Ever since the Fallout TV show came out, one question seems to be on everybody's mind.

What would Lucy's level be if she were in a Fallout game?

Well, we here at Film Theory did what no one else was insane enough to do.

We sat down and ran the numbers.

And what we found is absolutely game-breaking. Hello, internet's, welcome to film theory, the show that knows that the S in special actually stands for subscribe.

Let me tell you friends, I have been blown away by the success of the Fallout TV series.

It's wild to see a franchise that teen-lee loved back in the mid-aughts blow up into this massive cultural phenomenon.

It's also one of the only IP that we've covered on all four of the Thier's channels now.

Wild, huh? And that makes perfect sense. With such a huge world, with deep lore and fun science,

there's a ton to talk about. And one of the biggest conversations that I've seen online lately,

how do the systems of the Fallout games apply to this show? See, Fallout is set in the same

world and canon as the games it's based on.

So that naturally got people asking how the show would work as a game. For example, how powerful

would the main character Lucy McLean actually be? See, Fallout is a role-playing game or RPG.

Whenever your character does something, they gain experience points, and after getting

enough experience, they level up and become more powerful before starting the whole process

all over again. Now, there are tons of ways to earn experience in the fallout games, including

killing enemies, finishing quests, discovering new locations, being persuasive in conversations,

disarming traps, picking locks,

and hacking computers. And we actually see Lucy do most of these things throughout the show.

But unlike the games, there's no helpful pop-up to let us know when she gets experience,

or completes a quest, or discovers a new location, or whatever. To find out what level Lucy would be,

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