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Silo (Apple TV+) - Premiers May 5th

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24 minutes ago, YChang said:

The crossover we didn't realize we needed.

The internet can’t handle an Ella Purnell/Rebecca Ferguson crossover. But maybe The Ghoul shoots Common in the face so…

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1 minute ago, kevwun said:

Not sure about that.  I think it's the gas they treat them with before going out.  The silo she visited was open to the outside air.

Then why did all those people who escapes that silo die??

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2 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

I think they died because there was still radiation from a nuclear war, but it’s gone now. 

That I buy. Because she did not touch her suit directly after she got out of it. 

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That's a good question, but the doors were open to the outside.

I guess I need to watch the intro again. There was an uprising and then they opened the doors to go outside. Their silo was sealed up until that point, otherwise everyone would’ve already been dead inside. Am I misreading that?
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2 minutes ago, Red Five said:

I find my attention waning when they cut to non-Rebecca Ferguson scenes. I don't think I care all that much about daily life/politics in Silo 18, when it's unrelated to the mystery of the show. 

The stuff in 18 with Meadows is interesting. The stuff with Common and Mechanical, a little less so

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In season 1, it felt like this show originated from the 70s-80s based on the style of everything and the old school technology we saw. In this season, it feels like there is present day technology, at least the wireless camera in Juliette’s suit and the server room. Those things are far more advanced than the retro desktop computers we’ve seen. Which makes me think the silo was intentionally designed to look older or be more simplified than it actually is.

This entire thing seems to be about population control and the majority of inhabitants are being heavily deceived. Bernard was aware of the failures of the other silo but the common man isn’t even aware there are other silos. The question is who is in control and why are they doing it.

I think the memory wiping drug plays a bigger role. Perhaps the silo isn’t actually 100+ years old and there never was a revolution all those years ago. Perhaps these are all first generation inhabitants and they just can’t remember the origin.

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11 hours ago, wild_turkey said:

wireless camera in Juliette’s suit and the server room.

Not wireless

11 hours ago, wild_turkey said:

Bernard was aware of the failures of the other silo but the common man isn’t even aware there are other silos. The question is who is in control and why are they doing it.

It would be a little narratively weird to reveal Bernard as the secret mastermind running the Silo, only for there to be a different cabal behind him.  

 

11 hours ago, wild_turkey said:

I think the memory wiping drug plays a bigger role. Perhaps the silo isn’t actually 100+ years old and there never was a revolution all those years ago.

I’m a little skeptical that the show wants to make a magic memory potion to the solution to many of the mysteries.  If they wanted to go there I think they’d have used (or foreshadowed the use) of it in season one and judicial would threaten it as a punishment.  
 

This might be totally off base, but when you have low tech sci-fi it’s easier to make problems dramatically interesting.  If, for example, it ends up there’s an AI running the place or Bernard is actually 400 years old and he’s a whiskey swilling cyborg then it lessens the stakes.  
 

I’m avoiding Wikipedia for fear of book spoilers, but I think Silo is a revolution parable examined through science fiction, maybe a little like The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (which did have an AI now that I think of it).  

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14 hours ago, wild_turkey said:

Those things are far more advanced than the retro desktop computers we’ve seen. Which makes me think the silo was intentionally designed to look older or be more simplified than it actually is.

I mean, yeah.  They're trying to exert total control - the lack of certain technology that could revolutionize the Silo's day to day life, like an elevator or even magnification, is evidence that those are running the Silo program, in conjunction with the heads of IT, are purposefully keeping the Silo at a certain technological (and educational state) state.  Considering that one guy didn't even know what the lights in the sky were that move and change (stars....) 

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3 hours ago, LCHorn said:

It would be a little narratively weird to reveal Bernard as the secret mastermind running the Silo, only for there to be a different cabal behind him.  

I'm not sure I follow. Are you suggesting that Bernard is the head guy in charge of everything?

I am skeptical of that idea simply because Bernard is seen within silo 18 so much that it seems hard to believe he could also have significant involvement in 49 other silos. I was kind of thinking there is an external organization, government, etc. that has built and oversees all 50 silos. Bernard gets information from that entity but he is not the overseer of everything.

But I've also forgotten a lot of stuff from season 1 and I don't know what I'm talking about half the time, so maybe you're right.

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1 minute ago, wild_turkey said:

I am skeptical of that idea simply because Bernard is seen within silo 18 so much that it seems hard to believe he could also have significant involvement in 49 other silos. I was kind of thinking there is an external organization, government, etc. that has built and oversees all 50 silos. Bernard gets information from that entity but he is not the overseer of everything.

 

Pretty sure this is the case.  Someone has to be overseeing all of these Silos and coordinating with the heads of IT. Silo 1 probably is like, the "Founders" monitoring all the silos. 

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12 minutes ago, wild_turkey said:

I'm not sure I follow. Are you suggesting that Bernard is the head guy in charge of everything?

Yes, but only in Silo 18.  Each is independently run, like the Fallout bunkers.  That said, I think the show has alluded (or made explicit) that the head of IT can communicate with the other Silos.  
 

Which, and here’s a hairy ass prediction for you, is what George was about to discover.  If they can communicate with other another then it’s presumably buried fiber optic.  And if they dug that deep then perhaps there’s a tunnel beneath maintenance that connects the Silos to one another.  Perhaps coordinating the other silos and/or reviving old drilling technology is what allows them to tunnel out of the irradiated zone.  
 

One other thought-the transmission bandwidth in the radiation suit camera seemed pretty good considering there wasn’t a transmission tower nearby to transmit signals.  I wonder if that’s indicative of satellite communication.  

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And if they dug that deep then perhaps there’s a tunnel beneath maintenance that connects the Silos to one another.  Perhaps coordinating the other silos and/or reviving old drilling technology is what allows them to tunnel out of the irradiated zone.  


I suspect we’ll eventually find out the silos are connected. Possibly there is a tunnel network within the vaults, although Solo seems like he had legit not encountered another human in years, but maybe they just left him there to die on his own.
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