Reacting to *Fallout* Episode 2

[@NoctemAeternusMusic]

The Lucy and Maximus “moment” wasn’t weird to me. Lucy was instantly wowed (or starstruck, as you said) by seeing his armor and his perceived upright morality, and Maximus just came in contact with the first pretty girl of his entire life.

[@carlart74]

In the scene where Lucy is pointing her gun straight the guy.. just asking questions casually.. is a nod to RPG video games.. we all walk around.. armed to the teeth and usually pointing our Guns at the NPC ( guy ).. casually.. lol ! Loved your reactions to this it’s awesome.. please keep going !

[@zolahVR]

Every time I do it in Starfield, I remember this scene. Last time I just ran to the chief of security with a gun pointed at his face like 4 hours after a mass shooting (in which I was involved) in the city.

[@michaelhoward142]

The TV show has its own unique story and characters, as do each of the games. They all share the same post-apocalyptic world but take place at different times.

[@stephenhumphreys9149]

The turret at the beginning missing with all its shots is a bit of an in-joke about the turrets in Fallout 4, which are pretty damn inaccurate.

[@folcotook3049]

💯 Truth

[@CollideFan1]

Well the settlement turrets always miss, but the enemy turrets always seem to hit my character.

[@acereporter73]

@@CollideFan1 THIS 💯💯💯🤣

[@efremvercaigne7265]

The Mk1 turrets can't hit the broad side of a mirelurk queen...

[@FlankerB3]

@@folcotook3049 nexusmods fixed them somewhat

[@craigreipold3931]

Remember what Maximus said to Titus, that “they won’t kill me if I return with the target”, so he does have a mission and his life depends on it being successful.

[@danielk4335]

The injection (stimpack is the name in game) heals you and does have some benefits like stopping bleeding. To repair limbs that are damaged you need another item (doctors bag) so the stimpack would have been of no use in this occasion. Many things which are happening here is game logic. Head exploding (bloody mess skill), eating food (those cherry thing which the ghoul ate) while you fight is to heal, etc. So you will have just have to deal with. If you played the game it all makes sense. Even the main charecters have certain builds like Lucy introduces herself in ep1 with her main skills being science and repair thus she has high intelligence and luck which you will see as the story goes on, the ghoul with his shooting skills has high agility and charisma (no surprises there) and maximus has high endurance as we saw he could take a beating and agility to match his endurance.

[@cerisambrook7692]

I think that was the game mechanic in the first couple of games, thereafter stimpacks cured 'crippled limb' status - I don't recall doctor's bags being a thing from Fallout 3 onwards. Also going to sleep in a valid bed also cures all physical ailments (but not chem addictions and rad poisoning)

[@TheEstev]

I love that certain characters have obvious perks that you can get in the games. The Ghoul has the bloody mess perk and (I don’t know how without a Pip-Boy) he has access to VATS. And Maximus has the Idiot Savant perk with high luck and strength.

[@daryllyew62]

The end credits are actually a low key “up next”.

[@robertshields4160]

3:57 Luck is one of the SPEACIAL stats in the game, but those auto turrets are notoriously in accurate as well.

[@stanmann356]

The "pocket chainsaw" is a Ripper, a pre-war tool used in-game as a higher level melee weapon.

[@Enthymene]

Rippers in 4 don’t fold, but I like the design choice. I imagine it’s for camping, for which folding saws are pretty popular.

[@Enthymene]

8:21 "are there monsters in this world?" I’m keeping my mouth shut but in simultaneously sad and terrifying ways

[@Strider91]

So, Filly is short for Landfill. It's one of like 4 major settlements that made up the West Coast post War. It was already surrounded by a wall of junk, so it was easily fortified. But it's far from the biggest settlement in California. It was so cool to see it in the show. Also, the ghoul has what is in the game known as Explosive shots.

[@mrb2349]

And he almost always makes “critical shots”.

[@cerisambrook7692]

@@mrb2349 He appears to have the 'Bloody Mess' perk.

[@neptunusrex5195]

I can’t wait for y’all to finish this series 😎 There is sooo many twists and turns coming up. Don’t worry I’m not gonna spoil anything. But the more stuff gets answered the more it leaves you with questions. It’s very compelling though and at the end it finally reveals everything and it’s sooo not what you’d expect. But it’s SUCH a great ride. So happy y’all are watching this. Also the cameos are great - Fred Armisen and Chris Parnell’s character are hilarious. 😆

[@Ironmonger69]

I nearly fell off the couch when Hayley said "...the vibe for some reason is like 60s"

[@MickeyStartraveller]

and even that is off by 10-20 years

[@ScottEDawg]

Wilzig (Michael Emerson) is a form of NPC (Non-Playable Character) that has the players information. In video games, they sometimes use that info to gain the trust of the player. What we saw in "Fallout" was a sort of call-back to those types of NPC's.

[@raydurz]

I think that Wilzig knew who Lucy was because he was working with Moldaver and knew who she kidnapped and put two and two together and figured that's who Lucy was looking for. Notice he called her Ms. McClean and not Lucy McClean.

[@caffeinedelusions]

Fun fact! Bottlecaps were established as currency in-setting because water traders would accept them as payment for a set quantity of clean, potable water, making it a water-backed currency. The technology to reproduce them perfectly was effectively lost in the fall, so there's a limited quantity in circulation, protecting against potential inflation.

[@happyslapsgiving5421]

The little blond mascot is the *Vault Boy.* There is also a similar *Vault Girl.*

[@garethhackney4814]

Just finished watchign the series so can finally watch this now. So happy hearing your voices again and glad you two carry on and seem to be enjoying it. THanks for the hard work and your energy. (even if you dont read this cos it's older, know your appreciated.)

[@acereporter73]

21:00 "Trying to eat my beans, but okay." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Barv is awesome.

[@jishin75]

Thanks for the reaction. As a fellow who didn't know a single thing about Fallout before watching the show I'd say the story will unfold pretty well and all the dots will be connected. As you, I didn't enjoy a single videogame reference, but that didn't hold me back from enjoying the show.

[@RandomNPC001]

"Will you still want the same thing?" One of the best lines ever in any show. How many of us still feel the same after starting on any path?! Do we mold our experiences or do they mold us?

[@Madayar]

I'm here for Stella facial reactions and this show will continue to deliver them. I cannot wait. It's a fantastic show, if you know the world or not.

[@Ilix42]

Southern West Coast represent! Death Valley recently recorded a new record high temperature. :D

[@KevinFlaherty-v2q]

I'm not sure if you are aware of the movie "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly" but it'd definitely be a nod, and the question is which is which?

[@stevenspringer1599]

Stella's dog-killer face...

[@FlankerB3]

that creature in the cave was a yao-guai (mutant hybrid of wolf and bear)

[@Enthymene]

10:14 the "where were you!?" line is hilariously reminiscent of how gamers treat their companions

[@AretaicGames]

I've watched a number of reactions to this show. I must say the two of you are especially perceptive and smart in your running commentary, picking up on details and connections many other miss. Nice work!

[@jordancazzell5169]

Nice new glasses Hayley! The part at 19:09 poor doggie 😞

[@mikhar]

12:20 that’s a game nod, to lower your gun you have to hold the reload button and not many players bother with it or even know about it.

[@benn454]

The "rockets" on top of the entrance to Filly are fuselages from old F-4 Phantom fighter jets. Designed and manufactured by McDonnell-Douglas, it entered service with the US Navy in 1961 and the Air Force in 1963 and continued to be used as a fighter until the late 90s, and as a target up until the late 2010s. Greece, Iran, and Turkey still use them as fighters up to the present day.

[@eschiedler]

I can't recall if you watched "Firefly" on this channel or White Noise. It's right up your alley with world building and futuristic sci-fi. Plus it helped pave the way for these types of narratives in shows. I'm sure it would've been a big success in a streaming format but came out on network TV in 2002.

[@mrb2349]

As much as I like Firefly, I think it looks too "budgety" and made-for-TV for the new generation.

[@eschiedler]

@@mrb2349 It would definitely need a new coat of paint to be sure.

[@bigyeticane]

The reason that The Ghoul's shots explode in this episode are because he is using a special kind of ammunition- another signature of the Fallout series. I believe he is using anti-infantry rounds that aren't good at penetrating armor (like T-60 suits), but explode into shrapnel for maximum carnage to flesh, wood and softer materials. The Ghoul is a murder hobo- a maximum level character who's been there, done that, and has the t-shirt. All DLC completed over more than 2 centuries of surviving. Of course he'd casually have special ammo loaded up for a specific mission.

[@TheGundamsword]

Ghoul is by far the best character in the show, and Walton Goggins does an INCREDIBLE job playing him, both in the past and future.

[@chuckmanion1128]

Weird guy in a diaper shows up on screen: Most people: "lets get away from this as fast as possible" Stella: "I aspire to be as chill as this guy" Me: immediately checks social media for hilarious pics of Stella imitating this guy. 🤣

[@shep4life]

This show gets crazier and crazier

[@GRHrivnak]

There is an out of business bottled soda company in Fallout called Nuka Cola. Since there are millions of these metal caps, the citizens of the Wasteland decided these are currency because they are plentiful, near impossible to counterfeit and last a lot longer than paper money.

[@snarkysquirrel]

cram is also what they have on the shelves instead of spam on sesame street. so now my mind has decided that they are in the same world.

[@ChadVital]

Stimpack fixes injuries and broken limbs, it's not going to replicate a whole foot lol.

[@LeRoy-z5f]

Love watching your questions and guesses. It's going to be fun see your future reactions to the story. 😂

[@NoctemAeternusMusic]

A stimpack wouldn’t heal a severed limb but in the game you can use stims to revive companion, such as the dog.

[@TA3DArtist]

60s music: Rolling Stones, the Doors, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, the Supremes, the Jackson 5. The songs on the show range more from the late 30s to very early 50s.

[@toomanyaccounts]

there are songs in the 60s. the first episode ending had a 60s song

[@toomanyaccounts]

the song "Crawl out Through the Fallout" came out in 1960 on the album " Folk Songs for the 21st Century" by Sheldon Allman. Another song on the album is "Radioactive Mama"

[@mrb2349]

@@toomanyaccounts but the majority of them are from earlier. And the lifestyle of pre-war society is definitely 50s.

[@toomanyaccounts]

@@mrb2349 late 40, 50s early 60s. if you look through old picture books, films of those times that is what the typical American suburban lifestyle was.

[@mrb2349]

@@toomanyaccounts that's what I'm saying.

[@randalthor741]

The inaccuracy of the machine gun turret at the beginning is accurate to the games... Those things have *terrible* aim!

[@asian-americanwithanopinio8954]

I've had a gun pointed at me twice (Been robbed 3 times) I stood my ground and said "Go ahead shoot", they didn't shoot, they just try to beat you up with the gun... in my experience so far.

[@ivanalmendras6974]

Yeeaaa Finally Fallout ep 2

[@flyingskyward2153]

I love seeing reactions to this show more than watching it myself

[@jamesleggett9644]

22:44 may have been said already but this was a reference to how players wearing power armor would get stuck on a specific wood floor in a town in one of the games, just a fyi since yall didnt play lol

[@Enthymene]

15:40 Everybody loves Fallout Boy

[@kingdavid_tech]

Always with the best reactions, but what's cool as you see is the show will have a lot of "oh that's from the game!" for the gamers but will explain things down the line for new viewers to the series and game

[@70briareos]

Yup, bottlecaps is the currency used in the game.

[@patrickholt2270]

Tumbleweed is Japanese Knotweed, an invasive species that was imported to North America early in the 20th century. The Ghoul's handgun isn't in any of the games before this came out. Now there's a mod to add it into Fallout 4 and Fallout 76. It seems to be some kind of sawn-off grenade launcher, except that the grenades are rocket powered, making it a pistol-shaped RPG launcher. A lot of the other guns in the show are in one or more of the games, except the British Sterling L2A3 9mm sub-machine guns that Vault 33 has in its armory. That's relatively fitting though, because the Fallout timeline and ours diverged from each other in the 1950s, so guns like the Sterling are historically justifiable, whereas modern weapons from our timeline aren't so easy to fit into the setting. The Fallout games are famously moddable, and the modding community - players who write software to add things or change things in the games - is huge. So there are mods available for every conceivable real world firearm, but the base games limit the selection to more lore-friendly weapons. You can play as a Cowboy in Fallout New Vegas. That's a build you can do, with perks available to encourage the use of revolvers, lever-action rifles, sticks of dynamite and bowie knives in preference to other weapons, and an abundance of different cowboy hats and dusters your character can find and wear. There are no horses in the Fallout games sadly. They didn't make it through the Atomic War.

[@chasingbirds3073]

There are a number of species that are all known as "tumbleweed". In New Mexico and much of the western U.S. it's russian thistle (Salsola tragus).

[@MarcosElMalo2]

@@chasingbirds3073 Yup, it’s Russian Thistle. When it’s green and still rooted to the ground, it’s spiny and prickly. It grows out into a roughly ball shape. It has a purple flower. Then it dies and breaks off at the root and gets blown by the wind.

[@johnplaysgames3120]

DID LUCY RECOGNIZE MAXIMUS? Lucy didn't recognize Maximus, she recognized the power armor. There were a few context clues and quick bits of dialogue when Lucy was in the vault that indicated that she's actually very familiar with different makes and models of the power armor. Also, as hinted at by the chalkboard in the vault classroom where Lucy was teaching history, those power armor suits were used by the military before the apocalypse, so the people in the vaults were aware of them. When, in this episode, Lucy saw the power armor and what she assumed was a Knight IRL for the first time, she was immediately geeking out and kind of, as you said, star struck. Fun side note: As you may or may not have noticed in the episode, she only saw Maximus when he was tossing the ghoul around and looking bad-ass. Every time he was being clumsy or the ghoul was getting the better of him, she was somewhere she couldn't see him. Even when the Ghoul lassoed Maximus and caused him to fly off out of control, she only looked up to see Max flying away and she smiled, assuming he was being awesome. DID THE DOG SWITCH ALLEGIANCES? No. Four got up and immediately started following the scent toward her daddy, Wilzig (Michael Emerson). The Ghoul saved the dog specifically so he could follow her to his bounty target. She's not really following the Ghoul so much as he's following her. WAS KNIGHT TITUS LYING TO MAXIMUS ABOUT WHAT THE BROTHERHOOD WOULD DO TO HIM? Probably not. The Brotherhood is not a cuddly organization and failure is not really tolerated. Punishment for failing in your duties to your Knight and allowing him to get injured would likely be harsh, especially if your Knight is a dick and is really throwing you under the bus. And letting your Knight die...? Going back to the Brotherhood is not really an option for Max unless, as he said, he can mitigate the death of his Knight by bringing back the Target (aka Wilzig). From our POV, it's obvs not fair to Max as Titus was a jerk and a coward and died because he insisted on doing something stupid and pointless, but the Brotherhood wouldn't see it that way. They'd just see a Squire who failed in his duties to his Knight as being (as the Brotherhood instructor said to Max in the first episode) "more useful as a corpse." MAXIMUS "DOESN'T REALLY HAVE A MISSION NOW": He does. It's to get "the target" and bring it back to the Brotherhood. The Brotherhood will kill him for letting his Knight die UNLESS he can come back having succeeded in the original mission. It's not exactly "by the book," but bringing them something they care more about than the death of a single Knight is Max's only chance at escaping punishment (or probable execution) for "failing his Knight." You might have been talking to each other over that part, but when Titus said, "They'll kill you for this, you know that, right?" Max answered, "Not if I bring back the target." WHY DIDN'T THEY USE A STIMPAK ON WILZIG'S FOOT? In the game, stimpaks restore health but they don't do anything for broken or disabled limbs. For those, you need a "doctor bag" in the game. Since just "a doctor bag" wouldn't really translate well to the show, they did something a little more visually interesting (and gross) with "Jim's Limbs." Personally, I'm interested to see if stuff like that finds its way into the next installment of the game. While the show stays pretty faithful to a lot of the videogame logic (to its credit), I think it also tweaks some of the ideas into interesting concepts that I hope the game franchise incorporates.

[@andrewdemarco3512]

Stimpacks do heal limbs in game if you go to the status screen on the pip boy and use them on the specific crippled limb. There is no way as a player character you can actually have an entire limb blown off without dying though. Logically the stimpack wouldn't be enough to reattach a limb. That said, it's weird they didn't give him the stimpack to slow the bleeding after they attached the metal limb. He might have made it much further that way. I'm guessing they forgot they had the stimpack as it wad in a different room and they had a hard time even locating the limb replacement the place was so disorganized. The ghoul was just lucky to find it

[@chasingbirds3073]

Tumbleweeds are russian thistle, Salsola tragus. Abundant in New Mexico where i live. There are other species that are called tumbleweeds, but that is the main one here. Also, the music soundtrack is not from the 60s. They are songs from the 40s and 50s.

[@aspenator42]

I like their picks for their 2 favourite guys. Ghoul and Vault Boy

[@johnplaysgames3120]

Ikr? I laughed when they said that.

[@GarrettJayChristian]

Everyone seems to miss that CX404 is female.

[@beunique94]

Hell yea girls very excited to finish this series with y’all and season 2 is coming.

[@PalleRasmussen]

Sorry about the life issues, you seem like two sweet girl. I hope that they resolve themselves soon, and that you know that at some point, things improve.

[@chandlermorgan708]

10:48 Maximus literally holding your life in his hands and now you're blaming him for the choice you made😮😮😮😮😮

[@toomanyaccounts]

Maximus froze rather than firing. plus if the knight had gone in first Maximus would have been torn apart before the Knight turned. hence Maximus going first tactically is wise.

[@robertbunting3117]

this show has made me think of a new genre that I am very quickly falling in love with 'Goofy-Gore' . it's incredibly bloody and silly and weird, and I Love It.

[@jjkcharlie]

Hayley and Stella, you should check more comedies. Maximus is a true believer. They are the scariest.

[@WolfHreda]

This show had no business being this damn good. And I hate that I'm stuck waiting for season two now.

[@MarcosElMalo2]

The show’s thesis is explicitly stated by Wilsig at the campfire. Will you still want the same things when you’ve become a different animal altogether? As I said in a comment on the first video, this is a moral tale, and moral stories have even higher stakes than a story about survival. Your morality is your identity. It’s who you are, your values, what’s important to you. If you physically survive, but your identity is corrupted, have you really survived?

[@TheNightBadger]

Hayley was very animated in this one! I'm confused though, they're both on opposite coasts, but Stella has never seen a tumbleweed, which would mean she's on the East coast (there is a slight New 'Yawky' quality to some of her speech), but I thought she was in California...

[@silverbladeTE]

Wilzig worked for *The Enclave* the most high tech and arguably most evil of all the post war factions, basically the descendants of the "Military Industrial Complex" and main enemies in Fallout 2 and 3, their leaders are total genocidal fascists, and thus some of the ordinary members defect "Fallout" is set in an alternative Earth, where history and tech went a bit different, and part of that is that US culture stagnated and stayed sort of like the 1950s, hence style and music ;)

[@arsewynd]

After rewatching I realized that Wilizig was IMO at the cave before he meets up with Lucy because that is where he dumps his lab coat and switches to the dark jacket. Acts of bravery LOL, the Knights think squires are cannon fodder. Max was very disappointed with Titus. Maximus is a true believer in the ideals of the brotherhood. Yes, bottlecaps are the currency. In the ghouls defense CX-404 attacked him, so he reacted in the way that has kept him alive for two hundred years. "How did you get stuck in a wood beam" well IMO when Max getting stuck in the wooden platform it is a game reference to the well known clipping errors in the game, where you often get stuck and cant move.

[@chrism7395]

The power armour weighs 1/2 ton: the wooden duck board broke under the weight, it shows Maximus' inexperience that he thought he could walk on it.

[@arsewynd]

@@chrism7395 True, but they asked why didn't he just pull it out.

[@caffeinedelusions]

Just to be clear, 'filly' is not short for 'philadelphia'. It's short for 'landfill'.

[@CrashCraftLabs]

the show is allot of fan fare for us gamers, but the story is nice too

[@chandlermorgan708]

9:37 acts of Bravery, am I right?

[@АбдуллахГафур]

Pls react to The NUN II

[@MickeyStartraveller]

What do you have in mind when you say "don't kill the dog"? What would be a non-lethal way to resolve that situation?

[@icoborg]

cockroaches eat anything...even people if they don't move

[@3rdOption-l9t]

🙄Oh, FFS! [4:03]"I think it's so interesting, how like, the soundtrack is, like, all these older songs? 'Cause the vibe for some reason is like, 60's?" - As "Don't Fence Me In" is played. A song written in NINETEEN F'ING THIRTY FOUR ( _1934_ ), with this version, done by Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters having been recorded in NINETEEN FORTY FREAKIN' FOUR ( _1944_ ) during World War Two!!! (WWII, 1939-1945) I can't wait 'till they come across the next Johnny Cash song, "So, like, this is so 90's grunge, and, umm, like, old fashioned?" Then: [4:16]"You ever seen a tumbleweed in real life?" 🤯 This, actually, made me angry. [insert picture of me, standing next to the fifty foot long, ten foot high, wall of tumbleweeds I had to clean up three Christmases ago. Where did this occur? "The real world. You should visit it sometime."] [7:14]"This is how getting your first minimum wage job feels." An astute, well-placed analogy. Hmm. [13:59]"You don't know what that guy did!" 👨‍🔬🔬 Science! 😘🐔 Two days out of the Vault, and Lucy's already gotten ahead! 💇‍♂ 🦮🧟‍♂

[@Lledra]

YAAAS~! New episode! Loved the reaction, lol and there was a lot going on this episode! As a person who knew *very little* about the setting and groups, I really enjoyed this series. Excited to see you react to what's coming up in the rest of the season! Keep on Keeping On, Ladies! Thank you so much for doing what you do~!

[@maksphoto78]

I highly suggest you ladies play Fallout 3 ^_^

[@mikegilgenbach4840]

Im so tired of this idea that a person shouldnt hurt a dog that is attacking you. Why would you expect a person to just allow themselves to be attacked by a dog?

[@mrb2349]

Because he was attacked for assaulting the people the dog cares for. You animal haters are always the victims aren't you?

[@mikegilgenbach4840]

​@mrb2349 Why the dog attacked him is beside the point. If a dog that is capable of killing you is attacking you, you stop it. And I love dogs. Ive grown up with dogs since I was 6yo. So youre wrong there too.

[@mrb2349]

@@mikegilgenbach4840 I wasn't wrong to begin with, so I'm not wrong "too" even if I was wrong at something else (which I am not). You don't love dogs, you hate animals. Otherwise, you would imagine your dog trying to defend you from someone who attacked and mutilated you, and that the attacker killed your dog, and the thought would upset you.

[@ImmortaleyeStudio]

Awesome :D

[@Silica_Packer]

Your holy molly's we're okidoki

[@asian-americanwithanopinio8954]

Spam Musabi is good

[@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.

[@chazkramer7420]

Throw in some Bergen studios stuff Stella!!

[@jonathanramos8414]

Stella 😘

[@martinbraun4753]

Please give the Star Trek franchise a chance. 🖖

[@toomanyaccounts]

no not after the reboot movies and pickerd and sexual transmitted disease

[@lesgrossman834]

Привет. Но я не особо "lovely"...

[@aryzen2781]

pretty

[@ObserverAmanda]

I am a little interested in what is going on, but I am still pretty indifferent about the main characters. I mentioned in my comment of the previous video that I am hesitant about these types of shows because I am worried that it will feel more like a video game rather than a show and I am still concerned about that. I hope that it is like some other shows where the characters and story start to pick up after the first few episodes. These are just my feelings and not some personal attack on people that like the games and/or the TV show so I am going to ignore any condescending, rude comments trying to argue that I am "wrong".

[@toomanyaccounts]

tons of people who had no idea it was based on a video game loved it.

[@bikko3089]

You couldn't be less entertained. It's hard to watch. I think you should swap to another show.

[@Christopher-h6w]

Hayley and Stella ❤❤, Beautiful 😍❤️ Rocking and Oh so Awesome 👍😎. Don't know if you do Halloween 💀🎃👻🎃 coming reactions. I've seen some of your little horror movies 😁🍿 reactions. But if you are ok with the Old School, Horror Science Fiction Classic Movies 🍿🎥 Suggestions. I'm your Horror Science Fiction Classic Movies 🍿🎥 Wingman. Just saying say the word. The list will be long. Booo 😂❤.

[@Christopher-h6w]

Sci Fi, movie 🍿🎥 suggestions. Michael Crithton Westworld The Movie 🍿🎥. and the Follow up, 1976 Future World.