New gender goals: Xelia Mendes-Jones.
Damn.
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Excellent interview with the two actors
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Podcast: Fallout & Humane
Greetings, programs! Join us this week for reviews of the new Amazon Prime adaptation of Fallout and then the new Canadian dystopian black comedy horror movie Humane, Caitlin Cronenberg’s feature directorial debut.
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April 2024. I don't like video games, which I find to be a worst-of-all-worlds combination of storytelling features, and I have yet to see any very compelling evidence that video game stories and concepts can translate into other media with other than embarrassing results. (Even THE EXPANSE, which never actually became the video game it was originally intended to be, was severely handicapped by its video game story conceits despite its many compelling points.) So, my expectations for the new FALLOUT show would be very low even if it weren't executive produced by noted hacks Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, who were responsible for the hackish and racist WESTWORLD reboot and the hopelessly misfired TV adaptation of THE PERIPHERAL, and I probably wouldn't bother at all except that I have enough second-hand knowledge of the game setting not to be baffled by its various weird conceits and arch satiric tone, which, for better or worse, the show seems to be embracing with relish.
If you're not familiar with the game, it's set in the late 23nd century of an 1950s-like alternate timeline where the world was devastated by atomic war, and where various factions are now vying to "civilize" the mutant-ridden radioactive wastelands of North America. Ella Purnell, who doesn't need prosthetics or CGI to look a bit like a cartoon character, is a Vault Dweller named Lucy MacLean, raised in an underground bomb shelter complex that's preserved a kind of parody of '50s Americana, but forced to venture out into the Wasteland to search for her kidnapped father (Kyle McLachlan). Aaron Moten is Maximus, a young Aspirant of the Brotherhood of Steel, a kind of paramilitary science cult with power armor, while Walton Goggins is a Ghoul named Cooper, a mutated prewar survivor who's been rendered more or less immortal despite looking like a rotten corpse.
So far, it seems to capture the look and feel of the games about as well as it could, with a high level of gore and glibness and the expected array of Easter eggs for people familiar with the games. Whether it will manage contrive any kind of point to the story is TBD, although given the source material and the creative team, I'm not holding my breath. Goggins could do this kind of weird PoMo cowboy shtick in his sleep at this point, which is probably a plus; the only one of the other characters who's at all interesting is Xelia Mendes-Jones as Dane, another Brotherhood of Steel Aspirant whom I think we're supposed to take as canonically nonbinary. I'm not sure how I feel about the treatment of Dogmeat, who crosses certain lines for me in terms of cute animal character vs. fictitious animal abuse.
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Fallout: The End – TV Review
TL;DR – This first episode very much captured the vibe, even if the pacing didn’t quite hold up to the end.
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Rating: 4 out of 5.
Disclosure – I paid for the Amazon Prime service that viewed this series.End Credit – There is a mid-credit sequence.
Fallout Review –
Well, this is an interesting one for me. Back in the days of Fallout 3, I devoured this series and this world, but since then,…
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Kyle MacLachlan, Xelia Mendes-Jones and Aaron Moten Join “Fallout” Series
Kyle MacLachlan, Xelia Mendes-Jones, and Aaron Moten have joined Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins in Amazon’s Fallout series.
Bethesda’s Fallout games are set in a post-apocalyptic world after an atomic war. Some humans survived the nuclear fallout above ground and are now living in the Wasteland while others stayed safe in radiation-proof Vaults (providing their Vaults were not horrible experiments).
Variety broke the news.
(Image from Fallout 4)
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