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.
☝️This 1000%.
People are quick to forget all the fucking stupid things the show runners were saying prior to the pilot coming out. “We’re gonna provide social commentary”, “we don’t care about pleasing the fans,” etc.
Amazon is DEI central, its employees are woke zealots, OF COURSE they’re going to go full retard with the agenda. They’ve just turned it down a couple notches to build up some goodwill first, like that knuckle-walker from Reacher did.
Fuck this show, I’m not wasting my time on it. Not a single solitary fuckin episode.
Turned down? It's feminists and negroes. You're just used to that level of woke now