Fallout Season 2 "Side Quests" & More Game Elements Teased By Co-Showrunners

Summary Fallout season 2 will include more "side quests" and game elements to mirror the video game franchise.

The show follows three strangers on quests in the wasteland of LA, resembling the gameplay structure of Bethesda games.

There is a main quest focused on Lucy finding her father, along with optional side quests for more exploration and fun.

Fallout co-showrunners Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet tease more "side quests" and game elements in season 2. Based on the Bethesda video game franchise, Prime Video's series follows three strangers on separate quests who cross paths in the wasteland of Los Angeles, which was ravaged by an apocalyptic nuclear exchange more than 200 years ago. The show centers on three Fallout cast members and characters – Ella Purnell as the Vault Dweller Lucy, Walton Goggins as The Ghoul, and Aaron Moten as the Brotherhood of Steel member Maximus.

During a recent interview with GQ, Wagner and Robertson-Dworet teased more "side quests" and game elements that will be incorporated into Fallout season 2. The co-showrunners say that a lot of fun "side quests" and subplots were cut from season 1 that will hopefully make it into season 2. Read their full comments below:

Wagner: I was always advocating for side quests, to the point that maybe the show was in danger of being boring, where they were literally just doing donuts, and it's like, “What's even happening? This isn't a sitcom, Graham!” [We had] pages and pages of useless digressions that were a lot of fun, but truly just did not advance the story. Robertson-Dworet: But hopefully we'll find a place in season two for some of those, because some of them were really fun, and it was tragic to lose them. Wagner: I don't know, I'm pretty glad we lost some of them… The cannibal encounter, and so-forth. Remember that guy? Anyway. It truly was like, we didn't know how they got there, or why they're there, we just had this image that we really liked. Robertson-Dworet: That's how it works sometimes! Wagner: Let's say the water farmer scene [from episode two], we just joked every time it survived another draft that it was certainly gonna get cut. And it made it all the way. You just never know.

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Fallout season 1 is structured similarly to Bethesda's video games, starting with a vault tutorial. Lucy eventually leaves Vault 33 to find her father who was kidnapped, just like Fallout 3 centers on a playable character who leaves Vault 101 to find their father who disappears under mysterious circumstances. Fallout 4 also centers on a playable character, referred to as the "Sole Survivor," who leaves Vault 111 to search for their son who was kidnapped.

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While each Fallout game features a main storyline, there is also an array of optional side quests that allow for more exploration of the open world. Similarly, the Fallout show follows a main quest involving Wilzig's head. However, there are also some side quests that the main characters get involved in, such as the water farmer scene from episode 2. The Ghoul even self-references Fallout's propensity for side quests, saying "Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit every goddamn time."

As Wagner and Robertson-Dworet reveal, there were a lot of side quests that were cut from season 1 that will hopefully make it into season 2. One of those side quests, according to Wagner, was a "cannibal encounter." Though the context of the scene is unclear, it could have been a reference to one of the many instances of cannibalism in the Fallout games, such as the town of Andale in Fallout 3. Given the golden rule of the wasteland, Fallout season 2 should include many more side quests for the main characters.

Fallout is streaming on Prime Video.

Source: GQ