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Set the World on Fire

So, there’s a new Fallout TV trailer and it’s… fire.

The original trailer was pretty good, but this one is taking my hype to an entirely new level. Irreverent, ultraviolent, post-apocalyptic, tragic, it’s hitting all the tones that make the series one of my favorites.

Amusingly, some people on Reddit are critically examining the trailer for lore inconsistencies. Example:

There are some great “Acktually” moments in the comments though. Yes, if the bombs dropped on 9:47am on the East Coast, it’d be before 7am on the West. However, the whole war lasted “two hours” so it isn’t impossible for LA to be nuked 20+ minutes after DC. Besides, there are lore inconsistencies in the games themselves such as the clocks in Fallout: New Vegas being stopped at 9:47 despite also being in a different timezone (Obsidian likely just lazy with reusing assets), or why people were at drive-in movie theaters so early in the morning, children in school on a Saturday, and so on.

Regardless, these sort of “criticisms” are encouraging precisely because they are so trivial. If you have to go full Neil deGrasse Tyson to complain about something, everything else you’re doing must be pretty good. Compare that with, say, Amazon’s Lord of the Rings show or the Borderlands trailer. Or don’t, in the latter case, it’s awful. Granted, Fallout isn’t out yet, but still! Really looking forward to this one.