Welcome to the Starter Town! - Fallout Season 1 Eps 2 Reaction 

The turret shooting right at them but missing felt like a true nod to how easy it is to avoid them in the game

The joke that banana flavored cyanide being the most humane thing Vault-Tec ever made is absolutely hilarious and too true

Jonathan Nolan wanted the show out all at once. He eluded to reddit being your worst enemy if you do it episodic. They come up with theories/get mad when the theories dont come true. Fallout has a hardcore fanbase, so i think they did the right thing

Lucy represents a good person playthrough. Maximus represents a Neutral persons playthrough, And the Ghoul represents a Bad person playthrough. Imo

I didn't notice this but The ghoul calls them "Tomatoes" instead of tatos like everyone else in the wasteland, he was around with the normal fruit

"This is an act of bravery" as knight Titus running away, like a coward

Walter Goggins said in an interview not that long ago that he didn't base his performance of the ghoul on anything from previous fallout games. He based his performance on old westerns like John Wayne and Clint Eastwood and it works SO SO WELL in my opinion. Because if you really think about it Fallout IS pretty much a sci fi western

Michael Emerson who played the doctor worked with show runner Jonathan Nolan on a great show called Person Of Interest a decade ago, he played a genius scientist who walked with a limp and had a Belgian Malinois to protect him. And for Fallout he played a genius scientist who walked with a limp and had a Belgian Malinois to protect him.🤣🤣🤣

"I just got Filly.. it's a landfill" OH! Well I've seen more than a dozen reactions to this episode so far and you're the first to mention that, it makes so much sense! I had no idea lol.

Adam literally saying "Im a cat person" while holding up Cat Dad mug is just.. so perfect

Also the stimpak and jet made the exact sounds from the game. In this one when the dog gets up from the stimpak i swears its the exact animation dogmeat has when you revive him in game.

"Had an aunt, she got killed there once" fantastic line

I don’t think Maximus is the opposite of Lucy, they’re more like different sides of the same coin. They’re both naive and idealistic, it just manifests in different ways due to their different upbringings.

22:49 - You don't destroy Vault Boy bobble heads, you collect them for bonuses.

There are several significant dogs in the Fallout series. Most of them are called Dogmeat. The only robot dog I’m aware of is Rex from New Vegas.

Cool fact about the filly set, they build the set of filly in Texas and invited a bunch of Fallout Content creators and the cast for a special showing before it opened to the public.

Fun fact the ship Lucy encounters in the beginning of this episode is a real wreck in Namibia.

Coop was not interested in killing '404. He just didn't want her to kill him. Thus, the StimPack after the fight was over.

The Ghoul is playing a V.A.T.S. build, clearly.

The delivery on the chicken line gets me every time

I was grinning ear to ear when she walked into Filly and it looked so much like Megaton. Took me back to playing fallout 3 for the first time and just wandering exploring everything discovering the world.

Ahh, the famous Conclave

"enclave" and "conclave" have similar etymological roots, but a conclave is a locked room private meeting, and an enclave is a territory surrounded by another state in every direction.

You know they nailed this show. When the biggest complaint is dumping all the episodes at once

Things do hit different when you're a dad. Situations involving kids or families used to just illicit a sympathetic reaction of sadness in a "Aww, that's a shame." sort of way. After kids it's hits home harder and your brain easily superimposes you and your family into those situations and your brain prompts you with "WHAT WOULD YOU DO???" I think Hemingway sums it up best, "When you have a child the world has a hostage"

Michael Emerson must be getting expensive if they couldn't afford more than his head for most of the season.

It's so funny reading Walton Goggins' latest interview about everyone saying his name wrong, and now seeing pretty much every react channel prove his point lmao

if y'all like michael emerson you should *totally* watch person of interest. its 5 seasons of pure fun with a slow burn scifi twist. Emerson really gets to flex his acting chops in it. its an cult classes series.

To answer your question from first episode the Brotherhood do indeed exist on the West Coast. The group was founded by Roger Maxson a captain within the U.S Army who was sent to monitor a West-Tek facility in California on January 3, 2076. A year later on January 7, 2077 all West-Tek personal along with Maxson and his team included were relocated to the newly constructed Mariposa Military Base just south east of San Francisco. On On October 10, 2077, Maxson and his men discovered that West-Tek scientists were using military prisoners as test subjects for the Forced Evolutionary Virus (F.E.V.) in hopes of creating Super Soldiers but ended up giving birth to the Super Mutants. Maxson had the research team executed for their crimes and declared his desertion from the United States Army via radio on October 20 just three days before the Great Way. Maxson and his fellow soldiers moved their families into the Military and then three days later the Great War broke out. By November 2077 Maxson eventually led his band of survivors to the safety of Lost Hills which would become the home of the Brotherhood of Steel. The Brotherhood of Steel would later spread across America decades later forming their own chapters with differing ideas such as the East Coast BOS you meet in Fallout 3 who took on the goal of helping the wastelanders over collecting tech. They also hire wastelanders as well into the ranks of the BOS something the West Coast refuse to do. This led the West Coast to cut contact with the East Coast Brotherhood of Steel after differing ideals. By the events of Fallout New Vegas the West Coast Brotherhood of Steel were limited in numbers with many in hiding thanks to the NCR coming to power and hunting them down. By Fallout 4 set in 2287 (9 years before the show) Arthur Maxson began Elder of the East Coast BOS sometime after Fallout 3 post 2277 bringing the ideals of the original Brotherhood of Steel back. He made contact with the West Coast by promising to return to the main mission of the Brotherhood of Steel and the other Elders welcomed him with open arms. The Brotherhood of Steel in this show seem much closer to the East Coast BOS. They fly the East Coast BOS flag, there's a massive airship that I personally believe to be from the East Coast. And the Knights wear T-60 power armour something we see Knights wear in Fallout 4 thanks to the BOS discovering a stockpile of T-60 Power Armour sometime after Fallout 3. Also seems that that the East Coast are still in contact with the West as the orders to hunt down the target came from the Commonwealth, Boston. Setting of Fallout 4 and where the East Coast BOS travelled too from D.C on a mission involving a new faction. I imagine that Airship is from the East Coast and is filled with equipment found on the East Coast including the T-60 power armour. We know Max had a flashback to a Knight in T-60 so I imagine they've been here for a while on the West Coast, maybe even before the events of Fallout 4. Once Arthur became Elder they could've sent out a few airships to meet up with the older chapters.

Maxamis with some Vintage Heath Ledger energy, we gonna find out he’s actually descended from a Knightly lineage 😎 He’s been weighed and measured!

OMG I just realized... At the standoff in Filly, Maximus's gun got shot out of his hand. I've seen this episode several times and I always thought he just fumbled it. lmao It's really subtle, but you can see and hear the bullet hit it.

Maximus grew on me 100x faster once I realized that he's basically a stand-in for the player.

I saw an interview with Purnell (Lucy). Most of what we see as derelict stuff is practical, including the skeletal ship in the desert. It was shot on what is called the Skeleton Coast in Namibia.

I totally forgot that your companions always get back up after combat... Explains how a health stim cured all that damage. And comes right back in 'default standing animation'.

Seeing who was playing the Knight immediately made me think of him going: "Maximus! Maximus! Look at this fuckin bear!"

What sadistic monster makes a prosthetic that grinds your injured limb to a bloody point and then does not cauterize or tamponade the bleeding?!?!? Doc was gonna bleed out well before they made it twenty miles.

Prior to watching I'm going to guess that Adam can get another musical right today, keep the streak alive

My favorite sound in the show is the grenade launcher FOOMP of The Ghouls four barrel 40k bolter.

I think the turret also represents that 70% of the things in the fall out universe are more designed to look good rather than to actually be super effective. Everything but the nukes. Their success rate was pretty high.😂

CX404 is the most awesome and adorable dog ever.

The Ghoul has to have the Bloody Mess perk :D This is an absolute amazing game adaption, they even have the same type of ambiant background music. It is so damn impressive.

Barv was an underrated character 😂😂

This episode really showcased the series choice to use the factions and grey morality of the original games, paired with the environmental story telling of the Bethesda games. Oh, also the starter town in Fallout 3 is Megaton. The villain(ish) woman's name is Maltese Falcon, named after the ship that Indiana Jones flew in Star Trek.

I'm playing these games since 1998, so I am pretty sure you're talking about the Enclave, but the conclave would be fun too, post apoc cardinals running around being eaten by Deathclaws could be interesting 😊

I LOST MY SHIT at The Princess Bride cut, thank you for the laugh!

This episode get's 1 out of 1 leg pencil sharpener.

Maximus and Lucy is basically everything Fin and Rey should have been.

The shop lady played the crazy cat lady in Jeepers Creepers.

Jay, your singing voice is wonderful!

One day, Barv will get to enjoy her beans in peace.

"How does he know she is from Vault 33?" Well, one possibility might be the foot tall "33" on the back of her jumpsuit. Or, maybe the same way he knows her name.

This episode got 1 out of 1 ornery Yao Guais (yes, this is that they named the irradiated bears, because bad puns were essential in the 90s😂). I just finished the series last night with the wife (I’m a massive fan, she is a fan by association) and there is SO MUCH FAN SERVICE in the last few episodes that it had me doing the Di Caprio “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” meme every few minutes. But not only that, it’s a beautifully crafted story for people who enjoy genre fiction like this as well, which is why it’s such a great series. And without spoiling things - I’m absolutely certain they wrote this series assuming they’d get another one greenlit! Can’t wait to see you two go through the journey 😊

The desert scenes are shot in Namibia, it was actually the first set location that Nolan had in mind when he left the meeting with Howard when they first got together to discuss making the show.

"please don't let anything happen to this dog"

LANDFILL, my stupid head was like, "this Philadelphia looks weird" lmao

That Fallout 3 town with the nuke in the center of it was Megaton. I always disarm, with the exception of one time where I just wanted to see what would happen.

20:55 crazy how Lucy and Maximus have very similar traits but the guys see the opposite

Walton Goggins said it was super practical. Namibia and utah.

Some of the characters definitely have that Bloody Mess perk.

Part of this was shot in Namibia which is NW of South Africa.

I think the turret gun missing is probably make fun of a glitch or something.

Im excited for this man. Its up there with my all time favorites. Episode 6 has a moment that made me almost cry. I wont ruin it but the nostalgia hit like a brick to the face.

You guys are going to love the rest of the season. There are already new players up the wazoo on 76. It's a nice thing to see.

Megaton!!! That’a what Filly reminded you of. For me it gave me Diamond City vibes from Fallout 4 with less people.

I think the perfect video game adaptation works so well for the game designers, because if you watch the show you want to play the games. After finishing the show I loaded up fallout 3 so fast hahaha (I haven't played it in 10 years).

Adam holding a 'cat dad' mug just before the puppy incinerator scene is absolutely everything.

Look like Ghoul have Bloody Mess (perk)

The Troy kickpuncher edit was top tier.

Adam looked as skeeved out as I felt when Maximus was putting the groin guard back on!

The Ghoul obviously chose Better Criticals and Bloody Mess as Perks.

That was Rapaport cast as himself under a different name. I'm not a wastelander and I would have made the same move.

Pirates of the Carrabin edit was dope lol

I don't believe this is a spoiler. But in this episode we hear the shopkeeper say that her client is Moldaver, so we can assume Wilzig (now headless man) knows that is where he is going. If he knows that she took Lucy's dad, then he would know who Lucy is because she is a Vault Dweller that is trying to find Moldaver to get her dad back. Least that was my reading of the situation.

The machine gun at the start missed cause it used the VATS. Never use VATS with the minigun, you'll never hit a shot. What a noob turret.

i know a lot of people do the whole Lucy is a good run, Max is a neutral run, Ghoul is an evil run. but on top of that, it really feels like a nice mix of different playstyles. Lucy feels like a new player, and is running a sort of social skills build, and attempting to avoid combat, but is otherwise playing a very straightforward first runthrough. Max tied himself to a faction, and is playing a pretty combat-focused playstyle, focused on power armor combat, but isnt quite great at the game. The Ghoul is a veteran player, running a VATS build, heavily themed, and is playing around with some of the weirder mechanics like chems, the Survival skill stuff, and some of the more wild perks.

Those clips were great alongside the show, so funny!

"im a cat guy" proceeds to drink cat dad mug, MARRY ME lmao, but no really never change dude xD

I've been to Namibia in south-west Africa back in 1997, and when I saw the scenes inside the abandoned houses half-buried in sand I went "Wait, did they actually film this in Kolmanskop?" The larger scenic aerial shot is obviously doctored with CGI, but the inside of those early 20th century houses is pretty iconic from photographs. Kolmanskop (Afrikaans for "Coleman's peak", German: Kolmannskuppe) is a ghost town in the Namib in southern Namibia, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) inland from the port town of Lüderitz at the Skeleton Coast. (So named for the skeletons of many ships that stranded there over the past centuries, not for human skeletons.) You drive right by it on the road to Lüderitz, but the ghost town of Kolmanskop is restricted area and not normally open to tourists unless you get a special permit. That hasn't stopped the local youth from Lüderitz going there in the evening for secret parties. Many years ago photographers from National Geographic got a permit to film there, for an article on how the sand dunes are slowly burying the ghost town, with the inside of rooms half full of blown sand.

if you dont know fallout you get a cupcake, if you do. You get spinkles.

Love the show and the reaction but what made me laught most was "I'm Kickpuncher..." lol

Yep i watched it all in one day. The only knowledge i had about fallout was from buying merch bits for my son as it was his favourite game.

5:40 “kill” had me cackling 💀

You are exactly right. I did not play the game and knew nothing about it. After watching the series I want to buy the games now. This was excellent.

Maximus reminds me of what one of you said (I think Jay) about Walker in Falcon and the Winter Soldier...I trust him to do the right thing but not 100% of the time. I think he wants to be in a position where he can do something about bullies, rude, wanting to hurt others. In the first episode when he was talking to his friend who was supposed to go, they pointed or nodded at one of the bullies. I think he could go either way. Determined and desperate to prove himself or wanting to believe the brotherhood are supposed to be good, but his choices can go either or and he'll probably find a way to justify it. It will be interesting to see how this plays out, I've never played the game. Honestly, I haven't had a game console since a PS2 😅

The Conclave: “It’s where the government went!”

I was waiting for future retro John Wick to bust in during the courtyard fight at that one point

The town with the nuke in the center was "Megaton".

07:00 FYI The shipwreck and the Ghost town are real, they are in Namibia, the area is called the Skeleton Coast.

As a former Sound Engineer/Editor/Designer. Thank yaw for showing love for the sound design.

i like literally CANNOT believe Ella Purnell is British, her American accent is sooooo good

21:40 thanks, english is my third language and I often miss this type of wordplay but I really love when they do this. For example I'm still in awe about Novac from new vegas game named like this cuz it was first part of the motel "no vacancy" sign.

Yay, Pupper is alright!

9:30 god damn, sing it King

This was such a fascinating watch for me, who has tried his hands on Fallout, but never really got further than the first few quests, so I was sometimes completely lost when it came to creatures, lore dumps, or other tidbits. Like that compound being part of the Enclave. I had to read up what the Enclave was, yet it basically turned out what I imagined it must've been. Anyway, I went back to Fallout 4 and now I really want to see where it goes and how I fare in the wasteland.

❤ for the Princess Bride clips

Jay I hope you warble 40s tunes to your baby, that’s a core memory in the making

Late to the party, but my assumption for the turret missing is that those turrets have a IFF function. Our scientist had a pipboy, so registered as friendly. The dog did not. So the turret was trying to shoot the dog while trying to avoid shooting the friendly right next to him, resulting in spectacular failure to hit anything.

The town in Fallout 3 was called Megaton

Good ol Megaton! Best starting town in a game imo

I can’t believe I’m going to have to wait until the end to get Jay’s reaction to the last shot.