War never changes: A Fallout fan’s spoiler-laden review of the new TV series

The show preserved the themes, archetypes, chronology, and more for the games.

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[WereCatf]

I don't need quite as many words to write my own review of the show as the author. Here is my full review of Fallout: what a blast!

 

[WereCatf]

Not sure about how squire thaddeus becomes a ghoul. Felt a little tacked on.

I felt it was thematically just fine. It would've been a little out of place in a typical show, but Fallout's shtick is kind of all about how, when something goes wrong, it almost always ends up going wrong in the worst possible ways. It's also kind of typical that as you go along with the story and play the game, you sooner or later might come across an NPC you interacted with earlier in the game, but something you did will end up screwing that NPC over in an entirely unexpected way -- with Thaddeus being the NPC, here.

 

[WereCatf]

Hopefully there will be a S2 (anybody knows whether it's already been announced or not?).

I don't remember where I read it, but season 2 had apparently already been approved even before season 1 had been aired. Apparently they were pretty confident in the show receiving good reviews (and they weren't wrong)

 

[WereCatf]

Oh yeah, total mystery. An enormous marketplace of mystery.

Almost as if there was a...hundreds of miles long great wall between us and the explanation to the mystery, eh?

 

[WereCatf]

It's unpleasant to watch, so what's the point?

What's the point in arguing about tastes? You not liking it doesn't invalidate other peoples' tastes, like e.g. I thought it was exceedingly pleasant and fun to watch, so for me, that was the point.

 

[WereCatf]

I feel unsettled by it, because of it's total lack of humanity, and I think it's valid for me to feel that way.

I didn't say you don't have the right to feel that way. I questioned the point of arguing about tastes. I mean, you feel however you feel and arguing with someone about how they feel isn't going to change anything. Tastes are tastes and feelings are feelings and there doesn't have to be any explainable logic involved.

 

[WereCatf]

Link me to the post where you answered my specific questions. Not a half-assed "It'S aBoUt EtHiCs In pLaUsAbiLiTy" dodge, an actual answer.

Mate, just let go already. Either that guy is a troll, stringing you along, or so determined in the correctness of their opinion that not even all the logic and reasoning in the entire world could reach him in the dark recesses of his own rectum, and you're just wasting your time and effort.

 

[WereCatf]

I actually and quite impressed at how the producers pull this off. It provides fan service in the form of details, locations, signs, etc that make it instantly recognizable as "fallout" by anyone who has played any of the games. At the same time one doesn't have to be a fallout fan with 8,000 hours of gameplay and detailed knowledge of the lore to appreciate it. They amazingly have very little exposition but at no point in the eight episodes was my wife who has never played fallout ever confused or lost.

I agree. My husband has only played Fallout 4 for like 5 minutes, so for all intents and purposes he doesn't really know anything at all and yet at no point did he complain about not being able to follow the story or understand what's going on or the motives of the different characters and factions. He did ask for additional details about a few things, but that was just the show getting him curious about the world.

He did quite loudly complain about Maximus being an idiot and how he must be intellectually challenged, but him getting so riled up about a character in the show just serves to show how engaged he got with it.

 

[WereCatf]

edit- reading here that a power grid neglected for 3 centuries (oh, and nuked twice) works just fine once a power source is plugged in is exactly the kind of thing I was worried about.

That's not quite correct. Only a portion of the grid comes on and it's the portion that's closest to the generator, so presumably the people have been working on getting the grid to at least somewhat useable state. I'll grant you that it is still a large area that gets power, but it doesn't appear to be even a whole city.

 

[WereCatf]

I only recently became aware of Walter Goggins

I'll have to nitpick, because so many people get this wrong: his name is Walton Goggins, not Walter. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton_Goggins