Gaming🎮 Fallout TV show director says it'd have been "a fool's errand" to try and please fans, and he's kinda right

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Ok, make sure you’re sitting down. One of the key people behind the Fallout TV show that’s set to drop on Amazon Prime Video next month has said that trying to just please fans of the games with it would be “a fool’s errand”.

Have you chilled out a bit? Good, now let me tell you why I think, while it’s been expressed in a manner that’s a little bit crap, what he’s said is actually pretty sensible. To be totally clear, though, I’m not about to chew on some corporate shoe and go as far as telling you that all the stuff they’ve said about it basically being Fallout 5 - like if you were to drop some blue slush into a bottle, chuck a light bulb in there, and call it Nuka Cola Quantum - isn’t dumb.

First of all, here’s what was said by director Jonathan Nolan to T3. Just trying to appease fans of the games with the show - that’s what he’s likened to “a fool's errand”. To be fair, he then clarified: "I think you have to come into this trying to make the show that you want to make and trusting that, as fans of the game [ourselves], we would find the pieces that were essential to us and try to do the best version."

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