• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    22 days ago

    I know the Fallout show is really campy… but fuck, it always was really campy, way back to the beginning. That’s actually staying true to form with the camp and the old west themes.

    Let’s just say it just scratches that itch well enough. We’re not talking award winning performances except for maybe Walton Goggins, whose character has seemingly been given the most background story (which tracks for a guy who’s been alive so long to have a… longer backstory) and the best material to work with, comparatively.

    Anyway, both seasons are imperfect but a lot of fun if you can look past flaws. Looking forward to another campy romp in season 3… sad to see Dave Foley didn’t make the cast list, though. I need more Yes Man in my life god damn it.

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      22 days ago

      The problem they’re running into is having too many plot threads open at once. Which is apparently has been a problem with the producer in the past.

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      20 days ago

      I know the Fallout show is really campy… but fuck, it always was really campy, way back to the beginning.

      Fallout 1 had some goofy bits but they were more like easter eggs than anything. Fallout 2 is when it embraced being campy in pulp 50/60s style but even then it was restrained to just that. Bethesda made it into a caricature of itself later with Fallout 3 and 4. New Vegas from Obsidian (who are ex-Black Isle guys, original creators of Fallout) tried to right the ship but the TV series also made a caricature out of it.

      Fallout TV series is fine on its own but it definitely strays from what original games were like. I don’t mind people like new Fallout but why drag the original with it? Is it to appear cool because it implies you know the original? Someone disliking new Fallout games or TV series might never give FO1 a chance if they hear its like the new ones.