Amazon's Fallout TV Show - Whole 1st season out now!!. 93% on RT. Renewed for Season 2.

Watched episode 1. Never really played the Fallout games but enjoyed it a lot. Found it very absorbing.

I finished this last night. I'm evidently off-curve as I just found it ok.

It's definitely Fallout in aesthetic. The music is a given as it's the same tracks from the games, but no worse for it. The costumes and set designs are excellent, they've really nailed the look and feel. Towards the end of the season that one row of buildings in the desert starts to feel much too familiar, but that's one minor complaint amongst some great (and expensive looking) work. That's the highlight of the show for me. The characters and plot never got me invested. Walter Goggins as the Ghoul is the standout performance, with the pre-war flashbacks holding my interest the most. The casting of Matt Berry was spot on. The other two main characters I never cared for, with an overall plot that felt rushed and back loaded in exposition. I found the tonal shifts jarring and the humour at times juvenile, with too many knowing nods to the games that made me cringe.

Overall I enjoyed it enough, but I don't see where the glowing praise is coming from.

And done in the space of a couple of days.
Pretty good - but it's set up to stream/binge where every episode bleeds into 1, and it helps you avoid obvious plot questions with it's momentum,
Very difficult to get a sense of time of the thing, and also the world feels very small with everyone running into the same places/locations easily.
Nailed the tone/feel of the games without being holden to it - tricky balance to pull off.

OrangeRKN wrote:The other two main characters I never cared for

I thought Lucy was fine - played with will a good mix of competency and naivety that felt authenticate, but also hard to pull off.

I didn't get on with Maximus throughout though. Just not a pleasant character to watch.

Seen the first episode. It looks amazing, both in the production design and the way it's been shot.

Enjoyed it, although the Brotherhood of Steel scenes weren't really that engaging and the episode did feel a little clunky narratively. It's often the case though in opening episodes when introducing multiple characters. So I'll give ep1 a free pass for that.

I'll try and watch an episode each day.

We've watched 4 episodes in two days which is a hell of a lot of TV for us. I think it's excellent. Really good fun and I love all of the main characters.

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All the games are cheap atm.

Pretty nice work for Bethesda. Amazon paid them a load for the IP, they get lots of free advertising - and the old games make money all over again. :lol:

Should have just rereleased a barely improved version of the last game at £69.99 like Sony did with the last of us :simper:

Imrahil wrote:Pretty nice work for Bethesda. Amazon paid them a load for the IP, they get lots of free advertising - and the old games make money all over again.

Probably shouldn't have had the games at 75% discount on Steam. Fallout 4 is £4....

Victor Mildew wrote:Should have just rereleased a barely improved version of the last game at £69.99 like Sony did with the last of us

Does feel a mistake not having a remake of 1 of the games out now to go with the TV show

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According to Amazon, the series debuted to stellar viewership, ranking among the service’s top three most-watched titles ever and the most-watched season globally since Rings of Power.

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4 episodes in and enjoying this. It is all rather surface-level, stylised silliness - it's just a fantasy romp - but it's very well-made.

That's not necessarily a criticism, some shows try a bit too hard sometimes to be profound, etc, and just get tiresome. There's nothing tiresome about Fallout and it really fits the game it's based on.

Watching it this morning in the shadow of the Israel/Iran situation was quite unnerving.

Got two more episodes to go and I'm loving it.

The attention to detail is startling and I can't think of a single shot that doesn't feel like Fallout.

Episodes 1-6 spoilers below...

Genuinely think this might be the most faithful adaptation of a game I've ever seen AND it's fantastic.

I've seen a few people complaining about how the show gets the lore wrong but there's only one change the show has made that I really didn't like (Season end spoilers)

Hexx wrote:
OrangeRKN wrote:The other two main characters I never cared for

I thought Lucy was fine - played with will a good mix of competency and naivety that felt authenticate, but also hard to pull off.

I didn't get on with Maximus throughout though. Just not a pleasant character to watch.

Yeah I found Maximus pretty unlikeable. I also think he suffered from unclear characterisation, he seemed to get stupider as the script/jokes demanded.

Lucy was ok but the humour probably brought her down for me and I felt she just bounced around. I didn't feel much payoff from the ending.

As I say I was much more interested in Cooper's pre-war story. After that probably Lucy's brother had me more invested than Lucy or Maximus. He maybe had the best character development too.

Episode 7

Damn Maximus, I would've said yes in a heartbeat :capnscotty:

I clocked Jonathan Nolan (brother of Christopher) in the director credits for episode 2, seems he's one of the driving forces behind it happening (is also executive producer). Sounds a big fan of the games, says Fallout 3 nearly derailed his career :slol:

Cheeky Devlin wrote:Got two more episodes to go and I'm loving it.

The attention to detail is startling and I can't think of a single shot that doesn't feel like Fallout.

Genuinely think this might be the most faithful adaptation of a game I've ever seen AND it's fantastic.

Haven't read the spoilers, but probably going to watch it based on this post and the similar above. (Was very suspicious before this thread!)

Loved the terminal hacking in E7, would have been improved though if they'd got it wrong first time around.

Amazon's Fallout TV Show - Whole 1st season out now!!. 93% on RT. Renewed for Season 2.

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