Silo [Drama, Sci-Fi] (Page 6 of 8)

3x08 - Gray Goo - Could've condensed the backstory episodes into this one, as it finally moved the story forward.  Only took 8 episodes.  You could skip the first 7 episodes, watch 308 with the recap, and have missed nothing in season 3.

@SgtSaint, Isn't Paradise just a murder mystery, or did it become a scifi?

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Watched it last night.  This morning I'm struggling to recall if anything actually happened.  But... umm... no.  Basically nothing actually took place.  The two lead women argued.  People ran up the stairs then walked back down.

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When what's-his-name went out to clean, the sky was much more blue then I ever saw before.  He walked a good long way with no suit and destroyed lungs before pausing, then collapsing.  I thought we were going to learn that the air was breathable now.  If he had not stopped.  If he had walked beyond the crater ridge, Silo 18 would have seen an unprotected man go out and keep going just find (even if he died 5 feet later out of camera view).  That would have made such a huge impact on silo society with everyone rioting to be let out.  Would have made one heck of a season ender before the final season.  But no.  Somehow there's some magic poison in the air that lasts centuries.

SgtSaint wrote:

s03e09
Watched it last night.  This morning I'm struggling to recall if anything actually happened.  But... umm... no.  Basically nothing actually took place.  The two lead women argued.  People ran up the stairs then walked back down.

▼Spoiler

When what's-his-name went out to clean, the sky was much more blue then I ever saw before.  He walked a good long way with no suit and destroyed lungs before pausing, then collapsing. I thought we were going to learn that the air was breathable now.  If he had not stopped.  If he had walked beyond the crater ridge, Silo 18 would have seen an unprotected man go out and keep going just find (even if he died 5 feet later out of camera view).  That would have made such a huge impact on silo society with everyone rioting to be let out.  Would have made one heck of a season ender before the final season.  But no.  Somehow there's some magic poison in the air that lasts centuries.

Did... we watch the same episode? There was

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literally a nuclear explosion at the end. Big one, even. I would list that under "things happening".

What we did learn (it was hinted at before) is that the area immediately around the exit is safe. They expected her to die when reaching the tree in season 1 (because everyone does). We saw that it was safe near the other silo earlier this season because those gunshot holes didn't let anything deadly in. Now we know that it isn't just because the suit takes a while to be chewed through: the killing effect really does only kick in when walking too far from the entrance.

We also learned that the voice probaly isn't an AI and that silo 1 is built for actual people. And due to the way all the organizers in the past at the end there acted suspicious, we can assume that they knew what was going to happen.

So, best theory from me: They built the silos, told the world about it so that everyone would want to take a look at one. Which means they could choose who they wanted to put into them. Then, when all those people just so happened to already be inside, assuming it would just be a visit, they set off that bomb to force everyone to stay inside. Basically, a eugenics project.

Only question now is whether the rest of the world really did end, or just that area. The stuff that is killing people is probably the nanite technology they used to crash those jets; anything else wouldn't have an exclusion zone like that.

But yes, it is stretching the suspension of belief a bit that no one would ever try just sprinting over that hill, if only to die seeing the other side. But that guy in particular had already barely made it up those stairs.

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Don't think that this demonstrates that any area is safe, if it's some poison, it will have a delay.

Completely different question is why it is not safe.

Regarding organizers, to me looked that some of them knew, some not. Does not make a lot of sense to try to outrun a nuke intentionally.

That nuke and running from the shockwave sent me right into fact checking and math mode, in short, plausible-ish, they showed that the shockwave came some minute later, what puts nuke in approx. 40-60 km distance or so. What tho is total bs that they managed to run into that bunker once the shockwave approached the beam, since it's x times faster than Usain Bolt. But in that distance it's not much more deadly than some tornado. And that brings the question what makes it not safe to go outside - to massacre planet to that level they would need many, many nukes not just one. One theory is that they went into those silos, the first 1 is controlling the rest, but there also something went wrong and they same as other silos don't even remember why they are doing what they are doing. And to me most sense would make that outside of silos is not safe not because of the fallout, but because they poison that area themselves to keep people inside for some reason. Or even a wilder theory that all this is some long running social experiment.

But the organizers (CEO guy, senator lady and her personal henchman) clearly knew.