Fallout

[lonestar]

Never played the game, so the show took some serious adjusting to get into it, but it was quite excellent. Of course I was lost as fuck until they started threading the various stories together, and man did that final episode deliver. Great performance by the young lady playing Lucy, and the Ghoul was awesome too. Curious to see where it goes from here.

[BlackInk]

I'm a bit behind, but I'm two episodes in at this point, and think it's really good so far. Never played any of the games so I'm just here for a good show, and so far I'm on board.

[The Letter M]

The old-timey music is meta. Fallout is the post-apocalyptic universe of ~1951. The soundtrack is the music from that era, and what you encounter throughout the game. From the gamer perspective it's a hoot.

From what I've heard/read, the pre-war flashbacks with Cooper were set in 2077, so it's a bit of retro-futurism.

I binged the whole season yesterday and loved it. Great story and characters, wonderful production, and intense world-building that made sense to me, someone who has never played a single Fallout game. I found it fairly easy to follow along and understand, but I'm sure fans of the games were constantly doing that Leo-pointing-at-the-screen meme every time a game reference happened.

I'm glad it's getting a second season but that feels like it'll be quite awhile from now.

-Marc.

[El Barto]

From what I've heard/read, the pre-war flashbacks with Cooper were set in 2077, so it's a bit of retro-futurism.

-Marc.

Yeah, that's what I was trying to get at. Just didn't know what it was called. The bombs fell in 2077, but 2077 as envisioned by the people of the 1950s. The games all have that aesthetic, and it's what makes them interesting, IMO. It's essentially a post-apocalyptic The Jetsons.

[ariich]

Yeah in the lore of the games (and therefore the show), there was a divergence from our own history sometime between the end of the second world war and the early 1950s, that led to minimal societal progression beyond the 50s. So the aesthetics are all based on the 50s and what they thought the future might look like, and other advancements (technology etc.) are quite different and generally more limited compared with our history.

[BlackInk]

Just now realizing that I totally invented my own head canon for the retro style. I thought it was supposed to be a sort of cultural reversion to some perceived golden era of America to assert themselves against the communists and comfort themselves as a society with a nostalgic aesthetic.

I'm way behind, but I finished the season today. I thought it was great.

[El Barto]

Finally got around to wrapping it up. I'd go with not bad at all, but not great, either. It was entertaining, despite some retconning that fell flat. My biggest problem was the ending. It's tempting to have numerous angles all floating around at once and then have them all come together for the big finale. Done well that's great. The problem is that if you use too many it just becomes silly. Then combine that with the setup for the next season and it's even sillier. I've got some examples of things in the finale that rang stupid to me, but I'm not sure if we're concerned about spoilers here. Suffice it to say, I enjoyed most of the first 7 episodes, and was wholly unimpressed with the ending.

And seriously, why call the fucking dog Dogmeat?