The only tip I give to anyone getting into fallout: be aware of very self-aware 'video game logic' like Lucy healing with one injection of a stimpack. The hilariously large backpack Maximus is carying giving that video game inventory vibe... Have fun with this one y'all, it's a wild ride!
The recently released fan-nmade Mod, "Fallout London" takes place in 2237 between FO 1 and FO 2. Not sure when the "Fallout Shelter" game takes place exactly, but since FO4's Preston Garvey is in it, then clearly sometime around 2287.
One of the creators of fallout, tim cain, mentioned that when they were coming up with the concept for fallout one of his team members stated that he thought fallout was what the 1950's thought the future would be like, and that became the main inspiration of the world of fallout
I saw a video that stated that the Fallout world is a future in which semiconductors were never invented. That would explain why some technology has advanced and other technology has fallen behind.
@wiseguy01 You are technically correct (the best kind of correct). But I'd like to note that those four weren't a thing back then, in name, I mean. I'd guess somebody was up to them, they just hadn't been named yet.
Fallout 1 & 2 are isometric. 3, New Vegas and 4 are first person - all are role playing games. The TV show is an original story, just set in the same world.
They do a good job at answering the questions as we go so you'll be ok, everything does become clearer as we go. They also explain why each vault is isolated for most of the time.
Maximus is a child survivor of extreme loss and trauma that was raised by a militant cult. I am constantly surprised he is as stable as he is. Imagine what your outlook and values would be when you finally ventured out into the wilds of the wasteland from that beginning? Aaron Moten in the scene where Maximus is being interrogated by the cleric is amazing. You were supposed to feel a bit ambiguous by his unconvincing responses. That man is such a great character actor!
Totes. A lot of people bag on Maximus, and I didn't like him at first, too. Subsequent viewings gave me greater understanding. My humble take on him is that his reality has taught him that it's every man for himself in order to survive, but he also has romantic notions of heroism and honor from an early formative experience. Every time he is faced with a decision, he chooses one of these worldviews to act out, but because he is young in mind and emotion, he's not very good at either (this internal youth also has him a little selfish still).
Maximus does well in that new Vegas style interrogation conversation with his charisma and luck build. Idiot savanting his way up the ranks with his faster xp gain. Definitely a naive idiot
@@inspectre27well said you and OP. I love how Bethesda came out with the main characters official builds and at the same debunked without really trying/directly commenting on the disrespectful idiot savant bs people threw at Maximas. Haters categorically wrong on that veiled 🤬 label. 🤙🏽
So to answer some of your questions without any spoilers for the show: The games are all separate stories in the same world. Each game you play a vault dweller from a different vault that for various reasons you need to explore the surface. And you may have noticed that there were some weird aspects of vault culture like "cousin stuff." Also the tunnels between vaults is not a normal thing. Most vaults are completely independent. There is more to it, but each vault's culture is different. In the games you find out pretty quickly the reasons, but you don't really find out till much later in the show. As the world started to head to war, vaults were built as a commercial enterprise by a company called Vault tech. They were more than a little exploitive of the fear of war to make profit. Yes, most of the people who went to vaults paid handsomely to get into those vaults. After the bombs fell, there is no centralized government but rather many factions vying for power in what is in many ways a lawless wild west-esque world. (although the enclave is what remains of the US government). Also the aesthetic is meant to be as if the 50s or 60s vision of the future came true... and then we faced the nuclear apocalypse. That's why certain things seem old and others super technologically advanced. In many ways its a caricature of society. Fallout is an odd mix of depressing and grim mixed with comically naive that just somehow works. For my take, the show is a good adaptation, but the games are still better imo. Enjoy the show.
Good summation. The aesthetic is frequently referred to as "retro-futurism." Old Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon art is a reasonable example of what they were going for, kinda.
"Each game you play a vault dweller from a different vault that for various reasons you need to explore the surface" Apart from Fallout New Vegas, where you play a courier for the Mojave express.
@@mrm7058Fallout 2 you are a tribal from a village founded by the vault dweller of Fallout 1 after he returned and they did not let him in. So not a vault dweller on 2 either
So you know, the branching of this alternate reality was in this universe, the transistor was never invented, and they continued down the path of nuclear energy without it. Hence the old looking computer technology, even though the bombs dropped in 2077. The timelines split after WW2 basically.
Honestly, the show pretty much explains all the immediate questions you have, so no need to read comments to find out. Just trust the process. There's a TON of Easter eggs for long time fans, but they don't overdo it to the point where they are confusing for people who know nothing about the games. For example, the guy that was shot with the dolls leg was shot by a gun called a "Junk Jet", which can literally shoot anything you put in it, such as random junk you find lying about the place. As for the world itself, it's not our reality, but kind of a different universe (think Marvel multiverse).
@@baloneyandfunk5234 Well, it diverged from our universe after ww2, so it fits with the quantum many worlds hypothesis, I pointed to Marvel as being something they'd be able to relate to
Fallout takes place in a world where people went all in on nuclear power, and the microchip was never invented. so you have the big, clunky pipboys and desktops, but also nuke powered armor, cars and robots.
One of the best video game adaptation for tv so far this year! The characters, story, environment, everything about this show has been a big hit!!! Hopefully everyone else has a absol-nuking-lutely fun time watching this 😃👍
the style of the fallout world is retro futurism. so like retro looking but its in the future with certain futuristic technology alongside the retro style. i think its kinda cool.
They don’t tell you why everyone is in a separate vault, but it really comes down to micromanaging. Every vault went online with supplies and resources for the exact population of that vault. There aren’t that many children in their society for a reason. Everything is about what your resources can handle. If people are constantly moving between the vaults using resources Not intended for their population, they are hurting their neighbor. And you’ll see some other reasons for this dynamic later in the show too.
@@seanbumstead1250 And the show would have told them that eventually. Thanks for the early spoilers! Forget ppl on TH-cam take comments like you are misquoting the Bible. God bless friend.
@@goonanhate101 oh wow! what a huge spoiler. Im sure the entire show is now ruined for them knowing these 3 vaults are connected. Darn. Heres another spoiler....... they reveal who dropped the bombs in Fallout 2 and it wasnt Vault Tec XD
@@sugarbomb1346 did I use the word huge in my comment? Let me check……………………………….. nope I don’t believe I use the word huge, just that piece of info is a spoiler for two people who claim they have no knowledge of anything regarding the show or the universe it is set it in. I have played most of the games in the series so nothing is spoiled for me! I think the only spoiler that really shocked me is hearing that your parents had you by accident and just made the whole thing up as they went along. That one really messed me up.
@sugarbomb1346 You're defending the guy who behaved wrongly (no matter how minor)? Interesting position to take. Do you enjoy being in the wrong, or do you just look for anything to be contrary about?
You’re right to trust the writers. The details matter. The writers will give you the information you need while raising new questions and luring us to make erroneous conclusions. One of the things I like is that show doesn’t just dump background information on you. For example, in the Brotherhood schoolroom for Aspirants, they don’t merely tell us the purpose of the Brotherhood (to find artifacts), it’s used to tell us some more about the character of Maximus (he’s not a good student, he gets whacked on the nose by the teacher who is sort of like the stereotypical nun at a Catholic School). There’s something else that is deeply interesting about the show. It’s a deeply moral tale about the conflict of moral philosophies. Each of the main characters (and some of the major supporting characters) represents a philosophy or a stage of moral development. Ethics are an important part of the show, but it’s so well done and so deeply embedded as subtext that we never feel like it’s hitting us in the face. It’s organic and never preachy. I don’t think this is a spoiler because you’ve probably already figured it out, but Lucy’s moral journey is maintaining her moral values in the face of a cruel world, the Wasteland. It’s laid out in an interaction she has early in the second episode, and is re-enforced by her interactions throughout the episode.
Excellent reaction, so excited that you're reacting to this! You're approaching this show as if you need to know something beforehand, because you know there are Fallout games. However, this show is written for complete beginners, like myself, I knew very little starting off. Everything is explained, so you dont have to feel like you're missing anything. Im not sure how far ahead youve recorded, but in this initial episode you've already gotten basically all the information they were presenting - this alternate US society had some sort of huge nuclear war, forcing a part of the population in these fallout shelters - and the details of Lucy's individual story. Several parties are hunting for whoever that person who escaped from whatever the Enclave is. That's really it. SUPER excited for ep 2's reaction!!
The TV series really captures the feel of the game universe. It is an alternate history. In the eight episodes, the show does a good job in explaining the lore of the Fallout game universe - I think you should be satisfied by the end.
All of your questions are good ones, and the show does a solid job of answering them while broaching new ones. Keep on, because it’s one the best shows of the past few years.
Probably already said (I'm late, sorry!), but: each main character represents a player type. The story, location, and characters are all original to the show. They reference historic events that happened in the Fallout world, but the story is new.
The 3 main characters can represent 3 different Fallout games: Lucy being a vault dweller on a quest to find her dad represents Fallout 3 Maximus being a Brotherhood of Steel member who obssesses over power armour represents Fallout 4, which had power armour given to the player character withon the first hour. The Ghoul being a very morallly grey character with a western aesthetic represents Fallout New Vegas.
Vaults are intended to be separated. All other vaults except these 3 that are connected, are solitary vaults. It keeps any catastrophe in one vault from spreading to the others.
I just found this channel! Subscribed now, fwiw. I can already tell y'all are gonna love this show. You seem to both be deep thinkers, and this show rewards that. It will drip-feed information to you, peeling back the layers of the story, bit by bit. It's waaaay deeper than you expect it to be. You're asking the right questions and picking at the right mysteries. Enjoy the ride.
No game spoilers. The Fallout TV show is it's own story, as are each of the seven Fallout games considered canon. Bethesda Game Studios owns all of those seven games. Bethesda game studios has confirmed that the Fallout TV series is canon, as well. I've played Fallout games since 1997. The TV series certainly acts and feels like Fallout canon to me. The series will answer some of the questions you shared in your discussion. Enjoy the ride. Liked and subscribed
For anyone who loves "Fallout", check out tbe real-life full mockup of the "Filly" wasteland village bjilt to promote the show in March in Austin at the SXSW Festival. They had all the show props and gave out Vault 33 pins and Nuka Cola.
I am wildly excited to see you ladies go through this show! I knew very little about Fallout going into this show and I really enjoyed it~ Keep on Keeping On, Ladies, and thank you so much for doing what you do~!!
I have watched a few reviewers watch fallout, so far you are the most perceptive of all of them. No spoilers but I think you are going to spot all of the hints. Steve
The show does a great job of explaining and answering critical questions. Some things remain unanswered for newcomers, but those questions are not vital to enjoy the story. Every game has different characters and the characters in the show have never been in the games. They are archetypal characters though - vault dwellers, Brotherhood knights, and ghouls are frequent in the games.
Hey Stella & Hayley, I'm glad u 2 lovely ladies r jumping on the FALLOUT bandwagon.😊 I enjoyed your reactions to ep. 1. I am not a gamer, so I, like u went in totally blind. After watching the show, I had a couple of unanswered questions so I looked up the lore & storylines of the games in order to get a proper timeline of events that happened before & after the bombs dropped, & to learn a bit about the different factions. I also watched some TH-cam reactors that were fans of the games to get more info about that world as they watched the series. Most of the reactors I watched played Fallout 3, New Vegas & Fallout 4 all games by Bethesda. The world before the bombs was a Retro-Futuristic world. They never seemed to get past the 1950s. One reactor that I watched compared it to the old cartoon THE JETSONS.😊 The Fallout universe's timeline follows along ours up until just after WWII. The transistor was never invented so everything runs on nuclear energy in some form. The Cold War continued, but Russia takes a back seat to China as the world's Communist Super Power. Threat of Nuclear War is constant. A company that decided to profit off of that threat was Vault-Tec. They end up building a bunch of massive Fallout Shelters, they called Vaults. If u could afford it, then u would be protected if/when the bombs fell. The bombs do end up falling in 2077. The current time of the series is 2296. Our 3 main characters Lucy, Maximus & The Ghoul, I have heard described as different levels of game play. Lucy, the Vault Dweller, newly released into the Wastelands is the Newby. Maximus, who knows a bit about the Wastelands, is the Intermediate player. The Ghoul (formerly Cooper Howard) has wandered the Wasteland for 200 yrs, so he is @ Expert level.😊 Anyway, that's the way I heard it described. U gals wanted to know what the Enclave is. It's a faction comprised of what's left of the US government from before the bombs fell. This world has several different factions trying to gain control of the Wasteland. As far as our 3 main characters & who to trust or believe in, the descision is entirely up to u. U will get more character development as the story progresses.😊 Most of the questions u gals have will be answered just give it time.😊 One other thing, Wow, Stella! U seem to be drawing in compliments left & right w/ur look this reaction.😄
The show really drops you into the universe and story but it does a very good job in hooking you fast and by the second episode you are already in On how the dynamic of everything comes into play into one big environment. This show is a wild ride and a really fun and chaotic one. They did a great job with the story and concepts. Btw, Stella is giving a dark mamma mia vibes and I loved it haha
😂 U r amongst many that have commented on Stella's look, but your comment got me thinking about a line from THE MASK "That's a one spicy meat-a-ball!"😂
I feel one of the great things about the show in terms of its storytelling is that the writers seemed to know that there is a vast amount of lore connected to the setting but that many viewers would be unfamiliar with it. Here, they really did a good job of pacing the revelations - drip feeding details and explanations as they become relevant, knowing that people just aren't going to retain it if everything got dumped right out the gate but only becoming relevant much later. That's just not how people learn or remember things.
The thumb-to-measure-mushroom-cloud thing is made up. 🙂 (And what the heck, run regardless, unless you really prefer to stand there depressed. You never know. If you're not immediately killed, the important thing will be to get under cover before the fallout arrives.)
She kinda reminds me of Bernadette Peters, if you're old enough to remember her like my decrepit ass. And that, from me, is among the highest of compliments. Hayley reminds me of a young lady I knew in high school. There may have been extracurricular activities... 😮
Great reaction to the first episode! Looking forward to your reaction to the rest of the show! There are some great moments that make for very interesting reactions from first time watchers.
On whether to "leave the knife in": In the real world, yes! Leave it in because you will be immobilized by paramedics and carted straight into surgery. In these 'action hero' situations, you are 100% wrong. If you need to run around and fight, TAKE IT OUT. What do you think that knife is going to do as you're bouncing around? Dice you up like a samurai
There is exposition, it's just well-written and naturally placed rather than being big, clumsy info dumps by some unnecessary side character. E.g. During Maximus's intro, you learn a bit about the Brotherhood of Steel. - You see that the place and uniforms look a bit like a military base. - You see that Maximus is getting bullied and beaten up by others there. - In the classroom, the instructor says straight-up that the mission of the Brotherhood of Steel is "to search the wasteland for pre-war tech" and bring it back so they can control it. - You understand through Dane's promotion that the hierarchy includes Knights and Squires and that the Aspirants (like Dane and Maximus) are hoping to become Squires to the Knights, after which they'll be sent "into the wild" (which you could easily assume through context is slang for the wastelands outside of Brotherhood of Steel control). - You see that they have big hovering ships and power armor. - You see Dane and Maximus sneak in to look at the power armor and be excited about the idea of what it would be like to wear one of those suits. - Knowing what IRL knights and squires were, you could probably put together that the guys in the power armor suits are Knights and the Squires are their assistants. - When Maximus is being questioned about Dane's injury, they're very harsh and the power-armored Knight stands threateningly behind him, giving the sense that the BoS has a very rigid structure and breaking it can be dangerous for members of the group. - When Maximus is made a Squire to Knight Titus, you see that there's a whole quasi-religious, kind of cult-y ceremony where he's branded with his Knight's initial. Put all of that together, and you already have a pretty good idea of what the Brotherhood of Steel is as a faction. It's a quasi-religious, slightly cult-y military group where Knights in power armor (assisted by their Squire assistants) go out into the wasteland to find and obtain pre-war technology so that the Brotherhood of Steel can control it. Also, breaking their rules is no joke and the punishment for doing so is something to be feared. And at no point did you need Dave Exposition to sit down and explain all that to Maximus as if he didn't live at the Brotherhood of Steel base. Another example with far less info is the Enclave. They mention it a few times, but all we know of the Enclave at this point in the series is that it's a place where a scientist has taken some important tech and run off with it. And, as a result, there's a bounty on him that two of the three characters we were introduced to in this first episode have received: Maximus (via the Brotherhood of Steel) and The Ghoul (via the bounty hunters who dug him up). Beyond the fact that they're another faction, they have scientists, and one of the scientists has apparently gone rogue, you don't actually need to know who the Enclave are specifically because, at this point, it's not actually important to the story. The macguffin of the scientist and his stolen tech is what's important; where he came from is just flavor (flavor that makes sense in-world and is a nice nod to fans of the game, but not necessary for Fallout n00bs to understand).
Series essentials without spoiling anything given the show stays pretty vague but nothing I'm saying here looks like the show will even tackle given it has its own plot line and we're all along for the ride, 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 you'll get a deeper explanation of their people meeting a lot of them in the wastelands each game takes place in. 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.
Another youtube channel that is reacting to Fallout series? Yes, please! As a representative of Vault-tec, I assure you, humanity is safe in our well made and perfectly normal vaults!
The Brotherhood of Steel. Think a modern day interpretation of the Knights Templar, or Hospitaliar, or Teutonicus. Their overriding goals differ but all are basically formations of warrior monks.
Not a show spoiler, because the show doesn't explain: it's an alternate history where transistors weren't invented and technology was built for durability not miniaturization. Geopolitics also diverged but have similar themes with real history.
This is wrong nonsense that spread like wildfire on the internet and people keep repeating for whatever reason even though it’s been clarified ad nauseam. Transistors existed here. You literally have transistor radios in the game. People simply preferred vacuum tubes. This is like saying “betamax was never invented here in the real world. Neither were HD-DVDs”… yeah they were invented, people just didn’t want them.
@@zimvader25 although I stand corrected, I would say people preferring vacuum tubes sounds less believable than transistors not getting invented. The show and game universe has to come up with an excuse why technology in 2077 has vertibirds and semi-intelligent household robot assistants but forearm computers are massive. Why people wouldn't prefer transistors makes no sense.
Well, game designers tend to not check their work for inconsistencies and ignore the people whose job it is to do so. Can you tell I used to work in QA? 😉
@@flinx They had abundant, cheap electricity thanks to nuclear power more advanced than ours, even portable nuke power, so there was less need for electronic miniaturization ~ Example: powering a man portable laser to be a useful weapon in our dense atmosphere is basically *impossible* with _our_ tech, for example ;) ~ Also, why did it take thousands of years for us to invent wheelbarrows, stirrups, Fresno Scrapers, the horseshoe, or South Americans basically never invented the wheel, hm? All were perfectly doable, and those people back then were very damn smart, but it didn't come about or not until a looooong time after. ~ Sometimes a concept just never emerges, for many reasons, so Fallout's universe going different than ours is perfectly feasible :)
Two weapons from the game are in this episode. Lucy picks up a Syringer which shoots tranquilizer and other types of darts. The other weapon depending on the game is called the Rock-It Launcher or the Junk Jet which fires random junk at high velocity. The Please Stand By message from the projector is the loading screen from the games. The bobbleheads shown are also Stat rewards you find in the games.
I am so excited for this! ❤ I didn't play the game, just saw some of what my husband played of it. That didn't matter at all, I still loved this show. The storyline here does not follow any game storyline. It is a new story that takes place in the game's universe, which is really cool because even players of the game didn't know what was going to happen next. Your questions will be answered, so keep watching! Although more questions will come up too, but that is part of the show's mystery!
The style is a 50s "atomic age" style - you're in an alternate history where the transistor never revolutionized the world, but tube-technology and atomic technology have been miniaturized. Fallout New Vegas is also the absolute gold-standard of role-playing-games in terms of how dynamically and deeply the world reacts to your decisions.
I'll agree with that re: New Vegas. But to me it didn't feel as apocalyptic as 3 did. Everything felt too close together, everywhere seemed too populated, and the main quest felt like just another of the dozens of side quests. Great game nonetheless, but yeah, lacked a vibe. (I also wondered why they chose a place we'd already been instead of exploring new territory, but that was more of just a ponderance.)
Is the old channel archived? I just found them and was dismayed to see how little backlog there was. If there's more content somewhere, I'd love to view 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.
As a lover of the Fallout franchise this adaptation is amazing. The show's characters are in the world but not representative of any specific characters you play in the game. The mystery of the how and why of everything is the best part and it made me want more each episode. They do a great job of explaining things by the end.
In the Fallout games, you typically play a Vault Dweller - but you make your own custom character. So, you might play someone like Lucy, or like her brother, or like anyone you saw from Vault 33 (so, not one of the raiders). You leave the Vault, and there's a main storyline you can follow, but also the outside world is packed with side quests you can explore, interact with, and fight your way through. It's largely up to you how you want to behave.
I got something to say that'll blow my mind. Yes, I said mine. But you might find it bizarre, too. So I was sitting here dissociating, staring at TH-cam and only seeing it very remotely, like ya do... when I snapped into reality and everything got freakishly real all of a sudden. I realized that I watch Fallout with reactors over and over, frequently the same episode and the same reactors again and again. For a moment, the terrifying clarity that comes with a brutal return to reality caused me to scold myself. This behavior is not normal, I said to me. Then I realized the precedent. I'm a kid in an amusement park with a favorite ride - it ends and I exit and immediately run back to ride it again. 😅 Thanks for taking this little trip with me. This comment brought to you by lithium carbonate. And hey gals, since Stella mentioned enjoying the work of Kyle McLachlan, y'all should watch Blue Velvet. It's one of the best weird movies ever made. Brace yourself to be awed, confused, and not a little bit terrified. When it comes to quality weird, you can totally trust my judgment (I'm also pretty good at knowing what normals will enjoy and what only a space cadet like me would like. Usually).😊
I think the things you are missing storywise now are all going to be told in the upcoming episodes. The things you are missing though (as you already said yourself) are the game concepts. Lucy's story is probably the best comparable with the games, in almost all the Fallout games you start as a vault dweller (apart from Fallout New Vegas and older Fallout games), thats why in the intro of Lucy's telling about herself she names all her skills and traits, a nod to making a character in the game. And no not all vaults are interconnected, this is as far as i know the only one. As far as the rest of the Fallout world/lore, you just have to consider that in 200 yrs there have been multiple factions (that you will learn about in following episodes) fighting for power. And its played out in its own timeline in where the transistor was never invented, but the atomic age still happened hence the weird 50s looking tech. If you dont want to play the games (because it would literary take days) but still want to get the mood of it i recommend watching all the intros, you also get some lines to hear which the game is famous for. I hope you enjoy the series anyway, was fun watching with you :)
The thing about the show is that it takes place in the same universe as the games so all the lore in the games is in the show and all the video game logic is in the show as well
Always *watch the Outros!* They have clues and are also, cool ;) The Fallout world diverged from ours mostly after WW2, they advanced nuclear more than we did and robotic tech, but didn't get transistors/silicon chips until the 21st century, and their culture stagnated so it's like the 50s/60s The fallout from the war was so bad because so MANY nukes were dropped and though they were "smallish" (very few were megaton sized "city killers") but they were "ground burst", along with all the nuclear powered cars etc, it left huge amounts of radiation "Stimpacks" are game items that basically can heal almost all wounds in seconds
This is a well written slow burn, with every episode revealing backstory as the characters current journeys progress, with more new questions than answers per episode, and a finale that leaves you waiting for season 2. Enjoy the ride.
Just gotta remember about clarifications and confusions; this is probably the number one show of the year. It’s that way for a reason. And it takes more than just fans of the video game to pull those kind of numbers.
This TV series based on the Fallout game lore is its own story. There are over 200 vaults across the U.S. and some in Canada. As far as I know these three vaults 31, 32, and 33 are the ONLY ones that are interconnected, all of the others are individual vaults. Stimpaks are used as an instant cure for most wounds and injuries. The term often used to describe the setting in the Fallout series is Retro-Futurism. Think of them being stuck in the 1950s and early 1960s regarding their lifestyle, but advanced to futuristically in some of their technology specifically with nuclear fission (homes, cars, mech suits, robot servants, etc.). Supposedly micro-chips were not developed until near the war's beginning, so they were not mass produced in any large quantities. Most of the electronics you see are using vacuum tubes and larger electronic components. The Enclave are the last vestiges of the U.S. government including their top scientists.
Don't worry, they did a great job with the show. I watched with several people haven't played the games and they weren't confused at all. All you need to know is that it _is_ from a game, so if you see something unrealistic (for instance Lucy was stabbed, used a healing item, and immediately restored full function), just roll with the video-game logic. 👍🏽🍄🌩 Also Stella was SO PURPLE this reaction. The MOST purple reactor ever
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but as far as we know Vaults 31, 32, and 33 are the only ones that are interconnected with each other. In all the video games, the vaults you encounter are not connected to other vaults.
The Brotherhood of Steel are an interesting bunch, and they've been through many different iterations in the games, and now in the show. In the games, the California Brotherhood was in a terminal decline, but now it looks like they're on the upswing in the wake of events that took place between the most recent game and episode one of the show. The Brotherhood was inspired by the novel "A Canticle for Leibowitz," which follows an order of Catholic monks living in the aftermath of nuclear war who are charged with gathering and preserving knowledge in the name of their patron, Saint Isaac Leibowitz. The book is amazing and well worth a read. It'll make you sad and optimistic for the future of humanity at the same time.
I love the phrase “You look like your mother.” It means two things. She knew who the mother was, and knew enough by looking at her to know she was the daughter.
This series takes place after the most recent game of fallout 4. Beginning of show takes place in 2077. The style is retro future. This series and universe is what could of happend to our world if the atomic age became our tech. The show being 219yrs after the bombs dropped places this series in 2296.
Okay so best was to explain the concept of this world. It goes the same way as our IRL world up until the end of WW2. Where the split happens is when we start making tech smaller. In the fallout Timeline they kept tech the same size snd keep the more 1950's ascetic. Along with keeping the red scare fear up. Basically things happen in between, differences occur and such. But by the year 2077, which is the first scene occurs. The bombs fell and well you csn see the aftermath. Oh and this show takes places in the most current time if Fallout. And most of the games have you playing as Vault Dwellers who in one way or another changed this world somehow. Best advice, forget what you know about what the usual apocalypses because Fallout though follows some things like you'd see. Really is it's own thing in the end.
The 'non-spoiler Fallout primer' that I'd give anybody new to the franchise would be: 1 Takes place in an alternate timeline, where the Cold War never ended (in fact, it went kinda hot a couple times), hence the heavy 50's/60's Americana vibe, but it's actually starting in the late 2070s. 2 This timeline never invented things like microprocessors or LCDs, but progressed much farther with nuclear power than we have, so stuff still looks really clunky and outdated (cathode-ray tubes and transistors) but is considerably more advanced than our tech is. 3 Some groups exist in the world that view "pre-war" tech as something to be hoarded and preserved rather than used, either to study to keep scientific progress moving forward (the Enclave) or to stop humanity from clubbing itself into the Stone Age with it (the Brotherhood). Beyond that, everything else is either explained in the show or requires waiting for future episodes to prevent accidental spoilers.
So the reason everything is very analog is the fact they never made the transistor in this alternate universe. The timeline basically branched off around WW2 and became this. A mix of retro with high tech. Nuclear power became so prominate that even the cars run off it.
I love this show. Looking forward to these. Like other comments have said, it’s what the people in the 1950s thought the future would be. This is called Retro-futurism.
The fallout reality is different from our earth. Where we invented the transistor faster than the fallout world did, so we miniaturized everything but they focused on nuclear power and invented the transistor later. So the vibe is still retro as tech didn't develop as quickly but certain things developed due to 100 years of advancements in certain other fields such as robots
I hope you read this. The world of Fallout never developed microprocessors. That's why the technology appears very retro. They are still reliant on analog processors and technology. They advanced with breakthroughs in nuclear power. The opening scene in the past is the year 2077. Culture stagnated in the 1950's and 1960's aesthetic because technological advancement different and in some fields slower than our world.
Well done with your thoughts ladies! I really think your approach is great, don't check anything about the games! ... Some comments will reveal a little bit too much, maybe, but hopefully you get just the 2 little bits that can be helpful so that you get more context for this "universe" ;)
18:00 most of the time your a vault dweller forced to go to the surface… apart from a few times like new vagus where your a surface dweller out for revenge
In the Fallout universe they never invented transistors and part of that influences why you see big tube things. The interfaces in Fallout 1 and 2 are engineered in a way that, in a world without transistors, still gets really advanced technology.
I think they were really smart in how they did this show. First, they used CGI, but they put a TON of effort into practical effects, costumes, prosthetics and sets. Second, they didnt lean into existing characters from the game world so much as the game world itself. The factions, the creatures, the technology, the dangers and the morality. I saw someone mention that the technology of this world is akin to if instead of leaning hard into the development of microchips as we did, they instead continued on with vacuum tube technology and embraced nuclear power.
I like you two but this is the first thing you've reacted to since becoming independent that I've actually seen, I look forward to what you think of everything that's coming!
Well, girls, I hate spoilers, and differently from most people, I did not like this first episode, exactly because nothing was explained, but what I call tell you is that It gets much better and most questions get answered. Just trust the process and enjoy the ride! =)
I feel like most people take the "cousin thing" way more sexual than it is. Im not an American, but from what I learned from US tv/movies was that the "cousin thing" was basically that their first kiss was with a cousin. Its a trope ofcourse but wasnt ever any sexual in that sense. & Lucy says, "messing around is all well & good for kids" meaning its fairly innocent, cause 1, kids kinda dont understand the whole cousin/genetics thing & 2 cause they are kids, its not a sexual thing as much as it is curiosity & exploring but in a rather innocent way. I just find it funny how many reactors react to it being Americans. I mean its a good reaction lol cause as Lucy says its not very sustainable 😆but funny since I personally learned about it due to American tv lol
Lucy says that it's not a very sustainable "sexual practice." I'm pretty sure we're talking about more than kissing. The kissing cousins thing typically happens, if it happens, when kids are very very young, like pre school. Lucy and Chet's involvement seems far more recent due to Chet's behavior.
Each of the Fallout games is largely a self-contained story with only loose links with the other games. In most, you play some variation of a vault dweller let loose on the larger world. New Vegas is the exception to that rule, because in THAT game you're playing a Courier, a professional messenger and delivery person for high-value objects and information, who gets shot and left for dead for the parcel you were tasked with delivering.
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The only tip I give to anyone getting into fallout: be aware of very self-aware 'video game logic' like Lucy healing with one injection of a stimpack. The hilariously large backpack Maximus is carying giving that video game inventory vibe... Have fun with this one y'all, it's a wild ride!
... pointing your gun at people while you're talking to them ^_^
when the ghoul heals the dog is perfect lol
Stella: "I don't know who to root for..." Show creators "Ahhh, mission accomplished!"
basically the games, too. lol
Here's a brief Timeline:
- Bombs fall in 2077
- Fallout 1: 2161 (Takes place in southern California)
- Fallout 2: 2241 (northern California)
- Fallout 3: 2277 (Washington D.C.)
- Fallout New Vegas: 2281 (Mojave Desert)
- Fallout 4: 2287 (Boston Area)
- Tv Show: 2296 (Greater Los Angeles area)
Fallout 76: 2102 West Virginia
The recently released fan-nmade Mod, "Fallout London" takes place in 2237 between FO 1 and FO 2. Not sure when the "Fallout Shelter" game takes place exactly, but since FO4's Preston Garvey is in it, then clearly sometime around 2287.
May Ganesha bless you for leaving out the abomination.
I love how there going to new vegas season 2 because the events of the show and new vegas are only 15 years apart hence why it looked like hell
@@x_trio_3_po333 Agreed. They released it right before Fallout 4.
One of the creators of fallout, tim cain, mentioned that when they were coming up with the concept for fallout one of his team members stated that he thought fallout was what the 1950's thought the future would be like, and that became the main inspiration of the world of fallout
it is called retro futurism, the games also take heavy inspiration from Atompunk, Dieselpunk, Solarpunk and Cattlepunk.
I saw a video that stated that the Fallout world is a future in which semiconductors were never invented. That would explain why some technology has advanced and other technology has fallen behind.
@wiseguy01 You are technically correct (the best kind of correct). But I'd like to note that those four weren't a thing back then, in name, I mean. I'd guess somebody was up to them, they just hadn't been named yet.
@@Duncan_Idaho84 Semiconductors were invented - just a little latter and they didn't catch on in quite the same way as in the real world.
Fallout 1 & 2 are isometric. 3, New Vegas and 4 are first person - all are role playing games. The TV show is an original story, just set in the same world.
The show also ties into the game lore very well actually. Well, for those of us who don't mind a retcon here or there (I don't mind lol).
"The world is messed up in more ways than I thought."
Oh you have no idea!! 🤣🤣🤣
Both of you looking beautiful love to see you two thriving after starting your own channel.
They do a good job at answering the questions as we go so you'll be ok, everything does become clearer as we go. They also explain why each vault is isolated for most of the time.
Maximus is a child survivor of extreme loss and trauma that was raised by a militant cult.
I am constantly surprised he is as stable as he is.
Imagine what your outlook and values would be when you finally ventured out into the wilds of the wasteland from that beginning?
Aaron Moten in the scene where Maximus is being interrogated by the cleric is amazing. You were supposed to feel a bit ambiguous by his unconvincing responses. That man is such a great character actor!
Totes. A lot of people bag on Maximus, and I didn't like him at first, too. Subsequent viewings gave me greater understanding. My humble take on him is that his reality has taught him that it's every man for himself in order to survive, but he also has romantic notions of heroism and honor from an early formative experience. Every time he is faced with a decision, he chooses one of these worldviews to act out, but because he is young in mind and emotion, he's not very good at either (this internal youth also has him a little selfish still).
Maximus does well in that new Vegas style interrogation conversation with his charisma and luck build. Idiot savanting his way up the ranks with his faster xp gain. Definitely a naive idiot
Dude, I love Max so much. He's such a complex but fun character.
when you got that low charisma build but RNG takes pity on you. lol
@@inspectre27well said you and OP. I love how Bethesda came out with the main characters official builds and at the same debunked without really trying/directly commenting on the disrespectful idiot savant bs people threw at Maximas. Haters categorically wrong on that veiled 🤬 label. 🤙🏽
So to answer some of your questions without any spoilers for the show:
The games are all separate stories in the same world. Each game you play a vault dweller from a different vault that for various reasons you need to explore the surface. And you may have noticed that there were some weird aspects of vault culture like "cousin stuff." Also the tunnels between vaults is not a normal thing. Most vaults are completely independent. There is more to it, but each vault's culture is different. In the games you find out pretty quickly the reasons, but you don't really find out till much later in the show. As the world started to head to war, vaults were built as a commercial enterprise by a company called Vault tech. They were more than a little exploitive of the fear of war to make profit. Yes, most of the people who went to vaults paid handsomely to get into those vaults. After the bombs fell, there is no centralized government but rather many factions vying for power in what is in many ways a lawless wild west-esque world. (although the enclave is what remains of the US government). Also the aesthetic is meant to be as if the 50s or 60s vision of the future came true... and then we faced the nuclear apocalypse. That's why certain things seem old and others super technologically advanced. In many ways its a caricature of society. Fallout is an odd mix of depressing and grim mixed with comically naive that just somehow works. For my take, the show is a good adaptation, but the games are still better imo. Enjoy the show.
Good summation. The aesthetic is frequently referred to as "retro-futurism." Old Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon art is a reasonable example of what they were going for, kinda.
"Each game you play a vault dweller from a different vault that for various reasons you need to explore the surface"
Apart from Fallout New Vegas, where you play a courier for the Mojave express.
i've also heard the aesthetic described as "nuka-punk".
@@mrm7058 Did you forget Fallout 2?
@@mrm7058Fallout 2 you are a tribal from a village founded by the vault dweller of Fallout 1 after he returned and they did not let him in. So not a vault dweller on 2 either
So you know, the branching of this alternate reality was in this universe, the transistor was never invented, and they continued down the path of nuclear energy without it. Hence the old looking computer technology, even though the bombs dropped in 2077. The timelines split after WW2 basically.
Honestly, the show pretty much explains all the immediate questions you have, so no need to read comments to find out. Just trust the process. There's a TON of Easter eggs for long time fans, but they don't overdo it to the point where they are confusing for people who know nothing about the games. For example, the guy that was shot with the dolls leg was shot by a gun called a "Junk Jet", which can literally shoot anything you put in it, such as random junk you find lying about the place.
As for the world itself, it's not our reality, but kind of a different universe (think Marvel multiverse).
I thought it was positioned as a different future, not a different universe? Either way - love the easter eggs and can't wait for S2!
@@baloneyandfunk5234 Well, it diverged from our universe after ww2, so it fits with the quantum many worlds hypothesis, I pointed to Marvel as being something they'd be able to relate to
Fallout takes place in a world where people went all in on nuclear power, and the microchip was never invented. so you have the big, clunky pipboys and desktops, but also nuke powered armor, cars and robots.
One of the best video game adaptation for tv so far this year! The characters, story, environment, everything about this show has been a big hit!!! Hopefully everyone else has a absol-nuking-lutely fun time watching this 😃👍
All will be reveled in time...Hold on tight and enjoy! It's VERY fun (in addition to everything else)! Great to have you ladies here!
the style of the fallout world is retro futurism. so like retro looking but its in the future with certain futuristic technology alongside the retro style. i think its kinda cool.
They don’t tell you why everyone is in a separate vault, but it really comes down to micromanaging. Every vault went online with supplies and resources for the exact population of that vault. There aren’t that many children in their society for a reason. Everything is about what your resources can handle. If people are constantly moving between the vaults using resources Not intended for their population, they are hurting their neighbor. And you’ll see some other reasons for this dynamic later in the show too.
These are the only vaults connected,all others are seperate
@@seanbumstead1250 And the show would have told them that eventually. Thanks for the early spoilers! Forget ppl on TH-cam take comments like you are misquoting the Bible. God bless friend.
@@goonanhate101 oh wow! what a huge spoiler. Im sure the entire show is now ruined for them knowing these 3 vaults are connected. Darn. Heres another spoiler....... they reveal who dropped the bombs in Fallout 2 and it wasnt Vault Tec XD
@@sugarbomb1346 did I use the word huge in my comment? Let me check……………………………….. nope I don’t believe I use the word huge, just that piece of info is a spoiler for two people who claim they have no knowledge of anything regarding the show or the universe it is set it in. I have played most of the games in the series so nothing is spoiled for me! I think the only spoiler that really shocked me is hearing that your parents had you by accident and just made the whole thing up as they went along. That one really messed me up.
@sugarbomb1346 You're defending the guy who behaved wrongly (no matter how minor)? Interesting position to take. Do you enjoy being in the wrong, or do you just look for anything to be contrary about?
You’re right to trust the writers. The details matter. The writers will give you the information you need while raising new questions and luring us to make erroneous conclusions.
One of the things I like is that show doesn’t just dump background information on you. For example, in the Brotherhood schoolroom for Aspirants, they don’t merely tell us the purpose of the Brotherhood (to find artifacts), it’s used to tell us some more about the character of Maximus (he’s not a good student, he gets whacked on the nose by the teacher who is sort of like the stereotypical nun at a Catholic School).
There’s something else that is deeply interesting about the show. It’s a deeply moral tale about the conflict of moral philosophies. Each of the main characters (and some of the major supporting characters) represents a philosophy or a stage of moral development. Ethics are an important part of the show, but it’s so well done and so deeply embedded as subtext that we never feel like it’s hitting us in the face. It’s organic and never preachy.
I don’t think this is a spoiler because you’ve probably already figured it out, but Lucy’s moral journey is maintaining her moral values in the face of a cruel world, the Wasteland. It’s laid out in an interaction she has early in the second episode, and is re-enforced by her interactions throughout the episode.
Excellent reaction, so excited that you're reacting to this! You're approaching this show as if you need to know something beforehand, because you know there are Fallout games. However, this show is written for complete beginners, like myself, I knew very little starting off. Everything is explained, so you dont have to feel like you're missing anything. Im not sure how far ahead youve recorded, but in this initial episode you've already gotten basically all the information they were presenting - this alternate US society had some sort of huge nuclear war, forcing a part of the population in these fallout shelters - and the details of Lucy's individual story. Several parties are hunting for whoever that person who escaped from whatever the Enclave is. That's really it. SUPER excited for ep 2's reaction!!
Yooo I had no idea yall started this! Time to binge the reacts! 🤙🏽
I'm re-watching these ^_^
Two words that best "describe" Lucy ... Okie and Dokie 🙂
The TV series really captures the feel of the game universe. It is an alternate history. In the eight episodes, the show does a good job in explaining the lore of the Fallout game universe - I think you should be satisfied by the end.
Every time I get chills with the bombs dropping and LOL when the cousin stuff is reacted to by the reactors.
I recall a little kissing with cousins when we were very little, but I think they mean a little more in the show. 😬
All of your questions are good ones, and the show does a solid job of answering them while broaching new ones. Keep on, because it’s one the best shows of the past few years.
Probably already said (I'm late, sorry!), but: each main character represents a player type.
The story, location, and characters are all original to the show. They reference historic events that happened in the Fallout world, but the story is new.
The 3 main characters can represent 3 different Fallout games:
Lucy being a vault dweller on a quest to find her dad represents Fallout 3
Maximus being a Brotherhood of Steel member who obssesses over power armour represents Fallout 4, which had power armour given to the player character withon the first hour.
The Ghoul being a very morallly grey character with a western aesthetic represents Fallout New Vegas.
Vaults are intended to be separated. All other vaults except these 3 that are connected, are solitary vaults. It keeps any catastrophe in one vault from spreading to the others.
4:57 The Science of Explosions sounds like a nerdy metal band 😂
so happy you're reacting to this show!
I just found this channel! Subscribed now, fwiw. I can already tell y'all are gonna love this show. You seem to both be deep thinkers, and this show rewards that. It will drip-feed information to you, peeling back the layers of the story, bit by bit. It's waaaay deeper than you expect it to be.
You're asking the right questions and picking at the right mysteries. Enjoy the ride.
No game spoilers. The Fallout TV show is it's own story, as are each of the seven Fallout games considered canon.
Bethesda Game Studios owns all of those seven games.
Bethesda game studios has confirmed that the Fallout TV series is canon, as well.
I've played Fallout games since 1997.
The TV series certainly acts and feels like Fallout canon to me.
The series will answer some of the questions you shared in your discussion.
Enjoy the ride.
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For anyone who loves "Fallout", check out tbe real-life full mockup of the "Filly" wasteland village bjilt to promote the show in March in Austin at the SXSW Festival. They had all the show props and gave out Vault 33 pins and Nuka Cola.
They did WHAT in my city?! Goddammit, agoraphobia sucks. 🤬
@@inspectre27 Yup, in the parking lot of the San Jose Motel on S. Congress.
YASSSSSSSSS!!!!! So excited to see you guys dive into this.
"It seems like a cult." If it quacks like a duck...
I am wildly excited to see you ladies go through this show! I knew very little about Fallout going into this show and I really enjoyed it~ Keep on Keeping On, Ladies, and thank you so much for doing what you do~!!
I have watched a few reviewers watch fallout, so far you are the most perceptive of all of them. No spoilers but I think you are going to spot all of the hints. Steve
The show does a great job of explaining and answering critical questions. Some things remain unanswered for newcomers, but those questions are not vital to enjoy the story.
Every game has different characters and the characters in the show have never been in the games. They are archetypal characters though - vault dwellers, Brotherhood knights, and ghouls are frequent in the games.
Hey Stella & Hayley, I'm glad u 2 lovely ladies r jumping on the FALLOUT bandwagon.😊 I enjoyed your reactions to ep. 1.
I am not a gamer, so I, like u went in totally blind. After watching the show, I had a couple of unanswered questions so I looked up the lore & storylines of the games in order to get a proper timeline of events that happened before & after the bombs dropped, & to learn a bit about the different factions. I also watched some TH-cam reactors that were fans of the games to get more info about that world as they watched the series. Most of the reactors I watched played Fallout 3, New Vegas & Fallout 4 all games by Bethesda.
The world before the bombs was a Retro-Futuristic world. They never seemed to get past the 1950s. One reactor that I watched compared it to the old cartoon THE JETSONS.😊 The Fallout universe's timeline follows along ours up until just after WWII. The transistor was never invented so everything runs on nuclear energy in some form. The Cold War continued, but Russia takes a back seat to China as the world's Communist Super Power. Threat of Nuclear War is constant. A company that decided to profit off of that threat was Vault-Tec. They end up building a bunch of massive Fallout Shelters, they called Vaults. If u could afford it, then u would be protected if/when the bombs fell. The bombs do end up falling in 2077. The current time of the series is 2296.
Our 3 main characters Lucy, Maximus & The Ghoul, I have heard described as different levels of game play. Lucy, the Vault Dweller, newly released into the Wastelands is the Newby. Maximus, who knows a bit about the Wastelands, is the Intermediate player. The Ghoul (formerly Cooper Howard) has wandered the Wasteland for 200 yrs, so he is @ Expert level.😊 Anyway, that's the way I heard it described.
U gals wanted to know what the Enclave is. It's a faction comprised of what's left of the US government from before the bombs fell. This world has several different factions trying to gain control of the Wasteland.
As far as our 3 main characters & who to trust or believe in, the descision is entirely up to u. U will get more character development as the story progresses.😊 Most of the questions u gals have will be answered just give it time.😊
One other thing, Wow, Stella! U seem to be drawing in compliments left & right w/ur look this reaction.😄
The show really drops you into the universe and story but it does a very good job in hooking you fast and by the second episode you are already in On how the dynamic of everything comes into play into one big environment. This show is a wild ride and a really fun and chaotic one. They did a great job with the story and concepts. Btw, Stella is giving a dark mamma mia vibes and I loved it haha
😂 U r amongst many that have commented on Stella's look, but your comment got me thinking about a line from THE MASK "That's a one spicy meat-a-ball!"😂
I feel one of the great things about the show in terms of its storytelling is that the writers seemed to know that there is a vast amount of lore connected to the setting but that many viewers would be unfamiliar with it. Here, they really did a good job of pacing the revelations - drip feeding details and explanations as they become relevant, knowing that people just aren't going to retain it if everything got dumped right out the gate but only becoming relevant much later. That's just not how people learn or remember things.
The thumb-to-measure-mushroom-cloud thing is made up. 🙂
(And what the heck, run regardless, unless you really prefer to stand there depressed. You never know. If you're not immediately killed, the important thing will be to get under cover before the fallout arrives.)
Looking good Stella.
She kinda reminds me of Bernadette Peters, if you're old enough to remember her like my decrepit ass. And that, from me, is among the highest of compliments.
Hayley reminds me of a young lady I knew in high school. There may have been extracurricular activities... 😮
Great reaction to the first episode! Looking forward to your reaction to the rest of the show! There are some great moments that make for very interesting reactions from first time watchers.
On whether to "leave the knife in":
In the real world, yes! Leave it in because you will be immobilized by paramedics and carted straight into surgery.
In these 'action hero' situations, you are 100% wrong. If you need to run around and fight, TAKE IT OUT. What do you think that knife is going to do as you're bouncing around? Dice you up like a samurai
Also, Lucy knows a stimpack will sort that kind of wound out no problem.
There is exposition, it's just well-written and naturally placed rather than being big, clumsy info dumps by some unnecessary side character. E.g. During Maximus's intro, you learn a bit about the Brotherhood of Steel.
- You see that the place and uniforms look a bit like a military base.
- You see that Maximus is getting bullied and beaten up by others there.
- In the classroom, the instructor says straight-up that the mission of the Brotherhood of Steel is "to search the wasteland for pre-war tech" and bring it back so they can control it.
- You understand through Dane's promotion that the hierarchy includes Knights and Squires and that the Aspirants (like Dane and Maximus) are hoping to become Squires to the Knights, after which they'll be sent "into the wild" (which you could easily assume through context is slang for the wastelands outside of Brotherhood of Steel control).
- You see that they have big hovering ships and power armor.
- You see Dane and Maximus sneak in to look at the power armor and be excited about the idea of what it would be like to wear one of those suits.
- Knowing what IRL knights and squires were, you could probably put together that the guys in the power armor suits are Knights and the Squires are their assistants.
- When Maximus is being questioned about Dane's injury, they're very harsh and the power-armored Knight stands threateningly behind him, giving the sense that the BoS has a very rigid structure and breaking it can be dangerous for members of the group.
- When Maximus is made a Squire to Knight Titus, you see that there's a whole quasi-religious, kind of cult-y ceremony where he's branded with his Knight's initial.
Put all of that together, and you already have a pretty good idea of what the Brotherhood of Steel is as a faction. It's a quasi-religious, slightly cult-y military group where Knights in power armor (assisted by their Squire assistants) go out into the wasteland to find and obtain pre-war technology so that the Brotherhood of Steel can control it. Also, breaking their rules is no joke and the punishment for doing so is something to be feared. And at no point did you need Dave Exposition to sit down and explain all that to Maximus as if he didn't live at the Brotherhood of Steel base.
Another example with far less info is the Enclave. They mention it a few times, but all we know of the Enclave at this point in the series is that it's a place where a scientist has taken some important tech and run off with it. And, as a result, there's a bounty on him that two of the three characters we were introduced to in this first episode have received: Maximus (via the Brotherhood of Steel) and The Ghoul (via the bounty hunters who dug him up). Beyond the fact that they're another faction, they have scientists, and one of the scientists has apparently gone rogue, you don't actually need to know who the Enclave are specifically because, at this point, it's not actually important to the story. The macguffin of the scientist and his stolen tech is what's important; where he came from is just flavor (flavor that makes sense in-world and is a nice nod to fans of the game, but not necessary for Fallout n00bs to understand).
If you can’t take the brine, don’t do the crime.
Series essentials without spoiling anything given the show stays pretty vague but nothing I'm saying here looks like the show will even tackle given it has its own plot line and we're all along for the ride,
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 you'll get a deeper explanation of their people meeting a lot of them in the wastelands each game takes place in.
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.
It's a great series! Thank you so much for this!
Another youtube channel that is reacting to Fallout series? Yes, please! As a representative of Vault-tec, I assure you, humanity is safe in our well made and perfectly normal vaults!
The Brotherhood of Steel. Think a modern day interpretation of the Knights Templar, or Hospitaliar, or Teutonicus. Their overriding goals differ but all are basically formations of warrior monks.
Not a show spoiler, because the show doesn't explain: it's an alternate history where transistors weren't invented and technology was built for durability not miniaturization. Geopolitics also diverged but have similar themes with real history.
Transistors and microchips were invented, but not until long after our world's timeline ;)
This is wrong nonsense that spread like wildfire on the internet and people keep repeating for whatever reason even though it’s been clarified ad nauseam. Transistors existed here. You literally have transistor radios in the game. People simply preferred vacuum tubes. This is like saying “betamax was never invented here in the real world. Neither were HD-DVDs”… yeah they were invented, people just didn’t want them.
@@zimvader25 although I stand corrected, I would say people preferring vacuum tubes sounds less believable than transistors not getting invented. The show and game universe has to come up with an excuse why technology in 2077 has vertibirds and semi-intelligent household robot assistants but forearm computers are massive. Why people wouldn't prefer transistors makes no sense.
Well, game designers tend to not check their work for inconsistencies and ignore the people whose job it is to do so. Can you tell I used to work in QA? 😉
@@flinx They had abundant, cheap electricity thanks to nuclear power more advanced than ours, even portable nuke power, so there was less need for electronic miniaturization
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Example: powering a man portable laser to be a useful weapon in our dense atmosphere is basically *impossible* with _our_ tech, for example ;)
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Also, why did it take thousands of years for us to invent wheelbarrows, stirrups, Fresno Scrapers, the horseshoe, or South Americans basically never invented the wheel, hm?
All were perfectly doable, and those people back then were very damn smart, but it didn't come about or not until a looooong time after.
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Sometimes a concept just never emerges, for many reasons, so Fallout's universe going different than ours is perfectly feasible :)
Two weapons from the game are in this episode. Lucy picks up a Syringer which shoots tranquilizer and other types of darts. The other weapon depending on the game is called the Rock-It Launcher or the Junk Jet which fires random junk at high velocity. The Please Stand By message from the projector is the loading screen from the games. The bobbleheads shown are also Stat rewards you find in the games.
I am so excited for this! ❤ I didn't play the game, just saw some of what my husband played of it. That didn't matter at all, I still loved this show. The storyline here does not follow any game storyline. It is a new story that takes place in the game's universe, which is really cool because even players of the game didn't know what was going to happen next. Your questions will be answered, so keep watching! Although more questions will come up too, but that is part of the show's mystery!
Brutal world huh? You two are in episode one and I look forward to your reaction on the next seven.
The style is a 50s "atomic age" style - you're in an alternate history where the transistor never revolutionized the world, but tube-technology and atomic technology have been miniaturized.
Fallout New Vegas is also the absolute gold-standard of role-playing-games in terms of how dynamically and deeply the world reacts to your decisions.
I'll agree with that re: New Vegas. But to me it didn't feel as apocalyptic as 3 did. Everything felt too close together, everywhere seemed too populated, and the main quest felt like just another of the dozens of side quests. Great game nonetheless, but yeah, lacked a vibe. (I also wondered why they chose a place we'd already been instead of exploring new territory, but that was more of just a ponderance.)
Glad to see you both back, was sad when the old channel ended. Looking forward to your reactions and insights moving forward!
Is the old channel archived? I just found them and was dismayed to see how little backlog there was. If there's more content somewhere, I'd love to view it.
@@inspectre27 Yea there's over a thousand videos on "whitenoisereacts" :)
The show does a good job of answering most of your questions by the end finale. Its really a well done show.
Now you are young, to those of us growing up during The Cold War that intro is what we feared would happen- every day. But we lived our lives. When I teach my The History of The Cold War classes, I always start by showing them a five minute video of nuclear explosions with eerie music, to make your generation understand what it all was- and what you will have to get used to again with Putoloni's sabre-rattling (though he is too much of a coward to do it). During the Cold War, the USSR was planning to open the war by dropping 600+ merely on my little Denmark.
The game is set in an alternative timeline, where the transistor was never invented, so everything used vacuum-tubes like early computers. And thus the timeline starts diverging from ours in the year after WW2, and progress is generally much slower. But there is also no Cuban Missile Crisis, Long Island, etc, and no reckoning with its past, so the US carries on in a sort of Truman-Eisenhower Superamerica with nuclear powered cars, etc. But in the 21st century fossil fuels and other resources starts running out, and The Resource Wars starts; where Europe, Africa and The Middle East is torn apart, and China invades Alaska to get the last remaining oil resource on the planet. And in 2077... Boom.
And oh yea, the US turns authoritarian semi-Fascist, a bit like Starship Troopers.
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.
The three main character's introductions mirror the introductions in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
As a lover of the Fallout franchise this adaptation is amazing. The show's characters are in the world but not representative of any specific characters you play in the game. The mystery of the how and why of everything is the best part and it made me want more each episode. They do a great job of explaining things by the end.
In the Fallout games, you typically play a Vault Dweller - but you make your own custom character. So, you might play someone like Lucy, or like her brother, or like anyone you saw from Vault 33 (so, not one of the raiders).
You leave the Vault, and there's a main storyline you can follow, but also the outside world is packed with side quests you can explore, interact with, and fight your way through. It's largely up to you how you want to behave.
I got something to say that'll blow my mind. Yes, I said mine. But you might find it bizarre, too.
So I was sitting here dissociating, staring at TH-cam and only seeing it very remotely, like ya do... when I snapped into reality and everything got freakishly real all of a sudden. I realized that I watch Fallout with reactors over and over, frequently the same episode and the same reactors again and again. For a moment, the terrifying clarity that comes with a brutal return to reality caused me to scold myself. This behavior is not normal, I said to me. Then I realized the precedent. I'm a kid in an amusement park with a favorite ride - it ends and I exit and immediately run back to ride it again. 😅 Thanks for taking this little trip with me. This comment brought to you by lithium carbonate.
And hey gals, since Stella mentioned enjoying the work of Kyle McLachlan, y'all should watch Blue Velvet. It's one of the best weird movies ever made. Brace yourself to be awed, confused, and not a little bit terrified. When it comes to quality weird, you can totally trust my judgment (I'm also pretty good at knowing what normals will enjoy and what only a space cadet like me would like. Usually).😊
Excited for this.
I think the things you are missing storywise now are all going to be told in the upcoming episodes. The things you are missing though (as you already said yourself) are the game concepts. Lucy's story is probably the best comparable with the games, in almost all the Fallout games you start as a vault dweller (apart from Fallout New Vegas and older Fallout games), thats why in the intro of Lucy's telling about herself she names all her skills and traits, a nod to making a character in the game. And no not all vaults are interconnected, this is as far as i know the only one. As far as the rest of the Fallout world/lore, you just have to consider that in 200 yrs there have been multiple factions (that you will learn about in following episodes) fighting for power.
And its played out in its own timeline in where the transistor was never invented, but the atomic age still happened hence the weird 50s looking tech. If you dont want to play the games (because it would literary take days) but still want to get the mood of it i recommend watching all the intros, you also get some lines to hear which the game is famous for. I hope you enjoy the series anyway, was fun watching with you :)
The thing about the show is that it takes place in the same universe as the games so all the lore in the games is in the show and all the video game logic is in the show as well
Y’all asking some really good questions…I had the same since I never played the game…but they answer a lot of those questions
Very excited to watch these reactions
Let’s go Girls.
Always *watch the Outros!* They have clues and are also, cool ;)
The Fallout world diverged from ours mostly after WW2, they advanced nuclear more than we did and robotic tech, but didn't get transistors/silicon chips until the 21st century, and their culture stagnated so it's like the 50s/60s
The fallout from the war was so bad because so MANY nukes were dropped and though they were "smallish" (very few were megaton sized "city killers") but they were "ground burst", along with all the nuclear powered cars etc, it left huge amounts of radiation
"Stimpacks" are game items that basically can heal almost all wounds in seconds
So glad that you are doing Fallout!!
Looking forward to your reactions and thoughts!! :D
This is a well written slow burn, with every episode revealing backstory as the characters current journeys progress, with more new questions than answers per episode, and a finale that leaves you waiting for season 2. Enjoy the ride.
I’m so excited for this reaction 🎉❤
A simple white wedding dress with a pronounced blood stain on the side. A bandolier and pistol. I think that'll be a good costume this Halloween. 😁
I think that'll be THE costume this year, like Harley Quinn was a few years ago.😊
Just gotta remember about clarifications and confusions; this is probably the number one show of the year. It’s that way for a reason. And it takes more than just fans of the video game to pull those kind of numbers.
This TV series based on the Fallout game lore is its own story. There are over 200 vaults across the U.S. and some in Canada. As far as I know these three vaults 31, 32, and 33 are the ONLY ones that are interconnected, all of the others are individual vaults. Stimpaks are used as an instant cure for most wounds and injuries.
The term often used to describe the setting in the Fallout series is Retro-Futurism. Think of them being stuck in the 1950s and early 1960s regarding their lifestyle, but advanced to futuristically in some of their technology specifically with nuclear fission (homes, cars, mech suits, robot servants, etc.). Supposedly micro-chips were not developed until near the war's beginning, so they were not mass produced in any large quantities. Most of the electronics you see are using vacuum tubes and larger electronic components.
The Enclave are the last vestiges of the U.S. government including their top scientists.
I never played the games and I'm obsessed with this show. I love Lucy!
Don't worry, they did a great job with the show. I watched with several people haven't played the games and they weren't confused at all. All you need to know is that it _is_ from a game, so if you see something unrealistic (for instance Lucy was stabbed, used a healing item, and immediately restored full function), just roll with the video-game logic. 👍🏽🍄🌩
Also Stella was SO PURPLE this reaction. The MOST purple reactor ever
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but as far as we know Vaults 31, 32, and 33 are the only ones that are interconnected with each other. In all the video games, the vaults you encounter are not connected to other vaults.
you are both a ton of fun to watch. You seem to pick up on, sometime quite subtle, cues and give fun comments on that.
Lucy actor is also the lead in "Yellowjackets" series
the girl who plays lucy is also in Yellowjackets... which is quite a show
[38:13]"We're kinda gonna wait for that, and see it as it comes."
🤠 Cooper Howard: "Us cowpokes. We take it as it comes."
👍 Okey Dokey!
The Brotherhood of Steel are an interesting bunch, and they've been through many different iterations in the games, and now in the show. In the games, the California Brotherhood was in a terminal decline, but now it looks like they're on the upswing in the wake of events that took place between the most recent game and episode one of the show.
The Brotherhood was inspired by the novel "A Canticle for Leibowitz," which follows an order of Catholic monks living in the aftermath of nuclear war who are charged with gathering and preserving knowledge in the name of their patron, Saint Isaac Leibowitz. The book is amazing and well worth a read. It'll make you sad and optimistic for the future of humanity at the same time.
Yes, I agree wholeheartedly, "A Canticle for Leibowitz" is an amazing read. A must read for classic speculative fiction (or sci-fi adjacent). Cheers.
I love the phrase “You look like your mother.” It means two things. She knew who the mother was, and knew enough by looking at her to know she was the daughter.
This series takes place after the most recent game of fallout 4. Beginning of show takes place in 2077. The style is retro future. This series and universe is what could of happend to our world if the atomic age became our tech. The show being 219yrs after the bombs dropped places this series in 2296.
Okay so best was to explain the concept of this world. It goes the same way as our IRL world up until the end of WW2. Where the split happens is when we start making tech smaller. In the fallout Timeline they kept tech the same size snd keep the more 1950's ascetic. Along with keeping the red scare fear up. Basically things happen in between, differences occur and such. But by the year 2077, which is the first scene occurs. The bombs fell and well you csn see the aftermath.
Oh and this show takes places in the most current time if Fallout. And most of the games have you playing as Vault Dwellers who in one way or another changed this world somehow.
Best advice, forget what you know about what the usual apocalypses because Fallout though follows some things like you'd see. Really is it's own thing in the end.
The 'non-spoiler Fallout primer' that I'd give anybody new to the franchise would be:
1 Takes place in an alternate timeline, where the Cold War never ended (in fact, it went kinda hot a couple times), hence the heavy 50's/60's Americana vibe, but it's actually starting in the late 2070s.
2 This timeline never invented things like microprocessors or LCDs, but progressed much farther with nuclear power than we have, so stuff still looks really clunky and outdated (cathode-ray tubes and transistors) but is considerably more advanced than our tech is.
3 Some groups exist in the world that view "pre-war" tech as something to be hoarded and preserved rather than used, either to study to keep scientific progress moving forward (the Enclave) or to stop humanity from clubbing itself into the Stone Age with it (the Brotherhood).
Beyond that, everything else is either explained in the show or requires waiting for future episodes to prevent accidental spoilers.
So the reason everything is very analog is the fact they never made the transistor in this alternate universe. The timeline basically branched off around WW2 and became this. A mix of retro with high tech. Nuclear power became so prominate that even the cars run off it.
I love this show. Looking forward to these. Like other comments have said, it’s what the people in the 1950s thought the future would be. This is called Retro-futurism.
1 :27 Imagine a gameplay channel of Hailey/Stella. That d be interesting
The fallout reality is different from our earth. Where we invented the transistor faster than the fallout world did, so we miniaturized everything but they focused on nuclear power and invented the transistor later. So the vibe is still retro as tech didn't develop as quickly but certain things developed due to 100 years of advancements in certain other fields such as robots
I hope you read this. The world of Fallout never developed microprocessors. That's why the technology appears very retro. They are still reliant on analog processors and technology. They advanced with breakthroughs in nuclear power. The opening scene in the past is the year 2077. Culture stagnated in the 1950's and 1960's aesthetic because technological advancement different and in some fields slower than our world.
This first episode of Fallout had me saying the same thing Hayley and Stella said at the end of the episode. Whoa! Anyway excellent reaction.
Well done with your thoughts ladies!
I really think your approach is great, don't check anything about the games!
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Some comments will reveal a little bit too much, maybe, but hopefully you get just the 2 little bits that can be helpful so that you get more context for this "universe" ;)
18:00 most of the time your a vault dweller forced to go to the surface… apart from a few times like new vagus where your a surface dweller out for revenge
In the Fallout universe they never invented transistors and part of that influences why you see big tube things. The interfaces in Fallout 1 and 2 are engineered in a way that, in a world without transistors, still gets really advanced technology.
I think they were really smart in how they did this show. First, they used CGI, but they put a TON of effort into practical effects, costumes, prosthetics and sets. Second, they didnt lean into existing characters from the game world so much as the game world itself. The factions, the creatures, the technology, the dangers and the morality.
I saw someone mention that the technology of this world is akin to if instead of leaning hard into the development of microchips as we did, they instead continued on with vacuum tube technology and embraced nuclear power.
I like you two but this is the first thing you've reacted to since becoming independent that I've actually seen, I look forward to what you think of everything that's coming!
Well, girls, I hate spoilers, and differently from most people, I did not like this first episode, exactly because nothing was explained, but what I call tell you is that It gets much better and most questions get answered. Just trust the process and enjoy the ride! =)
I feel like most people take the "cousin thing" way more sexual than it is. Im not an American, but from what I learned from US tv/movies was that the "cousin thing" was basically that their first kiss was with a cousin. Its a trope ofcourse but wasnt ever any sexual in that sense. & Lucy says, "messing around is all well & good for kids" meaning its fairly innocent, cause 1, kids kinda dont understand the whole cousin/genetics thing & 2 cause they are kids, its not a sexual thing as much as it is curiosity & exploring but in a rather innocent way. I just find it funny how many reactors react to it being Americans. I mean its a good reaction lol cause as Lucy says its not very sustainable 😆but funny since I personally learned about it due to American tv lol
Not a innocent as u think, being that Lucy jumped on the naked Monty & proceeded to have sex w/him like she knew exactly what she was doing.
Lucy says that it's not a very sustainable "sexual practice." I'm pretty sure we're talking about more than kissing. The kissing cousins thing typically happens, if it happens, when kids are very very young, like pre school. Lucy and Chet's involvement seems far more recent due to Chet's behavior.
Each of the Fallout games is largely a self-contained story with only loose links with the other games. In most, you play some variation of a vault dweller let loose on the larger world. New Vegas is the exception to that rule, because in THAT game you're playing a Courier, a professional messenger and delivery person for high-value objects and information, who gets shot and left for dead for the parcel you were tasked with delivering.