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Ya, my father watches it. He doesn't hate games, but just doesn't really play them. Similar age, maybe a little younger than your mom. But ya, he loved Fallout. Don't think he even knew it was based off a game lol.
I think there is a whole subset of people who watch a show based on a game and they don't know the game it's based on. Maybe they know it is based on a game, but they don't care.
Look at all the people who love the IT movies who will never read the Stephen King book. "Oh, but that's a book," some might say, but games take a long time, too. The IT audiobook is 45 hours. Probably about twice what it takes (just guessing) to read the actual book.
There are also people who watch anime but don't read the manga or light novels. I'm guilty of this myself. I did read the manga for My Hero Academia and The Promised Neverland. I'm reading the books for Sword Art Online. Just finished the 9th one (of like 25+...). But most people won't bother. (The books are way better than the anime!)
I think there will always be people who are fans of adaptations but won't mess with the source material. And I think it's fine. I'm not gonna tell them they're not real fans if they don't know the source. I'm just happy the stories can reach new people.
Circling back to Fallout, I think it's funny when people look at the Deathclaw and say "that looks like a little Godzilla." Well, it's based on the Tarrasque from D&D... which was based on Godzilla. So, they're basically right. Then you also have the Jurassic Park velociraptor (as opposed to real ones which were much smaller, like turkey size). And a bunch of other bipedal reptilian horrors. You could even throw Alien's xenomorph in that mix. I think it's fine to draw connections, but the real point is to enjoy the media.