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HBO’s Silicon Valley came out of left field a few years ago, airing just after each episode of Game of Thrones’ fourth season. Now airing its own fourth season, Silicon Valley has managed to stand on its own as a draw for HBO subscribers without the aid of Game of Thrones, which has been pushed back later in the summer.

Even back when it was first airing, Silicon Valley felt unique. On the surface, the toilet humor, weed jokes, and awkward interactions that are commonplace in many other comedies is present here. However, when digging below the surface, Silicon Valley is actually quite different from most other comedies.

Silicon Valley thrives off of two specific themes in its jokes: self-awareness and parallelism. This show knows exactly what it is and it completely rolls with it. The writing, acting, and ad-libbing are incredibly stereotypical of various comedies out there, which is done on purpose with a unique twist. It knows it’s a comedy and it has a lot of fun with the various character archetypes they play around with and the self-fulfilling prophecies that occur as a result of these archetypes.

The parallelism of Silicon Valley is something that isn’t really evident until moving beyond the first season. In each and every successive season, the same basic plot is reused. The team has a new idea that Richard gets very nervous about, Bighead gets an amazing new deal with his life, the team squabbles over how to operate, Gilfoyle screws over Dinesh, Erlich does something really stupid but somehow saves it, Hooli tries to get involved but it backfires on them, and the team prevails due to a combination of dumb luck and Richard’s technological prowess. However, instead of being done in a generic way like with The Hangover trilogy, it’s done quite intelligently.

This parallelism of plot is entirely intentional. As part of the self-fulfilling prophecy and self-awareness I was talking about earlier, Silicon Valley has fun with each of these plot points. This is always done in a new way that always manages to be funny no matter how many times I’ve seen the same thing happen. In fact, starting up a new season is very exciting for me because I’m eagerly anticipating how Bighead will get some ridiculous social stature for doing nothing and what stupid thing Erlich will get himself into next. I know what’s going to happen but I have no idea how or why it’ll happen nor will I know how ridiculous it’ll be, in a good way. What makes every season so much fun for the audience is how much fun the actors and writers have with this self-aware parallelism. They even reference this style of humor a few times in the most recent episodes. It turns out when the people working on a fun comedy have fun with the comedy it ends up being pretty good.

I spend most of my days working towards my Writing and Rhetoric degree at the University of Central Florida, but I spend a lot of my down time keeping up to date on the best TV, movies, and video games the industry has to offer. Here I put all of that extended time to use discussing each of them in-depth.

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The video teaser for Fallout Prime showcases a vault dweller who undergoes wasteland justice

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Recently, we had the opportunity to witness Amazon’s remarkable rendition of the renowned WRPG series Fallout. Assuming that the initial observation failed to sufficiently stimulate your atomic curiosity,. Therefore, we have an additional video showcasing our main characters in action: Lucy, who resides in a vault (Ella Purnell), The Ghoul (Walton Goggins), and Maximus, a squire from the Brotherhood of Steel (Aaron Clifton Moten).

The group interaction is briefly observed in the two-minute film. Fortunately, for those who appreciate the trajectory of the television series, there is not a significant delay until the complete season becomes available. Commencing on April 11th, all episodes will be accessible on Prime Video, and we will be eagerly anticipating the arrival of the days.

Another noteworthy development in Fallout is the resurgence of a highly absurd modification in Fallout: New Vegas, which enables players to enlist Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst as a buddy. In light of recent developments, it is evident that the future prospects of the ongoing multiplayer experiment Fallout 76 are promising, given the substantial participation of over 17 million players since its first release.
What is your opinion on Amazon’s approach to Fallout? Do you plan to examine it in April? Please provide your feedback in the comments area here.

 

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Prepare for the official Fallout Amazon Prime Video trailer

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Amazon’s upcoming TV adaptation of Fallout is shaping up to be impressive, hinting at a promising future for video game adaptations such as HBO’s The Last of Us. In just over three minutes, the portrayal of the eccentric post-apocalyptic world is almost flawless, leaving us eager for what’s to come.

The costuming, casting, and production pedigree are all top-notch, and we’re excited to see where the series will take us. Amazon’s adaptation will focus on protagonist Lucy (Ella Purnell), a vault dweller who steps out of the safety of her lifelong home into the harsh Wasteland of a ruined Los Angeles. Geneva Robertson-Dworet, the showrunner, has mentioned that the Vault symbolizes peaceful societies such as Canada or New Zealand. It delves into the challenges faced by those outside the vault that are unimaginable to those inside.

What are your thoughts on the Fallout TV adaptation? Do you think Amazon has captured that distinct Fallout vibe perfectly? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section below.

 

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‘Amazing’ Final Fantasy Movie Inspired The Marvels Director

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Generally, The Marvels is good. It has a 59 on Rotten Tomatoes, which isn’t great, but it’s better than Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania and Disney+’s Secret Invasion. Perhaps director Nia DaCosta’s video game inspirations contributed to that.

The American filmmaker said Square Enix’s Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children influenced her latest film at a press junket with IGN. “It’s just an amazing movie, with great fight scenes and a great ending sequence with the main character being thrown into the sky by all the other characters,” she said.
Despite poor reviews upon release in 2005, Advent Children has become a Final Fantasy cult classic. DaCosta seems to agree that the film is a classic. PlayStation exclusives also influenced the Marvels.

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In the interview, she said she didn’t want the superhero film to look “too much like a video game” but did draw from Sony’s biggest franchises, like The Last of Us and Horizon Zero Dawn. “For me, it was from the best games, the best stories that you get, that sort of inspires me to play, and I think inspires people to watch movies like this,” she said.

Since movies have shaped video games since their inception, it’s interesting to see the dynamic slowly changing. Now that technology and interactive storytelling are more complex, filmmakers are looking to PlayStation for inspiration.

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