Amazon Studios to develop series based on Fallout

[Sniperwoof]

The lighting and color pallet is way way too bright and colorful, it looks like Candyland. It should have like Book of Eli style lighting.

Yes I know fallout 4 radically changed up the atmosphere from FO3 and NV and had cartoony Fortnite lighting. It looked stupid then and looks stupid here too.

 

[Your Girlfriend's Dad]

One episode in and I’m sold. They got everything down right. The sets, the dialogue, even the fanservice is done tastefully.

Am I just dead wrong here? This is just hitting every one of my woke faggotry alarm bells on the entry and I tapped out.

 

[Fartificial Insmelligence]

I didn't hate the first episode, some things I liked: The power armor looks good, the references to the game aren't overly in-your-face, they actually show that the main girl has practiced martial arts so she isn't just bodying men with twice her muscle mass outta nowhere, and the look of the show is mostly decent, though I'm not really sure how there's fat people in the wasteland, and especially the vaults, where it feels like food would be strictly regulated.

As for the stuff I didn't like? in the first forty minutes I think they play at least TEN different songs, there's a tranny in the Brotherhood of Steel, the citizens of vault 33 are absolute retards for not noticing the VERY noticable problems with the people from vault 32, and we see man-ass but no Ella Purnell booty. I'll keep watching, see if it gets any better.

 

[Tsukasa Kadoya]

I don't hate it. I think its decent, especially since my expectations were low.
Lucy is likeable enough, Maximus is enjoyable but Goggins steals the show.
I am shocked they went with the Fallout 1-2 version of the 10mm pistol though, and I love how the clunky F4 rifle was trashed.
Not bad but not amazing. But I am only on episode 3, so who knows if it shits the bed later.

 

[Cherry Eyed Hamster]

My thoughts so far:

I’m gonna second Sniperwoof on the color scheme. My God it is resplendent. Colorful and clean-looking. I feel like Fallout: Nuka Break did a better job getting the color scheme and atmosphere right, and that was a low-budget fan project and not a multi-million dollar TV show. Five minutes in and I was taken out of the immersion.

The writing is okay but the humor isn’t particularly funny. Very little wit and more “whoa I can’t believe that happened” kind of thing. Marvel-tier comedy.

I already expected it to not be lore-friendly considering the Director stated he has no intention of pleasing the fans and hasn’t touched any of the older Fallout titles.

The girl-power stuff is still stupid, even if it’s established the lead character knows martial arts. A woman, who’s been sheltered from the outside world for her whole life, isn’t going to defeat a man double or triple her size with some king fu moves. I feel like the girl-power stuff should have come later, it feels like she’s going to overcome little adversity even though she’s female and being a woman in an apocalyptic setting would be dangerous as fuck. I’m getting Mary-Sue vibes from her already.

At least the power armor looks pretty cool.

Who chose the soundtrack for this?? It’s trash. It’s modern hard rock, the kind of inoffensive, trite shit you’d hear playing on a generic rock station.

Other than the costumes, the human characters look fresh off the streets of L.A. There’s fat BIPOC women and trannies…in the desert of an apocalyptic wasteland. Press ‘X’ to doubt.

Goggins is by far the best character. I like him. Lucy however, is boring.

In short, I don’t think this series is going to be for me. I might check out another episode or two but if they’re going to be following the track of Ep. 1 and 2, then I’m pulling the cord. I want it to be good but I’m very disappointed so far. Disappointed, but not surprised.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

Nickleback and Disturbed? Seriously?

fan fuckin tastic.

Not even close to lore friendly

the goyim don't have the brainpower to care. examples ITT

 

[Tsukasa Kadoya]

fan fuckin tastic.

the goyim don't have the brainpower to care. examples ITT

I do agree the constant oldies is kinda annoying.

 

[TheHarbinger]

the references to the game aren't overly in-your-face

A raider pausing mid combat to take jet and the camera zooming in the chem in his hand wasn't in-your-face? Endless zoomed in shots of Vault Boy. A shot of a dog labeled "companion" like we are watching a game. "Grognak the Barbarian brought to you by Sugar Bombs". Referring to the Enclave as "remnants". The first episode is pretty strong with "Fallout Game Reference Bingo".

And this is clearly the Bethesda interpretation of Fallout. Bright color palette. Quip filled dialog. No sign of civilization anywhere and no one has cleaned up the debris and rubble for two straight centuries. Post apocalyptic setting like the story takes place a year after the bombs. Not two-hundred plus years where humanity should have progressed to the point of cleaning up trash and making the world habitable. And not leaving houses with burned up families in them for hundreds of years.

Vault 33 of course. Gotta get those masonic numbers into more hollywood productions.

Also what's up with the chicken references? Ghouls don't like chickens and then they had a guy having sex with chickens.

 

[Anti Snigger]

>The wasteland has a golden rule: thou shalt always get distracted by random bullshit

 

[Tsukasa Kadoya]

I’m doubting they intentionally placed a Masonic reference in there, but what I did find peculiar is that this show takes place in the East Coast, however Vault 33 should be located out on the West Coast. Low-numbered vaults like 33 in Fallout canon would be in the Western United States, as that’s where the first vaults were built.

Uh, it takes place on the west coast. They literally have Hollywood Blvd as a backdrop.
Also interesting

Spoiler: Episode 3

The vault dwellers are planning on rehabilitating the raiders into members of society. I know its not a jab at the unending immigration of violent people IRL, but man its funny to see.
Edit: now they're bringing up the water chip story from Fallout 1.

 

[Cherry Eyed Hamster]

Uh, it takes place on the west coast. They literally have Hollywood Blvd as a backdrop.
Also interesting

Spoiler: Episode 3

The vault dwellers are planning on rehabilitating the raiders into members of society. I know its not a jab at the unending immigration of violent people IRL, but man its funny to see.

Whoops my bad, appreciate the correction.

 

[Fartificial Insmelligence]

A raider pausing mid combat to take jet and the camera zooming in the chem in his hand wasn't in-your-face? Endless zoomed in shots of Vault Boy. A shot of a dog labeled "companion" like we are watching a game. "Grognak the Barbarian brought to you by Sugar Bombs". Referring to the Enclave as "remnants". The first episode is pretty strong with "Fallout Game Reference Bingo".

And this is clearly the Bethesda interpretation of Fallout. Bright color palette. Quip filled dialog. No sign of civilization anywhere and no one has cleaned up the debris and rubble for two straight centuries. Post apocalyptic setting like the story takes place a year after the bombs. Not two-hundred plus years where humanity should have progressed to the point of cleaning up trash and making the world habitable. And not leaving houses with burned up families in them for hundreds of years.

Vault 33 of course. Gotta get those masonic numbers into more hollywood productions.

Also what's up with the chicken references? Ghouls don't like chickens and then they had a guy having sex with chickens.

True true, that's why I shouldn't type up my thoughts while running on minimal sleep haha.

 

[Cherry Eyed Hamster]

Spoiler: Episode 3

The vault dwellers are planning on rehabilitating the raiders into members of society. I know it’s not a jab at the unending immigration of violent people IRL, but man it’s funny to see.
Edit: now they're bringing up the water chip story from Fallout 1.

Wow are they going to be incorporating more of the original plot of Fallout 1 than I realized? I wasn’t actually expecting that. Kinda nice to hear, but Fallout 1 is my baby so I’m biased.

 

[Miller]

One episode in and I’m sold. They got everything down right. The sets, the dialogue, even the fanservice is done tastefully.

I didn't know Todd had an account here.

 

[Tsukasa Kadoya]

I didn't know Todd had an account here.

Careful now, @Imperial Citizen hasn't asked you to buy Skyrim yet

 

[TheHarbinger]

Wow are they going to be incorporating more of the original plot of Fallout 1 than I realized? I wasn’t actually expecting that. Kinda nice to hear, but Fallout 1 is my baby so I’m biased.

It seems like they are borrowing heavily from Fallout 1 and 3. But putting them in a post New Vegas timeline.

 

[Unnecessary Surgery Land]

It’s pretty weird that there are cool scenes but with terrible dialogue
There is literally no good dialogue in this show

 

[Anti Snigger]

I’m so glad that Amazon.com Incorporated (TM) is producing so many pieces of media criticizing corporatism and consumerism.

Also, the discourse around episode six is going to be fun there’s going to be politisperging

 

[Days of Kinohood]

the first episode was fine, but shit got boring REAL fast. between every scene where something mildly interesting happens is the most bland, unimaginative, and fucking embarrassing shit i've ever seen. I'm at episode 6 right now and i want to die.

 

[30+GameOvers]

I have a feeling people of the future will be debating which was worse: The Halo show or this.
Me, I find it hilarious. I hate it, obviously, but I can't help but laugh at how we eventually ended up here. We all knew this was the direction the IP was heading once Fallout 4 came out, and this is the inevitable conclusion.
I've said it in the Fallout thread over on Gaming already, but this is the first story in Fallout medium that actually made Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel for PS2 and Xbox look good. I should re-iterate, that games has a quest where a prostitute asks you to find her cat called "pussy" and a super mutant pissing scene. This is the audience the game was meant for, and it still somehow managed to have a better story and setting than this multi million dollar major adaptation.

I don't consider Fallout 76 canon and I doubt I will consider any other official Fallout product canon either, I'm a fan projects man now. At this point, I am looking forward to Season 2 only in the morbid sense that I want to see just how bad it will get. I want every single /v/ and NMA shitpost ever written to be made reality, this is about as much as you can expect from this TV series it seems.

Even if you take the IP out of it, I can't help but feel that this is...cheap? I mean, it is very safe and clearly not made for Fallout fans in mind, in fact if it wasn't for the IP I bet this slop would be cancelled after Season 1. It feels to me like they cut corners or didn't care because they knew the consoomers would watch it anyways(and they're right).