Silo - By Hugh Howey - May 5th

AndyCr15 said:
With S2 looming, I read the first book last week and watched S1 again this week. I found it quite confusing because they are both quite different. Looking forward to seeing if S2 is just the second half of book 1 (which I didn't enjoy as much tbh)
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Yes looking forward to this but with some trepidation. The books were great, particularly Jimmy's back story (and Shadow :( ) but how much of that will be given airtime in S2. In fact with hindsight S1 dragged itself out a bit with a lot of padding that wasn't in the book along with changes to some of the characters. I mean it was good, but the books threw it into perspective.
 
Not the strongest start to a new season, hopefully now the flashbacks are out the way it picks up as the season progresses.
 
Wow awful first episode,pointless flashbacks with an engineer failing to build a bridge. What the hell happened to modern TV shows.
 
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I had mixed feelings, it did kind of beat about the bush, some of the scenes really needed a higher quality camera and HDR though.
 
maddog said:
Wow awful first episode,pointless flashbacks with an engineer failing to build a bridge. What the hell happened to modern TV shows.
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Yeah, it was a pretty poor start. Was it about 20 minutes building that bridge? (As with the time-filling drama with the faultering machine in S1... its not in the books...)
 
Rroff said:
I had mixed feelings, it did kind of beat about the bush, some of the scenes really needed a higher quality camera and HDR though.
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Yep. Same thing happened with the latter version of SEE. It was Game of Thrones final season all over again because it was just too dark.
 
Actually quite liked the first episode and it seemed closer to the source material. Presumably next week we will get more of Jimmy and maybe some of his back story. It does seem however they are not going to do the detailed history of the whole project which took up most of Book 2, suspect we will get a few insights then the action will switch to Book 3.
 
I read all the books after watching S1 and it's actually quite hard to compile between each version. Trying to remember if the things which happened in the book actually happened in the show as i remember being quite surprised at how much it deviated.
 
Yeah S1 had a lot of fluff added. S2 appears to be heading into the second half of book 1, which I like less than the first half tbh. I'm now about 80% of the way through the second book and loving it. I feel it works really well, book 1 starts the mystery and then the second book leads into where we were in book 1, revealing loads of info on the way.
 
Just watched the first episode of the new season. So she's an 'engineer' and she has entire silo's worth of crap lying around, but her first thought to get across a relatively small gap is to use some old rope and turn herself into a piñata?
 
Yeah the engineering aspects seemed poorly thought out. I can't recall that event from the book but it has been a while since I read it.
Also the way the makeshift bridge in episode 1 was formed seemed to ignore gravity in part...

I think Knox was poorly cast. Reading the books I got the impression he would look more like Eddie Hall.
 
I found season 1 pretty difficult to get into honestly, especially the first half. Going to wait before starting s2
 
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