The only tolerable thing about this show is the ghoul, and that is because of the actor playing him. He was legendary in The Shield and does a good job here – with what he has been given. Other than that, crikey. I know, I know, hearing me complaining about the show is getting old, but what else can be said? Episode 4 could have been the start of something interesting, but now two episodes later, the show is truly back to being its old self, a nonsensical piece of oh-so-random “entertainment”.
NCR is gone
The bad jokes and the vulgarity are back. That is not the main problem, however. It’s the damn randomness of it all. While the plot is slowly moseying along, it’s incredibly spartan in actually telling us something cool and important. The show is just random events filled to the brim with Fallout references. “Hey, remember this thing? Here is the NCR flag. Remember? Let’s play the theme music of New Vegas while our protagonist looks at the flag“. While at the same time, in the same damn episode, nuking and removing them from the lore.
Another problem I have with the Fallout show is that the wasteland of the West Coast feels incredibly small. We constantly follow people meandering back and forth, with no real purpose or goal, and somehow they all end up at the same place. They run into each other all the time, which gives the impression that the wasteland is incredibly tiny and fairly easy to traverse. It just feels off and adds to the randomness factor of it all. Maybe that was the purpose – how you in the games get sidetracked regularly. But it doesn’t excuse the tiny size of the location.
Please, one good show!
For once I would like something that I enjoyed from my youth made into something good. Not to join the sea of countless other franchises that have failed.
In the immortal words of Red Letter Media:
– “How does it feel to live long enough to see all your favorite franchises go down in flames?“
/Thomas
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