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Fall out video game is all about adventure, about having fun with exploration while overcoming deadly danger and monsters, making the best of a world that has ended. This show RUINS all about what it is supposed to be about.😰😓
Following moment after moment of gruesome🤢, depressing😪, and digusting🤮 sequences and events this show will not be "all fun and games" like the video game was. Fallout video game is so fun bc it takes an apocalyptic world crawling with monsters and makes the best of a world like that by going from a sheltered life in the vault to constant moments of risk and danger. It's a way of saying "okay life, if this is what you're going to throw at me then I'm going to throw a little something back at you."
The poor girl in this series will be nothing like your fearless video game avatar. She will throw the bare minimum back at life. This show with minimal amount of monsters and cool landscapes and an overdose of feeling bad for the helpless young lady in this series it somehow casts aside the true essance of Fall Out. It follows the story of this young woman hellbent on something as simple as finding her father after being taken by raiders. Something simple but the hectic world of this series sidetracks her pretty much the entire series, I'm assuming. I don't fully know because I was unable to watch the entire thing, at a point I just had to say "I'm tired of this series trying to ruin what Fall Out is supposed to be for me and I can not continue."
The character of the "goul" is the epitome of an example of what the heartless world of Fall Out can do to a person (in the bad way). Half way through the series you can already tell he has been so hurt that he looses all sense of compassion toward everyone even the dog. He uses the dog to try to find a decapitated head he is searching, when he throws a piece of meat at the dog causing us the audience to think he might have a shred of compassion toward it he proceeds to completely abandon it as if to tell the audience "yes I never cared for the dog in the first place." Then that is the last we see of this poor dog.🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ When she leads with the goul for some water and he takes a big swig then pours the rest out, its the tv show telling us "yeah, this character has lost all sense of humanity, he doesn't even feel animore," this is they kind of man our poor main character has to put up with through most of the series. 😐😑All the way until he tries to sell her for her organs for some drug he needs to survive.
This world is a damaged one. A world where even though there are plenty of survivors amongst the disaster they allow themselves to be angered and agitated instead of attempting to band together and work for the better of the majority, everyone instead is just me me me. Even the population in the vaults who show the greatest signs of banding together are so scared by the potential of the outside. They cloud their judgment on the fact this young woman was just leaving to find her father and instead punish who they can left behind, those who simply stood by and let it happen for not actively trying to stop this girl from going to find her dad.
If you hold the video game near and dear to you, go into this seires treading with caution, PLEASE. 🙏😭😭
*2 days later*
Went back and saw the rest, I take it all back. Ending saved the whole show. The amount of character development given to Lucy (MC) if cinematic genius. Changing my 2 star review to 4 now