Silo [Drama, Sci-Fi] (Page 3 of 3)

lighton wrote:

1x10. Daaaaaaaaaamn! So good!

This TV show is way better than the book in my opinion.  The book lacks details it should include to advance plot and move the story forward, and uses waaaay too many unnecessary descriptive words that bog down the flow of events, which makes for a clunky read.  I'd have edited the crap out of this.

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To answer your questions, here's what I've gleaned so far, but I haven't finished yet.

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Why are you still clicking, stop it, this will ruin everything for next season.

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What exactly did she do with the Sheriff star? Put it onto his corpse?

The whole thing about the sheriff badge is not in the book at all, but yes, she put it on Holstons corpse as Jules knew approximately where Allison and Holston were through the digital lie in her helmet, she could tell where they were but this is barely mentioned in the book and not unpacked at all, also, there are a lot more dead bodies to come.

Why did the mayor run to the server room?

There are rules for the head of IT, "If someone survives the cleaning, prepare for war in the Silo."  All the historical records are in the server room to protect human history, and the head of IT can communicate with other Silos and check in with them.  (monitors of the monitors, just like I thought...but none now exist to help Bernard, thus the reason he panicked.)

Are cleaners only being shown a beautiful fake reality so that they will clean?

Ya, to trick cleaners into taking off their helmets and kill themselves, like Holston did, to keep the people who are watching, subservient to the laws and rules of the Silo.  (this is a weak hierarchical structure in my opinion and very weak writing, as coercion and fear is the dumbest approach to stability, ever try truth and honesty ffs!!)  Juliette just outsmarted the trick....with a lot of help from Martha Walker who called in all her favours to the head of "Supply" to manufacture a reinforced suit for Juliette's cleaning as the suit is normally built to fail so cleaners will die.

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Season 2, I'll say Chapters 30 to 60 of the book I'm guessing will be season 2, is about how Juliette makes her way into Silo 17, dead bodies everywhere, meets Solo, and learns everything she can about the history of the Silos then repairs Silo 17, and back home at Silo 18 there's the prep for war, then a war, then aftermath.  Which would probably be all of season 2 up to the start of season 3.

love it, need more seasons

Season 2, Episode 1 just 'dropped' here in Australia, and, in this humble Fans opinion, is the best TV episode released in 2024.

'The engineer' left me completely satisfied with the uncomfortable feeling I had with the ending of Season One. It built on our world, grew a bit of the past histories of a few people we had already met, it opened up an insanely huge step into the Silo's much larger world.

Whoever wrote the script for that episode is a master storyteller and deserves awards, money and recognition for that brilliant episode.

Hopefully it will get back to more like the first series from here on.

colinsp wrote:

I seem to be at odds with the other comments, never having read the books I found this first episode of S2 slow and it did not hold my attention like the first series. The only thing that will make me watch s02e02 was the last couple of minutes otherwise I would have dropped it. Hopefully it will get back to more like the first series from here on.

That tracks, especially in how perspective plays a role in engagement, like...

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in my mind reading this, the camera was further away and gave a greater sense of isolation and how alone she was, whereas the episode had too many close ups and didn't give the viewer enough sense of isolation/separation/abandonment/fear.  It also felt like we new some of her decision making process in the book, like when she spills that dirty water on her uniform it's explained what's going on in her head and why she's doing it, which engages the reader, but in the show you're just watching her decisions without knowing the internal struggle she's going through, which isn't as engaging.

lighton wrote:

(If you have watched s02e01, this is no spoiler. Just in case, I still put in as spoiler)

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I watched it as her decontamination attempt - am I right? Was there more to it?

You are smart. Indeed it's her decontamination attempt. The fluid is some  soup in the fridge that smells very bad, etc.