I think youre just "Wastlander" or "Vault Dweller" in the games or it lets you pick a name/likeness. Probably just a coincidence.
Finished Fallout last night. One of my favorite shows in a while. Really enjoyed it from start to finish.
Same. Walton Goggins was just absolutely perfect, and even the cast members I'd never heard of before were great. One part that I thought was really funny, was when Spoiler all the culty people in Vault 4(?) are raising their hands, drinking blood, rubbing ashes on their heads, with the candles going. I'm thinky, uhh, well this is weird. And Lucy sees them all getting naked, and she's just been participating with everything, and she grabs the zipper tab to pull down her coveralls . . . and then, nope. It was funny, because I was like, hell yeah, Lucy getting naked! and, then I didn't know if her pausing and being uhhh, wait a minute, was just her character having second thoughts, or if the producers were like, oh let's make them think Lucy's about to get naked and fake them out. Either way, it was a well-done moment.
Yeah, its a funny call-back to the games. Whenever you enter a new vault, you always wait for the other shoe to drop with whatever weird shit is going on in that one. Sometimes it's right away, sometimes it's far more subtle.
Baby Reindeer: A show on Netflix that's supposedly based on a real life incident that happened to the creator of the show Richard Gadd and being stalked by woman for a period of two years. It's really unsettling in multiple episodes, but it touches on a lot of different things including sexual assault, predatory grooming, co-dependence, and a litany of other bad situations; however, it's definitely got some dark, dark humor aspects to it that help balance out all of the bad actions in the show. It's a quick watch; only 7 episodes that are all about a half hour long, except for episode 4 that's about 45 minutes.
Fallout is extremely bingeable, Prime finally has a show that can rival The Boys. This show is great because knowing nothing on the game (such as I) does not matter. The lore, production value, world building, characters and reveals are tip-top; and best of all is Goggins who is finally given the tailor-made role we all wanted to see him in. I’m all in. Definitely want to see this to the end.
Dark Matter on Apple TV. Digging it so far since there's only two episodes, but it could easily get away from itself. Never read the book but I've heard great things. Glad there are so many Sci-Fi shows recently. Even ones that don't quite work indirectly promote the ones that will.
Yeah there's a lot of name reuse. Dark Matter, Dark Matter, Dark Skies, Family Matters. I can't keep track.
We’re watching it now also. Didn’t know there was a book. We’re on episode 4 now. It’s still holding together.
I've just hit my first really big problem with the series on E4. Spoiler I fucking hate it when a major plot point is driven by one character making a completely unreasonable or insane decision, and another character just going along with it and enabling it. "I can't stay in here one more second" so she runs out into a clearly deadly situation and Jason just goes running after her, even carrying her further away from safety. I understand why they did it, but I really don't like Obvious Stupidity As A Plot Driver. It's lazy.
I got through the first 2 episodes. Meh. I'm probably through with Star Wars. This show just isn't good, and I gave it two episodes. The franchise has had some high points, but they are too few and far between these days. There's such good sci-fi out there, and Disney just isn't doing it. I haven't kept up with Star Wars, outside of the Mandalorian, it got to be too much. I got through Ahsoka, but it was so borderline I lost interest in Obi Wan, the Bad Batch, Andor, etc. I wouldn't have bothered with this, had gf not mentioned it. The main actor (Lee) deserved better, as did Carrie Ann Moss. The younger stars did ok, but the costumes, music, and set pieces all felt cheap and lazy. I get the hallmark of this franchise is wooden dialog and plot holes you can drive a death star through, but for a detective story, you'd think it needs to be a bit tighter. Not mad at anyone who's still into this, but I'm over it. Call me when there's another Leia in a golden bikini moment.
I gave up on Star Wars a while ago for the same reasons. There was so much interesting stuff in the EU that they never touch in favor of Anakin-Vader-ObiWan-Skywalker storylines over and over because its familiar and makes them money. The stuff outside of that is still adjacent in some way or is just not very good. Consequently, they are also just beating the shit out of the MCU with half-assed directors and stories no one cares about.
I hate to sound like an incel but Disney's pivot to female-led stories has coincided with a lot of this decline, especially on the MCU side. There's SO much canon that could be told in ways that are faithful to the female characters that don't alienate male audiences (Black Widow, for example) but they seem to just stick to the South Park premise of "put a chick in it, make her gay" to the point of the entire franchise sinking. The Acolyte is no exception, unfortunately. There's just nothing compelling about any of it, and it's mind-blowing how you fuck up the premise of "Jedi murder detective with former padawans as suspects, investigators, and co-conspirators."
I feel like Disney makes a lot of their female characters lesbians because they think it would be a turn off to have a straight female character be anything but demure. The neckbeards would be uptight with an attractive straight character that is unattainable, so they make her a lesbian so its not a threat to their fragile masculinity, which ironically creates one dimensional gay characters that don't have a lot of variation.
But, the original badass female in the Star Wars story was a princess (it was in her name!), she wasn't a lesbian, she was tough and not demure. Leia was straight (I mean, there was that one weekend in college . . .) and could handle a laser gun.