Yeah, no. My take was actually optimistically positive in the first episode, despite my gripes, and I was ready to actually like this series despite it falling far below what it should be, but this is entirely on Jonathan Nolan as a director, and this was just fucking ridiculously stupid and bad action directing, to the point of completely taking me out of it. All the jokes are just stupid and crude, basic surface humor. It's not intelligent or quirky in the way that Fallout can be. The action makes no sense at all.
5 minutes and 30 seconds in, and a mounted machine gun is spitting bullets directly at, yet completely all around the guy. They could have had it start right when he reached the corner, but no. I audibly cried "Oh, come on!" Despite this, I still carried along, following the story and laughing at the stupid degeneracy, as basic as it was. But then, after a ridiculously gory and gratuitous shootout, where it establishes that The Ghoul (what, is he the only fucking one now?) is a bad guy (TM), and a total "shoots first, gives no chances" badass, he just decides to not shoot quirky vault girl (yes, we get it, the joke is tired already to the point that the old hag's line is not funny) for about a full minute, despite that we're then shown--after Maximus shows up--that he was in fact actually just going to shoot her, but mister fastguns waits for clunky metal man to sprint like 3 at least 4-5 meters in what would have taken at least 3-4 seconds, minimum, just so he can dive in front of the helpfully apparently standard bullet and not crush her on the landing despite having no training. There was no reason to set the scene up this way. He could have made it questionable, not completely fucking unbelievably scripted. Thanks for waiting four seconds to take your shot evil man. I think I just really, really don't like Jonathan Nolan, because I don't like total hacks.
The first episode showed some promise, but the show still hasn't decided to pick a tone, it still looks cheap and was clearly shot with different cheap digital cameras despite the style it's making an amateurish attempt at half-copying. But this episode just completely jumped the shark.
Aaaand then the episode kept going, getting even stupider on a climbing azimuth. The dialogue is awful, and I swear these fucking Millennial writers (of which I am one) grew up watching the Pokemon anime thinking it was high art. And now, looking at their previous writing credits, anyone could have predicted this beforehand. One thing sure as shit isn't a meritocracy now, and it's Hollywood scriptwriting.
Review by LNeroBlockedParent2024-04-20T01:50:10Z
Yeah, no. My take was actually optimistically positive in the first episode, despite my gripes, and I was ready to actually like this series despite it falling far below what it should be, but this is entirely on Jonathan Nolan as a director, and this was just fucking ridiculously stupid and bad action directing, to the point of completely taking me out of it. All the jokes are just stupid and crude, basic surface humor. It's not intelligent or quirky in the way that Fallout can be. The action makes no sense at all.
5 minutes and 30 seconds in, and a mounted machine gun is spitting bullets directly at, yet completely all around the guy. They could have had it start right when he reached the corner, but no. I audibly cried "Oh, come on!" Despite this, I still carried along, following the story and laughing at the stupid degeneracy, as basic as it was.
But then, after a ridiculously gory and gratuitous shootout, where it establishes that The Ghoul (what, is he the only fucking one now?) is a bad guy (TM), and a total "shoots first, gives no chances" badass, he just decides to not shoot quirky vault girl (yes, we get it, the joke is tired already to the point that the old hag's line is not funny) for about a full minute, despite that we're then shown--after Maximus shows up--that he was in fact actually just going to shoot her, but mister fastguns waits for clunky metal man to sprint
like 3at least 4-5 meters in what would have taken at least 3-4 seconds, minimum, just so he can dive in front of the helpfully apparently standard bullet and not crush her on the landing despite having no training. There was no reason to set the scene up this way. He could have made it questionable, not completely fucking unbelievably scripted. Thanks for waiting four seconds to take your shot evil man. I think I just really, really don't like Jonathan Nolan, because I don't like total hacks.The first episode showed some promise, but the show still hasn't decided to pick a tone, it still looks cheap and was clearly shot with different cheap digital cameras despite the style it's making an amateurish attempt at half-copying. But this episode just completely jumped the shark.
Aaaand then the episode kept going, getting even stupider on a climbing azimuth. The dialogue is awful, and I swear these fucking Millennial writers (of which I am one) grew up watching the Pokemon anime thinking it was high art. And now, looking at their previous writing credits, anyone could have predicted this beforehand. One thing sure as shit isn't a meritocracy now, and it's Hollywood scriptwriting.