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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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