As the Fallout games are so fond of reminding us, war never changes. No matter the setting – Washington D.C., Boston, Las Vegas – there will always be opportunities for players to wage wastelander-on-wastelander warfare for the future of mankind. And yes, Amazon Prime Video's Fallout TV show seems to be no stranger to war, quietly suggesting conflict between the Brotherhood of Steel and other factions from the larger Fallout universe.
But what about those of us who want our Fallout to lean into the absurdity of the wasteland? Can Fallout still be prestige television if it’s utilizing the weirder elements of the franchise?
While publishers Bethesda Softworks have confirmed that they are treating Prime Video’s series as canon… well, there’s canon, and then there’s “canon.” In each of the games, your choices as a player reshape the wasteland in your own image, and what is canon to someone on a no-kill playthrough may not exactly be canon to someone who prefers to dish out wasteland justice one exploding head at a time. And that should free the showrunners up to really take some big swings with the world they’ve built.
So setting aside the obvious proper nouns – people, places, and locations from the Fallout universe – here are a few things any Fallout streaming TV show should include to really get the vibe right.
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