Fallout TV series being developed by Amazon

katy81 said:
Is that guy with no nose the same guy from maze runner 3?

it's watchable if you put it on in the background while you spring clean. Solid 5/10.
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katy81 said:
Also walter goggins was still in make up from maze runner 3. That's just cheap. Especially for a main character
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Huggie86 said:
Thought this was great! Very excited for the 2nd season, even the Mrs got into it :D
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Ha same, which is saying something for a show based on a game.
Finished it last night, enjoyed it overall but took a long time to finally do some actual story reveal. Watching with subtitles on was funny in the last episode for the descriptor of "brain on a roomba" :cry:
 
arknor said:
but as a series it doesn't stand on its own feet and I can't see anyone who doesn't already know the fallout series watching it.

6.5/10
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Never played the games, but love games, apocalyptic shows and Walton Goggins. Binged S1 this week and just finished - really enjoyed it, Lucy ain't too bad to look at either :)

As for the wokeness, i didn't see any! Reading the posts here is how i learned there was a trans character. Unlike the recent Doctor Who who had the characters announce every 30 seconds they were trans or something had offended them, this was spot on - let the actor do their stuff. And Ponch! Recognised him straight away :)

Not sure about the actor playing Maximus, didn't do it for me - he just seems a dumb idiot and stares at the camera a lot, must have come from the Joey 'smell the fart' school of acting. Maybe that's his character and the actor played him well? Maybe we will see him develop and become an actual hero? Although the "pimple" eruption scene had me spit my tea :)

Okey Dokey
 
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I thought it was fine.

I'm not a massive fan of the games, and only really got into the 3rd and finished that. This finally made me grab 4, but I'm struggling with it, I'm just sick of open world stuff.

However, this TV show was fun, had some good dialogue and kept the story lines concise and had excellent pacing. Good sound and the visuals had a spot on grimey look while also retaining that "video-game" aesthetic.

It didn't however get anywhere near TLoU in terms of storytelling, tension or chemistry between characters. That show was near perfect as an adaptation from game to screen. Fallout just leaned a little too much on the games and could have gone darker and bleaker in places, there never seemed to be any real peril or risk for the main characters.

On a normal rating system I'd give it a solid 6/10 and will definitely be watching the second season.
 
If you're not a fan of the games then obviously you won't like a TV show based closely on the games...?

I thought it captured the tone well and worked just fine, apparently as do a significant number of other people.
It has its flaws, everything does, but it was a fun romp around the wasteland.
 
Yeah never played the games or game for that matter and this was a fun and wild scifi show, you don't get tv shows like this at all due to budget but am glad they did this and hope season 2 is in the pipe works.
 
Two episodes in and we're really liking it. I dabbled in the games so only know the basics but like the effort they've put into the translation. Only just found out the main woman is English, decent accent.
 
Spoke to mama d3k yesterday and said she binge watched the show :eek:

Hadn’t heard of the franchise and knows nothing about the game world, but still loved it. High praise!
 
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Wow. Wasn't expecting to like this at all considering I'm not a big fan of the game I've hardly ever made it out of the vault tbh. But this was superb. Never knew what was coming next lots of plotlines that seem to veer in different directions without necessarily connecting very very tense sitting on edge of seat stuff. Brilliant. Best thing I've seen all year.

Rob_B said:
A white man and a black woman? In this day and age?
/clutches pearls


Christ some people need to take a chill pill
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That was one of the most intriguing things and something else that catches you offguard I don't think people quite get whats happening here its set in 50's america where you would not get a white man/black woman together at all certainly not in any kind of position of influence or authority the 50's were an era of segregation and essentially apartheid in all but name - the era of civil rights would not come for another decade to even get a black woman onscreen was quite an achievement and an interracial kiss as in Star Trek TOS did - was almost too much for the time. Even in the 70's I recall it would have raised an eyebrow. But this is a 50's america where no-one bats an eyelid and thats a deliberate choice its eye opening for anyone of a particular generation and another way the storytelleing keep us offguard and says to us that this is 50's america but at the same time not 50's america its an alternate reality where everything is like this world but at the same time not this world. As way to advance the storytelling and not shoehorned in in a clumsy over anxious box ticking diversity exercise like the BBC is all too keen on these days. Anyways its all very well done. 10/10
 
Blackjack Davy said:
That was one of the most intriguing things and something else that catches you offguard I don't think people quite get whats happening here its set in 50's america where you would not get a white man/black woman together at all certainly not in any kind of position of influence or authority the 50's were an era of segregation and essentially apartheid in all but name - the era of civil rights would not come for another decade to even get a black woman onscreen was quite an achievement and an interracial kiss as in Star Trek TOS did - was almost too much for the time. Even in the 70's I recall it would have raised an eyebrow. But this is a 50's america where no-one bats an eyelid and thats a deliberate choice its eye opening for anyone of a particular generation and another way the storytelleing keep us offguard and says to us that this is 50's america but at the same time not 50's america its an alternate reality where everything is like this world but at the same time not this world. As way to advance the storytelling and not shoehorned in in a clumsy over anxious box ticking diversity exercise like the BBC is all too keen on these days. Anyways its all very well done. 10/10
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It's not 50's America, even an alternative 50's.

It's 2296

The 50's aesthetic of the old World was just a style choice, not the actual attitudes of that time.
 
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