In this episode, Lucy reaches the fifth stage of okey-dokey: acceptance.

"I've had some bad break-ups,but I never nuked a whole city." That should be on a T-shirt.

Did you notice the woman who introduced Hank to Coop was Betty. 101097 the release date for the original Fallout...

The finale had so many heartbreaking twists but the one that hurt the most was Hank and Lucy. Last episode, Lucy said "If my dad found out I destroyed an entire community to save him, that'd break his heart." And he did way worse, multiple times.

Watching the interaction between Hank, Lucy, and Moldaver, was perfect.. but the dagger was honestly finding out her mother was at shady sands when her dad nuked it. That’s ROUGH

Vault 31 was for Junior executives, barb is a senior executive shes probably not in vault 31, she said she had spots reserved for her and her daughter in a vault that oversees all the vaults. Vault 31 was just for 32 and 33

The Ghouliest Ghoul that's ever Ghouled" is now canon 😂

The ghoul at the observatory that stared at Lucy was one of the ones that she freed from the SuperDuper Mart.

14:00 Every time I watch this scene, I keep thinking of the Doctor Who episode "The Zygon Inversion." Paraphrasing the Doctor's lines here: "Let me ask you this. After you win, and you've killed all the bad people, and everything's all just and fair the way you planned...what are you going to do with the people like you? The troublemakers? The visionaries, the ones who _still_ picture a better world and are willing to do _whatever it takes_ to bring it about? How are you going to protect _your_ glorious revolution from the _next_ one?" TL;DR Nada Surf said it best: "Everyone's right, and no-one is sorry. That's the start and the end of the story." Even simpler, we have the wisdom of Spider Robinson: GO LEMMINGS GO!

Cooper's family is unlikely to be in Vault 31, as that one is reserved for Vault-Tec middle managers under Bud's Bud. Barbara is higher rank than Bud so she must be in an another vault. Also, 10-10-97 is a reference to the day Fallout 1 launched.

When Barb looked up to the shadowy figure in the window, my guess is that was the CEO head honcho of Vault-tec, and Barb is his executive assistant. I'm also guessing that even though Vault-tec had the idea to drop the bomb themselves, they still had a lot of vault research to do but before that could happen "somebody" dropped the bombs.

If you go back and re-listen to Dane's exclamation of "We're going to the Wilds!" I swear you can hear that they're faking it.

Couple of things. 1) In ep1 when the bombs drop Groggins knows who did it which makes that scene even more emotional 2) There are posters in 33 that say don't loose your head. Foreshadowing the story. 3) The projector showing Lucy's "pic perfect" life, Readers shoot it, Lucy's world on fire, Please stand by, Lucy's world resetting

That actually IS the Prydwen. In one scene you can see the name on the ship, barely, but you can.

"Put the tracker in his nose." Kate always on point!

A shiver ran down my spine when she spoke those words: "By dropping the bombs ourselves" A concept that in all my time playing the games, I had never once considered, suddenly made a frightening amount of sense. Then to follow that with the "War never changes" quote, Amazing scene!

One viable theory as to what happened to Cooper Howard/The Ghoul, is foreseeable if you know the original Fallout. On the day the bombs fell, he made it to / or was assigned to (probably by his ex-wife) Vault 12 (aka Necropolis) which was located in Bakersfield, CA. In Vault 12, Vault-Tec wanted to study the effect of radiation on the residents, so the rigged it so the main Vault door failed to completely shut allowing the radioactive fallout to get into the vault, and the survivors of Vault 12's residents became ghouls, who later formed the city of Necropolis in the ruins of Bakersfield that lay above Vault 12.

I didn't notice on my first watch but the ghoul you pointed out making stew was the one who thanked Lucy for setting them free at the Super-Duper Mart.

The 101097 was actually the launch date of Fallout 1

6:57 Bud is driving an early 50s Messerschmitt KR200 and Coop is driving a 1954 Kaiser Darrin

The show has been renewed for season 2. It’s apparently already the 3rd most watched show in Amazon history.

14:24 your recognition of what was coming 😂😂😂

The details are incredible in this show. The reason the ghoul struggled with Maximus but one tapped the knights was the “tempered lining” he mentioned in episode two. The way they intertwined all the details of the past with the present. Nothing was wasted, but I am still confused about how Moldaver was still alive after 200 years. Questions for season two I suppose!

Love your end theory with him not being let into the vault. My guess is that they wont let Coops dog into the vault and he chooses to stay out with her.

Those of us that play Fallout realized early on that Maximus is maxed out on the "idiot Savant" perk. The end where he's proclaimed Knight pretty much says it all.

The best part was the company meeting, I've wanted to know how that plot went since fallout 1, it was great being able to remember visiting each vault as they described experiment ideas.

I don't see him pounding on the vault door. They definitely won't let him in but I see him stoicly telling his daughter to go into the vault without him. He will be focused on saving her and not himself. She will be screaming for him while the vault door rolls shut and he stands there with a tear in his eye.

“If my dad found out I destroyed an entire civilization to save him, it’d break his heart”

Remember that Norm is something of a hacker; he may be able to get himself out of Vault 31 by overriding Bud-Brain's commands. The question is whether he'll do anything to/about/with all those cryo pods.

It will be interesting to see what Coop finds when/if he finds his family. His wife and daughter? His daughter who has followed in her mother's footsteps? His descendants 10 or 11 generations later in a vault? His descendants running a ranch because his daughter carried on her father's dream? Us cowpokes take it as it comes.

I see Burn Bears, I click like.

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And so it was that the actions of Lucy MacLean, A Child of Vault-Tec changed the wastelands like other vault dwellers before her. Only this time, a new limitless source of energy called Cold Fusion was created which could mean a new era of peace for some or conquest for others. Vaults 31, 32 and 33: Despite the losses from the attack from raiders lead by former NCR Ranger, Lee Moldaver the residents of Vault 33 endured and some moved into Vault 32 to rebuild after discovering that the residents there have been dead for 2 years without explanations. Norm: Norm trapped in vault 31 by Bud Askins had no choice but to enter his father's cryo pod to avoid dying from starvation or dehydration hoping for his sister would return to save him. Siggi Wilzig and CX404 aka Dogmeat: With the death of Doctor Siggi Wilzig, his companion CX404 or Dogmeat as others call her has decided to accompany Lucy and forms an attachment as she did for Wilzig before her. Filly: With the help of NCR and The Brotherhood of Steel, Filly rebuilds from the damages the fight between Maximus and The Ghoul and provides protection from any further incidents from raiders to cutthroat mercenaries. Vault 4: Vault 4 and its residents continue on their daily lives, until the death of Lee Moldaver reaches them, and the vault goes into chaos with the death of their prophet. Those who survived, return to the surface and traveled to Sacramento, The Capital City of the New California Republic to restart their lives as they did in Shady Sands. Thaddeaus: Thaddeus's transformation as a Ghoul could have made life hard for the former Squire, but instead, being found by the Followers of the Apocalypse was welcomed and became a combat medic to help those in need. Avoiding any sightings of the Brotherhood fearing of facing retaliation for desertion and possibly sharing Brotherhood secrets though has never committed to this day. Dane: Despite recent events, Dane had become Squire of the newly promoted Knight Maximus where they both will both fight side by side against whatever threat comes next. Lee Moldaver: Lee Moldaver who's lived for over 200 years remains a mystery. A secret she will take to her grave. But, not before achieving her goal of creating Cold Fusion as a limitless source of power in the hope will be the first step to everlasting peace. Brotherhood of Steel: The Brotherhood despite suffering heavy losses, successfully captured the Griffith Observatory from Moldaver's raiders and have gained a foot hold in the LA County area with the Cold Fusion reactor powering the city. Maximus: Though the hard work, meticulous luck and experience he had been through, Maximus has achieved the rank of Knight within the Brotherhood and decides to remain with them in the hope to take the first step to shape the Brotherhood into the ideal image that inspired him as a child long ago. The Ghoul: Cooper Howard after 219 years had finally found a lead on the where abouts of his family by meeting Vault 33's former overseer, Henry "Hank" MacLean who before the war was Barbra's executive assistant who has fled the LA area to New Vegas for unknown reasons decides to follow him there. Lucy: With the revelations of her mother and the destruction of Shady Sands by her father and how Vault-Tec caused the apocalypse 219 years ago understood that to make a real difference in the world is by bringing down Vault- Tec and their ally's once and for all and has decided to accompany Cooper Howard in tracking down her father as the first step. Lucy no longer goes by the name MacLean and has started to adopt her mother's maiden name as her last name. So ends the first chapter of The Child of Vault-Tec, but her story is far from over. Vegetius once said: If you want peace, prepare for war. For War... War Never Changes.

I have loved watching you both watch this series ❤ You guys have the best reactions and comments

The thing that doesn't make sense to me is Moldaver obviously was close to the mother and knew the children but she tried to have them killed. The brother almost got his throat cut and Lucy got beat up and stabbed on what's supposed to be the happiest day of her life by the guy she married under false pretenses. So the show is trying to make Moldaver the good guy but her actions are very... well not. Also the Vaults being connected makes sense but poses a problem since every vault in every game is not and there's only supposed to be like 120 of em. I think they could have solved that problem by numbering them 33a 33b and 33c instead of giving them all different numbers. Other than that I think the show was perfect. I can't wait to see New Vegas next season. Hopefully they don't give us a canon ending to the game though

Absolutely adore yall's personalities and commentary, better than most "reaction" channels.

I heard theories of Moldaver, and I like one that would suggest since she was part of the responsibility for Cold Fusion, she would be cryogenically frozen since her research was stolen by Vault-Tec and such. I would think that would make the most sense to me, and I am sticking with that. Great reaction! 😁

Thank God, i have something to watch over lunch break today. love this reaction, please keep it up. ya'll are hillarious

Can't wait for season 2. California offered them to film in their state, (they filmed season 1 in NY, somehow). And one of the very few shows to ever get the copyright for the Hollywood sign. So that's promising.

Such a fun series and a loaded payload in the last episode of season 1! Thanks for sharing!

Ive been waiting for this since a week ago but Ive watched your reactions within an hour of each publishing

Rest easy, season 2 has already been green lit

What twists! So many great reveals that blew our minds! and still setting up season 2! Rewatching with reactors, so many lines and things are shown in a new light knowing the reveals, Like you said, Lucy said she thought the light was the sun, turns out it really was. the heartbreaking reveal of the Mother, with the necklace. yep, THE best video game show!

Oh shit, been waiting for y’all’s reaction to the finale. Let’s go

Man the ahots of Kyle Mclachlins head sticking out the top of the pwer armor is such a weird visual. I love it but its so strange

The RobCo exec at the big meeting was Mr. House from New Vegas

2:43 "I wish she'd stop hitting me." I'm in tears. 🤣

31 and 32 might be control of population, famine and blight passed on both vaults. Also the brotherhood has some factions too, west is fixated on tech, east side is more like protect the peace and people, they are in FO3 and they are kinda cool tbh. 101097 is the release of FO1

I really enjoyed your reactions to this show. My only regret is I binged your reactions like I did the series itself and didn't comment enough to feed the algorithm.

I would think the super fancy vault, is under HQ...nice and handy.

You had me at five dollar foot photos!!!!

Thank you guys~ Really enjoyed all of your recaps and reactions. My question is...if the wife orchestrated the nuclear blasts then why would she have allowed the daughter to be off somewhere with Goggins when it happened??

Betty who was alive 200 some yrs ago, was the one who helped Lucy's Dad ghoulify their Mom. If Cooper dropped their daughter off at a vault, then he would have known where they are at. I am gonna assume someone from VaulTech k'od him at his home (or close by) and took the daughter. Said person probably brought the daughter to her Mom. When Coop woke up, he prob was a ghoul or close to turning (as a ghoul he looks as if he didnt age beyond what age he was at, when the bombs fell). That is why he doesn't know where his wife is. With both his horse amd dog dead, he set off to find out whats what. Since Coopers wife was upper Management she went to the Vault that was supposed to control all the other vaults. According to lore that one particular vault for VaultTech upper management only got partially finished. So, she wouldnt be amongst Bud's buds, cause those were mid management type, and not considered Vault-Tech elite. However Cooper finally found someone who would know. In fact most ppl cryo frozen next to Lucys vault probably could give him an answer.... But deffo Betty or Hank as both were working directly with Coops wife. What will the chances be that Cooper and Lucy starting to talk, while following Lucys Dad, and Lucy mentioning Betty. Coop realizing that Betty could provide answers may let them return to her vault, only to find her brother missing& Cooper either already having figured out one of the vaults has cryo pods or they find out once inside. But Season 2 deffo be lit. There are deffo a ton of different scenarios that could play out in Season 2.. hopefully Coop will get his answers before he turns. And Lucy, her brother and Max taking on VaultTech .. finishing Coopers work.

Just now noticed in ep 5 after norm ask Steph about 31 they clean up 32 & decided to move half of 33 to 32.

Hoping we get some energy weapons in the second season. It felt weird not seeing The Brotherhood rockin some laser gatlings, or some rifles at the very least. I know the budget was already crazy, but with modern CGI, laser and plasma gear could look amazing.

It makes me feel old that nobody recognizes that is the same hot tub literally everyone in America had, before fiberglass jacuzzies with jets came out.

R.i.P. to Lee Moldaver. Did you notice that she's just a powerful, rich stone cold, bad ass hero through this season? Unless there are some details where she murders kids because they are doing foolish teenage emotional kid stuff and she's just lazy, her image in my head is the actual MVP of Season 1. EDIT: And dude, the soundtrack was kind of perfect for most of the scenes. I especially like the edgy retro-futuristic music that plays for Maximus and when L.A. lights up again.

So glad ep 8 is here 🙌

101097 was the release date of the first Fallout game.

The saddest okey dokey ever.

I like the "Thaddeus is actually a super mutant not a ghoul" theory. Basically he inhaled FEV since ghoulification kind of HAS to involve heavy doses of radiation. It'll be sweet to see him bigger and green and just as dumb and helpful lmao [plus I dig the idea of the "party" being Lucy, Dane, and maximus on the human side, the ghoul and thaddeus on the non-human side, plus dogmeat and maybe a robot? For seasons down the road...]

let's go was waiting for the last one ❤

Brotherhood invasion and NCR defense fight was epic.

Its so cute that she gets sad when she hurts you by accident. “Eat sh!t!” 😂

The beginning hammer and eating olives is me currently celebrating my 35th birthday I’m just missing the hot tub lol

I was pretty hyped to hear "war, War Never changes" to. I paused the show I said to my wife, they finally said it I was waiting for it the entire series.

I've never played the games and I've never seen the games played but I watched this series and it was amazing, I didn't need to know a thing about it going in. I'm really looking forward to season 2.

The armor weak spot has a TRIPLE pay off actually. Back when Titus and Max talked in the vertibird, Max noted that Titus had extra shielding on. That's why Cooper/The Ghoul couldn't penetrate through it as easy during their fight compared to this episode. The level of detail is INSANE!

The Moldaver question.. I think there's something in the fact that the Shady Sands survivors called her the Flame Mother.. that she survived the initial holocaust and became partially ghoulified in a unique way.. got mutated in a way that slowed her aging process like a ghoul, but didn't become a complete ghoul..I mean just like some folks became ghouls and others didn't, maybe there are different degrees of ghoulification, for lack of a better word. She's on the extreme end of the spectrum, got all of the benefits without the side effects..

Mr House was in the Vault tec meeting for robco AND he did not say yes!!!Just like he said in the the game. He was betrayed and he didnt agree with the plan. I hope he is still alive.

Robert house "you could loose money running a casino" :D

That's not a guarantee that Vault-Tec did it. Just proof that they were willing to do it. I believe going forward the Fallout franchise will maintain that nobody is sure who started it, and that it doesn't matter.

I'm surprised Katie didn't lose her shit seeing live action Mr. House

10 - 10 -97 is the launch date for the very first Fallout game

Nah it’s gonna be a lot darker, Cooper is gonna get to what he believes to be the vault only there isn’t one and the twist is his daughter is not even his daughter the mom switched her out with a synth and he’s gonna see as her skin melts revealing a robot frame “daddy I’m so scared” he through tears knows and grabs her as she cry’s “daddy I’m Janey right? I’m real daddy I promise you I’m realllllllllllllll” *powers down sound*

Anyone else notice that one of the representatives at the meeting was Big Mt?

season 2 already confirmed guys can't wait i need season 2 right now lol

Lol can u imagine the feral ghouls/raiders/and super mutants freaking the hell out because the power suddenly cuts on 😂😂😂

Drinking in a wooden hot tub...can we call that getting pickled

I’m Goggin for season 2 already

10 - 10 - 97 is the release date for the original Fallout game. It was such a nice little easter egg

2:23 At this same time on the next video, blink twice if this is ongoing haha.

They truly NAILED IT. As a die hard Fallout fan, they fucking NAILED IT!!!! Near perfect authenticity to the universe and the lore, yet an original story that was made to work in a TV format, rather than trying to adapt an existing VG story, which almost always comes out bad. Can not wait for season 2!

OMG KATIE! Stop hitting Travis! You Monster! I wonder if Maldaver was put on Ice (against her will ) before the war by The Enclave which is in leagues with Vault tech to bring her back one day to finish the development of Cold Fusion. She was woken to work with other scientist and worked with Wilzig, She escaped and joined the NCR (Before the Bombs) Her goal was to get a Vault exec from 31, 32, or 33 for the code to start up the process. Wilzig (friend with Maldaver) finished the Development and she helped him escape. Just a theory, a weak one. But there it is.

Heh, the BOS, or as I call them "Walking Loot Pinatas"

only issue i have with the show was the vault 32 clean-up. like. what the heck, betty and eye patch lady with a bucket and mop over the span of a day or two just magic the whole vault and fix the blown-up tunnel to it? aside from that, fantastic show that does the games and fans service.

i dont think fault tec dropped the bomb because barb wouldnt let her husband and daughter go to a Birthday Party one that day

Listen, I will take anonymous feet. Just make sure they're grade A.

15:19 are you sure Thaddeus is a ghoul? Pretty sure if ghouls can heal, Cooper Howard would have a nose…sounds more like the after effects of the FEV

I'd vote New Vegas; 1) It's one of the good ones 2) DLCs are deep and rich in storytelling, as well as insanely hilarious 3) The knowledge of the fallout Universe is well understood. The downsides; 1) Dated look 2) May be tricky to get to run properly 3) Needs mods to fix bugs (just watched one today where the "blackmail tape" in a certain DLC didn't play properly) 4) Kinda long and slow paced. If it was someone new to gaming, and/or not hardcore role players, I'd recommend FO4 instead for a fresher more modern game. But sounds like you could handle New Vegas. We talking full game and DLCs, or a single event to have some fun? I'll likely wait until all is done to see if I like the style. Note that there is also fanmade Fallout London coming up these days. At least that one will be 100% blind, which I by far prefer.

Season 2 has already been announced.

"101097" Fallout was released on October 10, 1997 by interplay

What you and everyone else missed is that even with how evil it was for Hank McLean to bomb Shady Sands he was ultimately right because when you have a bunch of groups and factions that think they all know how to fix humanity those groups and factions will never agree on how to fix humanity hence the phrase war never changes

The whole show was fantastic and I enjoyed the dark humor and last minute twist. However I only have 1 issue with a plot hole where the Ghoul knew about the flaw in the welding of the suit, but then why didn't he just kill Maximus in the beginning when they were fighting? Maximus had a lot of plot armor, but that one bothered me the most

VaultTech ARE Monsters.

Proxima parada NEW VEGAS

Now we gotta wait like 2 years for season 2 lol…

No that is the prydwin lol, it says it on the side

I recently turned 30 and have an uncontrollable urge to buy a tree and plant it in my front lawn I think I'm guna go with a Saturn peach tree

You guys have to watch the credits…