Fallout takes its name and inspiration from the end times Americans in the late 1940s once feared. Set far in the future in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear war in the year 2077, Earth's terrain has been warped into a harsh wasteland overrun by mutants.
Didn't like the 60's? music playing all the time, extremley annoying.
I think they needed to better explain this is a TV show based on a video game. Virtually all the points you don't like are a part of the video game. Especially the 50's music and aesthetic. A big part of the game is that the transistor was either never invented or invented much later (hard to tell sometimes), and much of the world is still operating on tube tech. It's not meant to be an entirely serious look at what would actually happen in a nuclear end of the world. The whole series is slightly.... campy is the best word I have for it. Campy, yet gets serious and shows serious ethical situations with the vaults and life in general.
Perhaps the term you're looking for is 'Tongue-in-Cheek'. Humorous, satyrical etc.
I did end up skipping through a lot of it in the end, so perhaps I missed the nuances, and as I said, i'll give it another go, but it's probably just a bit too 'off' for me.
Ha another mistranslation from across the pond, I'm a cigarette smoker and you gents use a word for cigarette that is incredibly pejorative to gay people here.
But you get the basic meaning. Fallout is, at it's core satirical, but honestly the show didn't pull that portion of it off well. Which is what my long drawn out post was about really at it's core. It missed a lot of the silliness of the series.
It also reset the first 4 video games entirely, all of which were about various rebuilding of society outside the vaults... so that was an interesting narrative take.
No mistranslation that I can see
Camp - camp /kămp/
noun
Deliberate affectation or exaggeration of style, especially of popular or outdated style, for ironic or humorous effect.
Dolly Parton camp, Cher camp, Mae West camp, David Walliams camp etc
AFAIA non of them identify as gay
Doesn't have to mean sexuality (I'm not using the vile phrase used by the other poster), historically some camp culture has been queer icons but not exclusively and less so today. I disagree that camp equates to gay here in the UK. Some of us are more sophisticated than that.
A cowboy? 50's music soundtrack? - camp as hell.
Only watched 3/4 first episode though. I am with the other UK poster though in that it's not doing it for me this one…
by lighton posted 4 months ago
ekgerke said:
Story was like, wtf? (Poor Silo immitation)
The story came with the first Fallout game about 14 years before the first Silo book was written, so yeah. Imitation for sure.
:lol:
by xxFelixDCatxx posted 4 months ago
merc said:
I was pleasantly surprised, I've never played the game but was aware of the basic story outline and while I felt the writing/story dropped off a bit at the end, overall I really enjoyed it.
I'm glad there will be a second season.
The biggest conundrum I had was trying to decide if I thought the main girl hot or not lol. The buggy eyes kinda threw me but I finally decided she was still pretty cute.
any one who uses the phrase "okey dokey" must be hot
Who else was disappointed at the cornfield scene in the mutant vault?
by xxFelixDCatxx posted 4 months ago
jimslim said:
Didn't like the 60's? music playing all the time, extremley annoying.
I think they needed to better explain this is a TV show based on a video game. Virtually all the points you don't like are a part of the video game. Especially the 50's music and aesthetic. A big part of the game is that the transistor was either never invented or invented much later (hard to tell sometimes), and much of the world is still operating on tube tech. It's not meant to be an entirely serious look at what would actually happen in a nuclear end of the world. The whole series is slightly.... campy is the best word I have for it. Campy, yet gets serious and shows serious ethical situations with the vaults and life in general.
Never played the game, and I hope i'm not being pedantic, as I think I understand what you're getting at, but 'camp' in the UK is more like saying its a bit 'gay', if I can say that on here:- https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/camp
Perhaps the term you're looking for is 'Tongue-in-Cheek'. Humorous, satyrical etc.
I did end up skipping through a lot of it in the end, so perhaps I missed the nuances, and as I said, i'll give it another go, but it's probably just a bit too 'off' for me.
Ha another mistranslation from across the pond, I'm a cigarette smoker and you gents use a word for cigarette that is incredibly pejorative to gay people here.
But you get the basic meaning. Fallout is, at it's core satirical, but honestly the show didn't pull that portion of it off well. Which is what my long drawn out post was about really at it's core. It missed a lot of the silliness of the series.
It also reset the first 4 video games entirely, all of which were about various rebuilding of society outside the vaults... so that was an interesting narrative take.
by ekgerke posted 4 months ago
jimslim said:
Story was like, wtf? (Poor Silo immitation)
The story came with the first Fallout game about 14 years before the first Silo book was written, so yeah. Imitation for sure.
by merc posted 4 months ago
proteinnerd said:
I was pleasantly surprised, I've never played the game but was aware of the basic story outline and while I felt the writing/story dropped off a bit at the end, overall I really enjoyed it.
I'm glad there will be a second season.
The biggest conundrum I had was trying to decide if I thought the main girl hot or not lol. The buggy eyes kinda threw me but I finally decided she was still pretty cute.
any one who uses the phrase "okey dokey" must be hot
by proteinnerd posted 5 months ago
I was pleasantly surprised, I've never played the game but was aware of the basic story outline and while I felt the writing/story dropped off a bit at the end, overall I really enjoyed it.
I'm glad there will be a second season.
The biggest conundrum I had was trying to decide if I thought the main girl hot or not lol. The buggy eyes kinda threw me but I finally decided she was still pretty cute.
by nightcrow posted 5 months ago
watched the whole season... wasnt too impressed. It felt a bit all over the place, cant say I fully understood it. (i have never played the games)
by jimslim posted 5 months ago
xxFelixDCatxx said:
Didn't like the 60's? music playing all the time, extremley annoying.
I think they needed to better explain this is a TV show based on a video game. Virtually all the points you don't like are a part of the video game. Especially the 50's music and aesthetic. A big part of the game is that the transistor was either never invented or invented much later (hard to tell sometimes), and much of the world is still operating on tube tech. It's not meant to be an entirely serious look at what would actually happen in a nuclear end of the world. The whole series is slightly.... campy is the best word I have for it. Campy, yet gets serious and shows serious ethical situations with the vaults and life in general.
Never played the game, and I hope i'm not being pedantic, as I think I understand what you're getting at, but 'camp' in the UK is more like saying its a bit 'gay', if I can say that on here:- https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/camp
Perhaps the term you're looking for is 'Tongue-in-Cheek'. Humorous, satyrical etc.
I did end up skipping through a lot of it in the end, so perhaps I missed the nuances, and as I said, i'll give it another go, but it's probably just a bit too 'off' for me.
by xxFelixDCatxx posted 5 months ago
jimslim said:
Didn't like the 60's? music playing all the time, extremley annoying. Didnt like how they trivialized extreme violence (like cutting that girls finger off).
Goggins was excellent as ususal.
Story was like, wtf? (Poor Silo immitation)
Reminded me a bit of the film 'Damnation Alley' for some reason, but not in a good way.
That close to the mushroom cloud? You're toast dude!
I'll probably watch another season, cos Goggins is in it, and there's little else to watch lately!
I think they needed to better explain this is a TV show based on a video game. Virtually all the points you don't like are a part of the video game. Especially the 50's music and aesthetic. A big part of the game is that the transistor was either never invented or invented much later (hard to tell sometimes), and much of the world is still operating on tube tech. It's not meant to be an entirely serious look at what would actually happen in a nuclear end of the world. The whole series is slightly.... campy is the best word I have for it. Campy, yet gets serious and shows serious ethical situations with the vaults and life in general.
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I think they needed to better explain this is a TV show based on a video game. Virtually all the points you don't like are a part of the video game. Especially the 50's music and aesthetic. A big part of the game is that the transistor was either never invented or invented much later (hard to tell sometimes), and much of the world is still operating on tube tech. It's not meant to be an entirely serious look at what would actually happen in a nuclear end of the world. The whole series is slightly.... campy is the best word I have for it. Campy, yet gets serious and shows serious ethical situations with the vaults and life in general.
Never played the game, and I hope i'm not being pedantic, as I think I understand what you're getting at, but 'camp' in the UK is more like saying REDACTED -
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/camp
Perhaps the term you're looking for is 'Tongue-in-Cheek'. Humorous, satyrical etc.
I did end up skipping through a lot of it in the end, so perhaps I missed the nuances, and as I said, i'll give it another go, but it's probably just a bit too 'off' for me.
Ha another mistranslation from across the pond, I'm a cigarette smoker and you gents use a word for cigarette that is incredibly pejorative to gay people here.
But you get the basic meaning. Fallout is, at it's core satirical, but honestly the show didn't pull that portion of it off well. Which is what my long drawn out post was about really at it's core. It missed a lot of the silliness of the series.
It also reset the first 4 video games entirely, all of which were about various rebuilding of society outside the vaults... so that was an interesting narrative take.
No mistranslation that I can see
Camp - camp /kămp/
noun
Deliberate affectation or exaggeration of style, especially of popular or outdated style, for ironic or humorous effect.
Dolly Parton camp, Cher camp, Mae West camp, David Walliams camp etc
AFAIA non of them identify as gay
Doesn't have to mean sexuality (I'm not using the vile phrase used by the other poster), historically some camp culture has been queer icons but not exclusively and less so today. I disagree that camp equates to gay here in the UK. Some of us are more sophisticated than that.
A cowboy? 50's music soundtrack? - camp as hell.
Only watched 3/4 first episode though. I am with the other UK poster though in that it's not doing it for me this one…
Story was like, wtf? (Poor Silo immitation)
The story came with the first Fallout game about 14 years before the first Silo book was written, so yeah. Imitation for sure.
:lol:
I'm glad there will be a second season.
The biggest conundrum I had was trying to decide if I thought the main girl hot or not lol. The buggy eyes kinda threw me but I finally decided she was still pretty cute.
any one who uses the phrase "okey dokey" must be hot
Who else was disappointed at the cornfield scene in the mutant vault?
I think they needed to better explain this is a TV show based on a video game. Virtually all the points you don't like are a part of the video game. Especially the 50's music and aesthetic. A big part of the game is that the transistor was either never invented or invented much later (hard to tell sometimes), and much of the world is still operating on tube tech. It's not meant to be an entirely serious look at what would actually happen in a nuclear end of the world. The whole series is slightly.... campy is the best word I have for it. Campy, yet gets serious and shows serious ethical situations with the vaults and life in general.
Never played the game, and I hope i'm not being pedantic, as I think I understand what you're getting at, but 'camp' in the UK is more like saying its a bit 'gay', if I can say that on here:-
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/camp
Perhaps the term you're looking for is 'Tongue-in-Cheek'. Humorous, satyrical etc.
I did end up skipping through a lot of it in the end, so perhaps I missed the nuances, and as I said, i'll give it another go, but it's probably just a bit too 'off' for me.
Ha another mistranslation from across the pond, I'm a cigarette smoker and you gents use a word for cigarette that is incredibly pejorative to gay people here.
But you get the basic meaning. Fallout is, at it's core satirical, but honestly the show didn't pull that portion of it off well. Which is what my long drawn out post was about really at it's core. It missed a lot of the silliness of the series.
It also reset the first 4 video games entirely, all of which were about various rebuilding of society outside the vaults... so that was an interesting narrative take.
Story was like, wtf? (Poor Silo immitation)
The story came with the first Fallout game about 14 years before the first Silo book was written, so yeah. Imitation for sure.
I'm glad there will be a second season.
The biggest conundrum I had was trying to decide if I thought the main girl hot or not lol. The buggy eyes kinda threw me but I finally decided she was still pretty cute.
any one who uses the phrase "okey dokey" must be hot
I'm glad there will be a second season.
The biggest conundrum I had was trying to decide if I thought the main girl hot or not lol. The buggy eyes kinda threw me but I finally decided she was still pretty cute.
I think they needed to better explain this is a TV show based on a video game. Virtually all the points you don't like are a part of the video game. Especially the 50's music and aesthetic. A big part of the game is that the transistor was either never invented or invented much later (hard to tell sometimes), and much of the world is still operating on tube tech. It's not meant to be an entirely serious look at what would actually happen in a nuclear end of the world. The whole series is slightly.... campy is the best word I have for it. Campy, yet gets serious and shows serious ethical situations with the vaults and life in general.
Never played the game, and I hope i'm not being pedantic, as I think I understand what you're getting at, but 'camp' in the UK is more like saying its a bit 'gay', if I can say that on here:-
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/camp
Perhaps the term you're looking for is 'Tongue-in-Cheek'. Humorous, satyrical etc.
I did end up skipping through a lot of it in the end, so perhaps I missed the nuances, and as I said, i'll give it another go, but it's probably just a bit too 'off' for me.
Goggins was excellent as ususal.
Story was like, wtf? (Poor Silo immitation)
Reminded me a bit of the film 'Damnation Alley' for some reason, but not in a good way.
That close to the mushroom cloud? You're toast dude!
I'll probably watch another season, cos Goggins is in it, and there's little else to watch lately!
I think they needed to better explain this is a TV show based on a video game. Virtually all the points you don't like are a part of the video game. Especially the 50's music and aesthetic. A big part of the game is that the transistor was either never invented or invented much later (hard to tell sometimes), and much of the world is still operating on tube tech. It's not meant to be an entirely serious look at what would actually happen in a nuclear end of the world. The whole series is slightly.... campy is the best word I have for it. Campy, yet gets serious and shows serious ethical situations with the vaults and life in general.