Agatha had some things going well for it but it just wasn’t very gripping and for Fallout the whole time I feel like they were trying to recreate the experience of the game in TV format rather than focusing on the story.
I don’t regret watching them but I also do not feel entirely gripped.
In Fallout it was because the focus on showing the game elements felt like they were breaking the fourth wall every 10 minutes or so and not in a humorous or comedic way, and in order to do that they had to make the characters in the story not act in their own best interest.
Basically, every main character was foolhardy and completely clueless, everybody acted without self-awareness. It was a story of fools where everything just magically worked out.
Agatha all along definitely had more of a character driven storyline but the way the story was told was very disjointed.
You could really tell compared to other marvel platform media that it was not inspired by a comic book that had a story already fleshed out, so it didn’t feel complete or have a really satisfying story arc. Things are left unexplained in a way that would normally be capable of being backfilled by comic book story lines but this was an entirely new invention and since they never filled in the comic book gaps you’re left not knowing things that might have been prurient or provided depth to the story.
This week I watched Agatha all along and Fallout.
They were okay.
Agatha had some things going well for it but it just wasn’t very gripping and for Fallout the whole time I feel like they were trying to recreate the experience of the game in TV format rather than focusing on the story.
I don’t regret watching them but I also do not feel entirely gripped.
In Fallout it was because the focus on showing the game elements felt like they were breaking the fourth wall every 10 minutes or so and not in a humorous or comedic way, and in order to do that they had to make the characters in the story not act in their own best interest.
Basically, every main character was foolhardy and completely clueless, everybody acted without self-awareness. It was a story of fools where everything just magically worked out.
Agatha all along definitely had more of a character driven storyline but the way the story was told was very disjointed.
You could really tell compared to other marvel platform media that it was not inspired by a comic book that had a story already fleshed out, so it didn’t feel complete or have a really satisfying story arc. Things are left unexplained in a way that would normally be capable of being backfilled by comic book story lines but this was an entirely new invention and since they never filled in the comic book gaps you’re left not knowing things that might have been prurient or provided depth to the story.