[ SECRET POST #6980 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6980 ⌋

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Comments

[ariakas]

Ohhhh noooo I hadn't heard that the Fallout TV show went to New Vegas. I honestly might have watched it at some point, otherwise.

The problem with handling NV in any other adapted material is that its story is - unusually for its medium, and for all its faults (such as being buggy as hell as discussed above) - extremely thoughtful, engaging, and well-told. To the point where a tv writer, who would normally have no problem whatsoever meeting or exceeding fan expectations in their interpretation, might not be equal to the task.

So to tackle the problem, you have two options:

1) Engage with the story head-on. Do a deep dive into the lore, thoroughly understand what the writers were doing with it, grow your own narrative via an organic continuation of these themes (even if this means contradicting them this would remain satisfying to the viewer if it is clear that the story was completely understood and the same building blocks are used in your deconstruction). Due to the branching nature of the original, this would mean picking one ending to be canon, and the show's Mojave a future where the courier picks a specific path.

2) Nuke it all (literally or figuratively), refuse to give credence to or say anything about what happened in the game, do a complete blank-slate restart with your own characters.

Obviously, you have to believe you can hack it to do 1); if you think or know you can't, 2) remains your only option. A quick google tells me they chose 2), so that also tells me all I need to know about that. But hey! You know these locations!!! You've seen this screenshot!! NCR Ranger Armour! Mr House! Nostalgia! Nostalgia! Nostalgia!

This is sheer narrative cowardice and suggests that the writers are middling to poor, meaning that I can safely give this adaptation a pass.

[ariakas]

Ok now having read summaries of what they chose to do with the story, it is the most "Bethesda insecure about how beloved the Obsidian and Black Isle plotlines are but still wants to milk the nostalgia over them for dollars" madlibs possible.

Why not just set your story somewhere other than the west coast, and not have to live under the shadow of the thing that infuriates you? Do your own thing? Oh right, easy engagement. Then just blow it all up!!! Take that, pretentious losers! Very profound.

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Am one of the above anons, the guy who didn't like the show's handling of House. You're completely right.

The first minutes of S2 alone forced me to make the decision of "take this seriously and be disappointed" or "turn your brain off and enjoy it for the official fanfiction it is."

Can't blame other FNV fans for choosing the other option, especially if they're the kind who make fan merch, go to Goodsprings every year to celebrate, actually play Caravan, etc.