Yeah the bombs dropped in 2077. The reason for the 50s asthetic is this version of our world didnt develop microprocessors (or rather didnt focus on them as much as nuclear power) so technology didn't get thinner and smaller like ours did. So it kept the 50s look despite being more advanced than ours.
Ella Purnell/Lucy/Jinx also voices one of the women in the pyramid in the running joke/gag scene in the last episode of Invicible season 2 (the one that says, “that’s sexist” to the mummy ghost guy).
The unique aspect of the Fallout series is its anthology-like format. Each game is a self-contained story, set in a different part of the American Wasteland, and featuring a new protagonist. This allows you to dive into any Fallout game as your first experience and still be fully immersed in the narrative, without needing any prior knowledge of the series. Fallout 1, set in 2162, and Fallout 2, set in 2241, are intricately linked. In the latter, you play as the great-grandchild of the Vault Dweller, the protagonist of the first game. The map of the southern part of the game also features locations from the first game, but set over 60+ years later. I'd argue that these two games are really the only ones with a strong connection. Fallout 3 is the first modern Fallout. Set in 2277, it moves to the East Coast to the Capital Wasteland (D.C. area and surrounding States). Thanks to the considerable distance between the settings, it's less connected to the first two games, but factions that can travel long distances do show up. For the most part, Fallout 3 is its own thing. Fallout New Vegas built upon the Fallout 3 engine released just two years later. Set in 2281, just four years after Fallout 3, It moves back to the West Coast to the Mojave Wasteland surrounding the city of New Vegas and branching into States like California, Nevada, and Arizona. New Vegas is connected more to the first two games, featuring many of the same factions and references primarily to Fallout 2, set just 40 years before New Vegas. Finally, Fallout 4, set in 2287, moves back to the East Coast, set within the Commonwealth, former The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, featuring Boston as a significant location. It's set just ten years after Fallout 3 and has a ton of nods and references to the events of that game, featuring many of the same factions and even characters who made the travel from D.C. to Boston. A side mission in Fallout 3 also mentioned The Commonwealth, hinting at the following location for a Fallout game years before we knew Fallout 4 was even being made. This brings us to the Fallout T.V. series, set in 2296, 10 years after Fallout 4 and 15 years after Fallout New Vegas. The series brings us back to the West Coast, surrounding L.A., a location that last appeared in Fallout 1 in 2161, over 130 years before the events of the T.V. show.
Forgot mention Fallout Tactics which came after first 2 and uses same engine but has also a real time mode option and is a squad based tactical game like UFO series or Warhammer Chaos Gate series and it is about Brotherhood of Steel trying expand and deal with threats.
The concept for the games is 200 odd years after a nuclear war that happened in 2077, but a 2077 as Americans of the 1950s imagined the future would be like - talking robots, nuclear powered trains and vehicles, laser guns and everyone able to live in smart suburban houses living on the income of one 40 hr a week job, and the USA still being Number 1. So all the anachronisms are intentional. The games have pretty good politics, in the pre-war USA they depict, which I think was originally intended as a satirical parody of real world America, but has since come to seem more like a documentary of how bad it's getting and where the warmongering is going.
@22:32 I think the premise is that they have analogue radio, but not fax machines. An artist's sketch can be broken down into a grid of squares assigned row and column numbers. That can be passed on with voice audio, or even Morse code over long range HF radio.
Yeah, they have some very high technology, but it’s just what they’ve scavenged, maybe repaired, but there’s no large scale manufacturing going on, and no intact infrastructure to replicate all the many things that we take for granted, like high-speed communications, data transfer, etc. That method of replicating a picture that someone has the original of, but hundreds of miles away, is very smart.
The Fallout series has been near and dear to my heart for well over a decade at this point. In the first year and a half of its release I clocked 450 hours into Fallout 3. I've watched countless video essays on the game series over the years. When Lola said "Even though it's been like 219 years it still has the vibes of the '60s", I just grinned ear to ear. To see our girls seeing the Fallout universe for the first time, going in completely blind, it's a dream come true.
This show takes place in the same continuity as the series of games, but it takes place after the events of every game that has released so far, and the main characters aren’t from the games. It matches the tone perfectly and reveals a lot of great lore for the series, but it’s all new story. The guy who dug up the ghoul said the ghoul was pulled out of the grave once a year for 30 years, not every 30 years. You may want to listen to what the ghoul says at the end: “We cowpokes, we take it as it comes.” Did you notice someone else say that earlier in the episode? 👍
@@the-nomad-show I guess if you're not a big Walton Goggins (the Ghoul's actor) fan like me, that can happen. 😂 To me, his voice is just too recognizable.
One of my favorite shows this year for me, while having a comedic tone its very dramatic at the same time with a deep storyline that will keep you wanting more every episode.
I'm surprised some people don't recognize the Ghoul is also the Cowboy. His voice and accent are exactly the same and, other than missing his nose and some flesh, he looks pretty much the same. Also... still wearing his cowboy hat. You're not the only ones, some others didn't realize it until episode 2 either. Yay!! This will be really fun. Not sure you guys are gamers or not (thinking not) but this series is based on a series of video games going back nearly twenty-five years. Lots of dark humor in this. Someone also mentioned the series "Silo" which is also a bunker based post-apocalyptic story which you would absolutely love. Little humor in it and very dark but so very good. It is based on a series of best selling books: "Wool," "Rust," and "Dust??" The books were excellent and the series did a great job of recreating the universe. (NOT A SPOILER) As far as the "Raiders," they really aren't a faction. It's just a general term for "pirates" or just violent criminals on the surface. They may be organized or unorganized individuals but they don't really have a common agenda other than killing you and taking your stuff. "Vault Dwellers," "The Brotherhood of Steel," and others yet to be shown, can be considered actual factions with actual agendas.
If you guys love this show you need to watch Yellowjackets . It also stars Ella Purnell and while not technically apocalyptic I would say crashing in the middle of nowhere and having to survive has a similar vibe
I think you're the first reactor I watched that immediately knew what the Junk Jet was without already knowing about it ("a makeshift weapon. you just fire anything at them").
Very happy you’re doing this series, looking forward to the rest of your reactions! The injection Lucy healed herself with is called a stimpack, which is how you heal yourself in the game. Very advanced and can heal almost anything (but not radiation, which requires something else). I’m very impressed at how fast you were picking up on everything from a totally blind start. 👍. Especially since the tone is so odd due to being a retro-futuristic post-apocalyptic show. But they nailed the tone from the games. A lot of the comedy comes from the exaggerated “innocence” That comes along with the 50s vibe. Which does make this show weirdly optimistic at times for a show after a nuclear war. But that’s the charm of the series’ tone.
Happy to see you guys watching this series! The Fallout franchise has been near and dear to many of us for so many years, and it's awesome to see more people being introduced to it now through this extremely well-done tv adaptation. Allow me to explain a few things without spoiling anything so you can have a better understanding of the setting the story takes place in. You can think of the Fallout universe as an alternate dimension that runs parallel to ours with all the same events happening throughout our history, but with its timeline diverging from the world we know sometime in the 1940s-50s. A major divergence event is the invention of the transistor. In the Fallout timeline, the transistor was either never invented or rather, it was invented but was never innovated into the mainstream, whereas in our world, the advent of the transistor was the catalyst for technology to follow a more conventional, commercialized route. It enabled a rapid miniaturization of technology, paving the way for tech to focus more on helping the everyday citizen. Because this didn't happen in the Fallout universe, innovation continued to rely on vacuum tube technology, and all sectors focused more heavily on developing weapons and supplying the arms race that would come with the ensuing cold war. Technology followed the route that people thought it would back in the 50s and 60s, creating the retro-futuristic style you see on screen. In the year 2077, they might have floating household helper robots and fancy hovercars but their TVs are still blocky and black and white, and they don't have the internet. Due to these various differences and the west being unable to become more economically dependent, the cold war never really ended, and the threat of nuclear war continued to manifest for an additional century. However, a major difference is that in the year 2077, it is China that is the world communist superpower, not the USSR. I urge you guys to watch through the credits zoom-out sequences. They provide a little peak into the post-war environment.
51:18 Yeah, Christopher Nolan (the guy who mad the "Oppenheimer" movie)'s brother Jonathan Nolan (who also was involved in making the show "West World") is involved in making this show. Interesting that both brothers made something nuklear bomb centric around a similar time.
I dont know about you guys but I loved the fight scene between Lucy and her husband. I was like here we go girl boss moment, then he punted her across the room like a sack of potatoes lol Thats exactly what it supposed happen when a girl her size picks a fight with a guy his size. That was a great scene. :)
Have fun with the Fallout series. If anyone is interested, the show producers built a full mock-up of the "Filly" wasteland village in Austin, Texas, in March to promote the show at the SXSW Festival. It was free to attend and I got a Vault 33 pin, real Nuka Cola, got to shoot junk shooters, saw all the real show props, talked to actors and even had a PipBoy app on my phone. Check out photos online of the event if interested.
I love the first few minutes of you just chatting and wondering what this could all be about... knowing what's coming it just increased my anticipation for the journey you are about to take!
I'm so happy to see you two react to this! In your past videos, you've brought some exceptional insights, and have such wonderful emotional intelligence. I've been playing the Fallout games since they came out (and floppy disks were still a thing) and thought this series was so well done. I eagerly await your take on it! Keep up the amazing work!
Fallout, both the show and game are in the style of Retro-Futurism. Basically an alternative universe that is not what we thought the future was going to look like, but what people in the 50s and 60s thought the future was going to look like. There is a lot of explanations in games on why this world developed the way it did on their alternative timeline.
Such a great first reaction to Fallout. It's so enjoyable hearing your thoughts and theories about what's happening when you have little information to work with. I look forward to watching you put the pieces together in the coming episodes of this fantastic show. 😁👍
29:18 Idk if you remember, but the priest of the Brotherhood of Steel is the same actor that was the CEO of E-Corp in Mr. Robot. I love his performance here!
@@rubenlopez3364actually it’s the opposite. Before the bombs dropped he was putting on a more basic accent to fit in with the “normal” people around him. The ghoul accent is his natural accent
The first Fallout came out in 1997, the first iPhone and thus the first smartphone came out in 2007, Fallout theoretically predicted smartphones with the Pipboys.
I started to watch the show without knowing anything about Fallout and never being interested in the franchise, and I ended up enjoying the show very much.
Due to the Cold War, 1950 - 1990, in the United States our military built several bunkers. The two fallout bunkers that are declassified are Cheyenne Mountain and Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia. You can look these two up. The other Bunkers are still classified.
You ladies raise some excellent questions. The show will answer many of your queries, while others will remain unanswered until perhaps Season 2. But I believe you will both become Fallout experts by the end of the series without having played the games. Remember too that this series story is brand new even for long time Fallout Gamers since most of the events occur long after the video game events (excluding the flashbacks). One could almost nickname this show as "Fallout 5".
SO excited to see you two watch this one. I've sadly not been terribly interested in the selection of stuff y'all have been reviewing for some time now but Fallout is a great journey to join you for.
The last series reaction I saw with you was better call Saul, I'm back to say that you don't need to have played the games to love the series and this universe. I love your reaction girls, hugs from Brazil. ❤
38:21 Fallout is equally serious as it is funny A LOT of moral dilemma goes on, very rare for storylines to be black-and-white in who's good and who's bad, usually all shades of gray
There are 122 Vaults all over the USA. Lower numbers seem to be around California and Nevada (towards the west coast). Higher numbers appear to be around Washington DC, Massachussetts and Maine (east coast). There might be more unofficial ones, however.
Love seeing your introduction to the Fallout Universe. I can understand that it's confusing when you don't have any experience with the video games, but I think the show does a decent job of explaining things. You just have to be patient.
Not quite in the 60's Our world and the Fall Out world share a common history up until approximately World War 2. The two worlds diverged at this point with our world going down a path of development in computers and microprocessors and the Fall Out world going down a path where advancements were in nuclear science and robotics.
You two will really enjoy the "Shogun" series as well. It is a piece of artwork on television. And the actress playing Lucy is the voice actress for Jinx. That young actress at the beginning was absolutely fabulous. Her scared look just made me want to grab and hug her.
Series essentials without spoiling anything, The year in the show is 2296 and takes place in the same timeline as the games but is the furthest story line in the time line of events of the Fallout universe. Lucy is a vault dweller. A bunch of vaults were constructed before the war to house those financially able enough to purchase a home within them for their family. She's the descendant of the survivors and as vaults go hers is a rather good one and she's an excellent byproduct of underground living as it was intended. Maximus is member of the Brotherhood of Steel. The Brotherhood is a surviving group of humans that were once a large military unit and their families from California that survived the war by taking shelter in a reinforced underground military bunker. They're a technology cult that hoard technology because they believe humanity will doom itself to oblivion if allowed to use technology in irresponsible ways that will domino effect to a nuclear war all over again. They once ruled the California wasteland but, fell on hard times after a series of conflicts with the human settlements that were already developing on the surface. They are being supported by that massive airship you see which came from their Eastern chapter on the East coast(the Eastern chapter is explained if you play the games Fallout 3 and 4). The Ghoul is...a survivor. Ghouls specifically are humans that survived the war by sheer luck. The radiation of the Fallout of the war didn't kill them but instead made them somewhat immortal but the trade off is explained in this show and if you play, well, practically any of the Fallout games. Also, don't worry about not knowing that much about the games, the franchise, or the lore. This is an original story set in the timeline of that world after all of the games so you're getting a unique look into the world of Fallout and it's told in a way that even non-fans can sort of understand what's going on. It's not going to Mandalorian season 2 you with a bunch of lore details and references you won't understand without context. It's pretty cut and dry...of course, for us in the know there's a lot of issues, debate, and questions but, that's for us to worry and nerd out over.
As you know this show is from a popular video game series. And that series was inspired by the 1975 sci-fi film, "A Boy and His Dog". About an post-apocalyptic future which takes place in the year 2024. Like the show the film has underground dwellers, and violence, and raiders, and very dark humor. This TV series will slyly reference the film by posters and comments about "A Man and his Dog".
Your actually not wrong. Several factions in the games have discovered that surface humans have evolved over the last 200 or so years to be more resiliant to radiation, and even to have stronger bones than the "pure humans" who spend generations underground
I believe you ladies have mentioned before that you’ve seen ‘Westworld’ 🤠🤖 it’s the same show runners (Christopher Nolan’s brother, Jonah & his wife Lisa Joy, along with Ramin Djawadi that did the music for Game of Thrones) 🙌🔥🍻
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.
The Brotherhood of Steel is a religious order, like the crusaders. I don’t think it’s any more of a cult than any other religion. The squire school is even run like a catholic school. 😅 Maximus has grown up in a militaristic religious order and is apparently not a good student. You gals are going to have so much fun getting your questions answered. This show is very good about slowly paying out the answers (if you pay attention!) while creating new mysteries. Fallout is actually a morality tale. It’s not a simple good vs evil story, but rather about how a person’s morals and ethics are tested by cold harsh reality. Or how a person develops morals when they haven’t been brought up with them and they are thrown out into the world. Or how a good person loses their goodness. These are are crucial questions to each of us, whether we recognize it or not. And it’s what makes the series so compelling to me. It’s high stakes stuff. “How do we survive with some part of our better selves intact?” is a much more interesting question than “How do we survive?”.
The Fallout universe is an alternate world where: 1. The Cold War NEVER stopped raging on as openly as in the mid 1900s 2. Microprocessors/Microchips never got developed So, in 2077, while most technology is more advanced (nuclear vehicles and buildings, laser guns, mech suits, etc) stuff like televisions, telephones, computers, etc, still required big bulky builds to run, and so those didn't advance nearly as fast as our tech did. Also the 1950s/60s fashion just NEVER stopped, since the cultural times never really changed outside of equality among races (unless you're one of the REDS)
Ironically, its also a universe where there are no Fallout video games, nor any other 3D or isometric RPG based games. Nor does this universe have any hockey games or football games or arenas. In fact, it does not even have musical instruments (save for one violin in a FO3 quest). I thought it would have been very funny if Lucy had been playing a Fallout video game in her Vault early in the episode.
Best series decision was to lean into the logic of games and not try to make it realistic. The needle Lucy uses is called a stimpac and it restores your health, like in a game. The brotherhoods equipment is all scavenged Pre-war technology so they do not have any way to transmit pictures other than by telegraph. Norm is my favorite character by the end. People are still alive because the bombs used were like the ones dropped in World War 2, and the cities in Japan that were bombed are still inhabited. The bag is a joke from the game where you have your companion carry all your inventory items. As I recall , Some of the surface people are from the Vaults, the first game says the residents of vault 115 left their vault only 100 years after the war.
Yaaaaay! Some background lore no spoilers... they are in a universe veey similar to ours. But it changed in yhe 1950s when we went into a cold war with china. Our real universe saw more peacetime so we developed microchips and micro capacitors yo eventually make cell phones, computers, internet, etc etc. Their universe in war time focused on nuclear technology. This is why their universe works on nucelar power and all the technology is so big. Its a reflection of what we thought the future would look like back in the 50s. So the bombs drop in 2077, already in the future. Then we go 215 years further into the future.
I don't know exactly how requests go, but may I just say, "Silo" is absolutely amazing and I thoroughly recommend it if it's not already in your pool of future shows. It also has a similar feel to Fallout, so it would feel even more comfortable to watch it after Fallout.
I know pin point when you are talking about and yes I 💯 agree, fallout is what I been looking for a long time, no zombie or climate stuff straight up radioactive stuff
I know you both are going to love this. Can't wait to see your reactions for all of us who follow you. So have fun. And stay well. Now I'm going to see your action to episode 1.
I’m really happy people are getting into the Fallout universe. Although it’s a little bit difficult to get into because there’s a lot of lore from the video games. So, unless you played them, it might not necessarily be clear what’s happening.
If there was ever a post-apocalypse show to be recommend, it would be Station Eleven on HBO. Won't get a lot of views as a reaction, but it is truly one of the best shows to be made in the past 20 years.
This show like a 'whodunnit' mystery, because every detail, comment, hint and action is there for a reason and has an explanation. Extremely well-written, I hope you enjoy. SO many game references, in-jokes and foreshadowing to later events going on at all times.
you guys should REALLY check Twin Peaks out if you haven't!! It is a truly excellent, influential, iconic show. Lucy's dad plays the lead character in that show and he is GREAT!
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Yeah the bombs dropped in 2077. The reason for the 50s asthetic is this version of our world didnt develop microprocessors (or rather didnt focus on them as much as nuclear power) so technology didn't get thinner and smaller like ours did. So it kept the 50s look despite being more advanced than ours.
Exactly. Our timelines split around the end of World War 2. Sometime between 1945-1950.
dont worry they are spoiled proper
And they had dope ass 50s-60s inspired wide body cars that blow up like mini nukes
in reality the game devs just wanted that aesthetic all the way back in Fallout 1 in '97, and that's just the explanation, lmao
@@hengineer well yeah that's the real world explanation. I guess they just wanted to justify it to themselves with the in-universe explanation.
5:30 Cecil's voice actor btw. (among many other things)
7:15 And that's Jinx's voice actress.
Ella Purnell/Lucy/Jinx also voices one of the women in the pyramid in the running joke/gag scene in the last episode of Invicible season 2 (the one that says, “that’s sexist” to the mummy ghost guy).
“Why are you yodeling?” is one of the funniest things said in a while.
Because it's an hommage to Ennio Morricone
@@funki4896 That’s not what made it funny.
why ar u running?
@@jeffreydrozek-fitzwater4649 calm down
@@Insidejokesgamin What agitated Jesus?
36:47 Fallout is know for its whimsical and very dark humor.
1:12 "Just because it brings people together." indeed.
Fiend laughs in cannibalism.
The unique aspect of the Fallout series is its anthology-like format. Each game is a self-contained story, set in a different part of the American Wasteland, and featuring a new protagonist. This allows you to dive into any Fallout game as your first experience and still be fully immersed in the narrative, without needing any prior knowledge of the series.
Fallout 1, set in 2162, and Fallout 2, set in 2241, are intricately linked. In the latter, you play as the great-grandchild of the Vault Dweller, the protagonist of the first game. The map of the southern part of the game also features locations from the first game, but set over 60+ years later. I'd argue that these two games are really the only ones with a strong connection.
Fallout 3 is the first modern Fallout. Set in 2277, it moves to the East Coast to the Capital Wasteland (D.C. area and surrounding States). Thanks to the considerable distance between the settings, it's less connected to the first two games, but factions that can travel long distances do show up. For the most part, Fallout 3 is its own thing.
Fallout New Vegas built upon the Fallout 3 engine released just two years later. Set in 2281, just four years after Fallout 3, It moves back to the West Coast to the Mojave Wasteland surrounding the city of New Vegas and branching into States like California, Nevada, and Arizona. New Vegas is connected more to the first two games, featuring many of the same factions and references primarily to Fallout 2, set just 40 years before New Vegas.
Finally, Fallout 4, set in 2287, moves back to the East Coast, set within the Commonwealth, former The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, featuring Boston as a significant location. It's set just ten years after Fallout 3 and has a ton of nods and references to the events of that game, featuring many of the same factions and even characters who made the travel from D.C. to Boston. A side mission in Fallout 3 also mentioned The Commonwealth, hinting at the following location for a Fallout game years before we knew Fallout 4 was even being made.
This brings us to the Fallout T.V. series, set in 2296, 10 years after Fallout 4 and 15 years after Fallout New Vegas. The series brings us back to the West Coast, surrounding L.A., a location that last appeared in Fallout 1 in 2161, over 130 years before the events of the T.V. show.
Genuinely such a risk to have the show take place the farthest in the timeline
My man…
Forgot mention Fallout Tactics which came after first 2 and uses same engine but has also a real time mode option and is a squad based tactical game like UFO series or Warhammer Chaos Gate series and it is about Brotherhood of Steel trying expand and deal with threats.
Honestly less of a risk than trying to put it anywhere else in the timeline @@Maxisamo1
@@galadballcrusher8182Those arent canon
The concept for the games is 200 odd years after a nuclear war that happened in 2077, but a 2077 as Americans of the 1950s imagined the future would be like - talking robots, nuclear powered trains and vehicles, laser guns and everyone able to live in smart suburban houses living on the income of one 40 hr a week job, and the USA still being Number 1. So all the anachronisms are intentional.
The games have pretty good politics, in the pre-war USA they depict, which I think was originally intended as a satirical parody of real world America, but has since come to seem more like a documentary of how bad it's getting and where the warmongering is going.
Oh boy. You'll love and cry during this series. It's an amazingly written world and my favorite fictional franchise.
@@tristan7720 Must be a really side life if you can't enjoy this show.
@@tristan7720If it's such a disaster, why has it been so popular?
@@simongvs He didn't post what you thought he posted.
Read it, again.
@22:32 I think the premise is that they have analogue radio, but not fax machines. An artist's sketch can be broken down into a grid of squares assigned row and column numbers. That can be passed on with voice audio, or even Morse code over long range HF radio.
First time I saw the 'photo' being drawn I thought it was pretty cool. It totally works and has a 'you sunk my battleship' vibe as well.
Yeah, they have some very high technology, but it’s just what they’ve scavenged, maybe repaired, but there’s no large scale manufacturing going on, and no intact infrastructure to replicate all the many things that we take for granted, like high-speed communications, data transfer, etc. That method of replicating a picture that someone has the original of, but hundreds of miles away, is very smart.
The Fallout series has been near and dear to my heart for well over a decade at this point. In the first year and a half of its release I clocked 450 hours into Fallout 3. I've watched countless video essays on the game series over the years. When Lola said "Even though it's been like 219 years it still has the vibes of the '60s", I just grinned ear to ear. To see our girls seeing the Fallout universe for the first time, going in completely blind, it's a dream come true.
The bloody wedding dress is going to be THE Halloween costume this year.
This show takes place in the same continuity as the series of games, but it takes place after the events of every game that has released so far, and the main characters aren’t from the games. It matches the tone perfectly and reveals a lot of great lore for the series, but it’s all new story.
The guy who dug up the ghoul said the ghoul was pulled out of the grave once a year for 30 years, not every 30 years.
You may want to listen to what the ghoul says at the end: “We cowpokes, we take it as it comes.” Did you notice someone else say that earlier in the episode? 👍
Wait, they didn‘t catch who the ghoul is?? 😂
@@toms169 I didn't until episode three or four 🤣
@@the-nomad-show I guess if you're not a big Walton Goggins (the Ghoul's actor) fan like me, that can happen. 😂 To me, his voice is just too recognizable.
@@toms169 Hadn't heard of him until I watched this. Didn't take me long to come to like him, though 😀
34:14 Honcho is played by Mykelti Williamson who also played Bubba Blue in 'Forrest Gump'
And Limehouse from Justified
@@gaiahunter3863 Yup. He and Walton Goggins are friends so he brought him in.
One of my favorite shows this year for me, while having a comedic tone its very dramatic at the same time with a deep storyline that will keep you wanting more every episode.
@@tristan7720What political correctness?
I'm surprised some people don't recognize the Ghoul is also the Cowboy. His voice and accent are exactly the same and, other than missing his nose and some flesh, he looks pretty much the same. Also... still wearing his cowboy hat. You're not the only ones, some others didn't realize it until episode 2 either.
Yay!! This will be really fun. Not sure you guys are gamers or not (thinking not) but this series is based on a series of video games going back nearly twenty-five years. Lots of dark humor in this. Someone also mentioned the series "Silo" which is also a bunker based post-apocalyptic story which you would absolutely love. Little humor in it and very dark but so very good. It is based on a series of best selling books: "Wool," "Rust," and "Dust??" The books were excellent and the series did a great job of recreating the universe.
(NOT A SPOILER) As far as the "Raiders," they really aren't a faction. It's just a general term for "pirates" or just violent criminals on the surface. They may be organized or unorganized individuals but they don't really have a common agenda other than killing you and taking your stuff. "Vault Dwellers," "The Brotherhood of Steel," and others yet to be shown, can be considered actual factions with actual agendas.
If you guys love this show you need to watch Yellowjackets . It also stars Ella Purnell and while not technically apocalyptic I would say crashing in the middle of nowhere and having to survive has a similar vibe
I think you're the first reactor I watched that immediately knew what the Junk Jet was without already knowing about it ("a makeshift weapon. you just fire anything at them").
LOL, I thought the same thing!
Very happy you’re doing this series, looking forward to the rest of your reactions!
The injection Lucy healed herself with is called a stimpack, which is how you heal yourself in the game. Very advanced and can heal almost anything (but not radiation, which requires something else).
I’m very impressed at how fast you were picking up on everything from a totally blind start. 👍. Especially since the tone is so odd due to being a retro-futuristic post-apocalyptic show. But they nailed the tone from the games.
A lot of the comedy comes from the exaggerated “innocence” That comes along with the 50s vibe. Which does make this show weirdly optimistic at times for a show after a nuclear war. But that’s the charm of the series’ tone.
Lola blew my mind realizing what the baby foot was and where did it came from.
@@neutchain7838 Definitely!
Lola doing the "Absolute Cinema" pose in the thumbnail
Happy to see you guys watching this series! The Fallout franchise has been near and dear to many of us for so many years, and it's awesome to see more people being introduced to it now through this extremely well-done tv adaptation. Allow me to explain a few things without spoiling anything so you can have a better understanding of the setting the story takes place in.
You can think of the Fallout universe as an alternate dimension that runs parallel to ours with all the same events happening throughout our history, but with its timeline diverging from the world we know sometime in the 1940s-50s. A major divergence event is the invention of the transistor. In the Fallout timeline, the transistor was either never invented or rather, it was invented but was never innovated into the mainstream, whereas in our world, the advent of the transistor was the catalyst for technology to follow a more conventional, commercialized route. It enabled a rapid miniaturization of technology, paving the way for tech to focus more on helping the everyday citizen. Because this didn't happen in the Fallout universe, innovation continued to rely on vacuum tube technology, and all sectors focused more heavily on developing weapons and supplying the arms race that would come with the ensuing cold war. Technology followed the route that people thought it would back in the 50s and 60s, creating the retro-futuristic style you see on screen. In the year 2077, they might have floating household helper robots and fancy hovercars but their TVs are still blocky and black and white, and they don't have the internet. Due to these various differences and the west being unable to become more economically dependent, the cold war never really ended, and the threat of nuclear war continued to manifest for an additional century. However, a major difference is that in the year 2077, it is China that is the world communist superpower, not the USSR.
I urge you guys to watch through the credits zoom-out sequences. They provide a little peak into the post-war environment.
51:18 Yeah, Christopher Nolan (the guy who mad the "Oppenheimer" movie)'s brother Jonathan Nolan (who also was involved in making the show "West World") is involved in making this show. Interesting that both brothers made something nuklear bomb centric around a similar time.
And we don't talk about the third Nolan brother...
Jonathan Nolan's shows always get bad after the second season
I dont know about you guys but I loved the fight scene between Lucy and her husband. I was like here we go girl boss moment, then he punted her across the room like a sack of potatoes lol Thats exactly what it supposed happen when a girl her size picks a fight with a guy his size. That was a great scene. :)
WESTWORLD IS THE BEST 🤠🤖
@@shadowfire_08 It's the best one season show I ever saw.
Their faces when saw The Prydwen flying in..😅.."Yeah, look at that sh*t"..
The Brotherhood of Steel
Ad Victoriam!
Have fun with the Fallout series. If anyone is interested, the show producers built a full mock-up of the "Filly" wasteland village in Austin, Texas, in March to promote the show at the SXSW Festival. It was free to attend and I got a Vault 33 pin, real Nuka Cola, got to shoot junk shooters, saw all the real show props, talked to actors and even had a PipBoy app on my phone. Check out photos online of the event if interested.
Lucy also is Voice of Jinx
I love her so much
I love the first few minutes of you just chatting and wondering what this could all be about... knowing what's coming it just increased my anticipation for the journey you are about to take!
so glad you guys are watching!
Yes Lucy (Ella Purnel) is Jinx from Arcane
I'm so happy to see you two react to this! In your past videos, you've brought some exceptional insights, and have such wonderful emotional intelligence. I've been playing the Fallout games since they came out (and floppy disks were still a thing) and thought this series was so well done. I eagerly await your take on it! Keep up the amazing work!
Fallout, both the show and game are in the style of Retro-Futurism. Basically an alternative universe that is not what we thought the future was going to look like, but what people in the 50s and 60s thought the future was going to look like. There is a lot of explanations in games on why this world developed the way it did on their alternative timeline.
Such a great first reaction to Fallout. It's so enjoyable hearing your thoughts and theories about what's happening when you have little information to work with. I look forward to watching you put the pieces together in the coming episodes of this fantastic show.
😁👍
29:18 Idk if you remember, but the priest of the Brotherhood of Steel is the same actor that was the CEO of E-Corp in Mr. Robot. I love his performance here!
I think they didn't recognised who the ghoul was.
i didnt either tbh until the second ep LOL
I only knew becaus of the trailers
Its because he uses a more country accent when hes the Ghoul, like hes playing a part and trying to disassociate Cooper from his new self
They'll realize when they start showing the flashbacks
@@rubenlopez3364actually it’s the opposite. Before the bombs dropped he was putting on a more basic accent to fit in with the “normal” people around him. The ghoul accent is his natural accent
Yes! Really glad you guys are watching this.
The first Fallout came out in 1997, the first iPhone and thus the first smartphone came out in 2007, Fallout theoretically predicted smartphones with the Pipboys.
I started to watch the show without knowing anything about Fallout and never being interested in the franchise, and I ended up enjoying the show very much.
Due to the Cold War, 1950 - 1990, in the United States our military built several bunkers. The two fallout bunkers that are declassified are Cheyenne Mountain and Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia. You can look these two up. The other Bunkers are still classified.
When you upload 1x02 ?
You ladies raise some excellent questions. The show will answer many of your queries, while others will remain unanswered until perhaps Season 2. But I believe you will both become Fallout experts by the end of the series without having played the games. Remember too that this series story is brand new even for long time Fallout Gamers since most of the events occur long after the video game events (excluding the flashbacks). One could almost nickname this show as "Fallout 5".
ur the first reactors (that i've seen) to notice that, that wasn't the dad's first time drowning someone. props. subbed.
Yay! So happy to see you’re watching this show and can’t wait for the reactions!
Now this is a pleasant surprise. You’re going to love this show.
SO excited to see you two watch this one. I've sadly not been terribly interested in the selection of stuff y'all have been reviewing for some time now but Fallout is a great journey to join you for.
The last series reaction I saw with you was better call Saul, I'm back to say that you don't need to have played the games to love the series and this universe. I love your reaction girls, hugs from Brazil. ❤
38:21 Fallout is equally serious as it is funny
A LOT of moral dilemma goes on, very rare for storylines to be black-and-white in who's good and who's bad, usually all shades of gray
Also, fun fact.... Lucy's (the main female character) brother is an all grown up Rico Suave from Hannah Montana. 😂😂
I'm always impressed by how intuituve y'all are as reactors. You're really at the top of your game.
There are 122 Vaults all over the USA.
Lower numbers seem to be around California and Nevada (towards the west coast).
Higher numbers appear to be around Washington DC, Massachussetts and Maine (east coast).
There might be more unofficial ones, however.
I hate that they gave a specific number of vaults, cause one day we are gonna run out of neat new vaults to explore
I havnt watched every show they have reacted to. What is the "show that must not be named" Lola is refering to at 1:30?
I am also curious.
8:55 "Do they kill them when they're past child giving age?" Nope. That's "Logan's Run." 😉 (Technically, it was the age of 30 in Logan's Run).
Which has also been referenced in Fallout a few times, including the trait "Logan's Loophole" in FNV that makes you stop leveling at level 30
Love seeing your introduction to the Fallout Universe. I can understand that it's confusing when you don't have any experience with the video games, but I think the show does a decent job of explaining things. You just have to be patient.
Not quite in the 60's Our world and the Fall Out world share a common history up until approximately World War 2. The two worlds diverged at this point with our world going down a path of development in computers and microprocessors and the Fall Out world going down a path where advancements were in nuclear science and robotics.
Oh shit we're all back! So happy to see you two reacting to this! 😊
You two will really enjoy the "Shogun" series as well. It is a piece of artwork on television. And the actress playing Lucy is the voice actress for Jinx.
That young actress at the beginning was absolutely fabulous. Her scared look just made me want to grab and hug her.
YES SHOGUN!!
Series essentials without spoiling anything,
The year in the show is 2296 and takes place in the same timeline as the games but is the furthest story line in the time line of events of the Fallout universe.
Lucy is a vault dweller. A bunch of vaults were constructed before the war to house those financially able enough to purchase a home within them for their family. She's the descendant of the survivors and as vaults go hers is a rather good one and she's an excellent byproduct of underground living as it was intended.
Maximus is member of the Brotherhood of Steel. The Brotherhood is a surviving group of humans that were once a large military unit and their families from California that survived the war by taking shelter in a reinforced underground military bunker. They're a technology cult that hoard technology because they believe humanity will doom itself to oblivion if allowed to use technology in irresponsible ways that will domino effect to a nuclear war all over again. They once ruled the California wasteland but, fell on hard times after a series of conflicts with the human settlements that were already developing on the surface. They are being supported by that massive airship you see which came from their Eastern chapter on the East coast(the Eastern chapter is explained if you play the games Fallout 3 and 4).
The Ghoul is...a survivor. Ghouls specifically are humans that survived the war by sheer luck. The radiation of the Fallout of the war didn't kill them but instead made them somewhat immortal but the trade off is explained in this show and if you play, well, practically any of the Fallout games.
Also, don't worry about not knowing that much about the games, the franchise, or the lore. This is an original story set in the timeline of that world after all of the games so you're getting a unique look into the world of Fallout and it's told in a way that even non-fans can sort of understand what's going on. It's not going to Mandalorian season 2 you with a bunch of lore details and references you won't understand without context. It's pretty cut and dry...of course, for us in the know there's a lot of issues, debate, and questions but, that's for us to worry and nerd out over.
So happy to find you’re reacting to a show that I’ve seen so I can watch with you!❤
As you know this show is from a popular video game series. And that series was inspired by the 1975 sci-fi film, "A Boy and His Dog". About an post-apocalyptic future which takes place in the year 2024. Like the show the film has underground dwellers, and violence, and raiders, and very dark humor. This TV series will slyly reference the film by posters and comments about "A Man and his Dog".
Your actually not wrong. Several factions in the games have discovered that surface humans have evolved over the last 200 or so years to be more resiliant to radiation, and even to have stronger bones than the "pure humans" who spend generations underground
Equally socially maladjusted, just in different ways :)
Damn, it's been quite a while since I've seen you react to something I've watched and enjoyed very much :) Glad to see you guys again!
I believe you ladies have mentioned before that you’ve seen ‘Westworld’ 🤠🤖 it’s the same show runners (Christopher Nolan’s brother, Jonah & his wife Lisa Joy, along with Ramin Djawadi that did the music for Game of Thrones) 🙌🔥🍻
This is my new favorite show. So pumped you guys are watching 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. 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.
The Brotherhood of Steel is a religious order, like the crusaders. I don’t think it’s any more of a cult than any other religion.
The squire school is even run like a catholic school. 😅 Maximus has grown up in a militaristic religious order and is apparently not a good student.
You gals are going to have so much fun getting your questions answered. This show is very good about slowly paying out the answers (if you pay attention!) while creating new mysteries.
Fallout is actually a morality tale. It’s not a simple good vs evil story, but rather about how a person’s morals and ethics are tested by cold harsh reality. Or how a person develops morals when they haven’t been brought up with them and they are thrown out into the world. Or how a good person loses their goodness.
These are are crucial questions to each of us, whether we recognize it or not. And it’s what makes the series so compelling to me. It’s high stakes stuff. “How do we survive with some part of our better selves intact?” is a much more interesting question than “How do we survive?”.
These characters are not from any game. A couple locations are but no characters. In the games you make your own custom character to play as.
So glad to see you ladies doing this series
The Fallout universe is an alternate world where:
1. The Cold War NEVER stopped raging on as openly as in the mid 1900s
2. Microprocessors/Microchips never got developed
So, in 2077, while most technology is more advanced (nuclear vehicles and buildings, laser guns, mech suits, etc) stuff like televisions, telephones, computers, etc, still required big bulky builds to run, and so those didn't advance nearly as fast as our tech did.
Also the 1950s/60s fashion just NEVER stopped, since the cultural times never really changed outside of equality among races (unless you're one of the REDS)
Ironically, its also a universe where there are no Fallout video games, nor any other 3D or isometric RPG based games. Nor does this universe have any hockey games or football games or arenas. In fact, it does not even have musical instruments (save for one violin in a FO3 quest). I thought it would have been very funny if Lucy had been playing a Fallout video game in her Vault early in the episode.
Best series decision was to lean into the logic of games and not try to make it realistic. The needle Lucy uses is called a stimpac and it restores your health, like in a game.
The brotherhoods equipment is all scavenged Pre-war technology so they do not have any way to transmit pictures other than by telegraph. Norm is my favorite character by the end. People are still alive because the bombs used were like the ones dropped in World War 2, and the cities in Japan that were bombed are still inhabited.
The bag is a joke from the game where you have your companion carry all your inventory items.
As I recall , Some of the surface people are from the Vaults, the first game says the residents of vault 115 left their vault only 100 years after the war.
Oh my. LM Reactions! I havent watched you in a while. So happy you popped up on my home page!
The actress who plays Betty is also Deadpool's roommate Blind Al...
Yaaaaay! Some background lore no spoilers... they are in a universe veey similar to ours. But it changed in yhe 1950s when we went into a cold war with china. Our real universe saw more peacetime so we developed microchips and micro capacitors yo eventually make cell phones, computers, internet, etc etc. Their universe in war time focused on nuclear technology. This is why their universe works on nucelar power and all the technology is so big. Its a reflection of what we thought the future would look like back in the 50s.
So the bombs drop in 2077, already in the future. Then we go 215 years further into the future.
YAY! So excited to follow this journey with ya'll!
Great pick!
Fun fact: Ella Purnell (Lucy's actor) voiced Jinx in Arcane.
I don't know exactly how requests go, but may I just say, "Silo" is absolutely amazing and I thoroughly recommend it if it's not already in your pool of future shows. It also has a similar feel to Fallout, so it would feel even more comfortable to watch it after Fallout.
So far she's the only one I've seen who has made sense of the junk jet
I know pin point when you are talking about and yes I 💯 agree, fallout is what I been looking for a long time, no zombie or climate stuff straight up radioactive stuff
I know you both are going to love this. Can't wait to see your reactions for all of us who follow you. So have fun. And stay well. Now I'm going to see your action to episode 1.
The Ghoul is the cowboy from the beginning of the episode.
Yay glad they are reacting to this. Hopefully they enjoy and have fun with it!
I’m really happy people are getting into the Fallout universe. Although it’s a little bit difficult to get into because there’s a lot of lore from the video games. So, unless you played them, it might not necessarily be clear what’s happening.
This show is actually really amazing, crazy, funny and well made! Interesting reaction, need more. 😁
32:26 a weapon from the game
If there was ever a post-apocalypse show to be recommend, it would be Station Eleven on HBO. Won't get a lot of views as a reaction, but it is truly one of the best shows to be made in the past 20 years.
"Interesting Music?" That was music abd thankfully it is still good.
Is the year 2077 AD when the bombs fell, welcome to Fallout
This show like a 'whodunnit' mystery, because every detail, comment, hint and action is there for a reason and has an explanation. Extremely well-written, I hope you enjoy. SO many game references, in-jokes and foreshadowing to later events going on at all times.
"Can this bag be any bigger!" LOL! You have to play the game to understand that reference.
It's not a reference. It's a big bag. People are hella forcing "references"
So happy you are reacting to this!!!!
20:50 BO FROM SUPERSTORE MENTIONED
So excited you're finally watching this!!!
The first aid kit is from the game.
Nice. Loved your bob reaction. Glad you doing something I’m interested in again.
Hell yeah, I was waiting for your Fallout reaction
"Ad Victoriam" my fellow brothers and sisters! ✊❤️
Finally! Excited to watch ur reaction to the Fallout series
is this only once a week? this show is soooo goood!
just remember that this is based on a video game so some things are going to be "unbelievable" like the syringe she healed with.
you guys should REALLY check Twin Peaks out if you haven't!! It is a truly excellent, influential, iconic show. Lucy's dad plays the lead character in that show and he is GREAT!
He's also Paul from the 80s Dune, and the Dad from Inside Out
Lola has seen it. The blonde one.
Lola literally mentioned that she recognized Kyle McLachlan from Twin Peaks in his first moments on screen in this video lol
@@randalabra3852 well, i left a comment here and moved on. i planned on watching the video later :P lol
I can't wait to see you react to the rest of this series!
Wonderful; so glad to join you on this journey!
Nice. Yeah, the games have been around since late 90's and are known for dark humor and satire of society, politics, consumerism, etc.
this is what happens when not only money is invested in the series, but also brains. quite a rare phenomenon lately.
no brains were used in the making of this show
@@ryman1933 its generally regarded as an excellent show?
Its nice to see a ghoul get some lime light. Id love to see Danny Trejo reprise his role as Raul Trejada