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Cautiously optimistic. Hopefully it’s respectful to the source material.
It’s a very good setting for a show or mini series, but the way the IP’s current owners have handled it so far gives me pause. Hopefully the writers will be competent enough to not resort to the “radiation and mutations are basically magic” writing that’s been all too common with Bethesda.
I mean we already saw mutants (NOT Super Mutants or Centaurs) in the form of Chris Parnell’s Overseer Cyclops in the trailer. The rest of the shots (especially the Yao Guai tearing up that Paladin) make me think it’ll be more lore-accurate.
I mean, the way Bethesda has taken Fallout, there’s not much that could be ruined, just use a newish setting and go to town
What the fuck man where the hell did this spring up from? This just started a flame in my heart.
I don’t suppose in your heart you have but one desire?
Is that desire to light a flame in your heart instead of the whole world? You pyromaniac!
You can tell it’s gonna be bad because they forgot to say “war never changes”
I bet you that this will be in the show and narrated by Ron Perlman.
And where are the TUNNEL SNAKES??? HMMMM???
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We’re the tunnel snakes
That’s us
And we rule! Rule! R-r-r-r-rule!
In a tunnel?
Sweet! Well get a season or two and then they’ll cancel it just like they do all the rest of the fan favorites.
That feels more like a Netflix move than an Amazon move.
An expanse tear runs down my cheek.
I’m not sure how that’s meant? Expanse was saved by Amazon and allowed to have enough seasons to tell its story.
… you know it omitted the last three books, right?
The last three books are after a time skip and with a new set of main characters, right?
There’s a 30-year time skip, but the characters are the same.
And ended in the middle of an arc too, iirc.
How do you mod a TV show?
Don’t worry, Toddyboy is on the case!
There’s not enough wackiness in the trailer. Fallout has always had a thin veneer of grimdark with a whole hidden iceberg of goofy bullshit and it was amazing.
I’m getting huge “missing the point” vibes.
There are a lot of reasons to not judge it yet. First and foremost, the director/show runner has zero input on the trailer. That’s all the marketing department, and the trailer is designed to get as many eyeballs as possible on the final product. Numerous examples exist of trailers which bared little resemblance to the movie/show/game/whatever.
Secondly, they buried the lead on the director. Jonathan Nolan did direct much of Westworld. But he also wrote a bunch of award winning films for his brother, Christopher Nolan. Movies like Memento, Interstellar, The Prestige, and Dark Knight. He’s no slouch, and I’ll reserve judgement until I see it.
To back you up, the first Doom Patrol trailers did little justice to how weird that show is.
J. Nolan also did “Person of Interest”. It’s a lesser-known show but it was very good.
It felt like a classic 80s show at first(the hero is a badass supported by an eccentric rich guy to help random people) but, without spoiling it, it takes a very interesting turn.
it’s a trailer, it also has to get the normis
so the cyclops overseer drinking a moldy cup isnt wacky at all?
I don’t want to get my hopes up, but I’m getting my hopes up.
My hopes have definitely gone up after seeing this trailer. I really hope they don’t pull a Witcher.
guess i will watch it. lets hope its not complete shit
the trailer looks great and really has that fallout spirit somewhere between funny, gruesome and batshit crazy.
Also great to see Walton Goggins in the cast, he’s a great actor
I’m on a strict “don’t trust trailers” diet since seeing the new Napoleon film, so I’ll wait and see for this series.
What do you mean ? Is Napoleon shit; I haven’t seen it yet?
Please 🙏 don’t be shit
I haven’t seen it yet, but one review said it was one of the most unintentionally funny movies of the year.
Also Ridley Scott is doing a hilarious press tour for it.
Scott was informed of some less than stellar French reviews of his film – French GQ called it “deeply clumsy” and “unintentionally funny” – to which Scott replied with the following solid gold banger: “The French don’t even like themselves.”
But don’t think that insulting an entire country is enough for Scott. Speaking to the Sunday Times’s Jonathan Dean last weekend, he also reserved some ire for historians, some of whom have suggested that Napoleon might not be the most rigorously accurate film ever made. Scott responded by addressing the entire historian community. “Excuse me, mate, were you there?” he raged. “No? Well, shut the fuck up then.”
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'Excuse me, mate, were you there? No? Well, shut the f*** up then.’
- Ridley Scott
I love Goggins, this is a perfect universe for his style honestly
He was fantastic in Righteous Gemstones.
Let’s play Baby Billy’s Bible Bonkers!
Fallout and Walton Goggins! Either of them alone is enough to make this a must watch. Perhaps I Really Am Convinced Yet-again to subscribe to prime…
They’re going to find a way to release the films with bugs and release a day one patch
I mean it can’t be worse than the Halo show, at least this looks decent from the trailer.
Can guarantee it’ll be better than getting mauled by a Deathclaw either way.
We don’t talk about that show
Honestly I can’t wait to watch this. Consider me hyped!
Oh no… The time has come to shit all over two legendary games again… for the second time.
I haven’t found a place in my life for these types of TV series. Looks good though just prefer the complete arc of a movie or a mini-series.
Sets look kind of big budget artificial, soapy? Like that is some wicked blue dye on the suits, very fresh. Lovely hair and makeup. All good though I realize it’s just not my thing. A cinematic 90 minute fallout movie laser focused on 2-3 character arcs would be exciting to me.
Yeah it looks like it’s artificial almost on purpose. The vault opening and there’s a neat little skull in the corner…
Tbh I don’t mind shitty adaptations that fan service but I think they are missing the mark on this one. I hope I’m wrong tho.
Yeah the badly planted skull seemed pretty lazy. Just show a blasted landscape
SILO is fallout canon in my head
i hope they come up with a better ending than they did in the books
Well I don’t hate it yet…
Hope they manage to get the lead’s makeup smudged.
Fallout was an aesthetic that told super dark stories. How will a TV capture the vignette of nightmares that are the Vaults?
Fallout is not a masterpiece of story telling or cinematography. It was written by non writers mostly. It’s not the godfather. It isn’t going to be hard for professional writers to make it work better than the games, and clearly they’re not fucking with the visual designs of the series.
It’s almost hard to get Fallout wrong. Unless you shove a kid into a fridge for 200 years, or retcon the creation of the super mutants.
Todd Howard is involved, so I wager they’ll get the themes right.
If Howard is involved your can bet the show will be boring and cheesy as fuck.
I’m honestly shocked so many of you are giving this show a chance after the disaster of Fallout 76, Starfield’s mediocrity + the weird ass review controversy. It’s incredible how much loyalty a corp can command
I agree that their games have been shit for a while, I didn’t even think F4 was good, and NV demonstrated that Bethesda shouldn’t be the ones developing the series.
F3 was great at the time, but after playing NV, you can see that Bethesda is interested in creating a very railroaded experience (pun not intended).
However, I think a TV show might be fine, seeing as though the stories of Fallout haven’t been bad; it has just been bad mechanically.
76 was actually good, and got better with updates. It just had a rough launch, like every Bethesda game.
That could very easily be done, and it’s not especially ‘dark’ anyway.
Not especially dark in the vaults, except for all of the body horror.
Fantasy horror ideal for pulp TV
I mean… you may have missed how episodic television works. Ironic horror antologies have been a thing on TV since the 50s.
