Fallout (Amazon TV series) (1 Viewer)

[guidomerkinsrules]

So, many people at work and my son has told me that we need to watch Fallout. My son played the game(s) and loved them. Admittedly, I was more than suspect about yet another video game inspired movie/show as too many have not been good nor reaped the rewards the producers so wanted them to. And I am not a gamer. Honestly, the whole first person games give me a headache for hours so that pretty much drops me from the video game realm.

I was so beyond wrong about this. LOVE this series! And more so, MY WIFE loves this show!! Walton Goggins is the best in this show as well. We have two more to go but I love it!

So the comparisons to TLOU are easy enough (post apocalyptic road show w zombie type creatures)
But TLOU was a fairly straightforward narrative and consistently (mostly) bleak tone
It already had a strong cinematic structure
What kind of amazes me about Fallout is how effortlessly it shifts tone
The Vault and Brotherhood are both farcical, but very different flavors of farce (like Tim Burton on one end and Stanley Kubrick on another)
Then you have The Ghoul starting as Gary Cooper and ending as Clint Eastwood
Then you have Lucy as a fairly standard reluctant genre hero

They way they’re able to weave all of that together is mesmerizing- and probably the first to really capture the mix of absurdity and pulse pounding stakes that many video games seem to play in

 

[GeauxWhoDats]

 

[tenordas]

there are 5 Fallout games with various expansions that you will have to play to understand anything

I like the show, but I can’t imagine anyone who doesn’t like the games enjoying it. Just seems like so much of it is fan service. But if guess if you don’t play the games and still like it, good for you.

Never played the game, didn't even know it had sequel games, and it didn't matter at all.

This was a great story well told and well acted. I like guidomerkinsrules' description of Goggins' character going from Gary Cooper Western Hero to Clint Eastwood Western anti-hero. Perfect description. That his name is Cooper was a clever reference (IMHO). Was that his name in the game (assuming he's in the game and has a name in it)?
It helps that Goggins is a great actor, but his character is easily the most interesting of all of them and he stole the show.

My daughter watched the last couple of episodes with me because she just got home from college, and she said this has its own plot, not really following what the games do. I'm sure there was a good deal of fan service, but the plot was intricate and well thought-out. The writers did just the right amount of holding back information/releasing information as the story went along to make the characters more interesting and real. That's a real skill and few get it right.

It's going to be way too long before a second season is released...

 

[Sun Wukong]

For what it's worth, I didn't find it particularly "fan servicey" at all. It's a story set in the Fallout world and it has the elements of that world as established in the games. That's not fan service.

If anything, plot choices like

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nuking Shady Sands

could be seen as the antithesis of fan service.

 

[antipop]

Amazon's Fallout show and Walton Goggins score some Emmy nominations

Prime Video's adaptation of Bethesda's RPG series continues to prosper and earns Emmy recognition in its debut season.

www.gamedeveloper.com

 

[antipop]

Fallout Season 2 Casts Macaulay Culkin as a 'Crazy Genius-Type Character' - Report - IGN

Fallout Season 2 has reportedly added Macaulay Culkin to its cast, a recurring role where he'll apparently be playing "a crazy genius-type character."

www.ign.com

 

[kcirdor]