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?
It depends on your angle, after at least a week, the concensus seems to be that whether you like it or loathe it is dependant on one thing:
Did you play Fallout New Vegas?
If you did or at least two, you aren't going to like as much. Especially how they treat the lore and some characters. A key one would be Mr House as this theory craft is if he got the platinum chip before the bombs fell but now they are saying he was there on planning day for when the nukes fell?
A lot of the 'it's a woke piece of shit' narrative isn't carrying as well as lore issue aspects as it also feeds into the 40k drama too of Amazon fucking up established lore to grandstand.
I don't know that much about fallout lore, but House had to know the bombs were coming somehow. I think the computer determined exactly when.