Silo [Drama, Sci-Fi] (Page 2 of 4)

Hah, was thinking the same while watching. I guess it could be a very very deep "hardened" hole where they redirect some ground water to, and it heats/boils up creating steam. And since they have no clue how the steam is made, they should not know about any way to close off the ground water. I dont think there could be any other "realistic" explanation no? Seems unlikely its nuclear fission or fusion creating the steam.

As for the repair and cooling, all i can say is lol.
I also thought being on the deepest lvl must be deadly to say the least, just think about all the shit that can be dropped from up high and with 10 000 people living upwards, seems like a recipe for disaster. Not to mention, how does the plumbing work? And yes, strange there is no elevators, or any talk about they have existed, would be perfect to add while the mayor and acting sheriff were going down if they didnt work anymore.

There was also some intriguing details on the video feed, when they shut down the power. Almost as if there were 3 filters.

The whole thing doesn't make any sense at all.... so, if the turbine is driven by the hot steam coming from below fed into the containment chamber of the turbine-shaft.... what does happen if you open the enclosure? Right, all steam will rush out into the surrounding room, steam cooking all those engineers and the turbine will stop spinning anyway as the blades stall immediately.

And yeah, the builders of the structure planned for every eventuality but not putting in a pressure relief valve into a stream drive generator assembly? Or if not that.... they could just open the valve a tiny bit and also open the hatch Juliette used to enter the stream chamber... that would have vented the steam into the open space. Problem gone.

Also, "straiten" a badly damaged and bend turbine blade? Seriously? Even touching it after it ran for weeks glowing hot... those gloves must have been really well made...

Next to the idiocy, that they build a huge bunker and power it with one big ass generator instead of a series of smaller independent and redundant systems. Do not have any spare parts like a new blade?

I really hoped they would show the "real" world for a split second when the processing/filter engine stops and some inhabitants would have noticed. That could have been a good option to make the whole "generator repair" relevant for the story... the way they used it, was a waste of an opportunity and not really that engaging doing anything useful to the story. Maybe positioning Juliette as a "hero"-character. Which is a bit too on the nose for my liking.

Double the flowers in front of the mirror

After the screen projection error when shutting down the generator, now the outside "lights" being visible at night... Love it.

"Double the flowers in front of the mirror."

...that people have been coming and going through a back door/elevator to the Silo that nobody knows about because if there are people monitoring cameras within the Silo that nobody knows about, then there are monitors of the monitors who can come and go with impunity.   Perhaps the show feels a bit like the Matrix to me, which conjures ideas of the architect with monitors, and a key maker with keys to back doors that lead to various ways out of a trapped world.  I'm not sure yet if Silo works allegorically; if abstract ideas can be defined through characters, but I enjoy stories like that and is part of my speculation process.

It hasn't been confirmed that people live when they go outside to clean; Anne Perkins and MLKjr are both shown to have died when they went outside to clean.  All we know is that in some brief instances the camera is glitching (ie. the woman) and is most likely portraying a false image, so we all assume that they live or can live outside the silo, but the nature of the outside planet, we know nothing yet.  Also, what is the false image, the good one or the bad one?  Is the camera glitching good or glitching bad?  Is the glitching just another system of control embedded in the Silo experiment?

Does that help?

If they've deviated from the books and added in monitor people, maybe they'll add in a back door, and lasers, and robots, and slurpees, and flying saucers even, who knows.

Andy Dufresne being the bad guy.