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 Post subject: Re: TV: Fallout (Prime)
PostPosted: Sun April 14, 2024 6:53 pm 
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I don't think it's executed very well, but it looks nice. The writing is terrible, the humor often falls flat, and the action is amateurish. Sticks pretty close to the source, but it's all surface.

4 outta 10! DNF

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 Post subject: Re: TV: Fallout (Prime)
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Dumb humor is literally part of Fallout


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 Post subject: Re: TV: Fallout (Prime)
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Dumb humor is literally part of Fallout

It does ok with the black comedy of Fallout, but there are other parts with that sort of Gen Z meta-humor crammed in that annoyed the shit out of me.

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 Post subject: Re: TV: Fallout (Prime)
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There's something about the violence that doesn't work for me, but I don't know what it is. Like, it's funny in the games when you vaporize someone's head or blow them into chunks of meat, but for some reason it didn't translate for me. Part of it is that the fight scenes would go one FOREVER. Maybe if the people getting blasted were more hateable or mockable, that might have worked better. Really lean into the dark comedy more. I dunno. Maybe I was just in a bad mood.

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This show has juuuust the right amount of cousin fucking.

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This show has juuuust the right amount of cousin fucking.

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Mecca wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
This show has juuuust the right amount of cousin fucking.

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I was pretty sure that by the season’s end we were going to get:

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Some sort of tease of Super Mutants. When the other squire got that serum that grew his foot back, I thought, “Damn, this is it! FEV action!” It was certainly implied in the Vault-Tec meeting, but I thought we’d get something visual. My second guess for a tease was something to do with deathclaws, so at least we got that!

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Simple Torture wrote:
I was pretty sure that by the season’s end we were going to get:

Spoiler: show
Some sort of tease of Super Mutants. When the other squire got that serum that grew his foot back, I thought, “Damn, this is it! FEV action!” It was certainly implied in the Vault-Tec meeting, but I thought we’d get something visual. My second guess for a tease was something to do with deathclaws, so at least we got that!


But who could’ve predicted:
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New Vegas


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Mecca wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
I was pretty sure that by the season’s end we were going to get:

Spoiler: show
Some sort of tease of Super Mutants. When the other squire got that serum that grew his foot back, I thought, “Damn, this is it! FEV action!” It was certainly implied in the Vault-Tec meeting, but I thought we’d get something visual. My second guess for a tease was something to do with deathclaws, so at least we got that!


But who could’ve predicted:
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New Vegas

I know some dorks on the internet are upset about this, and it seems like they’re concerned about “canon,” which is hilarious considering the game has multiple possible endings and the timeline allows a few decades in between.

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There's something about the violence that doesn't work for me, but I don't know what it is. Like, it's funny in the games when you vaporize someone's head or blow them into chunks of meat, but for some reason it didn't translate for me. Part of it is that the fight scenes would go one FOREVER. Maybe if the people getting blasted were more hateable or mockable, that might have worked better. Really lean into the dark comedy more. I dunno. Maybe I was just in a bad mood.

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 Post subject: Re: TV: Fallout (Prime)
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2 eps in.
“The thing is, he was fucking my chickens.”

That’s a legitimate beef.


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Season 2 officially confirmed.

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 Post subject: Re: TV: Fallout (Prime)
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 Post subject: Re: TV: Fallout (Prime)
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I’ve never played the game, but this show is great.


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 Post subject: Re: TV: Fallout (Prime)
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My wife and I LOVE fallout. I was totally expecting the show to be terrible but to my amazement it’s really good. Captures all the little things that make the game unique. And the story is good. About halfway through.


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