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I think Lucy just because she sells the 'good natured' speech focused archetype so well. But Michael Emerson's conversation by the campfire might be my favorite scene overall in the show. That weird quaver in his voice just fits so perfectly. Though the 'is it your thumb or mine' scene still hits *real* hard.
The ship in the sand is real. It was beached on the Skeleton Coast of Namibia, in the early 1900's. Since then, the desert has pushed the ocean back 1,000 ft'.
I actually love that this series pulled no punches with the dog. "Yep, we just threw a puppy into an incinerator. Are you still here?" .. "The Ghoul just stabbed the dog. How about now?" .. and the audience is rewarded for staying through the questionable bits.
So much fun warching this through with another player. And yes, the Power Armour is physical. if I recall they said the only CGI is when it closes because they couldn't get it to safely close with a person. I slightly envy the stunt performer whose job is to just run around wearing the T-60 all day! The attention to detail is so amazing in this show, it's like every frame is a love letter to the games. See you in the next one.
"How are they not getting hit?" Every Fallout 4 settlement building player agrees. I don't know if it's ever been confirmed, but the general fan theory is "Filly" is derived from "landfill" (ie - it was made in a landfill as people probably tried digging through it for useful stuff). The gory death animations go all the way back to Fallout 1. Give Ian a submachine gun and you'll likely get to see one happen to you. 😉
You mentioned the ocean retreating but that ship is an actual real world wreck called the Eduard Bohlen that ran aground in 1909. In fact a lot of the Wasteland scenes were shot in Namibia around Kolmanskop and the abandoned mining towns around there.
That tumbleweed Lucy saw is a cheeky reference to 'wind brahmin', cut content from New Vegas, sentient tumbleweeds. Also the man that Maximus grabs by the hair is actually the makeup artist who did The Ghoul's prosthetics for the show. Also loving these reactions and your enthusiasm
When Lucy didn't know how to holster her weapon while talking to the water filter guy, like some people in the fallout 4 playthroughs pointing their gun at everything even while talking to people, not knowing they just have to hold down on the reload button. 😂
19:26 I'm pretty sure hole-in-the-neck guy on the left is the same stuntman Lucy shot with the tranq gun up in the balcony in Ep 1. Which makes sense, since some of the Raiders, Wastelanders, and NPCs in the games kinda look the same. Edit: Also, Jim from "Jim's Limbs" is one helluva sadistic MF'er.
"A veteran owned company." Jim saw a need to get casualties mobile, and he capitalized on it. Imagine the horror of going to war knowing that if you're seriously injured, "Jim" has you covered.
The Ghoul figured out how to use V.A.T.S without a Pip-Boy. ☺ Also - Notice the Ghoul has different bullet types in his bandolier? He's using high-explosive, anti-personnel ones here. No extraneous details in this show, everything has a reason. 😏
It took me a while to realize it was Filly because it’s a landfill. My first time watching the show I kept thinking it was Philadelphia as well and was like “how are they traveling so far?” 😂
When I saw how the name was spelled on the tailfin had me wondering how the name came about. When I say Lucy walking through all the rusted cars and they looked to have been in a parking lot made me think it was the site of a pre-war horse race track. I think the landfill theory is correct as you have to walk down into the town much like the crater of Megaton. People dug out the hole looking for items to use for whatever reason and when they hit solid dirt the digging stopped and a town started being built.
The thing about both Fallout the game and this video series is that it's not about cut and dried protagonists or antagonists. It's not about good vs. bad people. It's about survival.
I love bottle cap currency in the games the reason they’re used all over the fallout universe is because they were very common pre-war, but cannot be produced anymore, and they are very challenging to counterfeit, as well as the fact that everybody recognizes them and they’re easy to transport since the lightweight and small
The armor suits are practical. In a interview, Ella Purnell said she wanted to get in one and try it. They told her NO. Seems the Pip-Boys are a casing with a cellphone in it. And see broke 3 of them.
Wilzig is an Enclave scientist. The Enclave has deep ties with Vault Tec. That's why he knows so much about Lucy and her Vault. They would have data on it.
Heh I did a 1 and 2 replay after watching the show, was a great nostalgia trip for me. Though I will say, 1 is a much more forgiving and concise game than the others. I'd actually forgotten just how short it was when replaying it in comparison to 2. 2 assumes you have a lot of Fallout 1 experience, it just throws you into the deep end.
@@kaiielle dunno how comfy you are with mods, but there's one called Fallout 1 into 2, that ports 1's game data into 2's engine, mostly its nice for some subtle quality of life upgrades, and some more enemy and item variety.
Max: ..you went with Tempered Lining, on the T 60? Does that help with mobilit? (Metal Tempering is known method of reinforcing the metal, increasing hardness, or toughness, etc) Titus: [Who the hell is this fool] "CLEAN THAT" 😅
Just started F76 after the show. Waaaay better than I expected. You can play it like a single player Fallout and just ignore the multiplayer elements. It’s cheap and you get that fix til the next game.
The show is now officially Amazon's most watched show of all time, and was April's most streamed show across all services. 65 million people watched the series. Did you get the reference in the puppy's 404 code? Error 404 "not found".
I prefer the term Atom Punk, for what to call this. Its a second look at the dreams of Asimov, and his contemporaries, but from our perspective, not theirs.
Fun fact: The targeting system we now know as VATS was also in Fallout 1 and 2 but it was called Aimed Shot, it cost 1 action point more than a regular shot and you can shoot head, torso, all 4 limbs, groin and eyes. If you take the Fast Shot character trait at the start, you can't do aimed shots, but each regular shot costs 1 less AP to perform. So if you take that one plus maximum agility, that is one of the most useful builds for combat because you can shoot at least 2 or 3 times per turn, depending on weapon. Combat in first 2 games is turn based, but the story, dialogues and characters are brilliant.
The best decision they made was not trying to hide its game origins and instead leaned into it. Bethesda has released the character official stats, and Lucy has 7 luck, so explains how she keeps meeting people and ending up in the right place. Though not apparent now, by the end of the series Norm was my favorite character, so wait for that development.
My favourite character so far is still the ghoul. The stand out scene was for me when Lucy enters Filly and you see the town from above, that scene is so perfect, and it still gets me smiling so much. So far you have the best reaction to this epic show. And like you i will never play 76
Actually, no. The enclave is the remains of the government, but corrupt and going feral.BOS are private contractors and paramilitary related parties trying to conserve tech and bring order. Their order.
Absolutely love retrofuturism. Anachronism seems a pretty effective vehicle for engagement. One of my fav examples is Jakub Różalski’s art/world building for the Scythe board game.
I'm so glad to see a fellow gamer enjoying this adaptation. I've rewatched it a few times, and I continue to catch little Easter eggs and references to the game that I missed the first time through.
I def notice some in editing! But excited to give the show a proper rewatch once I'm done putting out these reactions for you all! (I've also watched some other people's reactions - Reel Rejects in particular was a joy for me because Greg hadn't played the games and Michael had.)
One of my favorite theories is Max has the Idiot Savant perk, love it. Hard to pick a fav character since I usually don't go for binary opinions. No true good guy too, but The Ghoul is so damn complex I can't wait to see his flash back to trying to keep his daughter alive.
Nice vid - Glad you have enjoyed the Fallout TV series as much as I did (it really is top notch entertainment on every level)! Best Wishes. 😄 Edit - Sorry forgot - My fav character is The Ghoul. (but they are all well written and acted).
I'm so excited ur covering this series!!! My son was big fan of games & I've played some, but mostly would watch him while I'd be doing stuff around house. I love all the little details I'm picking up on so I can only imagine for the real gamers how much more there is to be found. I do know the music was one of the first things I appreciated. Can't wait to hear all ur thoughts as u go thru this series❤💞❤️
I decided to watch the show solely because Walton Goggins is in it and he is the GOAT! I was pleasantly surprised after years and years of disappointments via Amazon Prime shows. I just got Fallout 4 and look forward to playing it as I knew about the games but never played them.
I love the scene with the ship on the dunes. A real location, no CGI, the Skeleton Coast in Namibia. I first saw the location in a fave movie of mine, it's not a classic, but it one of the first films on VHS i saw. Steel Dawn from 1985 starring Patrick Swayze. Another post-apocalyptic adventure movie. Kinda like a futuristic samurai film. Low budget and very 80s. 😁 📼
I figure "Filly" is named because it's in a landfill. Which makes sense, landfills tend to be farther away from cities (escaping the nukes) and would be mined for useful materials. 🤔 And yes, it looks a little like Megaton in Fallout 3
I'm really enjoying your reactions and commentary on this series! I've been playing since FO3 was released in 2008, then FONV and FO4 when they were released. It's fair to say I love the FO "Universe". You made a comment about FO76, which you said you'd never play. I'm curious as to your reasoning on that, because I used to say the same. Until about 2.5 years ago. A close friend talked me into playing it with him (he lives in a different town), and I fell in love with it too, as it turns out. I do keep returning to FO4 though, especially as a big mod grows more and more (Sim Settlements 2). Anyway, Hi, having fun, why no 76? 😁
@@kaiielle That's exactly why I avoided it! It's easy to play alone though, and fun to see new stories! Anyway, looking forward to watching more of these!
Oh it's practical with a guy in the suit. In fact they used very little CGI for the whole show and filmed in many locations all over. In fact that ship in the sand, is a real thing, in Africa somewhere I think.
You encounter packs of wild dogs in both Fallout 3 and New Vegas. I'm going to hazard a guess and say that dogs are probably thriving out in the wasteland. Good for them. :P
Maximus is actually my favorite character. He reminds me a lot of my early Fallout playthroughs. Chaotic, making the wrong choices, but trying to do right.
In the first episode, when the brotherhood of steel guys were looking at the picture of Wilzig they said he escaped from the Enclave. I'll leave it up to you as to whether your game experience lets you know who they are.
The Enclave wasn't present in FNV, but I believe I said in Ep 1 (or maybe it's coming in a future episode and I just can't remember which) that my understanding of them is that they are trying to continue what the US government was before the war from a political and military perspective.
@@kaiielle Think of the "military-industrial complex" concept and combine it with conspiracy theories of people in suits controlling things from the shadows. Now blend that into the remnants of the US Government, and you'll have a fair idea of the Enclave.
I think Movies with KL you said you haven't played Fallout 4? Only New Vegas or 3? They revamped the power armor in 4. It's like you saw in this episode; a complete suit you can modify, update, and not be burdened when wearing it. You get to be Iron Man. You just gotta remember where you park when not using it (and don't leave the key in the ignition so someone can steal it).
Yeah only NV fully and like 6-8 hours of the start of Fallout 3. The 4th is on my list to get to but I have started playing FO1 and I want to play all the games in order now.
@@kaiielle Glad you’re enjoying the show. I think they did such a great job of recreating the Fallout universe. The original Fallout game (1997) is a 500 MB work of genius and wasn’t published by Bethesda. Just all the dialogue in it is full of Easter eggs. Still one of my favorite games in the Fallout series. I think it’s one of the first RPGs to have you decide how good or evil your character could be. Your actions do have consequences.
I love retrofuturism AND the look and feel of the Fallout universe but "real" retrofuturism to me is because something has aged, not because it was staged; Fallout is very much deliberate invoking it, while things like say the Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers comic strips or any classic Sci-Fi movie just becomes retrofuturistic after say 30 years or so.
I'm very sorry for the poor guy Lucy met on the way to Filly, he seemed more like a desperate poor guy, alone and without water, than a disturbing "background" character (as many have said, certainly because he's not one of the cool guys on duty), with no real life prospects, not even in the short term (Lucy's water made him survive at least another couple of days) and I would like to know more.
Already Lucy is a different animal. Yesterday the only thing she wanted a man who was good on the inside and a place to live. Looks not importent and all
76 is pretty good and the community is awesome, i played it after the show and spent hours on it, but I’d say bring a friend since it’s multiplayer and have a blast with it.
When the show released, I went into it thinking I would watch the first episode to check it out. I was unsure if the show could be done well, being based upon the games. I went to bed at 3 am after binging the entire season in one sitting.
Fallout and The Last of Us have made a road map for future adaptations; correctly identify the things about the games that people love, then translate that to a TV audience. Easier said than done, but my hopes are high for adaptations of games like BioShock and Horizon.
You should really play Fallout 76 some time it’s a real breath of fresh air. I was the same as well but the experiences are just as good. Some systems are different but the work they’ve put in the game has definitely improved it, though with all the new events it may get a little overwhelming but manageable. Still, take your time, and enjoy the next addition to your Fallout collection. 😁👍
As far as Fallout 1 goes there is a group of modders that are recreating it as a mod in Fallout 4. Last I heard anything about it was over a year ago, so I don't know how far along they are.
Since you already played New Vegas, I recommend Fallout 4. The makers of the TV show received 3D model assets from Bethesda from Fallout 4 mostly, and so that game looks a LOT like the show. They 3D printed all the props, from nuka cola machines to T60 power armors, pipboys, radios, the look inside the vaults, every single thing
Fallout 1 and 2 are definitely worth playing. They made Fallout what it is. Fallout 2 is still my favorite game ever, although you really should play 1 first if you want the full story.
I grew up a bit north of Los Angeles (Valencia/Santa Clarita), and if you traveled another hour northwest(?) there was a town called Fillmore. Considering how this season ends locationally, I'm assuming Filly is Fillmore. It'd be kinda sorta "on the way".
Fallout 76 is good now. It had it's rough start, but when they added people, I feel the game got better. I don't know if they still have the promotional "play for free because of the show", but if they do, try it out.
@@kaiielle Think of it this way. You are one of 22 residents of Vault 76. One day the overseer opens the door and says "Go out and settle america." So everyone leaves and goes their separate ways. You out doing this quest for some bartender and you see a vaultmate. He gives you a "Hi" emoji, you give him one back. Then you both continue on your separate quests. Another time you're fighting a deathclaw and you run out of bullets, so you run. It's going to catch you until it suddenly dies. Killed by another passing vaultie that was close by. You do the heart emoji, she does one back, then leaves. One day, you're in your personally decorated camp when you get an alert "Scorchbeast Queen is on the rampage!". You look at the map and see 11 other vaulties fighting it. You decide they need help, so you fast travel and join the fight. Point is, you can solo the game as any other Fallout game or join others, no one is forcing you into multiplaying. 76 is enjoyable either way.
Just curious…what’s your beef with 76? You sounded very adamant about never wanting to play it. 76 is my favorite of all the games. Even over New Vegas and 4. The gripes about its release are vastly overstated. And even if it had a rocky release, it’s so much improved since then.
I hear ya. I dig playing MMOs, but I don’t like playing with other people. I know, total paradox. I like the open nature of mmos, even though games like Fallout are very open world. For an mmo, 76 can be a solo game 99% of the time. Only thing multiplayer I do is events, and that’s just for the rewards. There’s virtually no pvp as well. Not trying to give ya a hard sell, it’s just very solo for an mmo. Anyway, glad you’re enjoying the show. Stays very true to the game throughout. Hoping season 2 doesn’t stray. And judging from the end credits (no spoiler), they intend to stay true. You’ll be excited.
Ahh well in that case I could give 76 a try one day. Won't be until after I get through all the rest first though and that'll take a while. 😂 I'm very excited to share my reaction to that in the finale!
Thank you! Haha, it bothered me that she called it a cockroach. 😂 Same for calling the Yao Guai a bear. Didn’t know until the post credits that she’s only played new Vegas, so that’s a free pass I suppose. Playing 76, I see those things daily.
Been a looong time for me n New Vegas as well. Like a decade. I might need to find my old copy and get a refresher. 76 keeps me up to date on everything in the world, but I’ve forgotten most of the plot. New Vegas had the NCR vs the Legion, right? I need to at least read up again.
Okie dokie, so who is your favourite character to follow so far in the series? What's the stand-out scene in this episode for you? Let me know below! ❤
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I like all the characters, but I find The Ghoul to be the most interesting . . .
Norm is my fave, I love int builds
i also like all of them but Norm und the Ghoul... why Norm? He's an underrated character, you will see...
ALL OF THEM !!!!
I think Lucy just because she sells the 'good natured' speech focused archetype so well. But Michael Emerson's conversation by the campfire might be my favorite scene overall in the show. That weird quaver in his voice just fits so perfectly. Though the 'is it your thumb or mine' scene still hits *real* hard.
We laugh at Lucy starting a conversation with her gun drawn but we've all done that in-game.
I am pretty sure I played like the whole first 10 hours of New Vegas with my weapon drawn all the time. 😅
@@kaiielle Think someone involved with the show specifically said that the gun drawn was an easter egg to exactly that... :D
Hey, I am a civilized Wastelander. I know how to hold down R.
CX404 = Canine Experiment Not Found, imo. 😎😎
OOOH I love that haha
The ship in the sand is real. It was beached on the Skeleton Coast of Namibia, in the early 1900's. Since then, the desert has pushed the ocean back 1,000 ft'.
I actually love that this series pulled no punches with the dog. "Yep, we just threw a puppy into an incinerator. Are you still here?" .. "The Ghoul just stabbed the dog. How about now?" .. and the audience is rewarded for staying through the questionable bits.
I really do love the oversized bag gag. Like yeah i think i could fit a suit of power armor and a dozen guns in thwre. That tracks.
filly looks like both megaton fallout 3 and diamond city in fallout 4 to me it is done so well
So much fun warching this through with another player.
And yes, the Power Armour is physical. if I recall they said the only CGI is when it closes because they couldn't get it to safely close with a person.
I slightly envy the stunt performer whose job is to just run around wearing the T-60 all day!
The attention to detail is so amazing in this show, it's like every frame is a love letter to the games.
See you in the next one.
"How are they not getting hit?"
Every Fallout 4 settlement building player agrees.
I don't know if it's ever been confirmed, but the general fan theory is "Filly" is derived from "landfill" (ie - it was made in a landfill as people probably tried digging through it for useful stuff).
The gory death animations go all the way back to Fallout 1. Give Ian a submachine gun and you'll likely get to see one happen to you. 😉
You mentioned the ocean retreating but that ship is an actual real world wreck called the Eduard Bohlen that ran aground in 1909. In fact a lot of the Wasteland scenes were shot in Namibia around Kolmanskop and the abandoned mining towns around there.
That tumbleweed Lucy saw is a cheeky reference to 'wind brahmin', cut content from New Vegas, sentient tumbleweeds. Also the man that Maximus grabs by the hair is actually the makeup artist who did The Ghoul's prosthetics for the show. Also loving these reactions and your enthusiasm
When Lucy didn't know how to holster her weapon while talking to the water filter guy, like some people in the fallout 4 playthroughs pointing their gun at everything even while talking to people, not knowing they just have to hold down on the reload button. 😂
I did the same thing in New Vegas LOL
What an awesome catch & call out for gameplay!!! I love finding out stuff like this❤
Wait... _holding down_ the reload button is a thing?
Welp. I guess I learned something new lol.
Unlike the people in Fallout 3 & NV?
@@Dark__Thoughts Slava Ukraini
Fallout 3 was cool
19:26 I'm pretty sure hole-in-the-neck guy on the left is the same stuntman Lucy shot with the tranq gun up in the balcony in Ep 1.
Which makes sense, since some of the Raiders, Wastelanders, and NPCs in the games kinda look the same.
Edit: Also, Jim from "Jim's Limbs" is one helluva sadistic MF'er.
"A veteran owned company." Jim saw a need to get casualties mobile, and he capitalized on it. Imagine the horror of going to war knowing that if you're seriously injured, "Jim" has you covered.
"She steals dads!" Possibly my favourite line in the whole show!
The Ghoul figured out how to use V.A.T.S without a Pip-Boy. ☺
Also - Notice the Ghoul has different bullet types in his bandolier? He's using high-explosive, anti-personnel ones here. No extraneous details in this show, everything has a reason. 😏
But did you notice the ghoul recovering health mid battle with them cherry tomatoes?
It took me a while to realize it was Filly because it’s a landfill. My first time watching the show I kept thinking it was Philadelphia as well and was like “how are they traveling so far?” 😂
I was today years old when I discovered that. Great catch.
When I saw how the name was spelled on the tailfin had me wondering how the name came about. When I say Lucy walking through all the rusted cars and they looked to have been in a parking lot made me think it was the site of a pre-war horse race track. I think the landfill theory is correct as you have to walk down into the town much like the crater of Megaton. People dug out the hole looking for items to use for whatever reason and when they hit solid dirt the digging stopped and a town started being built.
Love that they gave a nod to the ridiculous physics of the ragdolls.
"Where do I put all these caps?"...in the big ol' bag your squire is carrying around ofc 😆
The thing about both Fallout the game and this video series is that it's not about cut and dried protagonists or antagonists. It's not about good vs. bad people. It's about survival.
I love bottle cap currency in the games the reason they’re used all over the fallout universe is because they were very common pre-war, but cannot be produced anymore, and they are very challenging to counterfeit, as well as the fact that everybody recognizes them and they’re easy to transport since the lightweight and small
"Easy to transport" if you only have a few of them. 😉
There are still bottle cap presses in the NCR. New caps are still made.
The armor suits are practical. In a interview, Ella Purnell said she wanted to get in one and try it. They told her NO. Seems the Pip-Boys are a casing with a cellphone in it. And see broke 3 of them.
I;ve seen a video of the main stuntman/armour pilot "flossing" with one. Apparently he got real good.
Wilzig is an Enclave scientist. The Enclave has deep ties with Vault Tec. That's why he knows so much about Lucy and her Vault. They would have data on it.
This is where only playing some of the games was nice because I like that there were things I could be puzzled at!
Heh I did a 1 and 2 replay after watching the show, was a great nostalgia trip for me. Though I will say, 1 is a much more forgiving and concise game than the others. I'd actually forgotten just how short it was when replaying it in comparison to 2. 2 assumes you have a lot of Fallout 1 experience, it just throws you into the deep end.
Glad I decided to play in order then. 😂
@@kaiielle dunno how comfy you are with mods, but there's one called Fallout 1 into 2, that ports 1's game data into 2's engine, mostly its nice for some subtle quality of life upgrades, and some more enemy and item variety.
Max: ..you went with Tempered Lining, on the T 60? Does that help with mobilit?
(Metal Tempering is known method of reinforcing the metal, increasing hardness, or toughness, etc)
Titus: [Who the hell is this fool] "CLEAN THAT"
😅
Filly is built on a landFILL. Filly.
She learned a hard lesson but her Karma increased! :)
Just started F76 after the show. Waaaay better than I expected. You can play it like a single player Fallout and just ignore the multiplayer elements. It’s cheap and you get that fix til the next game.
Perf!
The show is now officially Amazon's most watched show of all time, and was April's most streamed show across all services. 65 million people watched the series.
Did you get the reference in the puppy's 404 code? Error 404 "not found".
I didn't in the moment, but someone else left a comment about that! Love it.
I prefer the term Atom Punk, for what to call this. Its a second look at the dreams of Asimov, and his contemporaries, but from our perspective, not theirs.
But it's that mid-century modern aesthetic that just screams "retrofuturism": the future as people in the 1950s might have imagined it.
Fun fact: The targeting system we now know as VATS was also in Fallout 1 and 2 but it was called Aimed Shot, it cost 1 action point more than a regular shot and you can shoot head, torso, all 4 limbs, groin and eyes. If you take the Fast Shot character trait at the start, you can't do aimed shots, but each regular shot costs 1 less AP to perform. So if you take that one plus maximum agility, that is one of the most useful builds for combat because you can shoot at least 2 or 3 times per turn, depending on weapon. Combat in first 2 games is turn based, but the story, dialogues and characters are brilliant.
It is named "called shots", it is from the GURPS origin of the game systems. Source - Tim Cain.
The best decision they made was not trying to hide its game origins and instead leaned into it.
Bethesda has released the character official stats, and Lucy has 7 luck, so explains how she keeps meeting people and ending up in the right place.
Though not apparent now, by the end of the series Norm was my favorite character, so wait for that development.
Agreed! Also I've watched the whole series before putting out these videos, so I understand your last sentence. 😃
Same. All of my Fallout characters have a INT=9 build. Norm resonated with me the most among all of them.
Norm was a lot braver than he thought he was.
My favourite character so far is still the ghoul. The stand out scene was for me when Lucy enters Filly and you see the town from above, that scene is so perfect, and it still gets me smiling so much. So far you have the best reaction to this epic show. And like you i will never play 76
Thank you!
Wilzyg is supposed to have Hydra vibes. They called out last episode that he escaped from the enclave. The enclave basically is Hydra.
Actually, no. The enclave is the remains of the government, but corrupt and going feral.BOS are private contractors and paramilitary related parties trying to conserve tech and bring order. Their order.
that was the hand of a super mutant.
Absolutely love retrofuturism. Anachronism seems a pretty effective vehicle for engagement. One of my fav examples is Jakub Różalski’s art/world building for the Scythe board game.
I'm so glad to see a fellow gamer enjoying this adaptation.
I've rewatched it a few times, and I continue to catch little Easter eggs and references to the game that I missed the first time through.
I def notice some in editing! But excited to give the show a proper rewatch once I'm done putting out these reactions for you all! (I've also watched some other people's reactions - Reel Rejects in particular was a joy for me because Greg hadn't played the games and Michael had.)
One of my favorite theories is Max has the Idiot Savant perk, love it. Hard to pick a fav character since I usually don't go for binary opinions. No true good guy too, but The Ghoul is so damn complex I can't wait to see his flash back to trying to keep his daughter alive.
I’m having so much fun watching you enjoy this series to the fullest.
I'm glad!
It’s called Filly because it’s a a town in a landfill
I think Filly is built in an old landfill.
Nice vid - Glad you have enjoyed the Fallout TV series as much as I did (it really is top notch entertainment on every level)!
Best Wishes. 😄 Edit - Sorry forgot - My fav character is The Ghoul. (but they are all well written and acted).
"20 miles is a long way on foot."
Emphasis on the word, FOOT.
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I'm so excited ur covering this series!!! My son was big fan of games & I've played some, but mostly would watch him while I'd be doing stuff around house. I love all the little details I'm picking up on so I can only imagine for the real gamers how much more there is to be found. I do know the music was one of the first things I appreciated. Can't wait to hear all ur thoughts as u go thru this series❤💞❤️
Wilzig: Terrible dog trainer
Remember, Lucy had never seen a dog, and never met a stranger (except the unfortunate wedding guests) until the moment they showed up at her camp.
Filly, in this case, is short for landfill, which is where the city is built
one and two had it right they used "rig pulls" (tabs from cans). lighter and have a hole to string them in groups.
I decided to watch the show solely because Walton Goggins is in it and he is the GOAT! I was pleasantly surprised after years and years of disappointments via Amazon Prime shows. I just got Fallout 4 and look forward to playing it as I knew about the games but never played them.
Enjoy! I am excited to get to Fallout 4 one day myself.
I love the scene with the ship on the dunes. A real location, no CGI, the Skeleton Coast in Namibia.
I first saw the location in a fave movie of mine, it's not a classic, but it one of the first films on VHS i saw.
Steel Dawn from 1985 starring Patrick Swayze. Another post-apocalyptic adventure movie. Kinda like a futuristic samurai film. Low budget and very 80s. 😁 📼
Ive never played the games but i also love retro futurism
I figure "Filly" is named because it's in a landfill. Which makes sense, landfills tend to be farther away from cities (escaping the nukes) and would be mined for useful materials. 🤔
And yes, it looks a little like Megaton in Fallout 3
Yeah I def didn't put that together in the moment!
I'm really enjoying your reactions and commentary on this series! I've been playing since FO3 was released in 2008, then FONV and FO4 when they were released. It's fair to say I love the FO "Universe". You made a comment about FO76, which you said you'd never play. I'm curious as to your reasoning on that, because I used to say the same. Until about 2.5 years ago. A close friend talked me into playing it with him (he lives in a different town), and I fell in love with it too, as it turns out. I do keep returning to FO4 though, especially as a big mod grows more and more (Sim Settlements 2). Anyway, Hi, having fun, why no 76? 😁
Multiplayer games aren't my thing. But I'm told 76 doesn't have to be all that much MP if you don't want it to be, so I may reconsider one day.
@@kaiielle That's exactly why I avoided it! It's easy to play alone though, and fun to see new stories! Anyway, looking forward to watching more of these!
Oh it's practical with a guy in the suit. In fact they used very little CGI for the whole show and filmed in many locations all over. In fact that ship in the sand, is a real thing, in Africa somewhere I think.
Barv!!!!!
You encounter packs of wild dogs in both Fallout 3 and New Vegas. I'm going to hazard a guess and say that dogs are probably thriving out in the wasteland. Good for them. :P
Maximus is actually my favorite character. He reminds me a lot of my early Fallout playthroughs. Chaotic, making the wrong choices, but trying to do right.
In the first episode, when the brotherhood of steel guys were looking at the picture of Wilzig they said he escaped from the Enclave. I'll leave it up to you as to whether your game experience lets you know who they are.
The Enclave wasn't present in FNV, but I believe I said in Ep 1 (or maybe it's coming in a future episode and I just can't remember which) that my understanding of them is that they are trying to continue what the US government was before the war from a political and military perspective.
That's the gist of it. They also deal in intelligence, which would explain how he knew so much about vaults and such.
@@kaiielle Think of the "military-industrial complex" concept and combine it with conspiracy theories of people in suits controlling things from the shadows. Now blend that into the remnants of the US Government, and you'll have a fair idea of the Enclave.
I think Movies with KL you said you haven't played Fallout 4? Only New Vegas or 3? They revamped the power armor in 4. It's like you saw in this episode; a complete suit you can modify, update, and not be burdened when wearing it. You get to be Iron Man. You just gotta remember where you park when not using it (and don't leave the key in the ignition so someone can steal it).
Yeah only NV fully and like 6-8 hours of the start of Fallout 3. The 4th is on my list to get to but I have started playing FO1 and I want to play all the games in order now.
@@kaiielle Glad you’re enjoying the show. I think they did such a great job of recreating the Fallout universe.
The original Fallout game (1997) is a 500 MB work of genius and wasn’t published by Bethesda. Just all the dialogue in it is full of Easter eggs. Still one of my favorite games in the Fallout series. I think it’s one of the first RPGs to have you decide how good or evil your character could be. Your actions do have consequences.
I love retrofuturism AND the look and feel of the Fallout universe but "real" retrofuturism to me is because something has aged, not because it was staged; Fallout is very much deliberate invoking it, while things like say the Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers comic strips or any classic Sci-Fi movie just becomes retrofuturistic after say 30 years or so.
I'm very sorry for the poor guy Lucy met on the way to Filly, he seemed more like a desperate poor guy, alone and without water, than a disturbing "background" character (as many have said, certainly because he's not one of the cool guys on duty), with no real life prospects, not even in the short term (Lucy's water made him survive at least another couple of days) and I would like to know more.
Already Lucy is a different animal. Yesterday the only thing she wanted a man who was good on the inside and a place to live. Looks not importent and all
76 is pretty good and the community is awesome, i played it after the show and spent hours on it, but I’d say bring a friend since it’s multiplayer and have a blast with it.
When the show released, I went into it thinking I would watch the first episode to check it out. I was unsure if the show could be done well, being based upon the games. I went to bed at 3 am after binging the entire season in one sitting.
LOVE IT
History diverged late 50s early 60s. Imagine no Beatles on Ed Sullivan show
the Chicken fancier is Cricket from Always Sunny
Never seen that show before! Want to one day though.
Interesting how The Ghoul said drugs instead of chems that the game had to adapt to for certain censure regulations.
This is exactly why I love the Fallout series😊
Why is that?
@@kaiielle Because Its One Of My Favorites Of All Time!🙂
I assumed Filly was short for Landfill
That makes way more sense!
Fallout and The Last of Us have made a road map for future adaptations; correctly identify the things about the games that people love, then translate that to a TV audience. Easier said than done, but my hopes are high for adaptations of games like BioShock and Horizon.
Mass Effect for me, hopefully one day!
Great reaction. :)
I am pretty sure it's the same guys that designed Iron Man's suit from the first Iron Man movies that worked on the power armor.
Stormtrooper turrets?
You should really play Fallout 76 some time it’s a real breath of fresh air. I was the same as well but the experiences are just as good. Some systems are different but the work they’ve put in the game has definitely improved it, though with all the new events it may get a little overwhelming but manageable. Still, take your time, and enjoy the next addition to your Fallout collection. 😁👍
It's the MP aspect that turns me off from it but maybe one day!
As far as Fallout 1 goes there is a group of modders that are recreating it as a mod in Fallout 4. Last I heard anything about it was over a year ago, so I don't know how far along they are.
Since you already played New Vegas, I recommend Fallout 4. The makers of the TV show received 3D model assets from Bethesda from Fallout 4 mostly, and so that game looks a LOT like the show. They 3D printed all the props, from nuka cola machines to T60 power armors, pipboys, radios, the look inside the vaults, every single thing
I'll be playing it eventually! Starting at 1 and working my way down, including a re-play of FNV.
I was a Beta tester for fallout 76... haven't played it since, though I've heard it's good now
Level 450 player here.
You may assume I love the game by the sheer fact I've gotten to that level.
Yay!
Fallout 1 and 2 are definitely worth playing. They made Fallout what it is. Fallout 2 is still my favorite game ever, although you really should play 1 first if you want the full story.
I grew up a bit north of Los Angeles (Valencia/Santa Clarita), and if you traveled another hour northwest(?) there was a town called Fillmore. Considering how this season ends locationally, I'm assuming Filly is Fillmore. It'd be kinda sorta "on the way".
Fallout 76 is good now. It had it's rough start, but when they added people, I feel the game got better. I don't know if they still have the promotional "play for free because of the show", but if they do, try it out.
I'm not big into multiplayer which is the main reason why I don't want to play it. But maaay try it down the road.
@@kaiielle Think of it this way. You are one of 22 residents of Vault 76. One day the overseer opens the door and says "Go out and settle america." So everyone leaves and goes their separate ways. You out doing this quest for some bartender and you see a vaultmate. He gives you a "Hi" emoji, you give him one back. Then you both continue on your separate quests. Another time you're fighting a deathclaw and you run out of bullets, so you run. It's going to catch you until it suddenly dies. Killed by another passing vaultie that was close by. You do the heart emoji, she does one back, then leaves. One day, you're in your personally decorated camp when you get an alert "Scorchbeast Queen is on the rampage!". You look at the map and see 11 other vaulties fighting it. You decide they need help, so you fast travel and join the fight. Point is, you can solo the game as any other Fallout game or join others, no one is forcing you into multiplaying. 76 is enjoyable either way.
Ahh okay, thanks for this huge description! I appreciate it. 😊
Vertibirds
Just curious…what’s your beef with 76? You sounded very adamant about never wanting to play it. 76 is my favorite of all the games. Even over New Vegas and 4. The gripes about its release are vastly overstated. And even if it had a rocky release, it’s so much improved since then.
I prefer playing games on my own so the fact it's a MP game is really off-putting for me sadly.
I hear ya. I dig playing MMOs, but I don’t like playing with other people. I know, total paradox. I like the open nature of mmos, even though games like Fallout are very open world. For an mmo, 76 can be a solo game 99% of the time. Only thing multiplayer I do is events, and that’s just for the rewards. There’s virtually no pvp as well. Not trying to give ya a hard sell, it’s just very solo for an mmo.
Anyway, glad you’re enjoying the show. Stays very true to the game throughout. Hoping season 2 doesn’t stray. And judging from the end credits (no spoiler), they intend to stay true. You’ll be excited.
Ahh well in that case I could give 76 a try one day. Won't be until after I get through all the rest first though and that'll take a while. 😂 I'm very excited to share my reaction to that in the finale!
The community in 76 is very helpful to new players. Even with multi-player it still very much functions like the single player counterparts
Fallout 76 is actually a decent rpg now. You may like it. Can play it solo if you want.
Radroach
Thank you! Haha, it bothered me that she called it a cockroach. 😂 Same for calling the Yao Guai a bear. Didn’t know until the post credits that she’s only played new Vegas, so that’s a free pass I suppose. Playing 76, I see those things daily.
There are radroaches in New Vegas, I just forgot that was the name of them. Forgive me, it's been 4 years since I played New Vegas. 😂
Been a looong time for me n New Vegas as well. Like a decade. I might need to find my old copy and get a refresher. 76 keeps me up to date on everything in the world, but I’ve forgotten most of the plot. New Vegas had the NCR vs the Legion, right? I need to at least read up again.
ya you'll go slow unless you use tgm.
Hydra vibes ? well your intuition is not wrong. That guy escaped from Enclave and both organizations have layers of fascism in the structure.
I hate retro-futurism. It's never futury enough, and it's never retro enough. I expect cave men flying space ships.