Fallout TV Show Is 100% Canon and Doesn’t Retcon New Vegas, Says Bethesda; Deathclaws Are Coming Next Season
The Fallout TV show has been available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video for less than a week, and yet it has already seized the mindset of viewers and gamers alike, getting excellent reviews for its great quality and overall faithfulness to the source material.
That said, fans were confused when they learned of a specific event that took place a few years before the Fallout TV show (which is set in 2296). Beware, as we are entering spoiler territory.
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In the series, we learn that the New California Republic capital of Shady Sands was nuked a few years back. However, Shady Sands was fine the last time players heard about it in Fallout: New Vegas, which is set only 15 years before the show. Moreover, at some point, the series mentions that 'The Fall of Shady Sands' took place in 2277, four years before New Vegas.
IGN spoke to Bethesda's Todd Howard and series creator Jonathan Nolan to clarify the timeline. Howard said the show is 100% canon and does not retcon the game, explaining that the 'Fall' does not actually refer to when the nuke itself lands in the city, which is just after the events seen in Fallout: New Vegas.
Graham (Wagner) and Geneva (Robertson-Dworet) wanted to blow up Shady Sands. The first time they bring that up, you're like, "what do you want to do?" I had actually an emotional reaction to it given the history of that location in the franchise from Fallout 1. And we talked through it, and it was, "this will be a pretty impactful story moment that a lot of things anchor on." And just so people hear it, we're careful about the timeline. There might be a little bit of confusion at some places, but everything that happened in the previous games, including New Vegas, happened. We're very careful about that. All I can say is we're threading it tighter there, but the bomb falls just after the events of New Vegas. That's when Shady Sands blows.
And so
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