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Should I watch Fallout, the TV show? Did they do justice to the games, including 1 and 2? Is it palatable to woke-allergics?
If I remember correctly it's never explicitly woke, but it fucking sucks. It actually made me yell at the screen multiple times because of how bad the plotting was. Almost all of the characters are utter morons, and the structure of the narrative is awful.
The arcs of the two main characters (Lucy and Maximus) are structured almost like a game, in that the main characters get involved in a whole lot of irrelevant and often stupid sidequests that contribute nothing to the ending - which doesn't work nearly as well when you're operating in a film medium. In addition the characters are hilariously unagentic. They often don't have any control over where they end up, so it feels like they are all just endlessly reacting to what the wasteland throws at them, instead of forging their own path. As a result there's a real lack of direction within the show, and I would say maybe more than half the episodes are unnecessary filler that doesn't directly affect the ending. A huge amount of your time is also spent going over narrative-interrupting flashbacks into the life of a mysterious character called the Ghoul before the bombs dropped. The big reveal that both plotlines build up to is downright nonsensical.
The only plot thread that actually worked for me was Norm's arc, which on paper sounds the least exciting since it all takes place within the confines of the vault. But that subplot actually had a central mystery which was presented in a gripping way, a story which didn't waste much time on random bullshit, and a PoV character who was by far the most agentic, intelligent and likeable character in the show. It was much less bombastic than the main plot following Lucy and Maximus, but it was far more interesting and felt like a completely different person wrote it.
Hmm. Alright. Thanks for replying.
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The ending makes the beginning of the show make no sense, almost like they wrote it as they went along and then never bothered to go back and make sure that it added up.
Also they do the whole capitalism bad thing, while leaving out that the Communists in fallout are also cartoonishly evil and stupid.
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I got about halfway thru S1 before getting bored. There's some girl power/male cuck wokeness in there, but from what I saw, there was nothing too egregious. What really got me, which is wokeness-adjacent or -like but not quite on the bullseye, was a scene showing a couple of apparent-stoners whose apparent job is to hold zombies in cages, who had the protagonist captured IIRC, but then through a set of boneheaded decisions, lets everyone loose in a way that causes the freed zombies to come at them and murder them. They were depicted as having been doing this sort of guard duty for some time, yet they had the attitude and competence of a couple of potheads that were hired on as line cooks because no one else was available that day, so either they should've gotten got a long time before the protagonist encountered them, or they should've been competent enough not to make those obvious errors. The whole thing just reeked of "the universe bends around the (female, headstrong, whose primary flaw is being too stubborn in her ambition and sense of justice) protagonist" to me, which, hey, this is a video game adaptation after all, but it's a video game adaptation.
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You accidentally posted this in the Wellness Wednesday thread rather than in the Small Questions Sunday thread.
Why would it go in SSQS? It's mainly a q about entertainment, not politics.
I chose this thread on purpose because I'm an evil deviant.
Or just because the previous Friday Fun thread felt far away and these non-CW threads don't have strict rules in any case.
Also I could at a stretch try to defend its relation to wellness, because of the concept of going more directly to (small) joys to increase actual perceived life quality a bit; spending more time on quality(?) entertainment and less time on just browsing the internet aimlessly.
The SSQS thread isn't about politics, so that wouldn't really matter.
Friday Fun is more suited for TV questions.
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