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The Fallout series is one of the most successful video game adaptations.

The material contains spoilers for the series. If you haven’t watched the first season yet, we recommend skipping the sections on references and fan theories.

Fallout takes place in the year 2296, 219 years after a nuclear war. The show shows the ruins of California. The central character is a girl named Lucy. She gets out of Vault 33 – an underground bunker where people hid from nuclear explosions and fallout after them. The heroine is looking for her kidnapped father.

The second hero is Maximus, a member of the paramilitary organization Brotherhood of Steel. Its fighters wear massive power armor and search the Wasteland for surviving pre-war technologies. The organization has bases, weapons and a lot of resources for survival. Maximus believes that the Brotherhood has good goals and wants to bring law and order to the Wasteland.

The third important character is bounty hunter Cooper Howard. A man with a disfigured appearance has lived for more than 200 years because of radioactive contamination. In the past, he was a famous Hollywood actor, starring in Westerns and commercials.

Each of the heroes must find the scientist Wilzig, who escaped from the Enclave laboratory.
with secret technology. The characters have one and is the same goal, but different motives. Lucy wants to exchange the scientist for her father, Maximus carries out the orders of the Brotherhood of Steel, and Cooper wants to collect the reward for Wilzig.

Some of the events take place in Philly, a small settlement where a plane once crashed

In the world of the series and the original video games, survivors of a nuclear war are building a new civilization. Some unite into powerful factions, others have become bandits, and still others run households and engage in trade. The currency is bottle caps “Nuka-Cola”.

We wrote more about the Fallout world and its features in a separate article. If you want to know more about the games in the series, we have prepared a rating – from worst to best parts.

The showrunners are Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner. Robertson-Dworet previously wrote scripts for the films Tomb Raider: Lara Croft and Captain Marvel, while Wagner worked on the TV series Silicon Valley and Portlandia.

Jonathan Nolan with leading lady Ella Purnell

Lucy was played by Ella Purnell. The actress is known for her role in the TV series Hornets, where she played the role of Jackie. Pernell also voiced Jinx in the animated series Arcane.

Actor Aaron Moten played the role of Maximus. He played Petey in the TV series One Night and appeared in a supporting role in the drama Emancipation with Will Smith.

Walton Goggins played the role of Ghoul. The actor is familiar to viewers from his roles in The Hateful Eight and the TV series Judgment.

Walton Goggins spent three hours in the dressing room every day of filming. The nose was “removed” using computer graphics

Kyle MacLachlan played the caretaker Vault 33 Hank. His most famous role is Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks.

The role of Lucy’s younger brother named Norm was played by Moises Arias. The actor played in the drama “Monkeys” and the comedy “The King of Staten Island.”

Sarita Choudhury played Moldaver, the kidnapper of Lucy’s father. She played the main character’s mother in the fantasy drama The Legend of the Green Knight and Keith Lyonne in the series Jessica Jones.

The desert sequences were filmed in Namibia. There is the abandoned mining town of Kolmanskop, which became the basis for the settlement of Shady Sands.

Amazon video about the filming of Fallout

Fallout is the most expensive video game series ever, according to Variety. For comparison, the budget for the first season of The Last of Us was 100 million dollars.

Water chip. In the third episode, one of the residents Vault 33 reports that the water chip is broken. This is a reference to the plot of the first Fallout, in which the main character went to the surface to search for a new chip.

Super mutant corpse. At the beginning of the second episode, Wilzig passes by a gurney on which you can see the body of a super mutant – a person infected with a virus of man-made evolution. Super mutants did not appear alive in the first season, but everything may change in the sequel.

Only the hand is visible from the whole body

Cooper Howard’s line about side assignments. The mercenary in the third episode irritably tells Lucy that in the Wasteland there is only one golden rule – “May you always be distracted by all sorts of bullshit.” This is a reference to the playstyle of many Fallout fans, who put aside the main story missions and complete side quests.

Fallout 4 theme music. Inon Tsur’s composition is heard in the sixth episode, when viewers are shown the flag of the New California Republic.

Scene with theme song

Hacking computers. When Norm breaks into the caretaker’s office Vault 33, it hacks the device by searching for a keyword. Exactly Also the process looked like in Bethesda games.

The emergence of RobCo organizations “West-Tek” Big MT and REPCONN. Episode eight shows a meeting with the CEOs of these companies. RobCo produces robots “West-Tek” creates power armor for soldiers, Big MT is involved in research for the military, and REPCONN is involved in spaceflight.

Mr. House, the head of RobCo and one of the main villains of Fallout: New Vegas, also appears in the frame.

Activation code 101097. It is this combination that Hank enters to start the nuclear reactor. It refers to the release date of the first Fallout – October 10, 1997.

“War never changes.” The phrase is spoken in episode eight by Cooper Howard and his wife Barb. It is this expression that appears in the introductory videos of almost all Fallout games. They are voiced by actor Ron Perlman in most parts of the series.

“War Never Changes” in the Fallout series

The events of the series are canon for the games. Todd Howard said this. Game designer He even regrets that he didn’t come up with some of the screenwriters’ ideas.

Amazon and Bethesda worked together to create the set, costume design, and world details. Developers Fallout 3 And Fallout 4 were impressed by the results of their colleagues from Amazon. And he spoke highly of the artists’ work Art Director Bethesda Istvan Peli. He said that the creators of the series perfectly embodied the ideas of his team.

The authors of the first two Fallouts did not participate in the creation of the series. But the designer and programmer of the first Fallout, Tim Kane, attended the series premiere with Todd Howard and praised the show.

Todd Howard talks about how the series’ creators adapted Fallout

Judging by the ending of the first season, the action of the second will unfold in New Vegas.

The creators expect to release several seasons. Jonathan Nolan has already discussed with the showrunners exactly how the story will expand.

The Brotherhood of Steel in the series inherited the ideas of Caesar’s Legion. The Legion is a powerful faction in Fallout: New Vegas whose members are inspired by the lifestyle and aesthetics of the Roman Empire. The show doesn’t mention the Legion, but the Brotherhood of Steel from the show closely resembles it.

Members of the Brotherhood have ancient Roman names – for example, Maximus and Titus. The faction also has a red and yellow flag, which was used by the Legion. Fans speculate that the West Coast Brotherhood’s connection to the Legion may be revealed in season two.

The head of the Brotherhood sits on a throne like an ancient Roman emperor

Stephanie comes from Vault 31in which cryochambers of employees are located Vault-Teca. This means that the girl was born before the war and worked for the corporation. Outwardly she is very similar to Vault Girl, and they also have the same hairstyles.

Considering that the series told the backstory Vault Boy, in the second season, the connection between Stephanie and Vault Girl.

Stephanie, like other immigrants Vault 31hides details of his past

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