Fallout Veteran Shares Heartwarming Reflection On Series As TV Show Debuts

Fallout veteran Emil Pagliarulo has shared thoughts about what the franchise means to him as the TV show premieres on Amazon Prime. He wrote on Twitter/X, "I never could have imagined, in 2007 when I first started down this road, that it would end up here."

Pagliarulo has worked on every Fallout game Bethesda has put out so far, since the company acquired the IP in 2007. He was the lead designer and writer on Fallout 3 and 4 as well as the design director on Fallout 76 (in addition to leadership roles on Skyrim and Starfield). "For 15+ years," he wrote, "I've had a section of my brain, a good 30% at its lowest, partitioned off for the desolation of the post-apocalypse."

Pagliarulo describes his role as a Fallout lore master, advising the TV showrunners, the team currently working on Fallout 76, and external partners. Mistakes do happen, but, as he wrote, "Mistakes and discrepancies KILL me. As they should."

As for the show itself, Pagilarulo had nothing but glowing things to say. He posted, "The show, to me, is something of an impossibility. Not that it got made, but that Jonathan Nolan and company have captured the essence of Fallout so well: beyond the exciting, often humorous cautionary tale, it challenges us to question what it even means to be 'alive.'"

In other Fallout TV news, Todd Howard explained what the show did that the games never could. Bethseda had turned down many offers for a TV show, until Westworld creator and The Dark Knight co-writer Jonathon Nolan won them over. In GameSpot's Fallout TV show review, critic Phil Hornshaw gave it a 7/10 and wrote, "The show is at its best when it sticks close to its protagonists, who are all separately journeying through the Wasteland. But a huge part of the story is made up of narrative diversions, and these rarely get much attention. While the stories of the large cast of major characters and their experiences are compelling, the pit stops themselves are often a little flat." The show premieres today and all eight episodes will be available for viewing.