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Miss any of our future videos here at the Trent report this is over at that Park place.com and Jonathan Nolan did a press event that was attended by Mar station who reports he was asked about how he balances pleasing fans and creating something to attract new audiences this is what Nolan said I
Don’t think you really can set out to please the fans of anything or please anyone other than yourself I think you have to come into this uh trying to make the show that you want to make and trusting that as fans of the game we would find the pieces that were
Essential to us in the games to try to do the best version of those that we can I think it’s kind of a Fool’s errand to try to figure out how to make people happy and that and that way you’re going to make yourself happy and I’ve made
Myself very happy with the show so I think this begs the question why are you even adapting Fallout if you aren’t trying to make the fans of the franchise happy one would think the reason why you’re adapting a property whatever it is is because there already is some kind
Of signific ific following or there is some significance to the work that people have given it to I mean we see this all the time Hollywood Studios don’t adapt things that are unpopular they usually adapt things that are already highly popular because they already have a built-in audience the examples are
Numerous just look at the Lord of the Rings look at Harry Potter look at Hunger Games Etc Wheel of Time as another example even though they they butcher that these studios are adapting this stuff because there are already built in audiences and they’re hoping to capitalize on those audiences well Jonathan Nolan is
Basically like yeah you know what I don’t really care about the fans I can only please myself what a selfish outlook on life like why would you not want to please the f it just doesn’t make any sense to me but we might have an answer to
This let’s get into what he said to vanity fairs Anthony bresnen back in November this is what he told him the games are about the culture of division and Hales and Have Nots that unfortunately have only gotten more and more acute in this country and around
The world over the last decades we get to talk about that in a wonderful speculative fiction way I think we’re all looking at the world and going God things seem to be heading in a very very frightening Direction so he’s talking about how the show is going to be a social
Commentary on real world Politics on how he views the world he went on and said that it will also not only have social commentary but it’s going to have moral commentary too and it’s going to do it through the character of Lucy played by a uh who is a vault dweller played by
Ella Pern this is what he said so many of us have such naive ideas even now about everyone else’s experiences and it’s one of the things I love about America it’s this giant manic collection of different experiences different points of view Lucy is charming and Plucky and strong and then you see she’s
Confronted with the reality of hey maybe the supposedly virtuous things you grew up with are not necessarily that virtuous if they are virtuous they’re they’re couched in a circumstantial virtuousness it’s a luxury virtue you have your point of view because you never ran out of food right you guys
Were able to share everything because you had enough to share he then declared that the series follows quote her collision with the hard reality of other people’s experiences and what happened to the people who frankly were left were left behind left to die so it sounds
Like the show is going to be all about moral relativism which is an evil ideology uh that rejects the truth he then uh described the character of Maximus who is a squire in the Brotherhood of Steel he says one of the things we’re trying to gently sidestep
Here is that kind of inary thinking like they’re the good guys or the bad guys like there’s good and evil which there are that is the reality of the world that we live in again he’s trying to erase that he’s talking about this moral relativism here whoever the good guys
And the bad guys were they destroyed the whole world so now we’re in a much more gray area again moral relative relativist garbage as for the Brotherhood of Steel Nolan described them as a little bit of the Marine Corp it’s a little bit of the Knights Templar it’s this kind of weird
Fusion and a mutated version of patriotism religion loyalty and fraternity so obviously we’re probably going to be getting some commentary on all of those things through the Brotherhood of Steel as well so this leads me to what Brian em if you’re unfamiliar with him he is the a novelist
He also I think provides some of the best analysis of what is happening in pop culture and Society especially here in the United States of America he would probably describe what is going on with Fallout as a humiliation ritual and he says here in his in his post if you’re unfamiliar with the
Concept uh of a humiliation ritual the most commonly cited example of humiliation ritual was Eastern block shopkeepers being pressured to place quote workers of the World Unite signs in their front windows if you didn’t display the sign in the local party functionary sto by there’ be trouble he
Continues in saying now this practice continued well into the 20th century when it had become obvious to anyone with a brain that there would be no Global communist Uprising we know the guys in charge knew it that wasn’t the point they didn’t think the revolution would come if only enough shopkeepers
Displayed little red stars they knew from history that forcing people to publicly State manifest untruths demoralize them that’s how humiliation rituals work if you can sap the people’s fortitude until they’ll willingly recite patent falsehoods they won’t have the fortitude to challenge the elite so I think this show is going to
Be a humiliation ritual they’re going to take something that you enjoyed that you played for probably a lot of hours because there’s multiple Fallout games with like tons of content you can replay those games are very replayable as well and uh they’re creating a show that’s not made to please you at
All and so they want they they still want you to watch the show but they want you to accept this new version that he’s putting in the show that’s not actually made to please out fans and expect you to sit there and take it and that’s the humiliation
Ritual it’s exactly what it is they want you even though you know that this isn’t going to be Fallout he’s telling you it’s not going to be Fallout he still expects you to go there and sit there and watch it and and and just sit there
And take it even though you know it’s not really the Fallout that you’ve come to know and love so it’s very similar to basically putting that workers of the world unit sign outside your window even though you know that it’s a lie he just wants you to sit there and accept the
LIE even though you know it is one so I think that’s exactly what this is I think we see this over and over and over again in Hollywood it’s all about humiliating you in order to try and um demoralize you so you won’t challenge the elites and how they are running our
Society into the ground but let me know what you guys make of this let me know in the comments below do you think I’m completely off the Mark here in describing what looks to be what we’re looking to get here from The Fallout show as a demoral or as a humiliation
Ritual as part of a demoralization campaign let me know in the comments below also let me know what you make of Jonathan Nolan’s comments about not wanting to please the fans while adapting a popular video game franchise again let me know in the comments below remember to always be charitable but to
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