Anyone has any opinion on the new show ?

Timothy Cain liked it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D_C0gNjaiw

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I have to say I only watched the first episode until the "nuclear explosion".

Then I went all wtf and stopped. This would have been a very poor depiction even for a *conventional* explosion, let alone a nuclear one.

This is even far below the standard that many Hollywood movies have set in this regard. Even for a series thats not supposed to be realistic this is just amazingly bad.

"The Terminator" and "Terminator II: Judgement Day" had quite decent depictions of how a nuclear explosion would actually look like. Though later instances of the franchise also have been incredibly laughable, though. Like you have a nuclear explosion basically next door but all that happends is your windows break and the building shakes a bit lolz.

I really dont get it. You can get recordings of actual nuclear explosions on YouTube just fine. Its easily obtainable public knowledge.

First element of any nuclear explosion is an absolutely blinding flash of light, even if you are very far from the explosion. Young peoples eyesight usually recovers, older people dont have this luck. Then there is what is called a fireball - the air gets heated up so much by the xrays from the explosion that it glows (4000 degree Celsius on the outer line of that fireball). Then there is the shockwave, which leaves behind a vaccum, then the air comes back with a vengeance.

So why do Hollywood movies usually depict nuclear explosions so poorly ?!?

The show is to be entertaining, not necessarily realistic. The effects of the explosion will vary with yield and distance. If you like, you can calculate distance using sound as reference, assuming time in show is 1:1 with real time at that moment. You can also assess the yield by hight of the mushroom cloud. Than you can use an online tool to display nuclear blast destruction radius on map. If you had done everything right, that you can judge by yourself if the nuclear bomb explosion was presented in realistic way or not.
But the presentation of the explosion and effects are consisted with Fallout 4's prologue.

Yes, the show is fun, the creators had respected the original material (all Fallout games, including NV) and expanded the lore of the universe. And I can't wait for 2nd season :)

If you are watching the show to see good special effects, well forget about it. :) I don't mean that they are completely bad in this show (though some CGI backgrounds are really bad), sometimes the special effects are pretty good especially when they depict monsters like gulpers.

Visually the Fallout TV show is really appealing, especially decorations and this is what Tim Cain liked mostly. Though in my opinion there is overusage of the pre-war stuff present in the show. And the visualization of the show is like a fresh printed magazine, you can even sence the smell of its freshness.

For the fans of Fallout games I would recommend to forget about the previous Fallout lore if you want to like this show. Because if you start to connect the previous games to this show you will be very disappointed. You can even notice that the creators consider the show as a new canon, which is weird because they definitely reworked almost everything, be it factions or creature physiology.

Actually I haven't seen in the show anything that contradicts the established Fallout lore.
In the first season we are introduced to few factions: Brotherhood of Steel - not the overly friendly BoS from F3, but more traditional, aquire technology by any means neccesarry, type of Brotherhood. And as we have seen in FNV, Brotherhood does not shy from battling with NCR over high tech artifacts. On Enclave and NCR we had only glimpses, hopefully it will change in next seasons.
As for creatures, apart from new beasts, the only change would be that ghouls have to take drugs not to become feral. Some suggests that the drug is rad away, but Coop inhales it like a jet. In Fallout games there is nothing about that, but in one game some ghouls are preparing special type of jet, because normal has no effect on them. And by Coop saying how high he is on drugs, could mean that super jet for ghouls.
And if you're talking about the chalkboard, everything is also up to the lore. The date is not the date of the event, but something prior to that (there is a line after that date to the event). FNV takes place in 2281, so it could related to events from the game, and who won. And since season 2 will take place in New Vegas, we will soon find out.

I enjoyed it, for what it is. Entertainment. It's not a blockbuster, but for a prime series, its not bad.

The MC though...I'm still deciding if I like her or not. She was just too sheltered from the vault to properly face the real world. Has unrealistic expectations. But I guess that's part of the theme of the show.

Season one seems be just 6 episodes, unless there is more on the way. So worth a shot, if you don't like it, skip season two lol. I did that for Wheel of Time, I skipped season two rather than watch and leave a negative review. =P
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Brotherhood of Steel in this show looks almost like a Children of Atom sect, in terms of their own beliefs, with overwhelmingly strange medieval lord-peasant relationships (Knights don't have a Lord rank by the way). Knights mark assigned squires as they are some kind of a property and use them as pack mules - unlike FO4 Knights who take squires on a mission to watch and learn by knight's example. Also, breaking the discipline seem to be okay for BoS Knights and other members in the show. This Brotherhood of Steel looks much different than other BoS chapters we knew in games. They might be even a yet unknown chapter of BoS in Fallout (who knows), because we don't have much information to speculate on that. Other than that it looks like a serious misrepresentation of the traditional Brotherhood of Steel.

I can agree about Enclave and NCR, though it was kinda strange to see members of the Enclave dressed in police uniform (at least it looks like a police uniform), but overall there is to little info to talk about them both. The other faction that doesn't fit their traditional representation is Fiends. Those we saw in the show look like a couple of wandering gypsies, not a group of scavenging raiders - have they change their organization and activity?

Yes, the anti-feral chem is something new to the Fallout chemistry. The Ghoul was found in the coffin when he was under the drip with this chem. Do ghouls in the show need that much of this chem to prevent of getting crazy? Strange. But I more concerned about those fingers in the maw of the gulpers in this show. They also look much different here - like a hybrid of a gulper and a gecko.

The information on the chalkboard in the Vault 4 seemed normal to me, but apart from the time stamps most of the events in the show were scripted badly. I decided to give the first season a chance up to the final episode, but I didn't liked it in the end. Not gonna watch the next season most likely.

We finished it last night and thought it was pretty fun to watch. My wife & daughter didn't know why some things happen (like why did Stimpacks heal?) and I didn't expect it to follow game lore precisely. Douglas Adams (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) said once (paraphrasing) different mediums need to be treated differently.

I thought Lucy was behaving how she should. We, the player KNOW the game world wants to kill us, she doesn't. She assumes everything out there is like in her vault, that's a default human assumption (that's why most people say "Why did they do that, I wouldn't of").

I noticed technical mistakes in the shooting/world (seems like whomever they hired for consistency didn't notice or they just didn't want to invest the $$ because it might flop).

I would of, personally, loved if instead doing Season 2 as a continuation they pick a different vault each season. but oh well.

Biggest disappointment is it's streaming, so that means season 2 will be when my non driving age kids will be out of high school. :D