juice702Fallout TV Show Could Now Last Five Seasons After ‘Immensely Surprising’ Popularity, Say Creators
SpeakinTelnetThey’ll fall into the trap of never creating a proper ending aren’t they?
The horse will be pâté.
A big theme I’m hoping to see in season 2 is to see what their take on New Vegas’ ending would be in the show.
Todd Howard already said that they aim to be as ambiguous as possible and not canonize any of player’s choices. It will probably be “yeah there was a big trouble here a couple of decades back but it’s all ancient history now so who cares”. And the town’s leader will be some schmuck who hasn’t even heard of Mr. House.
Swedneck“mr. house? well that sounds fancy, most people are lucky to have a shack!”
The AssmanWell it is a fallout show
I’m imagining a series finally like a weird mixture of Clue and Fallout 4 where the last episode has four possible endings and three are basically the same and they’re all shown.
Stop, I can only get so erect!
CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]That seems the pattern, especially with comedies. I get the sense Netflix (any streaming platform really but especially newcomers Netflix and Amazon) seem to be quick to cancel a streaming show for any or no reason.
RIPandTERRORThis series would be ripe for new plot and characters every season Fargo style. Too bad they’ll never do it.
I don’t think you get a $153m budget without expecting it to be popular.
Madbrad200A big budget doesn’t guarantee success though
of course, but that’s not the point. the point was making a popular show was absolutely their goal, not sure why they feel the need to posture about being “surprised”.
They may have been expecting it to be popular, but less so than it actually was.
Or “Citadel” for that matter, which apparently cost $300m
By most metrics the Lord of the Rings show was very successful. Now none of those metrics mean much to you or me, but they do by the people who sign the checks I think.
NeatoSecond season comes out in August. Popular enough to keep spending money.
In the end, there’s no way to show is a streaming show is popular. Unlike movies, it’s all hidden.
I wonder how many creators are taking less money to get better support at outlets other than cancel-happy HBO and Netflix? Five seasons is a great deal if it works out for them.
I can’t be bothered to watch any series on netflix that are not finished with a proper ending for this exact reason. Fuck them for not giving shows actual endings and just cancelling them.
Part of that is on the show runners and writers. Netflix makes decisions off of viewership and other metrics, it's the show runners that decide to have seasons end on cliffhangers
Netflix could always tell the show they aren’t being renewed and give them the opportunity to wrap things up. Even if it’s just with a two hour movie. Traditional networks frequently do this with shows. It would also make better sense because if the back catalog of shows on a streamer don’t end properly, no one’s going to subscribe to watch them.
It’s been said many times before, but I would absolutely include an escape clause (?) in any contract with them, that sets aside a portion of the budget for a “wrap up” mini series/feature length episode/or straight up movie.
Same! Netflix has trained me not to even watch new shows until the show has a proper finale. Fuck em for making so many throw away shows just to pump thier numbers.
Same goes for Google, it doesn’t matter what miraculous app/hardware they dream up with, cause those fucks are no better when it comes to abandoning thier work. It’s all pump and dump after the quartler numbers are out.
Enshittification is getting out of control.
Sometimes it’s the enjoyment of what happens in a show that makes it enjoyable, or the just the actors giving a great performance with what they get, regardless of when executives want to cancel it cough firefly cough. I do agree it sucks but sometimes it’s still worth the watch is all. Maybe they’ll realize errors if enough people watch the better stuff even if unfinished in the future, but doubtful. Also I’m a Stephen King reader so used to not so great endings heh but the middle parts can be awesome at least.
Hard pass.
Feel the same. Thought the 1st episode started strong and by the end I didn’t care to see what happens next.
Everything except the last episode was awesome
borariThe entire show outside of Walter Goggins was acted like it was a fanfic project shot and uploaded to 2011 YouTube.
I liked the protagonist, except how she turned in the last episode
I saw that shit coming a mile away
The Ghoul is like crafted in a lab to activate every female “I don’t like bad boys but…” hormone. It would have been extremely unrealistic if she stayed with Maximus.
I see the incels have found this thread.
Dude implies Lucy has the hots for Cooper because he's such a bad boy and will leave Maximus for him. Incels think all girls leave the nice guys for some bad guys.
Honestly, people who don't understand Lucy's development in the last episode have absolutely lost the plot imo. She just learned that her glorified father figure murdered not just her own mother, but also tens of thousands of people and is likely also responsible for the end of the world. And here we have our online critiques saying her "suddenly" turning on her dad is unrealistic and weird.
I didn’t say her turning on her dad was weird; I just said the shift to her “bitter” side seemed too forced and the acting was not very well done in that last episode.
(as for the incel thing, ok, now I understand why it was mentioned)
I didn't say her turning on her dad was weird; I just said the shift to her "bitter" side seemed too forced and the acting was not very well done in that last episode.
A lot of people shitting on the show / last episode do, dunno if they're just parroting some rage baiter from YT or whatever but it's all very similar in a lot of comments.
And I guess we have to agree to disagree because I thought the exact opposite. I thought the acting and reaction was completely on point for someone having to process all of that.
That’s fair, to each their own.
The rest of the series was fantastic though, definitely lots of fan service
If they could commit to just five seasons it could be a really good show, but if they plan to try to keep it going and milk it, it’ll be complete garbage by season 3
It really depends. If they go more of an anthology route it will be easier to not tank it. (Not saying they wouldn’t still manage to.)
Anthology is better for longevity, but I could see a lot of people being turned off by introducing all new characters every season.
It’s how the games are though. The different Fallout games exist in The same universe, but don’t involve the same characters every time. I’d love it to be a combo, do 2 or 3 seasons of this set of characters. Tell their story. Then do Fallout: Alaska or whatever, a completely separate series, with a tie-in or two.
Each time the games introduce a bunch of characters, you get to spend 40-100+ hours with them before they move on.
I think it would’ve been even bigger if they released it weekly.
Okie doke
Wait people are actually watching this I thought it was just getting morbbed
FireTowerIt’s a pretty good TV adaptation of the games.
I thought so until the last episode. That one brought the rest of what they had done way down (for me).
It’s…ok. keep your expectations low and it’s pretty watchable.
The HALO series was surprisingly good.
I didn’t realize today was opposite day.
What the hell is morbbed
Gaslighted into thinking a bad movie is good.
underiskwhen people like something as a joke but take it so far that it makes others mistake it for genuine appreciation. like Morbius
Maybe stop listening to rage baiters on YT.
I haven’t looked into it at all other than passing posts I don’t care about
apfelwoiSchoppenCreators, “Now let’s ruin it by going to the most fan-sacred places in the Fallout universe.”
The slooty armor vendors?!??!
They already went the and the place has blown up…
BroBot9000That fact they made the show about a pretty girl that just wants some dick instead of a show about the numerous tragic themes that fallout has instantly told me that they will milk this production for every last drop of money.
This is being produced be the real life Vault-Tek after all. Fucking Amazon.
incel intensifies