My younger children often confound me with questions about my favorite things. What is my favorite color? My favorite food? My favorite candy? I often respond that I don't have favorites. I tell them that there are things that I like, and there are things that I don't like, but it's difficult for me to narrow in on a "favorite". It's just not something I think about. But that's not entirely true. Because I know for a fact that Fallout is my favorite videogame franchise, and now the Fallout show is now my favorite videogame adaptation. Is it the best videogame adaptation ever? Well, that's subjective, and the competition has unexpectedly gotten mighty stiff in recent years. But I can say that it is my favorite, and it is certainly the best show I've watched this year, adaptation or no.
I've seen the entire first season of the Fallout series, and I can definitively say that this show is a dream come true - a show that is faithful to the franchise, but also constructs a complex and ultimately deeply satisfying new narrative within that world. This is not an adaptation of an existing game, but rather a fresh new tale set in the world of Fallout that expands the world in some surprising ways. I frankly couldn't have ever hoped for something this good.
Of course, I must admit that there is something Pavlovian in my response to the Fallout show, as anything with Fallout branding tickles the pleasure centers in my brain. I have spent my happiest videogame hours wandering the wastes, looking for secrets, and reveling in the quirk-filled apocalyptic setting. The amount of time I've spent in Fallout's world triggers an almost nostalgic response in me, similar to seeing pictures of my old high school. The folks behind this show clearly know this, and they lean into it. Hard. It's all here - the Yum-Yum Deviled Eggs, the terminal hacking minigame, the Vault-Tec vault shenanigans. Rob-Co. Power armor. Nuka-Cola. And the music. Oh lord, the music. The use of traditional Fallout
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