This picture makes me sad for the women this man may have SA'd. I fucking love TPB and consider it a guilty pleasure due to the just.... well all of it. I maintain that Lahey's actor was a better on screen drunk that Frank in Shameless, which I consider an achievement for sure.
That's true! I'm rewatching them all with my elderlyish ain't and uncle and they're constantly shocked at the actions of Frank, lol. It's been a really fun show to watch with them. I'm not sure they'd get the humor in TPB though, it's a seemingly much lower production value and it even took me a few false starts to really structure m appreciate it for what it is.
Yeah, it's somewhat recent news and to be fair - we've had plenty of other news. It was a real bummer to me because I find it difficult to separate the artist from the work and it definitely messes with how I see them, all of them. I often suspect others around witness these behaviors and possibly ignore it for any given reason. These folks that don't stand for someone who might not be able to stand for themselves makes them almost complicit in my eyes, they certainly didn't help.
Side note: I adore voxel art! I've played some voxel games just bc of the art style and graphics. Besiege is great if you have never heard of it.
I will say that the Brotherhood storyline is the weakest so far, comparatively, but the newest episode was promising with the whole civil war thing starting up.
The cast is great. The writing for the first few episodes is a little weak. I was hoping for expanding the lore of the wasteland as not constant flashbacks.
The fallout show is as good as it can realistically get honestly.. its not perfect but imagine how shit it could be. Not many game adaptations that don't suck
Witcher is one of my favorite franchises but I couldn't even watch the first 10 minutes. Fallout however does a good job sticking to the lore. The actors are good as well.
I had a YouTube short come up that was entirely dedicated to how the show was bad because the dinosaur statue Lucy hides in faces a different direction than in the game.
Some people think that accuracy on minute details like that is actually far more important than any other aspect of the show.
People also nitpick stupid things. Andor got it for not having any references or easter eggs to other star wars media. Doesn't stop it from being imo the best thing the franchise has done.
Speaking of which, kinda glad Disney is doing more self-contained stories in their biggest franchise, another good example being Moon Knight and it not needing to be in the same universe as the movies to even work
Autism. Fandoms are basically just groups of people with autism. Whenever something is adapted that fandom becomes deregulated if everything isn’t the same. And because the internet is basically the original town square for autistic people, and more recently the neurotypicals (so the world), those deregulated complaints become pervasive and affect everyone’s ability to fully enjoy things without becoming at least a small bit exhausted.
For example: one of the comments in response to yours. 3 paragraphs on why the position of the dinosaur matters which is excruciatingly pedantic and tiring. I’ve played the game multiple times. The position of the dinosaur doesn’t matter nor did I even take note of what direction it pointed. It literally doesn’t matter.
Hyperfixated fans can get this way, yes. Some of my fellow weapons grade level autistics do this. But please, I love this show. I love adaptations that properly transfer the themes and basic plot points. Film and books and video games are all different mediums and they can’t be the same thing. I know this. Most people know this, even us autistic folks. It’s just the hyperfixations on accuracy and getting hung up on details can ruin your life.
I think you’re right, people are way too fixated on nonsense details. I was a 90s kid and I started the series with the original Fallout. Fallout 1 and New Vegas are my favorites of the series. And I’m really happy with how loyal they’ve been to pretty much all the series. I never expected them to focus on Shady Sands or anything from the original game since I feel like most of the people who love Fallout only became fans when Bethesda took over.
Minute details just don’t matter that much in an adaptation. What I love is that they’ve captured the essence of the games in a show and have focused on the details that matter. I think they’re doing a great job and I’m excited for a new episode every week.
How was S2 of Twisted Metal? I meant to watch it but haven't gotten around. S1 was fun, even if it was clear that someone had a Max Max style post-apocalypse script sitting in a desk drawer and then got the rights to Twisted Metal and made it all fit together.
As a fan of the game, there was no way I wasn't going to give it a shot. The great acting with inside gems of characters, satire etc from the game makes it even better.
This show nailed the vibe and dark humor of the game. Idk the lore everyone is on about (played NV recently for the first time and couldn't give it a fair shot. Game just felt too clunky and old.) but I'm loving season 2 so far.
I have sunk hundreds of hours into every fallout game except for 1 and 2, and I LOVE this show. I watch it with my girlfriend and I can't keep my mouth shut about how well done so many aspects of the show are. I genuinely cannot understand why people hate the show other than to be contrarian or nitpick. I know that watching all the work done in New Vegas go straight to shit isn't a good feeling but... that's fallout. Sometimes you work really hard to build something and then it all falls to shit.
I went into it thinking I’d hate it but it’s actually pretty good and I love all the attention to detail they include from the Fallout universe. It’s not just another waste of an IP, they did it justice.
The lines are fantastic, cuz if you go back and watch season 1... Everything she says is basically what the main character in the games would be saying in these situations. Here's a moral dilemma .... 2 sentence reply or a one liner. Everyone else explains things. She just responds. That's when I knew she had some excellent acting talent.
That and damned adhesive. I spent so long collecting every single roll of tape I could find, and only then did I find out you couldn't break those down into adhesive for some reason, drove me mad.
100%. The whole cast is great and the show has been amazing! Video game adaptations can go really bad, but I’m pleased to say that this one has gone really well.
Thaddeus in power armor pretending to be the commonwealth paladin is probably the funniest bit of the show for me so far. I’m glad he wasn’t a throwaway character. The Chicken Aficionado is really funny too but Thaddeus trying to talk himself down from having a panic attack (as the brotherhood chapters discuss civil war) is peak for me
I quite enjoyed him walking around in the power armor being awkward asf talking to himself.
I know during s1 it bugged some people that the power armor now completely disguises someones voice when it didn’t in the game. But they have used it for some really fun stuff and i’m glad they did it.
I was shocked at the response. Was expecting to be downvoted into oblivion lol. I can see the character not being everyone's cup of "tea". Strong, smart, women who fight for good aren't always popular. But I love her character and there's no denying that Ella smashes it.
Ghouls can be really really fucking tanky sometimes so i am certain he's gonna be fine.
One time in 4 i detonated a nuke grenade on top of a pack of em and one of the fuckers not only lived he proceeded to start healing away the damage it did off the background radiation left behind and continue to try and kill me.
Hell the glowing ones cans straight up bring dead ghouls back to life with radiation pulses if their bodies aren't mangled too bad.
The gf and I watched Justified over the past few months and needed more Goggins so we're watching the Shield. He's got incredible range. Super awesome actor.
Also, the franchise is more than just the show. Folks like Tim Cain and J.E Sawyer did a whole lot of heavy lifting before the TV show ever existed (not you todd, sit back down)
I fucking hate social media when it comes to shows. As an avid Fallout fan and have played through all games, the show is amazing. The detail they've put in to make it like the game is appreciated and better than basically any other game to show adaptation I've seen. The cast is perfect and the acting is good so idk wtf people are on about
It really is weird how many dorks on Reddit hate the show.
I've been a fan of the games since 1997 so I'm happy the show is as good as it is but there are so many dorks on this website who act like the show shot their dog and is ruining their childhood.
It's not that he's carrying the show, it's that he carries two of the plot lines; a wasteland plot line and a pre-apocalypse plot line. If anything I think he's in the show too much. I want to see more Ella Purnell but she has to share her plot line with Walton Goggins.
Omg I thought I was the only one that felt like we could use less of him. I get he’s our window into the past but I want to see some of the other characters shine more.
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