I watched most of the first episode, not quite on purpose. I knew the writers were playing with atomic bombs like plastic toys when the detonation in the beginning failed to get the attention of the partygoers simply because they weren’t looking directly at it. The light from a bomb going off would be filling the room and reflecting off all that glass; there’s no chance no one would notice it, or mistake it for—oh, dear—the light from camera flashes.
It was tough to bother mustering up the willpower to continue watching when, near the conclusion of episode 1, Lee (I think?) made Hank choose between his saucer-eyed daughter or the rest of the Vault 33 inhabitants. But after Hank chooses Saucer Eyes, Lee doesn’t kill the inhabitants but lets them go, and then takes Saucer Eyes captive? And then there was the incompetent Brotherhood of Steel guy with anger control issues getting promoted within the organization so the story could happen.
I don’t do psychoanalysis, but I have to wonder what’s going on in the heads, and how that going on got there, when the writers and showrunners can’t bother to construct a believable world and instead produce a series of disconnected cinematic vignettes that sometimes share the same incredibly stupid, but impenetrably plot-armored characters. That’s the only way any of this could make sense, and the fact that the show is based on an extremely popular, established franchise is the only way to explain how this is remotely popular.
Mauler gives it a thorough reaming here.
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Nothing new: entertainment moguls destroying another niche franchise that offered superior content.
This series, so far, is rather well-received, despite how poorly it’s really written. Most people are able to sniff this stuff out, but not always it seems.