Fallout’s first look features a Vault Dweller-Ghoul-Brotherhood showdown
Falloutthe new TV show based on the game series (also called Fallout), will be a show about many things: post-apocalyptic survival, weird nuclear creatures, old-school music and, like Fallout co-showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet has said: Factionalism. Nowhere is that more evident than the new preview scene Prime Video dropped ahead of the show’s April 12 premiere.
Fresh out of the vault life, we see that Lucy (Ella Purnell) doesn’t exactly choose her battles – or at least doesn’t choose them well. In the scene, she confronts The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) with some of Vault Dweller’s patented de-escalation tactics. And even though she’s finally above ground, she’s still decidedly out of her depth.
According to Purnell, that quality is one of the things that made her excited about the role.
“She’s so innocent and so naive and obviously very privileged,” says Purnell. “She is essentially a newborn baby. She has no real life experiences. All she knows is what she has learned and what she has read in the books she has in the vault.
“It was really exciting for me to start in that place.”
Luckily, at least a Brotherhood of Steel member shows up this turn to help Lucy (though we don’t see what becomes of it). Yet it is the first real showcase of what the world is like Fallout looks and – blessedly – how the Brotherhood of Steel’s armor moves. Honestly, it looks great, and it elicits the same reaction from me as the Ghoul (albeit with a different tone): Are you fucking kidding me!
Ultimately, the scene gets clear what Robertson-Dworet wanted with the idea of factions defining Fallout.
“When you play the game Fallout, you move from settlement to settlement or from faction to faction. And that was something that we really wanted to manifest with our heroes,” Robertson-Dworet said at a press conference earlier this month. “Ella is the Vault Dweller, Aaron (Moten) is the Brotherhood of Steel member and Walton is kind of a character that, you know, no one really cares about, the ghosts in the wasteland. But in a way that of course makes them most empathetic.”
Fallout premieres on April 12 – or technically April 11, depending on your time zone. (It will be released at midnight EDT, which means it will come out at 9pm PDT on the Thursday before the release date.) All episodes will disappear at once.