cause this feels uncomfortably close to that, I can absolutely see the argument for saying it is just revisionism. your average american family in an old timey advert with a presenter walking around would never have shown a multiracial family, definitely not a black man.
They can pretend this aired in fictional 2077 but Bethesda's overhaul of the Fallout Brand is just the 1950s but a little shinier with robots and nuclear cars. they're completely missing the irony inherent in the setting and embracing the aesthetic with 0 critical thought.
Remember in the stupid intro movie from Fallout 4 that shows all white american families? That looked terrible on them but it was accurate, but... putting in black people, asian people in a setting that is hyper racist and white and hides it, like the real thing, feels weird? That's not the solution either?? It's like they're trying to have their cake and fuck it too, and you can't make the 1950s look cool and attractive without glossing over the fucking racism and how it led to the civil rights movement or in the Fallout universe, the fucking end of the world. But they do! So often, in the games and in the show too, it feels like Bethesda's vision for this universe is that it has to be shitty forever, this is why Spoilers Shady Sands had to get nuked, they can't have their uncritical wasteland fun adventure time setting if society rebuilds, so they raze it, they raze it even to the foundation. Nukes aren't bad after all if they can get you a clean slate every time and 200 years means nothing, right??
sigh. anyways despite bethesda's vision for the Brand being fucking depressing and sucking, gotta hand it to the showmakers, it is entertaining TV. I still maintain that it's bordering on revisionism but that's just me refusing to turn my brain off and thinking about the media I consume.
