@dragonsinthecode replied to your post “aw shit it's really good. the first episode was...”:
I gave episode 1 a solid 9/10 as someone whose never played a fallout game - and fallout fans I watched with were surprised. What's your ranking?
The first episode alone was a 9 out of 10, yeah. It has so many markers of Getting It.
the cold open of Walter Goggins and his daughter and the horror settling in was amazing
Lucy's vault was honestly pitch perfect and the way they explain the experiment of the vault so far, the way it seems to be connected to another vault that they are not allowed to interact with outside of very specific times of the year for no fucking reason, that is New Vegas-level of good vault bullshit. as we all know, The Vaults Were Never Meant To Save Anyone.
that fact that a not-insignificant portion of Lucy's motivation is wanting to get laid is very fucking funny and i love it
the dawning realization of What Went Wrong, that was an incredible Holy Shit moment
the way the sheer violence and gore and brutality just soared over the threshold of bad taste and into comedy, l m a o
the brotherhood of steel being transparently and immediately Not The Good Guys, someone understood the fucking assignment.
actually, so: a lot of fallout fans take umbrage with how Bethesda's stewardship of the BoS specifically treats them and how annoying it is, because the BoS are reclusive paranoid technocultists who create problems for everyone but: they have the cool power armor, so Bethesda backslides into making them the good guys by default, which is so aggravating but the specific way Maximum views the power armor feels like its in conversation with that narrative blunder, that everything about Maximus' life kind of fucking sucks but OH MAN COOL ROBOT ARMOR. that's potent acknowledgement of how branding smooths things over.
dude, incidental cool nonbinary character, HUGE fan of that
i actually like the acceleration and heightening of the religious aspects of the BoS, making all the subtextual shit REALLY textual, further painting them as religious nutjobs
Maximus' interrogation was extremely well done, huge fan of the actor in that scene specifically
SO YEAH THAT'S MY THOUGHTS ON THE FIRST EPISODE.
what pisses me off is, as I explained to a friend last night:
it's so easy to not care about Fallout when the last good piece of Fallout media was........ hang on
September 2011. like, I have rarely had more contempt for a game than I did for FO4, I actively regretted giving it my time, and FO76 just. no. i tried it. I do not Get It.
so it's easy to be Normal about Fallout when there's no hope of good installments to that universe, right?
SO NOW I'M GLARING AT THE FALLOUT TV SHOW LIKE WHO THE FUCK GAVE YOU PERMISSION??????
anyway looking forward to watching more when i have time
