Hey guys, since everybody was wanting an update on his reaction to the rest of the show, here's the update. This covers episodes 2 and 3:

When they burned the puppy he was like "(In Spanish)WTF NO I don't want to watch animal cruelty. Humans is one thing, but not animals"

("Into each life some rain must fall" plays) "Oh it sounds like Ella Fitzgerald, she's my favorite female jazz singer."

Dog on treadmill "Oh they're training her for something."

Injection of cold fusion microchip scene: "oh my gosh what's this guy going to do.."

"What did he do? He survived?"

When cx404 killed the other scientist "Well done, she defended her owner, her master. What did he do, what did he inject?"

Upon hearing "Don't fence me in" ",At least this show exposes the youth to the great songs of old."

"She's the girl who went to go look for her dad, right? Would you go looking for me under those circumstances? Huh?"

(When the skeleton family is shown) "Look how that family ended"

"This chick has balls. Well, you know what I mean. She must have some type of weapon with her."

When the radroach shrieked, "What is it, an armadillo?"

"You earn the suit through acts of bravery, but I'm not brave!"

"It's a mutant bear!"

When Titus said "will you get me a stimpack instead of standing there like an idiot?" "Shoot the mother fucker" "Mata ese pendejo! He just saved your life, and that's how you treat him?" "Man, this guy (Maximus) has balls. He's (Titus) already dying, just let him die."

About the water filter guy "How does this guy live? What does he eat? There's no plants."

Had an aunt, "she got killed there once " he chuckled at the "once."

At the chicken fucker scene, "And really is it true, do people do that?"

He laughed when Maximus went flying off from the fight. "The comedic part."

He asked about the stimpack when Dogmeat was revived. I explained it's from the game and prevents you from bleeding out and was the same Lucy injected when she was stabbed.

He asked about the CCP shell in the desert and I explained it was China that the US was at war with, not Russia.

Episode 3

(When Cooper takes his medicine) "Who is coughing? Oh he has asthma?"

"What a pretty dog. German shepherd right?"

"The woman is pretty too"

When Lucy said "I wonder who that knight was," "Ooh, love interest!"

When Maximus got beat up and was getting back up, "He should attack the leader since he's the smallest one, then the others won't know what to do " ( I thought it was really cool he predicted what was about to happen)

A big LOL when Maximus smashed the bandit guys's head with the power armor glove, and he rewinded to rewatch it 🤣. "Cool!, I would chase after them and do the same to the rest of them!".

Upon seeing Norm again "what a dweeb."

"What are we going to do with you?" "Punish me with a demotion I guess?" My dad: "How about the death penalty?"

When the vault is discussing what to do with the prisoners "the rehabilitation will take a long time, based on what I saw this morning". "He saw the guy's butthole"

When the Gulper was attacking Thaddeus "oh look it's got fingers in its mouth" "But it had human-like hands too, right?"

He laughed when Lucy was begging for water and Cooper spilled the last of it intentionally "Que cabron"

"I've never done a commercial in my life, but then again my wife has never asked me to" Vault tec reps laugh. "Why is that in American culture people chuckle at things that aren't funny, and aren't even jokes?"

He really seems to really be enjoying the show, he said it's very entertaining, which is high praise coming from him, he normally only likes comedies.

So that's episodes 2 and 3, I'll keep you guys posted when we watch the next episodes!

The Ghoul has quickly become a favorite to cosplay, they did such a great job with his character! What's your favorite Ghoul line from the show?

Oil on Canvas (10 x 15 inch) Recently watched the series, this particular scene reminded me of the countless hours spent wandering the wastelads in Fallout 3, my first fallout game. Was immediately inspired to paint the scene.

When Cooper shows up in Filly, lucy is hiding in side and decides to intervene. She looks at her tranq gun, then up at progressively larger guns insinuating she was going to take a better weapon off the shelf. But she doesn't. She just walked out with her tranq gun. What was the point of her looking up at the other weapons not to use them? basically straight up violating checkoffs gun for fun? or was it a misedit, was there a cutscene where she used that huge gun? or tried to use it and they accidently left in the scene of her looking at them? Was there something else I missed or did you all find that to be sloppy too?

Do you believe this is an easter egg to Vault 33 or do you think we'll get something related to Fallout? I believe its most likely an easter egg but if not we'll at most get either a funny text back or small 1 min Vault Boy Short

I know about the games, and I've played one of them already. But I must honestly admit that I enjoy the show a lot more, and as a bookworm I think I'd love some books as well. Are there any novel style books written around the show that I could check out? Looking for the show specific, since I haven't played all games.

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I love this show, and while some of this is serious, take it with a bit of fun.

• Is Wilzig new? Has he ever incinerated a dog, and would it be suspicious if he never incinerated a dog?

-- Wilzig declares Dogmeat fit at 10.0 ounces into their system...

• They now have a record of Dogmeat and would it not arouse suspicion if Wilzig hid Dogmeat?

• Was there a further check 'down the line' of the dog weight that would have exposed Wilzig?

• Why not Wilzig claim Dogmeat as 'underweight', then hide her? She would not be 'in the system'

• When Dogmeat is being told to 'sit' she really seems too old to first being taught this? I mean he should have started way sooner for the Dogmeat to be such a badass! 😂

• Wilzig should really lock his doors.

• Really? A highly advanced automated turret with computer reflexes missed them? C'Mon!!

-- I am sure there are reasonable explanations for these, It is just fun to think about!

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I preordered the soundtrack the first day it was available from Amazon. It was cancelled a couple weeks later due to availability. So I went to Target and preordered it, it was delayed 4 times before they cancelled it. I found another one at retail price, luckily as Fallout merch prices tend to explode for resale of certain items, and will hopefully have it by the end of next week. Anyone else having preorder issues?

My BIL had me play some FO4 back when it first came out but I never got that into it. I was pretty surprised when I was watching the show and saw tech priests with a mission of recovering tech from ancient civilizations introduced praying to the machine god with children of the omnissiah playing in the background. And I thought "dang I didn't notice that before". Was this always in the games and I missed it in the maybe dozen hours I played or was it more for the show? Amazon is supposed to be working on a 40k show so maybe it bled in from there?

https://youtu.be/ZLsX9WUdYnU?si=zRC0aI1FHLgFDVQJ

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My theory is that Cooper and other ghouls, needing to survive, all turned to cannibalism. Ghouls who have turned to cannibalism slowly go feral from a dark craving for human flesh.

So they either have to eat others (which they hate to do because it solidifies them as social outcasts and costs them even more of their humanity) or they need to take addictol to stave off the cravings.

Now, tell me why I'm wrong.

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omg a real life robobrain

Waited too long to get the Ghoul, and now Amazon only has it from a 3rd party for $60. I don't really like the Youtooz or statue one, and I'll wait as long as it takes if we think they're coming back. I also don't wanna overpay for a product if it was originally less.

Pretty pic of the legendery détective : Nick Valentine

Idea for season 2 of the series, if we stay with 3 separate main characters (Cooper, Lucy and Maximus or any new ones) I think it would be good if there were "companions". Yes we had Dogmeat, but I would have really thought of an interesting encounter in episode 3 or 4 which would follow until the end.Idea for season 2 of the series, if we stay with 3 separate main characters (Cooper, Lucy and Maximus or any new ones) I think it would be good if there were "companions". Yes we had Dogmeat, but I would have really thought of an interesting encounter in episode 3 or 4 which would follow until the end.

If there is a new character what archetype would you like to see. For my part, I really like robots and synths, so I think seeing :

Spoilers Fallout 4 an Ada, an Automaton, a Cosworth, a Curie, a Danse, a Deacon, a Nick Valantine or an X6-88

Spoilers Fallout New Vegas : an Ede, a Rhonda or a Securiton

And you ?

I was certainly disappointed there are only 8 episodes, they were only starting to find their 'strides' i thought by 7, 8 . .
and we are supposed to wait how LONG now for more episodes?

They submitted in 28 categories for the Emmys (yes, I know most shows do that and it doesn't lead to anything), and I've seen the show pop up on a lot of prediction lists. Though I doubt it'd win anything, what nominations would you anticipate it possibly getting? This year is kind of barren in terms of the drama category (no Succession, Ozark or any usual big winners) so there's a possibility for a surprise.

TL:DR below. Sorry if this has already been mentioned. But I originally thought having an origin to the iconic Vault Boy image was ridiculous and unnecessary. But now [after rewatching the show] I realize there's an amazing circular concept to it.

It's a bit like the boot-strap paradox in time travel: a well known example being Link giving himself the song to play in Ocarina of time, or, another Cooper, in Interstellar giving the gravity math to his daughter in the past.

But the paradox is in the editing and not actually time travel.

We first see Cooper show his daughter how to judge if a nuclear blast is too big, essentially by doing a thumbs up. Something he refused to do for money just a minute ago, but does so lovingly for his daughter.

Later on he does the thumbs up for Vault Tec, creating the iconic figure / macot for the company. But that scene actually takes place chronologically before the scene with his daughter.

The thumbs up has existed for thousands of years, we know at least since the Roman gladiator times, but it's meaning has evolved obviously.

So by showing both the happy thumbs up, and the "oh, that's a bomb, I should run" one it muddles the meaning of Vault Boy. In a good way. Because Cooper has used both interchangeably as he is an actual war veteran during nuclear times.

There's a subtle sadness and patheticism to him initially doing it for Vault Tec, that Walton Goggins displays so masfterfully. And that pathetic display is replaced by a stoic restraint when he refuses to make the gesture at the birthday party.

But the latter scene is actually shown to us, the audience, first, changing the meaning of the image and scene. So the first time we actually see him do a thumbs is when a nuclear bomb goes off: kind of creepy when you think about it.

It's a weird mish-mash of two polar opposite images: one a sign of "all good," the other a horrific portent of mass death.

So is Vault Boy actually happy or is he looking at the horizon and deducing his own fate? It's hard to tell now because even Cooper's own conscious mind may not know, and the image was copied from his own improvisation.

With the information from the birthday party scene it's like his own preconcious mind churned it up for display, and he wouldn't know why either. And the way we see him, and by default,all Vault Boys now, in the games and other media has subtly changed.

So basically the thumbs up by Vault Boy now has two meanings: everything is "A-Ok," and, "oh my God, is that a mushroom cloud?" And now that you know, you can't unsee it.

Every time I see Vault Boy now I can't help but think of poor, pathetic Cooper, getting used, like so many others. Did one influence the other, and come first, or did they emerge at the same time? Is Cooper happy, sad, terrified at what he sees – it's hard to tell because it's just a cartoon image. Or is it?

It's a strange meta thing that the producers snuck in the show, and I haven't heard many people talk about. But I think it's pretty clever because it's given the image even more depth.

Maybe this has been mentioned before on this sub, I never know with Reddit, but I haven't caught it. So let me know if you have, and what you think.

TL:DR: The iconic Vault Boy image has gone thru a subversive change now with Cooper, and the show, and it's quite a meta pickle honestly.

From a civilian perspective, wasting time measuring a mushroom cloud instead of erring on the assumption that you'll live if you take cover ASAP makes little sense.

However! Cooper said this was advice the Army taught to soldiers. If a soldier in combat has already received a lethal dose of radiation, it might actually make more strategic sense to have them continue to fight to the last breath instead of seeking shelter. They will not be living to fight another day. So it might be worth risking a few extra seconds of exposure to have soldiers take a moment to determine if they're dead men walking. If they are, they might as well take as much of the enemy down with them as they can. And a person with nothing left to lose is an especially dangerous thing. They don't have to worry about making it out alive, so strategies that are suicide missions are no longer off the table. Might as well go out in a blaze of glory, right?

There's a lot of great discussion about the implications of ghoul serum and how it fits or changes how we understand the process of ghouls becoming feral. On thing I don't really see mentioned are the context clues that point to it being derived from ghouls themselves. The most glaring is that the serum dispensary literally has a bunch of ghouls locked in cages. The show also makes a point to highlight Coop enjoying various foods and choosing not to engage in cannibalism. For example in his intro, he doesn't eat any of the bounty hunters like they thought he might and even lets the poor chicken go. In the junk town shootout, he really enjoys those cherry tomatoes. Then later when he's looking for Moldaver, he finds it funny that the father thought he was eating the little girl. But what does he do when he visits his friend and finds he doesn't have any vials left? He mercy kills him and immediately starts chowing down + makes some ass jerky for later. Could be he was just trying to get any of the remaining serum in that guy's system, but it still stands out as a calculated act rather than ravenous hunger.