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Visual Description: A woman talks at the camera. She has brown hair worn in a haphazard ponytail, and brown eyes. She uses her hand movements, facial expressions, and tone of voice to communicate and express herself. She wears a black cotton t-shirt, and there are bookshelves filled with a variety of books behind her.

Description: I wanted to share my thoughts on the Fallout adaptation from 2024 so far (through episode 3). This video will contain spoilers for the first three episodes, as well as the Fallout 2 game.

Lucy reminds me of me, especially her optimism and conflict resolution style. I love the way that her vault handles problems, it reminds me of theatre-people; but I don't like how they run their economy, as it feels too communist for a society with an Americana-based culture.

I feel like the show is way too gratuitous for my liking. I prefer my violence to be obscured by the limitations of 90s-era video game graphics. I get that the wasteland is supposed to be cutthroat, as to survive in such a world on would have to be, but I don't like seeing excessive blood and gore; I prefer when it's alluded to, fades to black, or the aftermath is shown instead of the actual violence itself on-screen.

I also love how the Brotherhood of Steel, VaultTech, and the Enclave are shown to be flawed/not great people. The Brotherhood of Steel cares about hoarding technology for themselves, not improving the wasteland. VaultTech's most humane invention being banana-flavoured cyanide pills hints at just how barbaric they really are in the Fallout Universe. The Enclave are shown to be perfectly fine with expending human life and engaging in human experimentation within the games, and so I love how the show hints at how they aren't great people. I would love to see how Lucy, who has a very idealistic vision of what it means to be an American, would interact with the Enclave (who, in the games, are shown to be the remnants of the American government).

I'm interested in seeing what concepts are explored in the rest of the series. I'd like to see depictions of how spirituality is practiced in the wasteland (as we see in Fallout 2 with the Hubologists, or the Followers of the Apocalypse). I'd also like to see Supermutants if the lore allows. I am not looking forward to more gratuitous depictions of violence, though.