Video games getting high budget TV adaptations are still a rocky landscape in our modern day. Sure, we are seeing more than ever before – but there is a vast disparity in quality in some cases.
With the announcement of a Fallout TV show from Amazon studios, there was an equal mixture of excitement and concern. It seems like a property that is ripe for the picking – but obviously if someone on the creative side doesn’t “get it” then we are in for a world of sludge.
A few teasers and set images did stir the pot of excitement – But hey, we have an actual trailer now, and the outlook seems really good.
Immediately, the music choice is sublime. For all it’s grandiose world building and character driven coolness – I have always felt that the Fallout series has lived and died by it’s use of music in the modern age, and boy howdy am I pleased to hear I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire by The Ink Spots front and centre. It is a magnificent track, and it is absolutely the thing that sank hooks into me and convinced me this trailer deserved proper attention, not just a fleeting look over coffee.
We see our naive Vault Dweller set foot into the wider world, played by the wide-eyed and always charming Ella Purnell. And sure enough, when finally interacting with the populace of the harsh outside society she gets a big ol’ laugh right in her face. Dipshits indeed.
The rest of the trailer does a fantastic job of putting some narrative portions in place – the Brotherhood of Steel are made of individuals with their own issues; they are NOT a formless mass for good, Everything and everyone in the wasteland wants something from you for better or worse, and Walton Goggins is every bit the under-appreciated acting power house I expected him to be, making a marvellous drug-loving ghoul. A particular highlight is hearing Matt Berry embody a Vault Tec Mister Handy robot – gleefully explaining that he intends to harvest our heroines organs.
The trailer has done an excellent job of uplifting my interest in the project to a proper level of excitement – and with a release date looming in early April, the wait to see how it all comes together is a short one.
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Known throughout the interwebs simply as M0D3Rn, Ash is bad at video games. An old guard gamer who suffers from being generally opinionated, it comes as no surprise that he is both brutally loyal and yet, fiercely whimsical about all things electronic. On occasion will make a youtube video that actually gets views. Follow him on YouTube @Bad at Video Games
