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Posted: 4/22/2024 9:12:44 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By voodochild: Just like he fixed the squires issue? What were the side effects of that again? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By voodochild: Just like he fixed the squires issue? What were the side effects of that again? |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 9:32:24 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Furloaf: I finished this last night, watching an episode a night over a week and a half. I could have watched it faster, but I didn't feel like it. I don't get the praise it's getting. It wasn't terrible, had some good parts, but overall I thought it was wholly average. 5/10. Good points: Walton Goggins of course. The pre-war flashback scenes were the best part of the show. Some good cinematography, and some (less than half) of the effects were pretty good. I'll mention some nods to the games were well done, but I also feel they were overused or thrown in there too heavily. I'll give it credit for being a good example of a videogame adapted into a movie. Bad points: Complete raping of established lore. Destroying beloved factions offscreen. Felt like it was checking off boxes for "This is Fallout! (yeah, Bethesda Fallout) -Very much Fallout 4 in live action The dark humor wasn't clever like the games, but felt like it was trying to hard and came off as edgy Some terrible SFX and too many obvious Volume shots (or whatever similar thing Amazon has). Volume shots are the new obvious soundstage shots. Bad pacing and too much jumping around storylines. I hated Maximus as a character. The girl was good, but her throwing around men twice her size was stupid. The plot is nonsense. Typical Bethesda storyline that is filled full of holes. Characters know things they shouldn't know (how did Maximus know the final location?) The code at the end (101097) is the release date for the first game. EXTREMELY low expectations are responsible for at least some of that. It was a show based on a video game AND it was being made by Amazon. Either one of those made the show unlikely to even be watchable, but to have BOTH of them made it damn near an impossibility and thus pretty much everyone expected it to suck. |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 9:35:05 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ArmyInfantryVet: I'd also view interracial as just being practical in a post apocalyptic US. Where if your goal is to keep the human race going, you gotta work with what you got. Except in that small a community after about 11 generations the races are probably all going to be mixed. |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 9:35:42 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hunter-Killer: EXTREMELY low expectations are responsible for at least some of that. It was a show based on a video game AND it was being made by Amazon. Either one of those made the show unlikely to even be watchable, but to have BOTH of them made it damn near an impossibility and thus pretty much everyone expected it to suck. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hunter-Killer: Originally Posted By Furloaf: I finished this last night, watching an episode a night over a week and a half. I could have watched it faster, but I didn't feel like it. I don't get the praise it's getting. It wasn't terrible, had some good parts, but overall I thought it was wholly average. 5/10. Good points: Walton Goggins of course. The pre-war flashback scenes were the best part of the show. Some good cinematography, and some (less than half) of the effects were pretty good. I'll mention some nods to the games were well done, but I also feel they were overused or thrown in there too heavily. I'll give it credit for being a good example of a videogame adapted into a movie. Bad points: Complete raping of established lore. Destroying beloved factions offscreen. Felt like it was checking off boxes for "This is Fallout! (yeah, Bethesda Fallout) -Very much Fallout 4 in live action The dark humor wasn't clever like the games, but felt like it was trying to hard and came off as edgy Some terrible SFX and too many obvious Volume shots (or whatever similar thing Amazon has). Volume shots are the new obvious soundstage shots. Bad pacing and too much jumping around storylines. I hated Maximus as a character. The girl was good, but her throwing around men twice her size was stupid. The plot is nonsense. Typical Bethesda storyline that is filled full of holes. Characters know things they shouldn't know (how did Maximus know the final location?) The code at the end (101097) is the release date for the first game. EXTREMELY low expectations are responsible for at least some of that. It was a show based on a video game AND it was being made by Amazon. Either one of those made the show unlikely to even be watchable, but to have BOTH of them made it damn near an impossibility and thus pretty much everyone expected it to suck. I went in with fairly high expectations... mostly because it was directed by Jonathan Nolan. And I loved Westworld and Person of Interest. I enjoyed the show. |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 9:37:14 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jhereg: Except in that small a community after about 11 generations the races are probably all going to be mixed. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jhereg: Originally Posted By ArmyInfantryVet: I'd also view interracial as just being practical in a post apocalyptic US. Where if your goal is to keep the human race going, you gotta work with what you got. Except in that small a community after about 11 generations the races are probably all going to be mixed. Whew boy. Imagine the state GD would be in if everyone in the show was a mixed shade of brown. 
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Posted: 4/22/2024 9:42:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By beitodesstrafe: I went in with fairly high expectations... mostly because it was directed by Jonathan Nolan. And I loved Westworld and Person of Interest. I enjoyed the show. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By beitodesstrafe: Originally Posted By Hunter-Killer: Originally Posted By Furloaf: I finished this last night, watching an episode a night over a week and a half. I could have watched it faster, but I didn't feel like it. I don't get the praise it's getting. It wasn't terrible, had some good parts, but overall I thought it was wholly average. 5/10. Good points: Walton Goggins of course. The pre-war flashback scenes were the best part of the show. Some good cinematography, and some (less than half) of the effects were pretty good. I'll mention some nods to the games were well done, but I also feel they were overused or thrown in there too heavily. I'll give it credit for being a good example of a videogame adapted into a movie. Bad points: Complete raping of established lore. Destroying beloved factions offscreen. Felt like it was checking off boxes for "This is Fallout! (yeah, Bethesda Fallout) -Very much Fallout 4 in live action The dark humor wasn't clever like the games, but felt like it was trying to hard and came off as edgy Some terrible SFX and too many obvious Volume shots (or whatever similar thing Amazon has). Volume shots are the new obvious soundstage shots. Bad pacing and too much jumping around storylines. I hated Maximus as a character. The girl was good, but her throwing around men twice her size was stupid. The plot is nonsense. Typical Bethesda storyline that is filled full of holes. Characters know things they shouldn't know (how did Maximus know the final location?) The code at the end (101097) is the release date for the first game. EXTREMELY low expectations are responsible for at least some of that. It was a show based on a video game AND it was being made by Amazon. Either one of those made the show unlikely to even be watchable, but to have BOTH of them made it damn near an impossibility and thus pretty much everyone expected it to suck. I went in with fairly high expectations... mostly because it was directed by Jonathan Nolan. And I loved Westworld and Person of Interest. I enjoyed the show. Heh, just realized that Wilzig was also in Person of Interest. Caught a few episodes of Season 1 before I moved to Malta, never picked it back up, but yeah, Wilzig was the bird guy. |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 9:43:40 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Croak: Heh, just realized that Wilzig was also in Person of Interest. Caught a few episodes of Season 1 before I moved to Malta, never picked it back up, but yeah, Wilzig was the bird guy. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Croak: Originally Posted By beitodesstrafe: Originally Posted By Hunter-Killer: Originally Posted By Furloaf: I finished this last night, watching an episode a night over a week and a half. I could have watched it faster, but I didn't feel like it. I don't get the praise it's getting. It wasn't terrible, had some good parts, but overall I thought it was wholly average. 5/10. Good points: Walton Goggins of course. The pre-war flashback scenes were the best part of the show. Some good cinematography, and some (less than half) of the effects were pretty good. I'll mention some nods to the games were well done, but I also feel they were overused or thrown in there too heavily. I'll give it credit for being a good example of a videogame adapted into a movie. Bad points: Complete raping of established lore. Destroying beloved factions offscreen. Felt like it was checking off boxes for "This is Fallout! (yeah, Bethesda Fallout) -Very much Fallout 4 in live action The dark humor wasn't clever like the games, but felt like it was trying to hard and came off as edgy Some terrible SFX and too many obvious Volume shots (or whatever similar thing Amazon has). Volume shots are the new obvious soundstage shots. Bad pacing and too much jumping around storylines. I hated Maximus as a character. The girl was good, but her throwing around men twice her size was stupid. The plot is nonsense. Typical Bethesda storyline that is filled full of holes. Characters know things they shouldn't know (how did Maximus know the final location?) The code at the end (101097) is the release date for the first game. EXTREMELY low expectations are responsible for at least some of that. It was a show based on a video game AND it was being made by Amazon. Either one of those made the show unlikely to even be watchable, but to have BOTH of them made it damn near an impossibility and thus pretty much everyone expected it to suck. I went in with fairly high expectations... mostly because it was directed by Jonathan Nolan. And I loved Westworld and Person of Interest. I enjoyed the show. Heh, just realized that Wilzig was also in Person of Interest. Caught a few episodes of Season 1 before I moved to Malta, never picked it back up, but yeah, Wilzig was the bird guy. Go back and watch it. Person of Interest is a great show throughout the series, but gets friking WILD the last couple seasons. ... eta: he also has a dog   
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Posted: 4/22/2024 9:49:56 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Croak: Heh, just realized that Wilzig was also in Person of Interest. Caught a few episodes of Season 1 before I moved to Malta, never picked it back up, but yeah, Wilzig was the bird guy. I've been calling him Ben Linus the whole time we've been watching Fallout 
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Posted: 4/22/2024 9:55:51 AM EDT
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The wokeness of the show with all the bi racial bullshit pretty much put a damper on it for me.
Those assholes in Hollywood are sick in the mind with that crap. It is like they are afraid of being called racist if they have too many White people in a cast. |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 10:04:34 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PCB66: The wokeness of the show with all the bi racial bullshit pretty much put a damper on it for me. Those assholes in Hollywood are sick in the mind with that crap. It is like they are afraid of being called racist if they have too many White people in a cast. 
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Posted: 4/22/2024 10:08:37 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By voodochild: Just like he fixed the squires issue? What were the side effects of that again? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By voodochild: Just like he fixed the squires issue? What were the side effects of that again? Click To View Spoiler Kharn |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 10:21:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Furloaf: I finished this last night, watching an episode a night over a week and a half. I could have watched it faster, but I didn't feel like it. I don't get the praise it's getting. It wasn't terrible, had some good parts, but overall I thought it was wholly average. 5/10. Good points: Walton Goggins of course. The pre-war flashback scenes were the best part of the show. Some good cinematography, and some (less than half) of the effects were pretty good. I'll mention some nods to the games were well done, but I also feel they were overused or thrown in there too heavily. I'll give it credit for being a good example of a videogame adapted into a movie. Bad points: Complete raping of established lore. Destroying beloved factions offscreen. Felt like it was checking off boxes for "This is Fallout! (yeah, Bethesda Fallout) -Very much Fallout 4 in live action The dark humor wasn't clever like the games, but felt like it was trying to hard and came off as edgy Some terrible SFX and too many obvious Volume shots (or whatever similar thing Amazon has). Volume shots are the new obvious soundstage shots. Bad pacing and too much jumping around storylines. I hated Maximus as a character. The girl was good, but her throwing around men twice her size was stupid. The plot is nonsense. Typical Bethesda storyline that is filled full of holes. Characters know things they shouldn't know (how did Maximus know the final location?) The code at the end (101097) is the release date for the first game. You're more generous than I am. 3/10 or 4/10 here. The constant lingering shots annoyed the piss out of me. Every episode could've been editted down to probably half the running time without loss of coherency. And you're right, it's very much a "Bethesda fallout" and not the original Interplay. Bethesda has spent decades shitting on the original so it isn't twrribly surprising that Interplay's work got Eiffel Towered by Bethesda and Amazon. Typical low-rent Hollywood writer treatment mixed with "We want to be woke, but we'll try to stealth it this time." |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 10:34:01 AM EDT
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Three things I noticed that HAD to be nods to great movies:
Lucy MacLean. In the Die Hard movies, John McClane had a daughter named Lucy. The Gulper grabbed the head which happens to be in a yellow bag, we then see the yellow bag zipping across the water a couple times before being drug under. Clearly a nod to Jaws with the yellow barrels. A more obscure one is when the ghoul takes out the BOS knights at the observatory. When it goes dark and you only see them illuminated by the muzzle flashes, that scene was absolutely a nod to the first shootout scene in Equilibrium.  Equilibrium Gunfight Scene HD |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 10:34:45 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By beitodesstrafe: I went in with fairly high expectations... mostly because it was directed by Jonathan Nolan. And I loved Westworld and Person of Interest. I enjoyed the show. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By beitodesstrafe: Originally Posted By Hunter-Killer: Originally Posted By Furloaf: I finished this last night, watching an episode a night over a week and a half. I could have watched it faster, but I didn't feel like it. I don't get the praise it's getting. It wasn't terrible, had some good parts, but overall I thought it was wholly average. 5/10. Good points: Walton Goggins of course. The pre-war flashback scenes were the best part of the show. Some good cinematography, and some (less than half) of the effects were pretty good. I'll mention some nods to the games were well done, but I also feel they were overused or thrown in there too heavily. I'll give it credit for being a good example of a videogame adapted into a movie. Bad points: Complete raping of established lore. Destroying beloved factions offscreen. Felt like it was checking off boxes for "This is Fallout! (yeah, Bethesda Fallout) -Very much Fallout 4 in live action The dark humor wasn't clever like the games, but felt like it was trying to hard and came off as edgy Some terrible SFX and too many obvious Volume shots (or whatever similar thing Amazon has). Volume shots are the new obvious soundstage shots. Bad pacing and too much jumping around storylines. I hated Maximus as a character. The girl was good, but her throwing around men twice her size was stupid. The plot is nonsense. Typical Bethesda storyline that is filled full of holes. Characters know things they shouldn't know (how did Maximus know the final location?) The code at the end (101097) is the release date for the first game. EXTREMELY low expectations are responsible for at least some of that. It was a show based on a video game AND it was being made by Amazon. Either one of those made the show unlikely to even be watchable, but to have BOTH of them made it damn near an impossibility and thus pretty much everyone expected it to suck. I went in with fairly high expectations... mostly because it was directed by Jonathan Nolan. And I loved Westworld and Person of Interest. I enjoyed the show. High expectations for a TV show based on a video game that was being made by Amazon?  |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 10:35:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By beitodesstrafe: They be miscegenationing everyone! |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 10:35:26 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hunter-Killer: High expectations for a TV show based on a video game that was being made by Amazon? https://y.yarn.co/6657d3cd-8080-42cb-a1cf-fa76c862e0db_text.gif Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hunter-Killer: Originally Posted By beitodesstrafe: Originally Posted By Hunter-Killer: Originally Posted By Furloaf: I finished this last night, watching an episode a night over a week and a half. I could have watched it faster, but I didn't feel like it. I don't get the praise it's getting. It wasn't terrible, had some good parts, but overall I thought it was wholly average. 5/10. Good points: Walton Goggins of course. The pre-war flashback scenes were the best part of the show. Some good cinematography, and some (less than half) of the effects were pretty good. I'll mention some nods to the games were well done, but I also feel they were overused or thrown in there too heavily. I'll give it credit for being a good example of a videogame adapted into a movie. Bad points: Complete raping of established lore. Destroying beloved factions offscreen. Felt like it was checking off boxes for "This is Fallout! (yeah, Bethesda Fallout) -Very much Fallout 4 in live action The dark humor wasn't clever like the games, but felt like it was trying to hard and came off as edgy Some terrible SFX and too many obvious Volume shots (or whatever similar thing Amazon has). Volume shots are the new obvious soundstage shots. Bad pacing and too much jumping around storylines. I hated Maximus as a character. The girl was good, but her throwing around men twice her size was stupid. The plot is nonsense. Typical Bethesda storyline that is filled full of holes. Characters know things they shouldn't know (how did Maximus know the final location?) The code at the end (101097) is the release date for the first game. EXTREMELY low expectations are responsible for at least some of that. It was a show based on a video game AND it was being made by Amazon. Either one of those made the show unlikely to even be watchable, but to have BOTH of them made it damn near an impossibility and thus pretty much everyone expected it to suck. I went in with fairly high expectations... mostly because it was directed by Jonathan Nolan. And I loved Westworld and Person of Interest. I enjoyed the show. High expectations for a TV show based on a video game that was being made by Amazon? https://y.yarn.co/6657d3cd-8080-42cb-a1cf-fa76c862e0db_text.gif 
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Posted: 4/22/2024 10:36:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By wc22312: Fuck Todd Howard, bastard ruined my gaming life. Fuck what fallout has become. Ruined my favorite childhood franchise. Fuck Amazon also and fuck arf for using them. Actually just fuck everybody. MOM!!!! I need to poop again!!!! Ffrrrpppppthhsssthupoopthoopthoopsplash! Oh, that's a big boy |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 10:41:09 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By KillerDyller: I've been calling him Ben Linus the whole time we've been watching Fallout |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 10:50:40 AM EDT
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To be fair to the “reeee, interracial relationship, reeeee” people: while interracial relationships don’t bother me, when EVERY main character in a tv show is in an interracial relationship, it does seem like it might be intentional.
On the flip side: the tranny character commits self-harm a few minutes after we first met him/her and the most evil character in the entire show is a black woman. |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 10:53:58 AM EDT
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I don't think anybody has said or is trying to say they're offended by interracial relationships. They're merely pointing out that it's almost as if featuring a white couple in a modern tv show is practically verboten now. Sort of like how there was about a point zero percent chance of the protagonist being a straight white male. Having a woman lead or an interracial couple or a gay hero isn't inherently woke, but until it's stopped being forced into every single goddamn new show or movie it's going to turn a lot of people off right away just on principle. In my opinion giving any money or good press to companies like Amazon, or praising a show because it's "not that woke" is just encouraging them to keep moving the line. Remember "we just want to get married!"?
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Posted: 4/22/2024 10:55:47 AM EDT
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On one hand, the female main character could be wokeness. On the other, I wonder if it could be a nod to the number of people who play as a female solely for the Black Widow perk.
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Posted: 4/22/2024 11:02:14 AM EDT
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I'd actually argue that this show has three main characters: Lucy, Cooper, and Maximus.
Every single one of them is straight, with one of them being a straight white male. Lucy may be the poster child, but Cooper the Ghoul has the most interesting character arc and it can also be argued his story is the main story as it is the framing device for the entire series... a straight white male... who I guess loses points in the eyes of some because he's married to a black woman (who turns out to be one of the show's big bads). But he is presented as a loving husband and father prewar until he finds out his wife is basically corporate Pol Pot. I also don't think Lucy and Maximus weird single kiss puppy love thing can be called "a relationship" at this point. I mean, Maximus doesn't even know how his dick works and Lucy is basically a cousin fucker who's ex husband was a straight white dick wiping raider. Lucy is also the daughter of two white people more or less (albeit one is the show's other big bad and mom is a hippie ghoul). The other most visible couple are Steph and her dead husband Burt (both white) whom she replaces with Chet (another straight white guy). |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 11:03:34 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JsARCLIGHT: I'd actually argue that this show has three main characters: Lucy, Cooper, and Maximus. Every single one of them is straight, with one of them being a straight white male. Lucy may be the poster child, but Cooper the Ghoul has the most interesting character arc and it can also be argued his story is the main story as it is the framing device for the entire series... a straight white male... who I guess loses points in the eyes of some because he's married to a black woman (who turns out to be one of the show's big bads). But he is presented as a loving husband and father prewar until he finds out his wife is basically corporate Pol Pot. I also don't think Lucy and Maximus weird single kiss puppy love thing can be called "a relationship" at this point. I mean, Maximus doesn't even know how his dick works and Lucy is basically a cousin fucker who's ex husband was a straight white dick wiping raider. Lucy is also the daughter of two white people more or less (albeit one is the show's other big bad and mom is a hippie ghoul). The other most visible couple are Steph and her dead husband Burt (both white) whom she replaces with Chet (another straight white guy). nooooooooo! |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 11:04:47 AM EDT
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I just finished it last night, and was pleasantly happy with the entire season.
I laughed pretty hard about the BoS making their initiates/squires haul giant piles of gear, and go dangerous places without power armor....because I treated my companions about the same playing the games. Anyone that's butt-hurt about brief, mostly clothed, sex scene between married people on their wedding night, and also played the games has to be trolling. I think the best easter egg/surprise that would be missed by people that hadn't played the games was the Robco terminal hacking scene.  |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 11:07:41 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By eagarminuteman: On one hand, the female main character could be wokeness. On the other, I wonder if it could be a nod to the number of people who play as a female solely for the Black Widow perk. If Lucy was a Mary Sue, that would be valid. Lucy is definitely NOT a Mary Sue. |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 11:31:53 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By voodochild: Just like he fixed the squires issue? What were the side effects of that again? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By voodochild: Just like he fixed the squires issue? What were the side effects of that again? Any drugs he takes are now 55% less effective. Click To View Spoiler |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 11:40:04 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Furloaf: I finished this last night, watching an episode a night over a week and a half. I could have watched it faster, but I didn't feel like it. I don't get the praise it's getting. It wasn't terrible, had some good parts, but overall I thought it was wholly average. 5/10. Good points: Walton Goggins of course. The pre-war flashback scenes were the best part of the show. Some good cinematography, and some (less than half) of the effects were pretty good. I'll mention some nods to the games were well done, but I also feel they were overused or thrown in there too heavily. I'll give it credit for being a good example of a videogame adapted into a movie. Bad points: Complete raping of established lore. Destroying beloved factions offscreen. Felt like it was checking off boxes for "This is Fallout! (yeah, Bethesda Fallout) -Very much Fallout 4 in live action The dark humor wasn't clever like the games, but felt like it was trying to hard and came off as edgy Some terrible SFX and too many obvious Volume shots (or whatever similar thing Amazon has). Volume shots are the new obvious soundstage shots. Bad pacing and too much jumping around storylines. I hated Maximus as a character. The girl was good, but her throwing around men twice her size was stupid. The plot is nonsense. Typical Bethesda storyline that is filled full of holes. Characters know things they shouldn't know (how did Maximus know the final location?) The code at the end (101097) is the release date for the first game. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Furloaf: I finished this last night, watching an episode a night over a week and a half. I could have watched it faster, but I didn't feel like it. I don't get the praise it's getting. It wasn't terrible, had some good parts, but overall I thought it was wholly average. 5/10. Good points: Walton Goggins of course. The pre-war flashback scenes were the best part of the show. Some good cinematography, and some (less than half) of the effects were pretty good. I'll mention some nods to the games were well done, but I also feel they were overused or thrown in there too heavily. I'll give it credit for being a good example of a videogame adapted into a movie. Bad points: Complete raping of established lore. Destroying beloved factions offscreen. Felt like it was checking off boxes for "This is Fallout! (yeah, Bethesda Fallout) -Very much Fallout 4 in live action The dark humor wasn't clever like the games, but felt like it was trying to hard and came off as edgy Some terrible SFX and too many obvious Volume shots (or whatever similar thing Amazon has). Volume shots are the new obvious soundstage shots. Bad pacing and too much jumping around storylines. I hated Maximus as a character. The girl was good, but her throwing around men twice her size was stupid. The plot is nonsense. Typical Bethesda storyline that is filled full of holes. Characters know things they shouldn't know (how did Maximus know the final location?) The code at the end (101097) is the release date for the first game. I agree with most of this. Especially this: Felt like it was checking off boxes for "This is Fallout! (yeah, Bethesda Fallout) |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 11:45:56 AM EDT
[Last Edit: TxRabbitBane]
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I still have a couple of episodes left.
Overall, I like it. The best part of fallout is the look and feel of the vacuum tube post-ww2 future vibe world and the humor. They did a pretty good job with that. The story was pretty boring, and none of the characters were interesting at all. I couldn’t bring myself to give a fuck about any of them. I just wanted to see Lucy’s boobs. My expectations were very very low. |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 11:48:14 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By beitodesstrafe: Whew boy. Imagine the state GD would be in if everyone in the show was a mixed shade of brown. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4b/35/28/4b35283ace4ed040b0b6ecb3a83ea3b6.jpg Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By beitodesstrafe: Originally Posted By jhereg: Originally Posted By ArmyInfantryVet: I'd also view interracial as just being practical in a post apocalyptic US. Where if your goal is to keep the human race going, you gotta work with what you got. Except in that small a community after about 11 generations the races are probably all going to be mixed. Whew boy. Imagine the state GD would be in if everyone in the show was a mixed shade of brown. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4b/35/28/4b35283ace4ed040b0b6ecb3a83ea3b6.jpg "Fucking woke Amazon ruined Fallout!!"
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Posted: 4/22/2024 11:48:53 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Storm6436: And you're right, it's very much a "Bethesda fallout" and not the original Interplay. Bethesda has spent decades shitting on the original so it isn't twrribly surprising that Interplay's work got Eiffel Towered by Bethesda and Amazon. Typical low-rent Hollywood writer treatment mixed with "We want to be woke, but we'll try to stealth it this time." |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 11:59:51 AM EDT
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For anyone interested in the original literary inspiration for the Brotherhood of Steel, this is it:
A Canticle for Leibowitz I thought it was a good read in the post-apocalyptic sci-fi vein... although it did trigger some PTSD from 12 years of Catholic school.
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Posted: 4/22/2024 12:01:45 PM EDT
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I have watched the first 2.5 episodes and I have to say, I'm already losing interest.
Too much woke crap Fake version of the 1950s Click To View Spoiler |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 12:01:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TxRabbitBane: I still have a couple of episodes left. Overall, I like it. The best part of fallout is the look and feel of the vacuum tube post-ww2 future vibe world and the humor. They did a pretty good job with that. The story was pretty boring, and none of the characters were interesting at all. I couldn't bring myself to give a fuck about any of them. I just wanted to see Lucy's boobs. My expectations were very very low. How do you not find Cooper/The Ghoul interesting? |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 12:04:57 PM EDT
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[#34]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BMSMB: If interracial relationships are something that triggers you, you deserve to be triggered. You can say some of us are too quick to drop the woke card, but I think some of you are too quick to ignore it because you just want your guilt free entertainment. You’re naive if you don’t think Hollywood has an agenda and that agenda is working as planned to brainwash the population. Case in point, you guys are saying “there’s only one tranny in the show and it’s a not even a major character.” 10+ years ago the only trannies in shows were there for comedy effect and they were a percent of a percent of the population. Now they are in every show and movie and coincidentally a quarter of our children can’t figure out which gender they are. There’s definitely the Hollywood mandated amount of woke in this series. Hell, no one even noticed the fact that they genderswapped Dogmeat. 
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Posted: 4/22/2024 12:09:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By walkinginadangerzone: "Fucking woke Amazon ruined Fallout!!"Too late, Bethesda already beat them to it. |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 12:12:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By djkest: I have watched the first 2.5 episodes and I have to say, I'm already losing interest. Too much woke crap Fake version of the 1950s Click To View Spoiler 
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Posted: 4/22/2024 12:15:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By HKocher: I think I was the one that brought up the topic and ironically I’m a product of an interracial relationship so I don’t have a problem with it. But it’s obvious to me that they are shoehorning this in for some reason. No different than googling “happy white couple” and coming up with a bunch of pics of interracial relationships. Or AI not generating pictures of white people. You can say some of us are too quick to drop the woke card, but I think some of you are too quick to ignore it because you just want your guilt free entertainment. You’re naive if you don’t think Hollywood has an agenda and that agenda is working as planned to brainwash the population. Case in point, you guys are saying “there’s only one tranny in the show and it’s a not even a major character.” 10+ years ago the only trannies in shows were there for comedy effect and they were a percent of a percent of the population. Now they are in every show and movie and coincidentally a quarter of our children can’t figure out which gender they are. There’s definitely the Hollywood mandated amount of woke in this series. Hell, no one even noticed the fact that they genderswapped Dogmeat. Most of us didn't even realize there was a "tranny" in the show and thought it was a butch girl... You're looking way to hard for something to be offended about. |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 12:21:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Cypher214: How do you not find Cooper/The Ghoul interesting? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Cypher214: Originally Posted By TxRabbitBane: I still have a couple of episodes left. Overall, I like it. The best part of fallout is the look and feel of the vacuum tube post-ww2 future vibe world and the humor. They did a pretty good job with that. The story was pretty boring, and none of the characters were interesting at all. I couldn't bring myself to give a fuck about any of them. I just wanted to see Lucy's boobs. My expectations were very very low. How do you not find Cooper/The Ghoul interesting? Utterly contrived bundle of antihero memes and cliches. He could be interesting, but the writing kind of blows. |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 12:21:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By djkest: I have watched the first 2.5 episodes and I have to say, I'm already losing interest. Too much woke crap Fake version of the 1950s - Bro, it is. Click To View Spoiler |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 12:24:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BMSMB: Most of us didn't even realize there was a "tranny" in the show and thought it was a butch girl... You're looking way to hard for something to be offended about.  |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 12:28:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By nvgeologist: Don't you see? That's how subtle and insidious they/them are! https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/546/187/fb1.jpg Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By nvgeologist: Originally Posted By BMSMB: Most of us didn't even realize there was a "tranny" in the show and thought it was a butch girl... You're looking way to hard for something to be offended about. https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/546/187/fb1.jpg I see now!  Attached File |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 12:31:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By KillerDyller: Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By KillerDyller: Originally Posted By djkest: I have watched the first 2.5 episodes and I have to say, I'm already losing interest. Too much woke crap Fake version of the 1950s - Bro, it is. Click To View Spoiler The Raiders didn't kill the vault dwellers. There are plenty of clues that they killed themselves and/or committed suicide. |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 12:31:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TxRabbitBane: Utterly contrived bundle of antihero memes and cliches. He could be interesting, but the writing kind of blows. The 250+ year old combat vet/nuclear war survivor/actor/immortal may have become the character he played. Maybe. Just a thought. |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 12:31:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By nvgeologist: Don't you see? That's how subtle and insidious they/them are! https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/546/187/fb1.jpg You don’t think that every aspect of their multimillion dollar projects aren’t well thought out? They don’t pick actors and characters on a whim. |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 12:33:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By p3590: I think the best easter egg/surprise that would be missed by people that hadn't played the games was the Robco terminal hacking scene. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/187397/terminal-3195104.jpg I caught that and had to explain it to the non-gamer wife. |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 12:34:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By djkest: I have watched the first 2.5 episodes and I have to say, I'm already losing interest. Too much woke crap Fake version of the 1950s Click To View Spoiler Can't tell if serious?  Attached File |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 12:36:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By HKocher: You don't think that every aspect of their multimillion dollar projects aren't well thought out? They don't pick actors and characters on a whim. Now let's discuss the immediate self harm by the same character, and the admitted cowardice by the same. 
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Posted: 4/22/2024 12:38:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By djkest: I have watched the first 2.5 episodes and I have to say, I'm already losing interest. Too much woke crap Fake version of the 1950s Click To View Spoiler Too much there to unpack, but I'll make one comment. Subsequent episodes answer some of your questions. |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 12:40:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By thederrick106: Can't tell if serious? https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/140266/Screenshot_2024-04-22_123319_jpg-3195149.JPG I played Fallout 3, Most of Fallout 4, and New Vegas. I'm serious. I'm talking about the flashback part at the beginning of episode 1. |
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Posted: 4/22/2024 12:40:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BMSMB: Most of us didn't even realize there was a "tranny" in the show and thought it was a butch girl... You're looking way to hard for something to be offended about. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BMSMB: Originally Posted By HKocher: I think I was the one that brought up the topic and ironically I'm a product of an interracial relationship so I don't have a problem with it. But it's obvious to me that they are shoehorning this in for some reason. No different than googling "happy white couple" and coming up with a bunch of pics of interracial relationships. Or AI not generating pictures of white people. You can say some of us are too quick to drop the woke card, but I think some of you are too quick to ignore it because you just want your guilt free entertainment. You're naive if you don't think Hollywood has an agenda and that agenda is working as planned to brainwash the population. Case in point, you guys are saying "there's only one tranny in the show and it's a not even a major character." 10+ years ago the only trannies in shows were there for comedy effect and they were a percent of a percent of the population. Now they are in every show and movie and coincidentally a quarter of our children can't figure out which gender they are. There's definitely the Hollywood mandated amount of woke in this series. Hell, no one even noticed the fact that they genderswapped Dogmeat. Most of us didn't even realize there was a "tranny" in the show and thought it was a butch girl... You're looking way to hard for something to be offended about. Its not like Amazon followed the "put a chick in it and make them gay" Disney method here. There were plenty of gay/trans/whatever characters in the games, going back 25+ years. Either the complaint is with all of Fallout across the board, which is at least logically consistent, or it really is seeing woke stuff everywhere. |
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