The Fallout show was so much fun. Looking forward to the next season.
The show also explains how you can have fat guys in a vault. That one dude is clearly a “feeder”.
I have seen so many people say it’s good but I watched it with my wife and at around episode 3 she described it as aggressively mid which I heavily agree with and we stopped watching. Felt like the writers of Fallout 4 were involved and were told to tone down the excitement. Does it get like a lot better later in the season or are our tastes just different?
Felt like the writers of Fallout 4 were involved and were told to tone down the excitement.
Wow that’s a damning statement, given how atrociously written Fallout 4 was.
The 4 and a half episodes I saw felt like whoever made this just knew in broad strokes what Fallout 3 and 4 were and was told to make a movie based on that. It feels very Bethesda in it’s storytelling, the plot exists but it’s the most generic and bland as possible, no new ideas or interesting concepts and nothing to say. I feel like the only thing carrying it is the Fallout imagery and without it the show would be a solid 4/10.
Recent TV shows that I would rate as excellent would be The Expanse, From, Foundation and Lower Decks. Fallout doesn’t feel even close to any of those but people seem to really like it.
seeing as the first 3 episodes barely get into more than character introduction I’d say give it a bit more time
I checked the watch history and it was 4 and a half episodes actually. Does it get any better after that?
It has a couple of very decent episodes, but as someone who is a big Fallout fan the show seems pretty underwhelming. It’s like they wanted to lean into the grim darkness of the setting, so they decided to eliminate whatever vestiges of civilization there might have been (the Brotherhood of Steel being in a massive downward spiral as an organization and the whole Shady Sands things seemed like a copout for budget and storytellilng purposes). Not saying Fallout isn’t a bleak setting, but it’s definitely got more of an oddball humor to it that is generally pervasive through the setting, instead of the sprinkle of it we got throughout the show. I guess what I’m saying is that with something like this you have to really nail the tone, and they just sorta missed the mark on it.
I don’t know what show you watched, but the Fallout show was laden with comedy in nearly every scene. It heavily leans on dark comedy and the perils & shittiness of humanity with random touches of the absurd (or oddball as you put it). With my experince of the Fallout franchise and spending countless hours reading terminals, listening to the recordings, talking to the denziens of the world in all the fallout games since FO1 except for 76, I thought they did an excellent job capturing the tone of the universe.
My biggest complaint is that they could have done a couple more episodes to flesh out some details. However that has more to do with how shows now seem to have a ~8 episode format instead of the ~12 episode format (or even ~22 format of old. Who remebers having all those Supernatural epps?!) than the show itself. Most newer streaming shows leave me with this gripe. This gripe is likely the same reason why you felt that the coverage of BoS, NCR, and Shady Sands was a little flat/copouty.
As soon as I saw this scene, I immediately thought of Lemmy users and how it would speak to them. So, not surprised to see this posted here and getting some love.
“You’re currently… In IT, how do you feel about that?”
“I’m good at it. I don’t like it, but I don’t hate it.”
I’ve seen what they do. Gum up the works with red tape and bureaucracy, take every hard earned cent and use it to fund their Illuminati free mason sex parties.
How can we be enthusiastic when most of us are running purely off of sheer force of will and copious amounts of caffeine
That’s why you replace that with cocaine. Disclaimer: don’t do it, just stay with coffee do exercise instead, get some hobbies, find another job, get some long vacation.
I would say that this guy is my spirit animal except that during some of his other scenes, he very much acted in a way contrary to what I believe I would have done.
I don’t want to say any more since the show is still new and I don’t want to ruin anything for anyone.
But this line, yes. Very yes. Most of my jobs have been like this. It’s just like, I’m only here because they pay me to be. I only do what I need to in order to not get fired.
Why are so many people adamant on seeing someone being “enthusiastic” and “high-energy”? Don’t they realize how exhausting it is to maintain that for more than an hour?