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?
Where are you hearing praise? If it's mainstream conservatives or something, I've noticed a - in my opinion - very frustrating trend, where they feel the need to latch onto popular culture to show they're not "outsiders," or something. A bunch of prominent mainstream conservatives were singing the praises of The Last of Us at the time, too. I suppose because it wasn't as woke as it could have been, or something. "Look at us, we're conservatives, but we can consoom Current Thing too! We're hip, we're with it!"
Not sure if that's what's happening with Fallout, or that's what you're talking about, but I have seen at least a bit of that. Fallout is (apparently, as I haven't watched it) not as woke as it could be. So some people are taking that as a win. Which is in my opinion stupid, as they often wait a bit to inject the woke anyway. I can almost guarantee that if there's a season 2, it will be at the very, very least marginally more woke than the first season.
To the first point, that's probably a big part of it. Lots of stuff out there is worse, so if Current Thing isn't as bad as Current Thing -1, some people cheer. To the second point...no, this is not a you problem. Shit sucks.
Here, for one, which is what made me sail the English Channel looking for merchant ships.
Yeah, I saw a bit here, which I agree is strange. "It's not as bad as it could be" is a really fucking low bar and, from the little I've checked out, Fallout isn't great. Not sure why some people tried to defend it, maybe nostalgia too?
A mean, a Fallout show could/would be very cool. Maybe people got wrapped up in the potential and had rose-tinted glasses on.
That could be it. I think "not as woke as it could be" is a possibility though this shit was still fucking woke. Every fucking woman and girl was a girl boss, the worst being that bitch that repairs Finn's power armor component.
Whoops, I called him Finn, not Maximus. A proper Freudian slip, and probably why I quit the show -- this was just the new trilogy set in the Fallout universe.
Niggers and women. Yawn