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StereoVsn
Member
So far most of Amazon shows have been duds. Rings of Power anyone? Or Wheel of Time?
We can hope this one will be better but I am skeptical.
semiconscious
Member
yep. this's a show based on a game series in which you wander around gunning down mutants, mole rats, & ghouls while listening to the ink spots & the andrews sisters, making it kinda tough to maintain any genuine sense of gravitas...
Hollowpoint5557
A Fucking Idiot
The Walking Dead has been nominated by (and won) many prestigious awards such as
- writers guild of America awards
-golden globes
-american film Institute awards
-saturn awards
-critics choice television awards
-primetime Emmy awards
And more. This show probably dreams about being something near as successful as the Walking Dead. Let's see how many awards Fallout wins.
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Jack Videogames
Member
Looks super designed by commitee (or ChatGPT). Not hopeful, but will keep an eye on it
James Sawyer Ford
Member
Looks way better than the games ever were
Salty Popsicle
Banned
I couldn't care less about awards. Making Fallout into a serious and dramatic survival TV show is not what the IP is about at all.
semiconscious
Member
hey, so has the sopranos, the wire, & the office, eh? fallout is fallout. it ain't the walking dead, which ain't the sopranos. not sure what your point is. that the walking dead zombie apocalypse scenario isn't generic? you'd have to go back to the original Romero movie series to make that claim. not to mention: just being generic doesn't necessarily make something bad...
StueyDuck
Member
i did, many years ago, i don't remember the story being whackadoodle "oh so random" type humor.
this trailer to me is what people who only saw the comical pipboy ads and thought that is what the fallout franchise is like.
like sure besides some sidequests the mainline story in most the games is pretty level headed.
indigo-cyclops
Member
I will give it a chance just because it's Fallout. Know what I mean?
March Climber
Gold Member
I know this is a joke post, but for the ones taking this post seriously, the protagonist was naive, taken advantage of, betrayed, and captured multiple times in the trailer. For those who are outspoken here about not being a fan of Mary Sues, so far it doesn't look like she is one at all.
BouncyFrag
Member
Rewatching The Shield right now. I’m down for more Cletus.
StereoVsn
Member
Yep, that’s what I am anticipating as well. Hopefully I will also be absolutely wrong, but kind of doubt it.
Mr Wonderstuff
Banned
Looks great to me. Got the chills when I heard The Inkspots.
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TheShocker
Member
I don’t think they are. If you look at anything that the idiots at 343i put out, they seem to praise and back the series.
It’s a shame, because the production quality and designs seem really good. Even the acting is okay. It’s the story that is just absolutely ridiculous. MC hasn’t been in his suit at all this season. Insane.
dorkimoe
Gold Member
I enjoyed wheel of time. I don’t know anything about the backstory though. Lord of the rings has been ok too. I always watch them as just an expansion of the universe. So many people want word for word books to movie
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
In rings of powers case it's literally fanfiction. Not based on any of Tolkiens written word.
Show looks mid at best. Good in some areas bad in others.
The Cockatrice
Gold Member
John Marston
GAF's very own treasure goblin
I'm all the way in because
1- I'm a Fallout whore.
2- Walton Goggins.
1- I'm a Fallout whore.
2- Walton Goggins.
Dirk Benedict
Member
Goggins was cooking, while everyone else was straight up george foreman grilling.
Bro, stole my comment! They should make him the face of the series. She does nothing for me and doesn't do a good job of making it look like she roughing it out in the wastes.
Goggins had better scene previews than all of them.
Bro, stole my comment! They should make him the face of the series. She does nothing for me and doesn't do a good job of making it look like she roughing it out in the wastes.
Goggins had better scene previews than all of them.
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The Fartist
Gold Member
Yeah, that chick would get enslaved into the whorin' business the second she steps out of the vault, she's way too pretty for The Wasteland. I'm excited for the show, might knock a few off to her in the meantime.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Toots
Gold Member
" 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind"
I don't think im reading too much into it. The only explanation would be the real reasons why the vaults were built is some kind of end of season revelation but then why put "luxury" fallout shelters not just fallout shelters. The word luxury is totally out of place. Writers put it here knowingly (i mean they knew they wanted to tell us about class privilege and the poor man's struggle, from the top of their smelly hollywood ivory towers, but they seem to know nothing nor care about the game Tim Cain created)
Thanks for gaslighting me anyway
geary
Member
He's describing TLOU TV show
Little Chicken
Member
Looks like peak television to me. They didn't need to add dead little girls and old gays to make people cry so they could fish for awards, can't wait
Dazraell
Member
Looks better than I expected, but I'm still weary about it. Will definitely give it a chance and watch it though. Jonathan Nolan is a very talented showrunner and I loved his past work (Person of Interest, Westworld), but his recent output for Amazon (The Peripheral) was kinda mediocre. And later seasons of Westworld were definitely weaker than first
MrTroubleMaker
Member
more lore thrown out of the window .....
Kiya's Guard
Member
Legit question: is there one live adaptation series that you guys consider actually good and faithful?
I evade these series like the plague, so all my knowledge comes from friends that watched some (and they even barely know the games) and end up telling me they're trash
I evade these series like the plague, so all my knowledge comes from friends that watched some (and they even barely know the games) and end up telling me they're trash
WitchHunter
Banned
The babe looks interesting, everyone else, please enter the nuclear test site. Thanks.
Laptop1991
Member
So from the trailer, looks like the NCR got nuked and are now a rag tag band of basically mercs fighting the Brotherhood and apparently House is still around, so his ending must be canon from New Vegas, looking forward to finding out how these events happened.
drotahorror
Member
Watch Curb. I don't like Larry David as a person but the show is great, especially if you love Eastbound and Down, Vice Principles, Righteous Gemstones, etc. E&D is my favorite show of all time and Curb is really good. It can be hit and miss sometimes though.
Salty Popsicle
Banned
Except for extreme cases, for someone like a ghoul who has been surviving just barely in the outside barren wasteland, living in a fallout shelter could be considered a luxury." 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind"
I don't think im reading too much into it. The only explanation would be the real reasons why the vaults were built is some kind of end of season revelation but then why put "luxury" fallout shelters not just fallout shelters. The word luxury is totally out of place. Writers put it here knowingly (i mean they knew they wanted to tell us about class privilege and the poor man's struggle, from the top of their smelly hollywood ivory towers, but they seem to know nothing nor care about the game Tim Cain created)
Thanks for gaslighting me anyway
CatsGamesWhatever
Member
You all are jaded as fuck, this looks pretty awesome.
On point. I have my doubts about how they would adapt Fallout to a TV show but the trailer is awesome.
Gojiira
Member
Clearly neither did you, the MAIN plot in both F1 and 2 is serious and the world itself is presented as such. F2 had wackier side content and random events and more pop culture references but the world building, the atmosphere etc was much much darker.
Rockondevil
Member
Looks visually good. I hope the story holds up.
Halo is Back
Member
Hopefully dogmeat will come in the story for the next season.
Nemesis Prime
Member
This looks amazing wtf yall on
