I wouldn't say that I'm much of a control freak, but watching ex-Vault dweller Lucy MacLean wander through a junk-filled convenience store in Amazon's Fallout TV series and not take everything that isn't bolted down made me more than a bit restless—but that's just something I'm going to have to get used to. The upcoming Fallout TV series doesn't lend viewers the same kind of agency that you'd find in a game, but it at least tries to emulate it.
"I think one of the big challenges of adapting a videogame to TV is you're changing the entire format," actress Ella Purnell, who plays Lucy, tells me. "It's not as easy as adapting a book or creating a biopic about someone's life. You're going from a first-[person] experience, and you're essentially creating a story within that world, where you're taking away the major element that people play the game for, which is the ability to choose."
