Amazon's Fallout TV Show: 10 Things Fans Need To See
1. Radiation
The unseen scourge of the wasteland... beware the water.
The biggest horror of nuclear war is not the initial destruction - it's the all-polluting energy that remains after the dust has settled.
It causes disease, and shortens life-expectancy. It makes the land itself a poison, creating ghouls and all manner of deadly and grotesque wildlife, and is most concentrated at the bomb sites throughout the Fallout world. If you take a trudge around Fallout 4's grey-green Glowing Sea, the rads will eat you up unless you are well protected, either with a radiation suit or those handy little pills, Rad-X.
But most perilously, it's in the water. While purified water is not unknown in this post-apocalyptic world, the majority of it is tainted beyond salvage. It's the ultimate irony: the very thing all life needs to survive will just as likely kill it.
Radiation, the invisible and deadly pestilience of Fallout, is a key element to any story that springs from this most evocative of realms. Just as in the videogames, it should be a central facet to the Amazon show,