Reacting to *Fallout* Episode 3

We react to episode 3 of Fallout on Amazon Prime. Is that an axolotl??
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[@ianhorn5466]

Fallout follows an alternate timeline where culture never got beyond the 50s and tech developed differently.

[@toomanyaccounts]

yet blacks are treated equally to whites unlike now where liberals fetishize blacks

[@folcotook3049]

And the year the bombs drop is 2077.

[@StinkyGreenBud]

Tube technology advanced faster than the microprocessor ever did. Add some nuclear tech, then bam, we got the Fallout timeline.

[@Nick-kb2jc]

Its called retrofuturism

[@jeromedutil-martin6823]

The water chip being broken is a nice little nod to the first game, where it begins with your vault's overseer sending you out into the Wasteland to find a new chip.

[@toomanyaccounts]

its not a chip but a water purifier

[@OmegaDenz96]

​@@toomanyaccounts yeah? iirc, you need the that chip for the water purifier to work.

[@toomanyaccounts]

@@OmegaDenz96 except its not a microchip like people think

[@rodentnolastname6612]

@@jeromedutil-martin6823 the prop he's holding is also screen accurate to the game 😯

[@Tijuanabill]

A wise man never stops dating his wife.

[@JJ_LL]

A wise man never volunteers for indentured servitude and 50% penalty for finding better to begin with.

[@Fuzz32]

4:52 But those aren’t just any deviled eggs. Those are Yum Yum Deviled Eggs. 👍

[@WolfHreda]

Probably the only thing more radioactive than the world around her. 😂

[@Tijuanabill]

The genre is Atom Punk. Similar to Steam Punk, this is the modern audience looking back at the dreams of the future that were held in a prior era. If you read the early science fiction of the 1950s, they imagined a future that sounds nonsensical and weird to us. In this particular IP, we leaned in to atomic power and had a lot of early advancements, but the microchip wasn't discovered until hundreds of years later, and is a new-ish thing to the pre-war population.

[@corsa180]

In the first episode where Lucy is signing the wedding dress, you can see the date of the person who previously wore the dress as 2291, so add a few years to that, then subtract 219 to get the year the "past" scenes occur in the show, which is about 2077.

[@Tijuanabill]

Yes, the bombs fell on Oct 23, 2077. The stop date of civilization is a recurring thing in the games. All the calendars and clocks and newspapers all have the same date.

[@rromano158]

The time period Cooper (in normal human form) is usually called Retro-futuristic. It's based on what people and designers who lived in the 1950s thought America would look like in the future (the future being the 2000s. In this "world-vision" people and technology are stuck in the 1950s attire and genre but futuristic houses, cars, and some technology; except for transistors and microprocessors, which were not mass produced but in limited production before the bombs dropped. Way to go Stella! I think you're the first reactor who guessed what the "Gulper" was fashioned after with only seeing it for a brief second.

[@kosh6612]

The bags are a stab at game mechanics of your character being able to lug around a seemingly bottomless inventory. Luv it!

[@flinx]

EDITOR Hayley's audio was only in the left channel.

[@rodentnolastname6612]

Axolotls are the most complex lifeform that can regenerate limbs. They're genetics are being studied for medical applications IRL today. 😯😯😯

[@toomanyaccounts]

they are also highly radiation resistant.

[@neptunusrex5195]

And also immune to cancer and carcinogenic pathogens. 🤓 plus theyre adorable as helll 😍🐸

[@toomanyaccounts]

@@neptunusrex5195 only the pink ones. the rest are not smilers

[@neptunusrex5195]

I disagree even the dark colored ones are cool looking 😎

[@rodentnolastname6612]

@@neptunusrex5195 i think this is in the wrong thread...

[@bigyeticane]

"Aint much stays clean up here, Vaulty". Cooper was referring to the radiation permeating the standing water throughout the wasteland. Coop didn't let Lucy drink because he didn't want her to down irradiated water, for all that says about his altruism, lol.

[@neptunusrex5195]

I took it more as him forcing her to acclimate and get used to hardship

[@goonanhate101]

I strongly recommend, even without a reaction, to view the fallout 4 intro cinematic. Super high end, well polished, and is a great timeline for how we get to the point when we open at the birthday party.

[@andrewdemarco3512]

"he didn't think this through" I mean, he didn't really have a choice. He had to get the part fixed to fix the suit, and he had no way to drag it to town. He had to risk leaving it, its pretty crazy it was found and swarmed that quickly. Those guys looked pretty scruny so he figured he could chase them off with the rock, but losing the tooth probably affected his attempt at intimidation. He couldn't just leave it they were going to tear it apart for scraps, he had to try something. Was a good idea to pick up the wrench but he didn't know where that was until they dropped him almost on top of it. "did the suit do that itself?", no. It doens't have any intelligence. He got his hand in it and used the suits control to control the suit's hand to crush taht guy's head. It was very stupid of them to use the suit as a thing to prop him up in to beat him.

[@kingdavid_tech]

Episode 3!!! One thing I really like is how much they design the creatures of the wasteland. And we really REALLY NEED a Skyrim show!!!

[@toomanyaccounts]

He put his arm into the arm. even though it was backwards he just had to reverse the motion.

[@namechamps]

In the head crush scene Maximus was controlling it. He tried to get all the way into the suit and couldn't but he could get his one arm in and control the hand. The suits have no AI or autonomous operation just human operated and tough.

[@johnplaysgames3120]

One way to understand the choices Maximus makes that you find so dumb is this: He put most of his points in his Strength and Endurance stats, and used Intelligence and Charisma as his dump stats. This is why he can take a beating and keep getting back up to fight some more, but always fumbles the speech checks and makes the dumbest choices he could make in any given moment. He also has more points in melee than guns, which is why he can beat some ass with a wrench and a toilet seat but misses every shot when firing a gun at a giant axolotl. I believe this is on purpose, too. I read somewhere that the creators of the show actually gave the characters stats when they wrote them to better inform how the characters would perform in a given situation. And I saw recently that Bethesda actually released stat sheets for each of the characters to give better insight into who they are and why they do what they do.

[@andrewdemarco3512]

I don't know, he seems a pretty good shot. He double tapped the you-guai (mutated balck bear) in the eye killing it. Yeah, it had taken a couple head punches from Titus before that, but still, those both had to be massive crits to take him out. I think his gun skills are pretty good too. In a later scene you will see he also shoots quite well. I think he onyl shoots poorly while wearing power armor because he's not sued to wearing it. He also fumbles in melee with the pwoer armor too (especially in the Filly fight against the ghoul). So tis less about melee versus guns and mroe about just not being used to wearing pwoer armor. In some of the games (1, NV, etc.) you need special training before you can even wear it. I also think most of his problems come down to bad luck, or at least a weird twisted kind of luck that helps him in soem ways but really screws him voer in others. It was horrible luck that in the few minutes he went abck to Filly those scavengers found the suit, for isntance, though it was good luck he crited the bear and that the a-hole Titus was mortally wounded so he could get the suit. It si almsot like he has some sort of trait that maxes his luck in situations that have to do wtih his advancement in the brotherhood, but minimizes it for everything else. He aalways seems to do the right thing at the wrong time (don'tw ant to say to much because spoilers, but if you've seen the series, you'll know what I mean). I will agree he has low int, though he knows a decent amount about some things (like power armor models). He also knows a fair bit about the wasteland and has mroe "street smarts" than Lucy does. His charisma is probably pretty average. He does convince the cleric not only not to kill him, but he ends up getting the promotion. He talked himself out fo a very dangerous situation there, but that might ahve mroe to do wtih his weird luck when it comes to teh brotherhood.

[@FourEyedFrenchman]

19:13 This is how the plot to the first Fallout game starts. Water chip is busted, someone has to go outside to find a replacement, and that someone is you. Things start off simple enough, but as events unfold, you get wrapped up in a struggle much larger than anything you could've imagined. Every Fallout game plays out that way, and it'll be interesting to see if the show follows that same story structure.

[@asian-americanwithanopinio8954]

Please start "Yellowjackets" for more Ella!

[@warbird333]

The background settings are set in 2076 where the transistor was invented decades later than it was in our universe.

[@lzniR]

And correct me if im wrong but because the cold war never happened they prioritized on utilizing nuclear fusions.

[@icoborg]

@@lzniR fission

[@warbird333]

@Tijuanabill the transistor diverted our attention away from fission development and toward reducing the size of existing tech leading to cellphones, PCs and the internet by the year 2000. Also developing faster data processing allowed to realize we'll run our of resources eventually rather than finding out we're almost out and rushing into the Resource Wars.

[@toomanyaccounts]

@@lzniR cold war did happen

[@toomanyaccounts]

a few years off

[@cliveklg7739]

You two need to react to "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" 'We'll meet again" is used in that in a very special way. 😁 And it is just a funny unusal film by Stanely Kubrik. The bags are so large as a kind of joke about how player inventory is so ridiculously unrealistic.

[@Wabbajack-kj2kg]

Editor: please make the audio stereo again. I want to hear Hayley's commentary too. I use a single earbud set.

[@kumailshah6058]

I don't know how you guys can have more sympathy for Thaddeus than Maximus

[@marauderdz]

It only seems like that because of the trending directions. They started off liking Maximus and disliking Thaddeus, and as a result, they're now disappointed with Maximus, while warming up to Thaddeus.

[@firebladenut]

Maximus is a great character because he isn't perfect. He makes mistakes but that's why his character is so good. I also Love Lucy and Thadeus is probably my favourite character cos he is just a goofball 😂

[@folcotook3049]

Maybe by the Ink Spots was the intro music for Fallout 1, I don't want to set the world on fire was the intro for Fallout 3.

[@WolfHreda]

Interplay actually wanted to get I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire for the first game, but the price was too high and they had to settle for Maybe. Its use as the intro for Fallout 3 is one of the few times Bethesda got it absolutely right.

[@cerisambrook7692]

"I don't want to set the world on fire' was also the music at my wedding for the 'first dance'

[@boqndimitrov8693]

different universe, with a different historical line. If I remember correctly, the bombs fall in 2077.

[@stephenestep2270]

It's a divergent timeline... before the Beatles appearance on the Ed Sullivan show..

[@neptunusrex5195]

I didn’t think of it until just now, but an axolatl would be a really good choice for….something you’ll find out about in later episodes 🤫 🤐 So hard not to say spoilers 🙈🙉 But yeah an axolatl makes sense. They’re immune to cancer and carcinogens, they can regenerate limbs and even entire organs, their immunities and regeneration would be a huge advantage in a irradiated environment. 🤓

[@toomanyaccounts]

He hadn't read the manual so no he didn't know the suit

[@stiefelriemen632]

13:25 Maximus was beaten up pretty much every day, including by this guy. Maximus deserves the highest respect for not having done anything worse.

[@Madayar]

Some spectacular Stella faces in this one. Didn't know you didn't do underwater. So requesting Life of Pi would be a waste of time, eh? Just keep doing what you're doing and I'm along for the ride! Do you know The Blues Brothers? It's lovely.

[@kingcaesar3693]

Not only is Coop the face of Vault Tech, but he also is the likeness for a robot in Fallout New Vegas. A certain Robco robot that follows you has a almost Disney like picture of him as it's face on it's screen.

[@Vaultboy-ke2jj]

No, that’s based on Vegas Vic en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegas_Vic

[@Tabf3294]

Fallout world is the alternate version where transistor was never invented. That's why all their technology is based on nuclear power.

[@Cbricklyne]

I realize it's just a game, but that's nonsensical. You can't develop certain technology (....like say, certain aspects of Nuclear power), without developing other technology first upon which you'd need to develop that technology. In this case, Electronics (which is based on transistor technology) and a Computational technology (i.e. Intergrated Circuitry or IC chips, based on Electronics) - both vital aspects of Nuclear technlogical development.

[@Tabf3294]

@@Cbricklyne This is not my idea, it's just how it is in the world of Fallout (source Nukapedia). And it's been like this since 1997 and I've never heard of anyone having a problem with it. In Fallout 1 the broken water chip was the size of a toaster. If there are an infinite number of parallel realities, then in one of them lives Me, who doesn't believe in parallel realities, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. So ok I agree you can't invent one without the other. Has the world of the game and the series changed now?

[@Tom-fg7fz]

The bombs dropped on October 23rd, 2077 so it's actually the future. The retro-futuristic aesthetic is inspired by a mid-20th century vision of the late 21st. Nuclear technology advanced rapidly but micro-computers never really took off. Culture and style are stuck in the '50s, with b&w TV and bulky wrist computers (Pip Boys) alongside fusion powered cars and flying robots with (rudimentary) AI.

[@1983beau]

These are Bethesda's official S.P.E.C.I.A.L. scores for the Fallout show characters: -Lucy Strength: 4 Perception: 7 Endurance: 6 Charisma: 5 Intelligence: 6 Agility: 5 Luck: 7 -The Ghoul Strength: 5 Perception: 6 Endurance: 7 Charisma: 7 Intelligence: 4 Agility: 7 Luck: 4 -Maximus Strength: 7 Perception: 6 Endurance: 6 Charisma: 5 Intelligence: 4 Agility: 7 Luck: 5 -Ma June Strength: 5 Perception: 7 Endurance: 5 Charisma: 7 Intelligence: 6 Agility: 4 Luck: 6 -Snake Oil Salesman Strength: 4 Perception: 5 Endurance: 5 Charisma: 8 Intelligence: 8 Agility: 4 Luck: 6 As you Level Up in the game it's your choice on which S.P.E.C.I.A.L. to spend points on.

[@1983beau]

-Norm Strength: 3 Perception: 8 Endurance: 4 Charisma: 4 Intelligence: 9 Agility: 6 Luck: 6 -Chet Strength: 7 Perception: 4 Endurance: 5 Charisma: 7 Intelligence: 5 Agility: 5 Luck: 7

[@cboscari]

In the fallout world, the semiconductor was never invented, and imagines a future where technology use vacuum tubes and Nuclear power for technology we are familiar with in out time. Kind of the way steampunk imagines a future of gears and steam engines

[@arsewynd]

The Ghouls inhaler is not in the games but I infer that it keeps him from becoming a feral ghoul. Feral ghouls have lost their humanity and sense of self. Max crushed the guys head, he put his arm into the power armors arm. Why are the bags so large? Well IMO its a reference to the game characters enormous inventory which you often off load on your companions. Indeed all the characters and stories are original to the series.

[@jjkcharlie]

The super big, duffle bag, is a play on the fact that one can carry so much weight. Thou shalt not get sidetracked by bullshit... That's the way I play the game, all side quest. "The water chip is destroyed.", is the entire first game. Also, Buck Owens and the Buckaroos - Act Naturally. I heard Haley's southern accent a little.

[@martinbraun4753]

Please give the Star Trek franchise a chance. 🖖🖖🏻🖖🏼🖖🏽🖖🏾🖖🏿

[@rowenatulley852]

The style of the present (before the bombs dropped) in Fallout is called retro-futuristic . . .

[@toomanyaccounts]

Atom punk actually.

[@johnplaysgames3120]

@@toomanyaccounts It's both. Atompunk is a subgenre of retro-futurism (as are steampunk, dieselpunk, biopunk, cyberpunk, and Raygun Gothic). Fallout is mainly atompunk with elements of raygun gothic, set in a post-apocalyptic world. That mix is what gives the Fallout universe its unique flavor, even within the atompunk subgenre.

[@eschiedler]

I was friends with a couple that ran a thai restaurant and they had some fantastic imported canned drinks, including the Thai Tea but one was a lavender tea that tasted like soap!?!?! It was undrinkable because I already thought that flavor was soapy. So I'm with Cooper Howard on that one.

[@johnplaysgames3120]

Lavender can work, but you have to have a REALLY light touch with it. Like, it needs to be a slight accent flavor, not the central thing. Otherwise, it's like drinking perfume.

[@chrism7395]

Maximus is definitely not the sharpest tool in the box

[@shep4life]

This show is amazing

[@maybachyard]

Annnnnnd.... we're off to see the Wizard the wonderful Wizard of Oz. 😂

[@alanhembra2565]

This is definitely more of a character building episode.

[@andrewdemarco3512]

Its not the 50s, the bombs drop in 2077, but its an alternate timeline from our own. It diverged in the 50s with more focus on nuclear technology and elss advancement in other areas. The integrated circuit was never invented or invented very late, which is why the robots ahve to be so large. Computer tech seems to be about 70s level there are no personal computers only consoles that connect to mainframes. TVs are still black and white like the 50s. There are electric and even nuclear powered cars though. Pretty much everything that can be, including the robots, are nucelar pwoered.

[@william_santiago]

In the Fallout world, they expanded upon the culture of the 50's and rather than follow the micronization of vacuum tubes to create microchips, they became hyper advanced with nuclear energy. For example, all vehicles had micro-nuclear reactors to power them and instead of gas, you had coolant. So you would swap out coolant rather than filling up the tank with gas at the Red Rocket stations, you exchange coolant. Since there was so much exposure to nuclear radiation, the medical advances also focused upon treatment. They developed Rad Away which would flush your system and remove a significant amount of radioactive particles before they could cause damage. A blessing when you get into a car accident and the engine goes nuclear.

[@toomanyaccounts]

they actually have far more advanced computing. fyi in the real world vac tubes are way better than transistors for several applications and vac tubes are being researched because they may very well be better for computing than microchips

[@Ilix42]

The juice to keep ghouls from going feral is a new addition, but it works well. In the base lore, IIRC, no one actually knows what causes a ghoul to change so the some have just been not feral for hundreds of years. I'm curious to see if the drug will become a thing in the games going forward. From what I understand, they're adding the ability to play as a ghoul to Fallout 76 because of the popularity of the character in the show, so it would make sense to work that mechanic into the game(s) at some point.

[@toomanyaccounts]

remember the NCR was pretty much the only place that tolerated ghouls. So a ghoul drug would not be well known outside and even then would be rare and rarer

[@ivanalmendras6974]

Great Reaction !!! ( Braindead or The First Omen for October Halloween ??)

[@mikegilgenbach4840]

The way I describe the era in Fallout is, its as if the 50s technology and culture advanced, but never evolved. Like we evolved into silicon transistor, while they took 50s nuclear and vacuum tube tech to the Nth degree.

[@MickeyStartraveller]

all your questions about the axolotl will be answered in a later episode :)

[@ObserverAmanda]

Because of the total number of episode for a season, I was really expecting for there to be story advancement or something to make the viewer have an attachment to at least one of characters in this episode. I hope this happens in the next episode. I am assuming that this show is like books were the author spends 100+ pages trying to worldbuild before switching to character and plot development. This is not some personal attack against fans of the video games and/or show. These are my feelings about the show this far. I will ignore rude or condescending comments.

[@asian-americanwithanopinio8954]

Maybe their universe is more advanced because Tesla is still alive and never died or was never oppressed or beaten by Thomas Edison?

[@jordancazzell5169]

That was a pretty good episode.

[@user-uu9vh4zg5v]

👉My favorite thing in reaction videos is when the reactor(s) desperately try to fake being clever and end up talking over important exposition, and then start asking questions that were answered in the exposition they cutesied right over.😁👍

[@ObserverAmanda]

My favorite thing is people insulting strangers and whining about reactors reacting in reaction videos. 😁 🙄

[@user-uu9vh4zg5v]

@@ObserverAmanda Yay! Now we're _both_ happy!! 😁😁👍

[@acereporter73]

15:09 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@neptunusrex5195]

In a later episode Chris Parnell tells us why the gulper has fingers 😅😜

[@Lledra]

Goosh I _really_ am loving your reactions to this series! Excited to see more! Keep on Keeping On, Ladies~! Thank you so much for doing what you do! :D

[@gregpeacock5497]

This is just food for thought, but "raiders" could just be what those in the vault call surface dwellers. I have only played Fallout 4, 1676 hours worth, but from what I have gathered from my time spent in Fallout 4, ghouls were those who survived being in the general vicinity of the bombs that were dropped in 2077. Instead of being killed by the bombs and radiation, they were mutated. They are resistant to radiation (it can actually heal them). However, at some point, the radiation will rot the higher functions of their brains and they will turn feral, ie, mindless killing machines.

[@toomanyaccounts]

raiders are specific surface dwellers who raid and just destroy. even most surface dwellers hate raiders

[@michaelhoward142]

Wilzig was Lost, eh? 👍

[@luciaarnaotorrego6852]

Hii, loved your reaction as always. You should check out "my lady jane". It's a great series and I would love to hear what you have to say about that one.

[@scott3484]

for the future retro vide in the world think the jetsons its how the world saw what the future would look like from 50s tec got better but culture stayed the same there more to it on why some tec is still old and some not but its not that important

[@kevenpinder7025]

To be, or not to be? Whether tis nobler to get out of this room, and rip your stinking heart out. I got your Shakespeare right here, pretty boy!

[@jmcman6104]

Hi friends I would love to see you guys react to The Last of Us if you haven’t seen it!! Love both of you guys and all these amazing reactions :)

[@ofthenearfuture]

Hayley did you grow up in the south? Sometimes heard a bit of twang in there haha

[@sebastianwagner7334]

Aw man, i am a bit sad the line about everyones favourite character did not make it into the video. Show some respect for Cadillac Bob, the communist menace...

[@mentormachado4601]

Great react 🎉🎉, please watch one piece live action

[@pmpowalisz]

The show does not explain further into the raiders, for that I recommend playing a little bit of Fallout 3 and 4 (especially reading the computer entries in raider hangouts). One thing the show does elude to however is that Moldaver and her core group of soldiers (key word there) were just using the raiders as camouflage.

[@johnplaysgames3120]

Good thing Hayley and Stella don't actually read the comments, bc that's a bit of a spoiler. You wanna tell 'em what's up with Hank too? Doesn't matter though. You can tell they don't read the comments bc 90% of the comments under every episode have explained that the Fallout universe is atompunk, that atompunk is a subgenre of retrofuturism that depicts the future that people of the 1950s imagined "the world of tomorrow" would look like, that the show actually takes place in 2077 and beyond, etc. You literally can't read five comments without seeing three that explain what the genre is, what years the show takes place in, why it has that 1950s vibe without being set in the '50s, etc. And yet H&S spend half of every episode wondering why this 1950s world has weirdly advanced technology. It's like, "Tell us you don't read the comments without telling us that you don't read the comments." So spoil away, I guess. They'll never see it.

[@pmpowalisz]

@@johnplaysgames3120 They only reacted to three episodes so far. Sure what I said is a bit of a spoiler, but there are people who watched the entire show and not gotten what I put in the comment. Like I said the show only eludes (meaning doesn’t specifically says) to Moldsver not actually being a raider. Honestly the show already eluded to this fact since why would a true raider boss spare any of the vault residents or not rob the vault of every single resource.

[@llamallama1509]

The sound of one of your mics goes bad at around the 5 minute mark

[@snarkysquirrel]

i think we are supposed to like Maximus but I just don't.

[@toomanyaccounts]

he has the idiot savant perk. he is far more likeable than Finn from KK star wars

[@Shad0wmoses]

maximus is just the bully that was bullied basically.

[@Scyth0r]

Not exactly. He's a powerless person experiencing having power for the first time. And we see that he learns his lesson to use that power properly by the end of the episode.

[@WheresWaldo05]

I hate the Maxiumus character. Zero investment in his character. His acting is rather goofy too. I can also tell he is trying not to look at the camera really hard.

[@elivi5391]

What are you on about? Aaron Moten played this role wonderfully and you're just hating.

[@WheresWaldo05]

@@elivi5391 i am on whatever the eff i wanna be on about. Comprende? Or you wanna cone at this 6'6" beast located in duluth, mn and attempt to tell me what my opinions can be on subjective arts?

[@myterriblenightmares951]

They already did an Elder scrolls show. It sucked hard.

[@jonathanramos8414]

Stella ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ please marry me

[@JJ_LL]

less than 10K views. Sycophants aren't enough for a channel, I guess.