One of Fallout’s original creators, Tim Cain, has revealed his full thoughts on the recently announced Fallout TV show after praising the first two episodes. Kane, who was a producer, lead programmer and designer on the original game, abandoned Amazon’s own vision for the Fallout universe, taking a positive view of the series and expressing interest in a second season.
We won’t discuss every point – for the full idea, you can check out Cain’s video here , but it’s worth noting a few things he was particularly passionate about. These include a decline in storylines and the show’s lack of overbearing narrative or boring info-dumps.
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“One of the things I really love about this show is— [were] A lot of knowledge dropped,” Cain said, “I missed something. I’ve seen videos of people trying to find all the Easter eggs, I’ve seen people post on Reddit and they notice something and I’m like “I looked at that and didn’t see that”. What I particularly like about it is that there is no explanation. There’s never a narrator explaining this stuff to you.Never has a character had a big wall of text in the game, or some long text [voice over]”.
Kane noted that some of the characters, including the guy who tried to put sand into the water filter in the previous episode, looked like one of the villager characters from the original game. He also noted that the three main protagonists all felt like different types of player characters, saying that he liked how their character arcs caused them to change over the course of the show.
He also touched on certain narrative decisions made by the producers that caused some controversy among fans. Kane offers various theories as to how everything on display can still fit neatly into a healthy single standard. “When I see people talking about these things online I hope they address it, but you have to understand that everything the game shows and tells you could be true and they could shock you!” Kane certainly noticed that changes to canon did happen, even in early Fallout games.
“Nothing’s going to be perfect. Nothing’s going to be like in the game because guess what? It’s not a game – it’s a TV show! But it feels good and that’s what I like,” he added.
It’s cool to see this for a variety of reasons, but the biggest one (at least to me) is that there are a lot of examples or original creators that don’t really resonate with future interpretations or sequels of their original works. That’s the nature of the creative industry, an IP is handled in different ways by different people, but it’s rewarding to see Kane happy with TV. He concluded by saying that his opinion doesn’t matter since he’s no longer responsible for Fallout, and maybe he’s right, but it’s nice to know the old guard is happy.
Do you agree with Cain? Let us know below. Hey, be sure to check out his channel, he has a variety of videos drawn from his industry knowledge and experience that you might find interesting.
