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Fallout Season 3 Begins Filming (bleedingcool.com)
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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

I know the Fallout show is really campy... but fuck, it always was really campy, way back to the beginning. That's actually staying true to form with the camp and the old west themes.

Let's just say it just scratches that itch well enough. We're not talking award winning performances except for maybe Walton Goggins, whose character has seemingly been given the most background story (which tracks for a guy who's been alive so long to have a... longer backstory) and the best material to work with, comparatively.

Anyway, both seasons are imperfect but a lot of fun if you can look past flaws. Looking forward to another campy romp in season 3... sad to see Dave Foley didn't make the cast list, though. I need more Yes Man in my life god damn it.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 35 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ella Purnell is super cute I wish I was her cousin.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No more cousin stuff!

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Fallout Alabama

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

The problem they're running into is having too many plot threads open at once. Which is apparently has been a problem with the producer in the past.

[–] misk@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I know the Fallout show is really campy... but fuck, it always was really campy, way back to the beginning.

Fallout 1 had some goofy bits but they were more like easter eggs than anything. Fallout 2 is when it embraced being campy in pulp 50/60s style but even then it was restrained to just that. Bethesda made it into a caricature of itself later with Fallout 3 and 4. New Vegas from Obsidian (who are ex-Black Isle guys, original creators of Fallout) tried to right the ship but the TV series also made a caricature out of it.

Fallout TV series is fine on its own but it definitely strays from what original games were like. I don’t mind people like new Fallout but why drag the original with it? Is it to appear cool because it implies you know the original? Someone disliking new Fallout games or TV series might never give FO1 a chance if they hear its like the new ones.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My man those are rose tinted glasses you're wearing. The whole plot with Gizmo in junktown is campy as fuck. There's enough pop culture references to make a nerd orgasm. People act like that shit started out with Fallout 2 but no way, there was tons of goofy shit in Fallout. It's a lot less well written than we want to remember ha.

[–] misk@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Fallout 1 was Mad Max type of goofy. Fallout 2 started sprinkling pop culture references everywhere. There’s a big difference in humour between them.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout_cultural_references

Give me a break, the evidence is there. This is all in Fallout, not Fallout 2.

[–] misk@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

That’s not exactly a long list there.

Compare it to https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout_2_cultural_references

Have you actually played Fallout 1?

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sequel to popular game has more things that people liked, more at 11!

[–] misk@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Seems like you agree with me that Fallout wasn’t drowning in pop culture references in the beginning. Why the sarcasm?

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m not interested in your pedantry, goodbye

[–] misk@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Goodbye. Apologies for the pedantry, I suspect restricted thinking patterns that don’t allow me to compromise on what the truth is might be part of the autism thing. I kind of like it that way.

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Hey my bad, there are lots of pedants on the fediverse so I tend not to engage much further when I spot it. “Have you actually played Fallout 1?” really gave off “you like band? name every song” vibes.

I commented originally because it was an inherently silly argument. It’s like saying Google wasn’t successful because Alphabet has become so much more.

[–] misk@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That was the intention even if I didn’t ask that directly. People try to act cool by pretending that they they’re familiar with something „classic” and to anyone who played old Fallout games it was plain obvious that they didn’t. I didn’t expect people to dogpile on me though. Using the same analogy, I was correcting someone wearing a Metallica t-shirt who said that And Justice For All has the best sounding bass.

To me this kind of rewriting history is really bothersome. What if someone didn’t like Bethesda Fallout games but since everyone says it was always like that they won’t ever give those old games a try?

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The majority of the games were campy. So far the show is FO2,3,4,NV Leaving out 1 is fine as most people played 2+ since it became popular after 2.

[–] misk@piefed.social 0 points 3 weeks ago

My point is: no, Fallout didn’t start out as campy, it got gradually more campy over time.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 weeks ago

Season 2 had way too many story lines for an 8 episode show. Everything felt rushed and underdeveloped. It is a shame because several of those storylines were intriguing.

With that said, I will be checking out season 3.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Ella Purnell getting to be in a show that is more than two seasons… yay!

No I have no interest in Fallout, just disappointed her other show wasn’t renewed for more.

[–] droans@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Sweatpea is getting a second season! Check it out if you haven't yet.

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago

Annabel O’Hagan and Dave Register have also been promoted to series regulars for Fallout Season 3.

I would have assumed they already were regulars, a fair bit of the plot has revolved around them.

[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm not saying Rings of Power was a financial failure, but a 2024 show is getting a 3rd season before 2022 one... (I don't care about new LoTR. I got the books and the movies. Don't need Rings of Power or those Gollum movies)

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago

ROP sucked teh budget out of other shows.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What is your post trying to say?

[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Amazon is trying to prove that Rings of Power isn't losing money, but the fact they are greenlighting other shows faster than others implies that Fallout is making money, while Rings of Power isn't.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Season three of ROP is scheduled to be released in November of this year.

Amazon paid 750 million dollars for the rights for ROP and part of that deal was a five season commitment. I doubt they were ever be any discussion on if the next season will be “greenlit” or not until after S5 is released.

If the show is successful or not for Amazon I have no idea nor do I really care. I quit watching that dogshit in episode 2 of season 2.

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

S2 was very underwhelming to me.

I'm a longtime fallout fan and I'm indifferent to a S3

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

If there was ever a series that needed 22 episodes a season it was this one.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

Season one was good because they took some risks and i don’t think people expected it. But if they continue to safe it its going to be just another show.