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nick_md wrote:

AndCallMeCharlie wrote:

baby reindeer is well worth watching on Netflix

The wife binged this last week whilst I was working and is up for going again with me she liked it that much, said it's the best thing she's seen all year.

First couple of episodes are "this is fun and quirky but with some depth" then goes to a different stratosphere then on in.  Binged 5 episodes last night and then couldn't sleep.  Dark doesn't do it justice

AndCallMeCharlie wrote:

nick_md wrote:

AndCallMeCharlie wrote:

baby reindeer is well worth watching on Netflix

The wife binged this last week whilst I was working and is up for going again with me she liked it that much, said it's the best thing she's seen all year.

First couple of episodes are "this is fun and quirky but with some depth" then goes to a different stratosphere then on in.  Binged 5 episodes last night and then couldn't sleep.  Dark doesn't do it justice

Ooooo, in on this now, even more so.

Not watched the show but the best of Fallout was always discovering another Vault and snooping around whatever horror show had been created as an experiment or what disaster ended the occupants.
Finding out you got a sweet life with Birthday parties while others got turned into Super Mutants or tortured in VR by a sadistic AI child was fun.

LivDiv wrote:

Not watched the show but the best of Fallout was always discovering another Vault and snooping around whatever horror show had been created as an experiment or what disaster ended the occupants.
Finding out you got a sweet life with Birthday parties while others got turned into Super Mutants or tortured in VR by a sadistic AI child was fun.

Watch the show - amongst many things it gets right is the creepiness of the Vaults - all manner of pretty sick stuff going on. Highly recommended.

Mind the adverts

Try Fallout 4 instead. Settlement building is not compulsory.

Finally doing third season of See. Jason M really does a ripper job in this series.

So, Season 1 of FALLOUT.
No spoilers.
Now I've never actually played a Fallout game, but I am a gamer, and I probably know more about the Fallout series than most people who've never played the games, and I also loved me a bit of the old Westworld, so seeing as how it's basically the same team making this here Fallout show, I figured I'd give it a go.
Probably the biggest YMMV caveat going into this is how much you are invested in the Fallout series. 
Me? I've got no skin in the game(s), and I do reckon there'll be a goodly amount of people who've dabbled with the franchise who will get a lot out of this. At the same time, there will probably be the usual subset of gamers who will moan until the end of time about the inconsistencies, changes, and terrible things that the producers have just got plain wrong about their beloved post-apocalyptic world.
That just leaves Joe Public. What the hell is Joe going to make of this?

Well I suspect the answer to that question can be found in the way Amazon has dumped the entire first season online in one go, because this can be an odd and frustrating watch to the uninitiated. I strongly suspect that Amazon believes that if they drip-fed the audience one episode a week, then a lot of that audience would just tap-out long before the show reaches it's conclusion.

And that's a shame, because this is very expensive, well made stuff. It looks and sounds great, and the performances from an excellent cast are also great...but there's a but, and sadly that but is the writing/narrative.
For much of the show's duration, the writing is just really poor. The plot meanders from episode to episode, and is riddled with moments (and at times entire episodes) that just left me thinking, well this is dumb, or, well that makes absolutely no sense, to the extent that if I couldn't have binged this in one go, then I'd probably have jumped ship too.

And yet...
...there's definitely something to this. It has...potential. So I stayed to the end, and I have to say the pay off in the final episode largely redeemed most of the annoyances I suffered along the way.
Structurally, it's very much like a season of Westworld. There are MYSTERIES, that will weave themselves back and forth throughout the season, ultimately paying off in a finale that's mic drop after mic drop with the season's narrative threads. Whether this is the right approach to take with this show is up for debate. I also felt it was wildly inconsistent with it's tone throughout the run, and frequently found myself wondering if the Nolan sibling was really a good fit for this project, or should they maybe have gone for a more James Gunn-esqe captain at the helm. Not sure I ever made my peace with an answer to that question tbh, but I did really enjoy that final episode, so I guess for now I'll give Nolan the benefit of the doubt.
There's obviously a lead into another season in the climax, and with the set-up of season one out of the way, our characters firmly established, and the potential for further (better) adventures to come, I think the biggest worry about this show going forward is going to be the threat of cancellation as the audience dwindles. I worry that this is going be Westworld all over again. Two or three seasons at best, before it's canned by Amazon with the narrative left hanging unresolved. I guess time will tell.

So, FALLOUT. Yeah, it's probably worth a look. YMMV, and I've definitely watched far, far worse things than this. I suspect the best maybe yet to come. I just hope we actually get to find out.

Yeah, a lot of the plotting is either just incredibly childish with it's contrivance, or frankly just doesn't bare scrutiny when it comes to sense.

Blocks100 wrote:

Try Fallout 4 instead. Settlement building is not compulsory.

4 isn’t a good as 3

Wookienopants wrote:

I've started 4.

If on console I’d wait for the update on the 25th.