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though i will say it may take me a few episodes to full grasp the overall “deal” and who everyone is … it felt a little confusing to me in places

the funny thing about there being a fallout show in 2024 is i'm pretty sure you can't play the fallout games on any current- or last-generation consoles

You can buy/play a couple of them, afaict. Fallout 4 (which is supposedly getting remastered for current consoles) and Fallout '76. This show, it's like that "Borderlands" movie belatedly coming out, just a loose-hanging IP that some corporation is throwing a lot of money at. But not every video game IP is "The Last of Us."

i love the Halo show and i know nothing about the game. i did watch some episodes of red vs. blue but that didn't really tell me much about the game.

also, as i have reported here before to stunned silence, the Resident Evil series is probably my favorite movie franchise. i love those movies. never played the games though. well, maybe the Thin Man movies are my absolute faves.

(just going to quickly mention that i watched Incredible But True a 2022 movie by Quentin Dupieux and hope nobody yells that i should take it to the Mubi and/or Quentin Dupieux thread. if there is one. i know there is a Mubi thread. anyway, its a weird movie! for fans of time portals and electronic penises. peni. penes.)

Take it to the electronic penises thread

Which one?

We’re going to get a shit-ton of video game movies because superheroes are kinda fucked-out for a while as sources for franchise-capable IP.

However, games aren’t and Mario already made a billion dollars, right?

E.T. The Game The Movie

"Known IP" is perceived to have a huge value when it comes to developing a project – studios look at everything/anything, no matter how old or marginal. It's not just about being able to sell games or comics or whatever.

sometimes someone owns the rights to something and they need to use it or lose it. it doesn't matter if anyone's asking for it.

In the case of Fallout specifically, it sounds like the game folks didn't like any of the ideas that were pitched over the years, until the Westworld guy (Chris Nolan's brother) came along.

The Spiderman Copyright Extension Universe

trying to find more K-dramas to watch. I've found STRANGER so addicting that i'm bummed it's only two seasons, i could watch Bae Doona and Cho Seung-woo methodically and slowly trying to navigate byzantine cases (and occasionally meeting for dinner) forever. there's one called AGENCY which looks interesting.

their dinner scenes are the best <3

i'm just starting Blood Free (Hulu/Disney+, depending on which country you're in) which is written by the same screenwriter as Stranger, and it's about a bodyguard recruited to protect the CEO of a company that has perfected the tech for producing artificial meat. The company is being attacked on multiple fronts - people unhappy about farming jobs being taken away, accusations of using contaminated material, hackers demanding ransom etc - and every character on the show seems to have a secret agenda.

only two episodes out so a bit difficult to judge how good it's gonna be but it's pretty intriguing so far. like Stranger, seems very plot-heavy and twisty, and again centered on two leads figuring out if they can trust each other.

I watched season 1 of Stranger, and enjoyed it, but man it could have been six episodes shorter. Is season 2 about the same in terms of knottiness? on the fence about continuing

Roz, thx for the recommendation. And I think my favorite scene between the two of them was the stairwell scene in S2 E12.

I might have enjoyed season 2 of stranger slightly more than the first,
there's a bit of a time jump but a bit of what occurs goes back to season 1 no it is a new storyline. And there's a new character, a female police captain, who's absolutely utterly fascinating in murky motivation and in underplayed performance, so much so that about 2/3 of the season in when she briefly explodes at a subordinate it's one of the most shocking moments of the entire show.

I find it really interesting, the seriousness of the emphasis placed on incidenrs which in an American show might not even make for a minor plot point, and that's kind of refreshing to me in a way. The show has a deep focus on questions of morality and resisting corruption. Obviously the big crimes in each of the two seasons are major, but it's the other parts which are more interesting in a lot of ways.

*though it is a new storyline

Hitting the home stretch of Ripley - idk about it so far. Kinda feel like the show could’ve done a better job of leaning into the age, etc. of the casting choices. The decision to use B&W doesn’t really add much to me for that matter as well. Going to have to pull up some old B&W Italian cinema because those in the back of my head seem to catch the vibrancy of Italy that I’ve seen.

only just discovered Girls 5 Eva but it's so much fun! I wasn't sure I could handle Busy Phillips doing that ^voice^ for more than 10 seconds but I'm adjusting.

The 100 - back half of season 2 is kind of repetitive but way better than CW apocalyptic sci-fi should be

Vikings - not as much fun as The Last Kingdom, should be more gonzo and really go for the Svens of Anarchy vibe

The 100 just gets more insane (and better) as it goes.

Vikings gets more and more tedious the more you watch

The first 2 or 3 seasons of Vikings are OK, but never more than OK.

Watched Hotel Artemis on Max last night - a movie about a private criminals-only hospital run by Jodie Foster. Dave Bautista’s her assistant. They’re both REALLY good in it.

Never seen the last kingdom but I know someone who was in an ep so I always like seeing it mentioned

i am a vikings stan until they ditch Ragnar — i love it, have never been able to get into Last Kingdom bc it felt too normcore lol

i am a vikings stan until they ditch Ragnar

That was such an inexplicable and dumb choice. Yeah, let's kill off the most charismatic male performer on the show. (Spoilers, sorry!)

like what is even the point of the show after that

I mean, if they'd had the brains to make it The Adventures of Lagertha, maybe, but My Three (Viking) Sons? No fuckin' thanks.

hey Stranger is really good so far! thanks for that one.

(xps to omar)

Glad you like it! The show has a repetitiveness to it in some ways which is by design I think, everything just sort of slowly building. There are definitely entire episodes where it seems like very little happens, but it doesn't matter imo. I think it's pretty gripping throughout. And the mystery in both seasons really is a mystery, since you really don't know where it's going. it's not being coy, it's just very very clever and intricate. And the two leads are just immensely likable, even when one of them is completely lacking in emotion.

WHHHHY are we making 20 year old video games into premium tv series.

I’ve seen a lot of thumb’s up for it on social media

I'm watching this Colin Farrell hardboiled PI thing "Sugar" on AppleTV+ and 1) it's really bad and 2) I really want to find out what happens, a terrible combination. After the 2nd episode I was pretty sure Sugar is a malfunctioning android, with his "I really hate hurting people, but they're so interesting I study them via old movies" thing. After the 3rd episode I still kinda think that, or maybe the polyglot society are friendly visiting aliens. Apple+ does like its SF-tinged programming after all. I will finish it with hate in my heart.

I will finish it with hate in my heart.

pity we can't have thread descriptions, this is perfect

I'm problem going to start Fallout tonight, I'm not familiar with the game but the trailer looked good.

I tried Palm Royale & quit halfway through the second episode. Not for me.

1) it's really bad and 2) I really want to find out what happens

^^^me watching Sons of Anarchy thru 2 1/2 seasons until my hate overwhelmed my desire

Watched The Zone Of Interest tonight on Max. Wow, is that a good-looking movie. My wife, who is a photographer among other things, is off to YouTube to find interviews with the cinematographer.

Finished Constellation, liked most of it in theory, even if, even in theory, I'm not sure much of it made sense. At the same time, it was pretty slow, pretty repetitive, and there is only so much you can handle people running around yelling "Alice!" or "Mommy!" And the ending was indeed terrible, though in that regard, it conformed to my feeling that I was watching what felt like a Stephen King adaptation.

Binged Fallout, only having seen maybe 5 minutes of Fallout 3 gameplay, and enjoyed it a lot. Excellent production values, as mentioned above, and the actors commit to the world. Walton Goggins is a standout, and appreciated the casting of Bonzo from Ender’s Game to allow the actor to show more range.

That said, I had no interest in the Fallout TV show despite being a fan of the series since the 90s. No reason to expect a video game adaptation to be anything other than ass.

Husband and I both loved it. I've never played the games, so everything was a fun surprise. It contained a lot of things that would normally put me off a show, like potential for animal peril, but it has such momentum that we ate it up over two nights. As people have pointed out here, it's all very well acted, and the world is very well realised. All the little mysteries and cliffhangers reminded me of the heady early days of LOST, except I was confident that the show knew where it was going. I also realised halfway through that it's one of the few post-apocalyptic shows I've seen where there was no threat of sexual violence against the young female protagonist, which really made me feel a lot more comfortable about just rolling with it.

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I tried Palm Royale & quit halfway through the second episode. Not for me.

I get this but multiple things keep pulling me back in:

1) The society shenanigans are so ridiculously low stakes but the depths Kristin Wiig’s character is willing to go for them is oddly compelling.

2) Kristin Wiig looks glorious in every single scene. Like, I never thought of her as sexy before but in this? Wow.

3) I don’t know who decided Ricky Martin should be relegated to being in a bathing suit in every scene but I would like to shake that person’s hand.

4) JULIA DUFFY

thanks Leeee! My Flagging search was not getting anywhere

Throwing in to add to the Fallout love. Like others, never played the game, just knew something about general bits, retro feel, etc., and was perfectly happy with all the results. Making the soundtrack choices key throughout, especially as subbing over a lot of the shootouts, made for something that went from ironic contrast to perfectly comfortable beat. Like Scott I also have been enjoying the Halo series and while the tone of the two series are radically different, both are great melanges where the games -- haven't played Halo either -- were clearly their own melanges of various sources/inspirations so turning them into dramatic series obviously runs a reductive risk but the end results are engaging and I'm happy to see more from both as they go along.

(Working on Ripley in doses, will get to the rest soon enough. Shogun talk on its own thread natch.)

Fallout was way better than I expected but mostly the underground parts. Not sure how the ghoul/Army camp? stuff is going to go.

I hope the woman who got her eye forked is a regular character. The show needs a good retro futurist eyepatch.

Hah yeah seeing more of the 32/33 denizens going forward somehow I'll be good with. (Leslie Uggams was a good catch for the cast!)

Arcane was another good video game derived show. S2 later this year