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Nothing for me, yet...but I am very disturbed by how quickly this Fallout situation has moved. That's what prompted me to finally make this meme, even though I'd thought about it several times before.

The thing is, the show is obviously very high quality. I've only seen the first episode, but it really hit all the marks as a great show, already. I'm not the most hardcore Fallout fan, but I've played Fallout 3, New Vegas, and 4. And the VR version of 4. And a bit of Fallout 76. And a little bit of Brotherhood of Steel, which everyone hated for good reasons.

I haven't been spoiled for it, so I don't know if this error in the timeline, continuity problem, plot hole (or whatever) is something that came up in the first episode (and I didn't even notice it) or if it comes up later in the show.

The point is, the show is good, which is a VERY RARE FEAT, within the video-game-to-scripted-screen-adaptation world. But instead of appreciating the overall good quality, these people started pitching a fit about timelines and canon issues. That still wouldn't have bothered me...but then came the VERY PROMPT response, from Todd Howard.

I am very disturbed by how quickly he was shoved out in front of a camera, to beg everyone's pardon. "No, no, no, you're right. New Vegas is still canon. Don't worry."

You realize what this means, don't you? The MONEY PEOPLE frantically texted Todd Motherfucking Howard, and directed him to make that response. In other words, these turbo-whiners basically have a seat in the writing room, for Season 2 of this show.

Instead of writing what they want to write, instead of making decisions on their terms, they will have to make every future episode of the show with the knowledge that their bosses are now watching closely to see if the lore-freaks have been antagonized, once again.

They have to write CAREFULLY, so as to make sure they don't make any further "mistakes" or "errors" or "retcons" or whatever it was. Writing carefully is not writing creatively.

Nerds have always known the lore better than the writers. Up until now, they have been ignored. But now, as I said, they have a seat at the table. A world in which they are constantly pandered to is a world where writing gets shittier and shittier, every season.

I predict that Season 2 of the Fallout show will be markedly lower quality, because the writers will be incentivized to merely provide a scrupulously, obsessively "faithful" lore documentary, rather than a real, creatively driven, dynamic plot.