Fallout: New Vegas Has Multiple Endings, So Will Fallout Season 2 Pick One to Make Canon? It Doesn't Sound Like It

Amazon’s Fallout TV amusement is canon, truthful the question of which Fallout: New Vegas ending it volition rubber stamp arsenic authoritative has been a burning question wrong the assemblage ever since it was confirmed that Season 2 would instrumentality spot successful what remains of the city. But caller comments from 1 of the actors connected the amusement suggest Season 2 volition dodge the question entirely.

Warning! Spoilers for Fallout Season 1 and Fallout New Vegas follow.

The Fallout TV amusement is acceptable aft each the Fallout games and is considered canon, truthful erstwhile it was confirmed that Mr. House would beryllium successful Season 2, it sparked each sorts of instrumentality theories astir however helium would marque his live-action appearance, and what it would mean for Obsidian’s much-loved New Vegas itself.

Robert House appears successful New Vegas arsenic Mr. House. He rules the Strip arsenic a encephalon plugged into a supercomputer that has extended his beingness from the pre-war epoch hundreds of years into the post-war era. Robert House makes a cameo quality successful Season 1 during a pre-war country successful which the past RobCo Industries brag plots with Vault-Tec absorption and the heads of different companies to not lone past the inevitable atomic apocalypse, but possibly adjacent trigger it.

Season 1 ends with a Power Armor-clad Overseer Hank stomping towards New Vegas, with The Ghoul and Lucy MacLean successful blistery pursuit. Much of Season 2 — based connected trailers released truthful acold — volition beryllium acceptable successful New Vegas and woody with the coming unneurotic of the main characters there.

A speedy reminder of wherever we’re astatine successful the Fallout timeline: the Fallout TV amusement is acceptable successful 2296, 9 years aft the events of Fallout 4 and 15 years aft the events of Fallout: New Vegas. We’ve already seen a statement astir which Fallout 4 ending should beryllium considered canon, if any. And present we cognize Mr. House is successful Season 2, does that suggest a canon ending is being used?

Depending connected the choices the player, aka The Courier, makes passim the people of the game, New Vegas tin extremity with triumph for the subordinate during the Battle of Hoover Dam, which drives retired each factions including Mr. House himself, a triumph for Mr. House successful which helium remains successful power of New Vegas and takes implicit Hoover Dam, a triumph for Caesar's Legion, oregon a triumph for the New California Republic.

There are variations wrong these endings, but fixed Mr. House is successful Season 2 successful a post-war setting, arsenic successful live (sort of) erstwhile the main characters crook up astatine New Vegas, past it’s apt helium survived the events of New Vegas the video game.

But does Season 2 marque a determination connected who won Fallout New Vegas? In a caller interrogation with The Spill, Aaron Moten, who plays Maximus, a Brotherhood of Steel squire, suggests not — and it sounds similar this was a talking constituent among the formed and showrunners.

“Actually, you cognize what's truly absorbing is our storyline, wherever we are successful time, it's a fig of years aft the events of New Vegas,” Moten began erstwhile asked if Fallout fans volition beryllium amazed by the New Vegas they spot successful Season 2.

“An absorbing thing, a speech Geneva [Robertson-Dworet, co-showrunner] and I person been having, was really astir however past is written successful the wasteland by whoever writes it. And antithetic perspectives volition person a antithetic position connected who won and who lost. It's a truly beauteous thing. We spot it truly aboriginal connected that you guys [Ella Purnell’s Lucy and Walton Goggins’ The Ghoul] find retired who believes themselves to beryllium winning, and The Ghoul offering a antithetic perspective.”

So, based connected these comments, it sounds similar Season 2 volition mostly dodge the thorny contented of New Vegas canon and see beauteous overmuch each faction from the crippled to immoderate degree. Indeed, trailers person shown Mr. House successful supercomputer signifier and Caesar’s Legion, though it's unclear successful what authorities they're in. So possibly we’re successful for a spot of a New Vegas mashup wherever everyone thinks they won the Battle of Hoover Dam.

Moten's comments echo those of co-showrunners Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet past year: “All we truly privation the assemblage to cognize is that things person happened, truthful that determination isn't an anticipation that we prime the amusement up successful play two, pursuing 1 of the myriad canon endings that beryllium connected your choices erstwhile you play [Fallout: New Vegas],” Wagner said.

“With that post-credits stuff, we truly wanted to imply, guys, the satellite has progressed, and the thought that the wasteland stays arsenic it is decade-to-decade is preposterous to us. It’s conscionable a spot [of] changeless tragedy, events, horrors — there's a changeless churn of trauma. We're decidedly implying much has occurred.”

It won’t beryllium agelong until we find out. Fallout Season 2 kicks disconnected December 17.

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