I'm cautiously optimistic! Twisted Metal surprised me, and maybe this will too!
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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
All I know is, a certain group got incredibly triggered over the woke brotherhood and that means at least it has potential!
The Brotherhood of Steel is all about black heritage in this? Sounds fine to me.
What's woke about the brotherhood in this series?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
Maybe they got confused because the BoS is actually an US military remnant
People thought fallout 4 was good, so i'm not holding my breath
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.
Same. I'm ready for it to flop, but I am pretty excited for it.
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.
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.
Binge watching never changes.
I wonder if they'll sneak a Ron Perlman monologue in somewhere.
They had goddamned better
To the seas! 🏴☠️
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.
Yarr
Come on and be good, I have been looking forward to this.
Come on and be good, I have been looking forward to this.
lol
I'm skeptical, but I'll give anything Walton Goggins does a chance.
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.
Come on and be good, I have been looking forward to this.
Come on and be good, I have been looking forward to this.
lol
omg im so excited!!!!!!
Come on and be good, I have been looking forward to this.
Come on and be good, I have been looking forward to this.
lol
This is gonna be another massive flop isnt it... the trailers arent amazing.
I thought the trailer I saw was cool.
scuttlebutt is it's to beat the negative reviews