As April 11th approaches, The Stand out TV series Promo tour is underway. We’re now getting our first look at a scene from the upcoming Amazon Prime Video show based on Bethesda’s RPG game series, and if the tone matches this clip, we’re in for a hilarious ride.
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Developed by Westworld Co-creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, Stand out is a post-apocalyptic drama based on Bethesda’s long-running game series. The most recent of these was published in 2018. While the show was announced in July 2020 and revealed in December 2023, we only got an official trailer earlier this month gave us a lot of details about the series. And today we received our first clip via the show’s official X (formerly Twitter) account.
In the clip we see vault resident Lucy (portrayed by Yellow Jackets’ And Arcane: League of Legends‘Ella Purnell) tries to de-escalate a conflict with The Ghoul (InvincibleWalton Goggins), who appears to be terrorizing the residents of an oppressed city. The ghoul doesn’t back down, Lucy shoots him with an arrow and the ghoul says her attempt to calm him down was “a very small drop in a very, very large bucket of drugs” before pulling out his pistol. A member of an in-game faction called the Brotherhood of Steel that you can fight or join, dressed in similar silver armor glorioleIn his Spartan garb, he floats down from a pile of rubble to demand to the ghoul: “Stand back or be massacred.” But the best line here is delivered by Ma June (portrayed by A Lovesong(Dale Dickey), who, as he lies on the dirt road, sighs in exasperation and flatly calls Lucy a “damn vault dweller.”
Vault Dwellers are the main protagonists of the Stand out games. As the name suggests, these people sought refuge in underground chambers to escape the above-ground nuclear apocalypse, establishing their own norms and traditions in the years they spent there. They believed they were keeping humanity alive since they thought everyone on the surface would die from the nuclear, er, fallout. When the Vault Dwellers show up 20 years later and find a ruined civilization with people hanging around, they seem like bizarre old-timers clinging to long-lost traditions. That’s what makes Ma June’s line so hilarious. Lucy understands nothing about the world she lives in now, but she still wants to save everyone.
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Considering the irreverence of the games the series is based on, in this clip it feels like the adaptation is deftly leaning into that humor Refusing to do egregious fan service. I know video game adaptations can make us all a little wary There was a healthy dose of skepticism with the Stand out TV series. Between this first clip, the official trailer and Nolan’s intention to stay true to the franchise’s loreI think we’re going to experience something special.
