The Fallout series from Amazon isn’t done teasing fans over the potential canonicity of Obsidian’s beloved New Vegas. After constant questions about whether that game even existed in the show’s world (which were pretty definitively answered by the first season’s final episode), the second season is gearing up to bring New Vegas into the fold in a big way. That includes revealing that New Vegas’s big bad, Mr.
House , will play a role. Of course, that only raises more questions about what is and isn’t canon. The news comes from a Variety interview with showrunners and series creators Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet.
In the video interview , Wagner states that Las Vegas is Robert House’s town and that Mr. House “will be involved” in the second season. Robert House runs New Vegas in the game and is an integral part of any story in the setting.
Since New Vegas appears in the final shot of season one, we know the second season will feature the iconic location in a big way. If Mr. House is involved, it means that the show will likely need to make one particular ending of New Vegas canon: the one in which the player sides with Mr.
House in the conflict for the Hoover Dam. This ending establishes that Mr. House will continue to rule New Vegas in the years following the game, with the city described as a despotic vision of pre-war glory in which the streets are “orderly, efficient, cold.
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