The declaration "Fallout sucks" is not worthy of a post on its own, but I'm more curious about the state of media in general due to my generally ascetic lifestyle. I don't stream, I don't watch new movies, and other than a few games on Steam and my PS2 I don't game anymore either. I gave the new Fallout a shot through rather Frobisherian means and could only last two and a half episodes before Shift-Deleting the files from my computer.
My main complaint? The acting. The stiff, uninspired, stilted acting. The show up to the point that I quit felt like a comedy sketch done very poorly. I understand that they were trying to capture the lampooned 50s feel of Fallout as a whole yet they failed in that execution, mainly due to the acting.
I honestly can't think of one good acting performance. Maybe Titus, and only because Rapaport just played him like he plays everybody?
The thing is, I'm seeing praise for the show and I don't understand it so I'm wondering if those giving praise are used to wading through outhouse troughs and view this as a breath of fresh air? Are my expectations too high? Is this a me problem?
Yeah, you're somebody like a bunch of us who grew up with quality shows and movies to watch. The current normie bump with Fallout is real, we're not only seeing that people are suddenly spamming about Fallout now on the trending pages but Fallout 4 reached the top sellers list as well. Which is pretty funny because it forced Bethesda to release a patch in order to address various lingering bugs and optimisation issues that had been there for ages but all of a sudden they care now they're getting fresh sales again.
Mind you, it's not just with this new Fallout show that I'm completely ignoring. All the normies praise shit like Breaking Bad for example and I tried watching that properly a bit and holy shit it was boring for me. Some parts were good but you can just go on youtube for that. The fallout show itself looks like generic corporate shit with a Fallout skin on top, much like the new Dune movie and I wasn't impressed by any of what I saw with that either, thought the original was better. The same goes for stuff like Shogun, the original was better.
I agree with you about Fallout and Dune, but strongly disagree on Breaking Bad.
Breaking Bad is universally loved because it was as close to perfect as a show can be. The normies didn't jump on the bandwagon until it was a few seasons in and were told by fans how great it was. The first season was a bit slow, so I can see why you might think it was boring, but it is full throttle for the rest of the show after that. You should try watching it again, and don't spoil it for yourself by watching clips on youtube.
lol too late, the moments were pretty interesting don't get me wrong, but I just couldn't get into it, though to be fair to the normies maybe Breaking Bad just wasn't for me in that particular instance.
I agree that breaking bad was an excellent show. But I can also say it's perfectly understandable why anyone wouldn't enjoy it.
All the characters in it are flawed far beyond even reality, they're each pretty much disgusting in their own ways and the frequent moments of slow pacing just leaves you stewing in how pathetic and lamentable pretty much everyone is. It's a tragedy in the true classical sense, you're supposed to feel bad after watching it. And it's a good show because it succeeds at just that. The best description I have of the experience of watching it is "grimly satisfying"
I struggled to get into it just because of how fucking infuriatingly awful the Wife was. Like, everyone else's flaws are at least compelling enough and evoke interest in seeing what happens. Hers just make me wish the scene ended already.
And, I'm told she only gets worse as the show goes on. Which means I never was able to keep watching either.
The writing wasn't even that bad for me, I think maybe what put me off was that it seemed like it was a generic crime show that was trying too hard to be edgy at least that's how it came across to me. Mind you, I'm somebody who did not care for Doctor Who and in the UK back before they went full woke that show was worshipped by normies.
I'm also somebody who could not get into Red Dead redemption either despite the fact I'm a gamer and it got universal praise. I'm not really interested in forcing myself to play it because I found it that boring.