The Beginning | Fallout Ep 8 Reaction

[@YaBoyRoshi]

S tier show

[@gramdalfthewhite]

With an S-tier ho

[@Jackdawwwwww]

FRR

[@Okkotsu86275]

I agree 10000%

[@hotdog8109]

Surpassed every expectation fr

[@WarmPillO]

Wait how is you're comment is 7 hours ago but the video only came out like 10 minutes ago.

[@kingr1239]

The Ghoul stop his roaming around the earth for 200 years completing sidequest to finally continuing the main quest.

[@Dokari-l9m]

He knew he had to power level. His previous runs were to high level

[@sanejenkemenjoyer]

me 100%ing new vegas

[@vaschomadafath9505]

me having 20 hours into the game before entering diamond city

[@EggBoi_8]

Every time I play a fallout game.

[@dubcwherever]

I wonder how long he was in that coffin.

[@disturbedone3631]

The Ghoul was not ever with the knights he was a soldier before the bombs dropped.

[@pabloc8808]

Yeah he even mentions it to Bud in one of the pre-War flashbacks, that he hates West-Tek for making faulty armor that cost his fellow Marines their lives in the Battle of Anchorage

[@MarcosElMalo2]

⁠@@pabloc8808 Episode one, he tells his daughter he was a marine. In a later episode when he argues with Barb over “vault rules”, they talk about their experiences during the war. When he talks with Bud about the armor suits, Bud evades blame by saying that was a different department. He was in “HR R&D”. I thought that was odd at the time. Human Resources Research and Development. Later he talks about “Bud’s Buds”. It’s all kind of vague foreshadowing. But it all comes into focus with Norm’s discovery.

[@pabloc8808]

@@MarcosElMalo2 Yeah I remember him saying he served as a Marine, just wanted to point out where specifically he states that that's how he's familiar with power armor. He even names the model. And I appreciate that this show ties everything up like you mentioned, from the very start I wondered how they'd bring all those characters and plotlines together and they made it work

[@DJKuroh]

I think they meant since he was in the military before, he understands how the Brotherhood rolls when it comes to just clapping everyone they see, not that he was literally aligned with the Knights.

[@TheBigKaiju]

@@DJKuroh nah they definitely just forgot that he mentioned that. It's forgivable though cuz they put out a lot of content so some things might get mixed up

[@geardog24]

After all of this, Lucy is out of “okey dokeys” to give.

[@rusenakman]

I think she gives the best one at the end

[@N7.Tenebris]

I love the progression of how she said "okey dokey" throughout the episodes. Went from happy-go-lucky to this.

[@pokey5509]

Dokey ain't okey no more

[@Jymm]

@@N7.Tenebris I saw someone in another reaction comment that it's the fifth stage of the "The Five Stages of Okie Dokie"

[@BustedRobotStudios]

Cooper wasn't part of the Brotherhood, he was in the Marines before the war, which is where power armor was first deployed. He talks to Bud about the T-45 power armor, the Brotherhood Knights use T-60 armor in the show.

[@jackcarlson4358]

Also, T-60 is the upgraded version of T-45, which is why it has the same flaw. T-51 power armor doesn't have that flaw.

[@vodengc520]

@@jackcarlson4358 I hope we get to see the T-51 armor in a future season. I'm expecting we'll see the X-01, for sure.

[@1tsjaboisam973]

@@vodengc520I doubt we will see x-01, enclave apa on the other hand…

[@override367]

@@jackcarlson4358 I can just imagine the marines field-welding a strip of armor right over that joint, the armor having a flaw but the contractor west tek not retooling the line because of costs is so fuckin real to military equipment

[@vodengc520]

@@1tsjaboisam973 Yeah, that's what I meant, I always forget that the X-01 is technically a separate, prototype armor. I hadn't played Fallout 2 in decades until just recently, so I always thought they were the same since they look so similar.

[@jokester3076]

The deal with New Vegas, is that it’s the only old world American city that wasn’t nuked or damaged by the Great War. It’s directly adjacent to Hoover Dam which provides residents with fresh clean drinking water and hydroelectricity. The ruler of New Vegas is a multi-billionaire named Robert House, he was one of the businessmen you saw in this episode that Barb Howard was giving her presentation to. Mr house used his foreknowledge of the approaching nuclear war to prep his home town with a state of the art defence shield, he managed neutralized all inbound warheads targeting Las Vegas.

[@danime91]

Actually, he got all but four I think. He says he was caught off-guard since the bombs dropped some hours earlier than his prediction, which is another hint that maybe Vault-Tec didn't drop the bombs, they were just prepared to do so.

[@cegesh1459]

​@@danime91 In Fallout 3 the bomb had the Vault Tec logo on it.

[@randomcourier]

@@cegesh1459 the bomb in megaton had the vault tec logo, your probably referencing that one.

[@randomcourier]

fallout 4's OFFICIAL canon ending in the Brotherhood ending, i wonder which ending is canon for New Vegas

[@redemptionjack4657]

​@randomcourier Hm, no, the Minutemen ending allied with the BOS is most likely canon they are the good ending. Also, that Airship name was most likely a flaw with the cgi.

[@Ricardo_Rick]

The supreme Irony is: in lore the NCR (A.K.A the ones from Shady sands) was created by vault dwellers, so they are ultimately created thanks to vault tec, so Henry unknownlingly exploded one of the rebuilding experiments that actually succeeded

[@Youcancallmeishmaell]

Damn,that's even worse than I thought.

[@anut8733]

Yep, Shady Sands was built using GECK, a Vault-Tec technology that's also powered by pre-war Moldaver's Cold Fusion. That's why despite of such short flashback we got with Lucy, we can clearly see that the city is so modern and clean compared to Filly or other post-war cities/town in the game.

[@caffeinedelusions]

True, but the NCR was an honest Democracy rather than a faux-democracy under Vault Tec's control, so despite its origins, it had become a competitor.

[@Ricardo_Rick]

@@caffeinedelusions but Vault tec's point was to let each vault compete with each other, so the NCR existing means they were doing just that

[@Scyth0r]

@@Ricardo_Rick That's what they 'claimed' they were about. That shadowy figure up above the meeting giving Barb orders *cough* The Enclave *cough* points to something else going on.

[@darryljack6612]

This was a damn good play of "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly". By the end all three got what they initially wanted when they first started out, just not how they had wished. Lucy found her dad, Maximus became a knight, and (as it was shown in the past) Coop became a cowboy. Not only that but they impacted each other in one way or another. The good (lucy) impacted the bad (maximus) and pushed him more towards being good, and the ugly (the ghoul) impacted the good (lucy) and made her experience and adapt to the ugly.

[@D9everything]

Also, the beginning of the episode with Eric Estrada mirrors the 2nd opening scene in GBU with Angel eyes visiting the old bandits house - total Good Bad and Ugly. Damn Fallout was the best show I've seen in a long, long time.

[@Keycil]

Someone needs to explain the purpose of the vaults to Roshi. They're way more sinister than "creating little communities across America"

[@ancientbruh]

the show explains that ya goof

[@Keycil]

@@ancientbruh have ya seen the video? Like why the hell do you think I'm saying it anyway?

[@OGslick]

A lot of people actually ended up walking away with that opinion. They’re most likely saving that revelation for season 2.

[@anut8733]

According to the lore, the main purpose of the vaults with its experiments and Vault-Tec themselves originally was for them to provide info about humanity to the Enclave (the organization that Dr. Wilzig "the head" ran away from at the start of the 2nd episode) via experiments. And the Enclave was originally founded by American government to build spaceships to finally go out of the earth and colonize another planet/building human colonies in space.

[@admiralpepper6933]

​@@ancientbruh No they did not, you goofy ahh

[@VBane]

I dont feel like Cooper's wife would be in 31, because 31 was just for Bud's Buds, who were all Junior Executives, and she was higher up. She mentioned being in a vault that would oversee all the other vaults, not just two, so it would make sense for her to be elsewhere.

[@MarcosElMalo2]

Yeah, I got the idea that she closed the deal with the other conglomerates after Bud’s pitch failed, so she moved up the corporate ladder (perhaps to CEO) while Bud dropped in status to be the overseer of a management vault. He’s not even human anymore. He’s a brain in a jar riding around on a roomba.

[@ColonelRogers]

@@MarcosElMalo2 Bud's pitch didn't fail. The Bud's Buds program is vault 31-33. Those vaults were essentially his pitch being enacted.

[@vodengc520]

I'm actually wondering if they're going to reveal Vault 1, and maybe his wife is in that one (for the senior Vault-Tec execs, since she's apparently so high up that she knows about the plan to drop the bombs). It WOULD make sense, at least geographically, since the lower-numbered vaults are all on the west coast.

[@bubsyfinnigan4462]

@@vodengc520 They could even canonize Vault 0, in which case, she could be the brain powering Calculator.

[@AbsoVibes]

@@MarcosElMalo2 Maybe he did drop in status but I have a different theory. Based on the game, we know that important figures have their brains put in jars or connected to computers so they can be alive and active essentially forever. For Bud, I think it's much the same. His status is probably still the same as before, but since it's his program and he wanted to oversee it himself, his brain was put in a jar. That way he doesn't need to worry about aging and can continue to manage the program himself indefinitely. Would also like to say that he is still effectively human, he just doesn't have a human body. There's a difference between what Bud is, and what a robobrain is. A brainbot is a robot that uses a human brain as it's processor. They typically don't have any personality and are programmed to carry out specific tasks, much like a Mr Handy robot. If you want something that can give a little more lore on what I think is going on with Bud then look into the Think Tank robots from fallout NV or the lore of vault 118 from fallout 4.

[@Reddison]

1:52... yes they are. And we're going to New Vegas!

[@Crimsonlee2XX]

For y’all that haven’t played the games. At the vault tech meeting the different vault experiments they were mentioning, those of us who played the games have visited those vaults and seen the horrors of those experiments.

[@naosou921]

Just FYI, Coop wasn't part of the Brotherhood of Steel. He wasn't a knight. When he said he used to wear the power armor, he meant back before the bombs dropped when he was in the army. They had already made the early models back then and there was very little technological progress after the bombs dropped.

[@thedarkstarr11]

Yeah, he was in the Battle of Alaska, like the Fallout 4 protagonist, well, the Male Protagonist. Funny, Coop's wife was home, like the Female Protagonist. WELL, except one was a lawyer, and the other was...well, partially responsible for nuking the world. There were a lot of parallels between them.

[@sluggardly]

He was in the Marines, not the Army, but yes, this.

[@jdjack519]

He also complains about that flaw in the armor to Bud in an earlier episode and Bud ignores him.

[@Jonathan_Collins]

"And war, well.,. War never changes". I've been waiting for that line all season, and they nailed the delivery.

[@jerretttesta5093]

Not even just the delivery but the context of which that sentence was used for is equally as perfect

[@pabloc8808]

I thought it was gonna be cheesy as hell when they finally used the line but it worked really well

[@anut8733]

I actually kinda glad that they did it at the last episode of the show, not as the traditional prologue. It makes the show not exactly dependent on all aspects of the game, it just truthfully follows and continues the lore of it.

[@hyperprime113]

​​@@anut8733in a way it actually is like them saying now we're gonna tackle the games so they delivered it like it's the start of tying the show to the game.

[@Arke_PG]

That's why the ghoul/vault boy was divorced in the intro scenes of ep 1, after learning the truth about his wife he couldn't stay with her and so both of them in their last days were split apart with him paying her alimony

[@Bro_wat]

why they even bothered with alimony when his wife was planning to nuke the world, and why their child wasn't already in a vault is beyond me

[@richardpatterson4]

​@@Bro_wat because it never got out that she was planning on nuking the world. Also it's clear that she never dropped the bomb since her daughter was there with her.

[@nar_by_marek300]

@@Bro_wat We will learn that (I hope) next season :) Almost every reaction channels making same mistake. The "nuke plan" isn´t his wife plan. She is listening that guy in the shadow. She was looking at him before that speech.

[@TimothyGod]

​@@Bro_watI'm sure it was to keep her plan down low, and/or nobody would believe cooper with blaming vault tech for dropping the bombs?

[@sporf_sporf]

@@Bro_wat My guess is Vault tech discredited Coop so no one would believe him, but that would also necessitate that he still have access to his daughter after the divorce and pay alimony, otherwise it would make any accusations he made seem more likely. (If he's paying alimony and has partial custody of his daughter, then obviously Valt-tech can't be up to something.) My understanding is that vault tec wasn't 100% ready when the bombs dropped, so they probably didn't end up dropping them themselves, but were just prepared to do so if it came to that. Barb would have probably preferred that Jayne was with her, rather than her dad, if Vault tech was the one dropping them.

[@artarealmblazer]

The car that Budd is driving with the glass top is to foreshadow him later being a brain on a room a with the glass cover

[@Gordo525]

The idea is that everyone in the vaults would survive and everyone else would die. Then Vault Tec would recreate the country and be in control, using the population of the vaults and any scientific/technological advances they made. It didn't go to plan for Vault Tec though because other people outside the vaults survived and things happened in other vaults. They tried to plan it all and capitalise on it but you can't really predict or plan for human nature.

[@loonzoldick]

knowing the game lore makes it more fun cuz one vault was literally made for super soldier that would help them force their will on survivors, but those super soldiers wrecked everyone in the vault, corporate greed cannot and will not ever be able to control nature

[@redemptionjack4657]

Finally, someone who knows Lucy's Vault is all but doomed. I am eager to see their downfall. Ps, not the innocent Dwellers, just the bad ones.

[@NoMustang273]

The Ghoul used the powersuit in the Great War 200 years ago when China invaded Alaska. He complains about the design flaw to Bud when he mentions he designed it.

[@MarcosElMalo2]

Bud actually disavows having anything to do with the power armor. He says it wasn’t his department. He was in “HR R&D”, which is interesting (and sort of explains how Bud’s buds is a research project). Research and Development and Human Resources don’t usually get combined into a single department.

[@Scyth0r]

@@MarcosElMalo2 Not quite, he says he 'oversaw the rollout', but his interests have shifted now. Typical corporate dodging of responsibility.

[@caffeinedelusions]

@@Scyth0r Overseeing the rollout of a product doesn't necessarily mean that he developed the product... but it might indicate that he signed off on overlooking the flaws in the product in order to meet the timetable for the product launch rather than telling the engineers to go back to the dev phase to fix the flaws. So yeah, he was probably trying to smooth over a faux pas by presenting himself as more salesman than supervisor and then jumping to another topic.

[@elimogenson3316]

Howard wasn't in the brotherhood of steel. He was a US marine before he got into acting.

[@solaire8498]

Lupa is right about that being New Vegas at the end. Also we see Mr. House, who runs New Vegas in the games, at the Vault-Tec meeting flashback. He's the founder of Rob-Co

[@ryderls2729]

Cool fact: Them discussing Vault experiments is set up to all the insane vault experiments that you can discover in the games, shout out to the *Gary Vault*

[@caffeinedelusions]

The Gary vault is all well and good, but nothing spooks like One Man and a Crate of Puppets.

[@Bionickpunk]

Or Vault 69.

[@Bbfrlfrl]

"don't buy weed from the gas station bruh, they done turn me into a ghoul" Thaddeus

[@J03J3rk0ff]

They are definitely continuing this story for season 2, it was confirmed season 2 will follow the same characters. It is NOT an anthology series

[@charlesharry7901]

Agree I say same thing too definitely making another season

[@admiralpepper6933]

Who the hell said it was going to be an anthology???

[@heysis2739]

@@admiralpepper6933 Roshi lmfao

[@ryanowens7085]

Yeah, they got trolled. This is definitely not an anthology series. Too much work went in to setting up next season with the same characters.

[@theredantman]

I believe they were referring to Mr and Mrs smith not Fallout

[@xManAvenger]

The Ghoul was never affiliated with the brotherhood. Pre Great War Coop was a soldier before becoming an actor. The reason he has beef with Bud is cuz he oversaw the manufacturing of the power armor he had used during the war in Alaska. That’s how he came to discover the defect in the armor.

[@MH3Raiser]

The irony is, we see the Ghoul treating Lucy terribly the entire show up to this point and see it as mindless cruelty. But considering what Vault Tec did to his family and that her second name is McLane, it suddenly becomes a lot more understandable.

[@OAB179]

The reveal about this city that was nuked was a nice twist

[@caffeinedelusions]

"Each controlling vault has a bunch of people in cryo" Nope, that's just Vault 31 specifically, as part of Bud Askin's HR R&D experiment. As far as we're aware, 31, 32, and 33 are the only vaults set up in triad like that. Every vault is conducting some sort of social experiment. Most of those social experiments are independent and focused on just one vault. Control vaults are the control groups of these social experiments. They go un-fucked-with so that the experimental vaults have a social baseline to compare against when judging the effectiveness of their experiments. Maybe about one vault in 10 is a control vault. If they exist, management vaults are a whole other thing completely off the vault registry.

[@redemptionjack4657]

Sorry to say all but one manager vault has failed and the one in Boston was never completed.

[@Jace-xw3ly]

His wife isn't in 31, that was for low level executives who were part of the "Buds Buds" program.

[@MarcosElMalo2]

How his star has fallen!

[@tofu_golem]

Vault 31, 32, and 33 are very different from the other vaults. During the meeting, you hear the executives discussing just some of the human experiments that actually happened in the games. Some vaults e.g. Vault 13 remained unmolested to act as control samples for the experiments.

[@namechamps]

The ghoul was never part of the brotherhood. He wore power armor fighting in Alaska BEFORE the bombs fell.

[@jralbino6700]

11:25 - "We can separate parents and children and only the smartest kids reached adulthood." Reference from Fallout 4 = Vault 75. 26:58 - New Vegas. Reference from Fallout: New Vegas = Vault 21.

[@cbobwhite5768]

Cooper's car is a 1954 Kaiser Darrin. Bud's car is a 1955 Messerschmitt KR200.

[@jonathancunningham8739]

Bud's car is a fusion Flea but you are right for Cooper's.

[@wtfheim]

11:31 a vault where they separated parents & children actually existed in one of the games where you can explore the vault.

[@Bionickpunk]

Same with the super mutant vault of experimented illegal immigrants.

[@MrGreylurker]

From what I remember in one of the games, you do find some stuff that says someone beat Vault tech to the punch and dropped a bomb before they could and that they actually got caught by surprise.

[@disgruntleddev]

Yeah, Roshi it’s not about money anymore it’s about control, sometimes money isn’t just power anymore

[@s0ck06438]

exactly this, they will rule the planet as kings and queens, also most of them can just live until things are more stable in cryo

[@gnome_child]

Its also a critique on how capitalists only look at short term profits and dont care about what it will do in the long run

[@MarcosElMalo2]

⁠@@s0ck06438 Except they won’t be kings and queens, they’ll work for their corporation and who ever is the CEO of that corp.

[@samuelbrown3405]

​@@MarcosElMalo2capitalists are ruthless, not intelligent. They always think that somehow they won't be among the fuckees and will always be the ones doing the fucking.

[@WhackashitCollaborations]

​@@gnome_child Quit blaming "capitalism" for inherent human greed. You sound like a naive commie. Capitalism is what's responsible for creating the strongest civilizations in history. It's human nature that ultimately ruins it.

[@noirangel6416]

25:55 They comin back with Gundams. "Coughs in Liberty Prime"

[@spiraljumper74]

Capital’s endgame isn’t wealth Roshi, that’s a means to an end, it’s total social control. Vault-Tec is just big enough to act on it directly instead of playing around in the money-as-power kiddie pool that most other capital holders are forced to operate in. It doesn’t make any sense to you because you are sane, and prioritize humanism over hierarchies of relational power and wealth, and capitalism in its maximal form simply does not.

[@samuelbrown3405]

This. You explained it beautifully. It doesn't make sense to non-sociopaths. But hardcore capitalists like Vault-Tec literally see people as bugs. Things to be managed or exterminated.

[@thein8ererator518]

Sounds like a fucking communists ramblings.

[@redemptionjack4657]

Uh, no, Vault- Tech has already failed all their Vaults either open and / or were destroyed, the control Vaults lack breeding pools. Last they are HR and manners, not fighters, the Wastlabd will eat them up.

[@j.f.fisher5318]

I'd say power, more generally. The example I give is Amazon gave Bezos the power to decide he wants to colonize the moon and create a rocket company to do so. Literally what Blue Origin is. Some of the oligarchy do focus on social control as the end of their power, such as all the companies pushing Christian fundamentalism.

[@techissus7449]

Based statement

[@CarlosCruz-mw4hp]

All the factions including Vault Teck fall under what Maximus said when he and Lucy got to Shady Sands. "Everyone wants to save the world. No one can agree on how."

[@voidcowboy4327]

Someone said it on another comment section and I wanted to repeat it here: Fallout is a series where radioactive talking zombies, cowboy robots, cannibal serial killers, mutated abominations in a dress, raiders cosplaying as romans and literal aliens are all in the same place and it somehow makes sense.

[@Okkotsu86275]

I have never played the games. But this show totally caught me off guard, in the most positive way. Can’t wait for Season Two. Ella Purnell is total babe😍🥰

[@DrevenSP]

Please please please play it someday the storytelling is peak

[@Okkotsu86275]

@@DrevenSP I’ve heard that, but I’m not really a fan of FPS games. Maybe I’ll check it out on YT.

[@Kirionlol]

​@@Okkotsu86275 Play New Vegas then, is more of a RPG than an FPS like the others after Fallout 1 and 2

[@Okkotsu86275]

@@Kirionlol Hmm, that could be interesting.

[@TheGabrielryu]

​@@Okkotsu86275 like the elder scrolls series, fallout games since the third game can be played both in first and third person, you can switch it up for your preference

[@carlitosd.9699]

Ghouls in Fallout aren’t really rotting like zombies, it has more to do with initial radiation damage to the surface tissues, which THEN ironically, that same radiation keeps them alive for centuries, and the reason why they go ‘feral’ is because at some point, the brain starts to deteriorate after so much time being alive… the “medicine” they take is a new-ish addition to the Lore (in FO4), and I’m thinking it’s probably some spinal fluid or hormone harvested from other Ghouls.

[@first9052]

I'm so MAD that this show is SO GOOD yet so short. Can't wait for another season

[@Duke_Of_Havoc]

Imagine the route this story would have taken if that scientist guy had taken that Ghoul drug from that scam doctor after his foot was blown off in Filli. He actually came across that doctor, not only that but the doctor offered him drug to cure him. There wouldn't be a head to begin with.

[@Captainumerica]

15:09 Moldaver laid it when she mentionned a family reunion 🧟‍♂🧟🧟‍♀

[@johannesbowers7467]

Budd Really has a thing for tiny vehicles doesn't he? Man traded in a budget Smart car for a MiGo brain cylinder. You also see Vaulties in: The 100 (tv series) Logan's Run (tv series) Cyborg (the movie) Paranoia (TTRPG) 31:17 Cooper was working birthday parties for Alimony. They were divorced before the bombs... And he either won custody or was on a visitation day.

[@nyghtmoon]

1000 points for the Mi-Go reference.

[@BboyZoinks]

There’s a dlc in fallout 3 called operation anchorage and it sends you to the war of USA vs China and that’s where Cooper wore the T-45 power armor, he mentioned it to bud when they first meet “I was in the war of anchorage”

[@threeclaws1]

30:45 They mention in the first episode that Coop and his wife split, and that Coop had to pay alimony. Coop was a super massive Hollywood star (like Clint Eastwood in our timeline) but in the first episode, you see him performing for children birthdays. That's how far he had fallen. While it's pretty unbelievable that his wife wouldn't tell him about the bombs dropping because he had their daughter at the time, we don't know what happened to her or whether she knew exactly when the bombs would drop. It's possible she didn't tell him because they were separated.

[@caffeinedelusions]

It's also possible that Vault Tec had a PLAN to drop the bombs, but that the other side (communist China if I recall correctly) jumped the gun, so Vault Tec may not have done ALL of the bomb dropping. Although they definitely dropped the one that landed on Megaton City in Fallout 3.

[@yamamato910]

@@caffeinedelusionsDONT READ IF YOU DONT WANT TO BE SPOILED yea that’s actually what happened, the US government was breaking the treaty and so china retaliated and all out nuclear war commenced, vault tec was also planning on dropping their own bombs but they weren’t expecting things to pop off so soon

[@yoditan]

Essentially the different companies among them Vault-tech has their own idea of saving/rebuilding the world for the better. They have the idea that wiping out everyone in the US and rebuilding it according to their standards and ideas would result in a better world. All while conducting experiments and not caring about other people than themselves. There is a lot of ideologies at play between the different factions about how to rule the world and make it better.

[@redemptionjack4657]

And yet all either died or failed.

[@alejandromaldonado6159]

Shady Sands was built by vault dwellers

[@MrHellsing76]

The Ghoul was a max level player that just wandered into a group of level 1's fighting. Each vault has it's own rules, but Vault Tech (unless raiders take out the approved Overseer or the vault dwellers mutiny and kill them) make the rules they use.

[@SuperStarWarsFan1138]

@YaBoyRoshi Today is my 33rd birthday. Watching the Season Finale of Fallout with some of my favorite KZbin people is a really good gift.

[@Bionickpunk]

Its most likely that the bombs dropped sooner than Vault Tech expected, hence why New Vegas didnt completely neutralize all the bombs and the fact that the Ghoul and his daughter were at the birthday party. Its likely his wife would have taken the daughter and immediately go to a vault after the party had things went as planned.

[@iloveporkandchicken4718]

cooper is a war vet, and then he became a movie star

[@nandotnt5678]

The 17 control vaults are vaults that don't have experiments and only 4 are known. They are used to mask the atrocities being committed in other vaults. Also the ghoul was a veteran from the pre nuke era, they described the flaws of the T 45 in a previous episode.

[@knotshimi]

They way they intertwined all the plot twists near the end was just beautiful.

[@samuelbrown3405]

One thing I absolutely love is that Coop is always showing his acting. His accent is always thicker and more over the top right up until he gets to his true rage. You can here the subtle switch up right as he says "Where's my family?"

[@Sioux-periorGaming]

Maximus is gonna have one hell of an arc coming up. He's stuck between a rock and a hard place having to choose between Lucy, the Brotherhood or betraying the Brotherhood. It's going to be interesting to see how it all unfolds, same with the other characters, especially Norm.

[@billy_butcher3046]

Fun fact. The Rob-co guy from the round table is Mr. House from new vegas! Edit: can yall not have beef in my replies? I just wanted to say a fact I knew :c

[@MarcosElMalo2]

That might be a fact, but it’s funny how? Funny like a clown? Does the fact amuse you?

[@typicalgamer4life_199]

​@@MarcosElMalo2Don't overthink it, dude. 🤦

[@WillGlacier]

@@MarcosElMalo2 Dude shut the fuck uuuuup. Holy shit I can tell you have zero friends "erm actually" headass

[@GODWYNDEATHPRINCE]

@@MarcosElMalo2 You're definitely a "funny" guy

[@Helldog6]

@@typicalgamer4life_199 Ironic, you over thought his comment lol

[@pratickghosh263]

Just a correction, the Ghoul wasn't part of the Brotherhood of Steel. The power armors are from before the bombs fell and Cooper was talking about how he used to wear them back in the day when he was a soldier during the great war.

[@throwabrick]

"I never should've trusted a doctor that smelled like that!" - my new favourite piece of dialogue.

[@daylight3325]

Wrong episode

[@theboredkid3620]

We still don’t know what happened in the aftermath of Shady Sands but it’s likely that the Brotherhood, who had been enemies with the NCR for a while by that point, took advantage of the chaos resulting from the destruction of the Republic’s military and political leadership to launch a broad offensive that pushed the NCR out of Central California (possibly a lot farther depending on the state of the Republic after whatever the canon ending to New Vegas ends up being). This explains why the Brotherhood would be skulking around the ruins of Shady Sands to stumble upon a young Maximus, their established presence at military installations such as the Airport where Maximus is initially stationed and why Moldaver immediately identifies the incoming attack force as Brotherhood warriors even before the Prydwen moves into clear view.

[@zklpr4661]

The Ghoul was never in the Brotherhood of Steel, he was a soldier in the Great War. He got to wear the T-45 power armor, while the new model is the T-60.

[@Lil.Lon3Ly]

The Doctor in the Enclave hid the Cold Fusion artifact in his neck so that the people don't know where to look for it, and also it works as a Plan B if he were to die and they can just cut his head instead of dragging his whole body to Moldaver, hence what he told Lucy to do.

[@benjaminattwell1430]

I really appreciated how the show captured the feeling of navigating a gaming style narrative. Side quests, factions, level progression etc. It’s always been a pet peeve of mine whenever watching content based on video games. Well done!

[@musicandmoviefan9217]

coopers wife wasn't a jr. exec she was higher on the management scale so she is in another vault that was set to monitor vaults like 31

[@Serevuin]

It's not made explicit, but Moldaver having Lucy's mom there isn't just an intimidation tactic. Flashbacks and the way Moldaver came back to her suggest that she was very close friend's with Lucy's mom, or perhaps even more, which I think is sweet and some nice little character building.

[@gnome_child]

None of the other vaults have 3 connected vaults with 1 being for management, that was just the experiment for vault 31,32,33. All the rest have completely different experiments

[@creativeguy1138]

I usually occasionally watch reaction videos. I usually don't watch an entire show's worth of episodes of them. My wife and I just watched each and every single one of your reaction videos for Fallout. LOVED THEM. You genuinely react. It doesn't feel like you watched them ahead of time and then OOOO'd and Ahhhh'd to extremes to get views. You can tell you really were watching this, invested, for the first time. Thanks for making every one of these react videos so great by being real. We loved each one. Your comments, humor, and of course reactions were so fun. Thanks!

[@saurabhch4001]

I would love for yall to go through and react to a video that shows all the known vaults. Really some twisted stuff.

[@KidVolcano]

28:35 "I just love the fact that the story telling treats you like an adult." Definitely.

[@GalEl1806]

I love Paul’s fusion core water bottle

[@adicacid]

30:50 Here's a minor detail: at the start of Ep1 during the birthday party, a guy was asking "Why the hell is Cooper Howard working kids' birthday parties?" to which the dad replies, "What else? Alimony." That gives us a hint on what their current situation is like.

[@YoungCrackerr]

30:52 its not confirmed that vault-tec dropped the bombs, its just an idea that they had.

[@TheComander5]

Coop was a Marine before the show picks up, never in the Knights

[@nubbiewubbie7285]

Am I the only one who gets Sith master and apprentice vibes from the Brotherhood leader trying to get Maximus as his "sword"?

[@MarcosElMalo2]

I’m sure that a million other nerds that see everything through the lens of Star Wars thinks the same thing. But the Brotherhood priest doesn’t have special powers. He’s just old enough and politically skilled enough to have risen through the hierarchy. I don’t even think he’s at the very top, like a pope. He’s more like a bishop or cardinal, powerful locally. If he has ambitions, of course he’s going to need a young man to be his sword. You are aware that mentor relationships existed before Star Wars?

[@nubbiewubbie7285]

@@MarcosElMalo2 bro really typed all that just because I made a comparison between two things 💀

[@typicalgamer4life_199]

​@@nubbiewubbie7285Yeah, don't mind him. This dude also confused "fun" fact for amusement and laughter in another comment.

[@a.vasquez771]

That's absolutely what they're invoking when Quintus continuously talks about power and Max's willingness to take it, that's straight up Sith 101 "Through power, I gain victory" and all that. He's Palp and is grooming Max as his Vader.

[@Mikedegot]

"Follow these 10 easy steps to fail upwards." - Maximus, motivational speaker

[@charlielebron7354]

Fun Fact: Maximus wasn't issued a suit of T-60 Power Armor (YET) because he's a SQUIRE RANK. Power Armor is ONLY ISSUED TO KNIGHTS, KNIGHT SARGEANTS, KNIGHT CAPTAINS, PALADINS, STAR PALADINS, ELDERS (THE DUDE WITH ROBES) AND HIGH ELDER (AUTHOR MAXSON)

[@RomanceRoach]

Coop wasn’t part of the Brotherhood, he served in the war that first used power armor like he mentions when he first meets Bud. Also in the first scene they say Coop is doing Birthday party appearances to pay for alimony, I’m guessing his wife found out he was spying on her and split up (probably explains why she didn’t get Coop in a Vault)

[@amuro9624]

I like that you pointed out the fact that the ghoul was at the birthday party when the bombing happened. It's a hint that there might have been more going on and maybe they were planning on dropping the bombs but someone else did earlier

[@yamamato910]

i can’t say who dropped the bomb for spoilers that’ll probably be revealed but you’re not far off from what happened, vault tec wanted to kickstart the nuclear war that was on the horizon so they could get control but someone beat them to the punch

[@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.

[@ades2707]

just like the game, this show reveals that Fallout is not about surviving in an apocalypse world, but how to create a new world with our own rules a.k.a play god, treating the apocalypse as an opportunity.

[@Daividox]

101097 refers to October 10th 1997, the date of the release of the first Fallout.

[@nowherebeans]

BROOOO THE FACT THEY EVEN CONFIRMED THAT NEW VEGAS IS FOR NEXT SEASON IM SO HAPPY I ONLY HAVE A COUPLE THOUSAND HOURS ON NEW VEGAS AND ABOUT THE SAME FOR 3 I GENUINELY CANT WAIT

[@caffeinedelusions]

Good insight, Roshi. They CAN'T step down the Cold Fusion system because they don't have the ability to turn it back on again... so anything they build with that infinite power has to be attached to a power grid extending out from the Observatory, which then becomes a single point of control for the whole wasteland's power infrastructure. The Brotherhood HAS to hold that point if they want to control that power grid.

[@kuhikuwi]

"Nah bro they coming back with gundams." Well um

[@admiralpepper6933]

*SOUND OF A FREEDOM-LOADED 'FOOTBALL' RAPIDLY APPROACHING YOUR LOCATION*

[@Scyth0r]

LIBERTY PRIME ACTIVATE

[@typicalgamer4life_199]

​@@Scyth0rI figured that too 😂

[@mileshill7196]

FREEDOM IS THE RIGHT OF ALL AMERICANS

[@phatcat4384]

episode one mentioned that coop was doing bday parties because he had to pay "Alimony". I don't think they are together anymore. He isn't looking for her so much as his kid. He wants words with his ex. My crazy tinfoil hat theory is he and his daughter DID make it to a vault, but without his ex wife's protection, the kid was taken from there, transferred to a cryo vault, and he was left to rot in an experimental vault, like the gulpers. He's a Ghoul made on purpose by valtek.

[@bmnbl]

They're probably divorced when the bombs dropped what's fucked up is she knew he was with her daughter... quality mom right there.

[@ChibiKawaii3]

I don't think vault tec did it. Though they weren't afraid to. The Great War was only a few minutes long and no one is sure if the Chinese or Americans dropped first. A lot of vaults weren't full capacity because of it. Unless they changed lore from the games. But I do think she let Janey in and not her ex.

[@Akaeus]

They say they were willing to drop them, but it's not actually clear if they did. As you point out he was with their daughter when the bombs went off, but if she knew that vault-tec would set them off then she would've had her daughter with her and not her ex.

[@Vaishino]

Earlier in the series when Maximus steals the fusion core from Vault 4 for his suit, Lucy tells him they can't doom the whole society, saying "how could I face my father after that?" I guess she knows now he'd understand.

[@CATTingle]

That Bioshock movie Netflix been edging us on better SLAP if Fallout can pull it off!

[@duman173]

the ghoul used to be in the army, all the tech you see the brotherhood is using here is army tech

[@jzhdz1299]

They are coming back for season 2 idk what yall talkin bout 😭

[@Fmanzo10]

When the ghoul told Lucy that she was him, just give it time. He wasn’t talking physically, not saying she would turn into a ghoul. He was saying she would be disillusioned. That she’d be jaded like him.

[@cazper420]

Sheera thinking the 50% DNA scan meant Betty wasn't there too is hilarious. Brain/Bud after scanning said you only share 50% of Hanks/Henry's DNA because it's his son 😂

[@Jonathan_Collins]

It's interesting how people in the show said everyone knew Moldaver. Turns out it was because she was the president of NCR.

[@vodododo6208]

I thought the president was aaron kimball, the guy who we protect on the dam in new vegas

[@Nullbound]

​@@vodododo6208they probably had multiple presidents

[@theboredkid3620]

@@vodododo6208 Aaron Kimball was the most recent President of the NCR that we know of. His fate after the bombing of Shady Sands is unknown. We also don’t know what Moldaver’s affiliation with the surviving NCR government and military is, her actual title is never confirmed. She’s likely the leader of an individual group of NCR remnants pursuing her own agenda for the restoration of Shady Sands and thereby the seat of NCR power.

[@paultheviewer]

@vodododo6208 In 2 outta 4 ways to play, Kimball gets un-alived(YT censor) , in the House version, House estimates Kimball will un-alives himself due to pressure and stress of losing the dam. Since they show no NCR presence in the ending of the show at New Vegas, and that they have a House actor, its safe to assume The House Always Wins, or some variant of it, is the cannon ending for New Vegas.

[@pabloc8808]

Not necessarily the president, she's more of a cult leader and the head of what appears to be the most influential faction of NCR Remnants. It makes sense that everybody knows her and some worship her, she has pre-War knowledge after all while not being a ghoul.

[@WillGlacier]

8:18 Yoooooo it's Mr. House! Rip the original voice actor, dude was a goat and it's a shame he couldn't be here for the show.

[@Jymm]

5:29 Bud is driving an early 50s Messerschmitt KR200 and Coop is driving a 1954 Kaiser Darrin

[@wtimmins]

It's VERY rare that a show absolutely nails a big mystery component. Most shows with mysteries? Often so so so f'in stupid. But this blew me away.

[@joshuajacobs4009]

Coop wasn't a part of the Brotherhood of Steel. He was a US marine in the War against China pre-bombs. He helped fight China out of Alaska where many of his comrads fell because of the flaw in the power armor. 23:51

[@SILK97]

This was the episode that took this series from entertaining to unforgettable

[@Luster...]

Glad you three watched this show. Highly recommend The Expanse if your into sci-fi that takes place in space mostly.

[@slatter98]

Who are you guys talking about not returning for season 2 right at the beginning? All 3 main characters are confirmed returning and we will be continuing their stories