I started off really not liking this show. The first two episodes are a mighty let down with a lot of bad writing and plot conveniences. Characters just know things. She has been locked in a bunker all her life, but she knows what a raider is? That she would just run into the man she needs to to find the raider that took her father. Twice. Which led me to my biggest complaint, there is no adventure in this adventure story. Nothing has any real significance, they are just places. There is no destination for most of the series, its just a vague direction that eventually comes together because the season needs to come to an end. Nothing is earned, nobody has any significance and its just a stop on a trip to nowhere. But then episode three starts and the series makes a complete 180. The lack of any real focus is still there, but now we are blessed with the story of the series' best character, The Ghoul.
Cooper Howard is a great character with an interesting backstory, commanding presence, and a well needed kick in the show's pants. And he works well paired with Lucy Maclean, hardening her and preparing her for the dangers of the wasteland. And this carries over when she later leaves him for Maximus, helping her cover for the weakest of the three main characters. Maximus is just awful, a sniveling jerk at worst and a overgrown child at best. And we also have another surprisingly interesting plot arises, Norm Maclean who I thought was going to be a weasel character easily written off, steps up in his investigation behind the vault's new overseer. For four episodes this series really had me invested.
And then it tried to wrap up the stories, to an underwhelming conclusion. The overseer's secret should have been a bigger impact but was undercut by the revelations in The Ghoul's story. Revelations that were a massive overstretch, namely that corporations have any nukes let alone enough to initiate nuclear Armageddon. And that they still have nukes to destroy the socialist utopia of a woman who somehow aged thirty years in the last 200.
For four episodes, I thought the show was really interesting and for four episodes I was sorely disappointed. I liked the look of the locations but never once were any of them memorable to the plot. I liked three of the four main characters and wanted to see where they ended up but was left underwhelmed in the end. I liked the throwbacks the the games but the new content doesn't live up to them as much. Every step forward also felt like a step back.
Cooper Howard is a great character with an interesting backstory, commanding presence, and a well needed kick in the show's pants. And he works well paired with Lucy Maclean, hardening her and preparing her for the dangers of the wasteland. And this carries over when she later leaves him for Maximus, helping her cover for the weakest of the three main characters. Maximus is just awful, a sniveling jerk at worst and a overgrown child at best. And we also have another surprisingly interesting plot arises, Norm Maclean who I thought was going to be a weasel character easily written off, steps up in his investigation behind the vault's new overseer. For four episodes this series really had me invested.
And then it tried to wrap up the stories, to an underwhelming conclusion. The overseer's secret should have been a bigger impact but was undercut by the revelations in The Ghoul's story. Revelations that were a massive overstretch, namely that corporations have any nukes let alone enough to initiate nuclear Armageddon. And that they still have nukes to destroy the socialist utopia of a woman who somehow aged thirty years in the last 200.
For four episodes, I thought the show was really interesting and for four episodes I was sorely disappointed. I liked the look of the locations but never once were any of them memorable to the plot. I liked three of the four main characters and wanted to see where they ended up but was left underwhelmed in the end. I liked the throwbacks the the games but the new content doesn't live up to them as much. Every step forward also felt like a step back.
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