I also just finished episode one. I agree, there are definitely signs they are trying to be quirky like the old man saying "Get back here! Well that didn't go as expected" when she left the vault, but I think they need to lean into it more. Something is just a little off.
One thing I found cool was how they explored things that the games just couldn't. Like for example how the Knight - squire relationship works, how people reproduce both in and out of the vault, and most of all the brutality of the wasteland and how dangerous raiders can actually be.
I'm almost done with the first episode. I enjoyed what I saw so far. I want to talk about an inconsistency I noticed but I don't know how to hide spoilers 🤭