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Amazon's Fallout TV series gets a 2024 release date
- ShamelessC 3y agoOh no…
- lnsru 3y agoExactly. It can become a masterpiece or get dragged into dirt. I am really curious about it and would even get Prime membership for this series.
- shiroiuma 3y agoIt's not that bad, based on what I've seen of Amazon's track record. If it's like The Expanse, it'll be really great (though Expanse s4-6 wasn't quite as good as s1-3 IMO, with s4 being the weakest; it seemed like the budget was kinda low there). On the other hand, if it's like Rings of Power, it'll be visually fantastic but with an uninspired story and an overall bland, paint-by-numbers feeling. The place where something can be either a masterpiece, or utter trash, is the SyFy Channel. SyFy is where s1-3 of The Expanse came from. But it's also the company that recently gave us "The Ark", which is possibly the worst sci-fi TV show I have ever seen, and that includes some seriously ridiculous TV shows in the 1970s and 80s. And somehow, they've even ordered a second season for this vile excuse for sci-fi.
- baq 3y agoAmazon-sponsored The Expanse 606 won a Hugo recently https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2023-hugo-awards/ https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2023-hugo-awards/ so there's hope!
- hef19898 3y agoWith tze difference that The Expense had great writing and is based on great books. The LotR series was, well, not good. And video game adaptions are incredibly difficult to do well. But there is hope in deed, even it is going to be yet another post-apocalyptic setting.
- NobodyNada 3y ago> The Exp[a]nse had great writing and is based on great books Also, the authors of the book were writers and producers of the show.
- hef19898 3y agoExpanse, Expense, that's what you get from doing expansive expense reports in parallel!
- acomjean 3y agoI Hope it turns out well. Generally I think Amazon does a good job with the prime original series. I liked the Expanse. The peripheral was interesting. Even the LotR “rings of power” I found enjoyable, and maybe better than expected after those hobit movies.. Not perfect but it had heart, some humor, good music (Bear Mccready, Fiona apple!) thought a bit too sentimental as LOTR tends to be.. HBO took the “last of us” and did something decent I fall into hope springs eternal camp. But I’d rather play the story than just watch it… I loved the uncharted games, but am never going to see an uncharted movie. In this case I watched my partner play fallout. It had a story, but you play you, not a specific character. But a settlement always needs your help.
- imetatroll 3y agoTLOR... TWOT. Lets see if they can actually make something watchable this time around.
- gaoryrt 3y agoI hope they keep those classic songs on the radio in the TV show.
- rchaud 3y agoI have a bad feeling most of the oldies songs will end up as covers to appeal to TV audiences.
- AndrewOMartin 3y agoI'd be amused to see it include Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy style expository inserts.
- jl6 3y agoI recall the games managing to channel some of the bleakness into dark humor. I don't have a lot of hope that the writers will be able to achieve that with live-action characters. If they don't go down the comedy route, it seems certain to be an incredibly grim trudge.
- mattigames 3y ago"The boys" by amazon too has a lot of bleakness turn into dark humor without being exactly comedy.
- madeofpalk 3y agoThe Boys is explicitly Dark/Gore Comedy imho.
- barrkel 3y agoThe Boys is a comedy. The entire premise is satirizing superpowered heroes, as if they existed.
- mattigames 3y agoYeah no, I didn't laught when the protagonist gf got killed by a "train", or when the Nazi girl cries deformed and powerless in bed before deciding to commit suicide. I did laugh a few other times but categorizing it as a comedy is a disservice, maybe a tragicomedy or something like that would be more accurate.
- LinuxBender 3y agoI wanted to enjoy that show but most of the characters personalities map perfectly onto some people I used to work with. I have to wonder if corporate culture is what inspired the foundation for the characters.
- m463 3y agoI played fallout 4 recently, and there was a military recruiting office. Instead of a chair behind the recruiter's desk, there was wheelchair. wow.
- Tade0 3y agoMy litmus test on whether this will have any legs to stand on is if they get Ron Perlman on board.
- vinckr 3y agoMaybe this is the first good show adapting a video game story. Most adaptations being abysmal just shows how bad the story writing is for almost all video games, even those that are lauded for their story.
- newsclues 3y agoTwisted Metal was surprisingly good recently
- sib301 3y agoI recommend you check out The Last of Us on HBO.
- hoseja 3y agoWhat prevents Arcane from not qualifying?
- acdanger 3y agoArcane is excellent - animation is stellar. BUT I didn't even realize it was a video game adaptation until two episodes in.
- koolba 3y agoWould be neat if the show ends up being parallel universe seasons where each is the same starting situation with a different character. Basically each season would be a speed run through the show with different starting stats. The dialog for the original is riveting if you start with the bare min minimum intelligence.
- gchamonlive 3y agoNo need, they will all end up on a quest either looking for a child or a parent.
- HPsquared 3y agoWith the world tension scale being what it is, this hits a bit close to home.
- Ekaros 3y agoWriting can't be worse than what Bethesda has done. So no worries there. Hopefully it just does the scale well enough and do not aim for anything too big. Fallout is a setting where even bit more mundane story could work.
- BiteCode_dev 3y agoYes, but that's the problem, isn't it. Fallout 1 and 2 were master pieces precisely because they let you write your own story more or less. You could finish Fallout 1 without killing anybody, or massacre any young kids with a sadistic touch. You could go directly to the end game zone using stealth, or fast run to a ghoul infested city to save them for annihilation with the right timing. And when you succeeded in what you believed was your final mission, you were betrayed by your own family and discovered that's where the game really started! Hell, you could win the game by enrolling in the end boss team or convince him to suicide! Bethesda's fallout is nothing like that, it's a vanilla yogurt. Fallout 3 is a disgrace of hidden linearity where children are immortal and the world is mostly static. Characters are Manichean and simplistic. The conclusion of the scenario falls so flat it's not even on the C major scale. Writing a good Fallout is not following the game story, which is very vague, but rather embracing the twisted spirit, ludicrous humour and weird lore of the universe. If they go full "the boyz" + "z nation", amazon could pull it off. Not so much if they go "ring of power" + "the walking dead". You cannot write a good fallout story with good vs bad characters.
- Justsignedup 3y agoThe reality is that fo 3/4 reached more people than 1/2 ever did. Hence the popularity. In any case... People need to write stories vs just rehashing all the ones we already got. I mean how many resident evil movies and shows are there? Far more than there should have been.
- Loughla 3y agoYeah but did 3/4 reach more people just because there are more gamers now? When fallout 1 came out, video game nerd was still a trope that existed.
- viraptor 3y ago> that it would adhere tightly to the games' visual and narrative style Mmm... Which game's visual style? Beyond the surface "wasteland" similarity, they are wildly different. The narrative has been simplified from NV to 4 as well.
- throw0101b 3y agoChris Stuckmann did a video entitled "The Video Game Adaptation Curse" where he points out that there have been a number of successful adaptations (animated, live-action): * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1e0q5Dwh18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1e0q5Dwh18 Certainly not all adaptions, or maybe even the majority of them, but we shouldn't be completely surprised that they happen.
- somedude895 3y agoThe fact that it's set in California makes me hopeful that it's more in the dreary and morbid Classic Fallout style, rather than the modern Bethesda interpretation, but that's probably wishful thinking.
- Supermancho 3y agoFallout show is going to suck. There's no chance it's remotely as good as Silo. Amazon has done pretty well on one front. Throwback movies. Recently, Totally Killer and The Other Zoey.