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I thought this trailer looked fantastic, I don’t know what the rest of you all are smoking. As a fallout fan it was more than enough to get me excited for the series, also Walton Goggins as a ghoul chefs kiss.

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58 points

People need to remember that fallout isn’t the last of Us or god of war, fallout is a cool series with a cool world, but it’s not a masterpiece of story telling and writing. These showrunners aren’t making Lord of the rings over here, it’s not gonna be hard to make a decent show based in an established world.

They’re keeping the aesthetic and design, so I’m happy. But so many people don’t have a nuanced opinion anymore, and a show is either a perfect 10 or it’s “unwatchable garbage”. I’ve seen and loved shows that I give a solid 8 to, but anything below a nine gets called “shit” these days.

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14 points

I mean, New Vegas is known as one of the best written RPGs of all time. So… there might be slightly higher than average expectations here.

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16 points

It is not known.

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6 points

No it’s not lmao. It was good but it’s far from anything like that

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2 points

These showrunners aren’t making Lord of the rings over here

Of course not, Lord of the Rings already exists.

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6 points

Well that didn’t stop Amazon from making them Rings of Power so don’t give anybody any ideas now.

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6 points

We’ve had first Lord of the Rings, yes, but what about second Lord of the Rings?

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24 points

I don’t want to set the world on fire.

But I will if they fuck this up.

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15 points

Where were you when we watched Rings of Power?

Where were you when we suffered Wheel of Time?

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5 points

Wheel of Time is not bad imo. At least not season 2. The thing with that series is that it’s not possible to adapt every single thing from 14 books to 8 seasons with 8 episodes. I went into it as a new turn of the Wheel, and while the first season didn’t do much for me, with the second one I can actually see the beginnings of something that can become really good. I’m cautiously optimistic about the coming seasons now.

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5 points

Ah, ok so I’m broken and don’t have to worry.

I loved both those things.

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1 point

Rings of power was alright once you accepted it’s just a completely different adaptation with no connection to the previous films. And is also not being true to the books to a T. It’s far enough away from the events that I love in that world that I can separate it enough and still enjoy it.

I still would’ve preferred a more page by page adaptation of the Hobbit onwards though, especially the hobbit since it’s my favourite LOTR book.

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6 points

I thought it looked pretty good.

That said, I thought the first few seconds right up until Dogmeat started eating the Radroach looked pretty mid. I got really psyched and excited when I saw the BoS power armor

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5 points

Looks a bit cosplay-y, honestly.

But also I’ve never been into Bethesda Fallout, so I’m already not as much of a target for this one, I suppose.

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4 points

That was my impression too. The costumes and CG seemed a bit goofy to me. But then again, so did the original Witcher trailer, and that ended-up looking mostly fine when I actually watched it, so…

shrugs

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2 points

It’s west coast fallout by Bethesda, and I really don’t know how I expect them to handle the established material. I hope they do justice to what’s been written already

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2 points

Yeah you’re right Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel is where I think this show should’ve taken its design notes from.

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3 points

I’m with you. I was excited once I saw the first look photos. They took a lot of care with costume and set design

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63 points

Cautiously optimistic. Hopefully it’s respectful to the source material.

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It’s a very good setting for a show or mini series, but the way the IP’s current owners have handled it so far gives me pause. Hopefully the writers will be competent enough to not resort to the “radiation and mutations are basically magic” writing that’s been all too common with Bethesda.

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10 points

I mean we already saw mutants (NOT Super Mutants or Centaurs) in the form of Chris Parnell’s Overseer Cyclops in the trailer. The rest of the shots (especially the Yao Guai tearing up that Paladin) make me think it’ll be more lore-accurate.

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16 points

I mean, the way Bethesda has taken Fallout, there’s not much that could be ruined, just use a newish setting and go to town

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54 points

I didn’t realize Jonathan Nolan was a showrunner. The first season of Westworld was brilliant. And Walton Goggins is good in everything. I’ll give it a shot.

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12 points

Goggins is what got me on board too.

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39 points

You can tell it’s gonna be bad because they forgot to say “war never changes”

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15 points

I bet you that this will be in the show and narrated by Ron Perlman.

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11 points

And where are the TUNNEL SNAKES??? HMMMM???

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8 points

tunnel snakes rule

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5 points

We’re the tunnel snakes

That’s us

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1 point

In a tunnel?

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39 points

What the fuck man where the hell did this spring up from? This just started a flame in my heart.

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10 points

I don’t suppose in your heart you have but one desire?

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4 points

Is that desire to light a flame in your heart instead of the whole world? You pyromaniac!

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