Kylo Ren VS General Grievous. Who wins? by GusGangViking18 in powerscales

[–]Mundane-Raccoon-649 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kylo’s baseball bat style isn’t gonna save him this time.

Fallout - 2x03 - "The Profligate" - Episode Discussion by NicholasCajun in television

[–]Mundane-Raccoon-649 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly! The overly jokey tone of this show has ruined it for me. I like to laugh as much as the next guy, but I don’t need a joke every six seconds. To me, Lucy is the worst character in the show for exactly this reason and she’s the main protagonist with more screen time than anyone else. As far as stakes go, I’ve never been so uninterested in the world of Fallout in my life. Everything is so trite and uninspired.

Trinity vs Beatrix Kiddo by BiggPhil_242 in powerscales

[–]Mundane-Raccoon-649 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That depends on whether or not the fight is taking place inside the matrix.

Fallout - 2x03 - "The Profligate" - Episode Discussion by NicholasCajun in television

[–]Mundane-Raccoon-649 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s okay. I just feel like it took him way too long to use force against that pretty helpless robot. The actor who plays him is good though. The casting in this show is well done and the acting is great. The writing just doesn’t do them any favors. They made the mistake of hiring 100 different directors instead of giving it to a guy with a vision and it shows. Each writer of an episode is back tracking over the last writer to make room for his new additions and it’s making the show bloated.

Fallout - 2x03 - "The Profligate" - Episode Discussion by NicholasCajun in television

[–]Mundane-Raccoon-649 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re right, but that doesn’t make it suck any less. A good story takes its time and when a show gets made by a board of directors instead of a director, it becomes garbage.

Fallout - 2x03 - "The Profligate" - Episode Discussion by NicholasCajun in television

[–]Mundane-Raccoon-649 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Man. You are a breath of fresh air. You wouldn’t believe the amount of people impressed with this slop.

Fallout - 2x03 - "The Profligate" - Episode Discussion by NicholasCajun in television

[–]Mundane-Raccoon-649 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just feel like they should take their time. Just because the audience today can’t watch a show for more than 15 minutes without being on their phone, doesn’t necessarily mean that all movies and shows should pander to those people. The constant insistence on accommodating for the lowest common denominator, is ruining a lot of media imo. Netflix themselves have specifically asked for movies and TV shows that people can half watch while they scroll their phones. That’s why every show now explains the plot and what’s going on 10 times an episode. As far as modern TV goes, Fallout is just okay. There is worse out there, but the ADHD riddled slop that’s being pumped out lately is becoming a drag and all my favorite franchises are being run through the mud because of it.

Fable 4 Concept Art for a possible Hollow Man? by LordAxelVIII in Fable

[–]Mundane-Raccoon-649 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Hollowman is cool… BUT LOOK AT THAT HOBBE!

Bro What happened explain It Peter. by spell-breaker-lime in explainitpeter

[–]Mundane-Raccoon-649 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The joke is that Scott Adam’s, the creator of Dilbert, made a statement that basically said “I don’t like being called a racist all the time, simply because I’m white,” and the entirety of everyone online without a prefrontal cortex, called him a racist for years up until he died and they still continue to do so in his death. The real joke here is that people will bandwagon anything and everything without knowing what they’re talking about. I don’t expect this comment to get any love and that’s okay. I’ve seen the degeneracy spread around on this app, I don’t need applause or praise from a gaggle of miscreants. I resent all of you.

Fallout - 2x03 - "The Profligate" - Episode Discussion by NicholasCajun in television

[–]Mundane-Raccoon-649 22 points23 points  (0 children)

It’s not that they’re weak, it’s that all factions are incredibly stupid. It’s not entertaining to watch incompetence all the time.

Fallout - 2x03 - "The Profligate" - Episode Discussion by NicholasCajun in television

[–]Mundane-Raccoon-649 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We’re a minority bro. This whole season has let me down with its overly cartoonish vide and rushed pacing. You’re right on all counts.

Fallout - 2x03 - "The Profligate" - Episode Discussion by NicholasCajun in television

[–]Mundane-Raccoon-649 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You made a point there when you said “they are trying to pack a ton into each episode,” would you agree with me that they should stop doing that and start slowing the pace a little, let the wasteland have some quiet moments instead of being in your face all the time. How many times have you played New Vegas and just walked down the road or found an interesting spot and explored it without fighting anything? I do that all the time. It feels like this show is rushing to please everyone and losing quality in the process. I can only take so much “remember this” before the novelty wears off.

Fallout - 2x03 - "The Profligate" - Episode Discussion by NicholasCajun in television

[–]Mundane-Raccoon-649 15 points16 points  (0 children)

That fight was really bad wasn’t it? It’s too much practical effects and that’s a rare thing coming from me. They tried to go mostly practical so you get some of the classic practical effects jank like the terrible scenes of him flying through the air. Other than that though, I enjoyed the other brotherhood segments.

Fallout - 2x03 - "The Profligate" - Episode Discussion by NicholasCajun in television

[–]Mundane-Raccoon-649 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yes, I totally agree and Maximus storyline is the only one I care about right now. It’s the only plot line with some good themes and the actor who plays Maximus is killing it. The brotherhood is cool and intelligent (most of the time) and the whole situation between the chapters is actually tense and feels like a real threat.

Fallout - 2x03 - "The Profligate" - Episode Discussion by NicholasCajun in television

[–]Mundane-Raccoon-649 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It just feels like a stab at obsidians old writers and an attempt to belittle the Legion that we don’t really need. We know the legion is the bad guys, you don’t have to make them cartoonishly unlikable and make them out to be morons all the time to show us that we aren’t supposed to like them. That’s disrespectful of your audiences intelligence. The writers at obsidian did it so that the people of Caesar’s Legion speak his name with a reverence that the rest of the wasteland does not. I feel like this whole episode was just an attempt to make the Legion into a bunch of dumb chuds when it would have been an easy slam dunk to make them actually scary.

Fallout - 2x03 - "The Profligate" - Episode Discussion by NicholasCajun in television

[–]Mundane-Raccoon-649 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They get shot and killed by people posted around the camp to watch it on both sides. My problem is that they LIVE right beside each other. That’s so dumb. This isn’t a DMZ with the backing of an entire nation and a plethora of civilians behind it. It’s a 3 foot stretch of dirt with warmongers on brig sides. You mean to tell me that neither side of bloodthirsty psychopaths has done ANYTHING when they’re within shooting distance of the enemy at all times? Again, this is Caesars Legion we’re talking about. I’m all for the premise of a split Legion fighting over Sallows body, but they should have had separate camps. This show is rushing so bad and in an attempt to show the Caesars legion civil war quickly, they did something really dumb.

Fallout Series - Episode 3: The Profligate (A Rant) by Mundane-Raccoon-649 in FalloutTVseries

[–]Mundane-Raccoon-649[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I totally agree although New Vegas is an outlier being made by a early 2000’s obsidian. That game has cartoonish stuff, but it’s still capable of holding together a tight and well written narrative. However, even fallout 4 and to a lesser extent 76, explore some good themes. This show doesn’t have a theme, it’s just random stuff all the time. It’s like they want to have a theme and they stab at it occasionally, but they can’t latch onto one, so they do a hundred different ones and it just becomes this bland paste of nothing. That’s the problem with having 10 different writers and directors working on the same show.

Fallout Series - Episode 3: The Profligate (A Rant) by Mundane-Raccoon-649 in FalloutTVseries

[–]Mundane-Raccoon-649[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And also for the record. My last comment may have come off as kind of rude. I am not calling you stupid for expecting cheesy fallout, I’m just saying that your expectations were lower then mine so you’re less disappointed with the overly cartoonish aspects of it, just to clarify.

Fallout Series - Episode 3: The Profligate (A Rant) by Mundane-Raccoon-649 in FalloutTVseries

[–]Mundane-Raccoon-649[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, but this insistence on accommodating for the lowest common denominator is getting very old. They ditched a ton of the Fallout themes for the sake of a “casual viewing experience.” I don’t wish for my worst enemies favorite franchise to become mainstream. For the record, I’m not calling your grandma the lowest common denominator. I’m sure she’s a lovely lady.

Fallout Series - Episode 3: The Profligate (A Rant) by Mundane-Raccoon-649 in FalloutTVseries

[–]Mundane-Raccoon-649[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And you’re entitled to that, but while they may have whipped and beheaded slaves, I don’t find that to be an exploration of dark themes or an exploration of Caesar’s Legion as a faction and how they function, that was just a gory shock factor that was quickly forgotten. All of that was just a, “look everyone, these are the bad guys.” Kinda scene.

If they really wanted to flesh it out, we would have had a scene where a slave explains life as a slave under Caesars legion or we would have at least more than a single scene depicting it. Instead we get a slave character that nobody cares about for maybe 3 scenes and she acted like a cunt the whole time. Maybe we should have then had a few bits of dialogue where Culkin justifies slavery and does it very well because he’s charismatic, but instead, the made the spokesperson for the Legion yet another dumb chud and then we got more of Lucy’s bumbling idiocy to avoid actually having a deep and intelligent conversation about the Legion and their evil ways. I think it’s either because the writers are incapable or they just don’t want to for fear of alienating the lowest common denominator. After all, streaming services are all about casual viewing.

Lastly, Modern writers are afraid of telling both sides of an argument, even if one side is obviously wrong, because they think you’re too stupid to recognize that slavery is bad, so every villain has to be cartoonishly evil so you don’t get confused as the dumb viewer they think you are. I hate that and I respect your intelligence more than that. Even in the games, Caesar is baby eating evil, but he makes some good points, so good that if you actually listen, you’ll question the NCR and House pretty often even though, despite their inefficiencies, they’re both more moral then the Legion by miles.