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Gamers, look away. The extent of my gaming experience is that I graduated from Sims University instead of getting a master's degree. And you're reading what I thought about the new Amazon Prime version of Fallout.
Adaptation is difficult. Fans of something as behemoth as the wildly popular role-playing game series that Fallout is based on wonder what's lost when vast kingdoms of cultural lore are taken over by large studios and diverse audiences. We may be concerned about what will be used against us.
People who have never played the game may feel like they don't know enough about it to enjoy it, or may fear being exposed as a legitimate newbie if they talk about it. When it comes to game adaptations, some people may be turned off by the widespread snobbery towards the original work.
I love The Last of Us, which was also recently adapted into a game, and even though I've been proven wrong over and over again about the equally stupid “comic book based” bias, I still love the “Video Game” I continue to have a bit of a bias that “it's based on .” I reluctantly agreed to watch Fallout. Safe spoiler alert: I loved it. If you loved Station Eleven, The Boys, WandaVision, Watchmen, and The Last of Us, you'll love Fallout. Here are five reasons why you should throw away your preconceptions and jump in.
No prior knowledge required
Based on the 1,000 searches I made after the show ended, Fallout acts as both a sequel and a prequel to the content covered in the game. You don't need to know anything about this to see it. The story of the nuclear apocalypse is intricately woven into the story, a quest set in an alternate America before and after the bomb explodes. Another past is his futuristic 1950s. Set some 200 years after a nuclear disaster, the present is a survivalist wasteland above ground, and underground, swarming like rabbits with crypts where the lucky few can live. The main character, the naive and sheltered Lucy MacLaine (Ella Purnell), leaves her vault to search for her father, but along the way Dorothy meets her friend, who, like her atomic age and encounter enemies. Despite her allusions to The Wizard of Oz, this is by no means a children's show. Dark, gruesome, violent…
It's very interesting
Fallout is set in a post-nuclear apocalyptic world, so it's effective to discount the humor with obvious gags. Instead, the show cleverly exploits dark and nihilistic territory. It's incredible how quickly one of the show's main characters, the ghoul (Walton Goggins), goes from a horrifying example of radiation poisoning, with a cavity where his nose should be, to a reminder of Jim Carrey's best in absurdity. There aren't any.
The elaborate underground vault is filled with 50's nostalgia. The smiles of happy cartoon people on the poster cheerfully warn of danger, and the strict adherence to eccentric moral codes shows how childbirth must take precedence over “playing around with cousins” offset by an open conversation about. Writers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy worked on Westworld, and while that show lost its sense of humor over several seasons, it did have some legitimately funny moments. Showrunner Graham Wagner has worked on “Portlandia,'' “Silicon Valley,'' and “The Office.'' I've definitely heard that the game is full of dark humor, so it seems like that was reflected in the adaptation.
Violence and terrifying creatures are the best B-horror
I know this may also make people uncomfortable, but to watch Fallout you have to accept the concept of ass jerky. For fans of camping and gore, Fallout has you covered. On the surface, everyone is ruthlessly trying to survive by any means possible, so needless to say, cannibalistic features and heads and limbs are blown off, and the same kind of “big hole in the head” flourishes. Masu. I'm playing a game. He's one of the show's scariest mutated creatures, a giant axolotl-like creature with a mouth full of fingers instead of teeth, but he's also one of the funniest. Tarantino fans will enjoy watching him brutally dispatch one of his characters to scenes from his spaghetti Westerns, which Tarantino has depicted in films such as Django Unchained and Kill Bill. Probably.
the cast is amazing
Goggins recently starred as Baby Billy Freeman in The Righteous Gemstones, and I think this show needs to be seen by more people. His wonderful mouth more than makes up for his lack of a nose, and his personality is very wide-ranging. Goggins looks like he enjoys slurping it up. In the show's past, he is Cooper Howard, a Hollywood movie star and his loving father and husband. As The Ghoul, he is both a survivor and a bounty hunter. He's still dealing with an extraordinary betrayal, and as one of the show's more grotesque characters, he's set up as the clear villain. His backstory as Howard and his cowboy swagger as a ghoul bring humanity and perverted joy to every scene he appears in. Parnell (Yellowjackets) moves McClain back and forth between the denizens of the shelter's vaults and increasingly the streets and life above ground. It would have been so easy for her to settle into one mode, her wide-eyed, frightened self, for the entire episode, but Parnell plays her with enough sly undertones to deliver some of her show's funniest lines. , conveyed with a remarkable combination of seriousness and knowledge.
Worldbuilding continues
This show could have easily survived and even benefited from being released weekly. This gives the viewer some breathing room and prevents them from stumbling down a spoiler-filled rabbit hole all by themselves while searching avidly for clues. That being said, it's been a while since I've seen a show that I would describe as inherently and necessarily gluttonous. New characters and the worlds they come from have more traits. The vault and its pre-bombing past are detailed. The 50's nostalgia makes it all very familiar and familiar, but it's still all very much in the world of Fallout. As with WandaVision, there are plenty of candy and Easter eggs to look at. You know something is revealed, and no one would blame you for wanting to run through each episode to find out what it is. Definitely rewatchable.
There's a serious conceit about human survival at the heart of the show, which has a lot to say about America, the dangers of nostalgia, constant war, and the ethics of scientific and technological progress. Just as the Cold War and nuclear proliferation influenced his 20th century films and television, Fallout tackles existential questions that are equally relevant to his 21st century. It's just packaged as highly watchable entertainment for people who may not be familiar with the game, but enjoy sharp writing and high-concept television.
