If you liked this show then I think you would love reacting to the show twisted metal on peacock. It's also based on a video game in a post apocalyptic universe but it has alot more comedy
I actually really liked that the ghoul made Roger think about good memories before putting out of his misery, it shows that there is still some trace of empathy even after 200 years of hardship
@@karmehed because cannibalism is considered a sign of desperation and loss of humanity... would u eat the fresh dead body of your friend while it's still warm?
I think its actually not just rare but unique. I've been in the wasteland as long as Cooper (playing since 97) and those are the first vaults I've ever heard of being connected. Also, they're pretty lucky. Less than 10% of the vaults I've broken into have been anything other than a horror movie, either ongoing or the aftermath. Still going after 200 years and not dead is pretty good for a vault.
@@MaryCherryOfficialand most vaults didn't survive long enough for people to come out. Most vaults you find in fallout are friggin horror movies when you find out what happened.
In fact I am pretty confident we haven't had any other examples of interconnected vaults so kudos to the writers for knowing that interesting and different idiosyncrasies for the vaults is one of the fun elements of this story and rolling with it. Clearly here the difference is to perpetuate the best breeding and genetics possible. I hope next season we have to visit a truly messed up vault to find a GECK or a water purifier, a cure for that... virus... you know the one I mean not to spoil too much... or some information. With both 32 and 4 we have had a taste of that nastiness, but not enough for me! Never enough, I love exploring vaults in Fallout. Finding the scraps of notes, reading the computer terminals, getting all the info to learn what happened.
Just to clarify some stuff, there was a nuclear war between the US and China in 2077, we saw that in episode one. Then after several decades, survivors began to rebuild and established the New California Republic-NCR (that's not a communist star on their flag.) Then a single bomb was dropped on Shady Sands, the capital of the NCR. Maximus remembers the single bomb, not the "Great War" between China and the US.
Yes and the Shady Sands bomb was detonated sometime after 2281 (which was the Year of the Fallout New Vegas game when Shady Sands was still around), and 15 years prior to the current year.
Yeah, the timeline on this show is confusing since apparently there's a drug that can make people live forever. I assume Moldaver's a "ghoul" too, but why didn't her nose fall off? Does the nose fall off from abusing the drug or what?
@@joeblankenship377 And the drug doesnt make ghouls live a long time, the radiation exposure does. The drugs just keep them from going feral; I assume its a radioactive type of drug idk.
@@joeblankenship377I’m thinking we will get more answers to that in season two. My theory is that she was perhaps cryogenically frozen? That’s the only thing that makes sense to me currently. She didn’t seem to age much, and she most likely wasn’t a ghoul. Can’t wait for season 2! Hope it doesn’t take too long.
Or maybe how in the games there was that one family that had that one ancient crown? It stopped the aging for the man who wore it and his family. They were hundreds of years old but didn’t look it.
That bridge scene is my favorite in the whole show. It shows that Maximus, while not being the sharpest tool in the shed, is very aware of how things work in the wastelands. Also love how naive he is when it came to sex haha. Love his character.
I think its adorable how Maximus likes the robe. Because in the brotherhood respected members wear robes, but like working robes. But hes like "awe i got a robe" when its just a bathrobe.
I can't recall if its from the Vanilla game or from a clothing mod, but I have clean bathrobes in my inventory in FO4. Must be from a mod since no clothing is clean in the game except Vault Suits.
Non-spoilers for the rest of the show and games, but as far as the vaults being connected. I believe Vault 31, 32, and 33 are the first vaults we see as connected. All the Vaults in the games have always been on their own.
Him watching the movie and seeing himself say FEO, FUERTE, Y FORMAL to the bad guy and saying he'd give him 2 out of 3 ugly and strong but with no dignity, I think the ghoul realized that he was describing what he was now, ugly and strong but he'd lost his dignity. A bit of a turning point for the ghoul in the series.
It also reflects being forced to go from good man to hardened killer, as he ends up shooting the character he initially objected to killing but was made to at the studio's demand
Mary you were right Lucy was tied to the gurney but when she kicked the saw arm of the robot it cut the bonds on her left arm allowing her to escape, she must have a very high Luck stat. A lot of the people on the surface are actually descendants of vault dwellers, not all vaults took 200 years to open many opened much sooner such as vault 76 opening after only 25 years after the war.
In episode 6, there's a little Easter Eggish happening. The"President" of the Government, is Sorrel Booker. He wears a white suit, with a white bowtie. Now, in the early 80's there was a TV show, "The Dukes of Hazzard". In the show, the corrupt man that ran Hazzard County, was Boss Hogg. He wore a white suit, with a white bowtie. The actor that played Boss Hogg, was Sorrell Booke.
FYI; Ghouls are the equivalent of zombies in the game, however there is a distinction between regular ghouls and feral ghouls. After a long period of time all ghouls eventually turn feral. The introduction of anti-feral meds was unknown until the series. There is no cure however. There also seems to be a rare genetic predisposition to becoming a ghoul since radiation from the bombs is the catalyst, and radiation kills most normal people.
What is really funny though about reclamation day is that the ones that did wasn't a "good" vault aka a control vault which are the ones that are sorta expected to do it it was an experiment vault. Which had always made going through the vaults fun in the games because sometimes vaults that succeed weren't designed to and the ones that were designed to unfortunately failed miserably.
Hey Mary! I enjoyed this reaction. 😊 I'm gonna explain a couple of things.When Cooper's wife Barbara says "I've worked hard to make sure we go in a special vault for management." That means she wants them to go into a "control vault" where there are no social/physical experiments being done. Out of the 122 vaults across America, only a handful are control vaults. Vault 31, 32 & 33 are unusual as vaults because they are connected to one another. Most vaults are not connected. I believe that Vault 4 has that trap door & the Test Subjects room (where Maximus & Lucy were quarantined) in order for the vault to use surface dwellers in their experiments. That's why they have that policy to take new people into their vault. Well, that's all I've got to say.😊 👍
All us fallout fans were surprised to see 31,32,33 connected. That’s not how it usually works. They are usually stand-alone. We aren’t completely shocked, tho, because the idea is like 95% of the vaults were for experimentation. Some were genetic experiments, some were social, others were psychological. When playing the game you learn about them through personal effects and computer logs you find inside. There are RUclips videos describing the known vault experiments. It was also know that some vaults were “good” vaults. Vaults for the rich and powerful. One was in the North Sea submerged under an oil rig. That is where the president was at. (The news broadcast ep. 1 mentions he was missing). It also had the joint chiefs, top gov officials (the deep state), top scientists, etc. This is the beginnings of the group known as the Enclave.
Mary also mentions on the bridge that Maximus might not be the smartest cookie but that he knows what's going on out in the wasteland. Also an elevated perception character, except with not so great Int in his case!
the bomb the people in the vault and maximus are referencing the one that dropped on shady sands which was the capitol to the NCR or the new California Republic its from the games the flag she held up is theirs. the bomb on shady sands was post fallout :New Vegas and was separate from the great war which was in 2077 in the ghouls flashbacks
Chris Parnell (Cyril from Archer and Jerry from Rick And Morty) is so perfect in this role. And I love how even after the hell that Lucy and Maximus have been through, they’re still too scared of being impolite and pointing out his and other peoples mutations.🤣🤣
Holy moly!! I just realized that when Steph is asking Chet to take Bert’s shoes, she’s also asking him to literally take his place! I feel so silly to have missed that double meaning!
Walter goggins has totally made that ghoul role his own.. the dryness is absolutely on point with fallout and gis brutality is up for debate like any in the wasteland.. definitely my fav character outside of lucy and titus squire
I don't know if this is an "Easter Egg", but I got a kick out of the huge A Man and His Dog Poster, that the Ghoul starred in pre-bomb. There is a classic sci-fi story and movie called A Boy and His Dog about a teen boy and his telepathic dog who wander the post nuclear landscape. He meets a girl who takes him into her underground bunker culture which is straight nuts. It does not end well for the girl...lol.
when Lucy pulled up the NCR flag and the fallout theme played Hella chills the NCR is a huge part of the fallout storyline in case you don't play the games
Vaults 31, 32 and 33 being joined together is one of if not the only occurrence of that happening. All the other vaults are self-contained and solitary
@@danquerry3436 Lucy bit his off so it was mangled... he cleanly cut hers off to replace it. "Now, that's as close as we've come to an honest exchange so far."
It’s not that everybody turns into ghouls (the specific form of mutant Cooper Howard became). It takes a certain amount of radiation exposure, generally persistently over a prolonged period… and even then, there’s a better than good chance any given person will die of radiation poisoning rather than ghoulify. Doing things like eating and/or drinking mildly irradiated food/water, or lingering around radiation sources ups your odds of mutating over time. It’s not necessarily the only way to become a ghoul but it IS the most common. The better a person does at avoiding Rads, and surviving on clean food and water, the less risk they face of radiation poisoning or mutation. There’s also a bit of biotechnology floating around the setting called the Forced Evolutionary Virus that can rapidly induce extreme mutations, but we’ve only seen hints of it in the show thus far.
Coop also talked about going to Bakersfield, there just happens to be a vault there where they allowed radiation into the vault which turned everyone into ghouls.
I believe it's also about the person's genes and whether they're predisposed to becoming mutated and ghoulified, or just. Get cancer and die. Same for how some ghouls go feral quicker and some almost never show signs.
Cooper doing *all* the drugs in that Super-Duper Mart is absolutely how I play Fallout games. Just give me all those stats boosts, don't care about getting addicted.
It's super fun to see Mary try to work out what's going on - it does kind of show how much more someone who is familiar with the franchise can pick up on the things that specifically stand out compared to someone who isn't. While I do feel like the producers at least made an effort to give newcomers to the franchise an in with Lucy and Vault 33, watching Mary try to parse all the elements of the show makes it clear that there are still some gaps they really could have filled in better (thinking of the Pip-Boy in particular here). Still, I'm glad she's enjoying it - even with with those gaps, it's clear that it's still a fun series that anyone who's a fan of this kind of media can watch and that makes me happy.
15:50 You said "When Lucy was explaining what happened in 1977..." You have to remember this is an alternate future. The "Great War" (atomic bombs in episode one) took place in 2077. The story then jumps to 219 years later, which would be the year 2296. Lucy was talking about a famine inside their vault which occurred in 2277.
Lore trivia bit: Not everyone "ghoulifies" -- radiation exposure can and does just straight-out kill some people instead of mutating them into ghouls. There's an underlying mutation that lets some people survive radiation exposure but lose their skin and some of their cartilage (nose, sometimes ears).
All US states have their own flag so the NCR group took the California state flag and put a Mutated 2 head bear instead of the regular blackbear and they formed an Army, they likely moved their capital to San Diego or Fransisco
How you know its a cult : everyone smilling or everyone is mad all the time at an imaginary enemy pushed by the leader of the cult... or the leader of the cult is the only one who can ``fix everything/save the world``.
one of the great/dumb things from the games (especially the Bethesda entries) that this show gets absolutely correct is the silly amount of what are glibly called "environmental storytelling skeletons." Remains that are posed in such an obvious way that players (or characters) can easily figure out backstory. It's so silly but so charming!
The movie poster of "A Man and His Dog" was a reference/homage to a 1975 film that was a major influence on the entire Fallout franchise, particularly the vault concept. Based on a Harlan Ellison novella, "A Boy and His Dog" starred a very young Don Johnson in a similar post-apocalyptic setting. It is a tad on the kinky side, but IMHO a terrifically entertaining film...
Lore wise being in a fridge can shield you from radiation, it's from Indiana Jones. Edit. It doesn't always, there was a kid in a fridge that became a ghoul but is still a kid 200 years later
Having seen all the episodes and having all the answers, it's interesting to see the reactions to certain things and realize exactly how well-made this show is. They really are pulling your leg, aren't they?
Actually, in the Super Duper Mart, everyone in the freezers are called ghouls. I say that to differentiate from other kinds of mutants in the Fallout Universe, such as the Gulppers and others I'm sure will pop up in season 2.
I’m not sure if I’m the only one who caught this but when the ghoul gets captured in the super super mart he says something along the lines of “if you’re here for the ice cream social I think you’re a little late.” Now go back and watch vice principals (episode 1 I think) when dr brown is talking to Walton goggins character and gamby, brainstorming ideas to get to know the rest of the staff better, goggins character says “I got it, ICE CREAM SOCIAL, show them how sweet you are.” And I absolutely refuse to believe this a coincidence😂 man loves ice cream socials
Not everyone turns into a ghoul, it seems to vary person to person. Most commonly taking very severe radiation exposure(aka when the bombs dropped) others can just get sick/die from radiation while some turn eventually. Being sentient to going feral is also never officially touched on in the games, only ever mentioned what is a possibility - its mentioned that both radaway or just a lot of drugs can hold it off(or some unknown medicine mentioned in FO4 , but they were only theories. These 'vials' are a new thing in the show, until/unless they confirm anything further that it could be one of the previously mentioned, it may just be a new official thing.
A ghoul turning feral is touched on in the game. More recently, as part of the nuka-world dlc in fallout 4, one of the attractions you have to clear out shows this as a possibility. Specifically you can read the lore on the Kiddie Kingdom affliction (which probably sounds made up, but it's real).
40:46 every time I see that dude, I instantly think about the dude he played on True Detective. That was definitely one of the most messed up characters on screen in a while.
That 126 lb is crazy when you account for his height. That would be near death starvation. If I was even down to 150 my body would be skeletal and it would cause organ damage
Yep. Kyle MacLachlan is 6-feet tall so he's not a small dude. I'm 6-2, and back in my mid-20s, I was running so much that I got down to about 170 and had people tell me, "Dude, you need to eat something." Now imagine subtracting 40 pounds from that... it's wildly unhealthy, to say the least.
Just a bit of background: Bethesda didn't create Fallout; they purchased the IP rights from Interplay, with the first entries in the franchise developed by Black Isle Studios. Former employees of Black Isle Studios went on to form Obsidian Entertainment, which developed Fallout: New Vegas. So there's a marked 'gap' in the lore between {Fallout 1, Fallout 2, Fallout: New Vegas} (Black Isle + Obsidian) and {Fallout 3, Fallout 4, Fallout 76} (Bethesda). The TV adaptation appears to be _primarily_ based on Bethesda's entries in the franchise.
The New California flag is based on the real-world state flag of California, but with a two-headed mutant bear instead of the one-headed bear on the real flag and "New California Republic" instead of "California Republic". Other than that they're basically identical in design.
You should google "Bakersfield Fallout 1" its just a theory but he specifically called out a ranch in Bakersfield and he did get divorced as shown in ep1
So I'll try to keep explaining short and spoiler-free, maybe others told you but heres the basic lore/terms Ghouls - its the offical term of what you called "mutants" but they're not mutants but what you call "irritated" people and the more they get radiated, the more feral they become Vaults - design to house people when the bombs drop, but each one operates differently as if they were "experiments" so finding one in the game is like 70-20 that it'll be bad or good Stimpack - a syringe that insta-heals health and limbs (the syringe she used in the 1st episode) Rad-away - takes away radiation, it was the IV that was connected to Lucy Fiends - drug dealers but mostly HEAVY users, and also cannibals in their free time Sandy Shore - a small town thats mostly the first town you visit in the 1st Fallout game and Fallout 2 Technology - they didnt improve their microchips so ALMOST every tech is nuclear powered Pipboy - their ver. of a smart watch New California Republic, "NCR" - post-War federal republic founded in "New" California, Originally without a capital city, Shady Sands became the first capital If Im missing anything feel free to add but make sure it's "spoiler-free"
Might be a spoiler, but here's the story about the Vault 4. As you saw in a commercial flashback, the Vault 4 was populated by scientists, who were given freedom to do what they wanted. They were conducting experiments on people who they allowed to come into the vault from the surface. Finally, the people rebelled and killed them all. Now the Vault 4 is a weird happy place.
The New california republic flag is just the flag of the California republic, but the bear has 2 heads. The star repersents texas funnily enough, as when the bear republic was founded, they alluded to texas as the other lone star republic
"You was ugly, strong, and had dignity." The ghoul hears his better past self describe his current self, and subsequently killing some of the worse parts of his current nature.
Mary, someone else.has probably alreadynsaid this, but just in case: SOME people turn into ghouls for some reason. Not everybody, though. When he said he is her just with a little more time he just meant that she would eventually lose her innocence and insistance on being good. That she would one day be a selfish killer like him, because that's what living in the wasteland does. Or so he thinks. Re: ghouls: some maintain their sense of self and some go completely feral. The whole concept of a drug keeping them from losing it is something they created for this show. There has never been such a thing in the games.
So the bombs first dropped in 2077 which is the intro from Episode 1 but then it dropped again for Shady Sands i think almost 200 years after the first one, it can be confusing because they didn't mention it clearly through dialogue
fingers and healing kinda makes more sense with some context??? Fallout has crazy medical technology so fingers reattached by that Mr. Handy ain't crazy. Also being a ghoul comes with regenerative properties as well.
You don't need to know the game to enjoy this show. They do a good job of not being trite and only giving nuggets of information making you draw your own conclusions. It's like watching a detective show where they find a murder scene and have to piece together what happened only to find the truth later from the killer.
I should clarify that Vault Tec did sell vault rooms to middle class Americans as well, they just had some kind of payment plan. The specifics of this payment plan have not been clarified, so I’m envisioning something analogous to a second mortgage
Yes, the weak ones die off from radiation exposure... Only someone who is "strong" (against radiation) could possibly become a Ghoul. And Lucy could never become a Ghoul since she grew up never exposed to radiation. So she would never survive even a small dose/exposure. Is simply not possible.. Not in the real world, not in fantasy world, and deffo not in FO world...
Without spoilers, since you mentioned "catching up" to Cooper's lore in the show as you haven't played the games - the show is a new, original story set after all the games in the timeline, it was new for us players too. To that end, we were on equal ground. :)
39:37 A good portion of the world doesn’t have access to hot showers. It’s a peak luxury we take for granted. My mom was born in ‘64 to a home with no running water in the Northern half of the US.
"I thought i was gonna be a s## slave!" "What? What a disgusting idea!" Mary: **guffaws** "We're simply going to harvest your organs" Mary: **dafuq? face**
The NCR flag is based off the current state of California flag, which does have a red star. The only difference is the two headed bear in the NCR flag. NCR and proud. ✊
Not everyone in the Fallout world becomes a ghoul. A small percentage of people who are exposed to radiation become ghouls( mostly what are called feral ghouls). Even a smaller percentage become ghouls that keep their higher brain functions. One of the biggest issues with becoming a ghoul, is that most people turn into feral ghouls. The zombie people that will just attack you on sight. Even if you don't turn into a feral ghoul, you as a ghoul have no idea if and when you will change into a feral ghoul.
The phone number actually works if you call it you get a man screaming and of you text it it says that you can set up a reservation for a vault in 33 weeks.
40:32 It is the California Republic flag, with the word "New" and a second bear head added to it. I didn't know there were communists living in California. 🤣🤣🤣
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This series is freaking awesome. Hope season 2 is just as good.
If you liked this show then I think you would love reacting to the show twisted metal on peacock. It's also based on a video game in a post apocalyptic universe but it has alot more comedy
I actually really liked that the ghoul made Roger think about good memories before putting out of his misery, it shows that there is still some trace of empathy even after 200 years of hardship
ye... right before eating him 😂
What difference does it make what his last thought is.
@marvymarv959 some people find it preferable to not die in anguish
@@vkdeen7570Why does it matter if he eats him when he is dead.
@@karmehed because cannibalism is considered a sign of desperation and loss of humanity...
would u eat the fresh dead body of your friend while it's still warm?
When she sees the NCR flag and the actual Fallout theme song plays I got such major chills.
Me too, I love Fallout New Vegas
Oh, absolutely! Gooseflesh all down my arms when I heard those notes.
And a smile every time I hear the Pip-boy light go on
Hehe, so did I
@@sonofkarma5461 Agree... FNV is the best in my opinion
@@JonNavara Yeah, the Weapons and Set up is Amazing
There is usually only one isolated vault. Vaults 31,32 and 33 being connected is very rare.
Oh!!
I think its actually not just rare but unique. I've been in the wasteland as long as Cooper (playing since 97) and those are the first vaults I've ever heard of being connected. Also, they're pretty lucky. Less than 10% of the vaults I've broken into have been anything other than a horror movie, either ongoing or the aftermath. Still going after 200 years and not dead is pretty good for a vault.
@@MaryCherryOfficialand most vaults didn't survive long enough for people to come out. Most vaults you find in fallout are friggin horror movies when you find out what happened.
In fact I am pretty confident we haven't had any other examples of interconnected vaults so kudos to the writers for knowing that interesting and different idiosyncrasies for the vaults is one of the fun elements of this story and rolling with it.
Clearly here the difference is to perpetuate the best breeding and genetics possible. I hope next season we have to visit a truly messed up vault to find a GECK or a water purifier, a cure for that... virus... you know the one I mean not to spoil too much... or some information. With both 32 and 4 we have had a taste of that nastiness, but not enough for me! Never enough, I love exploring vaults in Fallout. Finding the scraps of notes, reading the computer terminals, getting all the info to learn what happened.
Having 3 in 1 vault is usually for "management" vaults
Just to clarify some stuff, there was a nuclear war between the US and China in 2077, we saw that in episode one.
Then after several decades, survivors began to rebuild and established the New California Republic-NCR (that's not a communist star on their flag.)
Then a single bomb was dropped on Shady Sands, the capital of the NCR.
Maximus remembers the single bomb, not the "Great War" between China and the US.
Yes and the Shady Sands bomb was detonated sometime after 2281 (which was the Year of the Fallout New Vegas game when Shady Sands was still around), and 15 years prior to the current year.
Yeah, the timeline on this show is confusing since apparently there's a drug that can make people live forever. I assume Moldaver's a "ghoul" too, but why didn't her nose fall off? Does the nose fall off from abusing the drug or what?
@@joeblankenship377 And the drug doesnt make ghouls live a long time, the radiation exposure does. The drugs just keep them from going feral; I assume its a radioactive type of drug idk.
@@joeblankenship377I’m thinking we will get more answers to that in season two. My theory is that she was perhaps cryogenically frozen? That’s the only thing that makes sense to me currently. She didn’t seem to age much, and she most likely wasn’t a ghoul. Can’t wait for season 2! Hope it doesn’t take too long.
Or maybe how in the games there was that one family that had that one ancient crown? It stopped the aging for the man who wore it and his family. They were hundreds of years old but didn’t look it.
That bridge scene is my favorite in the whole show. It shows that Maximus, while not being the sharpest tool in the shed, is very aware of how things work in the wastelands. Also love how naive he is when it came to sex haha. Love his character.
I wish they would've made him razor sharp.
I love the part when her Face Changes on 8:16 when Snip Snip revealed what he was gonna do with her😂
I think its adorable how Maximus likes the robe. Because in the brotherhood respected members wear robes, but like working robes. But hes like "awe i got a robe" when its just a bathrobe.
The man respects the fabric, big time 😂
I can't recall if its from the Vanilla game or from a clothing mod, but I have clean bathrobes in my inventory in FO4. Must be from a mod since no clothing is clean in the game except Vault Suits.
@@x_trio_3_po333 No they are available in the base game just rare to find but I think one is at the General Atomics Galleria.
Non-spoilers for the rest of the show and games, but as far as the vaults being connected. I believe Vault 31, 32, and 33 are the first vaults we see as connected. All the Vaults in the games have always been on their own.
Yeah she was quick to assume the all come in groups of 3 lol
It’s nicer to be connected, more ppl. Sad it’s not like that
@@MaryCherryOfficialthere’s more vault info to come by the end 👍
in hindsight, that should have been a clue as to the nature of the vaults experiment...
Him watching the movie and seeing himself say FEO, FUERTE, Y FORMAL to the bad guy and saying he'd give him 2 out of 3 ugly and strong but with no dignity, I think the ghoul realized that he was describing what he was now, ugly and strong but he'd lost his dignity. A bit of a turning point for the ghoul in the series.
Also, it marks his initial abandonment of scruple and transformation to Vault-Tec shill.
It also reflects being forced to go from good man to hardened killer, as he ends up shooting the character he initially objected to killing but was made to at the studio's demand
I believe Lucy gave him some morality or at least he feels indebted to her. Golden Rule MF.
Mary you were right Lucy was tied to the gurney but when she kicked the saw arm of the robot it cut the bonds on her left arm allowing her to escape, she must have a very high Luck stat.
A lot of the people on the surface are actually descendants of vault dwellers, not all vaults took 200 years to open many opened much sooner such as vault 76 opening after only 25 years after the war.
In episode 6, there's a little Easter Eggish happening. The"President" of the Government, is Sorrel Booker. He wears a white suit, with a white bowtie. Now, in the early 80's there was a TV show, "The Dukes of Hazzard". In the show, the corrupt man that ran Hazzard County, was Boss Hogg. He wore a white suit, with a white bowtie. The actor that played Boss Hogg, was Sorrell Booke.
FYI; Ghouls are the equivalent of zombies in the game, however there is a distinction between regular ghouls and feral ghouls. After a long period of time all ghouls eventually turn feral. The introduction of anti-feral meds was unknown until the series. There is no cure however. There also seems to be a rare genetic predisposition to becoming a ghoul since radiation from the bombs is the catalyst, and radiation kills most normal people.
"A Man and his Dog" is a reference to an older post-apocalyptic film "A Boy and his Dog" of which the Fallout games borrowed heavily from 😯
The poster for A Man and His Dog is an Easter egg for the actual movie A Boy and His Dog. That movie was an influence on the look of Fallout.
Yep, that was a great sci-fi apocalypse story by Harlan Ellison. A boy loves his dog!
Loving the parallels between Maximus and Lucy. Naïve but capable and resourceful.
Yessss
What is really funny though about reclamation day is that the ones that did wasn't a "good" vault aka a control vault which are the ones that are sorta expected to do it it was an experiment vault. Which had always made going through the vaults fun in the games because sometimes vaults that succeed weren't designed to and the ones that were designed to unfortunately failed miserably.
Hey Mary! I enjoyed this reaction. 😊 I'm gonna explain a couple of things.When Cooper's wife Barbara says "I've worked hard to make sure we go in a special vault for management." That means she wants them to go into a "control vault" where there are no social/physical experiments being done. Out of the 122 vaults across America, only a handful are control vaults. Vault 31, 32 & 33 are unusual as vaults because they are connected to one another. Most vaults are not connected. I believe that Vault 4 has that trap door & the Test Subjects room (where Maximus & Lucy were quarantined) in order for the vault to use surface dwellers in their experiments. That's why they have that policy to take new people into their vault. Well, that's all I've got to say.😊 👍
All us fallout fans were surprised to see 31,32,33 connected. That’s not how it usually works. They are usually stand-alone. We aren’t completely shocked, tho, because the idea is like 95% of the vaults were for experimentation. Some were genetic experiments, some were social, others were psychological. When playing the game you learn about them through personal effects and computer logs you find inside. There are RUclips videos describing the known vault experiments.
It was also know that some vaults were “good” vaults. Vaults for the rich and powerful. One was in the North Sea submerged under an oil rig. That is where the president was at. (The news broadcast ep. 1 mentions he was missing). It also had the joint chiefs, top gov officials (the deep state), top scientists, etc. This is the beginnings of the group known as the Enclave.
If Mary was a Fallout character her Perception would be maxed out at 10
Mary also mentions on the bridge that Maximus might not be the smartest cookie but that he knows what's going on out in the wasteland. Also an elevated perception character, except with not so great Int in his case!
'Tatos' are interesting in FO:4. They are a cross between tomatoes and potatoes. They look and grow like tomatoes, but are used more like potatoes.
Tato-juice?
the bomb the people in the vault and maximus are referencing the one that dropped on shady sands which was the capitol to the NCR or the new California Republic its from the games the flag she held up is theirs. the bomb on shady sands was post fallout :New Vegas and was separate from the great war which was in 2077 in the ghouls flashbacks
Yup the bomb on shady sands was 2282 I believe
@@Jimandtonic85 2283 right after New Vegas.
Chris Parnell (Cyril from Archer and Jerry from Rick And Morty) is so perfect in this role. And I love how even after the hell that Lucy and Maximus have been through, they’re still too scared of being impolite and pointing out his and other peoples mutations.🤣🤣
Holy moly!! I just realized that when Steph is asking Chet to take Bert’s shoes, she’s also asking him to literally take his place! I feel so silly to have missed that double meaning!
Walter goggins has totally made that ghoul role his own.. the dryness is absolutely on point with fallout and gis brutality is up for debate like any in the wasteland.. definitely my fav character outside of lucy and titus squire
I don't know if this is an "Easter Egg", but I got a kick out of the huge A Man and His Dog Poster, that the Ghoul starred in pre-bomb. There is a classic sci-fi story and movie called A Boy and His Dog about a teen boy and his telepathic dog who wander the post nuclear landscape. He meets a girl who takes him into her underground bunker culture which is straight nuts. It does not end well for the girl...lol.
Yeah, I enjoyed that reference to. It's one of the movies that was used as inspiration for the Fallout world.
@@folcotook3049 I was wonderimg if that was the case. So many similarities most younger people are unaware of.
22:23 All the Overseers of Vaults 32 and 33 came from Vault 31.
You hit it right on the head with the "Be the father of my baby comment"
when Lucy pulled up the NCR flag and the fallout theme played Hella chills the NCR is a huge part of the fallout storyline in case you don't play the games
It also is in case you do play the games 😉
Vaults 31, 32 and 33 being joined together is one of if not the only occurrence of that happening. All the other vaults are self-contained and solitary
That was Lucy's finger the Ghoul sewed on
More likely his own. Why would he use hers?
@@danquerry3436 he put Lucy's finger in his pocket, she spit his out and he left it
@@danquerry3436 Lucy bit his off so it was mangled... he cleanly cut hers off to replace it. "Now, that's as close as we've come to an honest exchange so far."
It’s not that everybody turns into ghouls (the specific form of mutant Cooper Howard became). It takes a certain amount of radiation exposure, generally persistently over a prolonged period… and even then, there’s a better than good chance any given person will die of radiation poisoning rather than ghoulify. Doing things like eating and/or drinking mildly irradiated food/water, or lingering around radiation sources ups your odds of mutating over time. It’s not necessarily the only way to become a ghoul but it IS the most common.
The better a person does at avoiding Rads, and surviving on clean food and water, the less risk they face of radiation poisoning or mutation.
There’s also a bit of biotechnology floating around the setting called the Forced Evolutionary Virus that can rapidly induce extreme mutations, but we’ve only seen hints of it in the show thus far.
Coop also talked about going to Bakersfield, there just happens to be a vault there where they allowed radiation into the vault which turned everyone into ghouls.
I believe it's also about the person's genes and whether they're predisposed to becoming mutated and ghoulified, or just. Get cancer and die. Same for how some ghouls go feral quicker and some almost never show signs.
@@janetd5121 That's such a nice call back to Fallout 1
@@janetd5121 Bakersfield a.k.a. Necropolis
If i remember right, 1 vault was divided but it was a single vault with 2 sections
Cooper doing *all* the drugs in that Super-Duper Mart is absolutely how I play Fallout games. Just give me all those stats boosts, don't care about getting addicted.
It's super fun to see Mary try to work out what's going on - it does kind of show how much more someone who is familiar with the franchise can pick up on the things that specifically stand out compared to someone who isn't. While I do feel like the producers at least made an effort to give newcomers to the franchise an in with Lucy and Vault 33, watching Mary try to parse all the elements of the show makes it clear that there are still some gaps they really could have filled in better (thinking of the Pip-Boy in particular here).
Still, I'm glad she's enjoying it - even with with those gaps, it's clear that it's still a fun series that anyone who's a fan of this kind of media can watch and that makes me happy.
15:50 You said "When Lucy was explaining what happened in 1977..." You have to remember this is an alternate future. The "Great War" (atomic bombs in episode one) took place in 2077. The story then jumps to 219 years later, which would be the year 2296. Lucy was talking about a famine inside their vault which occurred in 2277.
the thing you weren't getting while lucy's brother was going through the list of vault 33's overseers was that they ALL came from vault 31
Lore trivia bit: Not everyone "ghoulifies" -- radiation exposure can and does just straight-out kill some people instead of mutating them into ghouls. There's an underlying mutation that lets some people survive radiation exposure but lose their skin and some of their cartilage (nose, sometimes ears).
Already looking forward to Part 3❤️
Yay🎉
All US states have their own flag so the NCR group took the California state flag and put a Mutated 2 head bear instead of the regular blackbear and they formed an Army, they likely moved their capital to San Diego or Fransisco
How you know its a cult : everyone smilling or everyone is mad all the time at an imaginary enemy pushed by the leader of the cult... or the leader of the cult is the only one who can ``fix everything/save the world``.
one of the great/dumb things from the games (especially the Bethesda entries) that this show gets absolutely correct is the silly amount of what are glibly called "environmental storytelling skeletons." Remains that are posed in such an obvious way that players (or characters) can easily figure out backstory. It's so silly but so charming!
It's best Lucy learned early why a ghoul can be too far gone to a point where they are not aware of who they once were anymore.
The movie poster of "A Man and His Dog" was a reference/homage to a 1975 film that was a major influence on the entire Fallout franchise, particularly the vault concept. Based on a Harlan Ellison novella, "A Boy and His Dog" starred a very young Don Johnson in a similar post-apocalyptic setting. It is a tad on the kinky side, but IMHO a terrifically entertaining film...
This was really a beautiful moment to me. His last thoughts were about ice cream and his mother's apple pie.
7:41 From a southerner - that is one really good southern accent.
Wouldn't need to grave dig to verify if Rose's pip boy was stolen as the logs in vault 32 show it was used by the raiders to get inside.
Lol the dog meme your editor added. That was spot on.
Timestamp?
@@MaryCherryOfficial 33:10
Lore wise being in a fridge can shield you from radiation, it's from Indiana Jones. Edit. It doesn't always, there was a kid in a fridge that became a ghoul but is still a kid 200 years later
Having seen all the episodes and having all the answers, it's interesting to see the reactions to certain things and realize exactly how well-made this show is. They really are pulling your leg, aren't they?
Vault 31 32 and 33 are the only vaults that are connected and there are over 120 vualts spread across the United States in fallout
"The worst someone can do to you is forget to say thank you.." -- I too am from Canada!
Actually, in the Super Duper Mart, everyone in the freezers are called ghouls. I say that to differentiate from other kinds of mutants in the Fallout Universe, such as the Gulppers and others I'm sure will pop up in season 2.
I’m not sure if I’m the only one who caught this but when the ghoul gets captured in the super super mart he says something along the lines of “if you’re here for the ice cream social I think you’re a little late.” Now go back and watch vice principals (episode 1 I think) when dr brown is talking to Walton goggins character and gamby, brainstorming ideas to get to know the rest of the staff better, goggins character says “I got it, ICE CREAM SOCIAL, show them how sweet you are.” And I absolutely refuse to believe this a coincidence😂 man loves ice cream socials
Not everyone turns into a ghoul, it seems to vary person to person. Most commonly taking very severe radiation exposure(aka when the bombs dropped) others can just get sick/die from radiation while some turn eventually. Being sentient to going feral is also never officially touched on in the games, only ever mentioned what is a possibility - its mentioned that both radaway or just a lot of drugs can hold it off(or some unknown medicine mentioned in FO4 , but they were only theories. These 'vials' are a new thing in the show, until/unless they confirm anything further that it could be one of the previously mentioned, it may just be a new official thing.
A ghoul turning feral is touched on in the game. More recently, as part of the nuka-world dlc in fallout 4, one of the attractions you have to clear out shows this as a possibility. Specifically you can read the lore on the Kiddie Kingdom affliction (which probably sounds made up, but it's real).
Mary the ghouls don't change into anything else, they just lose their humanity and go feral. Basically becoming a mindless beast.
40:46 every time I see that dude, I instantly think about the dude he played on True Detective. That was definitely one of the most messed up characters on screen in a while.
That 126 lb is crazy when you account for his height. That would be near death starvation. If I was even down to 150 my body would be skeletal and it would cause organ damage
Yep. Kyle MacLachlan is 6-feet tall so he's not a small dude. I'm 6-2, and back in my mid-20s, I was running so much that I got down to about 170 and had people tell me, "Dude, you need to eat something." Now imagine subtracting 40 pounds from that... it's wildly unhealthy, to say the least.
I’m 6’2” and was only 150 lbs until very recently 😬
I got as low as 135 at that height at one point
@@briannorman1750 Dang! Thats some incredible metabolism you’ve got and I’m more than a little envious! Haha
Just a bit of background: Bethesda didn't create Fallout; they purchased the IP rights from Interplay, with the first entries in the franchise developed by Black Isle Studios. Former employees of Black Isle Studios went on to form Obsidian Entertainment, which developed Fallout: New Vegas.
So there's a marked 'gap' in the lore between {Fallout 1, Fallout 2, Fallout: New Vegas} (Black Isle + Obsidian) and {Fallout 3, Fallout 4, Fallout 76} (Bethesda).
The TV adaptation appears to be _primarily_ based on Bethesda's entries in the franchise.
In Episode 4, it makes me laugh that "Snip Snip" replaced Lucy's finger just to try to remove her organs... 😁
The movie poster for 'A Man and His Dog' is a reference to the novela of the same name that inspired the Fallout series.
The New California flag is based on the real-world state flag of California, but with a two-headed mutant bear instead of the one-headed bear on the real flag and "New California Republic" instead of "California Republic". Other than that they're basically identical in design.
You should google "Bakersfield Fallout 1" its just a theory but he specifically called out a ranch in Bakersfield and he did get divorced as shown in ep1
So I'll try to keep explaining short and spoiler-free, maybe others told you but heres the basic lore/terms
Ghouls - its the offical term of what you called "mutants" but they're not mutants but what you call "irritated" people and the more they get radiated, the more feral they become
Vaults - design to house people when the bombs drop, but each one operates differently as if they were "experiments" so finding one in the game is like 70-20 that it'll be bad or good
Stimpack - a syringe that insta-heals health and limbs (the syringe she used in the 1st episode)
Rad-away - takes away radiation, it was the IV that was connected to Lucy
Fiends - drug dealers but mostly HEAVY users, and also cannibals in their free time
Sandy Shore - a small town thats mostly the first town you visit in the 1st Fallout game and Fallout 2
Technology - they didnt improve their microchips so ALMOST every tech is nuclear powered
Pipboy - their ver. of a smart watch
New California Republic, "NCR" - post-War federal republic founded in "New" California, Originally without a capital city, Shady Sands became the first capital
If Im missing anything feel free to add but make sure it's "spoiler-free"
No.. Mutants are mutants... Ghouls are humans who are affected by radiation and kept their human features.
Might be a spoiler, but here's the story about the Vault 4. As you saw in a commercial flashback, the Vault 4 was populated by scientists, who were given freedom to do what they wanted. They were conducting experiments on people who they allowed to come into the vault from the surface. Finally, the people rebelled and killed them all. Now the Vault 4 is a weird happy place.
29:31 You’ve seen to the truth of it! Lucy brings out the best in Maximus
The New california republic flag is just the flag of the California republic, but the bear has 2 heads. The star repersents texas funnily enough, as when the bear republic was founded, they alluded to texas as the other lone star republic
You need to play Fallout 4. It’s extremely popular still. I’d watch you play it for sure. Love when people discover the Fallout universe 😊
33:03 no all vaults have an experiment some are way more fucked than others but yes the vaults are basically a place were people get experimented on
Having both Mary and Lucy on my screen side by side is making my 2024
Its weird how there is no emergency mechanical release handle for Power Armor. Even car trunks have emergency release levers inside of them.
"You was ugly, strong, and had dignity." The ghoul hears his better past self describe his current self, and subsequently killing some of the worse parts of his current nature.
"fingers just work" Making a Todd Howard joke without even knowing it.🤣🤣🤣
35:33 His lost trigger finger means something here I'm missing.
The whole scene...
Mary, someone else.has probably alreadynsaid this, but just in case: SOME people turn into ghouls for some reason. Not everybody, though.
When he said he is her just with a little more time he just meant that she would eventually lose her innocence and insistance on being good.
That she would one day be a selfish killer like him, because that's what living in the wasteland does. Or so he thinks.
Re: ghouls: some maintain their sense of self and some go completely feral. The whole concept of a drug keeping them from losing it is something they created for this show. There has never been such a thing in the games.
the squires & knights not being taught about sex is pretty par for the course.
True, why would they need that information?
So the bombs first dropped in 2077 which is the intro from Episode 1 but then it dropped again for Shady Sands i think almost 200 years after the first one, it can be confusing because they didn't mention it clearly through dialogue
The Ghoul gives me Outlaw Josey Wales vibes. I think Hank as Overseer knew what was going on in Vault 32...Thats Lucy's finger Coop is sowing back on!
fingers and healing kinda makes more sense with some context??? Fallout has crazy medical technology so fingers reattached by that Mr. Handy ain't crazy. Also being a ghoul comes with regenerative properties as well.
That is not how fiduciary responsibility works. It does not give anyone license to break peace negotiations.
You don't need to know the game to enjoy this show. They do a good job of not being trite and only giving nuggets of information making you draw your own conclusions. It's like watching a detective show where they find a murder scene and have to piece together what happened only to find the truth later from the killer.
40:49 Is it Lucy's finger?
I should clarify that Vault Tec did sell vault rooms to middle class Americans as well, they just had some kind of payment plan. The specifics of this payment plan have not been clarified, so I’m envisioning something analogous to a second mortgage
9:20 experiment "universe 25"
The choice of having "The Saints Go Marching In" when Maximus and Lucy takes off together...
(Battle Hymn of the Republic)
Not everybody turns into a ghoul.
Yes, the weak ones die off from radiation exposure... Only someone who is "strong" (against radiation) could possibly become a Ghoul. And Lucy could never become a Ghoul since she grew up never exposed to radiation. So she would never survive even a small dose/exposure. Is simply not possible.. Not in the real world, not in fantasy world, and deffo not in FO world...
All vaults are shady.
"im wondering why im doing all the f'in work. Come on vaultie, ass jerky don't cut itself"-The Ghoul 😂😂
😂😂😂
Without spoilers, since you mentioned "catching up" to Cooper's lore in the show as you haven't played the games - the show is a new, original story set after all the games in the timeline, it was new for us players too. To that end, we were on equal ground. :)
39:37 A good portion of the world doesn’t have access to hot showers. It’s a peak luxury we take for granted.
My mom was born in ‘64 to a home with no running water in the Northern half of the US.
I don't know if that phone number would work in other countries, but in the US, what you get .......... is a man screaming.
"I thought i was gonna be a s## slave!" "What? What a disgusting idea!"
Mary: **guffaws**
"We're simply going to harvest your organs"
Mary: **dafuq? face**
Another note: Vaults aren't _usually_ interconnected. That's just 31, 32, and 33. The rest are isolated from each other.
The NCR flag is based off the current state of California flag, which does have a red star. The only difference is the two headed bear in the NCR flag.
NCR and proud. ✊
Not everyone in the Fallout world becomes a ghoul. A small percentage of people who are exposed to radiation become ghouls( mostly what are called feral ghouls). Even a smaller percentage become ghouls that keep their higher brain functions. One of the biggest issues with becoming a ghoul, is that most people turn into feral ghouls. The zombie people that will just attack you on sight. Even if you don't turn into a feral ghoul, you as a ghoul have no idea if and when you will change into a feral ghoul.
33:22 I honestly wish that more people in the world were like Lucy. Stop beating around the bush and be blunt.
I felt bad for Lucy getting her finger cut off and almost getting her organs cut out by a robot. She’s been through a lot
The phone number actually works if you call it you get a man screaming and of you text it it says that you can set up a reservation for a vault in 33 weeks.
40:32 It is the California Republic flag, with the word "New" and a second bear head added to it.
I didn't know there were communists living in California. 🤣🤣🤣
Absolutely love fallout and it's insanity 😂
4:14 You know Coop was into “it” before Ghoulification😅 Happy Wife Happy Life 🤣