Finished watching the series. Last four episodes or whatever. I liked it a fair bit. It was a good series. I did like the confrontation with Lee Moldaver coming to a conclusion while having coinciding plot streams dealing with the Big Business leaders engaging in their wacky Vault Program as a Social Experiment and their plan to wipe the slate clean with the Great War and also the brother Norm entering Vault 31 and finding that particular Vaults purpose. It was a nice way to sell the setup of it all.
There are some minor quibbles I wasn't a big fan of. Some minor plotholes that stuck in my head but nothing too serious or that I'd get annoyed about.
I did enjoy the Vault 4 stuff as well. It was nice seeing how this Vault "Experiment" was going to turn out and the revelation of it all and all of the... fallout... that arose from that. Seeing the gradual revelations of the New California Republic and the result of the destruction of Shady Sands and the creation of a real cult of personality around the NCR is a pretty interesting way of exploring the post-post apocalypse.
Vault-Tec being the ultimate bad guys so far was neat. It reminds me of the Enclave so that they would foment a War just to cleanse the Earth doesn't surprise me in the least. Robert House in FNV didn't give a fuck about the pre-War world either and he was probably more sympathetic than any of the Enclave nitwits. Seeing the big business elites or whatever were hedging their bets, yeah it works for villainous purposes.
I really dug the dialogue and storyline culminations in that final episode. Especially with Lucy's Dad talking about how the factions needed to be eliminated while the BoS and NCR Remnants were fighting each other over the Cold Fusion source. It was a nice counterpart. Wrong IMHO but... that's standard for Fallout's big NPC's and adversaries. Fallout writers and designers repeatedly state not to take the NPC's at face value or that they are always right. It's meant to provoke more conversation and thinking on these situations.
I feel the weakest stuff in the series is the BoS storylines. Maximus is growing on me but the Brotherhood of Steel plotlines and lore revelations about them now is all pretty meh in my opinion. I see they are playing up the medieval and religious aspects pretty strongly but it's not as interesting to me as the NCR Remnants exploration, or Cooper/The Ghoul's backhistory and all of the Vault-Tec and Vault shenanigans going on.
Overall entertaining series on its own merits. I liked it as a longtime Fallout fan. And the payoff at the end was nice too. Glad I had a chance to watch it. It was fun and entertaining.
The fact that he has to point out the obvious is pretty hilarious to me now. Having just seen the scene, I'm not sure how the chalkboard scene could be interpreted otherwise unless your being willfully obtuse or just wanting to hope against all logic and reason that Bethesda was trying to retcon the entirety of Fallout New Vegas so you can hate Bethesda more, like you somehow need a reason to loathe Bethesda more without having to manufacture reasons. That's obviously what it was implying. The Fall started in 2277 and the explosion occurred afterwards.
There are some minor quibbles I wasn't a big fan of. Some minor plotholes that stuck in my head but nothing too serious or that I'd get annoyed about.
I did enjoy the Vault 4 stuff as well. It was nice seeing how this Vault "Experiment" was going to turn out and the revelation of it all and all of the... fallout... that arose from that. Seeing the gradual revelations of the New California Republic and the result of the destruction of Shady Sands and the creation of a real cult of personality around the NCR is a pretty interesting way of exploring the post-post apocalypse.
Vault-Tec being the ultimate bad guys so far was neat. It reminds me of the Enclave so that they would foment a War just to cleanse the Earth doesn't surprise me in the least. Robert House in FNV didn't give a fuck about the pre-War world either and he was probably more sympathetic than any of the Enclave nitwits. Seeing the big business elites or whatever were hedging their bets, yeah it works for villainous purposes.
I really dug the dialogue and storyline culminations in that final episode. Especially with Lucy's Dad talking about how the factions needed to be eliminated while the BoS and NCR Remnants were fighting each other over the Cold Fusion source. It was a nice counterpart. Wrong IMHO but... that's standard for Fallout's big NPC's and adversaries. Fallout writers and designers repeatedly state not to take the NPC's at face value or that they are always right. It's meant to provoke more conversation and thinking on these situations.
I feel the weakest stuff in the series is the BoS storylines. Maximus is growing on me but the Brotherhood of Steel plotlines and lore revelations about them now is all pretty meh in my opinion. I see they are playing up the medieval and religious aspects pretty strongly but it's not as interesting to me as the NCR Remnants exploration, or Cooper/The Ghoul's backhistory and all of the Vault-Tec and Vault shenanigans going on.
Overall entertaining series on its own merits. I liked it as a longtime Fallout fan. And the payoff at the end was nice too. Glad I had a chance to watch it. It was fun and entertaining.
The fact that he has to point out the obvious is pretty hilarious to me now. Having just seen the scene, I'm not sure how the chalkboard scene could be interpreted otherwise unless your being willfully obtuse or just wanting to hope against all logic and reason that Bethesda was trying to retcon the entirety of Fallout New Vegas so you can hate Bethesda more, like you somehow need a reason to loathe Bethesda more without having to manufacture reasons. That's obviously what it was implying. The Fall started in 2277 and the explosion occurred afterwards.
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