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.

I don't want to set the world on fire.

But I will if they fuck this up.

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

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.

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. Hopefully the writers will be competent enough to not resort to the "radiation and mutations are basically magic" writing that's been all too common with Bethesda.

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

Goggins is what got me on board too.

I don't suppose in your heart you have but one desire?

That feels more like a Netflix move than an Amazon move.

the trailer looks great and really has that fallout spirit somewhere between funny, gruesome and batshit crazy.

Also great to see Walton Goggins in the cast, he's a great actor

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.

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.

That could very easily be done, and it's not especially 'dark' anyway.

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