The way they present stimpaks in the show (and what you'd assume from the name) is that they actually aren't "cures", and they don't "fix" injuries. Rather, they're a drug that temporarily stimulates the body, probably with adrenaline, allowing you to ignore the injury until you can get actual medical attention.
@@lucasmorgan4379 Yeah its hard to estimate what the show really wants them to be. In the game it gives you HP back and is the best way to heal yourself.
@@gregoryhayes7569 Its hard to estimate what the show wants them to be. I only throw in the "cure all" bit because most shows will treat it that way. It will heal you but not enough to keep someone from dying so that people have an excuse for not saving everyone with stimpaks.
She does use staples to close her wound tho and that seems like something that would naturally be inside a Doctor's Bag which is an aid item that heals crippled limbs
19:38, "Oh, so it's kinda culty." Nah, it's TOTALLY culty! I am so glad you two are watching this show. It is an incredible journey, full of twists and turns. Maximus is only a squire to the Knight, think of Medieval times. Squires were a Knight's servant. The best thing about this series is that it is its own story separate of any of the games, yet it is still set inside the same universe with the same lore. This series is set numerous years AFTER the events of the Fallout 4 game.
The theme name you're looking for is 'retrofuturism', where miniaturization of tech never really happened. The bombs fall in 2077 in the Fallout universe iirc
im so glad there is a watch through by a viewer that understands this is a post apocalypse with 50s aesthetics, this throws off so many people who arent paying attention
It's Atom Punk. Like Steam Punk, this is a look at what people in the past thought the future would be like. But in this case its the 1950s, instead of the 1800s. When early science fiction writers told tales of the future, this is the future they dreamt of, then it blows up.
The thing he inhaled is jet. It's a drug in the game. It's essentially amphetamine, in fact it's based on the original form of amphetamine from the 1930s which was an OTC inhaler like in the game. It was legal until it was banned in 1959 (banned as in not OTC). So the dude is essentially vapiing a huge dose of amphetamine (marketed as Adderall today in the US and dextroamphetamine in the rest of the world (dextro if a stronger isomer with less side). There's also ultrajet which is methamphetamine. The games were originally going to call the drugs by their real names. But the Australian nanny state said the game would be banned (this was back during Fallout 1) because it called the one drug morphine and they said it's prompting drug use. So they renamed it Med-X along with our drugs. Except alcoholic drinks lol because that's somehow ok lol. E.g. Buffout is a testosterone ester and increases your strength, endurance, and health. It actually benefited the games in the end in multiple ways, but I won't explain how as those are some good spoilers.
You left out 76, in west virginia. Though that might explain the cousin stuff Thing is the setting for the series doesn't really make sense given LA as it is in fallout 1
The Enclave is the remains of the US government that went underground when the Great War (the nuclear war at the beginning of the episode) started. In the Wasteland they're known for being extremely evil and using all kinds of different means to wage war on its citizens, and so pretty much everyone considers them as a massive threat. The Brotherhood of Steel is one of the Enclave's major adversaries in the games
humans become ghouls when they're heavily irradiated (though this doesn't always happen). As a result they get extremely prolonged lifespans, though there are disadvantages and advantages to being a ghoul both social and physiological.
Only humans with a certain DNA strand and/or humans who suffered mild exposition to the FEV (forced evolutionary virus), the lore is a bit sketchy about it. Also some mild changes were made to the HOW they go feral, but eventually they all go feral, but the length of time to get to feral state also differs from person to person (the brain deteriorates slower or faster depending on the DNA as well as the conditions of the area and level of radiation exposures, etc).
@@MarcoAntonio-if1kdYou only need radiation to create ghouls, although it’s not the only method. It’s how the overwhelming majority of the ghouls are made. There was an entire vault that was ghoulified because their gate wasn’t closed all the way and radiation slowly leaked through.
@@Retrovorious I think it also has to do with some vault-tec medication that were somewhat common. people that were not on the meds simply died from radiation. the ones on the meds had a chance of getting ghoulified.
@@TheCephalus That’s a fan theory not confirmed by any official Fallout lore. I guess they could retcon it later to say that’s what happened, but right now as far as canon is concerned, most of the ghouls are mutated from just radiation.
The thing to remember about this series is that it works under the rules of the video game. So Stim-paks can heal a lot of stuff almost immediately and radiation isn't necessarily lethal.
Yes, a nuclear explosion can release an emp wave that would fry unprotected electronics. The height of the blast factors into the area affected. In short, it is possible that his horse was the best and most reliable form of transport at that moment.
The electronics in lore would be quite EMP protected actually I would think. They don't have microchips so all electronics are bulky and robust. The cars do run on cold fusion reactors and honestly I'm not sure how EMP secure those would be though lol
Or maybe he didn’t want to be driving a car during the absolute chaos that was just starting, or his car was blocked in, or maybe he wanted to get into the wilderness as quickly as possible. Just use your imagination for 5 seconds.
Don’t know if anyone pointed this out but you may also know the Ghoul from a little show called Invincible, where he plays Cecil (he’s also in a great show called Justified).
Hey, ladies, shout out from the US Marine Corps! Love you guys reaction to this. I was really happy when I watched this series! So glad you're watching this. So many other reactionaries have absolutely loved this! Keep up the awesome reactions! FYI just love the part where Lucy slid his throat! You guys's reaction was awesome! 12:52 ❤🤍💙💛
I absolutely ADORE that scene. You can tell Lucy's got the training and the guts to be a survivor, but she's never had to fight for her life before, whereas Monty has (and he's too cocky). The coordinators did an absolutely fantastic job.
Some basic things that aren't spoilers but explain your confusion / lack of knowledge: - Every game has its own storyline. While they almost all start in vaults in some form or shape, they tend to be in wildly different areas of the US, and every vault is quite distinct in its own way. The location / story of this particular vault and show is similarly unique and not a 1:1 copy of the plot of the original games, but its own entire journey. - The introduction of Lucy is basically a homage to character creation in the games, where you in some sort of way decide the strengths of your character based on how you want to play the game. Playstyles include characters who like sneaking around, those who like to blow stuff up and those who just like to talk things out with people, so there's skills like lockpicking, speech for social graces, etc. Everything remotely 'not the world around you' in the games is accessed through the pipboy on your characters wrist: in the game, it is used to identify how healthy you are, the things you had on you, the map of the local area, radio stations you pick up and so on. Think of it as a modern day phone with a geiger counter than can't make calls and has the tech-level of the 50s, and you've nailed it. - Ghouls are one of the groups of mutated creatures people on the surface turned into due to the radiation. They can be roughly be classified into two categories: those who were merely affected in the physical sense (basically ugly-ass zombies that are bullet sponges), and those who were driven mad by the change and turned feral in the process, trying to kill and eat anything that moves. The existence of the latter causes immense racism to the former group who can technically still function in normal human society just fine. Since all games are situated in different parts of the US, there's different 'flavors' of ghouls in every game that can probably be blamed on different nukes with different amounts of radiation and local fauna affecting the change, so if you know ghouls from the games, they may not necessarily by a total stylistic match. Long story short: while it is the same world as the games, there is a huge amount of freedom this show has compared to other game adaptations in terms of the story they'd like to tell, and they make full use of it despite the inclusion of tons of references to the games.
The Fallout show producers built a real-life "Filly" wasteland village for "Fallout" to promote the show at the SXSW Festival in March in Austin, TX. It was free for me to go and I got a Vault 33 pin, real Nuka Cola (tastes kinda like mango!), got to shoot a junk thrower and saw all the real actors and show props. Anyone can check out photos of the event online.
This series did GREAT to pay tribute to the games, I actually grew up playing the original Fallout 1 and 2 which were a little different than 3 and onwards. Highly recommend all the games though, the world building is so unique and fun to explore, it's why nobody ever finishes the games because you're too busy just wandering around and checking everything out. Love you both. 🧡
Nuclear weapons do release an EMP (electro magnetic pulse) upon detenation which will fry most complex eletronics within the blast radius. This is seldom a major problem as anything containing complex electronics also gets exploded to hell and back by the rest of the nuke. But it is a valid point that a car (especially a complex- circitry-reliant nuclear powered car of the type in the Fallout universe) might not be functional in the immediate aftermath of a bomb dropping. The EMP would hit it first but before the blast reaches it so, in Cooper's situation, the horse might have been the best option over a car... still wouldn't be enough (unless safety is VERY close by) but the point is valid.
The Enclave is the remnants of the U.S. Government. They have access to the best tech... But were almost destroyed in fallout 1 **sorry fallout 2 not 1**
@@Smido83 Keep going! It gets better and better every episode. And it also keeps the games lore and aesthetics perfectly in canon with the world and is actually made as part of the games universe timeline as well, being set the latest in the timeline of any story we have had in any game. So all the games have happened, and if you've played them some things are MAJOR callbacks to the prior games (Such as the Airship that arrived with the Knights was a big setpiece in Fallout 4). But even for new people they will answer pretty much all of your questions pretty well within the first 4-5 episodes, and then give you a banger of story on top. TLDR; Give it a few more episodes and don't worry. You'll get your questions answered. ;)
Loved this series! So exited to watch your reactions to it!!! I have a feeling this will be a very highly viewed reaction for y’all. Always good to pic stuff for different demographics! 🙃. Y’all rock!! ❤
Im so happy right now, been hoping you to adorable ladies would react to this outstanding show and now you are doing it, my happiness cannot be measured.
Great reaction! Btw; when you said Aspirant Maximus is a cool name; Maximus is his name, Aspirant was his title before being promoted to Squire. it's basically the same as "recruit" but with a more religious connotation.
I'm a huge fan of fallout, played since Fallout 2. And I might be an even bigger fan of Haylo & Kiss! 🤭 I'm so glad you are doing this show! It's a nice way to cope with AoT ending!
In the Fallout universe the bombs fell October 23, 2077 Saturday morning. The first nuke hit the east coast at 945am and the west coast right after. For 2 hours bombs continuously fell on the US and China. One can only imagine the hell on Earth those 2 hours must've felt and looked like. Although the show changed the time of the bombing, still the same day just later on in the day, it still did amazing in capturing the horror one may have witnessed that day. Ghouls are just mutated human beings who were exposed to massive amounts of radiation all at once. They arent immortal but rather they age at an incredibly slow rate. they can live for decades longer and some even hundreds of years like Walter Goggins character, who is the oldest known Ghoul in the show which is why he is so known and why he is referred to as ''The Ghoul". In the games you meet alot of ghouls who were alive when the bombs fell. The one downside to being a ghoul, besides looking like a walking corpse, is the fear of turning Feral. Ghouls brains deteriorate due to the amount of radiation in their bodies and will continue to deteriorate until they have no control or sense of who they are anymore. To put it simply, when a ghoul goes feral youre essentially dealing with a mindless zombie and the person that you once knew is gone. The show changed the lore on ghouls and ferals a bit but nothing too drastic
Fun fact: according to Fallout lore, most nuclear warheads had a yield of 200-750 kilotons, normally, being this close to a bomb yield this big would mean they would be incinerated by the heat pulse instantly
no you won't. thermal radation radius for 750Kt bomb would about 10KM, and will "only" give 3rd degree burns and not "incinerate" you. They were much further away than 10KM of the blast. Still in the pressure blast though, which would be about 18KM.
i love you two you are so sweet and emotionally intelligent and thoughtful. its really heartwarming to watch you two. please do more jjk! and yes im on patreon
Ghoulification is one of two things that can happen to someone who gets heavily irradiated in the Fallout world. Most people during the war and the immediate aftermath just died of radiation sickness. But some people turned into ghouls. Now, they appear to be a huge number, just because the surviving population is so small as a whole - maybe 10 million people across the former USA. Ghouls are immortal in the games, unless they get killed. But, a lot of ghouls lost their minds to the radiation, becoming feral ghouls, which are a standard monster type you have to fight in the games. Survivors often call feral ghouls zombies, but intelligent ghouls take offense at that.
@@WheresWaldo05 Killed. It's the same exception as with Tolkien's Elves, who were given eternal life. They don't age past a certain point and they don't die of natural causes, but they can be killed. Have a nice day.
Having one of you familiar with the game and the other person not knowing anything was such a fun dynamic watch and I'm STOKED for the rest of the season with you!
Awesome Reaction, you're going to love this series! Could you react to the new Heretic Trailer please? Also, Walton Goggins, the actor who plays Ghoul Cooper, is up from an Emmy for his role 👍
There are Fallout Lore youtube channels. I highly recommend giving them a watch. The Fallout Lore is insanely huge, since the games have been going since the 90's and the Studios that made the games love to add more to the story of the World each game.
32:41 Another thing that's good to know for people who've never played the games: What makes the games unique (despite the vintage meets future style) is that it has a lot of black humor in it. The world itself is lifeless and depressing, but then there is (black) humor sprinkled in every now and then for the contrast (in the show for example @ 20:38 or 21:19 ^^), and especially when it comes to the people in the world and dialogs, it can get quite entertaining. That's why in the show you also see a lot of that combo, terrifying situations, but then some ridiculous crazy shootouts or funny conversations.
26:33 "Enclave" is a rival gang of "Brotherhood of Steel". "Enclave" gang is made of prewar govt. bodies. and BoS is made of prewar Army peoples. 27:14 that doll leg is a potential bullet-like thing for a gun called "JUNK JET". It can shoot any objects as ammo in fallout games. 29:46 "Ghoul's" are people who survived extreme radiation from nuclear poison caused them losing their smooth skin and "Feral Ghoul" are a variation of ghouls who have no control over their actions with time being.In games Ghoul's can live longer then 200 years.
If you want to find firsthand knowledge of the pre-war world of fallout, look no further than a non-feral ghoul. A lot of the ghouls in fallout were created when the bombs first fell. However ghouls tend to go feral as while they are practically immortal, their brains still rot away. Over time all ghouls will evrntually become feral.
Y'all hopped from a wonderful reaction to Attack on Titan, probably my favorite show of all time, to watching Fallout, the show I'm currently obsessed with? I swear, y'all are targeting me personally and it's WORKING
Was hoping for another Mike Flanagan show at some point, but this is honestly a nice pallete cleanser. Love this series, season 1 actually did a great job
After watching their Band of Brothers and Chernobyl reactions (both were great) I have been waiting and hoping top see them react to this series. As a huge Fallout fan I was not really excited about this show, but after watching the first episode that all changed.
Fallout 4 does have an opening sequence that takes place as the bombs drop, and resumes 200+ years later. Similar to this show, but the show is actually the latest entry in the franchise timeline, taking place on the west coast. While Fallout 4 is set in Boston, Massachusetts.
Enclave is an infamous faction in Fallout world. It basically stands for post apocalyptic remnants of the U.S.A government. It has high-ranking politicians , military figures and scientists as members. So that leads the organization to have solid layers of fascism , social darwinism and superpatriotic violence in the structure.
Omg I love that yall just finished one of my favorite anime’s in AoT and now you’re starting so many of my favorite other shows right after I’m so excited! ^^
played all the games, started 25 years ago,. love the game world., Could not get myself started on the tv series,. didnt want it to ruin my game world :D i've only seen the intro part with the thumb,. it was so powerfull, heard good things, hope you are gonna enjoy it,.
So a bit of non-spoiler-y background information that doesn't really get explained in the show: The Fallout world basically diverges from ours in the 1940s. Transistor-based technology (specifically micro-transistors, the things that make computers and any compact advanced electronics possible) is never invented. This is why everything is big and chunky and looks like it was designed in the 50s. Instead nuclear technology advances rapidly and becomes part of many everyday household items (the cars, for example, are all nuclear powered). This is why everything has a 1950s retro sci-fi look (and because it evokes that weird 1950s vintage optimism mixed with the ever present threat of nuclear war). Lucy is modelled on a prototypical player character from the franchise. In many of the games you start out as a vault dweller who has to venture to the surface for one plot contrivance or another (in the very first game it was because the water purification system was broken and you had to go find a part, so the show did a bit of a nod to that). The montage of her explaining her skills is kind of like the character setup where you choose your stats and skills. The syringes you see in the show are Stim-paks which are the game's major source of healing. This is one thing that I like in the show. It treats itself like it is the game. When you use a Stim-pak in the game, it heals every thing instantly. Even broken bones. The Brotherhood of Steel is a faction that was born out of remnants of the US military based around a pseudo-religious, militaristic tech cult. That's probably kind of obvious given their organization, but there is a direct connection back to the pre-war era, and most of their tech is ex-military from that era, just salvaged and maintained. Depending on the game/location (the games are set in several different locations around the US, with the originals set on the west coast, and the newer games on the east coast, and New Vegas set in, well, Vegas) they can range from fascistic antagonists to chivalric allies depending on the chapter. Much like the medieval knights they're based on. The other big faction to get a mention in this episode was The Enclave. Where the BoS are remnants of the US military, The Enclave are the remnants of the US government along with anyone else they deemed worthy of surviving the apocalypse - the best and brightest of science and industry. They're a tad... elitist, as you can probably imagine, looking down on most of the other survivors, and preferring to interact and manipulate events from the shadows or a distance. Unlike the BoS who focus on collecting and preserving old world tech, The Enclave continued to innovate and advance. Stimpaks, the thing Lucy injects herself with, are the main healing item in the game. So you'll see a bit of video game logic here where a shot will cure any basic wound. And unlike a bunch of other video game adaptations, this show is actually considered canon within the same world as the games. So that's just kinda neat. Keep up the good work.
I can understand the reluctance of the other vault leaders to go after Lucy's dad when he, as overseer, had a duty to the vault and its whole population, and instead chose to save his daughter over everyone else. Of course, that test was more to see his honor and sense of duty, and moldaver let the hostages go, but he made it clear he was a good father but a poor leader at that moment.
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. The Brotherhood has fallen back in that tradition after a couple of good and humanitarian leaders, and become the SS of the Fallout Universe. 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.
1. Stimpaks are basically a cure all for someone who is non lethally injured. Can fix a lot of injuries.
2. A ghoul is an irradiated mutant human
The way they present stimpaks in the show (and what you'd assume from the name) is that they actually aren't "cures", and they don't "fix" injuries. Rather, they're a drug that temporarily stimulates the body, probably with adrenaline, allowing you to ignore the injury until you can get actual medical attention.
I would agree with you however in ep 2 i think the ghoul uses the stimpak on the dog after stabbing and mortaly wounding it@gregoryhayes7569
@@lucasmorgan4379 Yeah its hard to estimate what the show really wants them to be. In the game it gives you HP back and is the best way to heal yourself.
@@gregoryhayes7569 Its hard to estimate what the show wants them to be. I only throw in the "cure all" bit because most shows will treat it that way. It will heal you but not enough to keep someone from dying so that people have an excuse for not saving everyone with stimpaks.
She does use staples to close her wound tho and that seems like something that would naturally be inside a Doctor's Bag which is an aid item that heals crippled limbs
I can see Kiss adopting the "Okey dokey" catchphrase by episode 2 or 3
i second this!🙂
same 😄
LOL I started using it day 1 . . .
okie dokie is very Canadian
@@paddington1670 we use that saying quite often here in Ontario eh? lol
19:38, "Oh, so it's kinda culty." Nah, it's TOTALLY culty! I am so glad you two are watching this show. It is an incredible journey, full of twists and turns. Maximus is only a squire to the Knight, think of Medieval times. Squires were a Knight's servant. The best thing about this series is that it is its own story separate of any of the games, yet it is still set inside the same universe with the same lore. This series is set numerous years AFTER the events of the Fallout 4 game.
Well, tied to the story of FO1, FO2, and FO New Vegas tangentially since they're in the same geographic area and some of the same towns.
The theme name you're looking for is 'retrofuturism', where miniaturization of tech never really happened. The bombs fall in 2077 in the Fallout universe iirc
The "Have some respeck" actor is Bubba from Forrest Gump
Mykelti Williamson
Guess the shrimp business didn't work out.
@@agm5424 Spoiler: Bubba was supposed to be a shrimping boat captain, but instead he died right there on that river in Vietnam.
He also played Limehouse in Justified, which also starred Walton Goggins. His character here is much more like Limehouse than Bubba.
@@agm5424 All the shirmp mutated and became monsters
Great choice to react to, easily one of the best game adaptions. Very cool one of you knows stuff and the other is going in blind.
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Great video game adaptation. One knows, the other doesn't. Hmmm. Sounds oddly familiar.
Haven’t seen anything both as faithful to world and aesthetics as well as getting the vibe right from any video game adaptation
im so glad there is a watch through by a viewer that understands this is a post apocalypse with 50s aesthetics, this throws off so many people who arent paying attention
Buckle up and in my friend. These ladies are smart cookies. This is bound to be a fun one to watch
How can people miss that ?
@@ParlonsAstronomieThey are dumb
It's Atom Punk. Like Steam Punk, this is a look at what people in the past thought the future would be like. But in this case its the 1950s, instead of the 1800s. When early science fiction writers told tales of the future, this is the future they dreamt of, then it blows up.
Lucy's actress being Jinx is such whiplash of a performances. Ella Purnell is so talented!
The thing he inhaled is jet. It's a drug in the game. It's essentially amphetamine, in fact it's based on the original form of amphetamine from the 1930s which was an OTC inhaler like in the game. It was legal until it was banned in 1959 (banned as in not OTC). So the dude is essentially vapiing a huge dose of amphetamine (marketed as Adderall today in the US and dextroamphetamine in the rest of the world (dextro if a stronger isomer with less side).
There's also ultrajet which is methamphetamine.
The games were originally going to call the drugs by their real names. But the Australian nanny state said the game would be banned (this was back during Fallout 1) because it called the one drug morphine and they said it's prompting drug use. So they renamed it Med-X along with our drugs. Except alcoholic drinks lol because that's somehow ok lol.
E.g. Buffout is a testosterone ester and increases your strength, endurance, and health.
It actually benefited the games in the end in multiple ways, but I won't explain how as those are some good spoilers.
Here's a brief Timeline:
- Bombs fall in 2077
- Fallout 1: 2161 (Takes place in southern California)
- Fallout 2: 2241 (northern California)
- Fallout 3: 2277 (Washington D.C.)
- Fallout New Vegas: 2281 (Mojave Desert)
- Fallout 4: 2287 (Boston Area)
- Tv Show: 2296 (Greater Los Angeles area)
You left out 76, in west virginia. Though that might explain the cousin stuff
Thing is the setting for the series doesn't really make sense given LA as it is in fallout 1
76? There’s no 76. You must be under a misapprehension.
@@quehostia yes there is: only online multiplayer fallout.
@@puarterquonder whooosh
@@puarterquonder You mean FPS Candy Crush?
26:54 Haylo's little Jim Halpert look when the dog showed up 😭😭
Was just about to comment that 😅
The little 👀 when dogmeat's picture was shown!! 🤣🤣
The Enclave is the remains of the US government that went underground when the Great War (the nuclear war at the beginning of the episode) started. In the Wasteland they're known for being extremely evil and using all kinds of different means to wage war on its citizens, and so pretty much everyone considers them as a massive threat. The Brotherhood of Steel is one of the Enclave's major adversaries in the games
humans become ghouls when they're heavily irradiated (though this doesn't always happen). As a result they get extremely prolonged lifespans, though there are disadvantages and advantages to being a ghoul both social and physiological.
Only humans with a certain DNA strand and/or humans who suffered mild exposition to the FEV (forced evolutionary virus), the lore is a bit sketchy about it. Also some mild changes were made to the HOW they go feral, but eventually they all go feral, but the length of time to get to feral state also differs from person to person (the brain deteriorates slower or faster depending on the DNA as well as the conditions of the area and level of radiation exposures, etc).
@@MarcoAntonio-if1kd fev has nothing to do with ghouls tim Cain the creator went over this in his video on his TH-cam specifically about ghouls
@@MarcoAntonio-if1kdYou only need radiation to create ghouls, although it’s not the only method. It’s how the overwhelming majority of the ghouls are made. There was an entire vault that was ghoulified because their gate wasn’t closed all the way and radiation slowly leaked through.
@@Retrovorious I think it also has to do with some vault-tec medication that were somewhat common. people that were not on the meds simply died from radiation. the ones on the meds had a chance of getting ghoulified.
@@TheCephalus That’s a fan theory not confirmed by any official Fallout lore. I guess they could retcon it later to say that’s what happened, but right now as far as canon is concerned, most of the ghouls are mutated from just radiation.
It’s cool seeing how Lucy explained her stats just like When you start the game you get to pick your stats 👌
The subtle smirk when she saw the puppers :)
The thing to remember about this series is that it works under the rules of the video game.
So Stim-paks can heal a lot of stuff almost immediately and radiation isn't necessarily lethal.
Yes, a nuclear explosion can release an emp wave that would fry unprotected electronics. The height of the blast factors into the area affected. In short, it is possible that his horse was the best and most reliable form of transport at that moment.
The electronics in lore would be quite EMP protected actually I would think. They don't have microchips so all electronics are bulky and robust.
The cars do run on cold fusion reactors and honestly I'm not sure how EMP secure those would be though lol
Or maybe he didn’t want to be driving a car during the absolute chaos that was just starting, or his car was blocked in, or maybe he wanted to get into the wilderness as quickly as possible. Just use your imagination for 5 seconds.
@@Notski not cold fusion, just regular ‘microfusion’ reactors.
@@brilobox2 are you sure? I'm pretty sure it is cold fusion. Like it would have to be without melting the car in seconds.
The horse’s name is sugarfoot
Don’t know if anyone pointed this out but you may also know the Ghoul from a little show called Invincible, where he plays Cecil (he’s also in a great show called Justified).
20:05 "What the HÆUGHEUHECK" 😂
Aaron Moten (Maximus) looks like a mix between Denzel Washington, Jonathan Majors & Cuba Gooding Jr.
he looks nothing like Denzel Washington to me ngl
jonathan majors and cuba gooding for sure though
Yes! Definitely CG Jr. vibes. I think it's the grin.
Hey, ladies, shout out from the US Marine Corps! Love you guys reaction to this. I was really happy when I watched this series! So glad you're watching this. So many other reactionaries have absolutely loved this! Keep up the awesome reactions! FYI just love the part where Lucy slid his throat! You guys's reaction was awesome! 12:52 ❤🤍💙💛
I absolutely ADORE that scene. You can tell Lucy's got the training and the guts to be a survivor, but she's never had to fight for her life before, whereas Monty has (and he's too cocky). The coordinators did an absolutely fantastic job.
Walton Goggins who is the Ghoul is an incredible actor. Great Reaction, cant wait for the rest of this series.
Some basic things that aren't spoilers but explain your confusion / lack of knowledge:
- Every game has its own storyline. While they almost all start in vaults in some form or shape, they tend to be in wildly different areas of the US, and every vault is quite distinct in its own way. The location / story of this particular vault and show is similarly unique and not a 1:1 copy of the plot of the original games, but its own entire journey.
- The introduction of Lucy is basically a homage to character creation in the games, where you in some sort of way decide the strengths of your character based on how you want to play the game. Playstyles include characters who like sneaking around, those who like to blow stuff up and those who just like to talk things out with people, so there's skills like lockpicking, speech for social graces, etc. Everything remotely 'not the world around you' in the games is accessed through the pipboy on your characters wrist: in the game, it is used to identify how healthy you are, the things you had on you, the map of the local area, radio stations you pick up and so on. Think of it as a modern day phone with a geiger counter than can't make calls and has the tech-level of the 50s, and you've nailed it.
- Ghouls are one of the groups of mutated creatures people on the surface turned into due to the radiation. They can be roughly be classified into two categories: those who were merely affected in the physical sense (basically ugly-ass zombies that are bullet sponges), and those who were driven mad by the change and turned feral in the process, trying to kill and eat anything that moves. The existence of the latter causes immense racism to the former group who can technically still function in normal human society just fine. Since all games are situated in different parts of the US, there's different 'flavors' of ghouls in every game that can probably be blamed on different nukes with different amounts of radiation and local fauna affecting the change, so if you know ghouls from the games, they may not necessarily by a total stylistic match.
Long story short: while it is the same world as the games, there is a huge amount of freedom this show has compared to other game adaptations in terms of the story they'd like to tell, and they make full use of it despite the inclusion of tons of references to the games.
First, JJK and now this?! You ladies are on a roll!
The Fallout show producers built a real-life "Filly" wasteland village for "Fallout" to promote the show at the SXSW Festival in March in Austin, TX. It was free for me to go and I got a Vault 33 pin, real Nuka Cola (tastes kinda like mango!), got to shoot a junk thrower and saw all the real actors and show props. Anyone can check out photos of the event online.
This series did GREAT to pay tribute to the games, I actually grew up playing the original Fallout 1 and 2 which were a little different than 3 and onwards. Highly recommend all the games though, the world building is so unique and fun to explore, it's why nobody ever finishes the games because you're too busy just wandering around and checking everything out. Love you both. 🧡
This is so true. I've never finished a fallout game lmao
The Golden Rule of the Wastelands
26:55 haha that look to the camera @🐕
Walton Goggins acted HIS ASS OFF in this role.
yea the boys, please after rhis series, one of the "revolutionary" series imo 🤣🤣
Nuclear weapons do release an EMP (electro magnetic pulse) upon detenation which will fry most complex eletronics within the blast radius. This is seldom a major problem as anything containing complex electronics also gets exploded to hell and back by the rest of the nuke. But it is a valid point that a car (especially a complex- circitry-reliant nuclear powered car of the type in the Fallout universe) might not be functional in the immediate aftermath of a bomb dropping. The EMP would hit it first but before the blast reaches it so, in Cooper's situation, the horse might have been the best option over a car... still wouldn't be enough (unless safety is VERY close by) but the point is valid.
The Enclave is the remnants of the U.S. Government. They have access to the best tech...
But were almost destroyed in fallout 1
**sorry fallout 2 not 1**
Fallout 2.
Oh yea ... Frank was on the rig.....
** what they ^ said
Ella Purnell Is British btw
Crawl out through the _FALLOUT_ baby!
So excited you're starting this
It's your uncle Baby Billy!
I think y'all should watch Yellowjackets to complete the Ella Purnell tv holy trinity
Don't forget her role on n Kick - a$$
You ladies had me rolling with laughter. I'm soo in for this journey! Thanks for this cause fallout is one of my favs.
Ok girls... if you two watch it, i will watch it!
*will be back in 50 minutes*
Correction... 70 minutes! 😳
Ok... this 1st Episode was... interesting.
Not sure where this will go, but I am interested in the characters.
@@Smido83 Keep going! It gets better and better every episode. And it also keeps the games lore and aesthetics perfectly in canon with the world and is actually made as part of the games universe timeline as well, being set the latest in the timeline of any story we have had in any game. So all the games have happened, and if you've played them some things are MAJOR callbacks to the prior games (Such as the Airship that arrived with the Knights was a big setpiece in Fallout 4).
But even for new people they will answer pretty much all of your questions pretty well within the first 4-5 episodes, and then give you a banger of story on top.
TLDR; Give it a few more episodes and don't worry. You'll get your questions answered. ;)
Loved this series! So exited to watch your reactions to it!!! I have a feeling this will be a very highly viewed reaction for y’all. Always good to pic stuff for different demographics! 🙃. Y’all rock!! ❤
No internet. No electrisity. No water. No people. Just wastland.
@@PROVOCATEURSK No, capitalism survived. They even call their currency "caps."
@@PROVOCATEURSK better be dead than red
Im so happy right now, been hoping you to adorable ladies would react to this outstanding show and now you are doing it, my happiness cannot be measured.
Love you reacting to this and haley looking to camera when they showed dogmeat was great
"First red flag" wow she is tolerant.
Just finished this first season and it was really really good. Very well written, beautiful cinematography, nice characters, lot of plot twist. 10/10!
Heck yay! So glad to see you two take this journey. I'm all in with you!
4:58 This scene reminded me of setting your stats are the start of the game, like: Athletics 4, Charisma 7 etc or whatever it was.
Great reaction! Btw; when you said Aspirant Maximus is a cool name; Maximus is his name, Aspirant was his title before being promoted to Squire. it's basically the same as "recruit" but with a more religious connotation.
This is going to be a very fun journey. Thanks for taking us along with you. 🤗
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4:25 I am pretty sure that he picked the horse because he came with it plus he also wanted to save the horse too.
Yay!!! I love that you are reviewing this! I liked it so much. They stayed so true to the game and all its weirdness. Thanks for the review!
I'm a huge fan of fallout, played since Fallout 2. And I might be an even bigger fan of Haylo & Kiss! 🤭 I'm so glad you are doing this show! It's a nice way to cope with AoT ending!
I remember Haylo's little side-eyes to camera from the Arcane reaction; glad to see them back 😏
In the Fallout universe the bombs fell October 23, 2077 Saturday morning. The first nuke hit the east coast at 945am and the west coast right after. For 2 hours bombs continuously fell on the US and China. One can only imagine the hell on Earth those 2 hours must've felt and looked like. Although the show changed the time of the bombing, still the same day just later on in the day, it still did amazing in capturing the horror one may have witnessed that day.
Ghouls are just mutated human beings who were exposed to massive amounts of radiation all at once. They arent immortal but rather they age at an incredibly slow rate. they can live for decades longer and some even hundreds of years like Walter Goggins character, who is the oldest known Ghoul in the show which is why he is so known and why he is referred to as ''The Ghoul". In the games you meet alot of ghouls who were alive when the bombs fell. The one downside to being a ghoul, besides looking like a walking corpse, is the fear of turning Feral. Ghouls brains deteriorate due to the amount of radiation in their bodies and will continue to deteriorate until they have no control or sense of who they are anymore. To put it simply, when a ghoul goes feral youre essentially dealing with a mindless zombie and the person that you once knew is gone. The show changed the lore on ghouls and ferals a bit but nothing too drastic
you probably saw ghouls in fallout 4 but its usually the feral ones, they basically act like zombies
I'm guessing she never traveled with Hancock, or did much settlement building.
This is a show that just gets better as the season progresses and ends really strong.
Ya'll analyzing skills are ridiculous, and I love it!
“Bulls…eye….”
I laughed so hard I literally choked. 😂 YES. 🙂
Awesome, so glad you ladies are watching this one!
You're in for a ride!
Great reaction ladies.
Fun fact: according to Fallout lore, most nuclear warheads had a yield of 200-750 kilotons, normally, being this close to a bomb yield this big would mean they would be incinerated by the heat pulse instantly
no you won't. thermal radation radius for 750Kt bomb would about 10KM, and will "only" give 3rd degree burns and not "incinerate" you. They were much further away than 10KM of the blast. Still in the pressure blast though, which would be about 18KM.
i love you two you are so sweet and emotionally intelligent and thoughtful. its really heartwarming to watch you two. please do more jjk! and yes im on patreon
Ghoulification is one of two things that can happen to someone who gets heavily irradiated in the Fallout world. Most people during the war and the immediate aftermath just died of radiation sickness. But some people turned into ghouls. Now, they appear to be a huge number, just because the surviving population is so small as a whole - maybe 10 million people across the former USA. Ghouls are immortal in the games, unless they get killed. But, a lot of ghouls lost their minds to the radiation, becoming feral ghouls, which are a standard monster type you have to fight in the games. Survivors often call feral ghouls zombies, but intelligent ghouls take offense at that.
Ghouls are immortal. Unless they die.
Really? Didn't logically think that out before typing it. Did ya! (Rhetorical)
@@WheresWaldo05 He said "get killed", not unless they die.
@@PatriotRebel Being killed. And Dying are one in the same. If you are immortal, you cannot die nor be killed you numb skull.
@@WheresWaldo05 Killed. It's the same exception as with Tolkien's Elves, who were given eternal life. They don't age past a certain point and they don't die of natural causes, but they can be killed. Have a nice day.
@@WheresWaldo05 You tried to clown him but it backfired. Badly.
yall are just going through all my favorite medias im loving it
Having one of you familiar with the game and the other person not knowing anything was such a fun dynamic watch and I'm STOKED for the rest of the season with you!
This show got me playing FO3 & NV..Just downloaded FO: London. The music is great in the show. FYI, Lucy = New Player.
Yes! I just watched that series, love to see you getting into it too!
Awesome Reaction, you're going to love this series! Could you react to the new Heretic Trailer please? Also, Walton Goggins, the actor who plays Ghoul Cooper, is up from an Emmy for his role 👍
This show is greay! Enjoy the ride!
I recommend "Ted Lasso" as well, a wholesome show :)
Ghouls in Fallout universe their lifespans are greatly extended which allows them to live for hundreds of years.
There are Fallout Lore youtube channels. I highly recommend giving them a watch. The Fallout Lore is insanely huge, since the games have been going since the 90's and the Studios that made the games love to add more to the story of the World each game.
17:28 I also love JC. I always loved fallouts music and I think they did a great job for the show
I just discovered your channel and I love it! You earned yourself a new subscriber! Can't wait to see more.
You Girls are the first ones,who noticed,that Moldaver is the target for them three
Whenever Kiss goes "eugh, hjöölk, ääulghhh" (about to vomit) and Haylo is like 😐is my favorite part of any reaction.
Y’all have some great taste in shows
They did a great job with this. Hope the two of you enjoy this series!😊
My ladies are back! It eouldnt be a haylo and kiss reaction without the gagging! Lol
32:41 Another thing that's good to know for people who've never played the games:
What makes the games unique (despite the vintage meets future style) is that it has a lot of black humor in it. The world itself is lifeless and depressing, but then there is (black) humor sprinkled in every now and then for the contrast (in the show for example @ 20:38 or 21:19 ^^), and especially when it comes to the people in the world and dialogs, it can get quite entertaining. That's why in the show you also see a lot of that combo, terrifying situations, but then some ridiculous crazy shootouts or funny conversations.
26:33 "Enclave" is a rival gang of "Brotherhood of Steel". "Enclave" gang is made of prewar govt. bodies. and BoS is made of prewar Army peoples.
27:14 that doll leg is a potential bullet-like thing for a gun called "JUNK JET". It can shoot any objects as ammo in fallout games.
29:46 "Ghoul's" are people who survived extreme radiation from nuclear poison caused them losing their smooth skin and "Feral Ghoul" are a variation of ghouls who have no control over their actions with time being.In games Ghoul's can live longer then 200 years.
yous are going to love this series, an amazing show and great tribute to the games
If you want to find firsthand knowledge of the pre-war world of fallout, look no further than a non-feral ghoul. A lot of the ghouls in fallout were created when the bombs first fell. However ghouls tend to go feral as while they are practically immortal, their brains still rot away. Over time all ghouls will evrntually become feral.
My week just got a lot better, thank you so much :))) One piece on monday and now fallout. i love this channel, period
Y'all hopped from a wonderful reaction to Attack on Titan, probably my favorite show of all time, to watching Fallout, the show I'm currently obsessed with? I swear, y'all are targeting me personally and it's WORKING
Was hoping for another Mike Flanagan show at some point, but this is honestly a nice pallete cleanser. Love this series, season 1 actually did a great job
🎵 I got spurs that jingle jangle jingle! 🎶
After watching their Band of Brothers and Chernobyl reactions (both were great) I have been waiting and hoping top see them react to this series.
As a huge Fallout fan I was not really excited about this show, but after watching the first episode that all changed.
Fallout 4 does have an opening sequence that takes place as the bombs drop, and resumes 200+ years later. Similar to this show, but the show is actually the latest entry in the franchise timeline, taking place on the west coast. While Fallout 4 is set in Boston, Massachusetts.
Discovered you because of a fallout reaction. Subscribed because of the BULLS EYE comment. Never apologize for puns.
Let’s go !! I’ve been dying for you to react to fallout ! 🎉
Enclave is an infamous faction in Fallout world. It basically stands for post apocalyptic remnants of the U.S.A government. It has high-ranking politicians , military figures and scientists as members. So that leads the organization to have solid layers of fascism , social darwinism and superpatriotic violence in the structure.
Omg I love that yall just finished one of my favorite anime’s in AoT and now you’re starting so many of my favorite other shows right after I’m so excited! ^^
played all the games, started 25 years ago,. love the game world., Could not get myself started on the tv series,. didnt want it to ruin my game world :D i've only seen the intro part with the thumb,. it was so powerfull, heard good things, hope you are gonna enjoy it,.
So a bit of non-spoiler-y background information that doesn't really get explained in the show: The Fallout world basically diverges from ours in the 1940s. Transistor-based technology (specifically micro-transistors, the things that make computers and any compact advanced electronics possible) is never invented. This is why everything is big and chunky and looks like it was designed in the 50s. Instead nuclear technology advances rapidly and becomes part of many everyday household items (the cars, for example, are all nuclear powered). This is why everything has a 1950s retro sci-fi look (and because it evokes that weird 1950s vintage optimism mixed with the ever present threat of nuclear war).
Lucy is modelled on a prototypical player character from the franchise. In many of the games you start out as a vault dweller who has to venture to the surface for one plot contrivance or another (in the very first game it was because the water purification system was broken and you had to go find a part, so the show did a bit of a nod to that). The montage of her explaining her skills is kind of like the character setup where you choose your stats and skills.
The syringes you see in the show are Stim-paks which are the game's major source of healing. This is one thing that I like in the show. It treats itself like it is the game. When you use a Stim-pak in the game, it heals every thing instantly. Even broken bones.
The Brotherhood of Steel is a faction that was born out of remnants of the US military based around a pseudo-religious, militaristic tech cult. That's probably kind of obvious given their organization, but there is a direct connection back to the pre-war era, and most of their tech is ex-military from that era, just salvaged and maintained. Depending on the game/location (the games are set in several different locations around the US, with the originals set on the west coast, and the newer games on the east coast, and New Vegas set in, well, Vegas) they can range from fascistic antagonists to chivalric allies depending on the chapter. Much like the medieval knights they're based on.
The other big faction to get a mention in this episode was The Enclave. Where the BoS are remnants of the US military, The Enclave are the remnants of the US government along with anyone else they deemed worthy of surviving the apocalypse - the best and brightest of science and industry. They're a tad... elitist, as you can probably imagine, looking down on most of the other survivors, and preferring to interact and manipulate events from the shadows or a distance. Unlike the BoS who focus on collecting and preserving old world tech, The Enclave continued to innovate and advance. Stimpaks, the thing Lucy injects herself with, are the main healing item in the game. So you'll see a bit of video game logic here where a shot will cure any basic wound. And unlike a bunch of other video game adaptations, this show is actually considered canon within the same world as the games. So that's just kinda neat. Keep up the good work.
I can understand the reluctance of the other vault leaders to go after Lucy's dad when he, as overseer, had a duty to the vault and its whole population, and instead chose to save his daughter over everyone else. Of course, that test was more to see his honor and sense of duty, and moldaver let the hostages go, but he made it clear he was a good father but a poor leader at that moment.
Love the vibe of your watch thru! Can't wait for more ❤
Yay. Glad you two are watching this.
Me: *sees the ghoul for the 1st time* "OMG IT'S RED SKULL'S COWBOY COUSIN!" 😆
Yall will enjoy this show. It’s a crazy wild ride
I havent seen you lovely folks pop up since you finished Last of Us. looking forward to following your journey with this show.
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. The Brotherhood has fallen back in that tradition after a couple of good and humanitarian leaders, and become the SS of the Fallout Universe.
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.
There's plenty of ghouls in all of the Fallouts, in fact it's some of the mutants (including ferals) you see the most.