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Topic: Fallout [Action, Sci-Fi]

https://next-episode.net/fallout

https://static.next-episode.net/tv-shows-images/huge/fallout.jpg

Just wanted to share what I found at https://entertainment.slashdot.org/stor … production:

Amazon Prime Video's adaptation of the Fallout franchise of video games is entering production this year, and its two lead writers have been named, according to reports in Deadline and Variety. Ars Technica reports:

It was previously known that Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy (who worked together on HBO's Westworld) would be executive producers, and Variety and Deadline both report that Nolan will direct the first episode of the show. But Nolan and Joy will not be the primary creative leads on the series. Rather, Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner have been attached as showrunners. Robertson-Dworet wrote the screenplays for the superhero movie Captain Marvel and the 2018 Tomb Raider film adaptation. She is also writing a future Star Trek film planned for release in 2023. Wagner is best known as one of the main writers on the sketch comedy series Portlandia and for work on modern sitcoms like The Office, Silicon Valley, and Baskets. Robertson-Dworet brings the science fiction and action/adventure credentials, and Wagner brings the comedy, covering two foundations of the Fallout franchise's narrative style.

For those unfamiliar, Fallout is a long-running video game franchise set in a post-apocalyptic alternate future where a cold war between China and the United States turns hot, leaving the world in a brutal nuclear winter with mutated creatures and violent bandits. Despite the grim setting, the series is known for its sense of humor as much as its darkness, with pop culture references, a 1950s aesthetic, heavy influences from pulp science fiction, and biting satire of American capitalism. The series originated as a slow-paced, top-down role-playing game on the PC in the 1990s, but the intellectual property was later bought by game publisher Bethesda Softworks.

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I'm not a gamer, but I heard good things about Fallout, and I've (mostly) enjoyed https://next-episode.net/westworld so far, so this could be good! smile

By the way, Jonathan Nolan is a brother of director Christopher Nolan (The Dark Night, Inception, ...)

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I have several hundred hours of Fallout time logged on my steam account, it's hilarious, hopefully Chris and Jon don't screw it up.  I always wanted to be able to reprogram the Institute synths to clean up, repave, and rebuild Boston, use the "serum" in a syringer gun to transform the mutants back to normal, then fix up an old vehicle and drive around, but alas, no such luck.  It'd make for a better end game sandbox than vault interior design.

Here's the Fallout Parody.

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thanks for the info added to watch list

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Woooooooooow,

Fallout - Teaser Trailer | Prime Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kQ8i2FpRDk

is out and it looks even better than I had hoped for. A lot better! smile


Also out is

Fallout - A Special LIVE Report from Galaxy News | Prime Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1YhcviJ7IU

which is something like a pre-teaser teaser. It's weird (very unusual) and funny, but I didn't yet have the time for all of its 1:00:00 (!) playtime. cool

Galaxy News is here live with an exclusive look at the next generation of apocalypse-proof, purpose-built luxury housing, sponsored by our friends at Vault-Tec.

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I have my doubts....has anything that heavily features "social commentary" been remotely good in the past 10 years?

https://thatparkplace.com/prime-videos- … -and-evil/

I really hope I'm wrong

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Very limited optimism, looked like a comedy to me and I don't think they have managed to make a good scifi comedy yet, adding modern "social commentary" will not improve that category of shows, it rarely works with comedians to begin with so why would it work within a scifi frame?

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Well, the world of Fallout was always a "social commentary"... they describe a dystopian world after society as we know it collapsed and got rebooted. Starts with economy (bottlecaps), over to racism (men vs ghouls), protectionism (vaults and the large city complexes) vs the open wasteland, Brotherhood of Steel vs. Enclave etc... The question is: Will they just "put in chicks and make them gay"?, i.E. enforce the typical non-sense of these days or will they take a serious look at the social construct and tell a great tale? The latter has a lot of potential...

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Kanga wrote:

Very limited optimism, looked like a comedy to me and I don't think they have managed to make a good scifi comedy yet...

Red Dwarf?

2020.  Meh.

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graybags wrote:
Kanga wrote:

Very limited optimism, looked like a comedy to me and I don't think they have managed to make a good scifi comedy yet...

Red Dwarf?

Doesn't count. That's British.

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10 (edited by lighton 2024-04-10 19:47:02)

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This show is coming out tomorrow right?

(santah-approved post edit by lighton)

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All eight episodes of Fallout: Season 1 will be released on April 10, exclusively on Prime Video. The episodes will be available at 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT.
Per IGN
https://www.ign.com/articles/how-to-wat … lease-date

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Oh, interesting .... interested?
Well maybe, because i most often dont like post-apocalyptic's - my first RPGs were in the late 80s and is still my favorite genre, lots of pen&paper as well -BUT: Fallout i never liked, tried it some times. *shrug* "post-apocalyptic's"

So  Jonathan Nolan - wrote the screenplay of "The Dark Knight", "The Dark Knight Rises" and "Westworld"
... and now he is producer here - and was producer of "The Peripheral" which imo is/could be one of the greatest scifi-Series ever made (cancellation is really a mindblower *shit *shit *shit*), but...

... oversight here is maybe in the very best hands and that makes it a definite tryout big_smile big_smile big_smile


Kanga wrote:

Very limited optimism, looked like a comedy to me and I don't think they have managed to make a good scifi comedy yet,

Well i mostly dont put to much in trailers, most are shite and not even made by the real show-team, but by marketing smile

hmm, i like scifi & comedy - now you made me comb through my watchlist big_smile

Spoiler

- the Orville lots of comedy, full scifi and VERY nice
- Space Force well only partly scifi, but 5* comedy big_smile
- Star Trek: Lower Decks lots of comedy and full scifi, and surprisingly well done
- Avenue 5 mediocre but pure nonsense comedy, pure scifi
- Code 404 kind of scifi, kind of comedy
- Resident Alien strange and rather mediocre but clear comedy and scifi
- Truth Seekers mediocre, kind of scifi, kind of comedy
- Love, Death & Robots rather dark comedy, i think 100% scifi?
- Eureka somwhat "other" scifi and lots of comedy
- Star Wars Resistance very mediocre but pure scifi and lots of comedy
and classics:
- Futurama, was nice when i still had a TV (over 20y ago) - had a peek in the new remake, did not much care for it
- Dr. Who - strange indeed but i liked many of the ones with "Matt Smith", "David Tennant" and "Peter Capaldi" - oh they have a new one, maybe i give it a try again - WHO knows...

... and maybe with only a little comedy/scifi:
- Cult: Farscape has lots of comedy (well and ALL kinds of) elements
- Misfits only scratches scifi but also lots of weird and dark humor
- Wednesday hmm does scifi fit?
- Gen V and "The Boys" are somewhat scifi and somewhat very dark comedy
- Limitless well scifi is a bit of a stretch, and some comedy if i remember correctly

WELL - not a TV-show, but the ultimate & unapproachable STAR of scifi-comedy :
The original "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, a Radio-Show - so AUDIO!
-> Not the Audiobook, not the Book not the films - the ORIGINAL
Test Part I "The Primary Phase" -> Episode 1-15

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^^ e01+02 done ... this ain't be no comedy bro big_smile

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

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1x1

I really liked it! smile

@Bananijoe: I guess that some of what you didn't like comes directly from the game(s), and if they had changed too much, the fanatic Fallout fans wouldn't have liked that! big_smile

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yepp, think so too. I assume most fans will love it, wouldn't be surprised if its rather authentic and lore friendly...
(Well, there is the nuclear-blast scene - and a similar scene most will know, when Sarah Conner dreams the nuclear holocaust, always stirs at least one, most more tear(s) - as it should. This one did nothing, ergo this one did something wrong - my logic smile )

Had a look at the old fallouts and i really dont like the bleakness (graphics/models/vibe) of them. Was surprised about "New Vegas" - always assumed fallout is only isometric - that one looks nice (aside from the retro-vibe), i definitely give it a try!

You liked e01 *scream* big_smile
.. go on then you will see lots you'll like i think smile Lots of "flashbacks" from 200 years earlier - which i rigorously skip big_smile
I think i really like the performance of Ella Purnell smile
.. and still NO: This ain't comedy at all big_smile

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Bananijoe wrote:

hmm, i like scifi & comedy - now you made me comb through my watchlist big_smile

Yeah, sorry I wouldn't call any of those good, some were acceptable though like The Orville but it's a 6-7/10 compared to e.g. Battlestar Galactica's 9+/10. Farscape maybe? It's a very specific taste though, I have to rate it down due to that.

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^^ thats ok, as said, i rate most of them not so good also smile

but i couldnt help myself to search for a good scifi-comedy, was there one?
... found only one real one, but without visuals: The god of comedy & absurdness: Hitchhikers wink

Fallout:
Well e08 was the first episode that made some sense, so obvious a 2nd season is planned - cliffhanger!

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Bananijoe wrote:

but i couldnt help myself to search for a good scifi-comedy, was there one?

Have you seen Other Space? When i saw it many years ago i felt it was kinda funny.

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nope didnt know that one, had just a quick peek ... not my kind of show at all wink But thanks!

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Fallout Season 1 - Superb!  They fully captured the look and feel of the Fallout world from the game, as well as the stupidity and absurdity of the story. 

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net%2F3hh3CbVdTnz8Ey8DcNHFuB.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=0987fc93abf37688d178a99898b98eedf0ff0b29c60f724481a85c765bab4b0a&ipo=images
(I love how accurate they made this set, to me, they should win awards for set design.)


The game lands funnier than the show though, horror-comedy requires Bruce Campbell, and there weren't nearly enough story crashes to match the amount of in game crashes.  Wouldn't that have been a great homage, if the story just crashed, and they had to restart from a save!?  There's nothing more fallout! lol  They used so many game props and a lot of the in game music like the radio freedom minutemen song and the Fallout 4 intro theme.  I enjoyed the location from Los Angeles, just wish this series would spin-off to all the other locations like The Walking Dead. wink  Even though they did cover major plot points, 8 episodes just wasn't enough and didn't feel full, as I would've preferred more comedy episodes like....

Spoiler

..the use of the junk jet was amazing fan service, however, the humor of the game is in the pointlessness of using it, as it rarely hits your target and is so heavy it slows your character down and gets you killed, but you get to load it with anything which makes it hilarious, you use it for comedic purposes, and I guess it was funny that the fat guy who used it shot screwdrivers out of it then got his head blown off, but the cut was too fast and the laugh didn't land.  Perhaps, more comedy could be found with better/funnier timing in the edit.  Some of Hancocks lines in the game are funnier than anything they did in the show just because Hancock is naturally comical, but I digress.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fvignette2.wikia.nocookie.net%2Ffallout%2Fimages%2F9%2F9a%2FFO4_Junk_Jet_loading_screen.jpg%2Frevision%2Flatest%3Fcb%3D20160410231603&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=a2e0579215c17b9e89782039af15d5af94db8a97074aa0526bc3315c5aa69c13&ipo=images

Overall I enjoyed what Jonathon Nolan created here, and thankful we have a Fallout TV show with a huge budget.

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strange show. seems a combination of "a boy and his dog" and Max Max and others?

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Well, i like and would recommend. For me its mostly a nostalgia thing.
Must admit though if its completely foreign and new its difficult to explain big_smile

"Au naturel maybe, thats the way i like it. Swing low, sweet chariots." Creed Bratton

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well just finished the series and the best thing in some time.

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Agreed, an unexpected high quality series with a sense of humor and horror.

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tapped out at 7 min mark of ep 2. could already feel the nolan disrespect for my time creeping in and decided to bail before it became westworld s2. glad y'all like it though