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Fallout: The Beginning (2024)
Not faithful to the original story
While the show was excellent it leaves a glaringly obvious hole in the storyline of the fallout universe.
That hole is that the TV storyline trashes the original storylines in the first two Fallout games, as well as Fallout Tactics and Fallout New Vegas, all the ones Todd Howard was not involved in.
In Fallout and Fallout 2, which covers the time from the end of the war until 2241, Shady Sands is not the only major settlement, but one of several. In New Vegas, (40 years after Fallout 2 and 15 years before the TV series begins) the NCR (New California Republic) is a thriving nation that spans most of the former state of California. It is so successful it is expanding into Nevada, Arizona, and Oregon.
The TV series would have you believe that the majority of the NCR collapsed between the end of New Vegas and the start of the TV series, and that the Brotherhood of Steel is still a major player in the area. The canon storyline pre-Todd Howard is that the Brotherhood was collapsing in the west so they fled east to the Midwest and East coast. This is explained in the Tactics and Fallout 3 games. In fact, it's the opening plot of Fallout Tactics.
Further, the map of vault locations is lacking many of the west coast vaults from the original games. Meanwhile vaults 31-33 are almost exactly over the area that is supposed to contain the L. A. Boneyard and Vault that the Children of the Cathedral in the original Fallout come from. The Boneyard is the last of the four NCR states to ratify their constitution.
The Hub, Boneyard, Junktown, Navarro, Klamath, San Francisco, New Reno, Redding, Broken Hills, Vault City, and Necropolis all are prosperous towns and cities in the New Vegas period, which is only 15 years before the events in the show.
The final plot hole is that it's 270 miles from Los Angeles to the ruins of the fictional city of Shady Sands. (The general location is given in the first two games) So, our main characters walked that distance and then back to Los Angeles in the course of the show, with almost no food or water and not visiting any of the towns in between or discovering their ruins like Shady Sands.