Post by nombrecomun on Jul 16, 2024 23:22:59 GMT
Fresh on my brain finishing up yesterday. Great short series. Full disclosure: I've never played the games so I can't compare/contrast from that perspective. All I can say is that the series does a good job creating a world that we can kinda feel is quite believable as to how society would break down given a cataclysmic event.
Some observations:
1. The 3 main characters are fantastic. Maybe Maximus a little less than the other two. He seems to be too much of a naive idiot given how he was raised. He should have been a little less trusting than what we see. Maybe even more of an aggressive person given the socio-religious group he grew up in. The motivations for the 3 are relatively relatable even if they don't exactly spell out every detail of their back story. In the case of the main star(?) Lucy there's really not much a back story to tell yet her character shines through.
I think it would have been really easy to make the story revolve exclusively on The Ghoul. He's intriguing enough. What happened to him? How did he survive? What happened to his family? So many questions. TPTB took on the bold initiative to make Lucy the star. How does such a naive secluded character survive in this world without necessarily coming off as preachy, naively optmistic, or simply stupid. And yet they pulled it off nicely.
2. The environments: retro in the case of the flashbacks, the period tech for the vaults, and the stark post-apocalyptic terrain of the surface world. All excellent.
3. The continued story in the Vault: right from the first ep, I thought the story would revolve around Lucy as she navigates the Mad Max landscape never to see the vaults again. I was pleasantly surprised when the narrative also explores her brother as he gets curious about what's happening in the vaults. I was pleasantly surprised that this storyline intrigued me as much as the surface world and flashback sequences.
Thoughts?
Some observations:
1. The 3 main characters are fantastic. Maybe Maximus a little less than the other two. He seems to be too much of a naive idiot given how he was raised. He should have been a little less trusting than what we see. Maybe even more of an aggressive person given the socio-religious group he grew up in. The motivations for the 3 are relatively relatable even if they don't exactly spell out every detail of their back story. In the case of the main star(?) Lucy there's really not much a back story to tell yet her character shines through.
I think it would have been really easy to make the story revolve exclusively on The Ghoul. He's intriguing enough. What happened to him? How did he survive? What happened to his family? So many questions. TPTB took on the bold initiative to make Lucy the star. How does such a naive secluded character survive in this world without necessarily coming off as preachy, naively optmistic, or simply stupid. And yet they pulled it off nicely.
2. The environments: retro in the case of the flashbacks, the period tech for the vaults, and the stark post-apocalyptic terrain of the surface world. All excellent.
3. The continued story in the Vault: right from the first ep, I thought the story would revolve around Lucy as she navigates the Mad Max landscape never to see the vaults again. I was pleasantly surprised when the narrative also explores her brother as he gets curious about what's happening in the vaults. I was pleasantly surprised that this storyline intrigued me as much as the surface world and flashback sequences.
Thoughts?
I am so sorry...