“Thou shall get sidetracked by bulls**t every goddamn time.” It's hilarious because that's literally what makes Fallout so great, getting lost in so many side quests that by the time you get back to the main story you’re OP a hell!
@@tonyod.1161 Yeah, originally you had a counter of 400 days finish both main quests (water chip and then ending the mutant threat), but Black Isle patched it later on to only put a timer on the water chip recovery which was 150 days. It could then be extended by another 100 days by buying water from water merchants in Hub City (which was more than enough time), after completing the water chip quest you had all the time in the world to complete the final main quest though.
@@TheSuperhomosapienFallout is exactly like that. Same way as Skyrim. If theres one thing Bethesda was always good at (until recently) it was filling a giant world with an unreasonable amount of stuff to do and find. Ask anybody what their favorite Fallout/Elder Scrolls quest was, and they wont be mentioning the main quest lol
It's a bit of a nod to how gun mechanics work under the hood in Fallout 4 where the higher rate of fire suffers accuracy penalties for game balance. Jonathan Nolan and most of the people working on the series were big Fallout fans and they threw in a ton of easter eggs INCLUDING some of the bugs and questionable game mechanics (like 'insta-cure' Stimpaks, the Junk shooter, Jim's Limbs, etc.).
It's legit lore accurate from the descriptions and games, but I kind of love how they didn't info dump or spend any time explaining what was happening or why, it just is.
Yea. Im confused with how many people that just dont get it. The fingers are sticking to Thaddeus' body so hard that when he was pulled out, the Gulper's inside followed
Lucy approaching diaper dude is an in-game meme - players usually don't put their weapons away when talking to NPCs. Absolutely brilliant. Also, many don't recognize the callback to the original isometric RPG game's surface dwellers that diaper dude represents. So, two fan services in one scene.
Why would anyone walk around with weapons drawn? The game advises you that you travel faster with the weapon holstered. I thought everyone holsters their weapons after a fight.
The weapon that shot the toy baby leg and other stuff is called the Junk Jet. A weapon found in Fallout 4 that uses all the random junk found in the game as ammunition.
I love the bits of the show that are blatantly just there as game mechanics. -Stimpacks healing any injury. -People always traveling in pairs. Lone wanderer and a companion baby. Doggie especially. -Showing the "perks" and "character stats" of Lucy at the beginning. Guns, Engineering, Athletics, etc And also, they didn't use any Vaults that were already used in the games. Because it's supposed to be the same lore just different times in the same timeline.
Michael Emerson (the doctor) worked with show runner Jonathan Nolan on a great show called Person Of Interest a decade ago, he played a genius scientist who walked with a limp and had a Belgian Malinois to protect him. And for Fallout he played a genius scientist who walked with a limp and had a Belgian Malinois to protect him.🤣🤣🤣
@@Krucifus It was cancelled and CBS didn't intend to bring it back after the mid season break. The producers and others convinced them to let them finish the story and give an actual conclusion while wrapping up some of the side stories. That's why the final season seems so compressed. Everything was geared towards the final scene with Harold and John on the rooftop.
It's kind of funny that everyone I've seen reacting to episode two mentions Phillidelphia, but nobody seems to put together that Filly is called Filly because it's a landfill.
They selected a good set of characters to tell the story through. Lucy is a level 1 character played by a first-timer for the new fans identify with. Cooper is a level 50 character played by someone who has been playing since Fallout 1, running a Gunslinger build with Bloody Mess and Grim Reaper's Spirit, for all the old hands to identify with. (min)Max is a level 10 character played by a powergamer, who put all his points into combat stats, is definitely running Idiot Savant, and joined the Brotherhood for the weapons and armor. Dogmeat is one of the many cloned dogs that are your companion in all the numbered games. Always the goodest of bois.
29:02 outside of Fallout 4, which made their power drain really fast as a gameplay mechanic, the cell that powers the armor usually lasts about 500 years.
I’m not a gamer, so the only thing I knew about Fallout before watching this series is that it would often get mentioned in comments when I watched TH-cam videos of songs from the 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s, because I love music from back then. I couldn’t figure out how those songs matched up with a post-nuclear apocalyptic future. I was a fan of The Last Of Us, but I really love this show! Lucy’s terrific, but Walton Goggins’ Ghoul/Cooper is just next level!
The America in the games is based on early 1950s retrofuturism; basically, how people in the 1950s thought the future would look like. That's the reason for the music. In the game you have the option of listening to the local radio on your PIP Boy play early 1950s music like big band and swing while you explore the Wasteland shooting raiders and generally getting yourself into trouble. It's oddly humorous and satisfying at the same time. There is another type of very common enemy that the show only briefly hinted at. Super mutants. Giant, Hulk-sized, green mutants who love to eat people and who are really dumb. They will for sure be in the second season.
@@rofyle hmmm now that you mention it, since the second series looks likes its going to be in the mojave they probably could recast Michael Dorn to reappear as Marcus, you also have all the mutants at the mountain as well in that area, whereas in california, the mutants were probably persecuted if not hunted down inside the NCR (in FNV they even send mercernaries after them so they can colonise a mutant run town) so you don't see them in this season
Something I havent seen anybody mention thats really funny, is that Maximus asked Titus if the tempered lining gives him more mobility. The tempered lining actually does quite the opposite, it makes the armor stronger and heavier.
I’m a fallout game fan. There are soo many lore jokes in the show. It’s actually even better than it seems. Game to tv shows, they nailed it. The games are light with very dark humour and darker seriousness. It’s as close to a masterpiece as it gets transferred from one media to another
Definitely, in the game lore radiation heals and invigorates ghouls. As an example, in the first episode when Cooper is buried in the coffin, the bags of medication hanging from the grave marker are a drug called Radaway, an anti radiation treatment. That's why he's too weak to escape.
@@jdpolo8679I don’t think the bag was radaway. In this new show they add to the lore of ghouls that they now need to drink whatever drug to keep their sanity and not turn feral. And as for him being weak he was BURIED even someone 10x strong as a human would have trouble😂
You could be completely correct. The reasons I thought it was Radaway is because the i.v. bags do look like the radaway icons in the game, and how he seemed to recover once he pulled the needle from his neck. It's a tiny detail, either way.
And also squires carrying "inventory" for knoght quite accurately represent players' habit to dump all thir loot onto party members, as they can't be overencumbered.
It represents loading the players companion with all of the junk they collect along the way. Players can carry a ridiculous amount. Companions can carry a tank.
To be honest, i love seeing a non-fallout fan's take on the show, as how the larger world audience sees it. Most Fallout fans are going to enjoy it because it sticks to the theme and lore decently well (aside from a few Feral New Vegas fans at least) but seeing how the general public reacts determines how well the show will do overall. Glad you liked it, they gave it a good treatment, esp in a modern Faux-DEI landscape.
Have fun delving in Mary. I only played some of Fallout 3, so I went in as a gamer but not a Fallout gamer fan. Part of the brilliant execution of the Fallout show is that they did the difficult balancing act of staying faithful to the game’s lore & to its fans while making it accessible & enjoyable for non-gamers & others to enjoy. That’s not easy to pull off as it usually is done terribly & ends up upsetting both sides of the aisle. They were able to please the hardcore fans & audience members who had no clue about anything related to the game. They crushed it.
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. Anyway, think of the game and series as set in a sort of retro-futuriatic 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.
I think they could have done with explaining that Stimpacks work incredibly well just a teeny bit more at the outset. I think it seems to confuse people how Lucy and the dog are both mostly fine after taking a stimpack. Even if she'd just gone 'Stimpack, stimpack, stimpack....' while searching for one at the start then saying something like 'OK, well that helped.' after she takes it, people are triggered to know this thing heals really well. They did it a bit with Titus begging for a stimpack, but I didn't think it was enough. Plus I think it would put in people's heads that medicine in the world is very advanced early. Generally speaking though, you're right and I like that they are keeping some things a mystery up front for first-timers and explaining them later in the show. And I think holding back information you don't really need to know for later is always a great storytelling device, but it must be hard to avoid the temptation of giving people a giant exposition dump at the start of a story like this. People absorb an answer better when it is for something they are already questioning.
As a fan of the games and the lore this is the best video game adaptation to movie/ TV I have ever seen and 90% of what you see in the show you can see or do in the game
The t-51b and the t-60 power armors have a urine recycling system in them. (So you can drink your own pee) As for poop, i dont know. Guess you just gotta get out.
This show is so good definitely exceeded expectations. It’s so much better if you’ve played the games and they nailed a lot of the references and little Easter Eggs
The reason that the Doctor knows about the vaults is because he worked for the Enclave, the postwar remnants of the US government, who were working hand in hand with Vault Tec. He probably studied the vaults during his employment.
Yes bottle caps are the currency in fallout. Originally trade was done in clean water but it's hard to carry a lot of it so they started using bottle caps since they were uard to replicate and easy to carry
All episodes in one go. I was either on the edge of my seat with anticipation or leaning back with amazement with pretty much everything. The whole show is one big easter egg.
I'm wearing my Feo, Fuerte y Formal T-shirt thanks to this show. It isn't true in my case, but it is a great funny conversation starter. Few commentators seam to realize how privileged Lucy is, so good on ya. But she does try to overcome her easy life with some empathy for others, sympathy is in short supply in the wasteland.
14:50 I thought this was so cool when I saw how they were drawing the images. Sending codes over the radio to indicate where in the grid each line/pixel needed to be drawn.
I went into it blind just like you, and by the last episode, they had hooked me and reeled me in so hard that I absolutely can't wait for season 2. LOL
I Love Lucy was a great show. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez were a great couple. And Fallout is also great, right up there on my list of favorite shows ever.
I love the way you do reactions like this and how open you are to new shows. I only found your channel a couple of months ago after stumbling across your Expanse watch through and loved that (and your note taking). I have been enjoying catching up on you watching some of my favourite series and I am so excited to see you watching this. Massive fallout fan and nerd, loved the show and hope you do too. Don't worry about missing things or Easter eggs, just have fun!
The exosuits have a tiny nuclear reactor in the back. The intro starts actually in the 2070s IIRC. The 1950s aesthetic comes from the fact that they didn't develop the transistor, so modern microchips and miniaturization didn't happen until much later. But they made a lot of progress in other things, such as nuclear tech. That's why you see a flying robot in the intro too, which is powered by such a miniature reactor. Same goes for even their cars.
The power armor suits run on nuclear power, just like basically everything in their world. In the Fallout universe they focused heavily on atomic powered tech, so at this point they have small fusion cores that you can think of as basically like fusion batteries.
In the game, bottle caps, in particular Nuka-Cola bottle caps, serve as the world's currency. The technology and know how to create bottle caps was lost after the war, so bottle caps are one of the few pre-war items that cannot be counterfeited. Plus, Nuka-Cola produced so many billions of bottles of soda before the war that there can be no worry of there ever being a shortage of caps.
Interestingly there are still machines that make bottlecaps but these are quickly destroyed if they are found by larger companies that don't want the economy to inflate away their wealth. Gold is also still used for the same reason gold has been used across multiple collapses of civilizations in our history, its common enough to be useful, useless enough to not be an industrial product (until relatively recently with electronics) and it doesn't rust. Caesars legion's currency was backed by, and often was literal gold coins, NCR's economy was also backed by gold (replacing caps that were backed by water) until the BoS bombed their gold reserve and they had to resort to central bank fiat currency that was in hyperinflation
I found out they filmed the coastal scenes in Namibia while watching an interview of Ella Purnell. And I don't know if they filmed in Australia, but they did say that the Ghoul actor, Walton Goggins, was bitten by a brown recluse during the filming.
They did such a great job with this tv series. Campy, brutal combat, Fallout history. Even a nod to having COMPANIONS. And you're enough of a gamer that you GET IT even if you haven't played the games.
When it comes to nailing the FEEL of a game, Fallout has set the bar. It's such a unique, crazy setting and finding a way to get that across to a viewer is incredibly difficult in a show. They absolutely slammed it. The combination of goofy over-the-top violence, comedic dark humor and retro sci-fi is conveyed near perfectly.
The original Fallout game was supposed to be a sequel to the game Wasteland (created in 1988), but Interplay didn't own the rights to Wasteland and EA didn't want to give them up so Fallout was born. Wasteland shares a lot of the same themes as Fallout. The most recent Wasteland game, Wasteland 3 was released in 2020.
21:50 One of my favorite aspects of the games is wordless storytelling through environment design. Every ruined home is a vignette of someone's ultimate struggle. Nameless, faceless, long-dead NPCs, yet deciding whether to grab that teddy bear for scrap can feel like a battle for your soul.
iv been big fan of the fallout games from way back when it first come out in 1997 and ill take my hat off to the directors and writers, they did a amazing job, for someone like me we can see a ton of stuff we seen over the years, but if your a fallout virgin you dont feel lost watching the show, it makes sense for veterans and new people alike
There is another aspect of the Stimpacks. Before the war they cost 2000 dollars per one. And they have incredible healing power. It is a real example of the have/have not society that existed before the war.
From someone that's played all the games and loves the franchise. I think they did a good job striking a balance between catering to the fans of the games and making it accessible enough for someone that has little to no knowledge of the Fallout universe.
@@edwardaucay8597also Ella Purnell (Lucy/Jinx) voices one of the women in the gag scene in Invincible Season 2 who end up going into the haunted pyramid.
Fallout games have to be some of the best to ever release. The surrounding areas of the many main locations you get to explore like Washington D.C, Las Vegas, and Boston are amazing, strange, & scary when hearing the certain quests/lore from the NPC’s! Anybody here remember the PTSD from stumbling across Dead Wind Cavern? Lol or the chill of Far Harbor?
Think TLoU is the best adaptation is wild. It's a watered down version of the source. Good video game adaptations are original stories, not recreations.
@@chand911you’re the type that’d love anime in live action when the story is incredibly different as well. You must’ve loved Dragon Ball Evolution, Death Note (live action) & The Last Airbender. (Btw I know these are not video games like the subject was on, but it’s a pretty good comparison)
I have played around with the Fallout games since 1997. When I saw that this was going to be made tears came to eyes and I was like "Please don't suck. Please don't suck...." I love what what they did with it. Not only the look but also are whole story arc. No spoilers here but...... War. War never changes.
41:14 when I was in the Army stationed in California, we did a 40 mile march to the ocean through Big Sur. It's been over 30 years, and my memory ain't great, but I think we completed it in 10 or 11 hours.
Ok.. Some background. Fallout takes place in a parallel world where history went in a different direction after World War II. Some technologies advanced rapidly while others obviously didnt. This is why the TVs are black and white and film cameras are still in use. The opening scene takes place on October 23rd, 2077; The day the bombs dropped. Some humans when irradiated became ghouls, and they are effectively immortal.
7:50 .. it was the year 2077 when the bombs dropped-it's basically a different/alternative dimension/world to ours. They run everything on nuclear energy, and their computers are different. I think they have no internet, and their whole style is called 'retro-futurism,' meaning that some technology is WAY ahead of ours (like stimpacks and power armor), while the TVs, music, and clothing style are from our past.
I have watched the entire "Fallout" TV series on Prime Video, and it was absolutely brutal and incredible. And it's one of those instances that both gamers and non-gamers can enjoy the TV series. Without a doubt, it is truly the best TV series of 2024. Period. Thanks for the reaction, Mary! Hope you enjoy the show as much as I did. Cheers!🙂👏🏻✨️
They really captured the spirit of the game. And added lots of the kind of twisted brand of humor the games are known for, as well as the "bloody mess" the games are notorious for as well.
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This show is Absolutely amazing thank you for Watching Mary, and Please Play the games (I personally recommend Fallout New Vegas)
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I think Lucy is more sheltered than priviliged
8 hours will 20 miles take so indeed a workday to walk that distance.
Lucy = New player
Maximus = Mid level player doing main quest
The Ghoul = High level character playing the game for fun
Hey thanks. That makes perfect sense.
And Chicken Man?
@@corneliusantonius3108 Guy with sus mods installed.
@@scp_redacted989 LOL 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@corneliusantonius3108 Chicken Man = scholar and gentelman
“Thou shall get sidetracked by bulls**t every goddamn time.” It's hilarious because that's literally what makes Fallout so great, getting lost in so many side quests that by the time you get back to the main story you’re OP a hell!
It's not Fallout, but I have 1,000 hrs. in Skyrim and have never finished the main questline.
Meanwhile the og Fallout players with a time limit on the main quest: 😰
@@tonyod.1161 Yeah, originally you had a counter of 400 days finish both main quests (water chip and then ending the mutant threat), but Black Isle patched it later on to only put a timer on the water chip recovery which was 150 days. It could then be extended by another 100 days by buying water from water merchants in Hub City (which was more than enough time), after completing the water chip quest you had all the time in the world to complete the final main quest though.
@@tonyod.1161 Only first game though. In the secnd you was free as the wind. 😉
@@TheSuperhomosapienFallout is exactly like that. Same way as Skyrim. If theres one thing Bethesda was always good at (until recently) it was filling a giant world with an unreasonable amount of stuff to do and find.
Ask anybody what their favorite Fallout/Elder Scrolls quest was, and they wont be mentioning the main quest lol
To be fair, that Autocannon when the scientists escapes is probably more accurate than the In game ones lol.
yeah, they hated high agility and luck stacked on top of their already useless ability to shoot straight.
Right? I havent seen shooting that bad since Boba Fett was shooting at Obi-Wan in the prequals. Hits every molecule around him, but not him.
It's a bit of a nod to how gun mechanics work under the hood in Fallout 4 where the higher rate of fire suffers accuracy penalties for game balance. Jonathan Nolan and most of the people working on the series were big Fallout fans and they threw in a ton of easter eggs INCLUDING some of the bugs and questionable game mechanics (like 'insta-cure' Stimpaks, the Junk shooter, Jim's Limbs, etc.).
auto cannon?
@@evilpopcans3735the turret shooting the dog and scientist
The turret shooting at the doctor and dog is very thematically accurate meaning it sucks in game too
It's legit lore accurate from the descriptions and games, but I kind of love how they didn't info dump or spend any time explaining what was happening or why, it just is.
I think of them as deterrents and a noise-making warning system rather than something that actually deals damage.
Yep, that is why I tend to build a ton of them with interlocking fields of fire.
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In pulling the squire out of the gulper, Maximus pulled it's stomach out, killing it.
Judging by the Gulper's eyeballs more likely it's some of the drugs from Ghoul's backpack kicking in. 🤣
Yea. Im confused with how many people that just dont get it. The fingers are sticking to Thaddeus' body so hard that when he was pulled out, the Gulper's inside followed
@@takewhataway The gulper gave him the finger on the way out.
Lucy approaching diaper dude is an in-game meme - players usually don't put their weapons away when talking to NPCs. Absolutely brilliant. Also, many don't recognize the callback to the original isometric RPG game's surface dwellers that diaper dude represents. So, two fan services in one scene.
"Why are these NPCs so unfriendly when I try to talk to them? Oh, yeah -- I forgot to lower my weapon." [Holsters weapon]
Why would anyone walk around with weapons drawn? The game advises you that you travel faster with the weapon holstered. I thought everyone holsters their weapons after a fight.
The weapon that shot the toy baby leg and other stuff is called the Junk Jet. A weapon found in Fallout 4 that uses all the random junk found in the game as ammunition.
It's in 3 as well
@@markcarpenter60203 has the Rock-It Launcher. Works the same, but is an entirely different weapon.
@@ZeallustImmortal I forgot they changed the name between 3 and 4.
We see that thing at 33:29 on the wall
I love the bits of the show that are blatantly just there as game mechanics.
-Stimpacks healing any injury.
-People always traveling in pairs. Lone wanderer and a companion baby. Doggie especially.
-Showing the "perks" and "character stats" of Lucy at the beginning. Guns, Engineering, Athletics, etc
And also, they didn't use any Vaults that were already used in the games. Because it's supposed to be the same lore just different times in the same timeline.
mary may not have played fallout, but i'm pretty sure her editor has! Fantastic job whomever you are!
Yes he has!!!
That 'you've lost karma' piece is worth a raise
Michael Emerson (the doctor) worked with show runner Jonathan Nolan on a great show called Person Of Interest a decade ago, he played a genius scientist who walked with a limp and had a Belgian Malinois to protect him. And for Fallout he played a genius scientist who walked with a limp and had a Belgian Malinois to protect him.🤣🤣🤣
Why are you calling him Michael Emerson? His name is Benjamin Linus
@@Coco-oy5sm I know I absolutely agree that THAT was his best performance ever. But I love the character Harold Finch far more.
At least this time his neck works. Or it did, until he didn't need it to anymore.
@@Krucifus It was cancelled and CBS didn't intend to bring it back after the mid season break. The producers and others convinced them to let them finish the story and give an actual conclusion while wrapping up some of the side stories. That's why the final season seems so compressed. Everything was geared towards the final scene with Harold and John on the rooftop.
That big turret is kind of meme because in games they often missed too at point blank :D
Maybe they don't have VATS, because I can't hit shit in those games without it either.
This show got me to give FO3 another shot, except this time I downloaded a mod collection.
TLDR; I fucking hate turrets, now 😂
Also it makes sense if you think about it
The transistor had JUST been invented, coding probably wasn’t that great 😝
It's kind of funny that everyone I've seen reacting to episode two mentions Phillidelphia, but nobody seems to put together that Filly is called Filly because it's a landfill.
Zach Hazard realised that, and he is absolutely not a reactor :) (and he doesn't love the show...).
I figured it was where Fillmore, CA used to be, like a days walk from Santa Monica.
Probably because there are no hints for that, it doesn't matter. And I'd consider people jumping to that, crazy xD
That’s because there isn’t a major city, with millions of people, in real life called landfilly hahahaha
Thank you! I was still stumped on what the inspiration for the name was.
The fact that they were 3d printing props straight from the game files is outstanding attention to detail.
They selected a good set of characters to tell the story through.
Lucy is a level 1 character played by a first-timer for the new fans identify with.
Cooper is a level 50 character played by someone who has been playing since Fallout 1, running a Gunslinger build with Bloody Mess and Grim Reaper's Spirit, for all the old hands to identify with.
(min)Max is a level 10 character played by a powergamer, who put all his points into combat stats, is definitely running Idiot Savant, and joined the Brotherhood for the weapons and armor.
Dogmeat is one of the many cloned dogs that are your companion in all the numbered games. Always the goodest of bois.
21:35 “they can’t have missed every single shot.”
Honestly those things never hit anyone in the game. Lore accurate turrets xD
Like any government agency, the Enclave was stingy with funds for their upgrade.
At least he didn't bunny hop to make it shoot at the sky and ground. Also useful against anyone with a Fatman.
29:02 outside of Fallout 4, which made their power drain really fast as a gameplay mechanic, the cell that powers the armor usually lasts about 500 years.
Fusion core
I love that stim packs heal straight away without any explanation, it shows that game mechanics can translate to drama if done right.
I’m not a gamer, so the only thing I knew about Fallout before watching this series is that it would often get mentioned in comments when I watched TH-cam videos of songs from the 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s, because I love music from back then. I couldn’t figure out how those songs matched up with a post-nuclear apocalyptic future. I was a fan of The Last Of Us, but I really love this show! Lucy’s terrific, but Walton Goggins’ Ghoul/Cooper is just next level!
And now ya know why haha.
All these songs played on the radios or in the intros of the Fallout games
The America in the games is based on early 1950s retrofuturism; basically, how people in the 1950s thought the future would look like. That's the reason for the music. In the game you have the option of listening to the local radio on your PIP Boy play early 1950s music like big band and swing while you explore the Wasteland shooting raiders and generally getting yourself into trouble. It's oddly humorous and satisfying at the same time. There is another type of very common enemy that the show only briefly hinted at. Super mutants. Giant, Hulk-sized, green mutants who love to eat people and who are really dumb. They will for sure be in the second season.
@@rofyle hmmm now that you mention it, since the second series looks likes its going to be in the mojave they probably could recast Michael Dorn to reappear as Marcus, you also have all the mutants at the mountain as well in that area, whereas in california, the mutants were probably persecuted if not hunted down inside the NCR (in FNV they even send mercernaries after them so they can colonise a mutant run town) so you don't see them in this season
Something I havent seen anybody mention thats really funny, is that Maximus asked Titus if the tempered lining gives him more mobility. The tempered lining actually does quite the opposite, it makes the armor stronger and heavier.
I’m a fallout game fan. There are soo many lore jokes in the show. It’s actually even better than it seems. Game to tv shows, they nailed it. The games are light with very dark humour and darker seriousness. It’s as close to a masterpiece as it gets transferred from one media to another
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Easily my second favorite adaptation. Its so good.
To be fair, the water in the Ghoul's canteen was probably contaminated.
Definitely, in the game lore radiation heals and invigorates ghouls. As an example, in the first episode when Cooper is buried in the coffin, the bags of medication hanging from the grave marker are a drug called Radaway, an anti radiation treatment. That's why he's too weak to escape.
@@jdpolo8679I don’t think the bag was radaway. In this new show they add to the lore of ghouls that they now need to drink whatever drug to keep their sanity and not turn feral. And as for him being weak he was BURIED even someone 10x strong as a human would have trouble😂
You could be completely correct. The reasons I thought it was Radaway is because the i.v. bags do look like the radaway icons in the game, and how he seemed to recover once he pulled the needle from his neck. It's a tiny detail, either way.
@@darkest1assassin Beatrix managed it. 😤
Nice to see Blind Al thriving 200 years after the events of the Deadpool movies
My mom said it was a shame they didn't make a wedding gown out of a vault suit. Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.
"She steals dads!" That's my favorite line in the whole show.
Ghouls aren't technically zombies, they're more preserved due to high radiation.
A perfectly delivered line with that voice crack, lol. Definitely one of the best.
Its the most naive line ive ever heard in a show, its perfect.
They couldn't make a Fallout series/movie without Dogmeat being in it 🐕
Yes, always has to have some kind of dog. It's essential. 😁
@@superdre4892 I just hope deathclaws are in season 2 🐾
@@Eivor85 hopefully. It was foreshadowed.
Furry?
It's not common for vaults to be interconnected. They are usually stand alone. Theres more going on here then meets the eye. Stay tuned.
Ive heard the over sized bags the squires carry are meant to symbolizes the players ability to carry way to much equipment in video games
And also squires carrying "inventory" for knoght quite accurately represent players' habit to dump all thir loot onto party members, as they can't be overencumbered.
It represents loading the players companion with all of the junk they collect along the way.
Players can carry a ridiculous amount. Companions can carry a tank.
To be honest, i love seeing a non-fallout fan's take on the show, as how the larger world audience sees it.
Most Fallout fans are going to enjoy it because it sticks to the theme and lore decently well (aside from a few Feral New Vegas fans at least) but seeing how the general public reacts determines how well the show will do overall. Glad you liked it, they gave it a good treatment, esp in a modern Faux-DEI landscape.
Have fun delving in Mary. I only played some of Fallout 3, so I went in as a gamer but not a Fallout gamer fan. Part of the brilliant execution of the Fallout show is that they did the difficult balancing act of staying faithful to the game’s lore & to its fans while making it accessible & enjoyable for non-gamers & others to enjoy. That’s not easy to pull off as it usually is done terribly & ends up upsetting both sides of the aisle. They were able to please the hardcore fans & audience members who had no clue about anything related to the game. They crushed it.
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.
Anyway, think of the game and series as set in a sort of retro-futuriatic 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.
Playing the games is not required. Everything is explained
I think they could have done with explaining that Stimpacks work incredibly well just a teeny bit more at the outset. I think it seems to confuse people how Lucy and the dog are both mostly fine after taking a stimpack. Even if she'd just gone 'Stimpack, stimpack, stimpack....' while searching for one at the start then saying something like 'OK, well that helped.' after she takes it, people are triggered to know this thing heals really well. They did it a bit with Titus begging for a stimpack, but I didn't think it was enough. Plus I think it would put in people's heads that medicine in the world is very advanced early.
Generally speaking though, you're right and I like that they are keeping some things a mystery up front for first-timers and explaining them later in the show. And I think holding back information you don't really need to know for later is always a great storytelling device, but it must be hard to avoid the temptation of giving people a giant exposition dump at the start of a story like this. People absorb an answer better when it is for something they are already questioning.
Playing the games IS required....after watching the TV series. Vault-Tec is watching you.
A couple clarifications, ghouls aren't zombies or undead. I'll just say radiation heals them rapidly.
Girl, your reaction and the edit are always great, loved the "you lost karma" one hahahahah
As a fan of the games and the lore this is the best video game adaptation to movie/ TV I have ever seen and 90% of what you see in the show you can see or do in the game
"What if he has to poo or wee?"
What is that thing that the 'knight' keeps giving the squire and telling him to clean?
Just a codpiece. Didn't seem to have any filtering or other tech inside it.
@@Cygnus888 Exactly, a codpiece without filtering or tech. That's why it requires cleaning often.
The t-51b and the t-60 power armors have a urine recycling system in them. (So you can drink your own pee)
As for poop, i dont know. Guess you just gotta get out.
This show is so good definitely exceeded expectations. It’s so much better if you’ve played the games and they nailed a lot of the references and little Easter Eggs
The reason that the Doctor knows about the vaults is because he worked for the Enclave, the postwar remnants of the US government, who were working hand in hand with Vault Tec. He probably studied the vaults during his employment.
Yes bottle caps are the currency in fallout. Originally trade was done in clean water but it's hard to carry a lot of it so they started using bottle caps since they were uard to replicate and easy to carry
I was looking forward to your reaction Mary, glad you like the series 👍
Yes, more please. I binge watched this season in 3 days, I look forward to the rest of Mary's reactions.
All episodes in one go. I was either on the edge of my seat with anticipation or leaning back with amazement with pretty much everything. The whole show is one big easter egg.
Fallout Fridays :) every Fridays ❤
21:40 Lucy was INCREDIBLY lucky that robot wasn't functioning. They would have insta-killed her.
In some ways, the Stanley Kubrick film Doctor Strangelove could be considered a quasi-prequel to Fallout...
I'm wearing my Feo, Fuerte y Formal T-shirt thanks to this show. It isn't true in my case, but it is a great funny conversation starter.
Few commentators seam to realize how privileged Lucy is, so good on ya. But she does try to overcome her easy life with some empathy for others, sympathy is in short supply in the wasteland.
Leslie Uggams, who plays “Betty”, was a huge star in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Glad to see she’s still around.
She is also a blind lady from Deadpool movies.
14:50 I thought this was so cool when I saw how they were drawing the images. Sending codes over the radio to indicate where in the grid each line/pixel needed to be drawn.
That's actually good approximation of how fax machines work IRL. So brotherhood was basically sending fax-message in manual mode :)
Your knowledge of story telling makes your commentary so engaging. Loving this journey with you!
I'm a huge fan of the Fallout games and I loved the show! Ella Purnell who plays Lucy really killed her role. The other actors were also great!
I went into it blind just like you, and by the last episode, they had hooked me and reeled me in so hard that I absolutely can't wait for season 2. LOL
Oh my god I laughed so hard when you blurred Lucy's tranc gun like no one has ever seen a gun before
I Love Lucy was a great show. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez were a great couple.
And Fallout is also great, right up there on my list of favorite shows ever.
I love the way you do reactions like this and how open you are to new shows. I only found your channel a couple of months ago after stumbling across your Expanse watch through and loved that (and your note taking). I have been enjoying catching up on you watching some of my favourite series and I am so excited to see you watching this. Massive fallout fan and nerd, loved the show and hope you do too. Don't worry about missing things or Easter eggs, just have fun!
The exosuits have a tiny nuclear reactor in the back. The intro starts actually in the 2070s IIRC. The 1950s aesthetic comes from the fact that they didn't develop the transistor, so modern microchips and miniaturization didn't happen until much later. But they made a lot of progress in other things, such as nuclear tech. That's why you see a flying robot in the intro too, which is powered by such a miniature reactor. Same goes for even their cars.
The power armor suits run on nuclear power, just like basically everything in their world. In the Fallout universe they focused heavily on atomic powered tech, so at this point they have small fusion cores that you can think of as basically like fusion batteries.
You mentioned watching Arcane which I thought was great!
FYI: the crazy character Jinx was voiced by Ella Purnell
In the game, bottle caps, in particular Nuka-Cola bottle caps, serve as the world's currency. The technology and know how to create bottle caps was lost after the war, so bottle caps are one of the few pre-war items that cannot be counterfeited. Plus, Nuka-Cola produced so many billions of bottles of soda before the war that there can be no worry of there ever being a shortage of caps.
They were also the exclusive currency accepted by water merchants. So you had to have caps to get water.
Interestingly there are still machines that make bottlecaps but these are quickly destroyed if they are found by larger companies that don't want the economy to inflate away their wealth. Gold is also still used for the same reason gold has been used across multiple collapses of civilizations in our history, its common enough to be useful, useless enough to not be an industrial product (until relatively recently with electronics) and it doesn't rust. Caesars legion's currency was backed by, and often was literal gold coins, NCR's economy was also backed by gold (replacing caps that were backed by water) until the BoS bombed their gold reserve and they had to resort to central bank fiat currency that was in hyperinflation
5:39 "it just works"
"the ghoul is awesome, I like him"
*Stabs dogmeat
"....I don't like him anymore..."
This will surely be a great watch, love the 3 part format to. 🎉
In the Mood is my favorite song of all time! Not many people know it so its cool that Mary knew it!
That was not a Vault that was a private fallout shelter.
Honestly it was probs just a basement.
@@Coco-oy5smNo, there's a nuclear radiation sticker on the doors.
@@Yggdrasil42 Exactly.
I found out they filmed the coastal scenes in Namibia while watching an interview of Ella Purnell. And I don't know if they filmed in Australia, but they did say that the Ghoul actor, Walton Goggins, was bitten by a brown recluse during the filming.
They did such a great job with this tv series. Campy, brutal combat, Fallout history. Even a nod to having COMPANIONS. And you're enough of a gamer that you GET IT even if you haven't played the games.
I love how despite the fact that you haven’t played the games you understand the video game logic that went into making the show!
After the starship troopers vid I was concerned you wouldn't make it through the gulper scene with your lunch intact.
When it comes to nailing the FEEL of a game, Fallout has set the bar. It's such a unique, crazy setting and finding a way to get that across to a viewer is incredibly difficult in a show. They absolutely slammed it. The combination of goofy over-the-top violence, comedic dark humor and retro sci-fi is conveyed near perfectly.
The original Fallout game was supposed to be a sequel to the game Wasteland (created in 1988), but Interplay didn't own the rights to Wasteland and EA didn't want to give them up so Fallout was born. Wasteland shares a lot of the same themes as Fallout. The most recent Wasteland game, Wasteland 3 was released in 2020.
So happy you are starting this series!
Ghouls are not the same as zombies, they are not the undead. They can be killed.
The pup was protecting his master. So if you don't hurt the master dog won't hurt you.
15:10 The weapon is called a JunkJet. It allows you to use random junk you find in the world as ammunition. Dolls, empty cans, etc.
I laughed so hard when the Yao Guai (bear) appears behind Knight Tidus after being a jerk to Maximus to check out the cave - Instant Karma 😂
Funny thing - you kinda have the smile and aura of a voult dweller 😂
😂😂
The suit uses nuclear power. It has a fusion cell, like a nuclear battery, that can run a very long time.
Honestly, one minute you sound Aussie, the other you sound London
Such a unique accent!
21:50 One of my favorite aspects of the games is wordless storytelling through environment design. Every ruined home is a vignette of someone's ultimate struggle. Nameless, faceless, long-dead NPCs, yet deciding whether to grab that teddy bear for scrap can feel like a battle for your soul.
He was flirting with her. They just happen to have met before 😊
If you love Lucy do "YELLOWJACKETS' she's the lead in that series too.
iv been big fan of the fallout games from way back when it first come out in 1997 and ill take my hat off to the directors and writers, they did a amazing job, for someone like me we can see a ton of stuff we seen over the years, but if your a fallout virgin you dont feel lost watching the show, it makes sense for veterans and new people alike
FunFact: Ella Purnell (Lucy) is the voice of Jinx in Arcane
There is another aspect of the Stimpacks. Before the war they cost 2000 dollars per one. And they have incredible healing power. It is a real example of the have/have not society that existed before the war.
Defffo should have done individual episodes, 1. Capitalise on the views 2. We would watch them 😂
I'm so happy that the show ended up so good and it has become such a hit. Can't wait until season 2.
I mean if a LITERAL knight in shining armor came down from the sky to save me from a big scary (but hot) ghoul id be infatuated too
I was glad the Ghoul used the Stimpack to bring Dog Meat back after stabbing him
From someone that's played all the games and loves the franchise. I think they did a good job striking a balance between catering to the fans of the games and making it accessible enough for someone that has little to no knowledge of the Fallout universe.
Not I Love Lucy. This is Fallout.
Also, Ella Purnell (Lucy) voices Jinx in Arcane.
Lol. Imagine she didn’t know that she was making a reference, that would be funny
Also, Walton Giggins (Cooper Howard/The Ghoul) voices Cecil Stedman in Invincible.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who went there lol
@@edwardaucay8597also Ella Purnell (Lucy/Jinx) voices one of the women in the gag scene in Invincible Season 2 who end up going into the haunted pyramid.
Fallout games have to be some of the best to ever release. The surrounding areas of the many main locations you get to explore like Washington D.C, Las Vegas, and Boston are amazing, strange, & scary when hearing the certain quests/lore from the NPC’s!
Anybody here remember the PTSD from stumbling across Dead Wind Cavern? Lol or the chill of Far Harbor?
At first I thought that The Last of Us was the best video game adaptation ever, but Fallout, wow.
Think TLoU is the best adaptation is wild. It's a watered down version of the source. Good video game adaptations are original stories, not recreations.
@@chand911*thinking
@@chand911you’re the type that’d love anime in live action when the story is incredibly different as well. You must’ve loved Dragon Ball Evolution, Death Note (live action) & The Last Airbender. (Btw I know these are not video games like the subject was on, but it’s a pretty good comparison)
I'm sure you've heard it a bunch already but Lucy played by Ella Purnell also voiced Jinx from Arcane
YES!!! So pumped for Mary's reaction to this. ❤
I have played around with the Fallout games since 1997.
When I saw that this was going to be made tears came to eyes and I was like "Please don't suck. Please don't suck...."
I love what what they did with it.
Not only the look but also are whole story arc.
No spoilers here but......
War. War never changes.
41:14 when I was in the Army stationed in California, we did a 40 mile march to the ocean through Big Sur. It's been over 30 years, and my memory ain't great, but I think we completed it in 10 or 11 hours.
Yeah, the guy shot doll parts out of a junk jet, you haven't played Fallout until you kill a target with a ballistically launched teddy bear.
Ok.. Some background. Fallout takes place in a parallel world where history went in a different direction after World War II. Some technologies advanced rapidly while others obviously didnt. This is why the TVs are black and white and film cameras are still in use. The opening scene takes place on October 23rd, 2077; The day the bombs dropped. Some humans when irradiated became ghouls, and they are effectively immortal.
Cousin stuff. If the same families have been in a vault for 200 plus years, chances are almost everybody would be a cousin.
7:50 .. it was the year 2077 when the bombs dropped-it's basically a different/alternative dimension/world to ours. They run everything on nuclear energy, and their computers are different. I think they have no internet, and their whole style is called 'retro-futurism,' meaning that some technology is WAY ahead of ours (like stimpacks and power armor), while the TVs, music, and clothing style are from our past.
I have watched the entire "Fallout" TV series on Prime Video, and it was absolutely brutal and incredible. And it's one of those instances that both gamers and non-gamers can enjoy the TV series.
Without a doubt, it is truly the best TV series of 2024. Period.
Thanks for the reaction, Mary! Hope you enjoy the show as much as I did. Cheers!🙂👏🏻✨️
They really captured the spirit of the game. And added lots of the kind of twisted brand of humor the games are known for, as well as the "bloody mess" the games are notorious for as well.
I like how its a riff of The Good the Bad and the Ugly