Fallout TV show: thoughts?

[DullOldDogooder]

Just got back from a short trip and watched the first episode. Have to say, I was blown away by the look and feel. The (very) darkly comic tone of the games seems to have been captured nicely. And the characters seem promising. No spoilers please, but I'm interested to hear what others think?

 

[KillJoy]

I have watched through ep 5 and I really like it. It looks to happen 15 or 19 years after the fallout 3/4/new vegas and makes some cool references even just visually

 

[Captain LaserBeam]

Yeah I think the fact that it takes place chronologically after all the games is tripping some people up - clearly a lot has happened on the west coast since the events of FO:NV.

 

[Torberg]

Given that it's 219 years after the war, then it's 9 years after Fallout 4 (which was 210 years after the war).

 

[Synystyr1]

I watched all episodes, and I have mixed feelings. If they hadn't said that they consider it canon for the games, I would have been pretty happy with it.

 

[Gracie2u]

Just got back from a short trip and watched the first episode. Have to say, I was blown away by the look and feel. The (very) darkly comic tone of the games seems to have been captured nicely. And the characters seem promising. No spoilers please, but I'm interested to hear what others think?

I loved it Fallout is my # one game and love it even more with SIM settlements just wish I could play all the way through but Xbox makes it hard two thumbs up for the show

 

[KillJoy]

I loved it Fallout is my # one game and love it even more with SIM settlements just wish I could play all the way through but Xbox makes it hard two thumbs up for the show

in season 2 they should totally make a sim settlements reference. I would loose my mind

 

[rattatatouille]

I'm more surprised than anything at the fact that Sim Settlements 2 not only fits into canon as of FO4, but fits into canon even better with the TV show in mind. Those who've played Chapter 3 will know.

 

[maurice br]

i liked it a lot but untill she discovered shady sands i was wondering where it was playing out, the reference to the water chip melfunction in one episode could also be fun to see how they fix tha tproblem in S2

 

[Torberg]

i liked it a lot but untill she discovered shady sands i was wondering where it was playing out, the reference to the water chip melfunction in one episode could also be fun to see how they fix tha tproblem in S2

I think the implication is that - in addition to being a cute reference to the first game - the water chip wasn't really broken;

Spoiler: SPOILER

it was a manufactured crisis to steer the dwellers to voting for Betty as Overseer.

 

[Antoine Soverie]

I think the show was great (and that's a rarity now). Really nailed the "fallout atmosphere" like many said, great characters, visuals, music. My only gripe with it was the way they treated NCR (or whatever we see of it) and this Moldaver character. And the whole you know who's motivations.

 

[Pekkape]

Right now I do feel it is my favorite TV-series and I could not stop to look at all episodes and I did kept an open mind but I agree with Antoine's blurred section for sure. I did had a lot of expectations but I also was prepared to just take it for what it was, with an open mind. I love all the small details as they did add a lot of stuff from the games, specially from Fallout 4. if they had not made it this way, I bet the player base would attack Todd again... So for me, it was a success.

I have expected a TES TV-series for a very long time, but I bet it would be much more difficult to make one, as TES lore is so extremely vast and spread out in all directions possible. How do you implement that in a movie or even a TV-series? But follow a scroll or several scrolls mainly would make sense I guess, but when we play the TES games, the scrolls is something we rarely get in contact with and right now, I can only think about the TG quest in Oblivion, where we needed to steal one for the stranger.

There are a lot of good fantasy TV-series and films made lately but so much crap had been made within that genre during the years, specially before LOTR. I did like the WoW movie really, as I first suspected it would be crap, so I had no expectations at all before I saw it. It made sense and I was in a horde RP guild in WoW, based in Orgrimmar for a period and I felt at home in some way when I saw that film.