It's been a year and a half since audiences last saw Prime Video's critically acclaimed sci-fi series, Fallout. But if the early promotional material has been any indication, the second season of Fallout will be more than worth the wait.
As viewers look ahead to the imminent return of Ella Purnell's Lucy, Aaron Moten's Maximus, and Walton Goggins' gunslinging Ghoul, the series' showrunners are openly addressing just what fans can expect from Fallout's upcoming season.
Set 15 years after the events of 2010's Fallout: New Vegas, the second season of Prime Video's Fallout will feature a multitude of references and nods to its 2010 video game counterpart. While some fans have wondered whether this might mean season 2 will set a definitive canonical ending for New Vegas, series creator and showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet and executive producer Jonathan Nolan told IGN that this won't be the case.
Rather than settling on any one of the numerous multiple endings for New Vegas, Nolan said that Robertson-Dworet and co-showrunner Graham Wagner took “the fog of war approach” to the game's conclusion.
“This was a really early decision that Graham and Jonah, and I made together,” explained Robertson-Dworet, “was that we wanted to try, as much as possible in our show, to honor all gamers' experiences and all the choices they might make as they play the game. So we always wanted to avoid trying to make one canonical ending the ending that led to the events of the show.”
“We had the delicious idea that at the end of a conflict, 15 years down the line, every faction might think they won, which I think has a bit of a poetic quality to it,” Nolan teased for Fallout's second season.
“It's like, the story of history depends on who you ask,” Robertson-Dworet added. “That was the idea.”
