Fallout 1x8 FINALE REACTION!! "The Beginning"

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[@ameliacraiig4193]

Aaron better pay Calvin the f-ing 5 dollars! He's always trying to get out of it. He's as shady as he looks. Ugh! Calvin: I will *also* bet 5 dollars...." That would've been an opportune time for Aaron to clarify what "money in my pocket" meant. But knowing him, of course he didn't.

[@kc1john]

I just noticed that when Bud’s brain on a roomba was introduced, it was playing the same dumb song his tiny car was when he parked in the flashback.

[@nathanmead9585]

Dumb...well, dumb never changes.

[@TrismegistusMx]

More like Butt Asskissn.

[@CuddleBuddee]

Yep!

[@CuddleBuddee]

​@@nathanmead9585😂

[@armchairgravy8224]

What really struck me about this season is how every actor did an amazing job. From the mains to the sides to the extras. Nobody phoned in, everyone committed.

[@dragoninthewest1]

Agreed. Even those who did cameo/ guest starred brought their A game.

[@vdoza33]

Yup, every one except Dane who failed to convince me they’re a man 😂

[@rowenatulley852]

Walton Goggins deserves an Emmy . . .

[@rebelxoswald]

@@vdoza33 Well, that would be because Dane is nonbinary, so they're neither male nor female. You even hear the Elder Cleric refer to them as them and they. The actor Xelia is a trans man, but I believe he only started transitioning a couple years ago. So he looks less typical masculine for a man because he hadn't started transitioning very long ago and hadn't been on hormone testosterone for very long probably.

[@vdoza33]

@@rebelxoswald no such thing in the BROTHERhood. And that actress is a woman. A confused woman. Stop ‘tardsplaining to me.

[@gking920]

Ik it’s probably a big ask but I want Eric And Rick to react to this too and be ready for season 2. I want the full crew for season 2 even without reactions if need be lol

[@akumathelion535]

Not sure why Eric wasn't present for this one.

[@rmvdhaak]

@@akumathelion535 He had medical stuff.

[@vinnysant0sdesouza341]

They probably will watch in their own time, like Eric did with The Witcher, but react to season 2, if they do indeed react to it

[@Nekotaku_TV]

For sure they should.

[@reno9821]

I'm hopeful and optimistic Eric joins from S2 onwards, it seems like a show he was very interested in and it seems like the only reason he wasn't able to join for S1 was due to unfortunate timing, which hopefuly shouldn't be a thing with S2.

[@DarkElfPaladin]

I just realized Maximus feels like a Fallout companion we are just seeing his backstory in real time. If it were a game, you would meet Knight Titus and he would follow you around a bit. Helping on your adventure, his personal quest would be to recover fusion core for his armor. Once you gain enough trust he reveals his secret backstory that he's actually Maximus. previously I was thinking of him as just another main character.

[@leecochrane5172]

That's a cool way of looking at it. I can't wait to see what other parallels they make to the games in season 2.

[@Sm0kingGun]

I like that! I've just looked at him as a character with 0 in Intelligence and 10 in Luck lol

[@ChidzCLAW]

@@Sm0kingGun idiot savant. He literally is an idiot savant main 😂

[@kingofrivia1248]

OMG you are right Lucy is just collecting companions and she can only have one. Maximus, The doctor, The ghoul,

[@thedarkknight2221]

I honestly feel as bad for Lucy as I do for Cooper/The Ghoul. Both were not only horribly lied to by the person they loved the most, but those psychopaths (Barb and Hank) are also responsible for the genocide of countless people. This is one of the best season finales I’ve ever seen! Not only does it unravel most of the mysteries setup throughout the show, it also expands the lore of the entire Fallout franchise in a monumental way.

[@VBane]

I dont think The Ghoul's family is in 31. 31 was specifically for Bud's Buds, junior executives and executive assistants. His wife was much higher up and talked about getting into a vault to oversee ALL the other vaults, not just a couple.

[@shoot646]

31 is the overseeing vault. 32 and 33 were basically just breeding stock, 31 was the brains of vault tec.

[@VBane]

@@shoot646 31 is overseeing 32 and 33, and only 32 and 33, it was specifically for Jr Executives, which Barb was not. Barb was talking about going into a vault that oversaw all the other vaults, not just a couple.

[@senhowler]

I'm really not sure how people still think they're in 31 by the end of the show. The whole point of letting Hank go was so that he would lead Coop to the place where his family is located and Hank ran to New Vegas, not Vault 31.

[@joaov_ds]

Betty was in it, and she was just a secretary.

[@senhowler]

@@joaov_ds she got promoted.

[@SarumanTheStinky]

9:50 "Come on Barb set them straight" 11:59 "Dammit Barb"

[@whipdan674]

🤣

[@pmpowalisz]

To be a little fair to Barb, she actually answered to the Enclave, whose members were watching that meeting and her from above (she glanced at them before she started talking).

[@RealTurbidHere]

agreed this show is bad

[@pmpowalisz]

@@RealTurbidHere and how is the show “bad” to you (and give specific reasons)? The OP was not saying the show is bad by the way.

[@shadowstrangler1]

Lmao

[@cbobwhite5768]

Their PiP-Boys are just a casing with a cell phone in it. Ella Purnell broke 3 of them during filming. She wanted to get in one of the power armors, to try it out. They told her, hell nah.

[@TheJerbol]

I thought they said they made fully functioning Pip-Boys

[@drew.168]

​@TheJerbol they did, they just use a iphone for the screen and power and probably os. Look up adam savage tested he has the guy from the show go over it.

[@dragoninthewest1]

​@@drew.168 That was a cool detail. I think they went with a smartphone instead of say making a Pip-Boy using a Raspberry Pi for ease of assembly.

[@Ilix42]

Pretty sure the end is at Griffith Observatory, which you should totally check out if you’re in LA ever. Granted, I haven’t been there in a decade, but I’m sure it’s still cool.

[@surlycanadian]

I think Cooper’s family is in an executives vault, frozen. Bud’s brain mentionsed that vault 31 and his buds are middle managers. Barb is clearly way up in the vault-tec hierarchy. I’d say Bud opted for robotic immortality to watch over his BB project, but all the other upper management probably aren’t waking up until civilization officially returns to the surface. What’s interesting is that in the “war room” flashback, Buds’ smile goes away once the topic of experimental vaults comes up. After Barb says “no one needs to know” 11:10 and looks at Bud, it cuts to Bud and he doesn’t look happy any more. Same when the other executives start making stupid vault suggestions. He listens almost in stunned silence. Is it possible that he’s drunk the kool-aid on the end of the world but sincerely wanted the vaults to be the future of humanity?

[@rookie1178]

I think Bud got screwed by his Vault -Tec bosses, his "robotic immortality" was probably oversold to him as something greater than it actually was

[@CuddleBuddee]

Exactly, Hank was only her new assistant. Bud compared them to raising children 😂

[@Greenhawk4]

but when the bombs fell he was with the daughter and if he was able to get her to it then why wouldn't he have been allowed in as well?

[@senhowler]

@@Greenhawk4 There's still a gap of time between that meeting and when the bombs fell. Long enough for Coop to get divorced and for his relationship with Vault-tec to sour. That's all for next season.

[@surlycanadian]

@@Greenhawk4 the guys at the birthday party were asking why he was working birthday parties. I think it’s pretty clear he confronted his wife and vault Tec and was completely discredited as a communist by them and his acting career was destroyed. He definitely brought his daughter to safety when the bombs fell but they likely threw him out on his ass. Probably Barbs call to do that so he could never teach his daughter what a monster her mother was.

[@jensr.3409]

Maximus said in one episode that many wanted to save the world, but did not agree on how, and that is how it will always be, that is just human nature

[@TheBlarggle]

Someone once figured out the value-ratio of caps to American currency and when Fallout 4 came out, he brought them to Bethesda to purchase Fallout 4 at the equivalent exchange rate. They allowed it, but then put out a statement. "No one should ever do this again. This is the only time we'll do this."

[@OodldoodlNoodlesocks]

A fusion core is acceptable.

[@I.Lostalim]

Just to clarify - we learnt at the begining that Wilzig worked for/escaped from the Enclave which is essentially the extension of like a shadow group in what used to be the US Government - back when there was a government. The Brotherhood of Steel were founded by US Army defectors and definitely do not work with the Enclave. They often shoot at each other instead.

[@johnmiller7682]

If you think about it, the Ghoul really didn't kill anyone who didn't try to kill him first. As for the wife. Remember, she said she would get them in a special vault that ran all the other vaults. Vault 31 only seemed to run 32 and 33. And it was filled with middle management. The wife was upper management. She's probably in New Vegas.

[@bubsyfinnigan4462]

Either that, or Vault 0.

[@Scyth0r]

The Ghoul's twisted version of his Cowboy Code. He doesn't attack without cause, he just deliberately provokes people and escalates the situation until they threaten him, so he can justify his actions as 'survival'. Seriously - go back and look, he does it literally every time.

[@pmpowalisz]

The Ghoul would have killed Lucy (who merely tried to tranq him), if Max hadn’t rescued her.

[@johnmiller7682]

@@pmpowalisz Are you serious? How much time passed?

[@johnmiller7682]

@@Scyth0r So what?

[@MonkeyGawa]

“You want another autograph young Henry” is a hard line 💪🏽

[@jordan1446]

Cool little Easter egg. The code Hank enters “101097” is the date the first fallout game was released!

[@fabiance2683]

Yea.. they say it in the video

[@jordan1446]

@@fabiance2683I realized. I commented it before they mentioned it. And heard later. But thanks for the backhanded response.

[@maksphoto78]

Lucy's Okie Dokie took a dark turn there

[@AmazingChi]

Ella Purnell is superb. The complete change in her voice and tone through the "Okey Dokey"s is masterful. I mean, we should that kind of nuance from the Jinx voice actor but still.

[@claytopolis]

i personally think it's way better when a show/movie based on a game doesn't just try to retell a story but rather tells a new one set in the universe.

[@ronsandahl274]

I liked how the series had things from all of the Fallout games: they mentioned in episode 2 a broken water chip, which was the major plot point of Fallout 1; Dog Meat and Brotherhood airship from Fallout 4; Robert House (Robco), Repconn & Big MT from New Vegas (and all of their ideas for vaults were taken from actual vaults in the games); many of the posters from Vault 33 are from Fallout 76; the severed head as a quest item is from Fallout: Tactics.

[@cheeseninja1115]

32:20 I'd actually recommended you DO play New Vegas before season 2. As the Fallout Show is currently the furthest along in the timeline and is canonical with the other games. So you won't be spoiling anything for the show by playing it. All it will do is help you understand some of the past events that will most likely be referenced in Season 2.

[@evenglare]

agreed 100%

[@michaelandrews2940]

I think they're less worried about spoilers and are more into having the perspectives of playing it vs not playing it.

[@ryanowens7085]

I loved New Vegas at the time but it is pretty janky by today’s standards. Ditto for Fallout 1, 2, and 3-each of which I played when they first came out. One alternative to playing these is watching an edited playthrough-Oxhorn’s, for example, are great. And Fallout 4-while it may not be as celebrated for its main story-is much easier to casually play to get a feel for the 3d Fallout games.

[@laveyanist]

@@ryanowens7085 or if you're getting it on PC downloading a few QOL mods will do a lot to ease the burdens. Fallout 4 is janky af by today's standards as well

[@cazper420]

20:00 "its hard to fight power armor, huh?" The Ghoul immediately debunks that seconds later 😂

[@senhowler]

"It's hard to fight power armor when you're not level 60 and using a unique variant of a powerful gun that you can only get by doing an obscure side quest, huh?"

[@alecLogan]

@@senhowler Technically speaking, we see some NCR people taking one down by digging in and firing into the back of the neck, but that doubtless took more effort than they could get away with more than the one time.

[@leeneufeld4140]

I used to take them out with a high powered sniper rifle, but you have to be pretty high level to do it. The loot was sweet :)

[@whipdan674]

I didn't rly like that, specially when he could have done that to Maximus on 2nd episode but didn't because of plot armor. Those guys actually did worst then Maximus at the time, at least he put on a fight while not knowing what he was doing. The Ghoul taking out all those Knights in that situation makes no sense to me.

[@senhowler]

@@whipdan674 Assume "Batman" situation. For the fight at the end he had time to prepare and bring proper ammo. Like in New Vegas if you only have hollow point ammo for fighting low armor people and you run into power armor vs when you remember to bring armor piercing rounds with you.

[@CuddleBuddee]

Moldaver was the creator of cold fusion(along with a team for sure). Im sure the genius of cold fusion knew of some way to survive. Be it cryo, some form transformation ala ghoulification, etc. Hopefully we get more flashbacks getting at least a glimpse of her means of survival. Since surely they will be showing what the BoS is up to with Cold Fusion, a Moldaver snippet wouldnt be far fetched.

[@chrism7395]

Hank said at the start that it'd take another 2 generations for radiation levels to drop low enough to open the Vault; they should've been able to return to the surface by now but can't because Hank nuked Shady Sands, recontaminating the area all over again.

[@ZachSawyer2077]

It was a lie, told juts cause they discovered that there were already survivors living and rebuilding on the surface and they needed time to figure out how to "deal" with them.

[@AFC-OKCfan97-98]

Moldaver used a Cryo pod as well. As she said to Cooper in the previous episode "hypocrisy is like violence in your movies. If you only let the bad guys use it, the bad guys win" implying that she's using Vault-Tec's methods for herself.

[@brianburkhardt3692]

Love Calvin’s face when NV shows up on screen. Great reveal moment for fans.

[@Wondrous_U]

God, I wish René Auberjonois were alive to reprise his role 😔

[@kingcarl2012]

And Matthew Perry could have played Benny's Dad :(

[@redfox3334]

Aaron the Brotherhood, the Enclave, and Vault-Tec are all different factions. You said something about the Brotherhood killing everybody except for Maximus but they were not the one's that blew up Shady Sands. It was only Hank and whatever Vault-Tec resources he has access to that destroyed Shady Sands.

[@rubenlopez3364]

I think it was still sort of the Brotherhood, if it was a NCR Brotherhood battle, Hank could've joined the Brotherhood and used them to find and activate a nuke and that's actually who we see find Maximus in the flashback, it makes sense when you think about how WE do the same things in our games

[@Deception975]

@@rubenlopez3364 Nah, I don't think Hank has any connections to the Brotherhood. Also, I think the one that found young Maximus was the Elder in the show. It would somewhat explain why he has been so lenient on him.

[@folcotook3049]

The Brotherhood had some long-standing beef with the NCR, so it makes sense they would come investigate what happened when the NCR capitol got nuked.

[@RaptorNX01]

Hank knew how to use power armor. He obviously wore it before. but i still think we didn't get the whole story about shady sands. honestly, i'm still leaning to a connection with lonesome road.

[@GRIZY28]

I honestly can't stand the people that complain about the ghoul killing all the brotherhood knights. Like u play the game for 2 weeks ur essentially a god . The ghoul had 200 years. He's got max stats , max health , top armor

[@alihart7849]

Plus, he is likely high. Have you ever played a character loaded up on psycho and jet? Cos that’s what it feels like 🤣

[@kennyharrison5611]

@@alihart7849 Just those two? Go big or go home

[@rromano158]

The cryo-pods were not exclusive to Vault-Tec, so my guess is that Moldaver probably was able to get into a pod somewhere else. As for Barb, Cooper's wife, my guess is that she is much, much higher in the corporation. At first, I thought she might have been the senior executive assistant to the Vault-Tec's president/CEO. Another commentor on a different reaction channel said she might be a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). However, when in the flashback Miss Williams (later known as Moldaver) tells Cooper that his wife's "division" swooped in and bought up every company that she (Williams/Moldaver) had ever worked at, I'm thinking that Barb was in charge of some kind of research and development acquisitions department. I think that Max had revered the Brotherhood after being rescued by one of the Knights. However, after years of poor treatment by the clerics and other aspirants, and especially after the incident with Titus, Max began to be disillusioned. If you look at his face/expression at the ending scene, he has that conflict of disillusionment and need for revenge.

[@KurayamiNeko1026]

How bad is your karma? Henry: Yes.

[@senhowler]

Alistair Tenpenny: "Dude, really? It was aesthetically pleasing and didn't even interfere with your view."

[@KurayamiNeko1026]

it says something if even Tenpenny thinks you went too far lol

[@jackiechan5815]

​@@senhowler >can't even see megaton from tenpennny tower

[@senhowler]

@@jackiechan5815 Tenpenny has a better draw distance than you, apparently.

[@jackiechan5815]

😭😭

[@tamarabaucom]

Vault Tec set up the vaults to conduct experiments on people. But they had a few control vaults that either didn't have an experiment or were on the mild side some of the vaults were scheduled to be opened some of them were supposed to stay sealed forever.

[@ZachSawyer2077]

The city at the end, where Hank goes, is New Vegas. Robert House, the CEO of RobCo (the one smoking the cigarette at the Vault-Tec meeting), is there.

[@joegless225]

Calvin's jaw dropping as they showed New Vegas was great.

[@zipzeolocke2]

At least the people in Vault 4 were nice people and their weird cult event was totally optional. They didn't force Lucy into going through with it

[@senhowler]

Need to pay more attention to their cutlery sharpening, though.

[@leeneufeld4140]

Spoiler If you factor in the extreme trauma associated with having your otherwise peaceful city nuked by a disgruntled junior executive, the fact that the memorial service was a bit bizarre is understandable.

[@cheeseknees9606]

Next week... Rick and Eric react to fallout! Season 2 should be a full team show! This show deserves it.

[@paulmccloud9395]

Season 1 should have been.

[@pirateylass]

Wilzig came from an Enclave facility, so depending on how long he was there, he would have learned about the different vault conditions through that organization. The Enclave was originally made up of the country’s leadership, and were the ones initiating the plan to build the vaults. Think of them as Fallout’s Illuminati. So it’s not unheard of that Wilzig knew so much about Lucy’s vault. 😊

[@heesoo18]

Michael Emerson’s character came from the enclave

[@swiftlymurmurs]

Just in case you were curious, the scientist was actually called Siggi Wilzig. His first name is never given and I only remembered it from the credits because it's so fun to say.

[@leecochrane5172]

I would love to see Aaron stream fallout 3 or 4!

[@redfox3334]

I got excited just seeing the Sunset Sarsaparilla sign, but seeing New Vegas at the end has got me so hyped for season 2 now.

[@TheBlarggle]

Honestly, Aaron would probably enjoy Fallout 4. It's the most casually accessible (not an insult), and a lot of the aesthetic that the show uses come directly from F4. I mean, they touch on all the games aesthetically, but the show really captures a lot of the atmosphere that F4 presents. Plus the Power Armor in previous games is kind of a joke. In F4 it really feels like the version they use in the show.

[@pmpowalisz]

This exactly, although New Vegas does have the ammo crafting (like Fallout 76) and much more story driven missions. Unfortunately New Vegas also has severely outdated graphics and a really crappy shooting system. So yeah, Fallout 4 is hands down the best possible game for fans of the show to get into.

[@TheBananaThug]

New Vegas has the best atmosphere and better story and dialogue, but FO4 is complete and modern enough to make up for all that. At this point in 2024, if you're more worried about story and atmosphere you may aswell go back and play FO1 and FO2 first. FO4 story and characters are still better than your average game, and the gameplay is pretty much peak fallout

[@1tsjaboisam973]

Power armor in 1 and 2 is far more powerful than it is in 4.

[@thedrewdawg1378]

NAILED IT! You sir.... are a fellow wastelander

[@Hunterfalke]

​@@pmpowaliszIt also has Far Harbor.

[@saladspinner3200]

They kinda missed the connection between Bud Buds and Bud being turned into a robo brain to guard the cryo tubes in Vault 31. Also, kinda remarkable they didn't recognize Griffith Observatory. But in general, I enjoyed going through the series again with you gentlement, after having binged it in the first 2 days after release. I do hope the other guys catch up behind the scenes and that we'll have the chance of them joining us for season 2!

[@IdriveKITTnyc]

I'm really excited to see Maximus's path. I can't tell if he's on the villain arc or savior.

[@edwardosquidawardo]

My fellow NCR members, we may have lost the fight; but not the war…NCR and proud

[@smiffyoh7894]

Seattle? 😂 It was such a brilliant series, they really had respect for the source material and it felt unmistakably 'Fallout'. So much they could do with this franchise moving forward. Could be huge.

[@mrmatticus9693]

So the Pip boy in the show is just like the prop one folks got a while back. It's effectively an iPhone holder and they were iPhones that had all the stuff on the screen and we're fully functional on set.

[@DavidGonzalez-zl3dz]

Moldaver's base is the LA Observatory

[@Cornberry]

I know Aaron's got quite a few games queued for stream, but Fallout 3 would be fun to see for sure.

[@killcount6ix323]

Petition to get Eric and Rick to react to this!

[@midnight1672]

For anyone who like me happens to watch right now: Fallout, Fallout 2 & Fallout Tactics are free on Epic Games Store right now and until Sep. 05.

[@TheTrueMac]

Adam Savage just recently did a video with the on-film prop for Lucy's Pip-Boy. It's an iPhone inside of a shell, much like the 3D models you can download and print.

[@MrPrplmonky]

Never noticed before this reaction, but that final 'Okie Dokie' from Lucy, feels like just like when Powder accepted Jinx all over again.

[@RichelleH]

The head is Bud! Bud’s buds!

[@NikoPLD]

Great realisation of the games to the screen. I was sceptical at first that they gonna mess it up, but they did an amazing job recreating everything , and even give lore to how the bombs were dropped. Great show ! I hope it gets even better in S2.

[@cancan-wc9kx]

the brotherhood leader is so good in mr robot as well if u ever watch that one

[@Phoenix-ti6tx]

lol. they are watching mr robot. first episode will drop anytime now

[@Judymoe]

Betty was in Vault-Tec before Henry, so it does seem that they're waking them up in order. I think?

[@JaymzShikari]

Aaron 3, NV, 4 playthroughs? I give 2 arguments 1) him seeing all the references from the show and all the vaults listed in the show = mind blown 2) Gutteral screams every time he needs to use a stimpak

[@deshaunfortune912]

Snake said the exact opposite of "war never changes"😂

[@Nekotaku_TV]

Peace always stays the same?

[@vinsanity40k]

good that they still left us with lots of unanswered questions like: how did cooper become a ghoul, how did vault 32 learn about vault 31, and how moldaver got herself frozen like the vault-tec people and then hooked up with a scientist in the enclave...

[@randalladkins7452]

The Rob-Co representative at the table is Mr. House. The “Man” who runs New Vegas and a possible main enemy for the player, depending on who you side with in the game. 😊

[@manualuser]

Oop! He's going to find out.

[@manualuser]

Apparently this show is canon, atleast google says so. It's quite nice to finally have some answers about exactly who dropped the bombs. I've pretty much finished 4 fallout titles and it always kept bugging me.

[@Tao_Tology]

"at least google says so" 🤦‍♀️ No, google got words from somewhere else. Please research.

[@manualuser]

@@Tao_Tology So it's not canon?

[@senhowler]

It is canon, but they still haven't told you who dropped the bombs. Only that Vault-tec would be willing to. But would Barb have let Coop have the kid on the day the bombs were dropped if she knew about it?

[@manualuser]

@@senhowler Fair enough 🤔

[@Tao_Tology]

@@manualuser Google didn't 'say so'. The website it gave you a search result for did.

[@arsewynd]

Although very late, Moldavers long life is obvious. and hinted at twice in the series, CRYO, probably in a private vault or a cryo suite in New Vegas.

[@samavanhakakara]

By the way those are actual vaults from the games, what they were suggesting at the table.

[@ArlanKels]

I love the writers made sure to keep it to one main character/player, and one human companion. Just like in the games.

[@MuckJagger]

This might be well-known by now, but I didn't see it in any of the comments I read. When Hank enters the code, it's 101097 -- the first Fallout game was released October 10, 1997.

[@BROCCOLIDAD]

Fun fact the code Hank put it was the release date of the first Fallout game

[@navigill8811]

Dude watch the whole video.

[@BROCCOLIDAD]

@@navigill8811 I made the comment right as the scene was happening 🤷‍♂️

[@thedrewdawg1378]

LITERALLY READ THIS FROM SOME OTHER REACTION COMMENT. FAKE

[@BROCCOLIDAD]

@@thedrewdawg1378 ?

[@MannequinMonarch]

@@thedrewdawg1378 Dunno if you're being humorous or not but.. you know multiple people could notice the same thing and comment on it right?.. Especially this.

[@carrytheflag3498]

New Seattle could be intriguing

[@sonosoloio]

6:08 that car is a real-life Messerschmitt KR200, very similar to a car model that we can see in games. in season two Norm will be saved by Betty, who sends him away from Vault 33 to find a replacement for the water chip. He will want to be accompanied by Chet and along the way two other companions will be added: Thaddeus and the chicken-loving doctor/charlatan

[@IdriveKITTnyc]

Note for Aaron. Getting Fallout 3 to run is a bit tricky. Runs great on a steam deck no mods. But on modern pcs it takes a mod or 2 to get it to run. Worth it. I'm at the end of my fallout 3 run myself.

[@TANroyAwSoMe]

Playing any Bethesda game without mods feels like a crime.

[@senhowler]

Tale of Two Wastelands helps a lot.

[@thesaltnation5570]

I love maximus’s actor he is really good in the weed netflix show disjointed which is kinda cool ❤ i think max is the most relatable character or lucy

[@NerdySpice]

All the ideas mentioned in the meeting are all vaults that exist in the series. Vault 27, only mentioned in the games. Vault 51, in Fallout 76. Vault 87 and Vault 108, in Fallout 3. Vault 75, in Fallout 4.

[@Judymoe]

101097: a great day in history! I love that easter egg.

[@texasrattlesnake31637]

Great freshman season for Fallout on Amazon! Awesome reaction & commentary Cal-Ron! How bout' that music when the Brotherhood attacked the Fire Mother's Base? ("I Don't Wanna' See Tomorrow" - Nat King Cole) Legendary! Can't wait for Season 2! NEW VEGAS BABY!!!

[@JS-td8yp]

The twists in this finale were incredibly well written. So excited for S2 and I'm glad there's finally a TV show based off a game which is made with thought and effort instead of just a cash grab.

[@bulletsandbracelets4140]

I just started Fallout 3 (finally!) after watching this. I've owned it for a year or more, but hadn't gotten around to it, so I was glad the show gave me the push I needed! Note to anyone who does decide to start there - I started out as a shooter build, but immediately went back and restarted/restatted as soon as I got to the surface. If you don't like needing to conserve ammo, a melee build is still a lot of fun, at least so far! (Granted I haven't explored much beyond the first settlement yet). I am not great at shooting games and tend to "pray and spray", so the ammo limitations made the entry game extremely stressful for me. Running around with a baseball bat is a lot more enjoyable XD

[@Y0Da77]

Since this show takes place after the events of the games so far and by the looks of it season 2 will include a lot of New Vegas, i would recommend Aaron to play New Vegas just to get some background lore.

[@ras_alhim]

Seattle, famously set in the middle of the desert

[@GRIZY28]

What's cool is everyone of the ideas they had for the vaults are exactly what u find in the games, over crowded, super mutant immigrant soldiers, drugs in the air , kids separated and killed before adulthood

[@TheBananaThug]

Most people seem to agree that The 3 main characters are based on karma and the karma system in the game. Lucy is Good, Maximus is neutral, and the Ghoul is bad(Karma wise, not necessarily evil)

[@BeardedGorlok]

Would love to watch one of you guys play/livestream the 3d fallout games! This show was a fantastic ride, lets hope Bethesda learned their lessons with Starfield for Fallout 5.

[@Cnith]

Thank you for these reactions! Speaking of the old games: Personally it's neigh on impossible for me to launch Fallout 3 at the moment. I've tried about 30 different online suggestions for solutions, like installing a mod that makes the game believe you have an old graphics card, to antivirus settings and the usual "run as admin", to no avail. The explanation that seems most plausible atm is that new nVidia and AMD driver are incompatible with many old games. Good luck to you!

[@Luden]

26:19 LITERALLY the most real reaction ever

[@LS13.]

"I'm you sweetheart, you just... give it a little time."

[@jmid6358]

the person who directed this show needs to do Bioshock next. that would be incredible. Rapture obviously, not the sky city.

[@snerdterguson]

Really looking forward to seeing what they do with New Vegas. Will we see some more familiar characters like The King? Will the strip be operational like in the game or will it be ruins? Will we eventually see the Boomers? Is there anything remaining of Caesars Legion?

[@johannesbowers7467]

Logan's Run is a Fallout Vault....

[@cl4-tpgaming]

Why does everyone think the lucky 38 looks like Seattle😂

[@matt8627]

Everybody thinks 'Space Needle' when they see The Strat.

[@MontgomeryWenis]

It's not like Seattle is 1500 miles away from the setting of the series or anything.

[@Scyth0r]

For the same reson they think Cooper's family is in Vault 31 - people don't think. They jump to conclusions.

[@RestlessTome]

Great episode and very good series!

[@jamesgardner6707]

Henry McClain....Not Henry Gale....lol(Lost end scene music)

[@tinathatcherhall3230]

Barb isn't in Vault 31. She is Upper Management. Vault 31 is for Junior Executives, middle management. Barb will be somewhere more important, quite possibly in Vegas.

[@mtnd02.06]

Big MT was a Facility in the mountains east of New Vegas that housed some very intelligent people, not gonna spoil it but they manufactured lots of shit for weapons testing, biological enhancements and more futuristic tech. Rob-Co dude was Mr House, the guy in Charge of New Vegas and as a little Easter egg the passcode to start up the Cold Fusion reactor was the date the first Fallout game released. October 10th 1997 (101097) Quite a few Easter eggs in that Executive meeting alone but I'm not pointing all of them out. Also in case anyone is wondering why some Vaults were reaching into the North on Vault Tecs map, America had annexed Canada sometime before the great war (I think like 10 to 15 years beforehand) and claimed a majority of the land as U.S territory. (for its resources) If anyone has listened to the radio bits in F76 for Armor Ace and The Power Patrol, they are references to the US forces in a G.I Joe style format as propaganda for the US citizens. The Yukon 5 are branded as evil terrorists in the Armor Ace stuff but in reality they were the Canadian Resistance, the militia groups made up of Canadian Civilians and the last of their Military forces trying to push the US out of their occupation.

[@robertbealer5930]

So it's alluded to that this takes place after all the games.

[@newbeginning2045]

Fallout is one the best shows to come out

[@yojimbo-jack]

Bro said Seattle 😂😂😂

[@cbobwhite5768]

Cooper's car is a 1954 Kaiser Darrin. Bud's is a 1955 Messerschmitt.

[@senhowler]

Probably meant to represent the Cherry Bomb and Fusion Flea.

[@digitaltrekkie]

5:43 "Same thing we do every night, Pinky...!"

[@Alvie713]

I didn’t realize they showed new Vegas in the credits 😮