TV/Movies Megathread

[Syt]

Looks like season 2 of fallout is the new Vegas edition

I enjoyed S1 very much, so looking forward to this.

[HVC]

Looks like season 2 of fallout is the new Vegas edition

I enjoyed S1 very much, so looking forward to this.

It was pretty good, yeah. Didn't take itself too seriously, which fallout lends itself to nicely. Plus now theres more dog, and who doesn't love a dog

[Syt]

Yeah. It captured the feel of the games without trying to re-tell an established story.

[Syt]

Seems we're visiting a certain motel in the new season:



And this made me proper laugh out loud. Caesar's Legion looks even sillier in live action than it did in game.



(Though it begs the question - who's the new Caesar?)

Also, Justin Theroux looks great as Mr House.

[celedhring]

The Legion survived but the NCR did not? I resent that 

Then again, that's what I went with in my last playthrough 

[Syt]

The Legion survived but the NCR did not? I resent that 

Then again, that's what I went with in my last playthrough 

It should be interesting to learn what their "canon" ending is ... or how they dance around it without making a call. They can't really pull a Dragon Break in this universe.

I'm guessing that no one remembers who won the 2nd Battle of Hoover Dam and there's a new status quo.

[grumbler]

It should be interesting to learn what their "canon" ending is ... or how they dance around it without making a call. They can't really pull a Dragon Break in this universe.

I'm guessing that no one remembers who won the 2nd Battle of Hoover Dam and there's a new status quo.

I think that it is pretty clear that the canon ending to FONV is the Mr House ending.

It's unclear whether the Caesar in the show is the Caesar of the game, or if the game's Caesar has died (as the game states) and that there is a new Caesar by the time of the show.

NV was the best of the FO games, so I am glad that the show is leaning on it.

[Syt]

The show is set 15 years after FNV (and 10 years after FO4) - even if Mr House is not the canonical ending, it would give them wiggling room to have him survive by other means (uploading his mind somewhere, who knows). With Caesar I think it'd be easy to handwave it by leaning into the Roman Empire trope and have pretenders taking over regularly.

[grumbler]

I wonder if the show will confirm that No-Bark Noonan is The Chosen One.     I remember reading the case for this theory and finding it plausible, if unlikely.

It is serendipitous that FalloutUG is releasing the FONV beta for FO4. I've been to the Mojave in FO4 and it's all looking very promising. Only about 10% of the dialogue is in there yet (and none of iytt voiced), and the mod needs some texture work (especially earth, grass and sand) plus more of the NPCs, quests, and the like. It's just a matter of building the additional converters (it uses the assets from your existing installation of FONV and converts them to FO4 standards).  Very exciting! It will eventually include the Capital Wasteland as well.

[Syt]

Nice. Have you tried Tale of Two Wastelands that ties together FO3 and FNV? If so, how is it?

And confirming the No-Bark theory would be hilarious. (It's not quite Darth Jar-Jar levels, though )

[jimmy olsen]

Alien Earth has been great so far

[Syt]

New episode of Foundation had a surprising amount of gore. Between it and S3 od Strange New Worlds, sci-fi seems to become a bit more bloody.

[Josquius]

Alien Earth has been great so far

I've seen ads for this one, though I'm just not being drawn to it.
Had it come out 10 years ago I'd be all over it. But Covenant just killed interest in Alien for me, that was such a terrible film, up there with the Matrix sequels for dissapointment.
I've not seen Romulus yet.

[Savonarola]

The Decline of Western Civilization (1981) 

The first of the decline movies this one focuses on the Los Angeles punk scene from 1979-1980.  Features performances by Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Catholic Discipline, Fear, Germs and X as well as interviews with members of Black Flag, Germs and X as well as a number of punk fans and the staff of Slash magazine (it might have just been a 'zine).

The movie is an interesting slice of a sub-culture that I know little about.  There was just an exhibit on punk posters at the Orlando Museum of Art (which included both the New York and London eras as well.)  One of the explanatory notes from the exhibition said that "Everyone starts as punk, the question is what you grow into" (that is when you start at any artistic endeavor you're not very good and can't afford expensive equipment.)  I was reminded by that when listening to the director commentary and she noted that many of former members of punk bands became teachers.  (Many more died, and some of the bands are still together.)

The director, Penelope Spheeris, would go on to direct "Wayne's World."  After seeing this I thought she was an inspired choice.  (After that she directed a lot of slop like the 90s "Little Rascals" and "Beverly Hillbillies.")

[crazy canuck]

New episode of Foundation had a surprising amount of gore. Between it and S3 od Strange New Worlds, sci-fi seems to become a bit more bloody.

Re foundation, they have added a lot of story lines and complexity with not a lot of episodes to bring it all together.