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@Mahaloth

@Elmer_J.Fudd

We watched the first two episodes of Fallout on Amazon Prime. It’s a lot of fun and has a bit of a Judge Dredd humor to it. I know very little about the video game it’s based on but the premise of a post apocalypse that began in the 1950’s provides for some really cool design choices.

The best decision they made is that the show is just in the setting of the games, but it a new story. Note: I think I saw 2077 on a school chalkboard in the episode which indicates the bombs went off in some kind of alternate 2077(there was a mushroom cloud next to the year).

I’ve played all the games and honestly, I don’t know what actual year the bombs went off. I know robots already existed, which you do sort of see in the show’s opening as well. It was some kind of weird alternate 1950’s-future.

I’m not an expert on the Fallout game canon, but my understanding is that in the alternate universe, the ‘promise’ of atomic energy was embraced post-WWII and the ensuing future by 2077 became the retro-futuristic version of 50s utopic visions of the future. Think an atomic-powered Disneyesque ‘Tomorrowland’ (up until that whole nasty nuclear war business, at least). That’s why you have old-fashioned looking vehicles and TV sets alongside robots. I think @Smapti said it very well in one of the Fallout threads:

Fallout Episode 2: The Target

Fallout is, at its heart, a dark parody of American exceptionalism. “Absolute dumbass” is exactly the type of wastelander that should flourish in this setting.