Fallout veteran Emil Pagliarulo has shared thoughts about what the franchise means to him as the TV show premieres on Amazon Prime. He wrote on Twitter/X, "I never could have imagined, in 2007 when I first started down this road, that it would end up here."

Pagliarulo has worked on every Fallout game Bethesda has put out so far, since the company acquired the IP in 2007. He was the lead designer and writer on Fallout 3 and 4 as well as the design director on Fallout 76 (in addition to leadership roles on Skyrim and Starfield). "For 15+ years," he wrote, "I've had a section of my brain, a good 30% at its lowest, partitioned off for the desolation of the post-apocalypse."

Pagliarulo describes his role as a Fallout lore master, advising the TV showrunners, the team currently working on Fallout 76, and external partners. Mistakes do happen, but, as he wrote, "Mistakes and discrepancies KILL me. As they should."