‘Fallout’ Season 2 Reaches 83 Million Viewers Worldwide, Amazon Says / That puts 'Fallout' in second place all time among returning series on Prime Video, behind only 'Reacher' season 2

I think S2 will be a lot better to watch as a binge like S1. Complaints about the slow pace and numerous plotlines will probably be a lot easier to digest when you're not waiting weekly for it.

They also had the second season out relatively quickly compared to most other streaming shows.

Live action One Piece 🤝 Fallout Good first season and an even better second season

Not to mention it already had to live up to an established fan base and lore

And in particular, one based on a video game.

The Ghoul obviously has so much aura, but his flashback scenes are so well done too.

I ain't asking for the world here. I just want eight vials and two million caps

I watched some videos on Fallout lore on YouTube between season 1 and 2. I never played the games, and I still loved season 1. But after learning more about the world, it really made season 2 even more enjoyable. I know they don't stick to everything lore wise, but it just helped to know some more about it.

> It's definitely one of the best video game adaptations on TV/Film As someone who absolutely loved the Last of Us tv show (even season 2!) as well as Twisted Metal, Fallout is *easily* the absolute best video game adaptation of all time in any visual media. It fits into the game's themes flawlessly

Everything I wish halo was

It’s still nowhere near as good as the games, though. Idk, maybe being able to actually explore a world makes it feel higher stakes than just watching a show. Or maybe the world was designed for interactivity. Either way, the show just didn’t hit like the games did. Anyone who doesn’t play the games is doing themselves a disservice.

Get a VPN and switch your location to Ireland. That’s what I’ve been doing to avoid ads for the new invincible season.

uBlock Origin actually shuts off the ads on Prime. Not kidding.

I had to pirate it. Not sure what use my Amazon subscription was when I have like 9 minutes of ads per episode 

Even without the ads, you still get short scenes due to the show being edited in a way to show these ads. The last episode was soo annoying without ads as each scene was just short scene then black screen (ad) next scene......over and over again. Like the show but season 2 just felt off due to that which never happened in season 1.

the HDR too is sooo f****** broken. I put it on a refrence Monitor that can do 4400nits and some of the "OUTDOOR" scenes where they are in the desert barely pushes past 500 but then will SHOOT up to 1500 randomly in an indoor scene... The indoor scenes should not be brighter than a scene set in day light Whoever did their HDR mastering not just on this but pretty much ALL amazon shows they alweays look so dark that if u watch on an oled can cause black crush Reacher is EXACTLY the same it's always just "dull" no matter if u watch it on a OLED/Miniled/or a refrence montiro

Matey!

Just download the full episode and you won’t get ads (or pirate)

That's why you watch on REDACTED or block ads on prime. Seriously I was offered a free month of prime around the same time the show was on. Otherwise I wouldn't have watched it on prime. Amazon is so greedy. F*** them.

I just watch it on Cineby. I love good TV but can't justify supporting Amazon. Or Netflix, considering what they did to the Witcher & I'm Not Okay With This

how? I hate ads as much as the next guy but it’s not even close to unwatchable

IDK I loved season 1 because it all felt like it was using the game elements naturally, but haven't wanted to watch more than 2 episodes of season 2 because it feels like it's got way too much "look a game reference!" moments which don't feel like they fit and take me right out, like the guy muttering the infamous patrolling the mojave line as he walks into town in a hypnotized state. Completely took any tension out of the scene for me, like was the intent to be funny? Those kind of winking nostalgia references to previous entries in a franchise really put me off and are one of the worst things about JJ Abrams style reboots. I generally like Rings of Power despite its flaws, but the weakest parts by far were those kinds of winks, e.g. Tom Bombadil just quoting some of Gandalf's memorable lines to him thousands of years earlier without the context to even make them work.

Agreed. S1 was amazing but S2 wasn’t nearly as binge worthy

I liked S1 a fair bit but yea S2 didn’t capture me at all. Maybe I’ll try it again later.

sure seemed that way to me. none of the joy, half the laughs, and way more obvious. Felt like writing was rushed.

I mostly agree with you on this. It drove me nuts how it seems to just cover each plot line for about ten minutes each episode in one chunk then move to the next and there was very little, if any, thematic arc between them all.

Agreed. The factions were treated like a joke and lazily written. This show is fun for the eyes but painful for the brain it’s honestly just very mid.

> And the Enclave is starting to feel like Umbrella from the Resident Evil movies where they yoyo from all powerful to all but destroyed until the next movie. Tbf this is true to the games as well

In my eyes showing the prewar at all was a big mistake. It’s supposed to haunt the narrative. One of the fundamental themes of Fallout is “mankind’s big ambitions lead him to destroy himself through war.” The fact that nobody even remembers who launched the nukes, let alone anything else about the pre war world, is a big part of that theme. They were so desperate to control the Earth that they totally erased themselves and destroyed everything. Having the prewar make up, like, half the story cheapens all that.

Baby Billy*

He was really great in I'm A Virgo which is sadly underrated.

As a dude whos played fallout for forever this show nails the universe so well.

If you aren’t liking it then stop. You won’t get much else from the remaining episodes or from season 2.

In my opinion, season 2 is significantly worse with the writing. If you aren't connecting with season 1 you're probably not going to like 2. Granted, I am one of those super Fallout New Vegas fans and started tweaking at a number of things the show did with the lore, but even that aside, I felt like they were putting focus on certain side plots in the show to justify having the main cast less in the show. The b-side plots (like the vault dweller drama) are definitely aimed at regular watchers.

If you don't like it by now, it's not for you.

You can safely drop it at this point. It’s not going to suddenly introduce a new aspect that’s going to change your perspective on the characters/story.

Me too, I'm a Fallout fan since the old Fallout 1/2, also 3, NV, and 4. The series plot is so dispersed, the before nuclear disaster plot is too forced. The tension of "everyone is an enemy in potential" of S1 was replaced by incompetent, comical threats.

Elder Scrolls VI is happening before Fallout 5, and it's going to be a whole lotta years before we get either. There's been Fallout-TV themed content for Fallout 76, that's pretty much the most anyone could expect out of Bethesda these days.

It's really quite impressive in a way

you haven't seen much bag fumbling then, because they made a mint and are all obscenely wealthy. Oh no, they could have been richer. What a tragedy.

Statistics, wooooo! The devil's in the details.

At least they simply only compares to their other series which I assume they measure the same way but yeah the actual number means nothing

Sounds like Microsoft reporting all the times I accidentally click on Copilot while I’m trying to open my files.

The season 2 finale has to be one of the worst edited episodes of television I’ve ever seen. Scenes literally lasting 20 seconds before going to the next viewpoint

Season 2 was just extremely scattershot, wanting to give absolutely every character a slice of the pie, no matter how small their share. The material is fine, solid even, but the execution left much to be desired. Certainly wasn't helped by the awkwardly sudden fade to blacks that lingered way too long.

Season 2 paradise is awful. What are you on about? lol fallout season 2 was great

It really does. They knew they couldn’t do the incredibly complex worldbuilding or gameplay of an RPG in a linear TV show. So instead they had member berries.

I'm a gamer, and I love Fallout games, and S2 sucked hard. It's just bad TV.

The “previously on” clips are really poorly done. I also have no recollection of the first season.

I agree. Feels like I am watching the Force Awakens of Fallout. This show quite literally feels like a soft reboot of Fallout, mainly the west coast. Even the reaction to the show is just like TFA back when it came out, you’d swear it was the second coming of Christ. The only benefit the show has over TFA is that Fallout was never as mainstream as Star Wars so you have a colossal amount of people being exposed to this world for the first time. So I get it, it all seems very fresh and unique from that point of view. And like The Force Awakens it’s just copying old plots and rehashing them in less interesting uninspired ways. Enclave as big bad again. Brotherhood again. House/NCR/Caesar’s Legion fighting in Vegas again. Leaving the vault to find your family member again. Is there room to retread these elements in interesting ways? Of course but this isn’t Andor this is TFA. Characters even talk in this JJ Abrams mystery box bullshit like way. Like the show is completely averse to any and all exposition whatsoever so you’re left with characters talking in this weirdly vague manner in regard to the world they live in. Not confirming an ending to New Vegas has only amplified this vague-like way the characters speak. All the side characters encountered are dumbasses. Like there’s a lot of kooks in Fallout don’t get me wrong but there’s way too many No-Bark like background characters. Pacing feels off. Geography and how characters traverse also feels off. Not a real good sense of progression or time, characters are just teleporting across the Mojave. Good action comedy show. Love the use of practical effects and the set designers have killed it. Performances are also really killing it as well. Justin Theroux as House eats up every scene he is in. But the plot and worldbuilding are leaving a lot to be desired. It’s been a steady like 6/10 for me.

I’d say Reacher is kind of good guilty pleasure show for people who liked action heroes back in the 80s. It might not be the best show, but dumb fun is still fun

who would play John Skyrim

Really mixed. Boyfriend and I both like it. It's high-octane action that doesn't need a lot of thinking and we already have other shows where we do like a deep plot. It's a modern take on no-brained 80's and 90's action, but modernized without the objectionable themes movies had during that era. Sometimes it's fun to shut your brain off instead of every villain nowadays needing an extensive origin story about how tragedy made them who they are as seems to be the trend for a while now, or that's how I feel. It's not particularly good, nor is it bad, but it's a fun binge for us.