True. Guess we’ll have to find out next month. I’m looking forward to it.
BTW, I absolutely love that they used “I Don’t Want To Set the World On Fire” in the new trailer.
That is the problem with establishing canon in games with multiple choice outcomes. The very first time I ever played FO1, I had never encountered a ghoul before I reached Necropolis (having learned about it from a random encounter with Patrick the Celt) and when I saw them I thought “MONSTERS!” and started killing them all without engaging in dialogue, then took the water chip without fixing their purifier and let the city die. Then I played FO2 and talked to Harold (who I eventually met in FO1 after I got the water chip) and he told me all about how the Vault Dweller was the first human he ever met who didn’t hate ghouls and how he saved Necropolis, and I was like “That’s not how I remember it.”
The Chicago/Midwest Brotherhood is your faction the decent-enough game Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel. Not to be confused with the confusingly named and lesser Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel.
Walton Ghoulggins.
A good nod to lore, too. Ghouls are notoriously resistant to pharmaceuticals.
We have a clip!
I think this is what happens when you try for a Speech check but you only have 2 Charisma, then aim for the eyes and roll a critical fail.
Apparently the entire season is dropping tonight at 9 PM eastern.
Should we have a rule for spoilers?
Let’s maybe have no spoilers forlike a week or two? I’m open to suggestions though.
Sounds good to me.
Selfishly, my wife is out of town until Sunday so I’m watching the first ep tonight to make sure it’s not unexpectedly awful and then watching the rest with her once she gets back. So no spoilers! 
Great! I won’t be able to watch it for a few weeks, but I’d love to here some spoiler-free reviews.
Apparently it drops at 9PM eastern tonight. I’ll watch the first one.
I’m hearing good things.
Want to watch this. I spent many happy hours playing Fallout 4 during pandemic times. I don’t know if passively watching a show or movie based on a video game can ever really come close to replicating the game experience, but the trailer looks great. Doesn’t hurt that you got Walton Goggins playing a vault sales rep, then a ghoul.
Unfortunately, we canceled Prime awhile back, and now as I understand, Amazon split Prime shipping and Prime video fees into two things. Bezos gotta pay for that spaceship, I guess. Nice to hear they dropped all the episodes at once. If I read good things here, I’ll try to get a free 30-day trial and binge away.
About 75% through the first episode and it is really good. I hope it maintains quality throughout. They were very smart to not adapt a Fallout video game, but just kind of make their own game-story and just make it a show instead.
Very well done.
Watched the first episode and it (of course) stopped right at setting up the show. Was tempted to go ahead onto Ep 2 but there’s only eight episodes so I’m waiting for my wife to get home and watch.
Enjoyed it (obviously). Plenty of little things to catch for the game enthusiast and already a couple things that’ll probably annoy someone, but didn’t really bother me. It was a bit darker than expected from the trailers but, again, time will tell how that shakes out.
“Haven’t I watch you play this enough?” – Mrs. Odesio when she saw what I was watching.
I’m enjoying it so far and I’m also glad they went with an original story rather than an attempt to adapt the story from one of the games. I’m a tad bit surprised it’s as violent as it is. Not super surprised, there is a Bloody Mess perk in the game, but just a little surprised.
Two episodes in: they nailed the tone, the lore, and the look. I feel like I could reproduce Vault 33 in Fallout 4 if I wished. The Vault dwellers came across as the sincere but naive people you encounter in the Control vaults in the games.
I’m not sure I have a lot to quibble about, and I’m huge on Fallout canon, so I was looking.
“Nope, keep watching.”
Just watched the first episode. Wasn’t expecting that much sex and violence out of the gate, but I’m excited to see where this goes.
My plan is to watch one a day and hopefully be done before we start talking spoilers.
Okay, so rather than having everyone wait a week to discuss what happens in the show, and then having a single thread where we talk about all the different episodes at once, I instead went ahead and created a thread for each episode:
Episode 1: The End
Episode 2: The Target
Episode 3: The Head
Episode 4: The Ghouls
Episode 5: The Past
Episode 6: The Trap
Episode 7: The Radio
Episode 8: The Beginning
This has several benefits. We don’t have to wait a week, everyone will know what episode we’re discussing in that thread (whereas after a week we’ll all be talking about all different episodes all at once), it’ll be much easier if people want to watch an episode, then discuss it, then watch another episode. People won’t feel as compelled to rush through the season to keep up with the discussion. Etc.
Feel free to use episode 1 thread to give general impressions that don’t really contain plot points, and feel free to use the episode 8 thread to discuss everything that has happened overall as a general sort of catch all, since everyone will have been expected to have seen the whole season by that thread.
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I have… two or three thousand hours played between all iterations of Fallout. I’ll start watching this weekend. I mentioned it to my wife and she, the perfect being she is, said she’d watch it with me since I talk about the game and lore with my friends and she wants to share.
I’m happier than a feral ghoul in a nuclear waste barrel!