Amazon's Fallout TV show, aside from some minor controversies, has been a hit with fans since it arrived last week; but while the show has covered many of the post-apocalyptic basics of video games, from Pip-Boys and Power Armor to Vaults and Vault-Tec, it wasn't all right, and its creators have now explained that they deliberately retained some “iconic “. ” things, including Deathclaws, to do them better justice in a possible season 2.
“We wanted to have Deathclaws, but we didn't want to throw it away,” explained co-showrunner Graham Wagner in a interview with TheWrap. “It's such a monumental piece. [of the Fallout mythology]”.
That's despite the team's initial instinct to, as co-showrunner Geneve Robertson-Dworet put it, take a “sink-sink approach” to incorporate the series' most recognizable elements. “There are the big hits… that people who aren't even gamers know about Fallout,” he explained, “like Nuka, Deathclaws, whatever. There are things that are so prevalent and we're tempted to do all of them in the season 1. But on the other hand, we didn't want… the show to feel like it was written by people who just spent 10 seconds reading the Fallout Wikipedia page… So it was important that we also bring deeper cuts in season 1. “.
“We want to save something for Season 2 so we can do it properly,” Wagner explained when talking specifically about Deathclaws, “not just add it to the massive world building we already had to do in Season 1. So, in Season 2, “We're so excited to finally tackle one of gaming's most iconic elements.”
Executive producer Jonathan Nolan added that the team has been “talking from the beginning about how [the story] would develop and evolve in later seasons, if we were so lucky,” adding cryptically that there is “one place in particular that is close to my heart and that I would love to explore if we had the chance to do so.”
While Amazon has not officially announced a second season of its Fallout TV show, a season 2 was recently spotted in a tax incentive breakdown shared by the California Film Commission. Between that and the overwhelmingly positive response to Season 1, which is having a very noticeable ripple effect on the games, it seems like a renewal is all but guaranteed. We may receive a formal announcement within 33 weeks.
Until then, Eurogamer's Christian Donlan has some thoughts on Pip-Boy and the strange future of wearables.
