A chalkboard has ignited a fierce Fallout TV show debate about whether the new series has retconned game canon

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The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Fallout TV show already has a canon controversy but, don’t worry, the ‘retcon’ to the game series really isn’t as important as it seems at first glance. Some spoilers for Fallout follow.

So, what’s the issue? Well, it all stems from a blink-and-you’ll-m🔥iss-it chalkboard during Lucy and Max’s im♛promptu trip to Vault 4.

On it, it says the ‘Fall of Shady Sands’ happens in 2277. If you know your 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Fallout timeline, you’ll be aware th🐟at it’s esseꦑntially an impossibility. 

If the Fallout TV show is following canon (and the powers that be 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:have said multiple times that it is), then, Fallout: New Vegas’ many references tౠo the New California Republic (NCR)☂ and Shady Sands in 2281 don’t quite add up.

While many (honestly, too many to mention here) are up in arms about the reference, suggesting that New Vegas has been banished to non-canon status by Todd Howard and Bethesda, it’s worth pointing out t🐓hat the retcon isn’t reall💫y a retcon at all.

Sure, maybe someone in New Vegas could have mentioned the ‘fall’ of Shady Sands during the events of the Obsidian-developed game, but the arrow alone – signifying a future event – is enough to suggest that the oꦅutright nuking of Shady Sands comes post-2281 and the events of New Vegas. 

Not to go into too much outright spoilers, but a later detail in the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Fallout ending about Shady Sands’ fate also suggests it could🦩 easily have taken place a little later ಌthan 2277.

Bethesda’s Emil Pagliarulo also that the studio has "never suggested" that New 🌱Vegas is anything other than canon. On top of that, there’s the small matter of whether we should take Vault-Tec propaganda at face value. Never a good idea, if you ask us.

So, a whole load of something over nothing? Possibly. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Fallout season 2 – if it happens – should reveal more in t♌hat regard. For now, maybe 🐈let’s chalk this one up to a slight overreaction.

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