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Nah... That ain't Grandma Sparkle. It's "Ma June", played by Dale Dickey.
Not a good sign that they're just making up their own characters either. There are a literal TON of characters that they already have to choose from between all of the fallout games.
Makes me think that this might be one of those productions where the showrunners are telling everyone involved not to do any research or play any of the games beforehand like they did with The Witcher.
All they had to do was call that character Grandma Sparkle instead of Ma June and it would have already gone viral among actual players of the games, which SHOULD be the first demographic you're trying to impress with this.
It looks like Walton Goggins isn't just the Vault-Tec guy in the intro, and he plays one of the 3 main protagonists. He's the ghoul. So they do have a white guy playing a sort of anti-hero, which to be honest is probably going to make his character the most accurate depiction of Fallout in the entire show.
Black Guy joining the Brotherhood of Steel for vengeance is a bullshit story arc. Even if that was his motivation, he wouldn't go around telling anybody that was his motivation. He would never have been initiated into the BoS if he told them that's why he wanted to join. He also would have known that to be the case if he was even serious about joining up.
I don't hate the naivity of the main character and the whole "fish out of water" thing. That interaction with Not-Grandma-Sparkle was pretty funny. You could tell that she thought she was hot shit since she came from the vault and then she gets laughed right in her face.
But unless she gets some SERIOUS help almost immediately, there is zero chance she would survive more than a day or two in the wasteland with the way she carries herself. It's absolutely brutal out there. If she wasn't killed outright, somebody would come around quick and put a slave collar on her. I'm sure nobody 20 miles outside of the New Vegas strip has seen a hooker as clean as she is with all of her teeth in their lives and she'd be some prime real estate.
It looks from the trailer that she's surviving a whole lot of bad things right after leaving the vault. That's fine if it's done right and maybe she's the recipient of some very good luck (and it's okay if she's smart enough to believably have the wits to get out of hairy situations), but if she's just a girl boss who goes around kicking everyone's ass or sharpshooting everybody trying to kill her when it's obvious that she's lived a very semi-charmed life in the vault until today, nobody is going to be interested in this for very long.
It's also fine if over time she learns from the people who aren't out to kill her and she ends up being a force to be reckoned with by season 3 or something too. After all, that's what the games are all about. When you first emerge from the vault, no matter what sex or the hue of skin you choose for your avatar, you're equally as useless and a couple of mole rats could come around and kill you if you don't run away from them. It was made much easier in the 3D games in the 2000's too. The first two turn-based isometric Fallout games from the 90s were tough as nails and there was a great chance that a few rats in the cave on your way out the vault were going to kill you, forcing you to respec your entire character since the game didn't hold your hand and tell you what stats were the most important to beef up initially. You'll just keep kicking at those rats and missing them every time while they chew at your legs until you die.
I'll reserve my judgement until it comes out. Unless I hear awful things about it I will probably at least give the first episode a watch. If done well, Fallout could be an amazing show, and there's no reason why they couldn't add to the cast of characters in the future like they did over time with The Walking
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It looks like Walton Goggins isn't just the Vault-Tec guy in the intro, and he plays one of the 3 main protagonists. He's the ghoul. So they do have a white guy playing a sort of anti-hero, which to be honest is probably going to make his character the most accurate depiction of Fallout in the entire show.
Yanno... I was thinking about this post while doing some work and this specific part really started to bother me.
Not the fact that the only white male protagonist is the one hidden under a mask. I fully expect that to be the case in current year, and I'm surprised that they gave the job of one of the 3 main protagonists to a white male in the first place.
No... What bothers me here is that it appears the people making this show don't understand the subject matter AT ALL, and I believe the fact that they made the only main white male actor a ghoul is all the evidence you need for this.
Dating back to the early Fallout games, but extrapolated heavily on in the later games, the ghoul characters as a whole were an allegory for how easily humans tend to "judge a book by its cover" and how unfair stereotyping somebody who looks different than you do can be. The early games couldn't convey this nearly as well with the limited voice acting, but later games really did a great job of this.
So to take that main ghoul character and cast him as the main white male in the cast seems to me that they completely missed the point, or the people charged with telling this story weren't even aware the point existed in the first place.
I suppose that one COULD make the argument that some really deep thinking was put into this casting choice and that with the strange turns the culture "wars" have taken since 2012 it is a very interesting choice to make that main ghoul character the only white male protagonist, but until I watch it and see if that is the case I'll have to see it to believe that I'm not giving them WAY too much credit here.
If they simply put Goggins in a ghoul mask to "hide the white guy", this entire show is trash from the start.
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did Amazon mess it up?
‘Fallout’ review: learn to love the bomb in this fun yet flawed adaptation
https://www.nme.com/reviews/tv-reviews/fallout-review-show-3616018
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did Amazon mess it up?
‘Fallout’ review: learn to love the bomb in this fun yet flawed adaptation
https://www.nme.com/reviews/tv-reviews/fallout-review-show-3616018
That seems like a pretty glowing review to only give it 3 out of 5 stars, ngl.
With this review I'm sold on it...
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I just watched episode 1 of Fallout and I'm extremely happy to report that it's the best video game adaptation I've ever seen in my life, and nothing else even comes close to it.
Here's hoping they kept that up the whole run and that if they do more they keep the same people in charge because they clearly know what they're doing.
Boy am I glad they wasted $500 Million on Lord of the Rings and fucked that up with The Message first, and learned from that very expensive lesson before they got to Fallout.
Congratulations to everyone involved, and also my sincere thanks.
You did a great job.
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I posted more about it in the Predictions thread in the RWED today. Fallout made that thread since Jaynez put my prediction that this was going to be a legendary woke flop before the trailer dropped.
I'm 4 episodes into it and I like it even more than I did after that first episode and I'm looking forward to binging the last 4 episodes this evening.
At this point I'd be very surprised if they let me down and crammed in a bunch of Democrat talking points to ruin it like they've ruined almost everything else they've done for the last decade.
I think this just may very well be one of my favorite TV shows of all time. I just hope they don't leave us with a Sarah Connor Chronicles cliff-hanger and cancel season 2.
Finger's crossed.
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Finished it. It was awesome. Looking forward to season two.
Figured I will mention that they ultimately pushed really hard on the interracial relationships that you find in all the commercials in current year.
But other than that, no complaints.
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They put a lot of money into Fallout. Watched the first ep and enjoyed it
20 Best Video Game Adaptations Ever
https://www.denofgeek.com/games/20-best-video-game-adaptations-ever/
7 games that would make TV shows as good as Fallout
https://www.pocket-lint.com/7-games-that-would-make-tv-shows-as-good-a
s-fallout/
Video Game TV Adaptations That Could Be The Next ‘Fallout’
https://uproxx.com/edge/video-game-tv-adaptations-next-fallout/
Tekken
can't be much worse than Mortal Kombat?
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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
They put a lot of money into Fallout. Watched the first ep and enjoyed it
I haven't ever looked into the budget, but it is VERY evident that a lot of money went into this one. The sets were absolutely gorgeous and those vaults were perfect living recreations of what you saw in the game.
80% of the songs that were in the show were in the game Fallout 3, and there's a whole bunch of lore surrounding the Fallout musical style. They did a good job finding other music of the era and even sometimes from the same artists that did other songs in Fallout 3. I had to laugh and tell my dad that he already heard most of those songs before even though he never played the game. When my brother got married, pretty much the entire Fallout 3 soundtrack was playing during the dinner part of the evening.
Strangely enough, one of the few songs they didn't play at the wedding (for obvious reasons) wasn't in the show either...
Pretty sure they're saving that for a really good part next season though... although I can think of a few parts in the first season where it would have fit well.
And the sound effects were on point. There were so many things that happened in the show where you'd hear the exact sounds that happened in the game. Sometimes almost to the point of being spoiler territory for a huge Fallout fan who's played the games multiple times. There was more than one instance where I knew what was right around the corner before general audiences would have just because of what I was hearing.
And damn if they didn't get the exact same guy to voice Mr. Handy on the show as they did in the games, he's one of the best mimics around. I like Jack Black and all, but it's a downright sin they didn't get the guy who voiced Claptrap in the Borderlands game to voice him in the Borderlands movie. (There's even a joke in the Fallout show about how little the guy who voiced all the Mr. Handy robots got paid for that gig, but I bet Jack Black saw at least a Million or two to do the voice of Claptrap... what a senseless waste of money).
I've been told by a few other people who have never played the games who have either seen it already or started watching it after I told them about it that it took them about 2 episodes to really get into it, so if you're already enjoying it after 1 episode you've got a fun 7 hours ahead of you.
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20 Best Video Game Adaptations Ever
https://www.denofgeek.com/games/20-best-video-game-adaptations-ever/
LOL... The 20 "Best", huh? Boy, they had to cram a bunch of crap in there to stretch that list out.
Of course they picked uber-woke The Last of Us as number one though. That's bullshit. There's no chance in hell that was better than Fallout is, even if it wasn't a woke dumpster fire. These writers are no doubt the same people who gave TLOU2 a 100% or 10/10 on failing or already failed video game "journalism" sites a few years back. That's cool. They'll all be pushing carts and serving coffee soon if they aren't already.
And honestly... Ain't everybody "zombied" out by now anyhow. *yawn*
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7 games that would make TV shows as good as Fallout
https://www.pocket-lint.com/7-games-that-would-make-tv-shows-as-good-a
s-fallout/
I've never played any of those, although I have played one or two of the Shin Megami Tensi games, of which the Persona games are a spinoff.
Personally, I'd love to see a Borderlands TV show but I have a real bad feeling, particularly in the 2024 market, that the Borderlands movie is going to be a massive flop, so I'm not going to hold my breath on that one.
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Video Game TV Adaptations That Could Be The Next ‘Fallout’
https://uproxx.com/edge/video-game-tv-adaptations-next-fallout/
Yeah... I'd watch a Metroid show for sure.
Samus is the first bada
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32 Classic Video Games That Need To Get A Movie Or TV Show
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/32-classic-video-games-movie-12340
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