little easter egg ...the code for the cold fusion-101097-s actually a date, October 10, 1997, the date the very first Fallout game was released.

Maximus and Lucy probably played together as kids

Barb is not in 31. Vault 31 is "Bud's buds" which were the junior executives that Bud was training. Barb was not a junior executive in "Bud's buds." She's one of the executives who is either at the same level or above Bud in the company. The show implies she's above him on several occasions. If she is alive she is wherever management went, not where the trainees ended up. The three vaults connected with a vault of managers is not how other vaults are set up, either. That was just Bud's experiment. Most if not all of the other vaults are not connected to any other vaults, like what you saw with vault 4. Also, not sure if you caught that Betty was the assistant who brought Hank in to meet Cooper at Vault-Tec.

"Also he didnt stick with the story!" "Uh, I think that was the story WE came up with" Did we just get a series reaction version of "I'm mad at you because you cheated on me... in my dream"?

You want some of the best Walton Goggins you need to watch Justified because you get the great Timothy Olyphant.

Fun Fact: dude who was talking about using immigrants to make supersoldiers didn't even live to see the bombs drop. Executed by military group that became Brotherhood of Steel. Also shadowy figure in the meeting is theorized to be Stanislaus Braun - one crazy scientist that you "meet" in Fallout 3, dude was crazier than everybody in that room.

While Vault-Tec intended to end the world, I don't think they got the chance, Barb would have made sure her family, very least her child, was already secure in a vault when the bombs fell. I also don't believe Barb and possibly the daughter are in Vault 31, the 3 vault experiment was Buds experiment to "breed" middle management, so I don't think Barb would be in that vault, presuming she made it to one at all.

Lucy is in the best place with the Ghoul, as he knows a lot more of the true history of the last 200+ years. It's changed him a lot, but I think Lucy will help him become the man he used to be while helping Lucy find the balance she needs in the wasteland.

Equilibrium is the movie that came to mind when The Ghoul faced off against the Brotherhood.

Cooper's wife will not be in Vault 31. It is for assistant managers. His wife is upper management. A theory running around is she will be at New Vegas. In the games, every vault has a different experiment. Glad you recognized the Deathclaw skull. I have heard a rumor that they will make their debut in season 2.

Walton Goggins is hilarious in Vice Principles! The first time I saw him was in The Shield. He also made cameos in Son's of Anarchy. He's such an amazing actor.

Barb isn't in Vault 31. She is a big shot, not a junior executive. Bud was only there because it's his pet project. Presumably, Barb has her own project somewhere, or is in cryo waiting.

"Justified" please!!!!!

The Shadowy figure at the meeting - My speculation and at the end a comment by one of the original creators of Fallout 1. . . . . . I think that the shadowy figure is the President of the US. If you remember back in the opening of Ep1 (I think it's even the first line spoken of the show) a newscaster says that the President is still not accounted for and no one knows where he is. I think the President knew very well what was going on with the Vaults and already had plans in motion for where he would end up (i.e. not one of the vaults with Experiments). One of the original developers of Fallout 1 has a channel here on KZfaq where he talks about making games and also specific stories about Fallout and how it was made. He said in a video that their original plan with Vaults was that they should all be related to taking humanity into space. * they tested for inbreeding in a limited population (how many do you need in a space ship for it to not cause issues with genetics and inbreeding), * they tested food suppy (one Vault only served the same thin gruel every day because doing that during space travel would solve a lot of issues compared to having "real food" such as bread or meat). * they tested what would happen if things constantly were to break down and how people would cope mentally having their existence on the line if water or air or food or other systems kept breaking. * they tested constant, limited radiation exposure (one Vault had a faulty door so radiation kept leaking inside, turning the people there into ghouls) ... etc. The more recent games have had different goals such as training kids to be come super soldiers, using non-colunteers for genetic experiments to make radiation resistant humans (mutants).

I think moldaver has the ghoul life span and she probably invented it. She also wasn't shot in the head so she probably regenerates imo

From what I've gathered on the show, Barb was a lot higher up than the Executive Assistants brought into the Bud's Buds program. The Vault 31-32-33 was his project. That's why it was weird for us Fallout fans to see the interconnected vaults shown as they were at the beginning of the show. That wasn't ever a thing in the games. I think that was only allowed as part of Bud's own vault experiment - to have Vault-Tec executive assistants frozen in 31, and then released periodically to have them brought in to 32 and 33 to be the Overseer. I don't think Barb would be in those vaults though since she said in the middle of the season that she was positioned to get into one of the 'good vaults' that would oversee the rest of them. In the meeting with the other companies, she looks up in a gallery that's overlooking the conference room to someone that is shadowed from us seeing who it is. I think that's the sort of people Cooper was referring to when he said "There's always someone behind the wheel". He's looking to find the people Barb would have been reporting to; I think that would be the best chance for him finding out where Barb and Janey are. As with Barb proposing that they drop the bombs themselves, I think for sure Vault-Tec had a plan to do so, but I don't think they actually were the ones to first drop them on the day of The Great War. There are many references in the game that have me sure of that. In Fallout 4's Vault-Tec Workshop DLC, you can build your own vault, Vault 88.. and in the terminals, it's mentioned that they were still very early in the building phase, as when you enter, only the first few rooms were actually built. I doubt Vault-Tec would've dropped the bombs before finishing their other vaults. There's another vault in Fallout 4 that you visit for a main quest that's built in a subway tunnel, and that one as well was still in the middle of construction. As you pointed out, Cooper had Janey with him for a birthday party gig the day the bombs dropped. I doubt Barb would have let Janey be with her father had Vault-Tec been planning to drop the bombs on that exact day. No doubt they would have, but I think someone else beat them to it in the end. It'll be really interesting to see how New Vegas has been getting on since the events of the game as this show takes place 15 years afterwards. I'm curious what sort of ending would be considered canon and if we'll see more of Mr. House (who was in that board meeting representing RobCo) either in the current time or in flashbacks. Seeing the deathclaw skull also had me hoping they'll finally show those in the show next season. Especially with them being all over the Mohave. LoL

Bud is now a Robo-brain. They were featured in the "Fallout: New Vegas" DLC "Old World Blues". The quirky 50's B-movie sci-fi campy humor is really good in it. It was a lot of off-kilter Fallout fun.

101097 ............... is the release date for the first Fallout game.

“The LIKES of you as its sword” Makes me feel he doesn’t want Maximus, just people like Maximus.

Barb and upper management are probably in the secret vault that connects the Tops casino with Vault 21.

I’ve seen this show a dozen times now, both in full and in a lot of reaction videos… this is the first time I’ve ever seen that protection standing around in front of the vault tech head office building when coop drops his wife off. XD amazing how it just slipped by in the background so many times for me.

If you're looking for Walton Goggin's performances, I'd start with 'The Shield." It's probably the first thing I saw him in.

I think Thadeus is going to show up in season 2. Not as a ghoul but as a supermutant. I think he was given FEV (forced evolution virus)

Their plans were so flawed from the start. They ended up creating a bunch of factions with unique views just vault to vault. Much less all the factions on the surface lol

The code Hank puts in for the cold fusion is 101097. The original Fallout game was realized on October 10, 1997 or 10/10/97

You missed young Betty

You've got my vote to watch Justified. Absolutely one of the best shows and Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins are at their best. You owe it to yourselves to watch it even if it isn't on the channel. I think you both will love it.

In defense of Thaddeus...he basically told Maximus thar his plan of going back to the brotherhood was bad and they'd kill him...then Maximus decided to murder him and crushed his foot. Thaddeus's reaction to that was sensible in my opinion.

By the way, those vault ideas they mentioned at the meeting, are all actual vaults from the games.

Moldaver didn't need to get in a vault to freeze herself. She was a high level scientist, doing classified research. I'm sure she could have known about any number of laboratories that had cryo pods but weren't vaults, yet were still high security facilities that would survive the blasts. After all, Vault 31 wasn't for scientists. There wasn't any research going on there, so it's not like Vault 31 invented cryo pods. They just filled it with pods that had been invented and built somewhere else. They were in many places, and Moldaver would probably have known about them. She was an enemy of Vault-Tec even back then, so I don't think they'd let her in, or that she's even want to go in a vault. What I wonder is why she came out when she did.

Nothing like finding out the people you love the most are nothing but evil mass murderers. Lucy is broken now, probably like how Cooper was before he became a ghoul. Hopefully with Cooper starting to get his humanity back, he can steer her in the right direction instead of the dark path he took. She's now on a slippery slop of falling down that dark path. And with Barb, like Samantha I thought Barb was a low level Vault-tec employee until this episode. With the power she appears to hold, she may be number 2 in the Vault-Tec ranks. That person in the shadows is probably the one in charge. Samantha thinks a Gulper was something to be feared? A gulper has nothing on what a Deathclaw is. Just mentioning one of those things will send the fear in a wastelander.

Walton Goggins was in Django Unchained

Whats even shitty was that Shady Sands was a city started by the Vault 15 Dwellers in the Fallout 1 game.

The town I live in now was once officially sponsored by Coca-Cola. To the point that Coke products would be set out in view whenever you watched a stream of the town council meetings.

You guys would love Vice Principals and Justified. The Shield is absolutely legendary

Norm could threaten Bud with a concussion 😂

So many reactors don't notice all the red flags about Barb the whole season. I was suspicious of her from the first episode she appeared in. When Cooper asked the Vault-tec people if the vaultsuit really blocks out radiation, they glance at Barb like, oh crap what do we say? And Barb gives them a quick nod and then they obviously lie and say yes of course it does. Then she keeps gaslighting him whenever he starts questioning the vaults and vault-tec, and she's in charge of the after party, without Coopers acknowledgment or approval in his house. I have a theory that in the first scene we see of the bombs dropping, we cut away JUST as a vertibird shows up over Cooper and his daughter as they try to outrun the blasts. But since Cooper and Barb are divorced, there is not a spot for Cooper in the vault planned for Barb and their daughter. So they end up swooping down and only pick up Janney and leave Cooper to be hit by the radiation and die. Only we know now that he turned into a ghoul and now is looking for his family.

Justified! Yes! Give at least Season 1 a watch. It's a great show, great characters and great humor. Not only do you get Walton Goggins but also the always great Timothy Olyphant!

Here are the names on the Vault 31 screen: DEACTIVATED Patricia Peters - Complete Alexander Boamer - Complete Laurence Ronald - Complete Ian Jackson - Complete Betty Pearson - Complete Hank MacLean - Complete Stephanie Harper - Complete DORMANT Elmer Greene - Stable Chase Powell - Stable Joan Polansky - Stable Thomas Hamilton - Stable Victoria Alexander - Stable Chloe Glass - Stable Kathryn Cep - Stable Christyn Mari - Stable Francesca Mahajan - Stable Casey Schulz - Stable Arthur Wormeley - Stable March Sherwood - Stable Maxilillian Dottino - Stable Tatyana Lee - Stable Claire Feldman - Stable Archibald Sachs - Stable Joanne Wormwood - Stable Joseph Moerder - Stable

The Ghoul is definitely a VATS build. Gunslinger, Finesse, maybe Cowboy although he doesn't use revolvers or dynamite so far, maybe Bloody Mess, definitely Cannibalism.

00:59 "I need more Walton in my life." Ok everyone, say it with me... ONE OF US. ONE OF US. ONE OF US. ONE OF US. (Walton Goggins can do no wrong. His performance on Justified is fucking INCREDIBLE, by the way.)

Can’t wait to watch this! It feels like I’ve waited forever to get to this reaction! 😊 (FWIW, “Justified” is terrific.)

Oh damn! I was playing FO4, so I didn't see this dropped! I'm so excited to see what you guys think of this finale to the season. ETA: Okay, now that I've watched it, I can comment. What Barb said was "Because we'll drop the bomb ourselves." Singular. So, I think what happened is that Vault-Tec planned on dropping a bomb to instigate the Great War, but China beat them to it by bombing first. Hence why Janey was with Cooper when they began to fall. My guess is that Sam is right and Barb is in the mythical 'Vault 0' with the other C-Suite executives from Vault-Tec. Lucy really had it hard this episode! Imagine going through all that to save your father, only to find out that he nuked your mom along with 30k other people. I have a feeling that this next season is going to have a lot of character growth for her as she comes to terms with what he did and what she may have to do once she finds him. From where I'm standing, she very well could end up shooting him. As for Maximus... oh, man. This guy just got thrown into the center of the hornets' nest. Now that he knows what it's like outside of the Brotherhood (and he saw what they did at the observatory), I don't think he has quite the same convictions as before. I do think he still respects the idea of being a knight, but this means he's going to be chafing under the Brotherhood's yoke soon enough. Having Dane around is such a boon. I really think they would make a great companion for him until he can reunite with Lucy. I can't wait for the next season to drop, so in the meantime, I'm dumping a ton of hours into the newer games (I had only played 1&2 before). I started with FO4 (I know, I know!), and I've really enjoyed it thus far. New Vegas is next on the list. Thank you for sharing your reactions with us!

Vice Principles is absolutely hillarious!! You HAVE to watch it!!

Oh, thats a nice thumbnail, despite that this has a crazy twist. Im hoping that NEW VEGAS will be the new season that will happen soon

IMO Moldaver was the current leader of the New California Republic. IMO Moldaver used a cryo pod in a private suite in Las Vegas and came out maybe twenty years ago. Hey Norm, kick the crap out of that robo brain.

Great series! Can't wait for the next chapter. Thank y'all for bringing us along. ♥

The writers for the series were saying they debated on how to pace the storyline reveals, and eventually just said *bleep* it - and decided to carpet bomb the last episode with reveals. At the end of it all, I'd say their approach worked out surprisingly well.

Vault 31 is for Bud's Buds. That's the Junior Executive Management Vault. Barb was a Senior executive. That means that Barb and her daughter are in the senior executive vaults.

Personally I don't think Barb is in 31. I think Barb was higher up the corporate ladder than Bud was, so wouldn't be a Buds bud (middle management).

I highly recommend The Shield for a Walton Goggins show to react to. A down and dirty look at police work. It's one of the best and most unique cop shows ever.

When Maximus is told, "...with me and THE LIKES OF YOU...this doesn't mean Maximus, just someone like him...thankfully, he is placed in a potential spot to effect change for the good.

If you want more Walton PLEEEEEEEEEEASE react to his breakout role in The Shield. It is right up your alley. I was sandwiched between The Sopranos and Breaking Bad as one of those TV dramas that changed how TV was made. EXCELLENT show. I can not recommend it enough. I was nominated for 6 emmy's and won 14 awards from all the various awards shows at the time. aired from 2002-2008 so only 6 season. Tight season length's, like 10to 13 episodes. Walton is in every single one and it actually wraps up it's story without feeling like it wnet too long or left too much unanswered. Has one of the greatest endings to a series ever. PLEASE throw it on the watch list for the channel. I have been begging other tv react channels to get to it but everyone always has to do The Sopranos and The wire first. It's the perfect time for you guys to tackle it. Take care.

If you’re looking for more Goggins. He didn’t star in, but played a great recurring character in Sons of Anarchy

Man, seeing New Vegas and Mr. House was such a awesome surprise I didn't expect at all! Season 2 better come out sooner than later!

See that scene with them flying back into filly I didn't remember seeing either. Nor the recap. Maybe I need to rewatch. If you want a longer show to watch with Walton Goggins The Shield was great. Bet you didnt expect Moldaver to be the good guy (relatively) in the end.

What most reminds me of the dark room with the shootout is part of the _amazing_ Warhammer 40k fan-made short series called _Astartes,_ especially because the power armour looks like what the space marines wear. If you haven't seen it, you definitely should. It's on KZfaq, and it's less than 15 minutes in total.

This show got me dipping my toes into the Fallout Games. I'm currently messing about in 76 (it was an amazon freebie). For more Goggins I'd highly recommend The Shield. Gritty police drama over 7 seasons. He plays Shane, a character with a huge arc over the whole show and does so brilliantly. I think it's on Hulu now but has previously been on other stream sites. It's the one TV show I bought all the dvd box sets of I enjoyed it that much.

You want Goggins, then you NEED to watch The Shield. Introduced him to me. Great show.

Wolton Goggins is amazing in everything he is. Vice Principals is hilarious. Although he has a smaller part in The Righteous Gemstones, he is glorious as Uncle Baby Billy in that series which has more seasons than Vice Principals.

Walt Goggins has a big part in the very underrated movie Predators…y’all should check it out and preferably on the channel!

I'm a huge fan of Walton Goggins, noticed him in the 90's but The Shield really cemented him as one my faves, after 18 year of nagging my mate to watch The Shield, he finally is and is loving it. Oh and Vice Principals is hilarious, so are Danny McBride's other shows 'Eastbound & Down' and 'The Righteous Gemstones', Walton is in that last one also and obviously amazing in it, he sings and tap dances which is gold.

Fallout demonstrates the superiority (IMHO) of streaming vs. network broadcast TV. The number of episodes is based on how long it takes tell the story, not a contract for X number. Also, each episode is as long or short as it takes for the episode. There are no predetermined pauses for commercials. The questions left for season 2: Who is "behind the wheel" as Cooper said? Is that who Hank is headed to see? What happened to Cooper's family? What happens to Norm? What happens in vaults 31, 32, and 33? What happens to Maximus? Will he stay in the Brotherhood or go find Lucy? What happens when (if?) Lucy is reunited with her father? I CAN'T WAIT! Update: I forgot the following unbresolved questions: What is the Enclave and their connection to the vaults, given how much Wilzig knew about Vault 33 and Lucy's name . . . What happens to the cold fusion device? What happens to Thaddeus? Who still has nuclear bombs and the means to use them?

Vice principals was so funny lol

Further, I truly believe with the time since the Cooper's been away from his daughter, he sees a possibility of her being an adult and would deduce Cooper sees a part of his daughter in Lucy, especially when she shows him that she has the potential to be as tough as him, just with heart.❤ And in that world, being with him is the safest place she could ever be.

A lot more things were noted and enjoyed by watching this show with you guys! You are my favorite reactors!

If you want more Walt Goggins, you have to react to The Shield. That I think was his first major role, and he was great at it.

Hey guys, great reaction.😊 Ok, couple of things I want to say. - All those suggestions on what those corporate heads wanted to do w/the Vaults are actual experiments mentioned in the games. There are a handful of Vaults that are known as "Control" Vaults in which no experiments are done, but a majority have some sort of experiment. If u remember, Vault 4 was a genetic experiment to see whether or not human beings can have better resistance to radiation by combining them genetically w/radioactive resistant species. That's how they ended up w/the Gulpers. O, as far as I know, that Tri-Vault System w/31,32 & 33 is the only one like that. It was done specifically for "Bud's Buds".32 & 33 contained a carefully selected "breeding pool" to create super managers. Vault 32 found out they were being used as lab rats & revolted. I don't know if Chet will save the day, being he's now in Vault 32. Remember, in the beginning, Vault 33 didn't even know something bad had happened in Vault 32. - Vault-Tec could have dropped the bombs ahead of schedule. Barb is a senior executive, but she had no control over when the bombs were gonna drop. More than likely, it was "Mr. Big" up in the shadows of the observation deck. - 1st thing I saw Walton Goggins in was the TV series THE SHEILD (2002-2008). His character Shane was annoying & an a-hole, but The Ghoul is my favorite character in the FALLOUT series..😊 Lucy is my close 2nd. I'm glad they are teamed up for next Season. - Well, I guess that's all I wanted to say.😊

I’m surprised everybody thinks Max put the razor in Danes boot after he said he didn’t.

Justified is an excellent show, in the Banshee genre. Thanks for you sharing!

I love your guys's reaction to fall out so much❤

You guys would LOVE Justified. I promise you. One of my fav shows.

You were right, that's New Vegas at the end. It's the only Fallout I've played, so I was glad to see it. Looking forward to a new season... whenever that is. A year from now?

If you want a character similar to the Walton Goggins’ ghoul character then you’ll want to watch “Justified”. His character Boyd Crowder has similar swagger and tone.

Would be cool if this propelled Dane as well. I can see Maximus relying on Dane a great deal.

The scary part is there's probably been convos very similar to what happened in this show with mega companies in real life 😢

Barb was not a junior executive; it seemed like she was the mouthpiece for the shadowy figure who was watching over the meeting.

Thaddeus didn’t really turn on Maximus. All he says about the reveal is that the Brotherhood was going to kill him. Like you said, Maximus isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer and, to me, it felt like Thaddeus was trying to point out the very real direness of the situation. Maximus immediately took it as “I knew I couldn’t trust you” and tried to kill him. And after that Thaddeus was kinda just fighting to survive. On first watch we side with Maximus because he’s one of our main characters and we’re invested in empathizing with him. But on rewatch it hits different and seems more like Thaddeus feels the weight of what he learns with the reveal and his understanding of what it means for their situation. Maximus was in denial about it since he was raised by the cult and is a true believer at that point. He’s really thinks the Brotherhood will forgive his actions since they were upholding the “honor of the suit.”

Justified, vice principles and righteous gemstones for more Goggins 🤘

My favorite from Walton Goggins is The Shield. It’s an old series, but kicks ass so hard that only Breaking Bad can beat it.

If you guys really want to hear how crazy the vaults got, there are several recaps on youtube which go over each vault experiment we know of so far ;)

Vice principals is great. Cut short, but worth watching even if not for YT

I'm not sure who Barb was looking up to that was watching over that meeting but if he's not played by Ron Pearlman we riot.

Justified is such a great show, and I only started Vice Principals, it's pretty good.

If you need more Walton Goggins you have to watch The Shield. He is amazing

justified is great. He is also a character in invincible

Oh watch The Righteous Gemstones for more Walton Goggins! I love me some Baby Billy!

I would like to see some protectrons in the future.

For more Walton Goggins, the Shield and House of 1000 corpses are great

I have enjoyed your reaction videos for the Fallout show. For season 2, I am most interested to watch the dynamic between Coop and Lucy. Coop can tell Lucy a lot about what he has witnessed in the couple of hundred years since the Great War. I got the impression he has traveled around in the last 200+ years, so he may know about other parts of the USA. He can even tell her what he knows about Vault-Tec. I wonder how Lucy will feel when she learns Coop has replaced the finger she bit off with her finger he cut off. Will Lucy learn that she grew up watching Coop's movies? No dogs in the vaults meant Lucy has never hung around with a dog before. How will she react to that? I am interested in both Maximus's story and Norm's story. I think Norm has a number of possibilities before he has get in his dad's cryo pod and write himself out of the story. Will Max start being smarter about thinking things through before acting? We have seen him do some smart stuff, but he is short-sighted and doesn't plan ahead. He hasn't been good under pressure, though he maybe improving in that area. (He definitely had his Han Solo in the detention center moment when the Brotherhood called Knight Titus for his situation report.)

Just a nod to the fallout gamers the code that he gave her was the release date of the first fallout game in 97

You should watch “The Sheild” from FX if you’re a Walton Goggins fan, easily some of his best work.

I love that the Ghoul is pretty much the Mysterious Stranger here. He could conceivably BE the Mysterious Stranger across the game timelines too. I wish they'd played the Mysterious Stranger music to bring it home more. Do you ever see the Stranger's face? Or just the coat and hat? Great season end. But I have now been officially promised a Deathclaw fight in season 2, just so the producers are aware of that. I didn't expect one in this season because the NCR should have basically eliminated the most dangerous mutated animals back when they controlled California and they shouldn't have really moved back into the area too much since Shady Sands got crushed. A Yao Guai was perfect for a season 1, and we got radroaches and a different kind of gulper too. Nobody but the Ghoul could possibly do anything other than suck and die against a Deathclaw yet. Expecting at least one Deathclaw. Some Molerats and radscorpions too would be nice! Some Protectrons in New Vegas maybe?

Thanks for the video!! See you later!!! Stay safe.😊

Moldaver was a strong, interesting character, and it was a shame to see her die. Or will the writers miraculously bring her back for season 2?

Justified is DA BOMB! Walton and Timothy!

Watch Justified! Please!

You guys want a good Walton Goggins show try. "The Sheild" classic

Justified is a fantastic show if you need more Goggins! And The Righteous Gemstones you get Goggins as Uncle Baby Billy which may be one of his best characters. It's honestly one of my favourite shows of all time

For my money, the BEST Walton Goggins performances were in the series "The Shield". It's about a group of corrupt cops in California. If you guys do decide to give another TV series a shot based on it having Goggin's in it, I would absolutely recommend that for sure. Justified is solid as well and his performance in that show is fantastic also.