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Ella Purnell/Lucy/Jinx also voices one of the women in the pyramid in the running joke/gag scene in the last episode of Invicible season 2 (the one that says, “that’s sexist” to the mummy ghost guy).
Yeah the bombs dropped in 2077. The reason for the 50s asthetic is this version of our world didnt develop microprocessors (or rather didnt focus on them as much as nuclear power) so technology didn't get thinner and smaller like ours did. So it kept the 50s look despite being more advanced than ours.
I think you're the first reactor I watched that immediately knew what the Junk Jet was without already knowing about it ("a makeshift weapon. you just fire anything at them").
The unique aspect of the Fallout series is its anthology-like format. Each game is a self-contained story, set in a different part of the American Wasteland, and featuring a new protagonist. This allows you to dive into any Fallout game as your first experience and still be fully immersed in the narrative, without needing any prior knowledge of the series. Fallout 1, set in 2162, and Fallout 2, set in 2241, are intricately linked. In the latter, you play as the great-grandchild of the Vault Dweller, the protagonist of the first game. The map of the southern part of the game also features locations from the first game, but set over 60+ years later. I'd argue that these two games are really the only ones with a strong connection. Fallout 3 is the first modern Fallout. Set in 2277, it moves to the East Coast to the Capital Wasteland (D.C. area and surrounding States). Thanks to the considerable distance between the settings, it's less connected to the first two games, but factions that can travel long distances do show up. For the most part, Fallout 3 is its own thing. Fallout New Vegas built upon the Fallout 3 engine released just two years later. Set in 2281, just four years after Fallout 3, It moves back to the West Coast to the Mojave Wasteland surrounding the city of New Vegas and branching into States like California, Nevada, and Arizona. New Vegas is connected more to the first two games, featuring many of the same factions and references primarily to Fallout 2, set just 40 years before New Vegas. Finally, Fallout 4, set in 2287, moves back to the East Coast, set within the Commonwealth, former The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, featuring Boston as a significant location. It's set just ten years after Fallout 3 and has a ton of nods and references to the events of that game, featuring many of the same factions and even characters who made the travel from D.C. to Boston. A side mission in Fallout 3 also mentioned The Commonwealth, hinting at the following location for a Fallout game years before we knew Fallout 4 was even being made. This brings us to the Fallout T.V. series, set in 2296, 10 years after Fallout 4 and 15 years after Fallout New Vegas. The series brings us back to the West Coast, surrounding L.A., a location that last appeared in Fallout 1 in 2161, over 130 years before the events of the T.V. show.
Forgot mention Fallout Tactics which came after first 2 and uses same engine but has also a real time mode option and is a squad based tactical game like UFO series or Warhammer Chaos Gate series and it is about Brotherhood of Steel trying expand and deal with threats.
@22:32 I think the premise is that they have analogue radio, but not fax machines. An artist's sketch can be broken down into a grid of squares assigned row and column numbers. That can be passed on with voice audio, or even Morse code over long range HF radio.
Yeah, they have some very high technology, but it’s just what they’ve scavenged, maybe repaired, but there’s no large scale manufacturing going on, and no intact infrastructure to replicate all the many things that we take for granted, like high-speed communications, data transfer, etc. That method of replicating a picture that someone has the original of, but hundreds of miles away, is very smart.
This show takes place in the same continuity as the series of games, but it takes place after the events of every game that has released so far, and the main characters aren’t from the games. It matches the tone perfectly and reveals a lot of great lore for the series, but it’s all new story. The guy who dug up the ghoul said the ghoul was pulled out of the grave once a year for 30 years, not every 30 years. You may want to listen to what the ghoul says at the end: “We cowpokes, we take it as it comes.” Did you notice someone else say that earlier in the episode? 👍
@@the-nomad-show I guess if you're not a big Walton Goggins (the Ghoul's actor) fan like me, that can happen. 😂 To me, his voice is just too recognizable.
The concept for the games is 200 odd years after a nuclear war that happened in 2077, but a 2077 as Americans of the 1950s imagined the future would be like - talking robots, nuclear powered trains and vehicles, laser guns and everyone able to live in smart suburban houses living on the income of one 40 hr a week job, and the USA still being Number 1. So all the anachronisms are intentional. The games have pretty good politics, in the pre-war USA they depict, which I think was originally intended as a satirical parody of real world America, but has since come to seem more like a documentary of how bad it's getting and where the warmongering is going.
I'm surprised some people don't recognize the Ghoul is also the Cowboy. His voice and accent are exactly the same and, other than missing his nose and some flesh, he looks pretty much the same. Also... still wearing his cowboy hat. You're not the only ones, some others didn't realize it until episode 2 either. Yay!! This will be really fun. Not sure you guys are gamers or not (thinking not) but this series is based on a series of video games going back nearly twenty-five years. Lots of dark humor in this. Someone also mentioned the series "Silo" which is also a bunker based post-apocalyptic story which you would absolutely love. Little humor in it and very dark but so very good. It is based on a series of best selling books: "Wool," "Rust," and "Dust??" The books were excellent and the series did a great job of recreating the universe. (NOT A SPOILER) As far as the "Raiders," they really aren't a faction. It's just a general term for "pirates" or just violent criminals on the surface. They may be organized or unorganized individuals but they don't really have a common agenda other than killing you and taking your stuff. "Vault Dwellers," "The Brotherhood of Steel," and others yet to be shown, can be considered actual factions with actual agendas.
The Fallout series has been near and dear to my heart for well over a decade at this point. In the first year and a half of its release I clocked 450 hours into Fallout 3. I've watched countless video essays on the game series over the years. When Lola said "Even though it's been like 219 years it still has the vibes of the '60s", I just grinned ear to ear. To see our girls seeing the Fallout universe for the first time, going in completely blind, it's a dream come true.
One of my favorite shows this year for me, while having a comedic tone its very dramatic at the same time with a deep storyline that will keep you wanting more every episode.
If you guys love this show you need to watch Yellowjackets . It also stars Ella Purnell and while not technically apocalyptic I would say crashing in the middle of nowhere and having to survive has a similar vibe
Have fun with the Fallout series. If anyone is interested, the show producers built a full mock-up of the "Filly" wasteland village in Austin, Texas, in March to promote the show at the SXSW Festival. It was free to attend and I got a Vault 33 pin, real Nuka Cola, got to shoot junk shooters, saw all the real show props, talked to actors and even had a PipBoy app on my phone. Check out photos online of the event if interested.
Very happy you’re doing this series, looking forward to the rest of your reactions! The injection Lucy healed herself with is called a stimpack, which is how you heal yourself in the game. Very advanced and can heal almost anything (but not radiation, which requires something else). I’m very impressed at how fast you were picking up on everything from a totally blind start. 👍. Especially since the tone is so odd due to being a retro-futuristic post-apocalyptic show. But they nailed the tone from the games. A lot of the comedy comes from the exaggerated “innocence” That comes along with the 50s vibe. Which does make this show weirdly optimistic at times for a show after a nuclear war. But that’s the charm of the series’ tone.
@@rubenlopez3364actually it’s the opposite. Before the bombs dropped he was putting on a more basic accent to fit in with the “normal” people around him. The ghoul accent is his natural accent
51:18 Yeah, Christopher Nolan (the guy who mad the "Oppenheimer" movie)'s brother Jonathan Nolan (who also was involved in making the show "West World") is involved in making this show. Interesting that both brothers made something nuklear bomb centric around a similar time.
I dont know about you guys but I loved the fight scene between Lucy and her husband. I was like here we go girl boss moment, then he punted her across the room like a sack of potatoes lol Thats exactly what it supposed happen when a girl her size picks a fight with a guy his size. That was a great scene. :)
Happy to see you guys watching this series! The Fallout franchise has been near and dear to many of us for so many years, and it's awesome to see more people being introduced to it now through this extremely well-done tv adaptation. Allow me to explain a few things without spoiling anything so you can have a better understanding of the setting the story takes place in. You can think of the Fallout universe as an alternate dimension that runs parallel to ours with all the same events happening throughout our history, but with its timeline diverging from the world we know sometime in the 1940s-50s. A major divergence event is the invention of the transistor. In the Fallout timeline, the transistor was either never invented or rather, it was invented but was never innovated into the mainstream, whereas in our world, the advent of the transistor was the catalyst for technology to follow a more conventional, commercialized route. It enabled a rapid miniaturization of technology, paving the way for tech to focus more on helping the everyday citizen. Because this didn't happen in the Fallout universe, innovation continued to rely on vacuum tube technology, and all sectors focused more heavily on developing weapons and supplying the arms race that would come with the ensuing cold war. Technology followed the route that people thought it would back in the 50s and 60s, creating the retro-futuristic style you see on screen. In the year 2077, they might have floating household helper robots and fancy hovercars but their TVs are still blocky and black and white, and they don't have the internet. Due to these various differences and the west being unable to become more economically dependent, the cold war never really ended, and the threat of nuclear war continued to manifest for an additional century. However, a major difference is that in the year 2077, it is China that is the world communist superpower, not the USSR. I urge you guys to watch through the credits zoom-out sequences. They provide a little peak into the post-war environment.
Fallout, both the show and game are in the style of Retro-Futurism. Basically an alternative universe that is not what we thought the future was going to look like, but what people in the 50s and 60s thought the future was going to look like. There is a lot of explanations in games on why this world developed the way it did on their alternative timeline.
Due to the Cold War, 1950 - 1990, in the United States our military built several bunkers. The two fallout bunkers that are declassified are Cheyenne Mountain and Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia. You can look these two up. The other Bunkers are still classified.
Such a great first reaction to Fallout. It's so enjoyable hearing your thoughts and theories about what's happening when you have little information to work with. I look forward to watching you put the pieces together in the coming episodes of this fantastic show. 😁👍
I love the first few minutes of you just chatting and wondering what this could all be about... knowing what's coming it just increased my anticipation for the journey you are about to take!
There are 122 Vaults all over the USA. Lower numbers seem to be around California and Nevada (towards the west coast). Higher numbers appear to be around Washington DC, Massachussetts and Maine (east coast). There might be more unofficial ones, however.
You ladies raise some excellent questions. The show will answer many of your queries, while others will remain unanswered until perhaps Season 2. But I believe you will both become Fallout experts by the end of the series without having played the games. Remember too that this series story is brand new even for long time Fallout Gamers since most of the events occur long after the video game events (excluding the flashbacks). One could almost nickname this show as "Fallout 5".
I started to watch the show without knowing anything about Fallout and never being interested in the franchise, and I ended up enjoying the show very much.
29:18 Idk if you remember, but the priest of the Brotherhood of Steel is the same actor that was the CEO of E-Corp in Mr. Robot. I love his performance here!
I'm so happy to see you two react to this! In your past videos, you've brought some exceptional insights, and have such wonderful emotional intelligence. I've been playing the Fallout games since they came out (and floppy disks were still a thing) and thought this series was so well done. I eagerly await your take on it! Keep up the amazing work!
You two will really enjoy the "Shogun" series as well. It is a piece of artwork on television. And the actress playing Lucy is the voice actress for Jinx. That young actress at the beginning was absolutely fabulous. Her scared look just made me want to grab and hug her.
The Fallout universe is an alternate world where: 1. The Cold War NEVER stopped raging on as openly as in the mid 1900s 2. Microprocessors/Microchips never got developed So, in 2077, while most technology is more advanced (nuclear vehicles and buildings, laser guns, mech suits, etc) stuff like televisions, telephones, computers, etc, still required big bulky builds to run, and so those didn't advance nearly as fast as our tech did. Also the 1950s/60s fashion just NEVER stopped, since the cultural times never really changed outside of equality among races (unless you're one of the REDS)
Ironically, its also a universe where there are no Fallout video games, nor any other 3D or isometric RPG based games. Nor does this universe have any hockey games or football games or arenas. In fact, it does not even have musical instruments (save for one violin in a FO3 quest). I thought it would have been very funny if Lucy had been playing a Fallout video game in her Vault early in the episode.
Now you are young, to those of us growing up during The Cold War that intro is what we feared would happen- every day. But we lived our lives. When I teach my The History of The Cold War classes, I always start by showing them a five minute video of nuclear explosions with eerie music, to make your generation understand what it all was- and what you will have to get used to again with Putoloni's sabre-rattling (though he is too much of a coward to do it). During the Cold War, the USSR was planning to open the war by dropping 600+ merely on my little Denmark. The game is set in an alternative timeline, where the transistor was never invented, so everything used vacuum-tubes like early computers. And thus the timeline starts diverging from ours in the year after WW2, and progress is generally much slower. But there is also no Cuban Missile Crisis, Long Island, etc, and no reckoning with its past, so the US carries on in a sort of Truman-Eisenhower Superamerica with nuclear powered cars, etc. But in the 21st century fossil fuels and other resources starts running out, and The Resource Wars starts; where Europe, Africa and The Middle East is torn apart, and China invades Alaska to get the last remaining oil resource on the planet. And in 2077... Boom. And oh yea, the US turns authoritarian semi-Fascist, a bit like Starship Troopers. The Brotherhood has fallen back in that tradition after a couple of good and humanitarian leaders, and become the SS of the Fallout Universe. Anyway, think of the game and series as set in a sort of retro-futuristic post apocalypse, IE a future as imagined in the fifties, but then add a nuclear exchange of superpowers. In the games you find all those tragic and dark stories as you explore the Wasteland, the series show them, but both do a very good job of what good SciFi should; holding up a dark mirror to humanity- and with Fallout it is really dark.
Love seeing your introduction to the Fallout Universe. I can understand that it's confusing when you don't have any experience with the video games, but I think the show does a decent job of explaining things. You just have to be patient.
Your actually not wrong. Several factions in the games have discovered that surface humans have evolved over the last 200 or so years to be more resiliant to radiation, and even to have stronger bones than the "pure humans" who spend generations underground
Series essentials without spoiling anything, The year in the show is 2296 and takes place in the same timeline as the games but is the furthest story line in the time line of events of the Fallout universe. Lucy is a vault dweller. A bunch of vaults were constructed before the war to house those financially able enough to purchase a home within them for their family. She's the descendant of the survivors and as vaults go hers is a rather good one and she's an excellent byproduct of underground living as it was intended. Maximus is member of the Brotherhood of Steel. The Brotherhood is a surviving group of humans that were once a large military unit and their families from California that survived the war by taking shelter in a reinforced underground military bunker. They're a technology cult that hoard technology because they believe humanity will doom itself to oblivion if allowed to use technology in irresponsible ways that will domino effect to a nuclear war all over again. They once ruled the California wasteland but, fell on hard times after a series of conflicts with the human settlements that were already developing on the surface. They are being supported by that massive airship you see which came from their Eastern chapter on the East coast(the Eastern chapter is explained if you play the games Fallout 3 and 4). The Ghoul is...a survivor. Ghouls specifically are humans that survived the war by sheer luck. The radiation of the Fallout of the war didn't kill them but instead made them somewhat immortal but the trade off is explained in this show and if you play, well, practically any of the Fallout games. Also, don't worry about not knowing that much about the games, the franchise, or the lore. This is an original story set in the timeline of that world after all of the games so you're getting a unique look into the world of Fallout and it's told in a way that even non-fans can sort of understand what's going on. It's not going to Mandalorian season 2 you with a bunch of lore details and references you won't understand without context. It's pretty cut and dry...of course, for us in the know there's a lot of issues, debate, and questions but, that's for us to worry and nerd out over.
As you know this show is from a popular video game series. And that series was inspired by the 1975 sci-fi film, "A Boy and His Dog". About an post-apocalyptic future which takes place in the year 2024. Like the show the film has underground dwellers, and violence, and raiders, and very dark humor. This TV series will slyly reference the film by posters and comments about "A Man and his Dog".
I’m really happy people are getting into the Fallout universe. Although it’s a little bit difficult to get into because there’s a lot of lore from the video games. So, unless you played them, it might not necessarily be clear what’s happening.
The first Fallout came out in 1997, the first iPhone and thus the first smartphone came out in 2007, Fallout theoretically predicted smartphones with the Pipboys.
The last series reaction I saw with you was better call Saul, I'm back to say that you don't need to have played the games to love the series and this universe. I love your reaction girls, hugs from Brazil. ❤
Not quite in the 60's Our world and the Fall Out world share a common history up until approximately World War 2. The two worlds diverged at this point with our world going down a path of development in computers and microprocessors and the Fall Out world going down a path where advancements were in nuclear science and robotics.
This show like a 'whodunnit' mystery, because every detail, comment, hint and action is there for a reason and has an explanation. Extremely well-written, I hope you enjoy. SO many game references, in-jokes and foreshadowing to later events going on at all times.
In real life most radioactive fallout would fade out in around a month, but there could still radioactive contamination for much longer. But this is fictional, so real life gets thrown out.
I believe you ladies have mentioned before that you’ve seen ‘Westworld’ 🤠🤖 it’s the same show runners (Christopher Nolan’s brother, Jonah & his wife Lisa Joy, along with Ramin Djawadi that did the music for Game of Thrones) 🙌🔥🍻
I don't know exactly how requests go, but may I just say, "Silo" is absolutely amazing and I thoroughly recommend it if it's not already in your pool of future shows. It also has a similar feel to Fallout, so it would feel even more comfortable to watch it after Fallout.
Yaaaaay! Some background lore no spoilers... they are in a universe veey similar to ours. But it changed in yhe 1950s when we went into a cold war with china. Our real universe saw more peacetime so we developed microchips and micro capacitors yo eventually make cell phones, computers, internet, etc etc. Their universe in war time focused on nuclear technology. This is why their universe works on nucelar power and all the technology is so big. Its a reflection of what we thought the future would look like back in the 50s. So the bombs drop in 2077, already in the future. Then we go 215 years further into the future.
38:21 Fallout is equally serious as it is funny A LOT of moral dilemma goes on, very rare for storylines to be black-and-white in who's good and who's bad, usually all shades of gray
SO excited to see you two watch this one. I've sadly not been terribly interested in the selection of stuff y'all have been reviewing for some time now but Fallout is a great journey to join you for.
Best series decision was to lean into the logic of games and not try to make it realistic. The needle Lucy uses is called a stimpac and it restores your health, like in a game. The brotherhoods equipment is all scavenged Pre-war technology so they do not have any way to transmit pictures other than by telegraph. Norm is my favorite character by the end. People are still alive because the bombs used were like the ones dropped in World War 2, and the cities in Japan that were bombed are still inhabited. The bag is a joke from the game where you have your companion carry all your inventory items. As I recall , Some of the surface people are from the Vaults, the first game says the residents of vault 115 left their vault only 100 years after the war.
you guys should REALLY check Twin Peaks out if you haven't!! It is a truly excellent, influential, iconic show. Lucy's dad plays the lead character in that show and he is GREAT!
If there was ever a post-apocalypse show to be recommend, it would be Station Eleven on HBO. Won't get a lot of views as a reaction, but it is truly one of the best shows to be made in the past 20 years.
The Brotherhood of Steel is a religious order, like the crusaders. I don’t think it’s any more of a cult than any other religion. The squire school is even run like a catholic school. 😅 Maximus has grown up in a militaristic religious order and is apparently not a good student. You gals are going to have so much fun getting your questions answered. This show is very good about slowly paying out the answers (if you pay attention!) while creating new mysteries. Fallout is actually a morality tale. It’s not a simple good vs evil story, but rather about how a person’s morals and ethics are tested by cold harsh reality. Or how a person develops morals when they haven’t been brought up with them and they are thrown out into the world. Or how a good person loses their goodness. These are are crucial questions to each of us, whether we recognize it or not. And it’s what makes the series so compelling to me. It’s high stakes stuff. “How do we survive with some part of our better selves intact?” is a much more interesting question than “How do we survive?”.
I think Lola needs to be on the board of a corporation. As for getting rid of people when they can't have children anymore. There's an old movie called "Logan's Run". Post apocalyptic world where people have a pretty easy life but once you turn 30 you have to go to the "Carrousel" supposedly to get reborn. Another post apocalyptic movie you should check out is "Soylent Green" a pretty intriguing ending.
I know pin point when you are talking about and yes I 💯 agree, fallout is what I been looking for a long time, no zombie or climate stuff straight up radioactive stuff
Watching someone react to the Fallout tv show who has never played the video game. While I'm playing Fallout 4. lol. Pay really close attention to what the characters are saying in this show.
I know you both are going to love this. Can't wait to see your reactions for all of us who follow you. So have fun. And stay well. Now I'm going to see your action to episode 1.