No random crashes to desktop, 0/10!
Todd's father is still out shopping for milk 50 years later I guess, cos we are doing the "find family member" main quest again! And in true Bethesda fashion, the sidequests are what makes it all fun and interesting!
This was surprisingly enjoyable!
Up to the last 2 eps when the story turned into the usual modern tropes of "umm maah capitalism baaad, white man baaad". That's rich coming from Amazon, but it's to be expected nowadays, and as the trope of megacorrupt megacorporation fits perfectly well into the world of Fo, it wasn't really out of place either. Just some of the reasoning and ways of doing evil was really dumb (you can't increase profit margins if you wipe out you customers, dummy!).
Some of the lore changes they hinted at might become an issue later though with s02, we gotta wait and see.
Ignoring the supposed political messaging, the story itself got a bit too dumb for it's own good by the end. Other than that it was a fun ride!
The sets are perfect down to the last screw, it's truly impressive! I could watch a "life in the vault" 10 ep series, it would be a shame to waste those sets, they are so authentic!
For me the ghoul carries 50% of the show and the setting carried most of the rest. Lucy was surprisingly not the usual mary sue, I liked her! Too bad Finn was a disaster. Or whatever his name is, something like Maximus Constipatus, he was terrible. Only time he looked comfortable acting was in "the trap". They wanted to make him the brooding complicated personality type, but he was just miserable the whole time. Lil bro and dumb cousin were a fun duo, that storyline could have used a better ending though. The father was top notch, Meklekhlen is just great!
I did miss the fun animations with the vault-boy that used to play out in the games as training videos, and a bit of explanation and showcasing of how and why they went nuclear-everything and why the world still looks like the 50's would have been nice. (semiconductors don't exist in the Fo universe)
With background knowledge it's alright, but as my non gamer friend watched it he found the aesthetics weird as no reasons are given. It just comes off as " we went for this look cause it's da cold war goin hot duh", which isn't true at all.
TLDR.: Dumb fun but authentic enough, 7/10. All in all, I like that they dared to have fun with the world, but stayed within it. I'd like to see a S02!
Is this the best VG to TV adaptation ever? I'd say yes, but then the Street Fighter crowd might beat me up so...
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Which ending of NV will we get? Find out in a 2 years, or 5!
Or never, as Amazon was so afraid that this will do just as poorly as the rest of their very expensive big name shows (RoP), that they dropped it all in one go, and did it pretty silently at that. I didn't even got a reminder email that it's out, and I get that for random shows I didn't even mark up for watching! It's pretty evident from the "previously on" section in every episode that they originally went for a weekly release, but lost confidence along the way.
I've heard all the reasoning for the hate that's coming from the loud minority, those who think themselves "hardcore true fallout fans", including some of my favorite content creators, 95% of whom only played 3 and NV and didn't even catch the actual joke when the dude came into the vault meeting holding up a broken water chip...
Well, this time they are simply wrong. They have their own twisted head canon and read a lot more into a couple of words than what was actually said. I am a "true" Fallout fan in the sense that I played 1 and 2 when they were released and every single game since, addin them all together I'm sure it's the most time I've spent in a universe apart from WoW. I spent countless long nights reading up on the lore back in the day, and I have no problems with the show and the slight deviations it takes.
We are many years after the games' storylines so it's all plausible and works fine in-universe, and 90% of the outrage comes from simply not paying attention to what was on screen.
Too many people became jaded and don't know how to enjoy something anymore unless they are told by some influencer that it's okay to do so. It's just sad really.
