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*shrug*
Fallout's world building isn't meant to make logical sense. It's symbolism and aesthetics. That's why the currency is bottlecaps from legally-distinct-from-coca-cola. But, still, all the tech and physicals and computer and security and logistics just did whatever the plot needed them to. There was no grounding realism to anchor the floaty bits.
Basically, for a number of reasons the strength of the character writing has to carry the show. The writing was very meh to me. So, the battles making little sense stood out to me. For example, in an early battle the ghoul could easily have taken the shot, got the goods and got out while mech boy slowly floated in. Also, loyal attack dog just listens to his master scream without doing anything for a bit, and then bonds with the attacker?
I don't know how these battles read as scripts, but as shot the battles make no sense... unless it's supposed to be meta for like how you can't take actions during cut scenes?
The show's been very well reviewed. I don't know if I am an outlier, if the show seems awesome to fans of the IP or it's just good to have a TV show based on a existing IP just not suck for once.
Peeking at tumblr and reddit and a few other places, I am seeing a lot of 'the show is good actually, you guys are just mean' type stuff. Eh, doesn't really matter, just curious how the show plays for people into it's vibe and if it's me who is missing something about it.
Fallout's world building isn't meant to make logical sense. It's symbolism and aesthetics. That's why the currency is bottlecaps from legally-distinct-from-coca-cola. But, still, all the tech and physicals and computer and security and logistics just did whatever the plot needed them to. There was no grounding realism to anchor the floaty bits.
Basically, for a number of reasons the strength of the character writing has to carry the show. The writing was very meh to me. So, the battles making little sense stood out to me. For example, in an early battle the ghoul could easily have taken the shot, got the goods and got out while mech boy slowly floated in. Also, loyal attack dog just listens to his master scream without doing anything for a bit, and then bonds with the attacker?
I don't know how these battles read as scripts, but as shot the battles make no sense... unless it's supposed to be meta for like how you can't take actions during cut scenes?
The show's been very well reviewed. I don't know if I am an outlier, if the show seems awesome to fans of the IP or it's just good to have a TV show based on a existing IP just not suck for once.
Peeking at tumblr and reddit and a few other places, I am seeing a lot of 'the show is good actually, you guys are just mean' type stuff. Eh, doesn't really matter, just curious how the show plays for people into it's vibe and if it's me who is missing something about it.
