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Re: Fallout [Action, Sci-Fi]

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i dont really like it!
- despise 50s/60s flair and especially the 40s-50s music
- REALLY dont like "glorification of violence"
- dont feel any drama or connection - its bland-bleak-dull mix of something! You know, seeing nuclear blasts should evoke REAL BIG emotions... didnt! Rest didnt either...

... might skip through it because despite being what it is - its done with enormous effort so far! An enormous gigantic spectacle thats also extremely bland-bleak-dull with really bad unfitting 30s-50s vibes and "MUSIC"... *shrug*

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Pretty much my take as well.  The elements didn't fit together well, despite great effort to do so.

S2 would have to be a radical departure from S1 for it to interest me.

Well, then I guess Bananijoe and you both just don't like the Fallout setting. Which is ok. But this is show is probably one of the best game adoption out there. True to what made us love the games... "50s/60s flair, 40s-50s music, glorification of violence..."

There are plenty of shows which other think are awesome, but I just don't like the setting. Then no amount of good storytelling or great actors can save it for me. Just signing out.

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Re: Fallout [Action, Sci-Fi]

fassy wrote:
jim1961 wrote:
Bananijoe wrote:

i dont really like it!
- despise 50s/60s flair and especially the 40s-50s music
- REALLY dont like "glorification of violence"
- dont feel any drama or connection - its bland-bleak-dull mix of something! You know, seeing nuclear blasts should evoke REAL BIG emotions... didnt! Rest didnt either...

... might skip through it because despite being what it is - its done with enormous effort so far! An enormous gigantic spectacle thats also extremely bland-bleak-dull with really bad unfitting 30s-50s vibes and "MUSIC"... *shrug*

enjoy smile

Pretty much my take as well.  The elements didn't fit together well, despite great effort to do so.

S2 would have to be a radical departure from S1 for it to interest me.

Well, then I guess Bananijoe and you both just don't like the Fallout setting. Which is ok. But this is show is probably one of the best game adoption out there. True to what made us love the games... "50s/60s flair, 40s-50s music, glorification of violence..."

There are plenty of shows which other think are awesome, but I just don't like the setting. Then no amount of good storytelling or great actors can save it for me. Just signing out.

There are lots of things that can make a show that is very well done in every way, a show that is disliked.  The setting, as you point out, is one of them.  The story itself, even when well told, can make a show dislikeable if its the kind of story a viewer doesn't like.  I am not going to try and make a complete list for there are too many.  But sometimes, just a nuance that bothers a viewer can torpedo their opinion of it.

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I can't imagine how a nuance could make me not like a show. smile

Some shows you might <3 too: https://next-episode.net/messiah https://next-episode.net/devs https://next-episode.net/ted-lasso https://next-episode.net/the-outsider
https://next-episode.net/chernobyl https://next-episode.net/alex-rider
https://next-episode.net/the-expanse https://next-episode.net/lovecraft-country
https://next-episode.net/into-the-night https://next-episode.net/utopia

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Re: Fallout [Action, Sci-Fi]

lighton wrote:

I can't imagine how a nuance could make me not like a show. smile

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61z2S5d5axL._AC_SX679_PIbundle-5,TopRight,0,0_SH20_.jpg

I know of something that could help with that smile

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I don't get the joke... More memory and focus would make me hate something over nothing? lol

Some shows you might <3 too: https://next-episode.net/messiah https://next-episode.net/devs https://next-episode.net/ted-lasso https://next-episode.net/the-outsider
https://next-episode.net/chernobyl https://next-episode.net/alex-rider
https://next-episode.net/the-expanse https://next-episode.net/lovecraft-country
https://next-episode.net/into-the-night https://next-episode.net/utopia

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I don't get the joke... More memory and focus would make me hate something over nothing? lol

Was meant as something to improve brain function as to improve imagination.  But nevermind, bad joke.  Not serious.  Carry on...

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the only problem i have with fallout the tv series, is that i am not very invested in the outcome of anything.   YET.
i like the heroine. a little to naive for me to ever have at my party, but other wise well rounded.
i don't like the hero, maximus. he seems like "thug life" is where he belongs. bullet wound and with his vast experience he just ignores it? how the brotherhood ever let him out beyond wire is beyond me.
The Ghoul i am still on the fence about.
the brotherhood,? meh. i don't support their racism
the enclave? meh. killing babys dogs?  you dont come back from that
pretty much everybody? meh. they are not grabbing me.
but i LOVE the visuals, set design, props, etc.
I LOVE the world as Built...
the flashbacks, i understand what they are trying to do, BUT they are not making me like or dislike the ghoul or like or dislike "the establishment" before the war.

vault 33, ( or was it vautt 32 or 31)? whatever. lucys vault mildly interesting side story, but they have dropped a number of issues or glossed over them. ( the water chip being broken and there is no water ( either fix it or go quest it, dont just drop it) ( who cleaned up the damaged vaults mess? ( not the cryo vault) so why is no one talking about it?) mass murder??? just going to not have any effect?

the side stories are not as good as i would have liked. ( the family who killed themselves, that would have been a good flashback as lucy read a diary).  the stoners, who was resupplying them, and why were they keeping ghouls?) etc... THAT is what fallout was about, the world around the hero and how it got that way.

they are rushing things just a little bit. Moldaver was an annoying character ( the flame mother was too much hero worshop of her, and unless she is one of MANY clones or robots, POINTLESS. and her goals were "noble" in only light bulbs might still work after 250 years and that should have been explained to the uneducated masses. ( power is not hard to find with fusion cores every where that could power a city block)

i am hoping for a more powerful season two.
( unless they have made all the "kings" ghouls and no longer a religion, that will be a downer.
but honestly i will watch all of it either way it goes.
there is a LOT worse out there.