Who would have thought that a game series where Americans of Chinese descent were rounded up and put into camps to be experimented upon might have something to say about racism?
I remember making that discovery in Old World Blues and it was such a jarring tonal shift. It's like "Wacky 50's sci-fi movie concepts! Enjoy the campy robots and the funny scientists and this reference to an atrocity the US Government committed on its own soil and is still in living memory!"
Little Yangtze is such a kick in the teeth too
They weren't spies or soldiers
Just people
And you can't help them
Okay but the show isn't that, and the show doesn't say anything about racism. Segregation, the race based narrative of the cold war rhetoric, and casual racism of the American setting is fully excised.
I'm more upset that there are still racially distinct people in Vault 33. It's been 250+ years with a limited breeding pool (so much so they're talking about "cousin stuff") but not everyone is a shade of brown with dark hair?! Sounds like a vault full of racists!
yeah that was my very first thought, like oh wow there are still distinct races in this vault? what the fuck is wrong with these people?
I mean, a key feature of it all is that
late season spoiler
new blood from pre-war keeps being regularly introduced from 31
so I figure that's how that's happening
spoiler
Sure, but are they just killing off all the mixed race offspring? Because you'd think there'd be a majority of them, even if you're dropping in more racially distinct people periodically, right?
Like it's amazing because capital G G*mers have pretty much obliterated whatever mask was left, they're flat out full blown reactionaries now.
Yeah there isn't even a facade anymore. They've anti-woked themselves right back into yelling about miscegenation.
Fallout is totally not woke and, an in your face satire of capitalism, nope not at all.
I feel ambivalent about removing segregation when you're making a depiction of 1950s Americana. Because on one hand, just as you can't truly make an anti war film, making a show where segregation is truly explored is not something a lot of people (Especially white people) have the skill and background to realize, on the other it is a dishonest view of history that glosses over the historical crimes committed against minorities.
The prologue of the show is supposed to be set in the late 21st century, so they can get away with getting rid of segregation in the pre-war period without delving into the issue all that much. Supposedly, the reason why pre-war America is still locked in the 50's aesthetic despite being set in the future is because they hadn't made significant advancements in developing the microchip in that timeline, and so instead of advancing to the digital era, most tech remained based on big and bulky analogue computing.
Ah fuck off, I just posted that it was nice that there wasn't discourse about the interracial couples in that show
