The soundtrack is fantastic. All those songs from the Fallout games. Having fun so far!
Finch and bear are reunited #poi
The best machine gun drone I have ever seen.
Love it love it love it only problem i see is having a scare every five minutes knowing i d9dnt save my game progress its that good
Our Lucy is just starting to figure things out. By the way, that iron man fell in love with Maximus :joy: This episode flowed like water.
The show is great so far, my tiniest complaint is that there is no epic title sequence.
“I’d offer you one of these cherry tomatoes, but you got a hole in ‘yo neck…”
5:20 Dr. Wilzig and his dog evade automatic machine gun fire unscathed because it's convenient for the plot. The Enclave has perfected cold fusion but their turrets have shitty targeting systems? Come on...
Weird pacing and story beats in this episode. Everything felt dragged out and way too … circumstantial?
Finch and Bear adventures :hearts: Michael Emerson is stellar as ever. Can't wait to see where it all leads.
Also still don't care about Brotherhood wannabe guy.
Goggins' Ghoul just seems like a poor man's western Deadpool atm so no wonder people are all over him. Hoping for a bit more depth there.
All in on Lucy's journey. Wanna see her slowly become a surface badass. Why tf couldn't she get a weapon from Ma though!
Am I the only one who is disappointed? Walton Goggins is by far the best part of this show but that's it.
What are the chances that all 4 main characters bumped into each other in just a couple of days...
The quality of writing, so far, is more like Westworld S3-4 than S1.
I liked the first episode well enough, but I quite frankly hated this episode.
I'm primarily annoyed that they shoved in a romance for Lucy, too soon and unnecessarily imo. There was no need for it, and it felt incredibly cringy and forced. Maybe would've been nicer with some build up.
Past that, I'm annoyed at a lot of small parts that add up. I laughed out loud at the ridiculous stormtroopers aim of that minigun. The inconsistent experience levels for the power armour user. A lot of convenient writing or poor writing hijinks throughout.
I came out of the first episode looking forward to the rest of the season, but this episode has me honestly questioning whether I wanna see the next one.
Particularly because I hate that they forced a romance on Lucy. That was and is completely unnecessary, especially in a story like this(so far)
Michael Rapaport dieing is always gonna be great television. All my homies hate Michael Rapaport
Yes. Kill off Michael Rapaport. He's gone too far in to the deep end with his right wing jew views.
The humor is there same as the game. And the Chicken guy scene :laughing:
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.
WHY IS THIS SHOW SO GOD DAMN GOOD!
Was that Tom Green doing it with the chickens?
Don’t know the game, don’t care about the game. All the 10s are from people who are saying it’s exactly like the game and go Lucy !! Ok this is a tv show not your PlayStation.
So far it is a nice comedy. Too much exaggeration in scenes to impress but has some good laughs. Nothing more. I don’t get the fuzz at all.
And we are already on third episode with no understanding of anything.
Better than ep 1 but the episode seemed too long and still a bit all over the place trying to follow too many story threads.
Apart from it also being based on a video game, there is no comparison between this show and The Last of Us. This is basically a silly comedy because they cant make a serious drama with deep character development when the shows theme includes so much absurdity. At least it should lean into the comedy more to hit the right tone. Of course a lot of this stuff will work for lovers of the game and they won't be able to look at it objectively to see where it fails as a tv show.
Yet, I didn't hate it overall and hopefully it will keep improving. I'm interested enough to see where it goes.
How prescient was Knight Titus's casting?
anti-knight
"where's the #@%&$ apartheed?"
At times she seems stvpid, but that end of the chapter gives me hope that she's not an asshole character....
The ghoul is the cowboy from the beginning of chapter 1?
Who the fvck is the Doctor...?
Maximus is such an xsshole...
“Well, Maybe Not, But I’m Gonna Make Myself Welcome.”
- Cooper
I was so pissed they offed the puppy, I had to pause the show :( when the puppy was the only reason Wilzing chose to escape.
And then I was happy the puppy was okay, but like Wilzig never got to know that, and I 100% believe he chose to die cause he thought his puppy was dead :(
I was surprised to see a couple of viewers were turned off by the fact that one of the characters was played by Michael Rappaport. Actually, I didn't find that scene off-putting. In fact, I thought it was a pretty good casting choice. After all, we only get to see Knight Titus right before he dies. Rappaport came off as prickly and offensive, which is exactly what that scene called for.
My beef is with the Maximus character. If you didn't know better you'd think that scene and many of them to follow were written by the same people who scripted Amos and Andy. Could that character be any more excruciatingly stereotypical? Nearly every Maximus scene was painful to watch.
I agree with many other commentators: the level of believability was relatively low. But you have to take it all in stride since the heroine, Lucy, is truly clueless.
Actually, the best part of this episode were the character actors, who did a sensational job of selling the premise of Lucy being entirely out of her element. Special Kudos to Dale Dickey who truly stole scenes with her spot on portrayal of the irascible Ma June. That performance alone made the episode worthwhile.
Walton Goggins' character is quite confusing. A bad guy that is not necessarily a bad guy. His performance will be hard to judge until we see him in more episodes.
Moreover, I share the commentator's observations regarding the blatant animal cruelty depicted at the start of this episode. The filmmaker presents it abruptly, without preparing the audience, making it a direct and jarring experience. They could have made the same point in a much more subtle way. So it appears to be an intentional attempt to shock people (probably for ratings).
Overall, this was an uneven episode with scenes that were offensive due to the subject matter or the lack of credibility, combined with portions that contained a couple of stellar performances.
Damn I was excited to see Michael Emerson again.
An entertaining but very weird episode. "I thought it would be easier for you to carry my HEAD "
How did he know her name? :thinking:
Grandma carried the whole exchange there. She was awesome.
Did they replaced China with USSR in the show? Shame. It was an unique part of the lore.
It just occurred to me that they never said who dropped the bombs. If it's done purely to not piss off Chinese government that would be hilarious.
Did not play the game, but does that injection stimpax heal anything?
Pacing is better than episode 1! The costume and set designs are fantastic, but some of the writing decisions- like that turret missing at really short range early in the episode - are really odd.
After sitting through Rebel Moon. Science fiction that wasn’t fun or engaging. I feel so much better watching an episode of Fallout afterwards.
Hey, I remember that town! :)
Loving the show so far.
Finally! Someone with the guts to help!
That skeleton in the high chair was a small adult. :joy:
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22nd century and Michael Rapaport is still an asshole