Fallout TV series being developed by Amazon

[C Kent]

Aye, the 50's theme is basically what the 'future' would look like in all the old infomercials from that time, which is why you have a retro futuristic look to everything.

 

[adam cool dude]

Fallout is an alternate reality where the transistor was not invented like it was in our reality and everything was focused on nuclear energy instead.

 

[M1k3H]

Finished this last night with the missus.we both loved it and what a great last episode...still thinking about it today.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

Binged it last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. To my great surprise, Herself really enjoyed it as well. I did give her the gist of the Fallout universe before watching the first episode.

 

[UTmaniac]

Quite enjoyed watching this over the last week with better half, just series one finale left.

However, for me as someone who hasn't played the game (while my better half has played them all I think), details were a bit lacking in parts.

 

[krooton]

I'm just glad this doesn't have the sea of "It's popular, so Imma hate on it" peeps, the vast majority of people have enjoyed it.

 

[C Kent]

I'm just glad this doesn't have the sea of "It's popular, so Imma hate on it" peeps, the vast majority of people have enjoyed it.

Because its a decent show and not the usual **** churned out

 

[Werewolf]

Aye, the 50's theme is basically what the 'future' would look like in all the old infomercials from that time, which is why you have a retro futuristic look to everything.

I'm really not sure how anyone missed that bit.

Fallout cribbed from all the world fairs and "world of tomorrow" articles and shows from the mid 40's through to the early 60's.
Pretty much every bit of tech in fallout except some weapons is loosely (or closely) based on at least one or more classic bit of proejction about the future, from the TV's, to the cars, to the robot assistants and the fact that everything that was power hungry had a fusion cell (IIRC GM was talking about nuclear powered cars by the end of the 40's).

 

[Caracus2k]

I'm just glad this doesn't have the sea of "It's popular, so Imma hate on it" peeps, the vast majority of people have enjoyed it.

Because it was a good show that stuck fairly well to the source material.

The protagonist had a good character arc that avoided a lot of the eyeball inducing tropes female protagonists often end up with in contemporary TV shows and movies. (Obviously the story of the naive yoing person who goes on a dangerous journey, faces adversity and near death and comes out wiser and tougher is itself an very old story device)

Yes the 'Fallout' universe itself is rather weird/ unbelievable in places but the characters were largely consistent and believable 'within' the universe.

The only thing I would like to have seen is more of the unique animals/ characters associated with the universe (Supermutants, maybe a death claw etc). Although time and budgetary constraints obviously limit what they could include in a first series.