As far as what other people on the internet think, Fallout Reddit has been praising this HARD.
Gosh... what's so crazy about this to me is that, independent of it being 'Fallout', anyone would consider it a good show in every way. I can't stress enough, it's a pretty bad show just taken on its own merits. How were people entertained enough by this to be able to justify wasting time to defend it?
I’ve seen people saying stuff like this show was clearly made by people with a lot of love for the games because… they used the knife attack sound effect?
Lmao. The sound effect thing was so embarrassing. So was the degree to which almost all of he props were slavish recreations of in game assets with no variety, contributed to it looking like cosplay shit. And in terms of story telling trying to incorporate in things from the games as part of the narrative was so hamfisted. Probably the worst one was the refrain (said once by Walton Goggins and once by Overseer MacClean) about "factions wanting to save the world".
They used songs from the games? I almost can’t believe it.
That's another thing. It was a pretty stupid to set the show to all of those "Fallout" style songs, if only because they were deployed so often and everytime they used they really did not fit the action on screen at all. To be fair this doesn't just apply to the songs from the games, all of the real world songs were poorly used.
There were like two scenes where instead of being set to old show tunes it was set to new versions of the Inon Zur fallout theme, and it sounded pretty good. I don't understand why they didn't just have Inon Zur compose for it. Or better yet, use some of the old Brian Eno tracks. But obviously the latter is just fantasy.
Another guy said that Shady Shands changing locations isn’t a big deal because it changed locations from Fallout 1 to Fallout 2. Really? Maybe it went a few tiles to the east I guess.
Yep, no difference between fudging the exact location on a real-world map and moving a location to be practically on top of another location from Fallout 1.
And of course, the sheer amount of people that claim that it’s always been heavily implied that Vault-Tec started the war. Still yet to see any evidence from ANY of the games, even the Beth ones, to support this.
And by heavily implied, of course, we mean the favored head canon fan theory of the smoothest-brained fans and especially unsophisticated children.
- The NCR wasn't nuked in 2277, it just fell!
In discussing this with a friend who I watched the show with (big New Vegas fan), we came to the conclusion that that must be the point of the arrows. The show essentially has a Star Wars prequel problem: All of the stuff with the Old Republic is posed in the Original Series as being in the fairly distant pass, but it all has to happen like 20 years ago for Luke Skywalker to be the right age, so the degree to which people have forgotten how different the prequel-era world was is a little silly.
For this show: They wanted a zany Fallout 4 style wasteland, but NCR had to be decently far enough in the past to not make its shadow loom too heavily over everything. So, with that chalkboard, they wanted to imply that NCR was nuked around 2277 to give themselves the implication of 19 years having passed, but give themselves plausible deniability by having a final arrow and undated mushroom cloud come thereafter.
- The Boneyard was renamed Shady Sands and the capital moved sometime after New Vegas!
Lol.
- New Vegas says the NCR was stretched thin and the future looked grim, so this show makes sense!
Lol. This one is funny to me because its not wrong in essence, it doesn't seem like the political form of NCR was long for this world in any case. But from the way the show depicts it (the plausible deniability and open question around "The Fall of Shady Sands" on the chalk board aside), the fall of the NCR had nothing to do with it's political economy, it's corruption, or it's degenerate political culture... it was because Overseer MacClean was an evil bad man.
- Mr. House was clearly a shady character, so he was probably just lying to you about everything in New Vegas!
So much was funny about this scene. Just very narrowly for the characterization of Mr. house, it's downright hilarious that his initial criticism of Vault-Tec's plan is that they're giving them probabilities, not certainties... Mr. House's ENTIRE THING was probabilities!! He calculated the probability of fthe great war down to nearly the day!! If you ask him any question about why you have to do something (save Kimball or destroy the Brotherhood etc), he'll tell you it's because of the probabilities he calculated!! He's the king of Las Vegas, he's all about calculating the odds!!
Other hilarious details from that scene: Sinclair has transformed from a twinky little Howard Hughes-y guy into a big fat evil bone-eater that's in charge of Big MT for some reason. And for some reason, fucking REPCONN, a rinky dink little company that was on the verge of bankruptcy that got completely hollowed out by RobCo, is one of the companies that's manipulating the fate of the world. It would have made more sense to have the CEO of Nuka COla present at that meeting.
- We didn't actually see the time in the opening, so the bombs still could've dropped at 6 a.m.
I love throwing my child's birthday party at 6 AM
I don't know what black magic Bethesda casts upon themselves, but I don't think I've ever seen such mass gaslighting before. Even The Rise of Skywalker destroyed the Star Wars fandom for a while, and they're Star Wars fans for Christ's sake.
It's an anthropologically fascinating case
