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There's been a lot of talk about the merits of Fallout on /tv/. But there’s a perfect series for us who just loooove to wig out on canon material. And that is Star Trek: Lower Decks.
With 4 seasons, 10 episodes each, that’s a whole 40 episodes where the creative team of writers and creators shows off all their great knowledge of geek trivia that could fit in a Memory Alpha of its own! (Why not call it Memory Beta?)
The whole world of Fallout is problematic! Yes, it depicts an alternative future that was basically like a 1950s that never ended but with better race relations. But how can you have a 1950s in the future with better race relations without it being a 1950s where race relations was terrible? Checkmate, racists!
The animation style of Lower Decks is an accessible style that takes the best of CalArts and early 00s flash animation and takes it to levels where none animator has gone before! But Fallout? It’s full of visual stuff that can BOTH be enjoyed by those who know their Fallout lore AND those who hardly know anything about Fallout and just saw the ads.
Fallout is a vicious attack on everything that nerd culture stands for! Because they have this ”world-instructing dialogue”. IFF rad roaches was a thing in Lower Decks, they would be commented as something that reminds you of Brebbedly-box XIV and that you would NEVER want to see again. (Ugh!) And that is funny, because in that series and that season and that episode, there was a really funny joke about insects and if you don’t get it you don’t get it, sweaty. It’s a trekkie thing. Ok?
But instead, we have a WHITE MAN that is LECTURING a YOUNG WOMAN on rad roaches. And worst of all, it’s quite swift and ”effective”. Lower Decks would’ve given the viewer lots of (beat) so that we could really laugh about the clever (in-)joke. Topped off with a sassy black woman saying smart things, because that is diversity!
So gosh darn you to heck, Fallout! Gosh darn you for NOT craving a huge intelligence to enjoy!