Cautiously optimistic. Hopefully it’s respectful to the source material.
Fallout TV Show - Trailer
Submitted 11 months ago by avater@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i8qRasXF2pY
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Gigan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
ceenote@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s a very good setting for a show or mini series, but the way the IP’s current owners have handled it so far gives me pause.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean we already saw mutants (NOT Super Mutants or Centaurs) in the form of Chris Parnell’s Overseer Cyclops in the trailer. The rest of the shots (especially the Yao Guai tearing up that Paladin) make me think it’ll be more lore-accurate.
Damage@feddit.it 11 months ago
I mean, the way Bethesda has taken Fallout, there’s not much that could be ruined, just use a newish setting and go to town
Nobody@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I didn’t realize Jonathan Nolan was a showrunner. The first season of Westworld was brilliant. And Walton Goggins is good in everything. I’ll give it a shot.
somegadgetguy@lemdro.id 11 months ago
Goggins is what got me on board too.
Assman@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
You can tell it’s gonna be bad because they forgot to say “war never changes”
avater@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I bet you that this will be in the show and narrated by Ron Perlman.
littlecolt@lemm.ee 11 months ago
And where are the TUNNEL SNAKES??? HMMMM???
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In a tunnel?
tegs_terry@feddit.uk 11 months ago
What the fuck man where the hell did this spring up from? This just started a flame in my heart.
Zozano@aussie.zone 11 months ago
I don’t suppose in your heart you have but one desire?
mycatiskai@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Is that desire to light a flame in your heart instead of the whole world? You pyromaniac!
halfwaythere@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sweet! Well get a season or two and then they’ll cancel it just like they do all the rest of the fan favorites.
dvlsg@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That feels more like a Netflix move than an Amazon move.
BeMoreCareful@lemdro.id 11 months ago
An expanse tear runs down my cheek.
fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
There’s not enough wackiness in the trailer. Fallout has always had a thin veneer of grimdark with a whole hidden iceberg of goofy bullshit and it was amazing.
I’m getting huge “missing the point” vibes.
drewofdoom@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There are a lot of reasons to not judge it yet. First and foremost, the director/show runner has zero input on the trailer. That’s all the marketing department, and the trailer is designed to get as many eyeballs as possible on the final product. Numerous examples exist of trailers which bared little resemblance to the movie/show/game/whatever.
Secondly, they buried the lead on the director. Jonathan Nolan did direct much of Westworld. But he also wrote a bunch of award winning films for his brother, Christopher Nolan. Movies like Memento, Interstellar, The Prestige, and Dark Knight. He’s no slouch, and I’ll reserve judgement until I see it.
treesapx@lemmy.world 11 months ago
To back you up, the first Doom Patrol trailers did little justice to how weird that show is.
ours@lemmy.world 11 months ago
J. Nolan also did “Person of Interest”. It’s a lesser-known show but it was very good.
It felt like a classic 80s show at first(the hero is a badass supported by an eccentric rich guy to help random people) but, without spoiling it, it takes a very interesting turn.
EnderMB@lemmy.world 11 months ago
While i fully agree, a lot of people won’t know what Fallout is, and they kinda have to set the basics first.
With that being said, I question whether Amazon can pull this off.
avater@lemmy.world 11 months ago
it’s a trailer, it also has to get the normis
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 11 months ago
so the cyclops overseer drinking a moldy cup isnt wacky at all?
healer_56@lemmy.world 11 months ago
guess i will watch it. lets hope its not complete shit
avater@lemmy.world 11 months ago
the trailer looks great
li10@feddit.uk 11 months ago
I’m on a strict “don’t trust trailers” diet since seeing the new Napoleon film, so I’ll wait and see for this series.
QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I love Goggins, this is a perfect universe for his style honestly
arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
They’re going to find a way to release the films with bugs and release a day one patch
bridge_too_close@kbin.social 11 months ago
I don't want to get my hopes up, but I'm getting my hopes up.
EeeDawg101@lemm.ee 11 months ago
My hopes have definitely gone up after seeing this trailer. I really hope they don’t pull a Witcher.
timdave@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How do you mod a TV show?
DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Don’t worry, Toddyboy is on the case!
anarchy79@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh no… The time has come to shit all over two legendary games again… for the second time.
Gregu@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Honestly I can’t wait to watch this. Consider me hyped!
BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean it can’t be worse than the Halo show, at least this looks decent from the trailer.
Can guarantee it’ll be better than getting mauled by a Deathclaw either way.
thorbot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We don’t talk about that show
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fallout was an aesthetic that told super dark stories. How will a TV capture the vignette of nightmares that are the Vaults?
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fallout is not a masterpiece of story telling or cinematography. It was written by non writers mostly. It’s not the godfather. It isn’t going to be hard for professional writers to make it work better than the games, and clearly they’re not fucking with the visual designs of the series.
Zozano@aussie.zone 11 months ago
It’s almost hard to get Fallout wrong. Unless you shove a kid into a fridge for 200 years, or retcon the creation of the super mutants.
Todd Howard is involved, so I wager they’ll get the themes right.
cdf12345@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There’s not really any limits for content anymore. Look at Amazon’s The Boys.
The way you play Fallout / Skyrim / Bethesda games might end up being a perfect format for a television adaption.
You can have a main character and follow their travels in a really strange setting. You can have 1 off episodes with perticular styles much like the quests in the game. You can easily switch from a dark horror filled vault to a campy town the next episode. Kind of like the files would have lighter episodes then some really dark ones and occasionally an episode about the main characters.
Because the fallout universe has a lot to be explored you a smart writing team could do a lot.
TL;DR Gimme Twilight Zone in the wasteland
tegs_terry@feddit.uk 11 months ago
That could very easily be done, and it’s not especially ‘dark’ anyway.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Not especially dark in the vaults, except for all of the body horror.
MudMan@kbin.social 11 months ago
I mean... you may have missed how episodic television works. Ironic horror antologies have been a thing on TV since the 50s.
Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de 11 months ago
It’s going to be good. I can already tell it has The Boys humor in it and the surprise violence. It will be amazing.
cttttt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m kinda scared that the trailer was knee deep in “from the ____ who did _____ .”
Granted, it’s a teaser trailer, but it would have been cool to see a little more of what this show has to offer. e.g. The Boyz is great, because the story adapted from it’s source material was already interesting. I’d love to learn more about the story of this adaptation, esp since there’s a lot they’d have to do to turn the non linear, choose your own adventure source material into a non-interactive story.
Feels like the showrunners and story writers would have the opposite challenge of, say, The Last of Us. There, it was all about retelling an existing story and resisting the urge to reinvent too much.
Here they’d need to pick one of many stories and fill in a bunch of gaps.
Hope it works out 🤞🙏
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Even though each game is a player driven RPG, there’s a canon “through line” of major events from 1 to 2 to New Vegas. 3 and 4 are set far enough away or in a different enough period of time that the plot impact is more minor.
Personally though, I hope this is less of an adaptation and more of a “side stories in the setting”.
AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If you’re a fallout fan, you’re already on board. Our viewership is a given, and is theirs to lose. But for people who aren’t big fans, having big names attached shows it’s serious business. It’s meant to convince people on the fence that it’s worth an initial watch since there’s money and names behind it so maybe it’s not just “some dumb low budget video game shit.”
MightyWeaksauce@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I was not excited for this show until seeing that trailer! Fingers crossed 🤞
idiocracy@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
to me this looks like the most generic “Hollywood trailer” which is unfortunate but understandable.
TV shows/movies based on games are usually just a cash grab that play on people’s love of the source material, but maybe in wrong we’ll see.
avater@lemmy.world 11 months ago
TV shows/movies based on games are usually just a cash grab that play on people’s love of the source materia
I really disagree on that. Most recent videogame adaptions have been pretty awesome: Arcane, Cyberpunk Edgerunners, Last of Us, Castlevania. Sure there are some stinkers out there, but the quality really went up in the last years.
Zozano@aussie.zone 11 months ago
- One Piece
mayo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I haven’t found a place in my life for these types of TV series. Looks good though just prefer the complete arc of a movie or a mini-series.
Sets look kind of big budget artificial, soapy? Like that is some wicked blue dye on the suits, very fresh. Lovely hair and makeup. All good though I realize it’s just not my thing. A cinematic 90 minute fallout movie laser focused on 2-3 character arcs would be exciting to me.
drmoose@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah it looks like it’s artificial almost on purpose. The vault opening and there’s a neat little skull in the corner…
Tbh I don’t mind shitty adaptations that fan service but I think they are missing the mark on this one. I hope I’m wrong tho.
thorbot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah the badly planted skull seemed pretty lazy. Just show a blasted landscape
Evotech@lemmy.world 11 months ago
SILO is fallout canon in my head
aidan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Idk where it looks great comes from, this looks like the Fallout 76 trailers. So focused on cheesey looking high budget CGI, the colors on the suits look too fresh and vibrant(imo), power armor CGI looks honestly too expressive- not like a hydraulic walking tank.
tourist@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I hope Todd Howard had almost zero creative input
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Well I don’t hate it yet…
Hope they manage to get the lead’s makeup smudged.
Chozo@kbin.social 11 months ago
I was never a fan of the Fallout games (just couldn't get into the setting for some reason), but this looks surprisingly good. I'll probably give this a watch. Hoping it's a better adaptation than The Last of Us was, as I love when a video game adaptation succeeds.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 11 months ago
TLoU is the greatest videogame to screen adaptation, ever. What are you on about?
Chozo@kbin.social 11 months ago
In my opinion, it very quickly became a generic zombie apocalypse survival story after a couple episodes. I thought the fungal angle to a zombie outbreak was a very interesting take, and I would've liked to see a bit more focus on that aspect of things. But they hardly showed off the zombies at all. It gave me TWD vibes for most of the episodes. And not the good "look at the flowers" vibes, but the "spend half of Season 2 walking up and down this small stretch of road looking for a girl who isn't there" vibes.
The cast were all fantastic, but I just wasn't that hooked with the storytelling, I guess.
ExLisper@linux.community 11 months ago
Kind of a random though but do you think we will ever see shows done in a more connected way? I mean as of now, all the shows are always done in secret. Why not involve fans in the process? Publish videos from the set as you film and get feedback? Publish scripts, test footage and so on. Yes, the element of surprise would be lost but wouldn’t it be nice to see how the show is made and they see the final product? And maybe even influence it a little bit? I would love something like that. What do you think?
NessD@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The only reason we watch shows is to get the story. Being spoiled ruins the whole idea of the show. Besides: Even though some showrunners miss the mark, most of the fans ideas of what might come instead are mostly terrible.
tegs_terry@feddit.uk 11 months ago
There’s evidence that people like stuff just as much even if they know what’s gonna happen, kind of like how placebos often work even if you tell the person.
Zozano@aussie.zone 11 months ago
People rewatch movies because they love them.
I’m about to watch the final episode of the One Piece adaptation, even though I know exactly what has happened.
The adaptation has deviated slightly from the manga, but that’s to be expected of a series known for filler.
ExLisper@linux.community 11 months ago
Yeah, I don’t know. In the age of remakes, reboots and huge franchises can we really say that we watch shows for the story? Is any of the Marvel movies about the story? You always now how it will end. If you read the script of Guardians of the Galaxy would it really spoil the movie? I think those movies are actually more about ‘being involved’. Same as Star Trek or Star Wars. It’s about following, being a fan. Story is the weakest part of those movies. It’s all about CGI, action sequences and ‘fan stuff’ like callbacks, references and so on. I think showing what’s happening on the green screen wouldn’t actually spoil anything and would be really interesting to the fans.
And regarding fans ideas Sonic comes to mind. They released the trailer, fans complained and it got fixed.
But I not saying that all the shows should be made like this. For some (most?) I wouldn’t work. I’m just saying… wouldn’t it be interesting to see the entire process for a show like this?
hybridhavoc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nah the last thing these shows need are a bunch of armchair experts chipping in.
brawleryukon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ackshully, those experts are statistically far more likely to be sitting in an office chair or a gaming chair than an arm chair.
*pushes glasses WAAAAY up nose*
ekZepp@lemmy.world 11 months ago
PleasedontbeNetflixPleasedontbeNetflixPleasedontbeNetflixPleasedontbeNetflix… … FU&%!!! AMAZON 😭 😭 😭 😭 …i forgot about Amazon 😭
ch00f@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Funny, didn’t an earlier version of the trailer say “and the studio behind The Boys and Free 2-day Shipping”?
Now it says “fast delivery” with an asterisk.
MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 11 months ago
that was shockingly interesting
this trailer looks better than the Furiosa trailer.
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Did anyone else notice the abscence of shockwaves when the nukes went off?
billiam0202@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Someone forgot to tell the Brotherhood not to feed the yao guai!
JoeTheSane@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think it looks great and am super excited!
DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I thought this trailer looked fantastic I don’t know what the rest of you all are smoking, as a fallout fan it was more than enough to get me excited for the series, also Walton Goggins as a ghoul chefs kiss.
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 11 months ago
People need to remember that fallout isn’t the last of Us or god of war, fallout is a cool series with a cool world, but it’s not a masterpiece of story telling and writing. These showrunners aren’t making Lord of the rings over here, it’s not gonna be hard to make a decent show based in an established world.
They’re keeping the aesthetic and design, so I’m happy. But so many people don’t have a nuanced opinion anymore, and a show is either a perfect 10 or it’s “unwatchable garbage”. I’ve seen and loved shows that I give a solid 8 to, but anything below a nine gets called “shit” these days.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I mean, New Vegas is known as one of the best written RPGs of all time. So… there might be slightly higher than average expectations here.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Of course not, Lord of the Rings already exists.
nxdefiant@startrek.website 11 months ago
I don’t want to set the world on fire.
But I will if they fuck this up.
CeeBee@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Where were you when we watched Rings of Power?
Where were you when we suffered Wheel of Time?
MudMan@kbin.social 11 months ago
Looks a bit cosplay-y, honestly.
But also I've never been into Bethesda Fallout, so I'm already not as much of a target for this one, I suppose.
micka190@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That was my impression too. The costumes and CG seemed a bit goofy to me. But then again, so did the original Witcher trailer, and that ended-up looking mostly fine when I actually watched it, so…
shrugs
reeen@aussie.zone 11 months ago
It’s west coast fallout by Bethesda, and I really don’t know how I expect them to handle the established material. I hope they do justice to what’s been written already
steakmeout@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah you’re right Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel is where I think this show should’ve taken its design notes from.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I thought it looked pretty good.
That said, I thought the first few seconds right up until Dogmeat started eating the Radroach looked pretty mid. I got really psyched and excited when I saw the BoS power armor
ieightpi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m with you. I was excited once I saw the first look photos. They took a lot of care with costume and set design