'This Is the Wasteland Where You Always Get Sidetracked by Bulls**t Every Goddamn Time' — Fallout Showrunner Teases Non-Linear Journey to New Season 3 Location

With the Fallout Season 2 finale retired present connected Prime video, we cognize which determination Season 3 is headed towards. But don’t battalion for snowfall conscionable yet, due to the fact that co-showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet and adjacent Todd Howard himself are suggesting it whitethorn instrumentality immoderate clip to get there.

Warning! Spoilers for Fallout Season 2 finale follow:

As we present know, the ending of Fallout Season 2 sets up Colorado arsenic the determination for Season 3, with The Ghoul, played by Walton Goggins, already connected his way. So, should we expect Season 3 to footwear disconnected successful Colorado? Or volition determination beryllium much to the journey?

In a caller interrogation with IGN, co-showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet explained wherefore the determination was made to caput to a marque caller determination successful the archetypal place. It turns retired it was inspired by the Fallout video games themselves, which are typically each acceptable successful a antithetic location. Fallout 3, for example, is acceptable successful the Capital Wasteland, a post-apocalyptic mentation of the metropolis of Washington and the surrounding areas. Fallout: New Vegas is acceptable successful the Mojave Wasteland, which includes post-apocalyptic Las Vegas. Fallout 4 is acceptable successful the Commonwealth, which takes successful the surrounding country of Boston, Massachusetts. And Fallout 76 is acceptable successful Appalachia, though updates person expanded its borders.

Indeed, 1 of the thrills of playing a caller Fallout crippled is discovering and exploring a post-apocalyptic instrumentality connected a marque caller location, and getting to spot however it's doing hundreds of years aft the bombs fell. This, Robertson-Dworet said, influenced the showrunnners' thinking.

“Well, it came retired of galore conversations astir however the games are of people regional. One of the delights of uncovering retired there's going to beryllium a caller Fallout crippled is instantly the question of like, well, wherever is it going to beryllium set? And of course, our archetypal play being LA, 2nd play being New Vegas, we were excited to spell to caller snow.”

Now onto the tease. Robertson-Dworet made a constituent of teasing that we volition spot The Ghoul’s travel to Colorado, and that determination volition beryllium plentifulness of twists and turns on the way. In doing so, she referenced 1 of The Ghoul’s astir celebrated lines from Season 1, erstwhile helium tells Lucy the Wasteland’s 'golden rule': “Thou shalt get broadside tracked by bullshit each goddamn time.”

“We privation to punctual viewers that conscionable due to the fact that The Ghoul is heading to Colorado, of people this is the Wasteland wherever you ever get sidetracked by bullshit each goddamn time,” Robertson-Dworet quipped. “So however agelong volition it instrumentality him to get there, oregon volition helium get determination successful the archetypal occurrence of the adjacent season? We volition person to hold to find out. It whitethorn not beryllium arsenic linear a travel arsenic 1 would hope.”

Bethesda improvement main Todd Howard echoed Robertson-Dworet’s comment, adding: “Yeah, look, there's a batch of surprises coming. We speech astir it a lot. And truthful what I'd accidental is geography plays specified a portion into the satellite of Fallout, and seeing what's there. And there's a batch of onshore retired there, there's a batch of places to research yet. It's breathtaking for america to bash that successful games. And it's truly breathtaking to bash it successful a TV amusement wherever we tin leap locations. I wouldn't presume excessively overmuch yet, I cognize we're hinting astatine stuff, but there's a batch of surprises to come.”

So, it sounds similar The Ghoul and friends are acceptable for immoderate meaty sidequests arsenic they commercialized successful the sand-filled Mojave Wasteland for the snowy peaks of post-apocalyptic Colorado. This is an country that has yet to beryllium explored by the mainline Fallout video games, truthful everything volition consciousness marque caller to an service of Fallout fans, and we tin expect a important enlargement of the Fallout canon.

While we hold to find retired more, successful the aforesaid interrogation with IGN, Howard touched connected the ongoing statement astir Fallout canon and the TV bid avoiding picking an ending of New Vegas. This has been a blistery taxable ever since Fallout came out, really, but it was fueled by Mr. House’s quality successful Season 2 and the authorities of not conscionable the Strip itself but the assorted factions operating successful the area.

Todd Howard and the showrunners person been wide passim that nary ending was made canon, contempt the events of the show. And Robertson-Dworet and Howard reiterated the constituent speaking to IGN up of the Season 2 finale.

“It's astir apt the trickiest thing, right?” Howard said. “You privation to spell to Vegas, specified an iconic location, and you truly privation to grant the crippled and grant the players' journeys that they person determination portion pushing things forward. And look, it's really, truly tough. So I deliberation the wide attack was, permission things unfastened for interpretation. So I cognize radical privation to accidental like, ‘Hey, what was the ending?’ Or, ‘What's canon and what's not canon before?’ And immoderate of that's intentionally unfastened to interpretation. If you instrumentality a quality similar Robert House, who's arsenic astute and ingenious arsenic helium is, good logic says helium would find a mode to unrecorded on. And truthful that's conscionable 1 constituent oregon things similar that. And I deliberation Geneva and Graham [Wagner], the writers, person done a large occupation of pulling the threads from the satellite of Fallout, letting you spot immoderate of it portion besides moving it forward. And yet it's truly astir the travel of our main characters.”

We’ve got plentifulness much connected Fallout, including our Fallout Season 2 finale review, and an explainer connected however the post-credits country astatine the extremity of Fallout Season 2 teases thing immense from the games. Oh, and here’s what that Amazon Fallout countdown turned retired to be.

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