Fallout takes its name and inspiration from the end times Americans in the late 1940s once feared. Set far in the future in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear war in the year 2077, Earth's terrain has been warped into a harsh wasteland overrun by mutants.
As a fallout "gamer" this show was exactly what i wanted, not often you get good shows these days, this is one of those rare occurrences. Casting and design was amazing
by WilliamDrakeMcGregor posted 2 months ago
nextgr00vy said:
How is this expensive well shot, discursive rambling, sexually perverse series so popular?
Compared to other shows made in 2024, this show isn't really what I would call expensive (The Acolyte, Rings of Power did cost a lot more and are actually not that good)
Sexually perverse? Because of the "cousin stuff" or what exactly are you referring to?
I think this show is as harmless as it can be in consideration of sexual content.
nextgr00vy said:
Cowboys, 1950's, Futurama Cities, Silo Sets, Sedentary Overweight Humans from Wall-E, Rando Mad Max Characters and of course the token prized left Xelia Mendes-Jones - and no I will not refer to Xelia as a biological male, nope. Be that as it may, could this series please please pick a lane???
Where would be the fun in that? :)
nextgr00vy said:
Idk man it's unreal seeing all the hype in here. I'm more of a fps gamer - I focus more on tactical kills and this show would have been over halfway into episode 1 if my video game characters were in with these video game characters lol.
That's why it's better to adapt RPG games into tv shows, no? Because RPG games usually focus a lot more on strorytelling than FPS games :)
nextgr00vy said:
Anywayyyy - to each their own...
You are absolutely right :)
nextgr00vy said:
it's literally the best apple series garbage I have ever seen (but yes, it's still garbage).
That's funny, cause it's an Amazon show, not Apple :)
by lighton posted 2 months ago
:lol:
You must be an Anti-Woke AI - no real human would spend so much time commenting a show they don't like. :cool:
by nextgr00vy posted 2 months ago
How is this expensive well shot, discursive rambling, sexually perverse series so popular?
Cowboys, 1950's, Futurama Cities, Silo Sets, Sedentary Overweight Humans from Wall-E, Rando Mad Max Characters and of course the token prized left Xelia Mendes-Jones - and no I will not refer to Xelia as a biological male, nope. Be that as it may, could this series please please pick a lane???
Idk man it's unreal seeing all the hype in here. I'm more of a fps gamer - I focus more on tactical kills and this show would have been over halfway into episode 1 if my video game characters were in with these video game characters lol.
Anywayyyy - to each their own... but this (again) high budget, well shot, great sound, amazing special effect series is.... absolute perverse garbage - but... that said... it's literally the best apple series garbage I have ever seen (but yes, it's still garbage).
TLDR - imagine if Woke AI gen 2 (We're on gen 5 now btw) did a movie and Apple released it...
Ugh I want my 1:14:57 back... it's garbage
by Elphie posted 8 months ago
xxFelixDCatxx said:
Didn't like the 60's? music playing all the time, extremley annoying.
I think they needed to better explain this is a TV show based on a video game. Virtually all the points you don't like are a part of the video game. Especially the 50's music and aesthetic. A big part of the game is that the transistor was either never invented or invented much later (hard to tell sometimes), and much of the world is still operating on tube tech. It's not meant to be an entirely serious look at what would actually happen in a nuclear end of the world. The whole series is slightly.... campy is the best word I have for it. Campy, yet gets serious and shows serious ethical situations with the vaults and life in general.
Perhaps the term you're looking for is 'Tongue-in-Cheek'. Humorous, satyrical etc.
I did end up skipping through a lot of it in the end, so perhaps I missed the nuances, and as I said, i'll give it another go, but it's probably just a bit too 'off' for me.
Ha another mistranslation from across the pond, I'm a cigarette smoker and you gents use a word for cigarette that is incredibly pejorative to gay people here.
But you get the basic meaning. Fallout is, at it's core satirical, but honestly the show didn't pull that portion of it off well. Which is what my long drawn out post was about really at it's core. It missed a lot of the silliness of the series.
It also reset the first 4 video games entirely, all of which were about various rebuilding of society outside the vaults... so that was an interesting narrative take.
No mistranslation that I can see
Camp - camp /kămp/
noun
Deliberate affectation or exaggeration of style, especially of popular or outdated style, for ironic or humorous effect.
Dolly Parton camp, Cher camp, Mae West camp, David Walliams camp etc
AFAIA non of them identify as gay
Doesn't have to mean sexuality (I'm not using the vile phrase used by the other poster), historically some camp culture has been queer icons but not exclusively and less so today. I disagree that camp equates to gay here in the UK. Some of us are more sophisticated than that.
A cowboy? 50's music soundtrack? - camp as hell.
Only watched 3/4 first episode though. I am with the other UK poster though in that it's not doing it for me this one…
by lighton posted 10 months ago
ekgerke said:
Story was like, wtf? (Poor Silo immitation)
The story came with the first Fallout game about 14 years before the first Silo book was written, so yeah. Imitation for sure.
:lol:
by xxFelixDCatxx posted 10 months ago
merc said:
I was pleasantly surprised, I've never played the game but was aware of the basic story outline and while I felt the writing/story dropped off a bit at the end, overall I really enjoyed it.
I'm glad there will be a second season.
The biggest conundrum I had was trying to decide if I thought the main girl hot or not lol. The buggy eyes kinda threw me but I finally decided she was still pretty cute.
any one who uses the phrase "okey dokey" must be hot
Who else was disappointed at the cornfield scene in the mutant vault?
by xxFelixDCatxx posted 10 months ago
jimslim said:
Didn't like the 60's? music playing all the time, extremley annoying.
I think they needed to better explain this is a TV show based on a video game. Virtually all the points you don't like are a part of the video game. Especially the 50's music and aesthetic. A big part of the game is that the transistor was either never invented or invented much later (hard to tell sometimes), and much of the world is still operating on tube tech. It's not meant to be an entirely serious look at what would actually happen in a nuclear end of the world. The whole series is slightly.... campy is the best word I have for it. Campy, yet gets serious and shows serious ethical situations with the vaults and life in general.
Never played the game, and I hope i'm not being pedantic, as I think I understand what you're getting at, but 'camp' in the UK is more like saying its a bit 'gay', if I can say that on here:- https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/camp
Perhaps the term you're looking for is 'Tongue-in-Cheek'. Humorous, satyrical etc.
I did end up skipping through a lot of it in the end, so perhaps I missed the nuances, and as I said, i'll give it another go, but it's probably just a bit too 'off' for me.
Ha another mistranslation from across the pond, I'm a cigarette smoker and you gents use a word for cigarette that is incredibly pejorative to gay people here.
But you get the basic meaning. Fallout is, at it's core satirical, but honestly the show didn't pull that portion of it off well. Which is what my long drawn out post was about really at it's core. It missed a lot of the silliness of the series.
It also reset the first 4 video games entirely, all of which were about various rebuilding of society outside the vaults... so that was an interesting narrative take.
by ekgerke posted 10 months ago
jimslim said:
Story was like, wtf? (Poor Silo immitation)
The story came with the first Fallout game about 14 years before the first Silo book was written, so yeah. Imitation for sure.
by merc posted 10 months ago
proteinnerd said:
I was pleasantly surprised, I've never played the game but was aware of the basic story outline and while I felt the writing/story dropped off a bit at the end, overall I really enjoyed it.
I'm glad there will be a second season.
The biggest conundrum I had was trying to decide if I thought the main girl hot or not lol. The buggy eyes kinda threw me but I finally decided she was still pretty cute.
any one who uses the phrase "okey dokey" must be hot
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Compared to other shows made in 2024, this show isn't really what I would call expensive (The Acolyte, Rings of Power did cost a lot more and are actually not that good)
Sexually perverse? Because of the "cousin stuff" or what exactly are you referring to?
I think this show is as harmless as it can be in consideration of sexual content.
Where would be the fun in that? :)
Idk man it's unreal seeing all the hype in here. I'm more of a fps gamer - I focus more on tactical kills and this show would have been over halfway into episode 1 if my video game characters were in with these video game characters lol.
That's why it's better to adapt RPG games into tv shows, no? Because RPG games usually focus a lot more on strorytelling than FPS games :)
You are absolutely right :)
That's funny, cause it's an Amazon show, not Apple :)
You must be an Anti-Woke AI - no real human would spend so much time commenting a show they don't like. :cool:
Cowboys, 1950's, Futurama Cities, Silo Sets, Sedentary Overweight Humans from Wall-E, Rando Mad Max Characters and of course the token prized left Xelia Mendes-Jones - and no I will not refer to Xelia as a biological male, nope. Be that as it may, could this series please please pick a lane???
Idk man it's unreal seeing all the hype in here. I'm more of a fps gamer - I focus more on tactical kills and this show would have been over halfway into episode 1 if my video game characters were in with these video game characters lol.
Anywayyyy - to each their own... but this (again) high budget, well shot, great sound, amazing special effect series is.... absolute perverse garbage - but... that said... it's literally the best apple series garbage I have ever seen (but yes, it's still garbage).
TLDR - imagine if Woke AI gen 2 (We're on gen 5 now btw) did a movie and Apple released it...
Ugh I want my 1:14:57 back... it's garbage
I think they needed to better explain this is a TV show based on a video game. Virtually all the points you don't like are a part of the video game. Especially the 50's music and aesthetic. A big part of the game is that the transistor was either never invented or invented much later (hard to tell sometimes), and much of the world is still operating on tube tech. It's not meant to be an entirely serious look at what would actually happen in a nuclear end of the world. The whole series is slightly.... campy is the best word I have for it. Campy, yet gets serious and shows serious ethical situations with the vaults and life in general.
Never played the game, and I hope i'm not being pedantic, as I think I understand what you're getting at, but 'camp' in the UK is more like saying REDACTED -
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/camp
Perhaps the term you're looking for is 'Tongue-in-Cheek'. Humorous, satyrical etc.
I did end up skipping through a lot of it in the end, so perhaps I missed the nuances, and as I said, i'll give it another go, but it's probably just a bit too 'off' for me.
Ha another mistranslation from across the pond, I'm a cigarette smoker and you gents use a word for cigarette that is incredibly pejorative to gay people here.
But you get the basic meaning. Fallout is, at it's core satirical, but honestly the show didn't pull that portion of it off well. Which is what my long drawn out post was about really at it's core. It missed a lot of the silliness of the series.
It also reset the first 4 video games entirely, all of which were about various rebuilding of society outside the vaults... so that was an interesting narrative take.
No mistranslation that I can see
Camp - camp /kămp/
noun
Deliberate affectation or exaggeration of style, especially of popular or outdated style, for ironic or humorous effect.
Dolly Parton camp, Cher camp, Mae West camp, David Walliams camp etc
AFAIA non of them identify as gay
Doesn't have to mean sexuality (I'm not using the vile phrase used by the other poster), historically some camp culture has been queer icons but not exclusively and less so today. I disagree that camp equates to gay here in the UK. Some of us are more sophisticated than that.
A cowboy? 50's music soundtrack? - camp as hell.
Only watched 3/4 first episode though. I am with the other UK poster though in that it's not doing it for me this one…
Story was like, wtf? (Poor Silo immitation)
The story came with the first Fallout game about 14 years before the first Silo book was written, so yeah. Imitation for sure.
:lol:
I'm glad there will be a second season.
The biggest conundrum I had was trying to decide if I thought the main girl hot or not lol. The buggy eyes kinda threw me but I finally decided she was still pretty cute.
any one who uses the phrase "okey dokey" must be hot
Who else was disappointed at the cornfield scene in the mutant vault?
I think they needed to better explain this is a TV show based on a video game. Virtually all the points you don't like are a part of the video game. Especially the 50's music and aesthetic. A big part of the game is that the transistor was either never invented or invented much later (hard to tell sometimes), and much of the world is still operating on tube tech. It's not meant to be an entirely serious look at what would actually happen in a nuclear end of the world. The whole series is slightly.... campy is the best word I have for it. Campy, yet gets serious and shows serious ethical situations with the vaults and life in general.
Never played the game, and I hope i'm not being pedantic, as I think I understand what you're getting at, but 'camp' in the UK is more like saying its a bit 'gay', if I can say that on here:-
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/camp
Perhaps the term you're looking for is 'Tongue-in-Cheek'. Humorous, satyrical etc.
I did end up skipping through a lot of it in the end, so perhaps I missed the nuances, and as I said, i'll give it another go, but it's probably just a bit too 'off' for me.
Ha another mistranslation from across the pond, I'm a cigarette smoker and you gents use a word for cigarette that is incredibly pejorative to gay people here.
But you get the basic meaning. Fallout is, at it's core satirical, but honestly the show didn't pull that portion of it off well. Which is what my long drawn out post was about really at it's core. It missed a lot of the silliness of the series.
It also reset the first 4 video games entirely, all of which were about various rebuilding of society outside the vaults... so that was an interesting narrative take.
Story was like, wtf? (Poor Silo immitation)
The story came with the first Fallout game about 14 years before the first Silo book was written, so yeah. Imitation for sure.
I'm glad there will be a second season.
The biggest conundrum I had was trying to decide if I thought the main girl hot or not lol. The buggy eyes kinda threw me but I finally decided she was still pretty cute.
any one who uses the phrase "okey dokey" must be hot