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Fallout Season 1 to Premiere a Day Early on Prime Video; All Episodes Release on April 10th (www.thewrap.com)
submitted 7 months ago by ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to c/moviesandtv@lemm.ee
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[–] Geek_King@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I'm cautiously optimistic! Twisted Metal surprised me, and maybe this will too!

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Same people who have seen the first episode gave "impressions" and they were all good.

Ella Purnell is a really fucking good actor, she's gonna kill it. And supposedly it doesn't really bother explaining stuff fans should know. Which is smart, new fans will just Google it and get lost in fallout lore

[–] theareciboincident@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

All I know is, a certain group got incredibly triggered over the woke brotherhood and that means at least it has potential!

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

The Brotherhood of Steel is all about black heritage in this? Sounds fine to me.

[–] Chaosl3gion@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What's woke about the brotherhood in this series?

[–] kbin_space_program@kbin.run 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The issue I have is that its clearly only based on fallout 4 from the trailer. Despite being placed on the other side of the country in what should be the heart of the NCR.

And the NCR is the only confirmed actual functional government in the world of fallout. It'd be like making star wars and saying Coruscant is Tattooine.

[–] Chaosl3gion@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It might be because I have only played a couple Fallout games so I don't know the lore down to the specifics......but the New California Republic is based in California, and the TV series is also based in California. So how is that like saying one planet is another planet? And since it's only 10 years after Fallout 4, I'm not surprised it looks more like Fallout 4 versus the other Fallout games.

[–] kbin_space_program@kbin.run 2 points 7 months ago

The issue is that it shows like a wasteland, but one of the things the NCR has is a GECK(deus ex machina that terraforms and cleans land.) Particularly in the cities, it would be a post-apocalyptic wasteland, but a living, bustling city full of ordinary people.

They have enough industry to make and maintain old world tech like Vertibirds, APCs and Tanks.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago

And the NCR is the only confirmed actual functional government in the world of fallout.

Angry Caesar's Legion noises

More seriously though, that depends a lot on how you define functional government. A lot of city states exist in both the northeast and southwest, with functional governments/democracies and the ability to project their influence beyond the walls of their city. It's a bit more like the political climate of the dark ages.

The NCR is probably the biggest state with the widest reach, but at the full extent of the territory they claim, they have virtually no ability to project power. So it's more like they can claim it's theirs, and as long as nobody disputes it, it's basically true.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

?

The entire point of the Brotherhood is they're the remenents of the US government and they want to become in charge of the country again...

The show is further in the future than any game, and the brotherhood has been trying for decades to become the government. It's possible they have in that area since we saw it last.

Hell, off coast of Cali was their base. And the show is closer to the Pacific than Las Vegas.

[–] DeathbringerThoctar@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry are you confusing the Brotherhood with the Enclave? They're both fascist, power armor equipped, douchebags but they're still pretty distinct. The oil rig you're referring to was definitely Enclave.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 1 points 7 months ago

Maybe they got confused because the BoS is actually an US military remnant

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 5 points 7 months ago

People thought fallout 4 was good, so i'm not holding my breath

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

They have some great actors in the cast of WoT too but that was ruined by the producer's D- fan fiction take on Jordans works.

[–] Sixner@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Same. I'm ready for it to flop, but I am pretty excited for it.

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I couldn’t get more than a few minutes into the first episode of TM. Maybe I’ll give it another go.

I really loved those games as a kid.

[–] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 2 points 7 months ago

It takes a bit of time to warm up, but once it does, it's pretty entertaining. It's not some masterpiece, but it's fun and ridiculous, and knows it is.

[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Binge watching never changes.

[–] blackluster117@possumpat.io 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if they'll sneak a Ron Perlman monologue in somewhere.

[–] DeathbringerThoctar@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

They had goddamned better

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

To the seas! 🏴‍☠️

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

I have a decent pirating software but I also have amazon prime just for the delivery stuff so I will definitely make sure to watched the first few episodes "legally"

If it's only meh I will start watching it via the seas so amazon can actually see in their statistics that someone's stated watching it and gave up.

If it's good I will continue watching it through prime so they have reassurance that they should make a second season.

If the only people who like it watch it by pirating they will never get a second season.

[–] rez_doggie@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Yarr

[–] kindenough@kbin.social 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Come on and be good, I have been looking forward to this.

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Come on and be good, I have been looking forward to this.

[–] Nobody@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm skeptical, but I'll give anything Walton Goggins does a chance.

[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 3 points 7 months ago

Same here, he's one of those actors that's just consistently good. Even in mediocre projects you know he's at least going to be the best part.

[–] kindenough@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Come on and be good, I have been looking forward to this.

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Come on and be good, I have been looking forward to this.

[–] meowmeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago

omg im so excited!!!!!!

[–] kindenough@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Come on and be good, I have been looking forward to this.

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Come on and be good, I have been looking forward to this.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

This is gonna be another massive flop isnt it... the trailers arent amazing.

[–] kakes@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 months ago

I thought the trailer I saw was cool.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

scuttlebutt is it's to beat the negative reviews