What’s up Wastelanders?
Greg the Ghoul here with the latest installment of The RADical Wasteland Podcast, the bi-weekly Fallout podcast presented by SciTrek. This week, Harris and I are joined by Jay Rixom, founder of SciTrek, as we discuss Amazon MGM Studios’ hit television series, Fallout.
This week, we chat about rumors pertaining to Season 2, which is now in production. We also talk about the economics of prestige television in the age of streaming networks, and why it’s so hard to get a good sci-fi series off the ground today. And yeah, this week it’s a lot of “inside baseball” for folks who like the inner workings and politics of the Hollywood Studio System.
But we do manage to cover some fun topics, like why Jay hates musical episodes of TV shows (it’s because he has neither rhythm nor soul), what it takes for me to finally give up on a TV show or movie, and Harris tells us a little about what it was like watching Avatar: The Way of Water while on mushrooms.
Right.
Anyhow! In this episode’s Reddit Roundup, we also share word that Whiskey Pete’s Hotel & Casino in Primm, inspiration for the Vicky and Vance Casino in Fallout: New Vegas, has now closed for good.
Whiskey Pete’s was my usual rest stop on my trips back to Los Angeles from Vegas. The last time I stopped there, it looked rough, so news of its demise is not surprising.
However, one of its biggest attractions, the notorious Bonnie and Clyde “death car” has been relocated to Buffalo Bill’s Resort and Casino, located right across the highway. Buffalo Bill’s happens to be the inspiration for the Bison Steve Hotel, also of New Vegas fame. Even the Bonnie and Clyde “death car” is mirrored in the game as the last resting place of infamous bank robbers Vicky and Vance.
I mean, you really have to give Obsidian Entertainment credit; they really did everything they could to give New Vegas as much “real world” authenticity as possible, and they didn’t miss a single trick. That certainly contributes to the game’s popularity (it’s sold over 11 million copies worldwide), and longevity.
Next episode, Jay rides shotgun with us again, as we discuss the four possible endings of Fallout: New Vegas, and which ending we each believe will be canonized in Season Two of Fallout on Amazon Prime / MGM+. Will the NCR bring order and civilization back to the Mojave? Will Courier Six’s Libertarian power fantasy be made official? Or will Mr. House win, like always?
Maybe the Legion will…? Nah, fuck the Legion.
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Now that I’ve said that, watch them make the Legion the canon ending. Ugh.
About Fallout: New Vegas
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas.
It’s the kind of town where you dig your own grave prior to being shot in the head and left for dead…and that’s before things really get ugly. It’s a town of dreamers and desperados being torn apart by warring factions vying for complete control of this desert oasis. It’s a place where the right kind of person with the right kind of weaponry can really make a name for themselves, and make more than an enemy or two along the way.
As you battle your way across the heat-blasted Mojave Wasteland, the colossal Hoover Dam, and the neon drenched Vegas Strip, you’ll be introduced to a colorful cast of characters, power-hungry factions, special weapons, mutated creatures and much more. Choose sides in the upcoming war or declare “winner takes all” and crown yourself the King of New Vegas in this follow-up to the 2008 video game of the year, Fallout 3.
Enjoy your stay.
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About Fallout, presented by Amazon Studios
Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. Two-hundred years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind—and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.
Ella Purnell is Lucy, an optimistic Vault-dweller with an all-American can-do spirit. Her peaceful and idealistic nature is tested when she is forced to the surface to rescue her father. Aaron Moten is Maximus, a young soldier who rises to the rank of squire in the militaristic faction called Brotherhood of Steel. He will do anything to further the Brotherhood’s goals of bringing law and order to the wasteland. Walton Goggins is the Ghoul, a morally ambiguous bounty hunter who holds within him a 200-year history of the post-nuclear world. These disparate parties collide when chasing an artifact from an enigmatic researcher that has the potential to radically change the power dynamic in this world.
The series comes from Kilter Films and executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. Nolan directed the first three episodes. Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner serve as executive producers, writers and co-showrunners. The series stars Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets), Aaron Moten (Emancipation) and Walton Goggins (The Hateful Eight). Athena Wickham of Kilter Films also executive produces, along with Todd Howard for Bethesda Game Studios and James Altman for Bethesda Softworks. Amazon MGM Studios and Kilter Films produce in association with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks. The series cast includes Moisés Arias (The King of Staten Island), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks), Sarita Choudhury (Homeland), Michael Emerson (Person of Interest), Leslie Uggams (Deadpool), Frances Turner (The Boys), Dave Register (Heightened), Zach Cherry (Severance), Johnny Pemberton (Ant-Man), Rodrigo Luzzi (Dead Ringers), Annabel O’Hagan (Law & Order: SVU), and Xelia Mendes-Jones (The Wheel of Time). It will be available to stream exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.
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