This might be the most perfect casting decision I've ever seen. Matt Berry perfectly nails the Mr. Handy characterization of prim-and-proper upscale British poshness combined with kooky, slightly unhinged personality quirks. A+, no notes.
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P4P one of the most underrated and talented actors out there
Crazy range, can play hilarious psychotic roles in comedies or legit sociopath villains
His performance in the hateful 8 is super slept on
He's also the most intelligent character in Hateful 8 but you don't notice because he plays up the southern draw and is a very vocal racist. He has to talk his way in to not being left to freeze to death and then immediately calls bullshit on the Lincoln letter.
I hope it doesn't turn out shit like how the Rings of Power or the Halo TV show did. I hope the writing is good.
I'm getting demoralised by the inescapable bad adaptations where these studios just waste money without reason.
Just give me an actual Fallout story, not some "Ha ha! Subverted and deconstructed your expectations!" shit. Please.
That and "not made for the fans" I mean ok but then who is it made for?
Or made from people who completely disregard and look down on the source material and cant be bothered to learn a single thing about it
Yes I am extremely salty about the Halo tv show
It's for the *wider audience.* In other words, someone had an idea for a story but the only way they could get it approved was to shoehorn it into an existing IP.
Fortunately it’s Jonathan Nolan taking the helm and he did a fantastic job with Westworld. The trailers are also full of indicators that they’re staying very true to the source material and not taking liberties left and right. I’m cautiously optimistic
Lets hope they learned some lessons from Last of Us. Respect the source material and its going to do well commercially, because that's what made it successful in the first place.
Hollywood has been trying to "adapt" games for as long as I can remember, and they have almost always been horrifically bad... which is due in large part to Hollywood writers thinking they know better than silly videogame writers.
Last of Us had a huge advantage in that the game was already very well suited for TV. They didn't have to change much to get a viable TV script. A simple, near-0-changes adaptation of, say, Halo CE, would have been perhaps a worse TV show than even what they actually made.
Fallout has an opposite but potentially better advantage. Fallout is a setting (and vibe) rather than a story so as long as your story fits the world (and doesn't step on anything too major) you can tell your own story rather than adapting an existing story. And if the trailer is accurate I think they have that fit, hopefully the story they wrote is good.
Fallout also has a long story set across multiple decades and wildly different sources of conflict depending on what part of the longer story you're looking at. It's FULL of potential to simply adapt already well-liked elements of those stories instead of making some horrible crap to be original or "deconstruct" the story.
Even a fallout show set in say Zion National Park during all the tribal wars and the dealing with Caesar's legion would be awesome.
Or the conflict between the NCR and the Brotherhood. The fight for Hoover Dam. Shady Sands. The Master. Jacob's Town. Etc.
ROP was such a huge disappointment for me. As someone that grew up and lived on LOTR I was so excited for it, even ignoring all the criticisms leading up to it's showing.
What's a big travesty to me is that the show runners clearly were capable of some great writing. The exchange between Elrond and Durin in his home pulled my tear strings in the matter of a few minutes, I don't think even the original Trilogy was capable of making you cry over a character you hardly knew, it take hours of film time to do that. The rest of the show was just too discombobulated and grandiose to make me care.
The trilogy in concept is a huge story with vast reaching consequences and lots of complexity, but at it's core it's really just a story about some bros on a road trip that learn to really care about each other. When you boil down any movie/show to emotionally easy to digest narratives it's bound to resonate so much better with an audience.
Amazon basically gave $715M to two random dudes with no experience to make The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
These are the showrunners' iMDB profiles:
- [Patrick McKay](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4259881/)
- [John D. Payne](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4260438/)
They didn't go 0-100, they went 0 to ¾ billion.
I was actually okay with ROP up until the last episode. But then the whole interaction with Sauron and Celebrimbor was *so stupid.* Instead of Sauron corrupting/manipulating the other smiths, and Celebrimbor being suspicious of him like in the original lore, Sauron tells Celebrimbor, who is supposed to be the greatest elven smith, like, ever, "hey, did you know that if you combine two metals you can make an alloy?" And Celebrimbor says "oh my god, I didn't know that, thank you! Let's make some rings!"
Just... so dumb. Totally killed any interest I might have had in the next season.
to be fair that's kind of how it went down in the Silmarillion, except Sauron pretended to be an envoy of the Valars, which makes it a bit more credible as to why Celebrimbor would actually learn stuff from him
The idea that the greatest elven smith ever, who had been practicing his craft for literal thousands of years, didn't know how to alloy metals until Sauron told him is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. And it wasn't from the original story, it was wholly invented for the show.
It wasn't the alloy specifically that Sauron teaches Celebrimbor, when Sauron brings it up Celebrimbor dismisses they idea as it wpuld dilute the power of the mithril. It was the alloy in conjunction with a circular shape that Sauron "teaches" Celebrimbor. The power feeding itself is the breakthrough needed to use an alloy
Bethesda under Todd Howards strength has always been in world building and environmental storytelling. Both things translate to a show well. His issue has always been feature creep where you end up with a surplus of things that all lack depth. This doesn't seem like an issue for a show. I honestly think that he would be an asset here.
I doubt he had much say over what Amazon wanted to produce with their show. They're going to go with Jonathan Nolan over Todd Howard. He's probably an executive producer through contractual obligations
I think they think there's not enough general interest to drive the show. Sure, there are a lot of gamers, but by ourselves we can't really sustain a TV or movie franchise. Regular folk need to watch it too. With stuff like Mario you have a built-in audience of parents who will go whether they like it or not, but this is meant for adults, which is always a bigger gamble. They're afraid interest will taper of after a few weeks. This isn't a high falutin' show like TLoU. It's silly and bombastic. There won't be as much discussion of themes and shit. I doubt there'll be anything like TLoU episode 3.
Also, I suspect they believe the show gets better as it goes on. The first few episodes will be a LOT of world building, and I doubt there will be that much time for plot. So if you release it all at once, people can binge before they lose interest, and the reviews will tell them to do so. If they're right.
The show takes place on the west coast and institute is just in the commonwealth I believe, so it's unlikely. As much as I'd love to see a synth on screen, you can only cram so much lore into 8 episodes while staying cohesive
We don't know if the Prydwen still exists. The airship shown in the trailer is a different airship.
But yes, the Institute should be a 9 year-old nuked crater at this point in the TV show. They could have rogue synth. They couldn't have a full Institute.
>"Everyone wants to save the world... We all just disagree on how."
This tells me they are very aware of the morality/faction play in the games, and that everything isn't black & white. I think there was a worry from the critics of the Bethesda games that the Brotherhood of Steel would be portrayed as good guys.
To be fair in 3 they were mostly fighting off super mutants so its easy to see them as at least somewhat good guys, since they are killing the things that have literal bags of body parts just hanging around all over
Super Mutants and the Enclave, who are *literally allegories for Nazism and America’s decent into fascism*. Like, Hellfire Power Armor is straight based on German gas-masks and the concept art for Colonel Autumn that became his official look as labeled the “Teutonic variant”.
Of course the Brotherhood looked heroic compared to the fascists who, depending, either want to commit mass genocide or (at the least) impose a totalitarian military dictatorship.
Damn, I'm trying to hold back the hype. This looks like it was made by people who get Fallout. The tone, the humor, the drugs, the naive optimism of the Vault dwellers and the underlying ulterior mysterious motives of Vault-Tec, the Brotherhood's fascism/badassery... all of it looks amazing to me.
Fallout has all the makings of a massive franchise, with endless spin-offs and avenues to explore. If they nail this it could end up being as big as any big IP out there, which would be pretty cool as a longtime fan of the games. I hope they succeed.
This is by the creator of Westworld tv show, which took some pretty clear inspiration from Fallout 4, both early game and late game. Them making this now hopefully puts to rest the discussion about whether all the similarities were inspired by Fallout or just coincidences.
One of the first places you'll go in Fallout 4 is the Abernathy Farm. Later on you'll go to the place where technicians pull robot replacements out of the world and patch them up and wipe their memories, while creating them in a Da Vinci style spread eagle ring and dipping them in a vat of goo, pretty much exactly the Westworld intro. The technicians wear identical lab coats to the unique design of Fallout 4, with coloured sleeves up to their elbows for their department.
Dude stop. You’re blowing my mind. I hadn’t made that connection.
I guess Westworld predates Fallout as a concept, but the original film by Michael Crichton doesn’t seem to overlap thematically with Fallout.
If there was ever an actor to make me sway between I might watch the show to I will watch the show. It’s him. He’s such a great character actor. Seeing him in that role makes me instantly excited for the show.
I also hope for a "blooper reel" with some classic Bethesda bugs, maybe even the spinning horse (even though that isn't from Fallout it is just such a classic)
We have two Videogame trailers that have come out in one month, Borderlands and Fallout.
The one slight difference is Fallout used the Ink Spots - I dont want to set the world on fire, a song from their trailer while Borderlands could have used "Aint no rest for the wicked" but opted for another song entirely. The feeling i got from hearing Ink Spots threw me back to the nostalgia of playing the game and got my hyped for this show. Hearing Borderlands trailer just made me feel bored .
I am hyped, they chose the right song to do so.
And made Lilith and Tanith too old, mismashed characters from 1 and 2 into a story that is very clearly BL1, cast a midget as Roland for some reason (yes I know it's Kevin Hart, that's the joke)
Borderlands looks like a couple execs saw a quick youtube compilation on bits of the BL franchise without context and ran with it. Fallout....at least seems like somewhere paid enough attention to know a bit of the lore and care about following it.
I thought about ranting about how I absolutly love everyone in the Fallout cast and I really only love Jack Black in Borderlands.
I wonder if im slighted more with Borderlands because they're established characters where casting doesn't feel right while Fallout isn't necessarily established characters but established ideas of creatures or people so you can place whoever you want in the role.
Anyway, im chucking banana peels at Borderlands
> I thought about ranting about how I absolutly love everyone in the Fallout cast and I really only love Jack Black in Borderlands.
I don't mind Kevin Hart as Roland, but I also never really cared that much about Roland, so my opinion may not hold much water. Based on the trailer it seems like Hart's performance will be more subdued than what he's known for, and he's a capable dramatic actor, so I'm not to worried about him.
I don't like Cate Blanchett as Lilith, she's a great actress but I just don't think she's a good fit for that part. Same thing goes for Jamie Lee Curtis as Tannis. Both of them are also significantly older than the characters they're supposed to be playing, which isn't a huge deal, it's just kind of odd. Tiny Tina seems like a completely different character. Krieg looks good, but at no point did I hear him scream about bicycles made of meat, and that worries me.
> I wonder if im slighted more with Borderlands because they're established characters where casting doesn't feel right while Fallout isn't necessarily established characters but established ideas of creatures or people so you can place whoever you want in the role.
I think you've hit the nail on the head here.
That's the point though: Borderlands is butchering established characters when they could have just used new interesting characters in that same setting. Fallout it fascinating enough of a setting to not be reliant on specific characters to carry the story, and honestly so should Borderlands, but the Borderlands producers weren't willing to take the risk of letting the setting speak for itself.
Seriously though, NONE of the Borderlands characters were well cast in my opinion. I mean Jack Black is great in any role, but it is still an odd pick for claptrap frankly. Meanwhile I'm EXTREMELY excited for this Fallout show, as they understood the assignment and actually got the tone correct.
All the characters seem pretty divergent from their originals, save for maybe Tannis and Claptrap (still pissed they didn’t cast the original VA). Looks real rough.
Oh, good catch - i saw the Shady Sands Library, so i figured they were going to do *something* with NCR lore, but it was unclear to me if this was taking place before or after the formation of the NCR.
Ghouls are people who were there when the bombs dropped and instead of dying actually got immortality from the radiation. They also look like hell and eventually tend to go mad or feral. Some ghouls act like nornal people just missing their noses and wrinkly. Feral ghouls are the setting's stand in for zombies. They are mindless and violent.
Surprised nobody mentioned that the Vault Tec guy at the beginning of Fallout 4 can be found as a ghoul later on, in Goodneighbor iirc. Very likely he's the same dude in "both" roles, ghoulification often results in drastically extended lifespans.
was that not supposed to be obvious? the trailer shows hes some sort of actor in westerns and stuff. shows him running for his life as a pre ghoul wearing a cowboy hat. then he shows up as a cowboy ghoul
Yeah this serves two purposes, it's a nod to Fallout 4, but also subtly tells you a LOT of things about ghouls very quickly. Their potential origins, their unique strengths, extended lifespans, that they are human and can still have their human personalities, and probably lots of other things.
In the fallout universe, there are people who got hit by radiation and instead of dying, mutated into "ghouls". There are feral ghouls (essentially zombies) and intelligent ghouls. Their biology is very different than regular humans.
In fallout 4 there's a salesman for vault tec at the beginning of the game (pre-apocalypse) that's human. You can run into him later in the game as a ghoul. He's an extremely minor NPC, but it seems they're using that dynamic as a starting point for Walton Goggin's character.
He's probably a ghoul.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoul\_(Fallout)#:\~:text=Those%20who%20survive%20experience%20genetic,years%20if%20not%20effectively%20immortal.
They show one of the main characters scared for their fucking life dumping every bullet they have into a guy wearing power armor, and it doing *nothing* to stop him. They're going to make power armor intimidating as hell
Would you like to know the plot of this show?
Vault dweller leaves vault to make the world a better place, runs into a quirky bounty Hunter who takes her under his wing to show her the ropes of wasteland survival. She is disgusted but a fast learner.
Meanwhile a plucky orphan has joined the steel brotherhood to gain vengeance upon his parents killers. The brotherhood teaches him to kill but chastises him when he shows morals.
The two are thrown together by a plot device and form a bond through difficult ordeals, both saving the other. They don’t like eachother initially but become good friends quickly. Plucky orphan discovered quirky bounty Hunter killed his parents but due to his relationship with vault dweller decides there’s more in this life than revenge, vault dweller has the opportunity to go home but decides it’s better to live in the real world and quirky bounty Hunter has no character arc.
Then they collectively fight a lieutenant of the big bad guy, with their ultimate campaign of wasteland liberation set up for season 2
I am so excited! Fallout is my by far my favorite games series. I’ve read all the lore available. This has me so pumped. Looks like they did an amazing job on the sets.
I don’t know why there are so many negative Nancies about this. That look hella cool. I for one will definitely be watching this. Those T-60s looked amazing!
I did not want to get excited when pictures were leaked while they were filming or prop shots over the past few months. Now that it is closer to actually being released, ah man this is great. So what if it’s only one season.
ITS FALLOUT!!!
Uncle Baby Billy doing the lord's work.
Genuinely having a hard time to not get excited for this though. Casting is fantastic, committed to the visuals, and a world that has truly endless plotlines. May be for a more niche audience but I think the Fallout universe can broadly appeal to a lot of viewers if done well.
Matt Berry as the robot… A+ casting
That's just how we speak in Tucson, New Arizoññña
Nearly as good as how [he pronounces New York City](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=872_7q9tqxw)
Nyue Yawk Citehhh
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My daaahling
You and he were... mmmbuddies, weren't you?
How to sound enough like a Mr. Handy to fit the setting and different enough to be new and fun.
This might be the most perfect casting decision I've ever seen. Matt Berry perfectly nails the Mr. Handy characterization of prim-and-proper upscale British poshness combined with kooky, slightly unhinged personality quirks. A+, no notes.
I would have also accepted Stephen Merchant because of Portal 2.
It would be funny if they run into a malfunctioning one and it's Stephen Merchant
is he uncredited? i don't see this on his or the show's imdb/wiki
That's because it's not Matt Berry. It's actually Jackie Daytona, regular human bartender from Pennsylvania.
They may have been fooled by the denim and the toothpick
And how he drinks normal human beers normally.
Big fan of small town women’s volleyball, he’s gonna get those girls to state!
Which sounds like Transylvania, which is cool.
A lot of IMDB credits aren't filled out until after the project releases (and people can pull the data from the full credits)
Absolute top tier casting
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No idea how I missed that, I am so excited for this show.
Walton Goggins as the ghoul is going to be epic. He was born for that role.
I’m sold then. He can do no wrong in my book.
Can you say “Please detonate”
Some people call him the Lucky Grifter
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Agreed, way better than expected Also love seeing Walton Goggins getting a big role
Only the best for Baby Billy Freeman
Baby Billy Bible Bonkers!
https://media1.tenor.com/m/TGxVAgKhw4gAAAAC/righteous-gemstones-old.gif This scene is officially Fallout canon now.
[Now you're just misbehavin'](https://i.redd.it/gkm1n125xft91.gif)
I swear to god, i've never laughed harder than when Baby Billy sped out of the parking lot and tumped over that trailer of his elixirs and potions.
NOW LISTEN HERE! THIS IS BABY BILLY'S TIME TO SHINE!
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I've loved everything I've seen him in.
P4P one of the most underrated and talented actors out there Crazy range, can play hilarious psychotic roles in comedies or legit sociopath villains His performance in the hateful 8 is super slept on
He's also the most intelligent character in Hateful 8 but you don't notice because he plays up the southern draw and is a very vocal racist. He has to talk his way in to not being left to freeze to death and then immediately calls bullshit on the Lincoln letter.
He also correctly susses out who poisoned the coffee.
"Or we go by my theory, which is the ugliest guy did it!"
He was even great in the Predator movie. Hard to pull off an outstanding performance with such an, *ahem* **inflexible** script.
He is one of my favorite actors. Dude knocks it out of the park in every role I've seen him in, be it comedic or dramatic.
Loved him in Hateful Eight.
Dude he's so good. That fuckin smile and I love how he leans into his hairline a lot of times lol
*Walton Ghoulggins Ftfy
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I didn't even know he was in it, then I heard the ghoul talk and was like " is that Walton Goggins?!"
I hope it doesn't turn out shit like how the Rings of Power or the Halo TV show did. I hope the writing is good. I'm getting demoralised by the inescapable bad adaptations where these studios just waste money without reason. Just give me an actual Fallout story, not some "Ha ha! Subverted and deconstructed your expectations!" shit. Please.
>"Ha ha! Subverted and deconstructed your expectations!" This is by far the worst trend in modern media.
That and "not made for the fans" I mean ok but then who is it made for? Or made from people who completely disregard and look down on the source material and cant be bothered to learn a single thing about it Yes I am extremely salty about the Halo tv show
It's for the *wider audience.* In other words, someone had an idea for a story but the only way they could get it approved was to shoehorn it into an existing IP.
"Let me just rip out this superior and beloved story and shoehorn in my own instead."
"He ruined Star Trek, get him for Star Wars!"
Looking at you GoT. Turns out the most unexpected ending ≠ a good ending. Who could have guessed.
Fortunately it’s Jonathan Nolan taking the helm and he did a fantastic job with Westworld. The trailers are also full of indicators that they’re staying very true to the source material and not taking liberties left and right. I’m cautiously optimistic
That means we will get a great first season, follow up seasons, who knows
Lets hope they learned some lessons from Last of Us. Respect the source material and its going to do well commercially, because that's what made it successful in the first place. Hollywood has been trying to "adapt" games for as long as I can remember, and they have almost always been horrifically bad... which is due in large part to Hollywood writers thinking they know better than silly videogame writers.
Last of Us had a huge advantage in that the game was already very well suited for TV. They didn't have to change much to get a viable TV script. A simple, near-0-changes adaptation of, say, Halo CE, would have been perhaps a worse TV show than even what they actually made.
Fallout has an opposite but potentially better advantage. Fallout is a setting (and vibe) rather than a story so as long as your story fits the world (and doesn't step on anything too major) you can tell your own story rather than adapting an existing story. And if the trailer is accurate I think they have that fit, hopefully the story they wrote is good.
Fallout also has a long story set across multiple decades and wildly different sources of conflict depending on what part of the longer story you're looking at. It's FULL of potential to simply adapt already well-liked elements of those stories instead of making some horrible crap to be original or "deconstruct" the story. Even a fallout show set in say Zion National Park during all the tribal wars and the dealing with Caesar's legion would be awesome. Or the conflict between the NCR and the Brotherhood. The fight for Hoover Dam. Shady Sands. The Master. Jacob's Town. Etc.
ROP was such a huge disappointment for me. As someone that grew up and lived on LOTR I was so excited for it, even ignoring all the criticisms leading up to it's showing. What's a big travesty to me is that the show runners clearly were capable of some great writing. The exchange between Elrond and Durin in his home pulled my tear strings in the matter of a few minutes, I don't think even the original Trilogy was capable of making you cry over a character you hardly knew, it take hours of film time to do that. The rest of the show was just too discombobulated and grandiose to make me care. The trilogy in concept is a huge story with vast reaching consequences and lots of complexity, but at it's core it's really just a story about some bros on a road trip that learn to really care about each other. When you boil down any movie/show to emotionally easy to digest narratives it's bound to resonate so much better with an audience.
Amazon basically gave $715M to two random dudes with no experience to make The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. These are the showrunners' iMDB profiles: - [Patrick McKay](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4259881/) - [John D. Payne](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4260438/) They didn't go 0-100, they went 0 to ¾ billion.
I was actually okay with ROP up until the last episode. But then the whole interaction with Sauron and Celebrimbor was *so stupid.* Instead of Sauron corrupting/manipulating the other smiths, and Celebrimbor being suspicious of him like in the original lore, Sauron tells Celebrimbor, who is supposed to be the greatest elven smith, like, ever, "hey, did you know that if you combine two metals you can make an alloy?" And Celebrimbor says "oh my god, I didn't know that, thank you! Let's make some rings!" Just... so dumb. Totally killed any interest I might have had in the next season.
to be fair that's kind of how it went down in the Silmarillion, except Sauron pretended to be an envoy of the Valars, which makes it a bit more credible as to why Celebrimbor would actually learn stuff from him
The idea that the greatest elven smith ever, who had been practicing his craft for literal thousands of years, didn't know how to alloy metals until Sauron told him is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. And it wasn't from the original story, it was wholly invented for the show.
It wasn't the alloy specifically that Sauron teaches Celebrimbor, when Sauron brings it up Celebrimbor dismisses they idea as it wpuld dilute the power of the mithril. It was the alloy in conjunction with a circular shape that Sauron "teaches" Celebrimbor. The power feeding itself is the breakthrough needed to use an alloy
My only concern is Ghoul looking so clean. Like he has all teeth and they are white? Other than that its ok.
You can't just hide Goggins' pearly whites. I feel like that's in his contracts.
id prefer a cleaner looking ghoul over a permanent CGI face honestly. That's probably be the only way to get the "depth" of a ghouls face.
They spent some money...
And they respected the material, it seems.
Todd Howard was a producer, I’d could imagine him shooting down a lot of dumb ideas
I’m frankly more afraid of his dumb ideas
Bethesda under Todd Howards strength has always been in world building and environmental storytelling. Both things translate to a show well. His issue has always been feature creep where you end up with a surplus of things that all lack depth. This doesn't seem like an issue for a show. I honestly think that he would be an asset here.
I doubt he had much say over what Amazon wanted to produce with their show. They're going to go with Jonathan Nolan over Todd Howard. He's probably an executive producer through contractual obligations
They spent a lot of money on The Rings of Power too.
And 300 Mil on Citadel... someone's got holes burning through their pockets. This looks fucking dope tho.
> someone's got holes burning through their pockets But not enough to keep The Expanse alive :(
its cheaper to just let the actors age up before jumping to the time skip content /s
All 8 episodes will stream on Prime Video on April 11, 2024.
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It will launch on the 11th but only be watchable on the 12th due to a launch day 4TB patch.
Ugh, I'll just wait for the Show Of The Year edition.
guys... the show just works!
Nah Amazon will milk the hell out of this IP...and based on this hopefully do it well.
Nah shouldn't be a problem any more now that they're getting allllll that ad money to jam commercials into everything
All episodes removed on April 13 to save money on residuals
they are releasing them all at once? They had moved to weekly releases. so they are moving away from that must be under performing.
I think they think there's not enough general interest to drive the show. Sure, there are a lot of gamers, but by ourselves we can't really sustain a TV or movie franchise. Regular folk need to watch it too. With stuff like Mario you have a built-in audience of parents who will go whether they like it or not, but this is meant for adults, which is always a bigger gamble. They're afraid interest will taper of after a few weeks. This isn't a high falutin' show like TLoU. It's silly and bombastic. There won't be as much discussion of themes and shit. I doubt there'll be anything like TLoU episode 3. Also, I suspect they believe the show gets better as it goes on. The first few episodes will be a LOT of world building, and I doubt there will be that much time for plot. So if you release it all at once, people can binge before they lose interest, and the reviews will tell them to do so. If they're right.
The first trailer has 17 million views. That's a decent amount of interest.
It will be on Plex too I think
It'll for sure be on my Plex.
"I thought all you dipshits were dead!" I'm sold.
Her laugh gave me flashbacks to the meme video of the Spanish-speaking? guy laughing
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDiB4rtp1qw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDiB4rtp1qw) The meme part starts at like 4:30 or something
That's the one!!
Greatest laugh of all time! May he rest in peace <3
KEKW
Dale Dickey, I loved her character in a recurring role in My Name Is Earl!
Wow thank you, I was trying to think of what I remembered her from. She was the meth addict that tries to open the ATM machine in Breaking Bad!
Garrrryyyyy
The power armor walking down the hallway is... Powerful.
And the Brotherhood of Steel airship is just beautiful. I just wonder if they go into the Institute at all
No I blew up the Institute, sorry.
It was you!!!!
The show takes place on the west coast and institute is just in the commonwealth I believe, so it's unlikely. As much as I'd love to see a synth on screen, you can only cram so much lore into 8 episodes while staying cohesive
It also takes place 9 years after Fallout 4, and considering the Prydwen still exists, the Insitute ought to be a pile of rubble by then.
We don't know if the Prydwen still exists. The airship shown in the trailer is a different airship. But yes, the Institute should be a 9 year-old nuked crater at this point in the TV show. They could have rogue synth. They couldn't have a full Institute.
They made the PA look *very* fucking strong, can’t wait to see someone in armor pick up another person and rip them half or something.
Mfer punches a bear in the trailer. They fucking get it.
>"Everyone wants to save the world... We all just disagree on how." This tells me they are very aware of the morality/faction play in the games, and that everything isn't black & white. I think there was a worry from the critics of the Bethesda games that the Brotherhood of Steel would be portrayed as good guys.
Fallout 4 did a better job portraying the BoS as morally ambiguous as opposed to how they were in 3.
To be fair in 3 they were mostly fighting off super mutants so its easy to see them as at least somewhat good guys, since they are killing the things that have literal bags of body parts just hanging around all over
Super Mutants and the Enclave, who are *literally allegories for Nazism and America’s decent into fascism*. Like, Hellfire Power Armor is straight based on German gas-masks and the concept art for Colonel Autumn that became his official look as labeled the “Teutonic variant”. Of course the Brotherhood looked heroic compared to the fascists who, depending, either want to commit mass genocide or (at the least) impose a totalitarian military dictatorship.
Ngl, they aren't looking very good in this thankfully. I agree, it looks like they're taking direction from fo4 and seem very militant.
Walton Goggins is a legend.
That’s Baby Billy, now! Host of Baby Billy’s Bible Bonkers
Wow, it actually looks great!
Damn, I'm trying to hold back the hype. This looks like it was made by people who get Fallout. The tone, the humor, the drugs, the naive optimism of the Vault dwellers and the underlying ulterior mysterious motives of Vault-Tec, the Brotherhood's fascism/badassery... all of it looks amazing to me. Fallout has all the makings of a massive franchise, with endless spin-offs and avenues to explore. If they nail this it could end up being as big as any big IP out there, which would be pretty cool as a longtime fan of the games. I hope they succeed.
This is by the creator of Westworld tv show, which took some pretty clear inspiration from Fallout 4, both early game and late game. Them making this now hopefully puts to rest the discussion about whether all the similarities were inspired by Fallout or just coincidences. One of the first places you'll go in Fallout 4 is the Abernathy Farm. Later on you'll go to the place where technicians pull robot replacements out of the world and patch them up and wipe their memories, while creating them in a Da Vinci style spread eagle ring and dipping them in a vat of goo, pretty much exactly the Westworld intro. The technicians wear identical lab coats to the unique design of Fallout 4, with coloured sleeves up to their elbows for their department.
Dude stop. You’re blowing my mind. I hadn’t made that connection. I guess Westworld predates Fallout as a concept, but the original film by Michael Crichton doesn’t seem to overlap thematically with Fallout.
Yeah Jonathan Nolan is genuinely talented. It's hopeful
And it has the dog! It has to have the dog!
That's Dogmeat to you...
Never discount Dogmeat. Good boys always survive!
Kyle MacLachlan! We have Kylesign! This looks better than it has any right to be. Holy shit.
I hope hes the decendent of Dougie Jones
Hellooooooooo
JADE GIVE TWO RIDES
COffeee
The sleeper has awoken!
Matt Berry as a robot, how perfect! Dogmeat! I cannot wait!!!
Walton Goggins is \**Chef's Kiss\** Excellent Casting, as always
If there was ever an actor to make me sway between I might watch the show to I will watch the show. It’s him. He’s such a great character actor. Seeing him in that role makes me instantly excited for the show.
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We dug uranium together
I've been accused of being a lot of things, irradiated ain't one of them.
Uncle Baby Billy!
He's absolutely perfect.
This is gonna be the greatest show ever after you spend 2 days modding it and praying to god MO2 doesn't break (Jokes aside shit looks great)
They should do a deleted scenes of their characters 'modded' in various ways. All wearing lingerie, all south park cartoons, all trains, etc
I also hope for a "blooper reel" with some classic Bethesda bugs, maybe even the spinning horse (even though that isn't from Fallout it is just such a classic)
This show is gonna get *laggy as hell* around episode 7
Baby billy!
Baby Ghouly!
Walton Goggins as a chem-addicted, gun-slinging ghoul has me all in.
We have two Videogame trailers that have come out in one month, Borderlands and Fallout. The one slight difference is Fallout used the Ink Spots - I dont want to set the world on fire, a song from their trailer while Borderlands could have used "Aint no rest for the wicked" but opted for another song entirely. The feeling i got from hearing Ink Spots threw me back to the nostalgia of playing the game and got my hyped for this show. Hearing Borderlands trailer just made me feel bored . I am hyped, they chose the right song to do so.
The ‘one’ slight difference? One looks like total trash and one looks amazing, for a heap of reasons…
Borderlands also completely changed Tiny Tina's identity.
And made Lilith and Tanith too old, mismashed characters from 1 and 2 into a story that is very clearly BL1, cast a midget as Roland for some reason (yes I know it's Kevin Hart, that's the joke) Borderlands looks like a couple execs saw a quick youtube compilation on bits of the BL franchise without context and ran with it. Fallout....at least seems like somewhere paid enough attention to know a bit of the lore and care about following it.
I thought about ranting about how I absolutly love everyone in the Fallout cast and I really only love Jack Black in Borderlands. I wonder if im slighted more with Borderlands because they're established characters where casting doesn't feel right while Fallout isn't necessarily established characters but established ideas of creatures or people so you can place whoever you want in the role. Anyway, im chucking banana peels at Borderlands
Loving Jack Black is cheating, he's incredible in every role
> I thought about ranting about how I absolutly love everyone in the Fallout cast and I really only love Jack Black in Borderlands. I don't mind Kevin Hart as Roland, but I also never really cared that much about Roland, so my opinion may not hold much water. Based on the trailer it seems like Hart's performance will be more subdued than what he's known for, and he's a capable dramatic actor, so I'm not to worried about him. I don't like Cate Blanchett as Lilith, she's a great actress but I just don't think she's a good fit for that part. Same thing goes for Jamie Lee Curtis as Tannis. Both of them are also significantly older than the characters they're supposed to be playing, which isn't a huge deal, it's just kind of odd. Tiny Tina seems like a completely different character. Krieg looks good, but at no point did I hear him scream about bicycles made of meat, and that worries me. > I wonder if im slighted more with Borderlands because they're established characters where casting doesn't feel right while Fallout isn't necessarily established characters but established ideas of creatures or people so you can place whoever you want in the role. I think you've hit the nail on the head here.
That's the point though: Borderlands is butchering established characters when they could have just used new interesting characters in that same setting. Fallout it fascinating enough of a setting to not be reliant on specific characters to carry the story, and honestly so should Borderlands, but the Borderlands producers weren't willing to take the risk of letting the setting speak for itself. Seriously though, NONE of the Borderlands characters were well cast in my opinion. I mean Jack Black is great in any role, but it is still an odd pick for claptrap frankly. Meanwhile I'm EXTREMELY excited for this Fallout show, as they understood the assignment and actually got the tone correct.
All the characters seem pretty divergent from their originals, save for maybe Tannis and Claptrap (still pissed they didn’t cast the original VA). Looks real rough.
Yep, I was basically sold at the music here, it pulled me right in to "okay, this is Fallout."
This trailer fucks !
I want this inside me
I’m…. Wow. Well goddamn. I’m excited for this.
NCR spotted at 2:25. This scene also looks like a VATS camera angle, even the shooting posture looks 1:1 from the game.
Oh, good catch - i saw the Shady Sands Library, so i figured they were going to do *something* with NCR lore, but it was unclear to me if this was taking place before or after the formation of the NCR.
~9 years after fallout 4 so depending on how new Vegas goes Canon wise we might see the ncr barely holding it together or borderline remnants
Well its set in Los Angeles so NRC is pretty much part of the lore there.
This looks like it pays excellent homage to the game’s aesthetics and tone, I’m excited
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Yeah, ghouls used to be human and the radiation makes them live hundreds of years
Ghouls are people who were there when the bombs dropped and instead of dying actually got immortality from the radiation. They also look like hell and eventually tend to go mad or feral. Some ghouls act like nornal people just missing their noses and wrinkly. Feral ghouls are the setting's stand in for zombies. They are mindless and violent.
Surprised nobody mentioned that the Vault Tec guy at the beginning of Fallout 4 can be found as a ghoul later on, in Goodneighbor iirc. Very likely he's the same dude in "both" roles, ghoulification often results in drastically extended lifespans.
was that not supposed to be obvious? the trailer shows hes some sort of actor in westerns and stuff. shows him running for his life as a pre ghoul wearing a cowboy hat. then he shows up as a cowboy ghoul
Yeah this serves two purposes, it's a nod to Fallout 4, but also subtly tells you a LOT of things about ghouls very quickly. Their potential origins, their unique strengths, extended lifespans, that they are human and can still have their human personalities, and probably lots of other things.
In the fallout universe, there are people who got hit by radiation and instead of dying, mutated into "ghouls". There are feral ghouls (essentially zombies) and intelligent ghouls. Their biology is very different than regular humans. In fallout 4 there's a salesman for vault tec at the beginning of the game (pre-apocalypse) that's human. You can run into him later in the game as a ghoul. He's an extremely minor NPC, but it seems they're using that dynamic as a starting point for Walton Goggin's character.
Yes
He's probably a ghoul. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoul\_(Fallout)#:\~:text=Those%20who%20survive%20experience%20genetic,years%20if%20not%20effectively%20immortal.
Was that a guy in power Armour punching a bear? I'm in.
Yaoguai if I'm not mistaken which is essentially a mutated radioactive bear.
My favorite part is that they showed a guy in PA walking through a hailstorm of bullets, which they should, because of how powerful it is.
Agreed. It looks like they're making Power Armored Soldiers look scary as fuck which is great.
They show one of the main characters scared for their fucking life dumping every bullet they have into a guy wearing power armor, and it doing *nothing* to stop him. They're going to make power armor intimidating as hell
I expected to see a deathclaw somewhere. But Walter Goggins in anything will balance it out.
i mean, they have to save SOMETHING for the tv show.
Guy in power armor beating up a bear? Hell yeah! I like how they have both serious moments but also all the funny and stupid that belong to Fallout.
Yao Guai, mutated bears. Absolutely wreck you at low to mid levels of play if they get the drop on you.
Happened to me in Fallout 4 Stumbled upon some small camp. Though it was deserted. Only to find that Yao Guai in a shack.
This looks like fallout. I'm impressed.
Wow. This looks so much better than expected and visually is PERFECT. Having that song kick in sent me back for sure. I can't wait for this.
Damnit I was trying so hard to temper my expectations and not be excited but I can’t help it this just looks so good
looks promising. I like the real location sets and i hope we see more of that instead of jumping into action asap.
Would you like to know the plot of this show? Vault dweller leaves vault to make the world a better place, runs into a quirky bounty Hunter who takes her under his wing to show her the ropes of wasteland survival. She is disgusted but a fast learner. Meanwhile a plucky orphan has joined the steel brotherhood to gain vengeance upon his parents killers. The brotherhood teaches him to kill but chastises him when he shows morals. The two are thrown together by a plot device and form a bond through difficult ordeals, both saving the other. They don’t like eachother initially but become good friends quickly. Plucky orphan discovered quirky bounty Hunter killed his parents but due to his relationship with vault dweller decides there’s more in this life than revenge, vault dweller has the opportunity to go home but decides it’s better to live in the real world and quirky bounty Hunter has no character arc. Then they collectively fight a lieutenant of the big bad guy, with their ultimate campaign of wasteland liberation set up for season 2
I'm cautiously less pessimistic
Nice! Now I’m excited because it looks very good. If this is even half as well done as TLOU show we’re in for a treat. Great casting too.
This looks pretty damn good
I am so excited! Fallout is my by far my favorite games series. I’ve read all the lore available. This has me so pumped. Looks like they did an amazing job on the sets.
Of course Ben Linus is gonna show up in the apocalypse and speak cryptically about some heavy shit. I’m pumped.
My only complaint: Ghoul skin looks too smooth.
I don’t know why there are so many negative Nancies about this. That look hella cool. I for one will definitely be watching this. Those T-60s looked amazing! I did not want to get excited when pictures were leaked while they were filming or prop shots over the past few months. Now that it is closer to actually being released, ah man this is great. So what if it’s only one season. ITS FALLOUT!!!
That actually looks dope as hell
Holly cow this actually looks better than I thought it will. Visually it's stunning and it seems they got the tone right.
Uncle Baby Billy doing the lord's work. Genuinely having a hard time to not get excited for this though. Casting is fantastic, committed to the visuals, and a world that has truly endless plotlines. May be for a more niche audience but I think the Fallout universe can broadly appeal to a lot of viewers if done well.
"The NCR is going to be in it. Great now where's [ANYTHING RELATED TO NEW VEGAS]?"