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[–] [email protected] 93 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (8 children)

I thought this trailer looked fantastic, I don't know what the rest of you all are smoking. As a fallout fan it was more than enough to get me excited for the series, also Walton Goggins as a ghoul chefs kiss.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 11 months ago (4 children)

People need to remember that fallout isn't the last of Us or god of war, fallout is a cool series with a cool world, but it's not a masterpiece of story telling and writing. These showrunners aren't making Lord of the rings over here, it's not gonna be hard to make a decent show based in an established world.

They're keeping the aesthetic and design, so I'm happy. But so many people don't have a nuanced opinion anymore, and a show is either a perfect 10 or it's "unwatchable garbage". I've seen and loved shows that I give a solid 8 to, but anything below a nine gets called "shit" these days.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I mean, New Vegas is known as one of the best written RPGs of all time. So.... there might be slightly higher than average expectations here.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

It is not known.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (20 children)

No it's not lmao. It was good but it's far from anything like that

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't want to set the world on fire.

But I will if they fuck this up.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (11 children)

Where were you when we watched Rings of Power?

Where were you when we suffered Wheel of Time?

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Cautiously optimistic. Hopefully it's respectful to the source material.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's a very good setting for a show or mini series, but the way the IP's current owners have handled it so far gives me pause. Hopefully the writers will be competent enough to not resort to the "radiation and mutations are basically magic" writing that's been all too common with Bethesda.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

I mean we already saw mutants (NOT Super Mutants or Centaurs) in the form of Chris Parnell's Overseer Cyclops in the trailer. The rest of the shots (especially the Yao Guai tearing up that Paladin) make me think it'll be more lore-accurate.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

I mean, the way Bethesda has taken Fallout, there's not much that could be ruined, just use a newish setting and go to town

[–] [email protected] 54 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I didn’t realize Jonathan Nolan was a showrunner. The first season of Westworld was brilliant. And Walton Goggins is good in everything. I’ll give it a shot.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Goggins is what got me on board too.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You can tell it's gonna be bad because they forgot to say "war never changes"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

I bet you that this will be in the show and narrated by Ron Perlman.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And where are the TUNNEL SNAKES??? HMMMM???

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What the fuck man where the hell did this spring up from? This just started a flame in my heart.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't suppose in your heart you have but one desire?

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sweet! Well get a season or two and then they'll cancel it just like they do all the rest of the fan favorites.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (6 children)

That feels more like a Netflix move than an Amazon move.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't want to get my hopes up, but I'm getting my hopes up.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (4 children)

There's not enough wackiness in the trailer. Fallout has always had a thin veneer of grimdark with a whole hidden iceberg of goofy bullshit and it was amazing.

I'm getting huge "missing the point" vibes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There are a lot of reasons to not judge it yet. First and foremost, the director/show runner has zero input on the trailer. That's all the marketing department, and the trailer is designed to get as many eyeballs as possible on the final product. Numerous examples exist of trailers which bared little resemblance to the movie/show/game/whatever.

Secondly, they buried the lead on the director. Jonathan Nolan did direct much of Westworld. But he also wrote a bunch of award winning films for his brother, Christopher Nolan. Movies like Memento, Interstellar, The Prestige, and Dark Knight. He's no slouch, and I'll reserve judgement until I see it.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

While i fully agree, a lot of people won't know what Fallout is, and they kinda have to set the basics first.

With that being said, I question whether Amazon can pull this off.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

guess i will watch it. lets hope its not complete shit

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (11 children)

the trailer looks great and really has that fallout spirit somewhere between funny, gruesome and batshit crazy.

Also great to see Walton Goggins in the cast, he's a great actor

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

They're going to find a way to release the films with bugs and release a day one patch

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean it can't be worse than the Halo show, at least this looks decent from the trailer.

Can guarantee it'll be better than getting mauled by a Deathclaw either way.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Oh no... The time has come to shit all over two legendary games again... for the second time.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Honestly I can't wait to watch this. Consider me hyped!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

I was not excited for this show until seeing that trailer! Fingers crossed 🤞

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I haven't found a place in my life for these types of TV series. Looks good though just prefer the complete arc of a movie or a mini-series.

Sets look kind of big budget artificial, soapy? Like that is some wicked blue dye on the suits, very fresh. Lovely hair and makeup. All good though I realize it's just not my thing. A cinematic 90 minute fallout movie laser focused on 2-3 character arcs would be exciting to me.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Fallout was an aesthetic that told super dark stories. How will a TV capture the vignette of nightmares that are the Vaults?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fallout is not a masterpiece of story telling or cinematography. It was written by non writers mostly. It's not the godfather. It isn't going to be hard for professional writers to make it work better than the games, and clearly they're not fucking with the visual designs of the series.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It's almost hard to get Fallout wrong. Unless you shove a kid into a fridge for 200 years, or retcon the creation of the super mutants.

Todd Howard is involved, so I wager they'll get the themes right.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

SILO is fallout canon in my head

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Well I don't hate it yet..

Hope they manage to get the lead's makeup smudged.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Funny, didn't an earlier version of the trailer say "and the studio behind The Boys and Free 2-day Shipping"?

Now it says "fast delivery" with an asterisk.

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