Silo - By Hugh Howey - May 5th

I’m sure this is a great show is you could see WTF is happening.

Juliette also should have died at least 3 times in the opening 35 minutes of S2, ep. 1.
 
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It’s actually insane what the show runners are doing to the Juliet plot line when the book absolutely nails it and had me hooked. This is tragic and so boring compared to to the book :(
The books are currently next in line on my night table for a re-read, once I finish the last Wheel Of Time.
 
I’m sure this is a great show is you could see WTF is happening.

Juliette also should have died at least 3 times in the opening 35 minutes of S2, ep. 1.

On my 4K HDR setup you can make it out much better though it still needs to have been filmed with better cameras, without HDR especially if streaming on a browser a lot of the dark scenes are quite bad due to the noise and compression. The show really suffers without good quality HD or better.
 
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On my 4K HDR setup you can make it out much better though it still needs to have been filmed with better cameras, without HDR especially if streaming on a browser a lot of the dark scenes are quite bad due to the noise and compression. The show really suffers without good quality HD or better.
This was watching on an LG OLED, although I did realise that my TV is periodically switching on the auto brightness limiter (I think) making it even darker, so I had to wiggle the remote every now and then.
 
This was watching on an LG OLED, although I did realise that my TV is periodically switching on the auto brightness limiter (I think) making it even darker, so I had to wiggle the remote every now and then.
weird, no issues through my C4 using the inbuilt AppleTV app
 
Bounced off the pilot ages ago, but gave it another try recently to watch during my 30 minute hangboard workouts.

The pilot is pretty poop, is picks up a lot on the second episode, and seems pretty decent after, without being great.
 
Up to date now. But can someone explain the whole premise.. As I just don't get it.

I just don't understand the premise.
Why lie about any of the big picture stuff?
Why does any of the "keep it secret stuff" need to be contained?


This program seems like the premise snow piercer.. But with some weird "we need to keep stuff a secret"
 
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Up to date now. But can someone explain the whole premise.. As I just don't get it.

I just don't understand the premise.
Why lie about any of the big picture stuff?
Why does any of the "keep it secret stuff"

This program seems like the premise snow piercer.. But with some weird "we need to keep stuff a secret"

I would guess knowledge is power. Like N Korea, keep the country stupid and not show them there is a better world then you will keep the masses under control.

Bernard said there has been several revolts they had to supress and the other silo occupants all perished. So i guess it is for the silo survivals purpose.
 
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I would guess knowledge is power. Like N Korea, keep the country stupid and not show them there is a better world then you will keep the masses under control.

Bernard said there has been several revolts they had to supress and the other silo occupants all perished. So i guess it is for the silo survivals purpose.
I get it with north Korea.
There is stuff out there to keep secret

Unless this is some super reveal with a similar thing. That outside beyond some a barrier is nice. And people are being kept like this as an experiment or something

If it isn't something like that.. I don't really understand the "gain" of lying.
Yes.. We have suits yes you can get over the hill. But you will still die.
 
Up to date now. But can someone explain the whole premise.. As I just don't get it.

Yeah season one they made the whole deception pointless in the TV show, it is slightly different in the books and makes a bit more sense though still has a similar issue. They've kind of skirted around it in season 2 so it isn't a big issue if you don't think about it :s
 
I get it with north Korea.
There is stuff out there to keep secret

Unless this is some super reveal with a similar thing. That outside beyond some a barrier is nice. And people are being kept like this as an experiment or something

If it isn't something like that.. I don't really understand the "gain" of lying.
Yes.. We have suits yes you can get over the hill. But you will still die.
The deception I don’t understand is
about tricking people who go out to clean into taking their protective gear off. They die anyway due to faulty gear so people in the silos will still think it’s too dangerous to go out anyway. Not sure why they don’t just emphasise how dangerous it is outside.
 
The deception I don’t understand is
about tricking people who go out to clean into taking their protective gear off. They die anyway due to faulty gear so people in the silos will still think it’s too dangerous to go out anyway. Not sure why they don’t just emphasise how dangerous it is outside.
I didn't think they were?
There is a fake alternate-reality version of what they see when looking through the headset. This is to trick people to make them think 'I knew it! It's beautiful and everything is fine. I must clean so others can see too!'. They might also think it's fine to remove their helmet, but that's a by product, not the goal
 
I didn't think they were?
There is a fake alternate-reality version of what they see when looking through the headset. This is to trick people to make them think 'I knew it! It's beautiful and everything is fine. I must clean so others can see too!'. They might also think it's fine to remove their helmet, but that's a by product, not the goal
Yes, you’re quite correct, I’m misremembering. I suppose then I don’t get why they need to trick them into cleaning. If the clean camera lens is so important you would think they would have built something into the system to automatically clean it.
 
I didn't think they were?
There is a fake alternate-reality version of what they see when looking through the headset. This is to trick people to make them think 'I knew it! It's beautiful and everything is fine. I must clean so others can see too!'. They might also think it's fine to remove their helmet, but that's a by product, not the goal

This doesn't wash with me myself.
even if you say "they don't know what vr etc is so they don't know it's fake" despite the window view in the silo not being that dirty... Not everyone would clean.

There just seems too many forced things in this show.

I really enjoyed s1. But my brain can't let some of the stuff slide.

Especially juliet nearly dying 3-4 times in the new silo

I also thought the "he put drugs in the water to make everyone forget" really poor writing. That's just plain ridiculous

If I come back to snow piercer (which went a bit "off" towards end) I think it's Premise is better. The only ridiculous thing is the train going round and round a track. I but that's a minor point. They could have been in a silo or any "life boat" But the human nature side of it was waaaay better.
 
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The deception I don’t understand is
about tricking people who go out to clean into taking their protective gear off. They die anyway due to faulty gear so people in the silos will still think it’s too dangerous to go out anyway. Not sure why they don’t just emphasise how dangerous it is outside.

You're questions across the board are very similar to mine.

Why not just say "it's super toxic out there".. We have some better suits but you'll die anyway.

The screen absolutely doesn't need to be cleaned with the tech they have. So that's not it.

Why do they even need to put that fake display in the helmets? Surely it would be better for the occupants to see them go out.. Go... "oh ****" try to get back in. But not. Then they can go "yeah I don't want that for me".

Can't get my head around the need to lie about it.

They could even tell them about the other silos. "there are other silos, But you can't get in. You're free to try But. You'll be dead."


Why lie? Can anyone explain why the truth even needs covering up?

Obviously if you've read the book and there's some amazing reason. Do not say! :D
 
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This doesn't wash with me myself.
I also thought the "he put drugs in the water to make everyone forget" really poor writing. That's just plain ridiculous
This is covered/explained better in the books. Along the lines of, like we have painkillers now that stop strongly painful things, but you can still feel things, they found a way to do it with memories. In time you blocked out traumatic events. I don't think more can be explained without spoilers.
 
They did the teen part better than I thought it would be, if they had done the rest of the episodes of s2 with the pacing / information ep9 gave then it would've been a whole lot better.

Hoping the finale next week keeps the same momentum going forward especially now we might get even more answers.
 
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