My general opinion of the show has basically been summed up with “neat”.
It’s a lot like the Warcraft movie. Lots of references and there’s been a lot of care put in to make it feel like the thing it’s based off, but it’s nothing spectacular.
Pretty much.
Years ago I watched a TEDTalk about television ratings and it’s basically the only talk that’s ever stuck because it’s so applicable. Basically on a ratings scale of 1-10 in viewer surveys, the bulk of all shows are on average a 6-8 out of ten. There’s an absolute desert of shows that are rated a 2-5. At 1 and 2 out of ten are the shows “so bad you HAVE to see them” but all the rest are the endless filler material that just slips off of everyone’s mind if they have the TV on at the time. But shows rated at over an 8 are the shows that are the prime cultural movers that are practically “perfect”.
The Fallout show is at best in the 6-8 range, it’s fairly good with callbacks for the freaks but a lot of weird stuff to make the freaks annoyed, speaking as such a freak. But it’s writing and cinematography is lackluster and mid, with the former carried by the actors themselves. But I’ve called the writing “Whedon-esque” to friends, which has become the stylistic backwash of the Marvel and post-Marvel era of writing.
And being a 6-8 out of 10 show, it’s something I would watch only if it’s one incidentally and something I actually want to watch is coming on later.
But we also live in a world of streaming, so I have to seek it out. And it’s just not that good that I would have ever sought it out. So I wonder if everyone who has to go onto the timeline and say it’s “amazing” and “the best ever” is because by seeking it out explicitly to watch it, they have to take the crumbs of recognition and translate it into “this is a television event that I would have absolutely sought out purposefully fifteen years ago like Breaking Bad and Game Off Thrones!”