I think it was always assumed by gamers that it was just a random cartoon character, rather that being based on an actual human actor playing the part. It really was a great idea to put a real human face to the original Vault Boy. Though apparently no Vault Girl yet.
@@stanmann356Nah. It seems like Cooper Howard established the archetype of ‘the face of Vault Tec’, but given that based on scene 1, episode 1 there was likely a falling out with the company, they probably lost the rights to his image. So when they phased in ‘Vault Boy’ to fill the gap left by his departure they needed to make it clear that Vault Boy wasn’t just an animated Cooper Howard for legal reasons. Changing his hair to blonde did the job nicely.
The Ghoul: 'Thou shalt get side tracked by bullshit every god damn time." Not just a reference to Fallout but ALL RPGs in general. One minute you're following the main quest and the next minute you're side tracked by side quests and other bullshit. Unless you're actively ignoring side quests it just becomes inevitable.
yeah but it is targeting teh fallout rpgs. even back all teh way to the first fallout game. you got sent out to get a new water chip , but first damn town you go into has you side tracked on npc bullshit. when the end goal is litterally acheivable from the start of the game.
24:56 The look on the Ghouls face as he watches a scene from one of his old movies. Copper Howard sees himself as being 'Strong and dignified', as he watches his old life. But as the Ghoul, he sees himself as just 'ugly and strong'.
Yes in the game you run into all sorts of insane scenarios. Maybe not one 100% identical to this, but there are hundreds of crazy things to stumble upon.
What's really neat is that this episode shows us that Cooper Howard is THE Vault-boy, the mascot of Vault-tek that we've seen for so long, AND it explains why the Vault-boy is usually doing a "thumbs-up". Further, these episodes are really cool psych wise, showing us that the Ghoul still very much has his humanity and honor from his past and still feels and isn't a stone cold killer/bounty hunter.
I was just about to say that. I wonder if she ever thought about being an actress, because she has a very expression able face. Then again, with all of the craziness going on in hollywood, i think she'd be better off with sticking with whatever she does for a living outside of these reaction videos.
I think the goul has radioactive water in hos canteen, thats probably why he didn't share it with Lucy. She cracked and drank some on her own eventually, but he wasn't trying to poison her.
Mildly amusing little easter egg: Cooper Howard shares his last name with Todd Howard, the game director of Bethesda, which has developed or published every game from Fallout 3 forward.
I love how much we can tell that Addie is really, really into this show. It's a great show. The blend of humor, action, drama, violence, philosophy could have been a mess but they pulled it off really well with great characters, great acting, and good writing.
Coop was right. "Studies" did show that it's ineffective. They were published before the Bush admin ordered the CIA to begin the "Enhanced Interrogation" torture regime. FBI interrogators, who had been getting useful intel from detainees refused to participate, and left. From that moment forward, no further actionable intel was acquired. The waterboarded detainees were, however driven to insanity, and several are still alive and in captivity, because we cannot release them due to the horrific PR that would ensue. When he took office, President Obama was asked if he would prosecute the war criminals who authorized the torture regime, and those who conducted the torture. He stated his intent to "look forward, not backward" (which I believe every defense attorney in the country should have begun using in court as the "Obama Doctrine"...). When he took office, President Trump appointed the un-prosecuted woman who had been in charge of the CIA's torture regime to be the new Director of the CIA. The Evil people in charge change, but ☢ War, War Never Changes. ☢
The creature in the water that the ghoul used Lucy as bait to draw in is a gulper. The water in the ghoul's canteen is irradiated. That is why he didn't give any to Lucy. Radiation cures ghouls and keep them alive. In the game almost every water source is irradiated except purified water.
I almost can't believe how detailed this show is with all the items and environments that closely match the games. They put in a lot of effort and it paid off! I wish all video game adaptations could be this good!
Lovong your reactions. As a fan of the games and an even bigger fan of this show, you bring a great energy to your reactions! This show feels so very true to the source, with it's quirky sense of humour and some serious social commentary all blended in. Just remember, there's no fudge here!
Such a fun reaction. Addie did you recognize Betty one of the leaders of vault 33? That's actress Leslie Uggams and you saw her in Deadpool as his blind roommate Al. Love the show up to this point but, if Lucy starts eating people I'll be very upset/disturbed. 😅
It's not just during her horror movie reactions, and in this video, but also during the earlier episodes of Stranger Things 4 that Addie does some karate chops.
all answers in due time, this show is so great! these reactions are so great! and yes, 12:53 those are fingers! 18:15 spot on! 18:41 You have no Idea how weird it's getting! 🤣 20:02 the range of emotions over this scene is amazing! indeed, it got so much worse!
What I love the most about this show is that the events of the games kind of don't matter since a lot of them change with every playthrough and every story is mostly self contained given the isolated nature of the world.
They do matter, in a way when the new Fallout story drops, the authors are up to decide which previous main character choices are canon to the new story
a detail i didn't notice till my second watch that i find hilarious- next to the chem dealers on the couch, you can see what looks like a feed from a security camera, and if you look at the moniter you can clearly see Cooper passed out in the parking lot 😂
There's one thing I don't get. Cooper uses the medicine to keep himself from going feral but when he was without it, he passed out. Roger seemed physically OK but his mind was going. So why was Cooper immobile because he didn't take the medicine?
@@immortaljanus It's possible he has something else wrong with him too (maybe lung related given he smoked and was wheezy in ep 3). As Roger said, Cooper is the oldest Ghoul around as far as anyone knows so the "rules" may be slightly different for him.
@@immortaljanus The show doesn't actually verify that what Cooper takes is what's keeping him from going feral. Lucy just assumes it and he doesn't correct her. It would be a huge retcon to the lore if that's what it turned out to be so until the show definitively states otherwise I'm going to believe the vials are just some sort of super drug that works well on ghouls (canonically a lot of drugs barely affect them) and he's just straight up addicted to it. And if it turns out that the drug IS what's keeping him from turning feral then Bethesda is going to have a lot of explaining to do as to how all of the games are full of non feral ghouls but we the players have never even heard of this drug before.
14:23 I adore how Vault Tec used Howard as "The Vault Boy" a real life mascot for the organization. 14:37 Then for whatever reason they replaced him with the cartoon Vault Boy we all know and love from the games. Howard as a character was introduced with this show so we had no idea about the origins of Vault Boy just that he was the face of Vault Tec and feature throughout all the games. Also his wife hints that Vault Tec could've based the Vault Suit colours around Howards Blue and Yellow cowboy outfit. Vault Tec's main colours are Blue and Yellow anyways so I doubt the company based there colour scheme around Howard's outfit. Could just be a fun little "Hey this is your colours" moment but who knows. It would effect Post War Howard even more seeing a whole company themed around his colours, combined with the imagine of Vault Boy. During an interview a few years back between Tim Cain the creator, producer, lead programmer on Fallout (1997) and Leonard Boyarsky Art Director on Fallout (1997) they were asked why blue and yellow were chosen for the vault suits, stating that they were simply the only remaining colours on the palette. "There were two colours he wasn't using in a very limited palette that I had supplied," Cain said. "So I said if you don't use them, I'll delete them." And thus the Blue and Yellow Vault suits were born. In theory they could've ended up being any colour but I cannot imagine anything other than Blue and Yellow. Some versions like seen in Fallout 76 are more gold and overall throughout all the games we've seen a range of differant Vault Suit designs, similar to how we get differant Pipboy models as well. Fallout 3 & New Vegas featured more baggy Jumpsuit's while Fallout 4 and the classic two games feature tight jumpsuits with the Vault Suits in this show being based on the one's from Fallout 4. But throughout all the games Blue and Yellow was the main two colours.
That explains why they picked the colors, but not the lore behind them. It does make sense they'd use Howard's colors, just to ride off of his popularity and make things feel more comfortable and familiar to the masses.
6:51 "I lost it." A little funny since she kinda did lose it when she began talking to a severed head. 12:54 The gulper in this episode actually looks very different to the ones in the games. There they're more like very muscular bipedal newts or salamanders, without any human features such as mouth fingers. 17:14 Instead, he's selling a person for their organs, soooo... x) 24:54 It's like his past self is now talking to him, since he's now strong and ugly, but lacks dignity. Have you seen Arcane yet? I don't see a reaction of it but maybe you watched it privately already. If not, highly mandatory show. One of the best shows out there, the best animated show out there, and incredible characters & story. Ella Purnell (Lucy) is voicing the most important character in that show too (starting from episode 4). Season 1 was released in 3 acts with 3 episodes each. Another good show is Silo, but it is a huge huge underdog unfortunately, probably because it is on Apple. If you're intrigued by post apocalyptic societies and the vaults in Fallout then it's even more so recommended (it's a lot more serious than Fallout though, got some Lost and maybe Attack on Titan season 1 mystery vibes).
I recommend the movie Transcendence, a science fiction movie, with many stars, Johnny Depp, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy, Paul Bettany, where artificial intelligence is brought together with quantum computers and present their possible potential, a topic that today becomes more than relevant.
The show is solidly in my top 5 TV series ever now, along with Chernobyl, The Sopranos, any Ken Burns documentary, and the original Star Trek. The gulpers appear to be some type of weird mutated cross between giant axolotls and humans. Axolotls are known to be very resistant to cancer, so maybe resistant to radiation in general? (edit: where'd the "be" ^ go? Added)
@@Scyth0r are you really interested in knowing the reason, or have you just mistaken this for an opportunity to call someone "crazy" and feel smug about it? Because there is a reason, and it's good, but there's no point sharing it if you're not asking in good faith.
As far as I can remember (several years since I played), the vials were added for the show. In the game ghouls go feral from going mad in the wasteland, no "vials" to stop it there.
Yeah, up to now the lore has been just that a ghoul just went feral at some point (possibly from their brain rotting too much) and lost touch with their humanity and operated on instinct alone. Happened sooner for some, later for others. The show introduced the vials as staving it off. Now there's a question of whether we're dealing with an "unreliable narrator" situation here. Are the vials actually just snake oil that has become widely accepted as working, even if they actually do nothing? Or are they real? Taking the show at face value, we would say it's a real thing, but this is probably not a show to always take at face value. TBD in season 2, maybe.
Cooper USED to be the "face" of Vault-Tec, but as you saw in the ending credit scene of episode 3, his picture was partially covered over by the "cartoonish" character of the Vault-Boy.
I chuckled at the appearance of Stabby Addie right after you noted how bloody the show is but, sadly, violence is a normal part of life in the Wasteland. No spoilers but I was very satisfied with the season as a whole.
What Lucy doesn't realize is that there is a fatal flaw in her Golden Rule: it permits you to mistreat people as long as you're willing to be mistreated by them.
The idea isn't that you treat others the way you want to be treated, but rather the way you WOULD want to be treated IF YOU WERE THEM. Otherwise, the Golden Rule would have me acting like everyone on Earth has exactly my wants and desires, and that wouldn't be very good at all.
No. The golden rule is about how you’d LIKE to be treated. It’s about equitable reciprocity. You seem to think that it’s about finding a loop hole in order to justify sadism.
This show started with good intentions around the fallout Shelters, but the world did not stay just a bomb shelter; the world changed around the shelters, just surviving was more complicated.
If you think about the Vault dwellers logic. If their willing to forgive the raiders for murdering them than they can forgive Norman or any of the others for killing the raiders.
18:32 Her giving him Bert's shoes is actually very poetic. It's the practical manifestation of the saying "walking in another man's shoes". It's very fitting as he becomes Bert's stand-in/replacement, in her life.
@@LoricSwift Poetic in the sense that it symbolizes him taking Bert's position - which he also literally does. He starts walking in Bert's shoes metaphorically by taking Bert's shoes literally.
Well, the Ghoul is just using the Dog to track the head of it's former master so he kinda never really cared much. He only cared just enough not allow it to die.
Why don't more reactors use the whole of the screen and lodge themselves in one of the bottom corners? Why do most of them use such a small portion of the screen for what they're reacting to? it seems like a slam dunk idea. Lots of them have charisma and charm but other than "Popcorn in Bed" i can't think of anyone else who does it. You'd think using the whole screen would be a no brainer. No disrespect Addie.
My guess would be because it's a reaction video, so the point is to see the reactions. Big screen show/small corner reactor puts the focus on the show and reduces the size of the reactor, making the reactions more difficult to see. If one's goal is to focus on the show, why watch a reactor at all?.
@@inspectre27 I can still see the reactor if they’re smaller and enjoy the show at the same time. It would be like watching a show or movie with someone in the room.
They do it because youtube algorithm is scanning frames for protected intellectual property. If it determines you are showing too much of an owned Hollywood property they put in a copyright strike and block the video. Repeated strikes can result in the whole channel being blocked. All sorts of editing tricks are used to make sure you don’t get flagged by the algorithm. The studios are trying to make sure you don’t use reactions like this to not pay for their content. Keeping the content small is one of the known tricks to beat the algorithm.
@@SwiftJustice nobody as obsessed with baby media into adulthood as you is having a good time. You're in deep spiritual pain you're desperately trying to mask.
@@3rdOption-l9t I doubt that's a real thing from any religious or literary text, but it definitely does describe justard here seething with anger as he accuses others of the same
