Amazon’s Fallout series tackling the New Vegas area in its second season has raised a lot of questions about whether the show will end up picking one of the several endings Fallout: New Vegas offered as the official cannon one. In an interview with The Spill (via IGN), however, actor Aaron Moten – who plays the role of Brotherhood of Steel squire Maximus – has indicating that the show’s second season will not, in fact, canonise any specific ending from the game.
In the interview, Moten noted that the timeline during which the Amazon Fallout series takes place allows the show plenty of room in how it might want to interpret the events of Fallout: New Vegas. The show is set in the year 2296, which puts it around 15 years after the events of the 2010 RPG.
“Actually, you know what’s really interesting is our storyline, where we are in time, it’s a number of years after the events of New Vegas,” he said. He went on to talk about the fact that the storytelling in the Fallout universe, and the fact that the events of the game would be far enough backwards in time that it can be reimagined and reinterpreted by other people who would have lived in the area since then. This, he said, happened in a conversation he had with co-showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet.
“An interesting thing, a conversation Geneva and I have been having, was actually about how history is written in the wasteland by whoever writes it. And different perspectives will have a different perspective on who won and who lost. It’s a really beautiful thing. We see it really early on that you guys [Ella Purnell’s Lucy and Walton Goggins’ The Ghoul] find out who believes themselves to be winning, and The Ghoul offering a different perspective.”
Fallout: New Vegas was well known for the amount of player agency it offered, and how it would pay off the consequences of the choices that players would make throughout the game. Among these choices was the fate of the Hoover Dam in the lead up to the Battle of Hoover Dam. As part of the storyline, the player – known in the game as The Courier – had the choice of aligning themselves with a number of different factions, each of whom had different motivations to want to take over the dam. The three main branches offered here were siding with Mr. House, the New California Republic, or Caesar’s Legion, and the world would appropriately change to reflect the player’s choice in this regard.
The second season of Amazon’s Fallout series got a trailer back in August, where the company also confirmed that the show would kick off its second season on December 17. The show is slated to pick up right where it left off with season 1, and will take the characters to the Mojave Desert surrounding the city of New Vegas. While you wait for the second season premiere, also check out photos from the set that had been released earlier this year.
