Fallout TV Show - Teaser Trailer

I thought this trailer looked fantastic, I don't know what the rest of you all are smoking. As a fallout fan it was more than enough to get me excited for the series, also Walton Goggins as a ghoul chefs kiss.

People need to remember that fallout isn't the last of Us or god of war, fallout is a cool series with a cool world, but it's not a masterpiece of story telling and writing. These showrunners aren't making Lord of the rings over here, it's not gonna be hard to make a decent show based in an established world.

They're keeping the aesthetic and design, so I'm happy. But so many people don't have a nuanced opinion anymore, and a show is either a perfect 10 or it's "unwatchable garbage". I've seen and loved shows that I give a solid 8 to, but anything below a nine gets called "shit" these days.
- I mean, New Vegas is known as one of the best written RPGs of all time. So.... there might be slightly higher than average expectations here.
- These showrunners aren't making Lord of the rings over here
  
  Of course not, Lord of the Rings already exists.
I don't want to set the world on fire.

But I will if they fuck this up.
- Where were you when we watched Rings of Power?
  
  Where were you when we suffered Wheel of Time?
I thought it looked pretty good.

That said, I thought the first few seconds right up until Dogmeat started eating the Radroach looked pretty mid. I got really psyched and excited when I saw the BoS power armor
Looks a bit cosplay-y, honestly.

But also I've never been into Bethesda Fallout, so I'm already not as much of a target for this one, I suppose.
- That was my impression too. The costumes and CG seemed a bit goofy to me. But then again, so did the original Witcher trailer, and that ended-up looking mostly fine when I actually watched it, so...
  
  shrugs
- It's west coast fallout by Bethesda, and I really don't know how I expect them to handle the established material. I hope they do justice to what's been written already
- Yeah you’re right Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel is where I think this show should’ve taken its design notes from.
I'm with you. I was excited once I saw the first look photos. They took a lot of care with costume and set design

Cautiously optimistic. Hopefully it's respectful to the source material.

It's a very good setting for a show or mini series, but the way the IP's current owners have handled it so far gives me pause. Hopefully the writers will be competent enough to not resort to the "radiation and mutations are basically magic" writing that's been all too common with Bethesda.
- I mean we already saw mutants (NOT Super Mutants or Centaurs) in the form of Chris Parnell's Overseer Cyclops in the trailer. The rest of the shots (especially the Yao Guai tearing up that Paladin) make me think it'll be more lore-accurate.
I mean, the way Bethesda has taken Fallout, there's not much that could be ruined, just use a newish setting and go to town

I didn’t realize Jonathan Nolan was a showrunner. The first season of Westworld was brilliant. And Walton Goggins is good in everything. I’ll give it a shot.

Goggins is what got me on board too.

What the fuck man where the hell did this spring up from? This just started a flame in my heart.

I don't suppose in your heart you have but one desire?
- Is that desire to light a flame in your heart instead of the whole world? You pyromaniac!

You can tell it's gonna be bad because they forgot to say "war never changes"

I bet you that this will be in the show and narrated by Ron Perlman.
And where are the TUNNEL SNAKES??? HMMMM???
- In a tunnel?

Sweet! Well get a season or two and then they'll cancel it just like they do all the rest of the fan favorites.

That feels more like a Netflix move than an Amazon move.
- An expanse tear runs down my cheek.

How do you mod a TV show?

Don't worry, Toddyboy is on the case!

I don't want to get my hopes up, but I'm getting my hopes up.

My hopes have definitely gone up after seeing this trailer. I really hope they don't pull a Witcher.

guess i will watch it. lets hope its not complete shit

the trailer looks great and really has that fallout spirit somewhere between funny, gruesome and batshit crazy.

Also great to see Walton Goggins in the cast, he's a great actor
- I’m on a strict “don’t trust trailers” diet since seeing the new Napoleon film, so I’ll wait and see for this series.
- I love Goggins, this is a perfect universe for his style honestly
They're going to find a way to release the films with bugs and release a day one patch

There's not enough wackiness in the trailer. Fallout has always had a thin veneer of grimdark with a whole hidden iceberg of goofy bullshit and it was amazing.

I'm getting huge "missing the point" vibes.

While i fully agree, a lot of people won't know what Fallout is, and they kinda have to set the basics first.

With that being said, I question whether Amazon can pull this off.
There are a lot of reasons to not judge it yet. First and foremost, the director/show runner has zero input on the trailer. That's all the marketing department, and the trailer is designed to get as many eyeballs as possible on the final product. Numerous examples exist of trailers which bared little resemblance to the movie/show/game/whatever.

Secondly, they buried the lead on the director. Jonathan Nolan did direct much of Westworld. But he also wrote a bunch of award winning films for his brother, Christopher Nolan. Movies like Memento, Interstellar, The Prestige, and Dark Knight. He's no slouch, and I'll reserve judgement until I see it.
- To back you up, the first Doom Patrol trailers did little justice to how weird that show is.
- J. Nolan also did "Person of Interest". It's a lesser-known show but it was very good.
  
  It felt like a classic 80s show at first(the hero is a badass supported by an eccentric rich guy to help random people) but, without spoiling it, it takes a very interesting turn.
it's a trailer, it also has to get the normis
so the cyclops overseer drinking a moldy cup isnt wacky at all?

I mean it can't be worse than the Halo show, at least this looks decent from the trailer.

Can guarantee it'll be better than getting mauled by a Deathclaw either way.

We don’t talk about that show

Honestly I can't wait to watch this. Consider me hyped!

Oh no... The time has come to shit all over two legendary games again... for the second time.

I was not excited for this show until seeing that trailer! Fingers crossed 🤞

I haven't found a place in my life for these types of TV series. Looks good though just prefer the complete arc of a movie or a mini-series.

Sets look kind of big budget artificial, soapy? Like that is some wicked blue dye on the suits, very fresh. Lovely hair and makeup. All good though I realize it's just not my thing. A cinematic 90 minute fallout movie laser focused on 2-3 character arcs would be exciting to me.

Yeah it looks like it's artificial almost on purpose. The vault opening and there's a neat little skull in the corner...

Tbh I don't mind shitty adaptations that fan service but I think they are missing the mark on this one. I hope I'm wrong tho.
- Yeah the badly planted skull seemed pretty lazy. Just show a blasted landscape

SILO is fallout canon in my head

i hope they come up with a better ending than they did in the books

Fallout was an aesthetic that told super dark stories. How will a TV capture the vignette of nightmares that are the Vaults?

Fallout is not a masterpiece of story telling or cinematography. It was written by non writers mostly. It's not the godfather. It isn't going to be hard for professional writers to make it work better than the games, and clearly they're not fucking with the visual designs of the series.
- It's almost hard to get Fallout wrong. Unless you shove a kid into a fridge for 200 years, or retcon the creation of the super mutants.
  
  Todd Howard is involved, so I wager they'll get the themes right.
That could very easily be done, and it's not especially 'dark' anyway.
- Not especially dark in the vaults, except for all of the body horror.
There’s not really any limits for content anymore. Look at Amazon’s The Boys.

The way you play Fallout / Skyrim / Bethesda games might end up being a perfect format for a television adaption.

You can have a main character and follow their travels in a really strange setting. You can have 1 off episodes with perticular styles much like the quests in the game. You can easily switch from a dark horror filled vault to a campy town the next episode. Kind of like the files would have lighter episodes then some really dark ones and occasionally an episode about the main characters.

Because the fallout universe has a lot to be explored you a smart writing team could do a lot.

TL;DR Gimme Twilight Zone in the wasteland
I mean... you may have missed how episodic television works. Ironic horror antologies have been a thing on TV since the 50s.

Well I don't hate it yet..

Hope they manage to get the lead's makeup smudged.

Funny, didn't an earlier version of the trailer say "and the studio behind The Boys and Free 2-day Shipping"?

Now it says "fast delivery" with an asterisk.

I thought that must've just been a name of a show I hadn't watched haha
Yup, I watched that too!

Be prepared to be "There it no war in Ba Sing Sae"d soon.

that was shockingly interesting

this trailer looks better than the Furiosa trailer.

to me this looks like the most generic "Hollywood trailer" which is unfortunate but understandable.

TV shows/movies based on games are usually just a cash grab that play on people's love of the source material, but maybe in wrong we'll see.

TV shows/movies based on games are usually just a cash grab that play on people’s love of the source materia

I really disagree on that. Most recent videogame adaptions have been pretty awesome: Arcane, Cyberpunk Edgerunners, Last of Us, Castlevania. Sure there are some stinkers out there, but the quality really went up in the last years.
- Plus One Piece

Remember, Brotherhood of Steel: Don't feed the yao guai! That is all.

It's going to be good. I can already tell it has The Boys humor in it and the surprise violence. It will be amazing.

I'm kinda scared that the trailer was knee deep in "from the ____ who did _____ ."

Granted, it's a teaser trailer, but it would have been cool to see a little more of what this show has to offer. e.g. The Boyz is great, because the story adapted from it's source material was already interesting. I'd love to learn more about the story of this adaptation, esp since there's a lot they'd have to do to turn the non linear, choose your own adventure source material into a non-interactive story.

Feels like the showrunners and story writers would have the opposite challenge of, say, The Last of Us. There, it was all about retelling an existing story and resisting the urge to reinvent too much.

Here they'd need to pick one of many stories and fill in a bunch of gaps.

Hope it works out 🤞🙏
- Even though each game is a player driven RPG, there's a canon "through line" of major events from 1 to 2 to New Vegas. 3 and 4 are set far enough away or in a different enough period of time that the plot impact is more minor.
  
  Personally though, I hope this is less of an adaptation and more of a "side stories in the setting".
- If you're a fallout fan, you're already on board. Our viewership is a given, and is theirs to lose. But for people who aren't big fans, having big names attached shows it's serious business. It's meant to convince people on the fence that it's worth an initial watch since there's money and names behind it so maybe it's not just "some dumb low budget video game shit."

I hope Todd Howard had almost zero creative input

Kind of a random though but do you think we will ever see shows done in a more connected way? I mean as of now, all the shows are always done in secret. Why not involve fans in the process? Publish videos from the set as you film and get feedback? Publish scripts, test footage and so on. Yes, the element of surprise would be lost but wouldn't it be nice to see how the show is made and they see the final product? And maybe even influence it a little bit? I would love something like that. What do you think?

Edit: interesting. Looks like only I would be interested in seeing how a show is made.

The only reason we watch shows is to get the story. Being spoiled ruins the whole idea of the show. Besides: Even though some showrunners miss the mark, most of the fans ideas of what might come instead are mostly terrible.
- There's evidence that people like stuff just as much even if they know what's gonna happen, kind of like how placebos often work even if you tell the person.
- People rewatch movies because they love them.
  
  I'm about to watch the final episode of the One Piece adaptation, even though I know exactly what has happened.
  
  The adaptation has deviated slightly from the manga, but that's to be expected of a series known for filler.
- Yeah, I don't know. In the age of remakes, reboots and huge franchises can we really say that we watch shows for the story? Is any of the Marvel movies about the story? You always now how it will end. If you read the script of Guardians of the Galaxy would it really spoil the movie? I think those movies are actually more about 'being involved'. Same as Star Trek or Star Wars. It's about following, being a fan. Story is the weakest part of those movies. It's all about CGI, action sequences and 'fan stuff' like callbacks, references and so on. I think showing what's happening on the green screen wouldn't actually spoil anything and would be really interesting to the fans.
  
  And regarding fans ideas Sonic comes to mind. They released the trailer, fans complained and it got fixed.
  
  But I not saying that all the shows should be made like this. For some (most?) I wouldn't work. I'm just saying... wouldn't it be interesting to see the entire process for a show like this?
Nah the last thing these shows need are a bunch of armchair experts chipping in.
- Ackshully, those experts are statistically far more likely to be sitting in an office chair or a gaming chair than an arm chair.
  
  *pushes glasses WAAAAY up nose*
Same reason I don't ask people what they think about my work while I'm doing it, it's a pain in the ass.
So you want to be like those execs that interferes with the production of the show/movie?
No not really. There's a reason you hire experts to do a job and I for instance hates it if someone try's to explain to me, a designer, what a good design is...
- the nipple is the only good design
  
  everything after that is artifice.
- But we have early access video games. You can start playing when it's in alfa, give feedback. Is it really that bad for creators?
I think part of why creators don't include fans in the process is to avoid the possibility of a lawsuit like "I said there should be a super-mutant/brotherhood of steel secret relationship, and they used my idea! I'm entitled to money!"

Maybe 🤷‍♂️

I think it looks great and am super excited!

Idk where it looks great comes from, this looks like the Fallout 76 trailers. So focused on cheesey looking high budget CGI, the colors on the suits look too fresh and vibrant(imo), power armor CGI looks honestly too expressive- not like a hydraulic walking tank.

Edit: I just clicked the link, I think this is a different version of what I watched, this looks much better

This has tempered my expectations for the show. I'll give it a shot (fallout is my favourite game series), but I'm no longer super excited.

Strange, I got the exact opposite feel from the teaser. If anything they nailed the tone of fallout in that 2 and a half minute spot. Plus the set design and costumes don't look cheap or fake. Im cautiously optimistic.
- I'm worried about the humour. It felt like they're trying to force it. We'll see though, I'll be happy to be wrong.
- The vault costumes definitely looked cheap, more cosplay fan film than professional production in my opinion. And the cgi on the mechs was very uncanny valley

Looks good. Didn't see any nuka cola references.

Did anyone else notice the abscence of shockwaves when the nukes went off?

Not the worst, lore wise the bombs were less explosive and more dirty
I see them clearly. They are not massive, but they are also not absent

Half the teaser looked really good, half looked incredibly mediocre.

Clean human skull at the entrance trope? Bit on the nose.

i really REALLY hope it doesn't suck

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To be fair they have produced a few shows that are really good.
- Yes, but at least this stands a good chance of a few seasons.

I mean fallout certainly has the world and stories to be turned into a series of movies or a tv show. I just hope they don't focus too much on the woke aspect and actually take advantage of the source material and storytelling

Either you have never played the games or never paid attention to anything but the gunplay.

90% of Fallout is social commentary, and it's not even subtle about it.
What are we talking about here? Racism against ghouls? Fascistic vaults? Common, everyday slavery?

I never know what someone means when they say "woke". Are you for those examples above, or against them?
- I'm against producers hamfisting woke ideals into content, like if the whole series was just shallow men=evil, women=strong, or every single character is non binary and points are constantly being made about it and things like that.
  
  When it feels more like a circle jerk than just realities of the story, going out of its way to basically virtue signal removing focus from the actual interesting stories

I was never a fan of the Fallout games (just couldn't get into the setting for some reason), but this looks surprisingly good. I'll probably give this a watch. Hoping it's a better adaptation than The Last of Us was, as I love when a video game adaptation succeeds.

TLoU is the greatest videogame to screen adaptation, ever. What are you on about?
- In my opinion, it very quickly became a generic zombie apocalypse survival story after a couple episodes. I thought the fungal angle to a zombie outbreak was a very interesting take, and I would've liked to see a bit more focus on that aspect of things. But they hardly showed off the zombies at all. It gave me TWD vibes for most of the episodes. And not the good "look at the flowers" vibes, but the "spend half of Season 2 walking up and down this small stretch of road looking for a girl who isn't there" vibes.
  
  The cast were all fantastic, but I just wasn't that hooked with the storytelling, I guess.

Take place in California. But no sign of the New California Republic. Not looking good.

It's a teaser trailer and the NCR is huge in the lore. It'll be fine.
- So don't tease the fan favorite faction. Good guys. /s
  
  All they needed to do is show a NCR flag in the background.
I don't want to give away too much if you haven't been playing Fallout since the very beginning but the NCR is not started until years after the first game when a person the vault dweller helps, organizes their village to become the New California Republic.

We don't know when this vault opens. It hasn't been mentioned in previous games so it might have opened and failed before anything else from series starts or it will take place many years later and we just haven't seen the NCR and the other factions in the teasers.
- ~~Good point, we don't know when the show takes place.~~ But the Brotherhood have a Prydwen like aircraft. They didn't have that in the first two games.