HAPPY FALLOUT DAY!!! I've been informed October 23, 2077 is when the bombs dropped, so it seemed appropriate to pick this back up today 😊 A few schedule notes...SERENITY is scheduled for next Friday, November 1st. That's been a tough one to get through, but also, I have a horror/comedy movie surprise that I really should get posted before Halloween, so that should come first. 😄 Thank you all so much for your support, for being patient, and for checking in. The past few weeks have been unlike anything I've ever experienced, and while it feels good to be getting back to my routine, I'm so grateful I could take some time away. I've shared so many of your wonderful comments with my family, and it has genuinely made me cry, to have so many people that care. I love you all ❤ I'll post info on the schedule going forward, and the re-scheduled live stream soon.
Great to see you again! And really glad that this community made you feel that you could take whatever time you needed. These things take time, and feelings can come and go. Don't be afraid to not be too rigid with schedule just because you're getting back to routine. We'll understand. ❤ That being said, I'm very happy you're back! You've been missed! 😊
Happy to see you back. I got hooked with your Firefly series and had not seen Fallout nor ever played the game but once I saw you had a review for ep1 I had to go binge the series so I could be ready for your reviews. Needless to say I really enjoyed it. Thank you for being the catalyst that got me into it. Again welcome back. 😊
This episode's end music 'Ink Spots: I don't want to set the world on fire' was used at the Intro of Fallout 3 and also played at in game radio station during the game play. Sets the mood really well. Jacqui: HI, I do hope you are ok.. FYI: There definitely is a deep connection between Westworld and Fallout, but it goes way deeper. Nolan played a lot of Fallout way back when. He's avid gamer and Fallout fan since Fallout 3 era, which happened nearly 10 years before Westworld. After watching the series I'd recommend you to find some FO series promo material, Nolan has made some nice interviews.
After I realized that "Crawl out through the fallout, baby" song was actually from back then, I just assume every other one was too. Still not over it, though. 😂
I love the fact that a cyanide tablet is the most human thing that Vault Tec ever made, because it's true. It was at that moment I knew the writers of this show really did get the game.
Editing may have cut it out; but did you notice that Wilzig saved CX404 by fudging the numbers? It said on the wall to incinerate all pups below 10 ounces. CX404 weighed 9,4.
The dog being CX-404. 404 is the error code for "Not Found" on internet. Since she was underweight at birth and Wilsig lied about her weight and hid her, she's not supposed to exist.
Deep cut on the dog from the game fallout 4 is if u find a teddy bear u can add it to dogmeats inventory and if u do he takes out the teddy bear often to play with. Thats why they added the teddy bear for the dog here in the show. Its a nod to the players and fans 😊
Actually, it can happen even if you don't specifically give Dogmeat a teddy bear. He doesn't specifically have to have one in inventory at all. But if you do put one in his inventory it happens more often.
I was going to say, I never gave dogmeat a teddy bear, but he always found one lying around. Might explain why I found so many in his inventory when I used him as a mule to haul my supplies!
Fun fact about that scene with the lucy and the dude drinking the water, the reason she keeps her gun up is a reference to the games where if you talk to someone with your weapon pointed at them, they just carry on with the conversation as if its normal
@@leeneufeld4140 Fun fact: The Mark level in F4 is determined by geography. Even if you have all the perks, you always build Mark 1s at Sanctuary, and they go up in level as you move South on the map.
Theme taken directly from the games where locations have names from similar partial signage, like Novac from a No Vacancy sign, or The Pitt from a Welcome to Pittsburg sign.
Nobody gives enough credit for Wilzig, the dog owner. He not only he was willing to die to deliver his payload, he encouraged Lucy to defile his corpse for the Cause. That, guys and gals, is commitment.
Yeah I'm really wondering in what connection he was with Moldaver. There are theories that he might been a synth (some think the Moldaver we see post-war is also a synth). In general, season 2 could bring the whole synth existence into focus and reveal some characters being synths.
5:36, That is a rusted-out hulk of a robot warrior called an Assaultron. In the games, they are very difficult to defeat, but not impossible. Every reactor that I have watched has always commented about how fast all the characters have come together and how quick the scenes change. I can only suggest that it is filmed this way because there are ONLY 8 episodes and a lot of the story that has to be covered.
The big difference between this and some other gaming properties, is that this show is using the WORLD of Fallout, but these are entirely new characters with brand new stories. It says a lot about how good the world-building has always been for Fallout, and what a good job this team did building THIS particular story.
Lucy walking past the shipwreck is not CGI, that's an actual wreck stranded in 1909 on Namibia's Skeleton Coast. The ship was called the Eduard Bohlen, it's now several hundred metres inland due to, um, silt deposition? Not sure what the English word for this is, in German it's "Verlandung".
There are so many callouts to the game it's amazing. And a lot of these are so subtle even gamers might not notice. A great example is the ridiculous bag that Maximus has to carry for Titus...in the game you usually get a companion and one of the best uses of a companion is giving them all the heavy crap that otherwise would encumber you. 😀 Other examples: The turrets in the game really don't hurt the player character much as long as you are moving. 99% of the time the PC is holding their gun pointing forward. Just like Lucy does at 14:21. 23:29 - Eating fruit and food heals hit points.
Welcome back! The "greeting an NPC by waving a gun in their face" is an homage to the games where that happens practically all the time. And the farmer in the loincloth is a direct reference to Fallout 1, even down to the guy's weird posture.
With "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall," played during the early part of the episode, you have to go back further than the 50's. That was a hit by The Ink Spots, released in 1944. Yep, WW2 music. "Don't Fence Me In" goes back even further back by a decade, composed by the late, great Cole Porter and lyricized by Robert Fletcher in 1934.
Deep Lore! Bottlecaps are the defacto currency of the Wasteland. Starting from Fallout 1, a Single bottlecap can be exchanged for a 12oz bottle of fresh water from the water cartels / water merchants operating in California. Later games tend to leave out the note that the value of the caps are 'backed' by potable water; and just have them as a universal sort of cash.
While in games other than 1 caps are not backed by water, unbacked currency still meets the requirements for valid currency. Just like the modern dollar, caps are a fiat currency. The three requirements of currency are that it must function as a medium of exchange, a store of value, and a unit of account: Medium of exchange: Money must be accepted as a form of payment. - Everyone agrees that caps are money. Store of value: Money must be able to retain its value over time. - caps are durable and easily recognizable. Unit of account: Money must be a standard for measuring the value of goods and services. - Caps WERE mass produced, so a cap is universal. Money can take many forms, including fiat money, which is not backed by a commodity. Precious metals were once a popular form of money because they were durable, portable, and had a limited supply - Caps WERE mass produced, but are not anymore, which means the supply of them in the world is finite.This means you can value them against their own scarcity. In the games, drinking a Nuka-Cola gave you a cap, because by opening the bottle, you acquired the bottle cap, but the value of the bottle intact was higher because sealed bottles were even more scarce. From the IMF: "as long as everyone accepts that a different denomination or a new currency is the norm, it simply will be. Just like fiat money. If it is accepted as money, it is money."
@@ravynbr I'd argue that fiat currency has value because a powerful political entity says it does. That value of the USD is that you can use it to pay your taxes and conduct commerce, and the issuing government says "you must accept this, because we also must accept it from you" Not applicable to most* of the Wasteland. But, yes, if all involved parties agree this thing is money than this thing is money.
@@ravynbr The IMF doesn't care. That IMF statement you pulled is as generalized as you can get. As long as that non-elected board of bureaucrats get to keep making the rulebook, they couldn't care less
In the games the ghouls do have a small healing factor when exposed to radiation, the show likely is interpretting the low level background radiation as being enough to help him. Also in the games you can heal from eating food, like those cherry tomatoes he was snacking on. Also also that "very large bucket of drugs" he was referring his body to could mean he was on a couple that boosted him, like med-x, the stand-in for morphine. Point is he is mortal still. Something that would overpower his healing factor like a headshot could do it (like the horror movie monster he resembles)
I don’t know why your reactions to this series give me so much joy. Maybe it’s the way that you describe the scenes from a filmmaking perspective is what I really like. Keep it up you earned a subscriber!
Welcome back! I hope you feel at least a little better. I believe CX404 is supposed to mean "Canine eXperiment 404", as in the 404 HTTP error code for "page not found". Wilzig not just saved her, since she was below the weight threshold (see the sign in the beginning), but also hid her since she did not do well in training. 5:37 It's an Assaultron from RobCo. As the name suggest, it's a frontline war robot. Let's just say Lucy is lucky it was broken. 6:17 Vault Tec Plan D, as in for those who can't afford plan A, B, or C (like a place in a vault). They poisoned themselves to not die of radiation. 8:32 Or does he? :D 9:02 Cassette Futurism! Bringing us once again back to Alien. 30:05 Editing Jacqui must be laughing. Makes you wonder how the story would've gone if they did take his offer.
the bulk was liquid hence put in the food and drinks on the table. individual like Wilzig had was a pill. there is a cartoon showing what b and c are. you were honestly better off with D than those options
The water filter chap is a perfect example of a random NPC encounter/dialogue in the game. In fact, there'd probably be a minor side-quest to find a widget for the filter. Lucy approaching while having (or forgetting) her gun is drawn is also a nod to players inevitable behaviour in-game.
The water filter is a reference to the main plot of the original Fallout where the whole reason for your character to leave the vault is that their only water filter broke down.
@@MotorbreathChannel no later on an episode has the water chip being remarked as broken. the water chip is the circuit board with vacuum tubes that regulates the water filtration system and monitors for contamination.
'Fallout' is my 2nd favorite series featuring Michael Emerson as a bespectacled man who knows more than he should and has a canine protector, and also is 'created' by Johnathan Nolan. My favorite in that very particular genre is 'Person of Interest.'
I always forget about that one. I must have seen a few episodes way back when, because I definitely remember the name "Finch" and that actor. Time to see if I can find it again, I guess.
Wonderful to se you back! For what it's worth almost all of the music in the series is from either the Fallout 3 or Fallout 4 games. I may be a 57 year old former redhead woman, but the video games are a treat.
8:00 Fallout: New Vegas actually has a quest wherein you have to clear a cave of Rodents of Unusual Size. I tend to prioritize it because the quest reward - Ratslayer - is a pretty solid "walkin' around" rifle.
Also speaking of gameplay parallels. Wilsig's first interaction with Lucy is peak Bethesda's games NPC: appears out of nowhere interrupting sleep, recites a philosophical plot foreshadowing monologue, refuses to elaborate further, leaves. 😆
"Oh is that an early prototype of the knight suit; is that what that was?" No, it wasn't a power armor prototype, it was a non-functioning robot called an Assaultron ...and Lucy was very lucky that is was 'dead' because they are exceptionally dangerous.
yeah ngl, i fkn hate those things! i have acquired weapons, armour and strategy to the point where they are now a bit challenging sometimes but mostly just a nuisance but omg, i swear i have ptsd from my first few encounters with them. i curse the name Robert Edwin House!
Welcome back, Jacqui. It is such a joy to hear your on point comments and fun reactions again. I have missed your videos. I hope you and yours are as well as you can be. I am so excited to see the rest of your reactions and look forward to your next video!
Welcome back. I hope you're feeling a little better, I know it must still be very difficult. Missed your reactions, but please take your time. Take good care. Great reaction as usual btw
welcome back! The writing and the pacing in this show is incredible. As is the direction, the production, the casting, and the acting. Bravo to all involved.
Welcome back. You've been missed, and we're all glad to see you again. I toyed around with the first Fallout game a bit, but was mostly clueless about the lore and such when I watched this myself. I enjoyed it immensely, and look forward to seeing your reactions to the rest of it.
What is INCREDIBLE is the opening shots in the desert are REAL. That's a REAL ship in the middle of the Namib desert. The town is a REAL abandoned town and they essentially had ONE take in many shots for her walking scenes.
At 5:36 that's not a power armor suit but an 'assaultron'. And yes, exactly what it suggests on the tin, a military combat robot. I love that the series peppers these kinds of things throughout, very recognisable for those familiar, but also visually distinct and 'readable' enough that it helps the world building for those not familiar. (there are of course more obscure references too, but those are more often in the background)
07:27: "What in the nuclear cockroach!" Yes, exactly. 07:59: Quality "Princess Bride" reference! 10:59: "The world is still pretty in some places. It still grows." Yeah. . . it's the growing that's a problem. . . 12:03: "It's like a Jaeger vs. a Kaiju!" Pacific Rim is always a win. 18:47: Nuka-Cola and two-headed cows are prominent things in the game, part of its overall black comedy. 22:31: Exactly, got it in one. 22:42: I don't know if it's from the games (more of a casual player), but I think the Ghoul is using gyrojet weapons. It was something that was really experimented with in the 60s and 70s, so roughil fitting the timeframe the game takes most of its inspiration from. Instead of a cartridge with propellant that ignites and pushes the bullet down the barrel, gyrojet weapons fired basically tiny, spin-stabilized rockets, and theoretically could have warheads in them, like explosives. From the slow-mo shots of the bullets, they look like they're using fins to generate spin to stabilize the round in-flight, and the explosive damage they deal would fit with what advancements in gyrojet weapons were speculated to be. Gyrojets in real life have pretty much died out, being so expensive and difficult to manufacture compared to regular ammunition. The remaining weapons are really only of interest to collectors, because no one makes gyrojet ammunition anymore, and any surviving ammunition most likely isn't safe to try and fire.
The games have a perk bloody mess as well as VATS targeted shots in slow motion which result in excessive gore in the games. The Ghoul can be assumed to have that perk, obviously explained in world with his ammo.
Bethesda especially Fallout is known for environmental storytelling. Each building, cave, room is a unique story rich vignette told with just the placement of objects. This shows pacing translates that feeling surprisingly well.
Well said. The games are absolutely packed with this kind of storytelling. And they're no less brutal than the graphic violence. Stories of undying love (right up until or even after the bombs drop, of course), people losing their children and so many orphaned children, generosity and greed, jealousy and trust, bonding and betrayal, and a whole lot of madness. And more than you'd care to know about Vault-Tec and the vaults.
So great to have you back, we've missed you. Much love to you and yours. Fantastic reaction as usual. This episode contains so many of my favorite moments of the whole season, like Lucy's conversation with the diapered Wastelander. So excited to see what you think of what's yet to come.
Glad my favorite reactor's back in action! 👍❤️ I don't remember if the dog gets named in the show, but everytime you get one in the games, they're called Dogmeat, lol.
Thrilled for your return to YT and what a great episode to mark it! The Ghoul would make a formidable opponent against John Wick but he did redeem himself.
Welcome back Jacqui! I am glad you took some time to rest and do what you needed to do. I'm glad you are enjoying Fallout. Also, you have the most beautiful teeth!
Welcome back!! It's so nice to see your face again. I'm so very sorry for your family's loss. I was trying to decide if I needed to play the game to get all of the bits to this show, but I think I will watch it through with you first and then play, because your reactions are too fun!
The robot remains was an assaultron its a humanoid robot with a female inspired body and claw hands and a heavy laser beam canon in the centre of its face. There’s a terrifying version of it with sword hands and a cloaking device that you can encounter sometimes, I still remember my first encounter in Fallout 4 😅
I hope you are doing well. Glad to see you back. TH-cam has not been the same without you. I love every episode of this series. From the music choices to the look and feel of the show to the characters and the people who brought them to life. I have never played the game either, but the show is amazing. Lucy is my favorite character and I loved her journey, as well as the progression and growth of her character. Ella Purnell is amazing. I have been watching Walton Goggins act for years and, so far, The Ghoul is my favorite character I have seen him play. One thing I should find out that has me curious is where the creators of the game got the idea for Lucy's name, as she has the same first and last name of John's daughter in the Die Hard films.
Happy to see you back, hope everything is good and stay strong 5:39 that’s an Assaultron, a military combat robot made by RobCo Industries, a really pain in the ass when encountering in a higher difficulty
A lot of the game lore is represented in this show really well. All the cows that survived have two heads, the various monsters out in the wasteland, and of course the player perk "Bloody Mess" that causes more gore and damage in game.
Glad to see you are back, Jacqui! We missed you! Most of the music is what you can hear in the game. If you listen to the correct channel on your Pip-boy. And the little clip from the Emperor's New Groove was the best!
I've only just stumbled onto your channel, but from some of these comments, i can tell you've been going through something. As someone who experienced it quite largely, then i can say that it does get a whole lot better. You can get past it and im sorry for your loss!
Happy "Fallout Day" BTW. LOL! (Oct 23, 2077 bombs drop to start everything Fallout). The show is great and has lots for a newcomer BUT there is a great deal of "Easter Eggs" for the various fans. The "dog and the teddy" is just one of many.
Its lovely to have you back. I will say one thing as to your talk at the end of the episode in regards to exposition and showing and not telling. This is exactly what games, well good ones at least do, the "story" tells the story, but the unsaid things in the world build the world, i just wanted to point that out as a gamer for 40 years, you are coming at it at a very different angle to someone like me who has enjoyed, films, TV, and games all there lives, nothing good or bad there, just perspectives, and really good games are the best media at showing not telling that we have, when done well of course. As for the music its all legacy music of the 50s, and a lot of it was licensed for the games, so the people who went into this knowing what to expect, got what they expected.
Oh and also, game direction to those things is more difficult as the player/viewer has control of the camera and can literally look away and miss this stuff "like the dead end sign in this ep" so this show while adhering to film conventions, is also very much nodding at the gamers too, its a really good and subtle mix.
SO many people ask the question about the Sentry Gun not killing Wilsig and CX-404. It looks to me that those guns are based on the Navy's CIWS guns, and they are notoriously inaccurate. They are last line of defense systems to protect ships from incoming missiles, and the idea is just to put as much metal into the air as possible so that the missile might hit one of the bullets and that is enough to rip apart a missile in flight. It doesn't surprise me that they cant hit a target as small as a man that close. At least, that's the way I think of it.
One of the coolest things of this series is how they use the game tropes and make them feel natural to this world. Not many shows have done that successfully before. The stim packs, oversized equipment of soldiers, the foot prosthetic etc etc.
The ship in the desert is, the Eduard Bohlen. It ran aground in a thick fog, on the Skeleton Coast of Namibia, in Southwest Africa, in 1909. Over the last 100+ years, the blowing sand has pushed the shoreline out so far, the ship is now 1300 feet inland. The buildings are in a town, abandoned in the early 50's, called Kolmanskop. The blowing sand has reclaimed a lot of the buildings.
I forget if someone mentioned this in the first episode, but this show doesn't spoil any of the games and vice versa. The games and this show are set in the same world with the same factions (organizations), but are completely different story lines. We haven't had much yet, but coming up there are a bunch of flashbacks for the Ghoul, really helps understand his backstory and the backstory of the world.
Sorry for your loss; glad to have you back after your absence. Been waiting for more fallout! Emperor's New Groove clip was chef's kiss love that movie.
HAPPY FALLOUT DAY!!! I've been informed October 23, 2077 is when the bombs dropped, so it seemed appropriate to pick this back up today 😊
A few schedule notes...SERENITY is scheduled for next Friday, November 1st. That's been a tough one to get through, but also, I have a horror/comedy movie surprise that I really should get posted before Halloween, so that should come first. 😄
Thank you all so much for your support, for being patient, and for checking in. The past few weeks have been unlike anything I've ever experienced, and while it feels good to be getting back to my routine, I'm so grateful I could take some time away. I've shared so many of your wonderful comments with my family, and it has genuinely made me cry, to have so many people that care. I love you all ❤
I'll post info on the schedule going forward, and the re-scheduled live stream soon.
Welcome back. Much love to you and your family.
You have been missed.
Great to see you again! And really glad that this community made you feel that you could take whatever time you needed. These things take time, and feelings can come and go. Don't be afraid to not be too rigid with schedule just because you're getting back to routine. We'll understand. ❤ That being said, I'm very happy you're back! You've been missed! 😊
Happy to see you back. I got hooked with your Firefly series and had not seen Fallout nor ever played the game but once I saw you had a review for ep1 I had to go binge the series so I could be ready for your reviews. Needless to say I really enjoyed it. Thank you for being the catalyst that got me into it. Again welcome back. 😊
I am very happy that you are back and doing better - Missed you - just remember the Flight safety instructions - put your mask on first
7:50 - Jacqui: "I think that's the most horrifying thing to come out of this show."
Oh you sweet, summer child... ;-)
Radroaches are the first enemies in the games. 😂
I just deleted my IDENTICAL comment because you got there first. PERFECTION.
my first thought too
It always gets more horrifying.
What we were all thinking. x)
All of the "50s" songs are songs from back in the day. Most are actually in the games (from 3 on) and played on the in-game radio stations.
A massive shame that they most likely will never add the Civilization song in the show.
It'll be pretty easy to look up the songs and artists if you search for Fallout radio/playlist/soundtrack. Almost all of them are total bops!
This episode's end music 'Ink Spots: I don't want to set the world on fire' was used at the Intro of Fallout 3 and also played at in game radio station during the game play. Sets the mood really well.
Jacqui: HI, I do hope you are ok..
FYI: There definitely is a deep connection between Westworld and Fallout, but it goes way deeper. Nolan played a lot of Fallout way back when. He's avid gamer and Fallout fan since Fallout 3 era, which happened nearly 10 years before Westworld. After watching the series I'd recommend you to find some FO series promo material, Nolan has made some nice interviews.
After I realized that "Crawl out through the fallout, baby" song was actually from back then, I just assume every other one was too. Still not over it, though. 😂
@@alcor4670 Why wouldn't they?
Just wanted to come by and welcome you back, loss is not an easy thing and you know we are all here for you:)
Welcomùe back Jacqui !
Same here! Welcome back.
Same here, welcome back.
Glad to see you back in the saddle again.
I love the fact that a cyanide tablet is the most human thing that Vault Tec ever made, because it's true. It was at that moment I knew the writers of this show really did get the game.
Editing may have cut it out; but did you notice that Wilzig saved CX404 by fudging the numbers? It said on the wall to incinerate all pups below 10 ounces. CX404 weighed 9,4.
The dog being CX-404. 404 is the error code for "Not Found" on internet. Since she was underweight at birth and Wilsig lied about her weight and hid her, she's not supposed to exist.
she... 🙂 CX-404 is girl... she is good girl 😀
Canine eXperiment 404 - not found 😊
She. He literally calls her a 'Good girl' when she learns to sit.
Edited to say she/her for 404.
CX- is the Amazon logistics rout code.
Deep cut on the dog from the game fallout 4 is if u find a teddy bear u can add it to dogmeats inventory and if u do he takes out the teddy bear often to play with.
Thats why they added the teddy bear for the dog here in the show.
Its a nod to the players and fans 😊
Wow I love the games and didn't know this. Neat!
Was there any way to find that out besides being told or accidentaly loading dogmeat with a teddy?
Actually, it can happen even if you don't specifically give Dogmeat a teddy bear. He doesn't specifically have to have one in inventory at all. But if you do put one in his inventory it happens more often.
I was going to say, I never gave dogmeat a teddy bear, but he always found one lying around. Might explain why I found so many in his inventory when I used him as a mule to haul my supplies!
@@prollins6443 there is a supermutant in the far harbor dlc that if you have dogmeat along he gives you a bandana that you can put on dogmeat.
"She steals dads!" That's got to be my favorite line in the whole show. Glad you're back, and hope your family is doing better.
Fun fact about that scene with the lucy and the dude drinking the water, the reason she keeps her gun up is a reference to the games where if you talk to someone with your weapon pointed at them, they just carry on with the conversation as if its normal
"How are you not dead?!?!?"
Those turrets are made with genuine Stormtrooper (TM) technology.
very cheap to build so you literally get crap aim due to being cheap
Those Mark 1 turrets were the bane of my life till I armed my home base with the Mark 3's :)
@@leeneufeld4140 Fun fact: The Mark level in F4 is determined by geography. Even if you have all the perks, you always build Mark 1s at Sanctuary, and they go up in level as you move South on the map.
I love that the name of Filly comes from the old “landfill” sign. It was an old trash dump they converted into a city.
Theme taken directly from the games where locations have names from similar partial signage, like Novac from a No Vacancy sign, or The Pitt from a Welcome to Pittsburg sign.
Dont forget Two Suns! (Tucson native here)
Also Far Harbor coming from Bar Harbor with part of the sign having flaked off. :-)
Nobody gives enough credit for Wilzig, the dog owner. He not only he was willing to die to deliver his payload, he encouraged Lucy to defile his corpse for the Cause. That, guys and gals, is commitment.
Yeah I'm really wondering in what connection he was with Moldaver. There are theories that he might been a synth (some think the Moldaver we see post-war is also a synth). In general, season 2 could bring the whole synth existence into focus and reveal some characters being synths.
5:36, That is a rusted-out hulk of a robot warrior called an Assaultron. In the games, they are very difficult to defeat, but not impossible. Every reactor that I have watched has always commented about how fast all the characters have come together and how quick the scenes change. I can only suggest that it is filmed this way because there are ONLY 8 episodes and a lot of the story that has to be covered.
7:50 "I think that's the most horrifying thing to come out of this show" Ha ha ha
Ha ha ha ha
HA HA HA HA
The big difference between this and some other gaming properties, is that this show is using the WORLD of Fallout, but these are entirely new characters with brand new stories. It says a lot about how good the world-building has always been for Fallout, and what a good job this team did building THIS particular story.
That and the people behind the show actually care about the source material. Jonathan Nolan is a huge Fallout fan.
Lucy walking past the shipwreck is not CGI, that's an actual wreck stranded in 1909 on Namibia's Skeleton Coast. The ship was called the Eduard Bohlen, it's now several hundred metres inland due to, um, silt deposition? Not sure what the English word for this is, in German it's "Verlandung".
There are so many callouts to the game it's amazing. And a lot of these are so subtle even gamers might not notice.
A great example is the ridiculous bag that Maximus has to carry for Titus...in the game you usually get a companion and one of the best uses of a companion is giving them all the heavy crap that otherwise would encumber you. 😀
Other examples:
The turrets in the game really don't hurt the player character much as long as you are moving.
99% of the time the PC is holding their gun pointing forward. Just like Lucy does at 14:21.
23:29 - Eating fruit and food heals hit points.
Welcome back!
The "greeting an NPC by waving a gun in their face" is an homage to the games where that happens practically all the time.
And the farmer in the loincloth is a direct reference to Fallout 1, even down to the guy's weird posture.
With "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall," played during the early part of the episode, you have to go back further than the 50's. That was a hit by The Ink Spots, released in 1944. Yep, WW2 music.
"Don't Fence Me In" goes back even further back by a decade, composed by the late, great Cole Porter and lyricized by Robert Fletcher in 1934.
An amazing band The Ink Spots were! ^_^
I'm so glad you're back and I can't wait to see your reactions of the rest of the series. I love this serious.
Deep Lore! Bottlecaps are the defacto currency of the Wasteland. Starting from Fallout 1, a Single bottlecap can be exchanged for a 12oz bottle of fresh water from the water cartels / water merchants operating in California. Later games tend to leave out the note that the value of the caps are 'backed' by potable water; and just have them as a universal sort of cash.
While in games other than 1 caps are not backed by water, unbacked currency still meets the requirements for valid currency. Just like the modern dollar, caps are a fiat currency.
The three requirements of currency are that it must function as a medium of exchange, a store of value, and a unit of account:
Medium of exchange: Money must be accepted as a form of payment. - Everyone agrees that caps are money.
Store of value: Money must be able to retain its value over time. - caps are durable and easily recognizable.
Unit of account: Money must be a standard for measuring the value of goods and services. - Caps WERE mass produced, so a cap is universal.
Money can take many forms, including fiat money, which is not backed by a commodity. Precious metals were once a popular form of money because they were durable, portable, and had a limited supply - Caps WERE mass produced, but are not anymore, which means the supply of them in the world is finite.This means you can value them against their own scarcity. In the games, drinking a Nuka-Cola gave you a cap, because by opening the bottle, you acquired the bottle cap, but the value of the bottle intact was higher because sealed bottles were even more scarce. From the IMF: "as long as everyone accepts that a different denomination or a new currency is the norm, it simply will be. Just like fiat money. If it is accepted as money, it is money."
@@ravynbr I'd argue that fiat currency has value because a powerful political entity says it does. That value of the USD is that you can use it to pay your taxes and conduct commerce, and the issuing government says "you must accept this, because we also must accept it from you"
Not applicable to most* of the Wasteland. But, yes, if all involved parties agree this thing is money than this thing is money.
@@ravynbr The IMF doesn't care. That IMF statement you pulled is as generalized as you can get. As long as that non-elected board of bureaucrats get to keep making the rulebook, they couldn't care less
In the games the ghouls do have a small healing factor when exposed to radiation, the show likely is interpretting the low level background radiation as being enough to help him. Also in the games you can heal from eating food, like those cherry tomatoes he was snacking on. Also also that "very large bucket of drugs" he was referring his body to could mean he was on a couple that boosted him, like med-x, the stand-in for morphine. Point is he is mortal still. Something that would overpower his healing factor like a headshot could do it (like the horror movie monster he resembles)
I don’t know why your reactions to this series give me so much joy. Maybe it’s the way that you describe the scenes from a filmmaking perspective is what I really like. Keep it up you earned a subscriber!
I am happy you are back. My condolences to you and your family. I hope you are well along your healing/grieving process
Its so good to see you back. We all missed you!
Welcome back! I hope you feel at least a little better.
I believe CX404 is supposed to mean "Canine eXperiment 404", as in the 404 HTTP error code for "page not found". Wilzig not just saved her, since she was below the weight threshold (see the sign in the beginning), but also hid her since she did not do well in training.
5:37 It's an Assaultron from RobCo. As the name suggest, it's a frontline war robot. Let's just say Lucy is lucky it was broken.
6:17 Vault Tec Plan D, as in for those who can't afford plan A, B, or C (like a place in a vault). They poisoned themselves to not die of radiation.
8:32 Or does he? :D
9:02 Cassette Futurism! Bringing us once again back to Alien.
30:05 Editing Jacqui must be laughing. Makes you wonder how the story would've gone if they did take his offer.
the bulk was liquid hence put in the food and drinks on the table. individual like Wilzig had was a pill.
there is a cartoon showing what b and c are. you were honestly better off with D than those options
The water filter chap is a perfect example of a random NPC encounter/dialogue in the game. In fact, there'd probably be a minor side-quest to find a widget for the filter. Lucy approaching while having (or forgetting) her gun is drawn is also a nod to players inevitable behaviour in-game.
The water filter is a reference to the main plot of the original Fallout where the whole reason for your character to leave the vault is that their only water filter broke down.
@@MotorbreathChannel no later on an episode has the water chip being remarked as broken. the water chip is the circuit board with vacuum tubes that regulates the water filtration system and monitors for contamination.
'Fallout' is my 2nd favorite series featuring Michael Emerson as a bespectacled man who knows more than he should and has a canine protector, and also is 'created' by Johnathan Nolan. My favorite in that very particular genre is 'Person of Interest.'
Truth! Every time people see him on Fallout they shout “Ben from Lost” and I say “Nope! That’s Finch!” 😂
I forgot to add 'walks with a limp' to that description. But seriously, that show is so underrated.
I always forget about that one. I must have seen a few episodes way back when, because I definitely remember the name "Finch" and that actor.
Time to see if I can find it again, I guess.
Wonderful to se you back! For what it's worth almost all of the music in the series is from either the Fallout 3 or Fallout 4 games. I may be a 57 year old former redhead woman, but the video games are a treat.
Welcome back.
I saw you take note of the end credit graphics.
When you watch the last episode, make sure to watch those end credits. It's important.
8:00 Fallout: New Vegas actually has a quest wherein you have to clear a cave of Rodents of Unusual Size. I tend to prioritize it because the quest reward - Ratslayer - is a pretty solid "walkin' around" rifle.
33:14 that mini-chainsaw device is called a Ripper. Good melee weapon.
Ignores armor in the games.
F4 (Far Habor dlc)'s The Harvester is absolutely OP! xD
Also speaking of gameplay parallels. Wilsig's first interaction with Lucy is peak Bethesda's games NPC: appears out of nowhere interrupting sleep, recites a philosophical plot foreshadowing monologue, refuses to elaborate further, leaves. 😆
"Oh is that an early prototype of the knight suit; is that what that was?"
No, it wasn't a power armor prototype, it was a non-functioning robot called an Assaultron ...and Lucy was very lucky that is was 'dead' because they are exceptionally dangerous.
yeah ngl, i fkn hate those things! i have acquired weapons, armour and strategy to the point where they are now a bit challenging sometimes but mostly just a nuisance but omg, i swear i have ptsd from my first few encounters with them. i curse the name Robert Edwin House!
Welcome back, Jacqui. It is such a joy to hear your on point comments and fun reactions again. I have missed your videos. I hope you and yours are as well as you can be. I am so excited to see the rest of your reactions and look forward to your next video!
It is so good to have you back, Jacqui. I hope you are doing better.
Welcome back. I hope you're feeling a little better, I know it must still be very difficult. Missed your reactions, but please take your time. Take good care. Great reaction as usual btw
welcome back!
The writing and the pacing in this show is incredible. As is the direction, the production, the casting, and the acting. Bravo to all involved.
Welcome back. You've been missed, and we're all glad to see you again.
I toyed around with the first Fallout game a bit, but was mostly clueless about the lore and such when I watched this myself. I enjoyed it immensely, and look forward to seeing your reactions to the rest of it.
What is INCREDIBLE is the opening shots in the desert are REAL. That's a REAL ship in the middle of the Namib desert. The town is a REAL abandoned town and they essentially had ONE take in many shots for her walking scenes.
At 5:36 that's not a power armor suit but an 'assaultron'. And yes, exactly what it suggests on the tin, a military combat robot.
I love that the series peppers these kinds of things throughout, very recognisable for those familiar, but also visually distinct and 'readable' enough that it helps the world building for those not familiar. (there are of course more obscure references too, but those are more often in the background)
07:27: "What in the nuclear cockroach!"
Yes, exactly.
07:59: Quality "Princess Bride" reference!
10:59: "The world is still pretty in some places. It still grows."
Yeah. . . it's the growing that's a problem. . .
12:03: "It's like a Jaeger vs. a Kaiju!"
Pacific Rim is always a win.
18:47: Nuka-Cola and two-headed cows are prominent things in the game, part of its overall black comedy.
22:31: Exactly, got it in one.
22:42: I don't know if it's from the games (more of a casual player), but I think the Ghoul is using gyrojet weapons. It was something that was really experimented with in the 60s and 70s, so roughil fitting the timeframe the game takes most of its inspiration from. Instead of a cartridge with propellant that ignites and pushes the bullet down the barrel, gyrojet weapons fired basically tiny, spin-stabilized rockets, and theoretically could have warheads in them, like explosives. From the slow-mo shots of the bullets, they look like they're using fins to generate spin to stabilize the round in-flight, and the explosive damage they deal would fit with what advancements in gyrojet weapons were speculated to be. Gyrojets in real life have pretty much died out, being so expensive and difficult to manufacture compared to regular ammunition. The remaining weapons are really only of interest to collectors, because no one makes gyrojet ammunition anymore, and any surviving ammunition most likely isn't safe to try and fire.
The games have a perk bloody mess as well as VATS targeted shots in slow motion which result in excessive gore in the games. The Ghoul can be assumed to have that perk, obviously explained in world with his ammo.
Bethesda especially Fallout is known for environmental storytelling. Each building, cave, room is a unique story rich vignette told with just the placement of objects. This shows pacing translates that feeling surprisingly well.
Well said. The games are absolutely packed with this kind of storytelling. And they're no less brutal than the graphic violence.
Stories of undying love (right up until or even after the bombs drop, of course), people losing their children and so many orphaned children, generosity and greed, jealousy and trust, bonding and betrayal, and a whole lot of madness.
And more than you'd care to know about Vault-Tec and the vaults.
Welcome back! You were missed!
Ramin Djawadi composed the sound for Fallout, Westworld, Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon. His signature is all over it
Fallout DID win an Emmy for Music Selection! ❤
Welcome back, Jacqui! Glad to hear that your break did you some good.
Fun fact! The director's summation of Lucy to Ella Purnell was "Female Ned Flanders (from the Simpsons) in the apocalypse."
Glad to see you back. Been worried about you. Youve been missed.
So great to have you back, we've missed you. Much love to you and yours.
Fantastic reaction as usual. This episode contains so many of my favorite moments of the whole season, like Lucy's conversation with the diapered Wastelander. So excited to see what you think of what's yet to come.
So glad you're back, your reactions are wonderful and so are you, hope for nothing but peace and happiness.
Glad my favorite reactor's back in action! 👍❤️ I don't remember if the dog gets named in the show, but everytime you get one in the games, they're called Dogmeat, lol.
Welcome back. Seeing this on my feed made me smile.
Thrilled for your return to YT and what a great episode to mark it!
The Ghoul would make a formidable opponent against John Wick but he did redeem himself.
Welcome back Jacqui! I am glad you took some time to rest and do what you needed to do. I'm glad you are enjoying Fallout. Also, you have the most beautiful teeth!
So happy to see you're back. Many of us have been keeping you in our thoughts.
Welcome back!! It's so nice to see your face again. I'm so very sorry for your family's loss.
I was trying to decide if I needed to play the game to get all of the bits to this show, but I think I will watch it through with you first and then play, because your reactions are too fun!
Sorry for your loss. I'm glad both that you were able to take the time off you needed and that you're back.
So glad you're back, l hope everything is ok with you.
The robot remains was an assaultron its a humanoid robot with a female inspired body and claw hands and a heavy laser beam canon in the centre of its face. There’s a terrifying version of it with sword hands and a cloaking device that you can encounter sometimes, I still remember my first encounter in Fallout 4 😅
Really happy to see you back on the air - and I hope you're doing as well as could be hoped.
Welcome back! So glad you've returned, as I've missed watching your videos. Looking forward to the Serenity vid!
Well well well, look who's back! I hope you're doing well, condolences about the loss, I know what it's like.
Welcome back Jacqui! We missed you - but don't ever think twice about taking whatever time you need.
I hope you are doing well. Glad to see you back. TH-cam has not been the same without you. I love every episode of this series. From the music choices to the look and feel of the show to the characters and the people who brought them to life. I have never played the game either, but the show is amazing. Lucy is my favorite character and I loved her journey, as well as the progression and growth of her character. Ella Purnell is amazing. I have been watching Walton Goggins act for years and, so far, The Ghoul is my favorite character I have seen him play. One thing I should find out that has me curious is where the creators of the game got the idea for Lucy's name, as she has the same first and last name of John's daughter in the Die Hard films.
Happy to see you back, hope everything is good and stay strong
5:39 that’s an Assaultron, a military combat robot made by RobCo Industries, a really pain in the ass when encountering in a higher difficulty
I'm happy to see you back. I hope all is well as possible and I'm looking forward to seeing what is to come. Again, Welcome back!
A lot of the game lore is represented in this show really well. All the cows that survived have two heads, the various monsters out in the wasteland, and of course the player perk "Bloody Mess" that causes more gore and damage in game.
I love Michael Emerson, i really enjoyed him in "Person of Interest"
Glad to see you're back! One of the funnier nods to the game is the terrible aim of the automated turrets!
Welcome back Jacqui. Missed you.
Glad to see you are back, Jacqui! We missed you! Most of the music is what you can hear in the game. If you listen to the correct channel on your Pip-boy.
And the little clip from the Emperor's New Groove was the best!
Welcome back Jacqui! Missed you.
Welcome back ❤
You're in for a treat with this series. Can't wait to see you react to the rest of the season!
I've only just stumbled onto your channel, but from some of these comments, i can tell you've been going through something. As someone who experienced it quite largely, then i can say that it does get a whole lot better. You can get past it and im sorry for your loss!
Welcome back, always love seeing your reactions. Since you constantly mentioned Westworld, I wish you did that show as well
Welcome back! Great to see that you've come through whatever was going on in your personal life, and I can't wait for the Serenity movie.
Glad to have you back. You were missed for sure. I pray you have found peace as dealing with loss is never easy regardless of who you are.
Been thinking of you during your mourning break. Welcome back. You've been missed.
Welcome back Jacqui. Hope things are better for you and your loved ones.
Welcome back! Glad you're still enjoying the show!
Welcome back!!!! I hope that things are if not good at least better.
Happy "Fallout Day" BTW. LOL! (Oct 23, 2077 bombs drop to start everything Fallout). The show is great and has lots for a newcomer BUT there is a great deal of "Easter Eggs" for the various fans. The "dog and the teddy" is just one of many.
The dog has a name. We all know it, so beware of spoilers. He's in every game. Always by our side.
So great to see you back and smiling. I hope you haven't forgotten about the Serenity movie. 😉Much love and keep on keepin on J.
Its lovely to have you back. I will say one thing as to your talk at the end of the episode in regards to exposition and showing and not telling. This is exactly what games, well good ones at least do, the "story" tells the story, but the unsaid things in the world build the world, i just wanted to point that out as a gamer for 40 years, you are coming at it at a very different angle to someone like me who has enjoyed, films, TV, and games all there lives, nothing good or bad there, just perspectives, and really good games are the best media at showing not telling that we have, when done well of course. As for the music its all legacy music of the 50s, and a lot of it was licensed for the games, so the people who went into this knowing what to expect, got what they expected.
Oh and also, game direction to those things is more difficult as the player/viewer has control of the camera and can literally look away and miss this stuff "like the dead end sign in this ep" so this show while adhering to film conventions, is also very much nodding at the gamers too, its a really good and subtle mix.
SO many people ask the question about the Sentry Gun not killing Wilsig and CX-404. It looks to me that those guns are based on the Navy's CIWS guns, and they are notoriously inaccurate. They are last line of defense systems to protect ships from incoming missiles, and the idea is just to put as much metal into the air as possible so that the missile might hit one of the bullets and that is enough to rip apart a missile in flight. It doesn't surprise me that they cant hit a target as small as a man that close. At least, that's the way I think of it.
Glad to see you back. Hope things continue to get better for you!
Welcome back! I hope evrything worked out for you and your family after the loss . . .
Glad you're back, hope everything is going well. Your reactions are terrific.
I'm very happy you're back and I hope you're well!!!
One of the coolest things of this series is how they use the game tropes and make them feel natural to this world. Not many shows have done that successfully before. The stim packs, oversized equipment of soldiers, the foot prosthetic etc etc.
The ship in the desert is, the Eduard Bohlen. It ran aground in a thick fog, on the Skeleton Coast of Namibia, in Southwest Africa, in 1909. Over the last 100+ years, the blowing sand has pushed the shoreline out so far, the ship is now 1300 feet inland.
The buildings are in a town, abandoned in the early 50's, called Kolmanskop. The blowing sand has reclaimed a lot of the buildings.
Welcome back, nice to see your reactions again! You praise the song collection, these are actual songs from the games :)
I forget if someone mentioned this in the first episode, but this show doesn't spoil any of the games and vice versa. The games and this show are set in the same world with the same factions (organizations), but are completely different story lines. We haven't had much yet, but coming up there are a bunch of flashbacks for the Ghoul, really helps understand his backstory and the backstory of the world.
It is so great to have you back Jacqui! We missed you dear! 😊♥
21:55 each vault's junpsuits has their vault number on the back. He knows about which of the local ones are a meritocracy and which are... not.
Damn its been 3 weeks since the last video hope she's alright.
Sorry for your loss; glad to have you back after your absence. Been waiting for more fallout!
Emperor's New Groove clip was chef's kiss love that movie.