Speak Up Saturday: What are you watching?

[yourlibrarian]

It's already Saturday again, which means it's time to take stock of what we've been watching and how we've been liking it. So let's share!

Comments

[shadowkat]

I saw the first episode - is it worth continuing? It has a good cast, both Walter Goggins and Michael Emerson are in it. But it appears to swing heavy towards "satire" almost too heavily? And I was struggling to care about anyone other than Maximos in the first episode. It's watchable but not quite compelling and I can't figure out why exactly? I didn't feel the need to go back immediately at any rate or continue watching after the first episode, even though I liked it well enough?

[olivermoss]

Fallout's setting is deeply satirical and symbolic. That's why the currency is coca-cola... err... nuka-cola bottle caps.

The show didn't work for me because they never did anything to ground the show in reality. It just feel very floaty to me.

[shadowkat]

I'd agree - the first episode has this kind of floaty video game aspect? I don't believe it? There's too many things that jar. Such as the vault - it looks like a cheap set? Also, 219 years later and they are still stuck in 1950s rhetoric? Really? That's not very believable.

[jo]

That's not very believable.

Er... it's not supposed to be. That's the point.

[shadowkat]

Yeah, I know, satire. I'm not a fan of that type of satire. But other's are.

[olivermoss]

From what I know of Fallout, that is all very intended, that's just the vibe of the franchise and why I never really got into the games. It started as Bethesda wanting to do something completely different for their other RPG series to not get bogged down by doing the same things over and over and not be doing what other companies were doing.

[shadowkat]

Yeah, it's satire - which doesn't work for me, but works for others. I may go back to it, or give it a pass. The problem is there are about 1000 other shows to watch so if it doesn't grab me, I tend to forget about it.