Finished first season of Fallout. It was phenomenal. Amazing how good the writing is, considering how bad it became in some other franchises (Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Wheel of Time).
The visuals are stunning, and the songs, some of them used in the games as well, undertone the dark humor of this universe.
Despite the series doing the usual dance: a naive character leaves his/her sheltered village/vault, and is on the hunt to find/deliver some MacGuffin. Characters have clear motivations, clear flaws, and in general, the acting is very, very good.
I was impressed by Stephanie, that manages to turn her character from that victim into something sinister in just one scene.
Betty’s phrase “Your father and I burried your mother” now has another perspective, ain’t it?
This character and the final scene are clear references to New Vegas:
A couple of less obvious questions I didn’t get answer for:
Why Vault 4 was praying for Moldaver? They had electricity in their Vault.
Who poisoned the raiders? Initially I thought that would be Norm’s arc, where he has to make some hard choices, as his sister does. But now I’m not so sure.
One reply on “Fallout S01”
I dropped the first episode after ~10 minutes because I didn’t like,
but after this review I’ll give it a second chance