It is on the way to a wasteland near you. Amazon has bought to rights to make a Fallout TV show. It is all really, really early, so there is nothing specific about it yet. I am hoping that Dogmeat will be the star.

Eeeeeh, I’ll try to have an open mind, but I’m not expecting much.

Oh come on, they might get Shia La Beouf to star. Or Tom Cruise!

Or Don Johnson!!

I know, Nicholas Cage!

Keanu

Whoa!

Come to think of it, he is already in Cyberpunk 2077

Yep. Did you ever see A Boy and his Dog?

Sure, I'll check it out.

I tried it. I did not make it past the first five minutes of casual rape and then the lament that the raiders murdered their victim, since then the 'hero' couldn't have his own turn on her.

Yeah he was a scumbag. Definitely not a hero. Especially after what he did at the end.

Back on topic, I just wonder what they would do with it? Like what they are going to base the story on. It has potential, but there is a lot they’ve got to get right.

One would imagine it would be a classic Fallout story of a Vault opening up for the first time and sending people out to scout around. Or the even classicer Fallout story of a Vault kicking someone out to find a water chip or some other macguffin. TBH, that would be a good starting point for a story that would have the character(s) traveling around and discovering the world for the first time. It would be convenient from a story telling point of view, because that way the audience can learn how the new world works at the same pace as the characters.

Hmm, yeah, I think I could see it working a bit like the CW’s The 100.

I am most certainly intrigued by it and part of me is definitely excited, but a little concerned that it won't translate well into a TV series. I'm always somewhat skeptical of video games turned into movies or shows. But apparently it is being made by the producers of Westworld (which I haven't seen but I always hear about how great it is), which makes me feel more optimistic. I think the setting lends itself to being a TV show much more than The Elder Scrolls, anyhow.

They need to stay completely away from the stories of the games. Unless maybe there are some indirect references to the Master, the Institute, Project Purity, Reclamation Day, etc., I think it'd be a bad idea to have the actual games' stories be a part of it. One exception would be the NCR, depending on when and where and how they do it. There's so much else that can be explored, though. So many states that haven't even been touched, and we've gone as far as, what, 210 years past the bombs falling? We could even explore outside the U.S. as well.

You covered some of my thoughts here. So many things they’d need to get right. I’ve seen the first and second seasons of Westworld and it honestly feels like a “living” video game. I think if anyone can pull it off, these producers have the best chance of doing so.

Just watched the first episode last night. Not going to say anything spoilerish, except for one quote at the end. Hit and run impressions:

Stimpaks!

Jet!

Vault Boy Bobblehead!

Okay, enough of that. Now for the quote that will be stuck in my head for a long time...

"Why, is this an Amish production of The Count of Monte Cristo, or the weirdest circle jerk I’ve ever been invited to?” The Ghoul

It's on Amazon Prime, dangit. Not sure if we have Prime. If not, I don't mind waiting.

I'm enjoying the crap out of it through 5 eps.

I watched about half the first episode. It definitely has the look and feel of Fallout 4 down perfectly. All the art design is exactly the same. It also has that dark Fallout wit, which is kind of funny, kind of *gasp, did you just say that*. Like the not at all subtle allusions of incest and cousins in the Vault.

I thought the layout of multiple separate vaults that are interconnected to be odd. That still throws me, as we have never seen that in a game. But I think they subtly explained it through the incest, and the need for fresh DNA to avert a rash of Hapsburg Chins.

There is certainly a big mystery in the Vault portion of this episode. Who is dear old Dad really? Who is this Raider boss? Etc... So now Lucy certainly has an inciting incident to go exploring in the world.

I only watched a little bit of Maximus' portion. I did like that I was immediately able to identify him and the others as being in the Brotherhood of Steel. At first it kind of looked like a gang initiation. But they were all wearing matching shirts and pants, like they were uniforms, and I could see bunker entrances all around. So instead I think he is the outsider kid adopted by the Brotherhood, and as such I bet he gets beat up by the "pure blood" members who were born into it.

And finally Walton Goggins. I forget the character's name. I think he becomes a ghoul, and we will see him again in the present day. I actually liked him, which is saying a lot for me. I can't stand the guy. Which is through absolutely no fault of his own. The first time I ever saw him was on the TV show The Shield. He played such a vile, disgusting, weaselly worm of a corrupt cop so well that it is forever colored my perception of him. Needless to say, that makes him great for playing a villain to me.

But this time out I really liked him, and his brief little scene with his daughter. So I am looking forward to seeing more of him, maybe not as a douche-canoe that I will love to hate, but someone I can actually root for (this is Fallout, so I am not getting my hopes too high).

In any case, I am glad they started the show out with him, in the past. I loved how they used the setting of the child's birthday party to show the Old World. The Mr. Handy, the tv sets, the cars, etc... I also really loved how people went out of their way to *not* pay attention to the news. Like turning off the TV when the weatherman is saying he can't give the forecast for next week, when there might not *be* a next week. And of course, he was right about that...

So my guess is we are going to have 3 main POV characters in the show. Lucy, Max, and The Ghoul.

So it's like Vault 101 would be interconnected with 102?

The game's art direction is like FO4, does this also mean it's set in the Boston area?

What I'm really curious to see is the whole water drama found in Fallout 1 brought to life. Although I got far into that game last summer/fall, I thought this was a great premise for the game. "YOU, find us some water, or we all perish!"

It is set in Los Angeles. I got to the end of the first episode, and you can clearly see the Santa Monica pier when she exits the vault.

I did a little reading, and apparently there are three interconnected vaults. It looks like each has its own exit to the surface, and their own dedicated connections to the other two. From what I gather they have nothing to do with one another except for once every few years they have arranged marriages in which they exchange members, to keep the family trees from turning into family vines.

I have been enjoying it more than I thought I would. Its a little less cheesy than I thought it would be. I particularly like how it surprises you by making you think it's going in one direction and then immediately doing a 180 into the opposite direction, often with the killing of characters you thought might be around for a while in the process.

Having watched Westworld, I can see some simalarities, particularly with The Ghoul, since the way they did the Walter Goggins character in Fallout reminds me so much of Ed Harris's character William/Man in Black in Westworld with how he was idealistic and kindhearted in his youth but became a completely jaded, amoral and ruthless gunfighter by the time the story begins.

My favorite line so far from The Ghoul: "Well, I ain't torturing you, sweetheart. I'm using you as bait." Although I got to admit the "weirdest circle jerk" line was pretty good too.