Ella Purnell marry me challenge｜Fallout 1x1 "The End" Reaction

Watch the first episode of Fallout with me! I enjoyed this show a lot (RIP in pickles Monty) - what was your favourite moment?
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[@barbzthings]

Hi everyone! Throughout the series I mentioned SO MANY TIMES wanting to play the games - well, here we are! I made a gaming channel kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6KZgHtroZ17l5Y and also stream the games live on twitch! Links in the description, feel free to follow for new uploads! See ya ;)

[@hugoz.7281]

Everyone's watching fallout, it's awesome.

[@Rofyle-e4v]

The games are very dark comedies. I mean very dark. For example, at every dialogue option, your character is given a choice of responses to witnessing a horrific and graphic scene of violence. One of the choices, called sarcastic, is to crack a dad joke about the scene you just witnessed. Every scene. You can even sell a kid into slavery and make a joke about it to him as you're selling him.

[@barbzthings]

I'm planning to play (possibly stream) the games before season two and all the comments are making me so excited for it! Can't wait to see the dark options

[@mrm7058]

@15:15 Most characters are new and the show is just playing in the Fallout universe with a new story, not a story from one of the games (some story elements from the games have been used) Only in the last episode you will see some characters that also played a role in one of the games.

[@barbzthings]

Ahh can't wait for that! Might check out the games as well then :D

[@mrm7058]

@@barbzthings Not sure if I would suggest it. While the games are not a direct spoiler, some stuff about the show are less surprising, if you know the games. On the other hand, only if you know the games you will understand some eastereggs. Hard to give a suggestion here. But in the end they have done a great job in making the show work for people who do know the games and those who don't.

[@S0LAVELLANHELL]

@@mrm7058 i mean the games are great, and i enjoyed the show IMMENSELY and had excitement over things that i didnt know would happen/show up, even if ik what they are in the games lol.

[@mrm7058]

@@S0LAVELLANHELL I know the games and I enjoyed the show - but I also think you see the show with different eyes if you don't know the games.

[@caffeinedelusions]

"It looks heavy" It's power armor. It's a whole articulated hydraulic framework that carries its own weight while amplifying the force applied by your own muscles. It IS heavy, but it's not making you carry it. Instead, it's strong enough to carry YOU as well as itself.

[@barbzthings]

Yeah it's pretty intimidating seeing it in full display later on!

[@BKPrice]

To be fair, you could tell any random woman she looks like her mother and have a high probability of being right.

[@namechamps]

Lucy is not a character from the game. In fact nothing from the show happened in any game. As you said it is more a completely new story and characters set in the universe created by the games. Which is honestly pretty cool. It means it is new even for those of us who played every game.

[@barbzthings]

I have since seen a bit of the gameplay and honestly, I think it was a great choice for that reason - nothing gets spoiled when you wanna play after watching!

[@rromano158]

Sometimes you just have to dispel your reality beliefs because in shows like this it's really just "video game logic."

[@jgunner94]

What’s that in reference to?

[@Rippersauc3]

​​@@jgunner94 It's just video game logic in general. For example in real life if you got stabbed and you're bleeding you wouldn't grab a shot and stab it into the wound to inject medicine. You either sterilize the wound or cover it up to stop the bleeding. But in the world of Fallout people just stab themselves with something called a stimpak and for some reason it heals all their wounds. Even crippled limbs lol

[@blanketwodahs6741]

I think that full acceptance of "video game logic" makes this show so much better than haters are interpreting. It really explains away a lot of "issues" some would have. A lot of the issues I had initially don't bother me at all now .. ie, if the ghoul has been "in game" for 219 years, it completely justifies how OP he is. I am sure he has every perk in "the game".

[@jgunner94]

@@Rippersauc3 Is that them just leaving out the blanks though in some of the design from generations back? As video games have gotten more detailed those blanks have been increasingly filled in. Is there any lore on stimpaks across the games anywhere?

[@vashsunglasses]

@@jgunner94 What lore? It's futuristic technology that stimulates wound healing. Is it that far fetched that people in an alternate timeline that's ahead of us could have developed better medicine than us? We don't need technobabble to "explain" it.

[@caffeinedelusions]

You nailed it with 'retrofuturism'. What you're seeing in that first scene is the future of an alternate timeline that split somewhere around the end of World War 2. It's the year 2077, a future as imagined by the people of the 1950s and 60s... a world of cheap nuclear power, domestic service robots, miracle medicines, and a cold war that's been gradually building up to the boiling point of actual military conflict with advanced power armor for limited resources over the course of a hundred years... and even with the advanced electronics like the robots, there's not a microprocessor in sight. The supercomputers are running in vacuum tubes and transistors. And THEN the bombs drop and we jump forward 219 years.

[@rafaelcolt7438]

Don't take the knife out if you can go to a hospital, a emergency room, or have some immediate help. If you will fight or need to run, just remove it or you will have more internal damage.

[@barbzthings]

Yeah I mistakenly assumed she would get help! But then everyone explained the stimpaks so it made sense to remove it :)

[@Aeolusdallas]

Retro future is a good way to describe it

[@codegerman71]

6:02 This application is every 3 yrs, to those who didn’t find a match within their own vault. Not every time, as in every relationship. Vaults aren’t normally connected.

[@namechamps]

"so this is futuristic but retro". Exactly retro futurism. An idea of what people in the 1950s might think the future looks like given their understanding of the world. No internet, no iphones but nuclear powered everything to include robots and cars.

[@thomasdaub5445]

I have seen a lot of video game adaptations but this one is different. It actually use game mechanics in the show and im all in for it.

[@theblackhall1353]

Just wanted to say I enjoyed the reaction. Also just to help out a bit. Here's the most basic non-spoiler summary I could make of this universe if you're curious enough about it. . . . . . Fallout takes place in a separate timeline from the real world timeline. Though up until WW2, it was pretty much the same historically. Where it splits is after WW2 when the first bombs were dropped. As this civilization ended up using atomic engery also as a means of nearly limtless enegry. That and keeping the 1950s asthetic along with a huge advancement leap of technology that we only have a bit of in our current IRL year of 2024. Anyways a lot of stuff happens in between. Then the year the bombs dropped in the beginning of the episode is in the year 2077, October 23rd on a Saturday. Also cool tidbit I believe is true. But apprently the bombs used by 2077 are considere Low-Yeild nukes. Meaning they are still technically nukes, but they have much less nuclear radiation used in them. So theoretically if one was far enough away and not in ground zero. They could survive and barley be effected. Again if anyone knows of this better then me of if its even true. Then tell me. Anyways again this was the most basic way I could at least help you understand a bit more of this world. I hope you enjoy the rest of it though. I sure did when I watched it. Anyway have a good one! 🙂

[@PalleRasmussen]

Now you are young, to those of us growing up during The Cold War that intro is what we feared would happen- every day. But we lived our lives. When I teach my The History of The Cold War classes, I always start by showing them a five minute video of nuclear explosions with eerie music, to make your generation understand what it all was- and what you will have to get used to again with Putoloni's sabre-rattling (though he is too much of a coward to do it). During the Cold War, the USSR was planning to open the war by dropping 600+ merely on my little Denmark. The game is set in an alternative timeline, where the transistor was never invented, so everything used vacuum-tubes like early computers. And thus the timeline starts diverging from ours in the year after WW2, and progress is generally much slower. But there is also no Cuban Missile Crisis, Long Island, etc, and no reckoning with its past, so the US carries on in a sort of Truman-Eisenhower Superamerica with nuclear powered cars, etc. But in the 21st century fossil fuels and other resources starts running out, and The Resource Wars starts; where Europe, Africa and The Middle East is torn apart, and China invades Alaska to get the last remaining oil resource on the planet. And in 2077... Boom. And oh yea, the US turns authoritarian semi-Fascist, a bit like Starship Troopers. The Brotherhood of Steel is the remnants of the US Army turned Nazi. Anyway, think of the game and series as set in a sort of retro-futuriatic post apocalypse, IE a future as imagined in the fifties, but then add a nuclear exchange of superpowers. In the games you find all those tragic and dark stories as you explore the Wasteland, the series show them, but both do a very good job of what good SciFi should; holding up a dark mirror to humanity- and with Fallout it is really dark. Also, you have incredibly beautiful eyes.

[@caffeinedelusions]

There are multiple games, each with its own stand-alone story. Quality varies, but they're generally very good. The Amazon series is set AFTER all the games to date and is its own original story, so it has something new to offer everyone whether they've played the games or not... and if you DO go play the games, each of them will have story elements you've never run into before.

[@seanbumstead1250]

Original characters and story

[@nvcn86]

the thumbs up i not factually correct though ;) you can be way closer. death zone for a small nuke can be as little as 4km radius, and they are on the hills, the city is likely farther than that. and yes, the initial blast she was actually looking at would've likely blinded her.

[@blaster-vv8so]

this is an original story that takes place after fallout 4 (that may be an easy entry into the games but new Vegas is the best of the 3d games)

[@altairtodescatto]

We all love Woody Woodpecker cousin!

[@garfnob4832]

yes the games are good and a vary immersive world if you are the type to read all the notes and the like. also vary good story telling with the settings no words needed. I.E. the family around the table in episode 2. fallout 1 and 2 = top down RPGs falloutdc 3, new vagus, and 4 = FPS with some RPG aspects (less as time goes on) fallout 76 = like 4, but with MMO like aspects. they have added much story that was missing at launch. in time line it is a prequel.

[@blackbrandonblue]

"Why can't there be a show where people are kind and just do stuff?" That's the defining principle of Iyashikei anime. And a fair amount of Japanese minimalist narrative in general. In an odd way it's more subversive than most. It subverts the most banal pretense in all of fiction: the Aristotelian requirement of conflict.

[@Waterford1992]

3:14 Sorry am I missing something here but are you an expert in nuclear weapons?

[@barbzthings]

Hey! Not an expert at all, just general knowledge/info from other media (even Oppenheimer test scene had them cover their eyes) - I think somebody else covered it in the comments quite well :)

[@HelloTygr]

Idk what’s happening in your comments; there are some weird haters. Love the show!

[@barbzthings]

Not sure either but it doesn't matter much - the show is great and I will keep watching!

[@PalleRasmussen]

You should play

[@paulf2557]

A great show - a poor and totally disjointed reaction. If you don't like violent shows you are definitely in the wrong series. Stick to cartoons maybe? Woke ones preferably.

[@SlyPearTree]

I don't think we watched the same reaction.

[@paulf2557]

@@SlyPearTree I know which one I watched. The one that jumped past so many important scenes that made watching it redundant. Still if you enjoyed it, that is fine. Variety is the spice of life. Really wasn't for me though. I think I have probably watched so many great reactions to this fantastic show, that ones that are lacking in the continuity, really don't cut it for me. I did see that she is fairly new to the reaction scene, so maybe the channel will get better. I would point you in the direction of some fine reactions, that don't chop things up so much - but they aren't hard to find. And I know the YT copyright stuff is a pain, especially with a new show, but even so, for me this falls just a little too far. Terrific show though, and a totally wonderful series of games.

[@3pcgi959]

I've only seen three episodes, but I'm sure that all the other episodes are just as bad. Trash show for kids.

[@Uwe6719]

The show is not trash!

[@ZachSawyer2077]

@@Uwe6719 Let him be, some peple just like to "cry in the rain". They think it makes them look cool and edgy.

[@rustybroomhandle]

Did you know, that while you think you are a troll riling people up, you're actually providing engagement to the algorithm that helps small channels get more likely to be noticed? Thank you for your service.

[@3pcgi959]

@@rustybroomhandle "trigger the algorithm" That's why I did it :)

[@patriziosailor]

@@3pcgi959 and yet, you continue to trigger it lol.