I had wanted to talk a bit about Amazon's Fallout streaming series, but after finding out that I wasn't able to take screenshots in any way known to me outside of actually taking a picture of my computer screen (as I did on Monday)*, I lost a lot of steam in the motivation department to continue through with much more than saying that I really enjoyed the show.
I mean I guess I could engage in discourse about the finer points of the show, the supposed inaccuracies compared to the games and lore previously created by Black Isle Studios and Bethesda, like whether are they going to introduce talking Deathclaws (Fallout 2) or the old man at the Bridge of Death (Fallout 2), or the crashed Tardis (Fallout 2)... okay so Fallout 2 was apparently just fucking bonkers. But I haven't beaten either Fallout 2 or Fallout: New Vegas and part of the reason why I returned to those unfinished games was because of all of the butt-hurt people talking about how the show retconned the series.
Is Fallout a great show? Sure, when you consider that it's an adaptation of an existing and current video game franchise with a fanbase that has been very vocal about not liking the previous two games in the series released over the last 14 years. It's a gutsy move. But it's not a perfect show. I thought that the first episode went on a little long, especially when The Ghoul was introduced I was hoping that the episode had ended maybe 15 minutes earlier, but I understand that they wanted to introduce all three of the principal leads in the current year in that premiere episode. I don't know if I would have wanted more references to other factions such as the Children of Atom, the Enclave, and the Khans. Maybe that had been part of initial discussions and simply focusing on the Brotherhood of Steel and the Vaults was a good way of uncomplicating the world for season 1. There's going to be a second season after all.
I thought the casting was perfect. I thought the costumes looked how I wanted both current and post-apocalyptic clothing to look. The show actually made YumYum Deviled Eggs look appetizing because the sound of eating those in Fallout 3 was not at all a high point, and I like deviled eggs to begin with. Maybe next season we'll get baked bloatfly? I liked all of the nods/easter eggs to the series that I noticed and I'm sure that there are plenty that I missed. I also don't really want to expand upon speculations for season 2, again because I haven't finished either of the two games mentioned.
So let's just leave it at that, that I really liked the show, and that I am equally excited for season 2.
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