This tv series is enjoyable if you ignore the fact it's supposed to be set in the fallout universe.
It has some funny moments. But the nihilism in it is stupid while playing some old music, i'm talking about the opening scene from episode 3 or 4 that one with the dogs. Also a lot of unnecessarily violence and plot holes(why didn't the ghoul fire at the weak spot of the armor when maximus was wearing it? for example)
the episodes basically went with "look at how violent and nihilistic the fallout universe is lmao" without a clear purpose.
There were a lot of memoryholed scenes, like what the fuck happened with the water chip in that episode? why wasn't it brought again? I swear that scene was so retarded. Only played for comedic effect or something.
If you watch the tv series as a comedy movie or something then yes it's good. I laughed a lot when the 4 foot tall dude wanted the raiders dead while he looked like a mini-me of goebbels. Only him and the eye-patched nazi blonde hoe were voting for it. And maximus isn't what he seemed in the trailer, like the run-of-the-mill tough black savior type of stock character, he acts like a thug actually, stealing and lying through teeth to get in position of power. While main female character(lucy) acts like a noob player exploring the wastes and is really acting like the speech tree decisions from shitesda's games with 4 options: yes,no,maybe,etc.
The writing for maximus character is almost schizophrenic, he swings between doing good stuff to acting like a dickhead most of the time. Actually I think he's built to be a conservative character or something.
Considering this is from the showrunners of westworld I am not surprised it turned out this retarded. If you watched WW you would know how this tv show turns out. Probably they will continue 2 or 3 more seasons until it gets cancelled. Just like WW.
Also it follows exactly the same scripting like westworld, always showing things that happened in the past, backstories every episode. When I watched this fallout series it was like watching the fifth season of westworld, or falloutworld rebranded. Same crap with different theme.
It's ok if you watch this tv show only for its fallout content(power armor, alternative sci fi history, lasguns<< they didnt even use this one in all of the episodes of season 1 lol). I actually really want more seasons of this since there is no other fallout-related media. They rarely make one of these at this moment. Or at least media which looks like fallout(they existed a lot in the 80s-00s but they were B-movies) they stopped making it only to get focused on shitty tv-shows from marvel or whatever. One example of a movie which gives me fallout theme would be mutant chronicles, or even knights 1993(or any other robot movies by Pyun, like Cyborg).
Wouldn't be surprising Knights 1993 gives fallout vibes, since the REAL fallout was heavily influenced by 80s and 90s aesthetics, unlike what is presented in the shitesda games and THIS tv show, as if it's retrofuturistic based on 40s-70s AMerica.
even the knights 1993 armor of the robots look like the ones from fallout, especially tactics, they looked like the scribes.
Fallout wasn't even based on 50s aesthetics, but late 80s-90s. There are a lot of movies from 90s that may pass for being a fallout movie seriously. I can give other titles such as johnny mnemonic or barb wire. Which follow even a torn geopolitical landscape type of scenario. The props used in those movies look a lot like the ones which were presented in the first three games.
The only thing I would like at bugthesda's fallout would be the BoS, the fact that they inspired from tactics in some ways, the zeppelins for example, or the fact they made it a military organization with recruits like it was presented in tactics.
Other movies that can pass for fallout: escape from LA(if you put energy weapons props in that movie for sure it would have looked like it), escape from NY(consider kurt russell is sent by the enclave to save their President lol, in pre war america), mad max 2(these you know of). Probably there's even more but I won't remember them now. EDIT: here's one more which clearly looks as if fallout writers were inspired by its style: American Cyborg : Steel Warrior.
This is what I actually hate the most at shitesda's fallout, the fact they made it heavily retrofuturistic, while it wasn't actually like this. All people now think of 50s merged with sci fi tech, instead of what it actually was in the first 3 games(1,2,Tactics). Also a lot of annoying quest titles in both f3 and fnv mentioning real life old songs. It wasn't even like this in fallout 2.
Leaving this aside I am actually ok that they bring the fallout franchise into the light. Instead of becoming an irrelevant title like many others from 90s. But the fallout beginners should know, 1,2 and Tactics were the main games. And the then-upcoming game van buren would have inspired greatly from the sprites of Tactics especially the robot sprites. (this besides, the robots from Tactics really looked better than the ones from 1 and 2)
And good to have a tv series about fallout, instead of countless retarded irrelevant tv shows about gender,gender equality or superheroes which I am not interested/
btw, if you're asking me which movie looks the closest indirectly to bethesda's fallout that would be book of eli/ really looks like fallout 3. This is as a proof since book of eli doesn't look at all like the postapoc movies from the 90s, including the apparel, weapons used, quests and tech.
Also, don't you think the westcoast BoS feature in this tv show looked like the caesar's legion? They had all of the names ending in "-us" just like caesar's. maximus,quintus et al. It's as if they were converts from the legion into the BoS
even the banners look like the legion's
