FallOut

Who is watching Fallout? I never played the game so I don't know how much they are sticking to the story or not. In any case I have a few observations around how normalised explicit violence has become.

When Reservoir Dogs came out 32 years ago, I remember feeling something similar after the outrage it caused. But mainstream films now (from PG movies like all the Marvel ones), video games are way more explicit than anything directed to a wide audience done before. Even though they are rated for 12+ , they all seem to be directed to those eternal 18 years old who haven't grown out of it and cannot keep their attention in what they are watching unless blood and guts are thrown at them.

Explicit violence has been a central element of sub-genres of every cultural expression (I am really into extreme metal for instance). I've always managed to fly over the violent bits and see them just as an aesthetic device (that, I have to admit, I tolerate less and less).

But in the case of FallOut its explicit violence seems to be completely gratuitous in a really well produced and well written TV Show that would be much better without it.

What do you think?

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