Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-26 (Friday) Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 10:00:12 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 19:00:11 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="15839241b18436fa856506ad96de1d46"; logging-data="506760"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1886u6Q1CHnV/IsKqAVXoAS" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:XMmRc/d3Br3vnbdB0tXwLw2jqbQ= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2249 On 4/27/2024 8:22 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote: > Yesterday, I finished off Fallout, and watched a movie: > > Fallout (Prime) - Last two episodes of season #2. >    Yeah, I figured it was going to turn out like this... I have no idea > if the premise problem here is from the video games themselves, or if > the TV show sort of grafted on their own "premise" here, but either way > I didn't buy this world's "origin" or the motivation of the "bad guys". >    It also seems like the TV series didn't delve enough into the > background with the various "factions" (esp. the New Calif. Republic vs. > the Brotherhood of Steel). >    Anyway, I will keep watching this - there's some promise with more > Lucy teaming up with The Ghoul. But the resolution to season #1 left a > lot to be desired. In addition to strongly disliking and not buying the > motives of Vault-Tec, etc., I was also strongly annoyed with Norm's fate > (though I did very much like the brain-in-the-jar robot!) - Will we even > see Moises Arias in season #2?! > Having just watched the last two episode of season #2, don't you already know the answer to that? ;) -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.