainly delivered for fans of the show. Absolutely freaking fantastic.
Great reaction, as usual, gentlemen. This show is a video game adaption and uses video game logic in certain situations. For example, the large syringe Lucy uses after being stabbed is a Stimpak, a medical item from the games that insta-heals wounds and regenerates health points and in later episodes other miraculous healing potions come in handy. And the gun that shoots the baby doll leg is a Rock-It launcher, a weapon from the games that fires all sorts of junk items in an exaggerated and unrealistic manner.
The nice thing about the fallout world is while there is a canon timeline so to speak, each story & its characters is self contained, but has universal factions and concepts that you really don’t have to know anything about so this is a fine way to start!
the gun that shoots trash (baby leg) is Junk Jet from Fallout 4
Nice! Happy to have a show to watch with the Badd Medicine crew again.
If you didn't know the pier and ferris wheel pictured when Lucy leaves Vault 33 is the Santa Monica Pier, a relatively famous landmark of Los Angeles, California
"You take a sip from your trusty Vault 13 canteen..."
That contraption that u saw that shoots basically junk at people is called the Rock-It-Launcher. The barrel is huge so it can shoot pretty much use anything as ammo. Dishes, tin cans, teddy bears, pool balls, basketballs, baseballs, books, lawn gnomes.😅 U guys need to play these games. They r so addictive. And the music while your fighting is so awesome and out of place but at the same time it fits. The Fallout universe is insane. Imagine listening to Frank Sinatra or Bing Crosby while absolutely murdering everyone or being a good guy. I love this show so far.
This show captures the feel of the games perfectly. If you'd played one of the games you'd see so many easter eggs from the game. From the obvious Nuka-Colas, to the little bobblehead of the Vault-tec boy, to even the little odds that in the game you'd collect as sources of scrap materials. The show is fantastic
The feel of the show is 100% the feel of Fallout. The humor, violence, gore, and the overall world itself. It is really making me want to dust off my copies of the Fallout games. It's good to see that even people without much knowledge of the game can enjoy it, and there are also plenty of Easter eggs for the fans as well.