Originally Posted By RustedAce:
Fallout 1 and 2 are the only Fallouts. (Maybe Vegas.)

Originally Posted By The_Like_Button:
Less than 9min in and I’m getting woke vibes

Originally Posted By ArmyInfantryVet:
How is it going so far? I'm still at work for a few more hours.

Originally Posted By Rattlehead34:
About 10 minutes in Lucy says "after cousin stuff, im excited for the real thing".  So she was bangin her cousin right before she was approved for marriage.

WTF.

Originally Posted By HellSpork:
I'll be watching it this weekend.  

Hard to gauge anything from reading GD. Some of y'all see wokeness in every dollop of squirrel shit on your lawn.  

My threshold for bullshit it pretty high. All it has to be is mildly entertaining.  

Trying to please the fanbase is a sisyphean task; impossible and never ending. The die-hards cannot be made happy, ever.    
Ignoring the fans and catering to the lowest common denominator just results in microwavable mashed potatoes; bland, boring, bullshit.  

Hopefully they ride the line. Far as I'm concerned, it just has to be watchable. Doesn't have to be nazi-strict to the source material, IDGAF if it's not perfect. Fallout as a whole did not take itself seriously , even from day 1. I mean, hell, even the first game is practically a road map of pop culture references like stumbling upon the Tardis from Doctor Who.    

Just be not shitty. That's all. It's the same thing I ask from any sandwich I eat. You don't have to be perfect, just don't be shitty...

Originally Posted By The_Like_Button:
Less than 9min in and I’m getting woke vibes

Originally Posted By Rattlehead34:
About 10 minutes in Lucy says “after cousin stuff, im excited for the real thing”.  So she was bangin her cousin right before she was approved for marriage.

WTF.

Originally Posted By JsARCLIGHT:
We probably also need to clarify what actually IS "woke" when it comes to an adaptation...

A female protagonist is not woke, but a female protagonist who is all powerful with no character arc is. It is good writing 101 to give your character an arc, which is usually presented as "introduce character, introduce problem, character must overcome problem through adversity and personal growth". The modern "woke" female character arc is always something like "female character is powerful but others try to deny her power, she becomes even more powerful by embracing her power". That is not an arc, that is a dot on a page. The character did not grow or change through adversity. They started strong and ended strong.

A story about class divisions, race, or gender are not inherently woke, but when those things are routinely harped on and made the focal point of everything in the story then it is woke. Typically these items are what is known as a catalyst, an element of the story that serves as a match to light the fuse of the -actual- story. They are the starting point, the story is the journey to the end point. But when these items become the story again it isn't a story, its a lecture. If the entire plot is basically established as "thing bad" and the whole story is just the characters constantly reminding us that "thing is indeed bad" that is boring and has no draw. The audience starts knowing the outcome because the outcome is telegraphed from the start.

Finally we come to the ultimate "woke" complaint, character recasting. If a new character is introduced that the audience has never seen before, they can be anything... black, white, gay, straight, you name it. That character is new and they are who they are, it is not "woke" for a story to have a black gay character if that is who the character is. What IS "woke" is if an already established character is suddenly recast or remodeled to fit some new race, gender, or sexual orientation check box. If everyone knows a character is, was, and has always been a straight white guy for that character to suddenly be a black woman is jarring and can even be detrimental to the story. Changing who a character is fundamentally changes the character. Which indirectly changes elements of, and sometimes even the entire jist of the story. There is never a decent reason to change who characters are in adaptations, because the characters are who they are. They are established. If you want a story about a dinosaur park gone amok but you want Dr. Grant to be a trans asian person with a fake leg, you really need to write your own story and not change Michael Crichton's.

Originally Posted By Wineraner:

Aside, that is one of the stupidest fucking parts of the canon, that the vaults were psychological experiments.  For the benefit of who, assholes?  WHO IS GOING TO CARE ABOUT PSYCHOLOGY AFTER A GLOBAL APOCALYPSE?

Originally Posted By bologna:

Some dude just rubbed his dick on the curtains

Originally Posted By Wineraner:


Vaults be like that.  Probably part of the experimentation.

Aside, that is one of the stupidest fucking parts of the canon, that the vaults were psychological experiments.  For the benefit of who, assholes?  WHO IS GOING TO CARE ABOUT PSYCHOLOGY AFTER A GLOBAL APOCALYPSE?

It did allow for great set pieces:  the election vault, the armory vault, but it's still profoundly stupid.  Even more than locking Avellone's editor in the closet for the entirety of Lonesome Road.

Originally Posted By CavScout:
This was intended to attract minors then…show the real stuff, the raunchy sex, the jacking off, the wipe, this is precisely what they intended. Reel in a youthful audience to watch the video game production and bam.

Originally Posted By CavScout:
This was intended to attract minors then…show the real stuff, the raunchy sex, the jacking off, the wipe, this is precisely what they intended. Reel in a youthful audience to watch the video game production and bam.

Originally Posted By -OdieGreen-:
Fuck the rest of them. The Ghoul is the character I want to see more of. Walton Goggins nailed it so far.

Originally Posted By SoonerBorn:
Watched the first episode.  Much better than I expected.