Fallout Season 2 Must Tread Very Lightly to Avoid Fan Backlash Due to Lore Change

Summary:

• Fallout: New Vegas has multiple endings, and the player defines which faction takes over the Mojave Wasteland.
• In Fallout Season 1, it was revealed that New Vegas had been destroyed, but its exact fate wasn’t touched upon.
• Fallout Season 2 will likely have to give some information about the 15-year-old conflict, and it’ll have to tread carefully to avoid fan backlash.

Unexpectedly for fans, Prime Video ’s Fallout TV show not only carefully preserved the franchise’s lore and remained true to the original video games but also expanded upon it. Most additions the showrunners made fit perfectly into the existing world of Fallout, and we can’t help but praise them for such attention to detail.

But one decision the Fallout showrunners made proved to be somewhat controversial with the fans. It did save the show from making a difficult choice in Season 1, but next Season, they’ll most likely have to make it, regardless.

Fallout Kept New Vegas’ Open Ending

Seeing how the events of Prime Video’s TV show inevitably lead the main characters into the Mojave Wasteland, the matter of the New Vegas factions was prominent. In the original game, Fallout: New Vegas, the player defines which faction takes control over this iconic city: the NCR, the Legion, Mr. House, or even the player themselves.

Fallout the TV show was this close to giving a definitive ending to the game’s conflict and thus, defining the “canon ending” of Fallout: New Vegas. Unwilling to spark a controversy, the showrunner opted for destroying New Vegas entirely and thus, avoided the need to answer the question of “Who took over the city canonically?”

But Season 2 is coming.

Fallout S2 Can’t Run Away from This Question

Hank, Lucy, and the Ghoul are all going to New Vegas in Season 2. Most likely, Maximus will find his way there, too. The iconic city will play a central role in the upcoming series, and Prime Video’s Fallout is unlikely to keep getting away with withholding the truth about what happened in New Vegas 15 years ago again.

In one way or another, the TV show will have to address this issue, and its creators better think their decision through multiple times. Fallout game fans aren’t the easiest crowd to please, and Fallout: New Vegas fans specifically, even less so. We know that because we might just belong to both these groups.

While it would be weird for the season that takes place in New Vegas to avoid revealing its fate, we would almost prefer that. A well-placed “Does it matter?” from the Ghoul can go a long way — and definitely a longer one than defining a canon ending of New Vegas and pissing off 75% of game fans.