Amazon Studios to develop series based on Fallout

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Against my better judgment I went ahead and finished the show.

It's so flat, no characters have any kind of Arc, maximus isn't even a character he does so little, the whole plot is basically nonexistant.

The humor kinda grew on me but there was no substance underneath it so it was kind of lame

As soon as I saw the ending I knew what kind if show this will be. Nothing will ever get resolved, every season will end on cliffhanger or loose ends. Rinse and repeat. It'll be like lost. These shows suck man. It's designed to hook you and drag you along with no real direction in sight, like Lost.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but that sounds like sub-Picard-tier. Picard at least tied up its arcs by the end. They were tied up terribly and the stories sucked (except for the mildly passable third season), but by god they were concluded.
U sure? I made it EXTRA juicy
Gay.
 
Couldn't care less about muh lore (Fallout is not high art, everyone calm down) but holy shit what a mess of writing that first episode is. What is with Amazon series and needing to introduce every single character and plot arc from the word go? Brotherhood of Steel scenes are all tell and no show. What happened to suspense or mystery? Effects, sets, make-up, costumes all look extremely cheap. Where is the money going? Acting is all over the place. No one seems to have been given any direction. Goggins basically just doing Justified Lite but at least we have someone in this cast with some screen presence besides Lucy. Why are we starting pre-war anyway? First ep should have focused entirely on Lucy, the Vault scenes were the only ones that had any sort of character. Save the Brotherhood and Goggins for later. All of the dialogue felt like placeholders for something funnier or more eloquent. Licensed music carried most of the tone (tbf this is also true with the games). Extremely overdone slo-mo in the raid scene.

Didn't shock me to see, literally, TWENTY-NINE (29) different producers listed in the credits. For an 8-episode season. Design by committee in the worst way. Does this shit get more coherent?
Its fine to not care about "muh lore" but the lore, within the context of Fallout, is the heart of the series and is a big contributor to its message. Civilization rebuilding yet falling prey to the same folly that resulted in the nuclear war is THE theme of the series, for at least 1, 2, and New Vegas. The show represents the anthesis to the entire worldview presented in the original games, for the purpose of making it generic Mad Max-esque nonsense.
 
The show represents the anthesis to the entire worldview presented in the original games, for the purpose of making it generic Mad Max-esque nonsense.
It's not even Mad Max. It's like a parody of Mad Max or Waterworld. Like some type of wacky comedy. The Fallout Amazon show has the same tone of something like Galaxy Quest. But none of the charm or depth. It wants to be like Starship Troopers where it straddles the line between dark and serious and stupid and comedic. But simply cannot find a middle ground and just embarrassingly in the idiotic direction.
 
Its fine to not care about "muh lore" but the lore, within the context of Fallout, is the heart of the series and is a big contributor to its message. Civilization rebuilding yet falling prey to the same folly that resulted in the nuclear war is THE theme of the series, for at least 1, 2, and New Vegas. The show represents the anthesis to the entire worldview presented in the original games, for the purpose of making it generic Mad Max-esque nonsense.
Let's be real, neither Bethesda nor Amazon are capable or writing a good story, even if Todd was promised his masculinity and Jeff his hair back.
 
For anyone that didn't know, for Steam users in the US, you can get Fallout 1, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, Fallout:NV, & Fallout 4, along with every DLC that was released for them, for $24.95 (+tax). The sale is until the 22nd. It makes a good gift for someone who might have liked the show but hasn't played the games.
 
Its fine to not care about "muh lore" but the lore, within the context of Fallout, is the heart of the series and is a big contributor to its message. Civilization rebuilding yet falling prey to the same folly that resulted in the nuclear war is THE theme of the series, for at least 1, 2, and New Vegas. The show represents the anthesis to the entire worldview presented in the original games, for the purpose of making it generic Mad Max-esque nonsense.
I honestly don't understand what you people are on about. The show literally has people dropping more nukes for the same reasons as they wanted to nuke stuff originally, and ends with battle between two factions going to war for basically no reason other than control. The theme of the show boils down to "war never changes."
 
Its fine to not care about "muh lore" but the lore, within the context of Fallout, is the heart of the series and is a big contributor to its message. Civilization rebuilding yet falling prey to the same folly that resulted in the nuclear war is THE theme of the series, for at least 1, 2, and New Vegas. The show represents the anthesis to the entire worldview presented in the original games, for the purpose of making it generic Mad Max-esque nonsense.
Hard disagree. I enjoy Fallout a lot but at the end of the day it's a derivative work whose lore varies wildly between games and doesn't really make sense to begin with.

"Civilization rebuilding yet falling prey to the same folly" that's literally just post-apocalypse as a genre, Fallout doesn't own that, and frankly "generic Mad Max-esque nonsense" is a better characterization of much of the series, including the pre-Bethesda period.
 
One thing I'd like to know, when the hell did a "Season" get reduced to 8 episodes. 10 episodes was an absolute minimum. 8 just sucks.
All criticism aside, the production was visually really well done. I can see where the budget went. Not surprised at all it cost them a lower episode count.
 
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Turning the Brotherhood into an actual fanatical cult instead of just a bunch of technophiles in Power Armor still has to be one of the stupidest things about this show so far. You would think even the most casual observer would know what Brotherhood is supposed to stand for, with Todd shoving them quite literally everywhere he can, but I guess not. Hell, there is already a fanatical tech worshipping cult in the canon already, as a matter of fact they're rivals with the MidWestern branch for a bit in Fallout Tactics before, ironically enough, the real villain of the game (Vault Tec) forces the two into an uneasy truce.
You're telling me these morons couldn't spend 5 whole minutes on the Fallout wiki to look for some inspiration or check if another faction already done this angle?
 
Minor nitpick I didn't see mentioned yet. Some, but not all, of the household appliances are "Radiation Queen" brand instead of "Radiation King". Might make sense for the kitchen appliances, but not video tape players and other general electronics.
 
All the people praising the show for being mediocre taking a dump over the established continuity fallout have no standards
you're all a bunch of Niger cattle
this should be only two black people in the entire show and they should be whipping boys for the white characters it always struck me as odd that the vault dwellers aren't the most racist clan member type people America never had the communist win in the 1960s fallout wants to have its anti communist 60s aesthetic but eat its cake where they totally allowed racial equality racial equality is a form of communism
 
Minor nitpick I didn't see mentioned yet. Some, but not all, of the household appliances are "Radiation Queen" brand instead of "Radiation King". Might make sense for the kitchen appliances, but not video tape players and other general electronics.
Radiation Queen? Thats such a pointless change 🤣🤣🤣 its so fucking stupid I don't even know how to react. This is truly Fallout: DEI edition.
 
Turning the Brotherhood into an actual fanatical cult instead of just a bunch of technophiles in Power Armor still has to be one of the stupidest things about this show so far. You would think even the most casual observer would know what Brotherhood is supposed to stand for, with Todd shoving them quite literally everywhere he can, but I guess not. Hell, there is already a fanatical tech worshipping cult in the canon already, as a matter of fact they're rivals with the MidWestern branch for a bit in Fallout Tactics before, ironically enough, the real villain of the game (Vault Tec) forces the two into an uneasy truce.
https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Reaver_Movement You're telling me these morons couldn't spend 5 whole minutes on the Fallout wiki to look for some inspiration or check if another faction already done this angle?

Maybe that BoS chapter really is full of Legion remnants. If I recall correctly, the chapter of the Brotherhood Of Steel in FO:NV were extreme, and would be even more extreme if combined with Legion. It’s Jonathan Nolan, he’d be retarded enough to go there. All the latin names are damned peculiar: Maximus, Titus, Quintus, Thaddeus, Felix. Would’ve been 15 years or so since the 2nd battle of Hoover Dam, can see how much our own culture has shifted in the past 15 years. The elder Quintus acts like he wants to become the High Elder through coup d’etat. Quintus refers to them as the “knights of this legion”. In the season finale there’s crimson vexilla at BoS camp that look like the ones Caesar’s Legion carried, just with gold BoS iconography instead of the gold bull. A lot of red flags...literally. Could their elder be a former Frumentarius? “Buckbreakers of Steel” indeed.

Minor nitpick I didn't see mentioned yet. Some, but not all, of the household appliances are "Radiation Queen" brand instead of "Radiation King". Might make sense for the kitchen appliances, but not video tape players and other general electronics.

I noticed a Radiation King somewhere, but didn’t notice that bullshit. Yass Radiation Kween.
 
Bring on the negative reactions, retards. If you wanna argue about lore and retconns I want you to know that your mom sucks me off thru my jorts.
Is this the new counter culture, where contrarians watch the obviously-manufactured-in-a-lab goyslop with the cinematography of a car insurance commercial and (claim to) enjoy it to be interesting and "go against the grain"? To "defeat group think"? Or is this just the phenomenon of the jock skinwalking as the nerd, who has infiltrated the space now that it is socially acceptable, but still thinks that lore, world building etc is lame fag shit?

This is just one of many people I have seen who are downright proud of liking this show and their "ability" to ignore lore or plot inconsistencies or anything that would make them not like the show. "He he, I consoomed this soulless corporate product and enjoyed myself, u mad bro?"

Consoomers should join the pride parade, I hear they are proud of eating shit there, too.
 
America never had the communist win in the 1960s fallout wants to have its anti communist 60s aesthetic but eat its cake where they totally allowed racial equality racial equality is a form of communism
They are already retconning this in the games and now the show. The original bad guys in historical Fallout lore were the Chinese. Who even invaded America. Now the bad guys are Vault-Tec. And their White CEOs and board members. But wait....the real brains behind Vault-Tec and the inventors of everything are still women and niggers. So only the bad parts of Vault-Tec came from Whites. The good parts like the technology or Vault Boy came from people of color.

Vault-Tec's capitalist practices lead to the Great War. This is already reflected in every Fallout wiki currently.
 
Hard disagree. I enjoy Fallout a lot but at the end of the day it's a derivative work whose lore varies wildly between games and doesn't really make sense to begin with.

"Civilization rebuilding yet falling prey to the same folly" that's literally just post-apocalypse as a genre, Fallout doesn't own that, and frankly "generic Mad Max-esque nonsense" is a better characterization of much of the series, including the pre-Bethesda period.
Its not really post-apocalyptic fiction in the genre sense. Nations develop, cultures develop and thrive, civilization is reborn. Thats the uniqueness of Fallout. There are no countries or civilizations in Mad Max that are actually defendable or that have any kind of virtue. The lore made more sense before Bethesda came in and raped the series to the point its unrecognizable from the original games. Ill grant you there was a lot of autistic shit and pop culture references in 2 that piss me off to this day, but that doesnt detract from the story itself or the uniqueness of the narrative it was going for. Post apocalyptic fiction as a genre is so incredibly stagnant, and rooted in nihilism and despair to the point that that its the only kind of story a writer can contemplate when trying to create this type of fiction. Fallout isn't high art, and it isnt super deep but thats a point against Bethesda and the writers of this show. They don't even understand the first game and the groundwork it laid out for the rest of the series.
 
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