Fallout 1x6 REACTION!! "The Trap"

[@BlindWave]

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[@badreprint]

"The future, my friend, is products. You're a product, I'm a product. The end of the world, is a product." That line is so good, and so, so fucked up.

[@ErikTheOrphan]

especially coming from Amazon

[@leonelsjanofwipper3418]

You, commenter here on YT, are also a product. 🙃 Wait, so am I, damn.

[@BrokenNoah]

@@leonelsjanofwipper3418 We are all products on this blessed day

[@rw0dyxer012]

@@leonelsjanofwipper3418 He's a product, he's a product, he's a product! I'm a product!!! Are there any other "products" I should know about?

[@PROVOCATEURSK]

Capitalists flood you with 200 different phones while you can´t get an affordable housing or medical care.

[@funnerz]

13:30 That sigh of satisfaction when the Fallout theme kicks in 👌

[@Cornberry]

SO satisfied as a fan. They just nailed the references and iconic bits, like the theme.

[@Tazzasaurus1]

straight goose bump nipples all over hearing that song in that moment

[@Clairevoyant101]

why does this comment say its 4 weeks old

[@danielantunez8355]

@@Clairevoyant101 blind wave posted this vid 4 weeks ago. if u pay for their patreon u get early access. us peons get access 4 weeks later

[@Clairevoyant101]

@@danielantunez8355 ah

[@jdhlegendz6700]

Damn didn’t even realise Henry was set up in this episode👀 “you want another autograph young Henry”

[@cheeseninja1115]

this show has a surprising amount of details that you pick up on with a second viewing. You can really tell the creators had their heart in this project.

[@leolegendario1]

I didn't realize that when I watched it, that's crazy.

[@Cornberry]

It's weird to say, especially with how outlandishly campy the world is sometimes, but the world almost feels REAL - at least the pre-war stuff. Because our history up until a certain point is shared, it just seems so realistic. The show does a great job of conveying that. "War never changes," encompasses so many issues that can be related to our own experience today.

[@justinhubbard552]

Wtf

[@mahockey3]

​@@justinhubbard552 wtf

[@cazper420]

History repeats itself

[@DBT1007]

No. Go away pls. Hiroshima only need decades to be resettled. Chernobyl? Now it's much more safe but radiation is still there. Need to wait until 2040 or something maybe Fallout logic is dumb. It's not real stuff. don't apply real life logic here. just enjoy or out.

[@RealTurbidHere]

No, this show is bad I ageee with cornberry.

[@IdriveKITTnyc]

13:33 Calvin has a Moment, one would say a totally normal and its supposed to happen moment. Well lucy would say that.

[@Scyth0r]

This episode and the next one combined are a masterclass in script writing. People reach an entirely logical and reasonable conclusion in this episode, even though certain things are never 'explicitly' stated to be true. All the clues are right there, the whole time, and they don't change. It just comes down to what narrative story you fit them into.

[@leolegendario1]

I agree, the next episode is my favorite because of that, I didn't expect it at all.

[@RaptorNX01]

yeah, taking what fallout is famous for, its "environmental storytelling" and using it in such a way is genius. and also potential set up.

[@mecfstraveler]

In Episode 1 the two men mocking Cooper at the birthday party mention alimony as a reason for him working birthday parties. I assume he was no longer in a happy marriage. Regarding his becoming a Ghoul, maybe he was heading to the family's assigned vault on that horse with his daughter but when they got there she was allowed in but he was denied access since there'd been an obvious split with his wife?

[@BoshyG]

there's no way he makes it to a vault the last bomb went off like a mile from him.

[@chrism7395]

That fact he's gone from movies/TV to children's birthday parties suggests he gets blacklisted

[@Retrovorious]

23:03. People think there are monsters in the vaults because when someone explore a vault that’s what they usually find. There are things like mutated people, mutated animals, deranged clones etc in those old vaults.

[@kingcaesar3693]

Talking Deathclaws in Fallout 2. Which was wild to see.

[@galadballcrusher8182]

Fallout Tactics. You are part of Brotherhood of Steel and can later recruit mutants, ghouls, even Deathclaws

[@kingcaesar3693]

@@galadballcrusher8182 I feel that goes against the rules set for the brotherhood. They hate mutants almost as much as Frank Horrigan.

[@placeboobshere5458]

​@@galadballcrusher8182I don't think that game is even canon.

[@snickims9717]

@@placeboobshere5458 Yea its the only game thats not cannon.

[@cl4-tpgaming]

Most of the terrifying creatures of the wastelands are pre or post war experimentation that was able to maintain a population. Also CODDSWORTH, actual CODDSWORTH😂

[@cheeseninja1115]

if only they gave him a bowler hat

[@leolegendario1]

Rewatching it with you guys I realized how much foreshadowing there is in this series. It's so good and well thought out.

[@MementoMortis21]

With how much they enjoy Matt Berry, I hope they get to react to What We Do In the Shadows soon.

[@IceMetalPunk]

Or IT Crowd.

[@cl4-tpgaming]

To be fair to the gulper babies, (Aaron can probably attest to this) you have enough kids, pretty soon there gonna be a few that bite😂

[@thedarkknight2221]

Chris Parnell (Cyril from Archer and Jerry from Rick And Morty) is so perfect in this role. And I love how even after the hell that Lucy and Maximus have been through, they’re still too scared of being impolite and pointing out his and other peoples mutations.🤣🤣 Also after seeing Matt Berry as Codsworth aka Mr Handy these guys need to finally watch What We Do In The Shadows.

[@LARVideos]

I just know him from IT crowd and an episode of community. lol

[@thedarkknight2221]

@@LARVideos watch Shadows and you’ll be quoting him non stop

[@galadballcrusher8182]

Poke

[@jomontanya7114]

"It can get a little rambunctious for my taste." I feel like this guy could have used better words to describe a naked cult ceremony.

[@LoricSwift]

No it was perfect, and perfectly delivered XD

[@galadballcrusher8182]

Well it is not an orgy, they get naked and smear ashes on their body , is more of a memmorial funeral rite. With a hint and promise of retribution "blood will be spilled".

[@mirofeya]

I was so worried that it would be a sacrifice ceremony. Just some gross ashes stuff, kinda calm.

[@ltimmons9]

23:45 also the exact plot of Prometheus right there lol

[@soflyedits322]

fiduciary responsibility is an important term for americans to know because the US isn't built to be safe and functional, it's built to be profitable. fallout as a series is a scary satire because vault-tec is exactly how the US and it's military industrial complex operate today. loove this show!

[@johnmiller7682]

Does it seem weird that Lucy wanted to have sex? If you're having sex with your cousin, sex is probably not a taboo.

[@idrc1415]

So scene where Lucy asked Maximus if he wanted to have sex was because she was reading his body language. Before she said that, he was looking at her, and feeling attracted to her, and so he said she smells nice (also because he's not used to hot showers lol so she's more than likely the best selling person he's been around). She clocked he was being a little awkward and realized why he was acting that way. There wasn't anything in the air, but I understand why that'd be a worry after everything going on, and the "test subjects" sign lol

[@auxiliaryaccount808]

Dude was acting weird. Staring at a waterfall while eating popcorn. His behavior down there seemed like he was drugged.

[@hinasakukimi]

yeah and lucy's just horny lol

[@Anubisblack]

He has literally never experienced anything like that in his entire life. He’s just like Lucy’s dead husband. Best day of his life.

[@davidabercrombie5427]

I read it as Maximus has grown up in the Brotherhood, which definitely feels culty and probably has an abstinence/purity culture, and Lucy's upbringing in the vault has been naive but also very sexually open.

[@leolegendario1]

You're right, but the series wants you to think there's something wrong in Vault 4, and because of that the plot twist is much more incredible.

[@theemperormoth5089]

To clarify, if not to Blind Wave then to everyone else, Shady Sands was not nuked in 2277, it just faced political/economic decline and eventually stopped being the capital of the NCR. It was sometime after that date (a few years after the end of Fallout: New Vegas from recent comments by Bethesda) that the nuke destroyed the city.

[@peterretep4009]

Was that confirmed, or is it just the most canon-friendly interpretation? Because going purely by the show, it would make the most sense if it happened in 2077. That's when the "great famine" in Vault 33 was, when Rose supposedly died, and the quarantine that caused the famine would also be the perfect cover for Hank to go out, retrieve the kids, and nuke Shady Sands.

[@kevinsizemore2053]

@@peterretep4009 Official word (from an interview with Todd Howard) is that they messed up with the 2277 date on the board. Just a continuity mistake like what can and does happen in other shows.

[@theemperormoth5089]

@@peterretep4009 first, 2077 is when the Great War happened. 2277 is when Shady Sands began declining. In an interview with Forbes, Todd Howard said they were cutting the dates pretty close, but Shady Sands was destroyed after Fallout: New Vegas, which takes place in 2281.

[@RaptorNX01]

new vegas is 2281, four years after the first battle for hoover dam in 2277. and NV is FULL of references to things not being right with the NCR. how thinly they are spread out, how desperate they seem. also, i don't necessarily trust the "few years after" bit. I suspect Lonesome Road has a tie in to all this.

[@GreatDiniGaming]

When that Fallout theme music kicks in....such CHILLS!! Soo good.

[@Tao_Tology]

The "fiduciary responsibility" is the thumb that corporations put onto people with the lie that 'welp, we...... _have_ to make short, term profit the goal. shrug' is unarguable.

[@dorothythelunchboxthief142]

11:50 yes! They actually do, in fallout 4 at least (I haven’t spent much time in vaults in the other games yet, I have played them lots tho) there is power generators throughout the vault, they are most prominent in vault 111 in fallout 4, as you have to walk through one of the generator rooms at the start of the game.

[@MartinPurvis]

“I bet he smells great” jesus christ 😂😂😂

[@IceMetalPunk]

He smells at least TWICE as good as I do!

[@Rowlandi11]

Lot of poignant themes concerning "products" and "fiduciary responsibility." I like this episode a lot

[@Ray-ko1lm]

I think Lucy just doesn’t gaf about being subtle. She took him saying he smelled good as possibly a come on and shot her shot. However, Maximus’s “religious” beliefs and his general ignorance with sex had him decline.

[@robpreston5692]

Yes, once she realized what part of her he was smelling, she decided to shoot her shot.

[@Jonno92100]

As someone who just came off a recent Community rewatch, watching this episode got a laugh out of me. 0:46 having the man who oversaw the polygraph test for Pierce Hawthorne's bequeathals introduce the Hawthorne family. AND then having a chat with the teacher of Grifting 101 trying to sell us 'products'.

[@pickrzz]

6:56 don't worry Calvin, I appreciated that joke 😂

[@reginaldx]

I like to think that Maximus was shot by one of his own teeth which he sold. 😄 The way that Lucy and Maximus think about sex probably says something about Vault vs. BoS culture. If people in Vault 33 are having casual sex, then presumably everyone in there has access to reliable birth control; this makes sense since population control is a vault priority. Whereas on the surface, prophylactics are probably rare. Thus sex "education" in the Brotherhood is probably simply abstinence.

[@theSpartan187]

2277 is not when the destruction of shady sands happened btw

[@bcn1gh7h4wk]

1:35 Potential, Exposure and Sustainability: What you can do, if anything; When and where you can do it, if at all; and for how long you can do it. Bud here aims to go silent run underground, and surf the apocalypse to the other side.

[@chrism7395]

The Brotherhood takes a lot of inspiration from a book called 'A Canticle for Leibowicz' but made fundamentalist

[@mahelaniarektbb]

"Sounds shitty." Dammit Aaron lol

[@LonewolfOfSD]

Hollywood Forever is a cemetery where a lot of famous Hollywood stars are interred.

[@texasrattlesnake31637]

Another great episode! The music is, as always, 💯💯💯! Great reaction Wave Duo!

[@TheNinjaBees]

Crazy to think we’re getting New Vegas lore in 2024

[@josephmunoz2698]

There are naturally born gulpers I think it's because those things are just in that region they called the same

[@azuresentry815]

Realistically Vault Tec's fiduciary responsibility was to not go in so hard on building the vaults given that, inherently, for them to be needed would mean the end of most of their shareholders and at the very least the collapse of the economy and therefore destruction of all those profits. But you could certainly warp it if, as a Vault Tec minion, it was your objective to convince others within the cult of Vault Tec that they need to go along with this (among other warped lines of thinking).

[@nuhstawlgia]

wow didnt know u funally dropped more fallout

[@seanpatrickcain2]

This episode contains the title music for Fallout 4 when Lucy is looking at the New California Republic Flag.

[@DethKwok]

It's also Fallout 3's

[@LoricSwift]

@@DethKwok I know right, hearing people say 'Fallout 4' kinda hurts XD

[@nobleneed]

@@DethKwokthis was the 4 version though. Fallout 4’s main theme is based on 3’s, but they are different, it’s basically a remix of 3’s theme, and the one used in that scene was clearly 4’s version

[@RaptorNX01]

this was actually the New Vegas version, the game that most prominently featured the NCR. it plays whenever you start up the game.

[@aaronunsfe]

Initial bombing occurred in 2077 this show takes place in 2296 9yrs after fallout 4. Shady sands was bombed sometime in 2177 which is 100yrs after the initial bombs.

[@kingcaesar3693]

So not everything is man made in terms of mutants. The Yao Guai and Radroach are from fallout, but the Gulper here and say Centaurs, the latter you've not see yet, are FEV made. They have human body parts. In Fallout 1 The Master, main bad guy, took multiple things and stuffed them together. Humans included. i think these Gulpers are a axolotl and human hybrid, and must have been made with his virus. He also made Super Mutants.

[@deadlyice2042]

I'm with cooper maybe i want to wear green, some people like the chaos

[@jester98125]

Yuck Glupper caviar I wonder how vault 33 gets its tuna if they don't leave the vault?

[@alittlecreepywhenyou]

Or...Muldava "The Flame Mother" was kept in cryogenic stasis.

[@moodym00]

If you call that number, it’s just some dude screaming bloody murder.

[@chrism7395]

It's from the 1964 Kubrick dark comedy "Dr Strangelove" from when a bomber pilot is riding a nuke, rodeo-style, on to a target

[@moodym00]

@@chrism7395 oh my god 🤦‍♂️ how did I not put two & two together.

[@jaredpearce4244]

You guys have probably watched the end of the season by now, but the Brotherhood of Steel blames technology for the war - so they're trying to stop people from being able to do such horror again by removing tech from the world.

[@Deception975]

With the conversation Moldaver had with Cooper in the past. I felt like it was implied that her company created some sort of cryo tech. Answering as to how she is in present day.

[@chrisrodriguez2855]

why did they say last episode if theirs 8 episodes?

[@e.elisabeth]

"Consensual birthing bed" will now be a common phrase in my lexicon 😅

[@johannesbowers7467]

Cult? Is it any different than any other Cult? 🤪👍

[@briantidwell651]

I WANT CUP👀

[@BoshyG]

The wife is so unreasonable trying to say her experience at home was anything remotely like being in a war let alone the war he fought in.

[@murph64]

She wasn’t saying they were comparable experiences, just that she had a hard time as well.

[@BoshyG]

@@murph64 she was, that's why after he mentions the war she instantly tries to shut him down saying but what did I go through? insinuating her "waiting on mail" was comparable to being at anchorage. Just gaslighting to make him quiet as she's trying to hide how evil her work is.

[@wompa70]

I love how this show is able to create so many plausible explanations at various points yet never feels like it’s lying or keeping stuff from the audience.

[@Existential_Carousel]

@14:17 Goran from season one of Barry! I was hoping you guys would notice but it's been a while...

[@ACriticalGeek]

You know, I suspect that the mitten guy was actually supposed to be cgi fixed but maybe there were some issues.

[@SpaceTacos60316]

In episode 1, didn't they say that Don Pedro would dig up the Ghoul and cut pieces off??? Maybe that's how he lost his nose?? Also, why did that Pedro NEED to cut pieces off in the first place? Torture???

[@Deception975]

Nah, Ghouls just don't have noses.

[@chadwood4412]

It showed in episode 4, all ghouls lose their noses.

[@RaptorNX01]

what if he's not actually a ghoul?

[@mikedignum1868]

Vault 4, where mad scientists go crazy for 200 years and do mad scientist stuff.

[@Luzarioth]

Until we saw Moldaver in the past, I was convinced she is Coops daughter... both hairstyle and skincolor would have matched

[@Burt_Fuggin_Reynolds]

Where’s Eric?

[@helgar791]

Lucy is the Ghoul's greatgreatgreatgreat grand daughter.

[@LivewithIrish]

Aaron that makes so much sense and would explain why Lucy asked to have sex moments after she was injected upon arrival last episode

[@CuddleCakez]

Calvin is so hot.

[@nvmstillsad]

11:05 i stayed home so you can go fight for our country like what lol

[@brewstopher2233]

I hate when she throws that war thing back at him, I get having your loved one in a dangerous situation, but he was at WAR you were at HOME.

[@forallmankind_]

Pls watch the Halo season 2 pls pls pls +1 ♥♥♥

[@videostoryanalyses8910]

Watch Clarkson's Farm

[@chrism7395]

Spoiler alert: he starts breeding Gulpers

[@CottonPuffFluffer]

ye i dont like this episode at all but i still like your reactions

[@blind7000]

20:40 No, the entire section on Fiduciary Responsibility and Capitalism is evil was written by someone that couldn't run a lemonde stand out of their front lawn. I hate when art tries to do this because they do it so badly every time. First, no company getting paid by the government to build massive vaults to protect humanity would ever need them to be used to get paid. You get paid for building them, I don't care if you ever use them or not. Second, no company big enough to be hired to do a job that massive would ever be so single product oriented that they don't have the diversity mix to survive not using the vaults. Third, the idea of fiduciary responsibility isn't profit based, it is based on expectations and projections. Fiduciary responsibility is about recongizing that a company has been given the investment funding and therefore should use that money responsiblty realizing it isn't theirs. I could make lots of profit using your money to play poker, that wouldn't be a responsible thing to do unless I flat out told you when you invested that I play poker and am looking for people to invest in my poker playing. On the other hand if I have a company that makes soup and you invest in my soup company and instead I spend the money on making games for phones, even if I make a ton of money, they can sue me because I didn't act responsibly with their money, I risked it.

[@RealTurbidHere]

I speak on behalf of your entire commujnity, this show is baaaaaaaaaaaaad. Eric agrees.

[@Existential_Carousel]

@7:59 Some soap opera level writing right there... "One of the good vaults!... I mean... erm... Nothing."