Incredible first episode!

For a bit of context, the games are a satire/dark comedy, and they aren’t in the past, it’s an alternate timeline where the microprocessor was never invented, or remained in it’s early infancy (transistors and vacuum tubes remained the main processing tech) , so all tech is bigger and chunkier, atomic power became the norm, and the aesthetics of the 50’s/60’s continued to be the main style.

Honestly, that raider in the beginning really did have the best day. He got to eat great food, have clean water to drink and got to fuck the main girl while being a throw away character.

The brother absolutly has the highest perception and intelligence skill out of everyone else there, but he sacrificed his strength and charisma to do it haha

I loved how Lucy's introduction basically involved her telling us which fallout game skills she specialized in.

It's retrofuturism. What people in the 50s-60s imagined the future to look like.

Fun fact: the female vault dweller played by ella purnell is the VA for Jinx from arcane. The ghoul played by walton goggins is the VA of Cecil from invincible. Lastly the overseer, the father of the vault dweller, was the OG actor of Paul Atreides from the 1984 Dune movie

The woman playing Lucy is Ella Purnell, she was the voice actress for Jynx in Arcane. Apparently, she just makes any video game adaptation she touches turn to gold. They absolutely nailed this series.

NOT A SPOILER...the shelter that the family hoped in when the bombs went off when the white guy punched the black guy. It was not a Vault..... It was just a fallout shelter. So basically a deep basement.

25:49 Ghouls can live for a very long time, if not forever. Assuming that they haven't gone feral or are killed by other means. It's just that they can no longer age due to the radiation.

*"Flash, bam, alakazam"* *Just like that, human civilization was literal toast*

Can we show some love to Roshi for being the first reaction channel to realize that “speed of sound” exists during the opening scene!

When misunderstanding information in the episode causes you to accidently make an accurate guess lol.

i thought you guys weren't gonna be reacting to this.. THIS IS SO FREAKING EPIC!

So Ghouls are mutated humans who've survived an ungodly amount of radiation and survived, and as a result they can stay alive for centuries. They're one of my favourite parts of the Fallout universe!

No clue if it's intentional or how it works in the games, but the squires carrying all the stuff for the knights sent me. It reminds me of making your companion carry all your stuff in video games so you have more inventory space

Its base in a alternate future with 50's style era. But the nukes goes off in the year 2077

"Cuba Gooding Majors!" 😂

The reason why the raiders' radiation wasn't detected immediately because they're wearing valt suits which has some resistance to radiation

the nukes go off in 2077, it seems futuristic and retro because they kinda based it on what people in the 50s-60s thought the future tech would be like essentially

The actor that got kicked into the coffin from the ghoul portion of the episode is Bubba from forest gump.

Walton Goggins is a scene stealer in this series - I hope you guys love it!

Vault-tek existed pre war and created 120 something vaults. The family going in a underground shelter at the start of the episode was not a vault-tek one. Just a regular personal one and they a 100% died.

"I have never played a single Fallout game in my life" Oh, excellent. Blank canvas.

That first mushroom cloud just sends chills doesn't it. Can't wait for y'all to see the rest

Walton Goggins literally always delivers, he's HIM

This episode got me heated because buddy drowned that guy in the pickle barrel for no reason. I would be pressed if someone did that in an apocalypse situation 😅

Hell yeah. Also. A key component of this timeline is that the transistor hadn't been invented by the time of the war. Everything was still vacuum tube tech. They also went all in on nuclear power.

"I'm not gonna judge." moment later "Cousin F'er"

I love that you can make guesses about the character builds of the main characters. Maximus clearly used intelligence as a dump stat to boost his luck. Lucy is definitely a skill-heavy build. The Ghoul is the standard ranged combat build with high dexterity, perception, luck, and small arms skill.

"cuba gooding majors" lmao

Just binged this yesterday and thought “Roshi needs to get on this masterpiece.” You guys are in for a RIDE. 😭🙏

16:42 i lost it when lupa said " next time baby " referencing terrence Howard's war machine 😂😂😂

The Fallout world is actually set in the future, but is based on the 1950s aesthetic and mentality. Some things that may help you understand the universe and style of the show. 1) Nuclear power became common place. They use it to power everything from their homes to their cars. 2) The transistor wasn't created until much later and never really caught on. Which is why vacuum tubes are in everything and things look more clunky. Microelectronics were basically never a thing. 3) Fallout tech burns oil at about three times the rate our world experiences. This is what led to resources being so scarce and the world tensions. 4) Radiation is somewhat magical instead of instant death. Can still kill you, but sometimes it doesn't or not right away. 5) Some of their tech (especially medical) is way advanced compared to where we are (hence the stimpack Lucy uses when she's stabbed. It's a drug that causes the body to accelerate the healing process to be almost instant). Other tech is way behind. They also LOVE enhancement drugs. Steroids and ability enhancers were basically sold like gum is here. Ironically, with the last decade of overmedication in America I really feel like we're getting close to matching Fallout, it's just not as cool. 6) It crosses the line constantly between 'light' and 'dark'. One moment you'll be laughing at the sheer ridiculousness of a situation and 10 minutes later you'll come across some of the most depraved acts humanity is capable of. With all that in mind, and as a long time fan of the IP, I feel like the show captured the essence and spirit of this wacky place perfectly. Excited to see where they go next.

The year is 2077, fallout is set in a 1950s theme because technology didn't advance is it would of, things are mostly ran by nuclear power

I'm so glad everyone is loving this show. As a fan of the fallout games and lore it's so satisfying to see more people getting into this.

Lupa so happy look at him smiling and trying not to spoil

to answer roshi question, yest vault-tech vaults (the ones numbered) existed BEFORE the bombs dropped

It’s so satisfying seeing a good adaptation of a series you love. I was cautiously optimistic since I saw the first trailer and the show surpassed my expectations.

The shelter that the family went into was not a Vault-Tec vault, it was a normal shelter, possibly for tornados or something. You'll learn all about the vaults so I won't say anything on what those are all about.

Since you guys are gamers, let me try and explain the first two Fallout games. Back in the late 90s, everyone was saying that computer RPGs was a dead genre. Developers just stopped making them for a while. So when Fallout 1 came out, RPG fans were starving for content of any kind. What we got was a completely standard RPG full of all the things CRPG fans love (right down to the isometric graphics, which were already dated by then). Game-wise, what was new was the sandbox-style game world, your decisions affected the world and how different factions treated you, and the setting. Back then, RPGs were *always* fantasy D&D knock-offs. The setting blew everyone's minds so much that a lot of us overlooked the sandbox stuff and faction stuff that is now pretty standard in computer games. What really made the setting pop was the writing and art direction. As you can see from the show it is a wild collection of stylistic influences, from a retro-future vision of the future from the 60s and 50s, the 40s/50s music, the absurdism, and and the dark, dark humor. As you'll see from the TV series (which gets the tone absolutely right), the humor is as black as the withered soul of a Texas Republican. One of the big positives of the Fallout series is that something about the setting and backstory makes it so that even bad writers can cook up some really interesting commentary on the modern world in the subtext. The Enclave gets a brief mention in this episode. They are basically the remnants of the American government. While the subtext around the Enclave shifts from game to game, most of the time, they are villainous representations of the bad imperialist/colonialist elements of the American government. The Brotherhood of Steel started out as a group dedicated to the preservation of pre-war (meaning pre-apocalypse) technology. They came to venerate pre-war technology as holy relics and it became a kind of demented religion. Inevitably, they leveraged their tech advantage into a military advantage. Their religion is kind of nutty. The Vaults were created by Vault-Tek, a pure evil corporation. These are full of the descendants of wealthy people who could afford to buy their way in. Everyone outside the Vaults are the less-well-off people who were left to suffer the full consequences of the nuclear holocaust in the face. Because Vault-Tek is pure evil, many Vaults were unwitting participants in truly insane social experiments. Vault 33 looks like one of the lucky ones that were used as a control for the other experiments. Ghouls are humans who were warped by radiation and other nastiness in the nuclear wasteland. They tend to live very long lives, but are also prone to going "feral," after which they become like zombies. Mutants are mentioned in the show, but not on-screen. They would be expensive to implement in live action because they would have to be CGI. Before the war, the military used the FEV (Forced Evolutionary Virus) to try and turn humans into the perfect soldiers. It didn't go right. They are big, green, have a lot of muscles, and aren't very smart (they were supposed to receive orders, not give them), but they are also pretty nuts and can only reproduce by using FEV to turn more humans into mutants. Because of the nuclear war, they escaped the lab they were created in. Rad-roaches are in the show. They will get explained in the show, so no need for me to say anything. Rad-scorpions are like rad-roaches, but are modified/mutated scorpions and much larger. I don't honestly know if deathclaws are in the show, but they are kind of a big deal in the game, so I assume they will show up later. They are genetic abominations created by the pre-war military with the intent of using them as soldiers for close-quarters fighting. They can take a lot of damage (it takes multiple shots to bring them down), and have a devastating melee attack. They tend to form packs (which is what makes them even more dangerous), and a small number of them are intelligent. Like the mutants, they escaped the lab they were created in because of the war, and they turned out to be very well-adapted for the post-apocalypse world.

Seeing Lupa so excited and giddy just made me so freaking happy! This is one of the first times I've ever been ahead of you guys and watchef a show. I'm so excited!

We gottta have a Fallout 3/NV/4 let's play after the show

I finished watching the series yesterday and the cast absolutely crushed it with their roles.

As someone who plays fallout, this show is a modern masterpiece.

24:26 no that was not anti gravity, that was a man jumping in power armour 😂 and the logic of his squire carrying the bag is thats the squires job, hes a follower so he carries the players loot

That curtain thing is actually something that happens in hotels.

Walter goggins was in Django too. he is absolutely legendary as the ghoul here and steals the spotlight for sure.

Ghouls are people who’ve been heavily irradiated and their skin basically falls off. They have elongated life spans too so some ghouls have been around since before the war.

i never played the games, but this show made me want to play them

About time you guys reacted to Fallout. The show is amazing and rivals the last of us

Roshi might not be interested in playing the games, but he might like watching some of the lore videos, it's an interesting IP

You can see how in the end Lupa can answer all the questions, but restrains himself so as not to spoiler😄😄

Lets goooo!! This show was really good and the games are a must play.

10:11 The vault jumpsuits are radiation resistant, so even if they check on them when they enter, the detector wouldn't spike. Wasn't until Lucy check on the guy without the jumpsuit that she was able to get a correct reading.

28:55 Vault-Tec had build the valuts way before the bombs dropped. The 200 years skip is the necessary time to the radiation levels to be halved, and things starts to live again...

Probably my favorite reactors on youtube, yall are real ones for reacting to fallout. Big up Jamaica 🇯🇲 👊🏾

The vaults were built before the bombs dropped and were an insurance policy to preserve civilization. Theres more to it then that but youll find that out as you watch. The shelter at the beginning was just a standard fallout shelter not a vault.

Walton Goggins is in Righteous Gemstones with Danny McBride as Uncle Baby Billy. He is great in that as well. It's on HBO and they renewed it for another season.

Lupa, when you said you played a little of 3 and 4, i didn't think that meant you didn't make it to the first town in 3 where you literally see one of these ghoul dudes for the first time lol. Roshi can definitely play 4 cuz the rpg mechanics are basically nonexistent except for level up options and weapon crafting

Youll find out about the origins of the vaults in later episodes

15:24 “Cuba Gooding Majors.” Ayo! 😂😂😂

I am hyped that you guys picked up this series, I love yalls reaction and yalls synergy, and being entertaining while being entertained. Looking forward to watching your journey for these next 8 episodes!

oh my god I have been WAITING for yall to start posting Fallout. Can't wait to see yall really start to get into it!

Been waiting for this one, thank you very much yall.

Overseer Al Ghaib said "Death by Pickle!" Maximus is basically The Mandalorian: Bezos Edition.

I was about to Fall out of my seat when I saw the notification for this one

Yo, I have to say that intro is lit! I was just scrolling through and had to click the vid just to tell you how great it is. Kudos!

Hell yes! Been looking forward to this reaction. Such a fun series!

Binged the whole 8 yesterday lol great series. Looking forward to season 2

I love the raider fight scene with Lucy. It's amazing how people assume a strong dude (that's a killer also) wouldnt be an issue for a smaller woman. If Lucy had a gun to start though.. (she did what she had to and took advantage of his stupidity)

You recognized Travis from Disjointed WAYYY faster than I did. Dude is ripped as hell now.

This show literally got me posting videos lol Glad you guys are watching it. The best thing that happened to videogames in a while...

Really excited to see your 3 Body Problem reaction, so I hope it comes to youtube.

The interesting thing is there are about 8000 (presumably if we assume both stockpiles are well-maintained) nukes in the world. We know about 50% of these would be directed at military (usually other nuke silos or ports for nuke subs), but that still leaves 4000 directed at so-called 'counter-value' targets. Cities. If we assume 2000 for each side, that is like 40 per state. Given the elevated importance of LA...the show might well be an underestimation of how many bombs would impact the City.

so glad yall picked this up

Y'ALL HAD ME WAITING

juss wanna say been watching yall for years now and luv yall reactions

haha it is true about that square thing. A lot of the people in the vaults are trained in different things, but they are fighting people who basically born into fighting and fight non stop vs those that fight as like a sport in their offtime. They definitely lack real battle experience but not all of them are just completely helpless.

Walton Goggins is great as "the man in black" ;)

Welcome to the community, Roshi gang. There’s a vault in need of your help. It’s marked on your map.😎👍

Always love the reactions to the term "cousin stuff" 😂👍

I love how not everyone catches that “activity” happening in the barracks but when people do they are like wtf!!?!?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Fallout takes place in an alternate or parallel world where history went in a different direction after World War II. Some tech had major advances while other areas did not. The opening scene when the bombs dropped took place on October 23rd 2077. Some people when irradiated became ghouls, who are effectively immortal.

Man I am so excited ya'll are watching this and the fact not everyone is familiar with the universe makes it even better.

Nice I’m glad I get to watch this with you guys

YESSS i didn’t think you guys would react to this 😊 can’t wait to see how much you guys enjoy this show

OH MY GOD... I've been waiting for this show!!! I've played the game years ago! 😭❤❤❤

Oh Sick. Thanks for reacting to another great show. We have been spoilt recently for series with Shogun, Fallout, Beef and Bear. Walton Goggins is one of my fav TV actors, ever since The Shield and then SOA bruh the difference between those two characters, wild.

YOOOO been patiently waiting for thissss

So happy you are reacting to this. Fallout games are my favorite games ever!

FINALLY YALL ARE COVERING FALLOUT!!! Yall are in for a hilarious/dramatic/fantastic ride 🤣💯

Ghouls can live for a very very long time, they turned from the radiation and don't need to eat or sleep. There's also feral ghouls who are pretty much like zombies There's even ghouls from before the bombs that are still alive

I was just thinking when’s y’all gonna watch this, cause I knew it was coming. And a second after I thought that I saw it pop up as the next thing on my feed

This series with entry 8 episode was so short yet SO GOOD. Glad they're announced the SS2

Glad y'all are reacting to this, its a great show

You don’t even know how long I’ve been waiting for this reaction

I binged watched this show. Im glad you guys are reacting to this. Fallout 3 was my absolute fav. It's def nostalgic and makes me want to play 3, new vegas and 4

Sweeeet, I've been putting off watching the series till now, guess I'll be back for this in a little bit! 👏👏👏

Ive been waiting for this video. Looking forward to the rest.