New Vegas fan watches Fallout Ep 6: The Trap ✦ Reaction & Review ✦ IT'S A TRAP!

This is a TV series reaction to my first time watching Fallout (Episode 6: The Trap). I really enjoyed getting to see more of Cooper Howard and what people were thinking in the time leading up to the Great War. Lucy is suspicious of Vault 4. Maximus is having the time of his life. And Moldaver really seems to be such a prominent character and for WHAT?! Ahh, this is so fun! Make sure to stick around to the end of this video for my full thoughts and review and thank you so much for watching!
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[@kaiielle]

I'm pissed at myself that I didn't edit out one second to make this video an exact 30 mins. 😭 Are we still having fun with Fallout?! 😄 Share your thoughts on this episode below! And visit my website for all links and a complete reaction library: kaiielle.com/links

[@jrobwoo688]

Still enjoying these reactions.

[@rowenatulley852]

You couldn't edit out ONE second? We're gonna have to dock you ten subscribers . . .

[@derrickbias3406]

So you're seeking perfection? Didn't you just watch Fight Club? Just let the chips fall where they may! Quit worrying about Martha Stewart!

[@jenloveshorror]

Fyi u should call that advertised phone # that Cooper says in vault commercial. It's funny what u will hear if # still active. lol

[@jenloveshorror]

Fyi u should call that advertised phone # that Cooper says in vault commercial. It's funny what u will hear if # still active. lol

[@rowenatulley852]

When Birdie says her mother was a courier, I LOVED your recognition of the New Vegas player-character . . .

[@BipolarBLKSheep]

The fallout theme hitting when she shows the NCR flag gets me everytime

[@kaiielle]

Such a good moment!

[@rowenatulley852]

Goosebumps . . .

[@Wolvorine]

@@kaiielle Two bears high-fiving. 👍

[@MichaelWells770]

Yep, even I had an emotional reaction to that.

[@johnnygonzalez1344]

When Lucy walks into the Vault 4 school "...I haven't seen any kids...yet". You see vault kids one time I think, back in ep.1 when Lucy is first introduced and she is reviewing her "skills". Her passion is teaching American history and it shows the classroom full of vault 33 kids, which we never see in the show again. I wonder if that was a Bethesda "no harming kids" thing.

[@kaiielle]

I meant specifically no kids in Vault 4. I did remember the ones in Lucy's vault! No kids in Vault 4 but a classroom that looked too perfect looked suspicious to me.

[@DocLunarwind]

You forgot her focus in Ethics 😝

[@okreylos]

@@kaiielle I think that's just a production decision to imply that there are children, but not to show them, to avoid dealing with the complications of having child actors. For comparison, when they show the nursery and school in vault 32 in episode 1, it's clearly implied that there are no children (anymore) in vault 32.

[@folcotook3049]

​@@okreylosmy thoughts too. More of a practical movie making decision instead of an intentional story reason.

[@genghispecan]

@@folcotook3049 Yeah, I think it's a production issue just like the nebulous number of people in Vault 33 (think Ep01 vs what we see in Ep05) because set extras are an easy cost to control when your budget includes extensive filming in Namibia.

[@arsewynd]

Lucy fails a sneak test. Did you notice that the scientists name in the commercial was Hawthorne same as the medical lab above vault Four.

[@Dark__Thoughts]

I think she was brain farting pretty hard in the beginning of the episode.

[@Ghoulstille]

The Lucy Goosey dad joke was pretty funny. They had to put just a dash of Jerry into the vault 4 overseer. I assume the Brotherhood probably eat crappy surplus MRE's leftover from the war. That would make me a surly shite in a mech suite.

[@Drudenfusz]

The real trap is the title, it traps you in thinking about a trap.

[@CyanSpyder]

The Fallout music as Lucy opens out the NCR flag gave me shivers the first time I watched the show, and did so again watching this vid. Wonderful

[@rowenatulley852]

For the life of me, I don't know HOW Aaron and Ella got through the "Do you want to have sex" scene without laughing. I wanna see the bloopers!

[@kaiielle]

SAME LOL

[@michaelhoward142]

Multiple takes. 😉

[@hgus]

Different takes alone in front of the camera.

[@Dark__Thoughts]

Yeah, it's 100% different takes. You can kinda tell whenever a scene in a movie or show does a hard cut instead of a camera pan. That's also why some movies and shows showing off with one take scenes where you see that they never do a single cut throughout the whole thing while typically a lot it going on (typically for action scenes that you cannot just easily retake).

[@Scyth0r]

This episode shows you everything you need to see the truth, right out in the open, but does it in a way that leads you to fall into The Trap. ☺ Great writing and taking advantage of expectations.

[@okreylos]

28:50 I think the main difference that makes Fallout the show more like Fallout the game, compared to The Last of Us, is that the latter tried to re-tell the story of the game, but had to cut out all of the gameplay because who wants to watch Joel rummage through drawers for 10 hours? And, if you remove all the gameplay, the story of TLOU is really quite straightforward. So they had to add a lot of subplots and add focus to existing side plots, making the show feel less than the game overall because in TLOU the story is the focus. I love TLOU the show, and still think that the way it conveys emotion and weaponizes sadness is second to none. This, on the other hand, telling a new story in the existing world, has a lot more freedom to just focus on the stories it wants to tell, and still feels like the games because in the games, the world is the focus, and not the story as much. I mean, how many people have played the games for hundreds of hours and aren't even halfway done with the supposed main quest? TL;DR: TLOU is about the story, and because the show had to extend/change the story, it feels different. Fallout is about the world, and because the show replicates the world to a T, it feels the same.

[@crispy_338]

8:13 that look to the camera was absolutely perfect 😂

[@MasterNinjaTeddyBear]

The ocd is hitting you hard for that one second, very relatable. Did you notice the picture behind Howard as he walked down stairs titled a man and his dog? I thought that was a fun little Easter egg for the game and this show

[@kcitsgt]

The NCR theme with the flag was total new Vegas fan service and I’m here for it!! Also, an Easter egg is the president of the govermint’s name is Sorell Booker. He’s named after the actor that played boss Hogg in the dukes of hazard. And two minions are like sheriff Roscoe P Coltrane and deputy enos

[@jenloveshorror]

Girl no worries bout ur edit! U do an amazing job & i adore all ur reactions. U always have great insights & its rare out in this internet world to find a reactor that seems genuinely honest! I loved this series & it seems u do as well! ❤💞❤️

[@jaalsburg]

Amazing how much was reflected in Coop's flash backs in our world now. Loved the no sex ed explanation Max had.

[@jeromedutil-martin6823]

During the convo at the "Govermint", Cooper is sewing Lucy's finger on his own hand. Kinda feels wrong, somehow 😅

[@michaelhoward142]

Not only that but her finger is replacing his trigger finger. 🤔

[@hilarywilliams1909]

He did say it was an "honest exchange".

[@Scyth0r]

It's a deliberate metaphor. Lucy took on the Wasteland toughness through her finger, now The Ghoul is taking on a little of Lucy's goodness and optimism the same way.

[@raydurz]

I found on Reddit that Howard home was filmed using a house in Old Westbury, NY.

[@sonosoloio]

perhaps Moldaver's name was originally Gary

[@Dark__Thoughts]

And as it turned out The Trap was for the viewers all along. lol I don't think I've seen anyone looking through the ruse here and see vault 4 as good though. It's interesting that you didn't trust the NCR people in vault 4, after you were simping so much for them, not that the NCR is strictly a good faction. It's also funny how much it is in our faces that they make a very clear connection between the NCR and Moldaver in this episode, but again, I've yet to see someone actually realize that at this point. 2:31 & 13:06 Death to management! 16:28 The school could very well also be for the vault dwellers to learn about post war surface history from the surface people they took in. 22:05 And now we know why the gulper in the show looked so different to the games.

[@arsewynd]

The misunderstanding of vault four is the best. Recall the vault tec Ad for four, the scientists name is Hawthorne, just like the medical lab above it. Vault fours lore is pretty much explained in the ad . Lucy fails a sneak test.

[@kaiielle]

Yeah in hindsight it's super clear, but my brain at the time thought the advertisement was just actors and a script and not what was actually happening. 😂

[@blanketwodahs6741]

Yep. the misdirection to raise suspicions about vault 4 is a fun setup, especially for Fallout players who 100% expect that something shady is going on in every vault. I've seen people dislike the "sex talk" scene because it seems out of place, but I think it is a great way to prime the audience into thinking something is going on. When I first watched it, as soon as the camera panned out to show the "TEST SUBJECTS" sign, I immediately told my wife "they are pumping some kind of gas into that room that's making them act like that" .. that's what the writers intended.

[@Scyth0r]

@@blanketwodahs6741 The only real criticism I have of the writing in this show is that they don't take into account that people hate being wrong and changing their minds. E.g, there's another comment on this video claiming that the drugging thing is still true, even though it wouldn't make any sense once you know what's going on.

[@okreylos]

10:05 *Bakersfield.* You mentioned you watched some play-throughs of Fallout 1. Did you catch the potential significance of that?

[@kaiielle]

I did! The watching of that was after I recorded this.

[@Palpatine001]

Quoting a certain Admiral Ackbar: IT'S A TRAP! Yep... Lucy just listen next time please......... Also your Thumbnail for this vid KL sums up the episode well after all Lucy got up to in this episode as did your sigh at 8:44 As for the 1 second over. Nuts...

[@cbobwhite5768]

Call the number. I did.🤣

[@okreylos]

3:29 It's Bud Asskiss!

[@Dark__Thoughts]

Bud's butt.

[@zombiepicnic9683]

This series was so good at not only giving fans a great Fallout experience, but with sharing what's great about the universe with a wider audience. Because of that, I wonder how much this show is going to affect the next game. My ultimate dream is for the popularity of the show to jumpstart Obsidian into making New Vegas 2. Even though I haven't heard anything about it being in development, priorities might shift with Microsoft wanting to cash in on the show. Granted Bethesda could make Fallout 5. I just don't think that's likely anytime soon, given that they just put out (and continue to support) Starfield, and are currently working on Elder Scrolls 6. At the very least maybe we get a remaster of New Vegas?

[@kaiielle]

Fallout 5 is the next game they'll be working on after Elder Scrolls 6. There are interviews about it you can find online!

[@EShelby2127]

3:12, the poster... an homage to the movie that inspired the game Fallout, "A Boy and His Dog" 1975.... *HINT* Reaction video please?

[@barrystan3682]

The tag line for that movie scared me off at first. Wonder if that is also why there are so few reactions to it. Eventually watched it at a friends house, and loved it. There wouldn't be a Fallout franchise without that movie. "Dog Meat", the Vaults, ghouls. It is fallout. I hope someone I follow makes a reaction video to it. Please @kaiielle

[@ElmStReactions]

Show is definitely amazing

[@kmvoss]

Great reaction. :)

[@Jim-he4km]

Fun😊

[@erinhaury5773]

About the TLOU vs. Fallout comparison, the real difference I noticed is that they went polar opposite ways in how they adapted the games. TLOU leaned into the realism and canned most of the gamification, whereas Fallout leaned heavily into the gamification with things like the stimpacks, pain resistance, etc. I love them both, but for very different reasons.

[@Dark__Thoughts]

Gamification arguably works much better for Fallout due to its not so serious tone. Fallout is a very silly franchise, while TLoU is extremely serious. Fallout also has the benefit of being able to just make its own story instead of following the already existing narrative of the TLoU games. They're both amazing game adaptations though and I hope we'll see more of that in the future. On that note, Ella Purnell, who already did a fantastic job with Lucy and also with Powder from Arcane, would also make an excellent Elizabeth from Bioshock.

[@FlamingRobzilla]

This Fallout series reminds me a lot of the "LOST" series in terms of exhibition. I just hope it ends better. The LOST series started off strong, got weird, and fizzled out. Toward the end it was obvious that the writers were just winging it, with no particular end result in mind. So far it looks like the Fallout series has a normal primary story arc, just with lots and lots of flashbacks and parallel action cuts that give the viewer deeper understanding. Non linear story telling has it's place. That's good because there will a lot of pissed off new and long time Fallout fans if this is just another cash grab that fails to live up to expectations.

[@rowenatulley852]

Call and text the Vault-Tec number . . .

[@johnnygonzalez1344]

It's not the NCR...it's "The Governmint". 🤣

[@Brent_P]

@07:14 YES MAM 😊

[@Senji75]

Sadly after New Vegas the NCR was all but gone they were spread to thin and couldn't hold the territories they got.

[@Dark__Thoughts]

Maybe they regroup, especially with the changes happening within the Brotherhood.

[@odbade1999]

Synth moldaver or did she use cryostasis? what ya'll think

[@arsewynd]

cryo

[@Azereiah]

Vault 4 cryo. She was a scientist.

[@Dark__Thoughts]

100% Cryo. She's a scientist, rich, had connections, and it would fit into the narrative telling that they're doing, since they reveal her origin in the same episode they show off the cryo tubes in vault 4. Same way they actually make a direct connection between the NCR and her, which also flies over everyone's head on a first watch. They did a really good job in writing this show with all the context clues, for those willing and able to look for them. I just wish they explained the Vault experiments a tiny bit more clearly to the new people watching this, because it's such a major point of the games and should've been made more clear within the first season.

[@odbade1999]

@@Dark__Thoughts agreed

[@Scyth0r]

Watch the end credits animation for Episode 8. You'll see the hint.

[@GeraldH-ln4dv]

The consensus online seems to be that as "test subjects" Lucy and Maximus were subjected to hormones or a gas of some kind which is why they were so randy in the test subject chamber and Maximus saying, "You smell good." It's a stretch, but I like the idea of it. I love how they used Hollywood Forever Cemetery as a meeting place. A lot of Hollywood stars have their spots there, either graves, tombs, or cremation columbaria for urns. In the 1950's it was still called Hollywood Memorial Park. The list of Hollywood people interred there is huge.

[@Dark__Thoughts]

Nah. The chamber was originally meant to be used to hold test subjects that fall through the hospital trap above, but the label isn't really accurate anymore since the leadership changes. Using them as test subjects wouldn't make any sense at this point in history of this vault. I think Lucy just was horny, and consequently smelled horny. But Maximus being so naive on that topic could only tell that she smelled good instead of being able to tell why she smelled good.

[@AFMountaineer2000]

Are there "good vaults"

[@kaiielle]

Good outcomes: yes.

[@Dark__Thoughts]

The experiments weren't inherently meant to be evil, so some of them might as well were running quite successfully. Arguably, any vault that's still intact and running after those 200+ years, is at least not too badly managed. Ultimately, there's not really anything inherently good in the Fallout universe anyway. Pretty much everyone does some shitty things, including the NCR, or now even Lucy.

[@billstephens396]

Also, nice choker... Beautiful.

[@rowenatulley852]

LOL! First time I saw it, I thought it was a tattoo . . .

[@paulf2557]

Best show ever. And I love your reactions too. I just hope they don't make Season 2 too woke, like a lot of shows now.

[@kaiielle]

Thank you! And I guess it depends what your definition of "woke" is, since most people that use the term don't use the original meaning of it (and why I don't use the word myself anymore).

[@paulf2557]

@@kaiielle I used it only in the frame of "overly politically correct, to try to enforce your views on the audience" Like the more recent Dr. Who and Star Wars Acolyte shows to name but two. There is a degree of modern diversity in Fallout 2024, and that is very fine. As long as they don't start trying to lay it on with a trowel. Anyway, mini rant over. I just noticed looking back over your reactions that you haven't done Guardians Of The Galaxy 3, or the Christmas Special. Is that because you have seen them and wouldn't be able to give an honest reaction? I hope you haven't seen them yet. On a totally unpolitically correct note - I have yet to see a reaction by anyone to the great film "Hooper" from 1978. I have it up, but would love to see your reaction, which I am sure would be priceless. Fingers crossed for the last two Fallout episodes from you too soon. Epic is too soft a word.

[@kaiielle]

​@@paulf2557I am watching The Acolyte and really love the mystery they're giving us! I don't think it's woke at all. I'm just a Star Wars fan enjoying a new Star Wars story and since The Old Republic was the first era in Star Wars that I experienced, I'm very into getting something that is taking bits and pieces from that era and incorporating it into the High Republic era. Unfortunately reactions won't be coming to KZbin for it, because I don't want the inevitable hate that I've seen on social media to find its way here. As for those Guardians movies, I just haven't gotten to them yet in the MCU order. I've slowed down the pace that I'm moving through Phases 4 and 5 so I have more time to get in some stand-alone films and some smaller movie series coming up soon.

[@paulf2557]

@@kaiielle I love your long and detailed replies. I will look forward to you finishing your Guardians journey at some point. Don't forget the tissues. Will you be reacting to "The Boys" show? That is another show that is right up there or me, so hope you will enjoy it too. Will you ever be doing any livestream gaming on your channel? All the Fallout games would be great to watch with you playing if you ever do start gaming here. Whichever way you go forward, I only wish more power to your channel, and your fun reactions.

[@Dark__Thoughts]

@@paulf2557 Your woke = I don't like black people, females, gay people, anti-fascism, etc. It's just way too obvious at this point when you people review bomb shows, movies and games, pulling all sorts of bullshit reasons out of your asses, but they all have those various topics in common and are the real reasons why you're upset. Even more funny when you recommend The Boys, which is very precisely making fun of the type of people like you.

[@billstephens396]

You never thought it could be described that way... But you just heard it... Be honest... It kinda feels that way to girls too? Huh? Weird at first...