Silo - By Hugh Howey - May 5th

Can someone please explains.

What ultimately caused the silo fail? Was it something IT should or shouldn't have done. Also the safety procedure presumably can address it?
 
I'm halfway into the third book (Dust) so tbh it gets confusing what happened in each, but on the above question -

What do you mean by the 'Silo failing'?
 
Is their a conclusion to it all in the books?...Like is the story finished or is this going to end up a complete mess at the end?
 
I'm halfway into the third book (Dust) so tbh it gets confusing what happened in each, but on the above question -

What do you mean by the 'Silo failing'?

Sorry i dont know anything about the book but i was referring to the show. So please make sure you caught up with the show before clicking on my spoiler but essentially.

the main silo was going to have some catastrophic disaster that will either kill everyone in the silo or make it uninhabitable. They threw a misdirected threat to IT/ Bernard that they were going to blow up the generator but the real threat was something the AI had revealed without revealing what it was. Meanwhile Juliette on the derelict silo had discovered through Jimmy that there was a safety procedure (valve) that could save it.

I didnt quite follow what Lukas was referring to, was he referring to the pipe that could poison the silo or something else i might have missed?
 
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I'll let someone reply that hasn't read the books. My response would include knowledge from things we will see next season. (That's what I mean about being confused about what happened in TV and what happened in the Book. My memory is too bad, I might get it mixed up!)
 
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As mentioned a few times before Adam Savage has been doing quite a bit of behind the scene stuff on this show - this is pretty interesting:

 
Can someone please explains.

What ultimately caused the silo fail? Was it something IT should or shouldn't have done. Also the safety procedure presumably can address it?
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In the books, Silo 1 is the overseer of all the other silos and have the killswitch to eradicate any Silo where it is determined the local enforcement cannot contain the anarchy. Essentially they flood the silo with the same nanovirus which is (unwittingly) sprayed on those going out to clean and eats through the suits and is retained in a cloud over the wider silo area. In the book, there was no way the people in Silo 18 could stop it, however on her return Juliette had already started to bore through to Silo 17 after realigning the original drilling equipment (there was no tunnel) so about 1% of the population were able to escape, blowing up the tunnel behind them. Sounds as if they might be going to take a slightly different path on the show, though.
 
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I'm glad we have finally got to the best bit and characters in the story. I really didn't like the Juliette story in the books but I think they did a good job anyway with the series. I was hoping for longer on the main part of the story which for me is book 2 but sadly with only two seasons to go I feel it won't get anywhere near doing it justice and we will have to put up with Bernard. I do wish they had gone about 2 series per book as I feel it might be rushed from now on.
 
Ooooo that makes me happy theirs a proper conclusion at least!.
Having just finished the last book... it does have an end... but there are A LOT of unanswered questions, so I think some will not be happy/satisfied.
I was hoping for longer on the main part of the story which for me is book 2
Yeah, I thought book 2 was the best. It seems like S1 and S2 = Book 1, S3 - B2 and S4 = B3 I guess.
 
Putting it all in spoiler, just in case.

Interesting that I see someone surmise that the scene at the end was a flashback. It didn't title it with "sometime ago" or whatever so that is unclear. I had assumed it was happening contemporaneously with what is going on in the silo. I suspect that the silos aren't any where near as old as they have been told. All we know for sure is that Jules and Solo were both kids at one time, we don't know for sure that their parents were kids, or how far back it all goes. But surely Jules father would have told her it he entered the silo as an adult. And also no lore handed down to the oldest surviving generation of people coming into the silo in living memory. Of course we do know they have the ability to inject people with stuff that makes them forget.

Also my understanding of the safety procedure was that the overlords can release gas that kills everyone, if things get into an uncontrolled situation.
 
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I enjoyed season 1. However I thought season 2 was really slow and a massive drag until the last couple of episodes.

Seemed to be so much unnecessary filler. The editing annoyed me too. I think it was ep 8 where it just cut between different scenes (IE Juliette and the main silo), far too quickly.

The finale was interesting. I just hope it can keep my interest a bit better from S3 onwards as I genuinely almost gave up on it around ep6/7 of this season.
 
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S2 whilst floppy in the middle had an ending that made me pick the book up again this week. I'm about halfway through Wool and loving it.

Starting watching S1 with the wife after she saw I went back to the book too, the first thing that struck me is how much happens in the first episode and how quickly the scene and silo mechanics and laws are set. This takes a little longer in the book, which is why I think I struggled first time around.
 
Finished two, waiting for these all to air and then watching a couple a night seems to work best for me. Even then it's so slow paced. Juliette's story for this season is barely 2 episodes stretched out over the entire season.
 
Putting it all in spoiler, just in case.

Interesting that I see someone surmise that the scene at the end was a flashback. It didn't title it with "sometime ago" or whatever so that is unclear. I had assumed it was happening contemporaneously with what is going on in the silo.
You mean the scene in the real world or the scene with Bernard and Juliette? If the real world scene it’s the past because the Pez dispenser is one of the relics in the silo.

Just caught up on the last 2 episodes of S2. The pacing is absolute garbage in this show. I feel like they should have made it 6 episodes per series then they wouldn’t have to string it out so much.
 
Just caught up on the last 2 episodes of S2. The pacing is absolute garbage in this show. I feel like they should have made it 6 episodes per series then they wouldn’t have to string it out so much.

I think that was due to trying to tie all the different threads together so they came together at the end without any one thread ruining the progression of others along the way and wouldn't have worked as well at the end if they'd developed them individually i.e. devoting most or an entire season to just one part. They really needed something better to do with Juliette's story to fill in the time rather than as it does marking time a lot so as to keep it in step.

There was a lot more they could have covered in some of the other story threads but hard to do so without ruining the progression of other threads.
 
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Finished two, waiting for these all to air and then watching a couple a night seems to work best for me. Even then it's so slow paced. Juliette's story for this season is barely 2 episodes stretched out over the entire season.

Yeh, most of the season is a massive drag.

So many things/events seemed so unnecessarily dragged out.
 
To all those that find things "dragged" out.. what do you want???? they could tell the story in one single hour episode.. and miss all the character development entirely.. (maybe you should all stick to ticktock ;) )

Star Wars.. People can move things with their mind.. kid and his long lost sister have a bad dad.. bad dad turns good.. about what 10 mins max? maybe 15.. ;)

I personally loved the pacing.. and actually think they have rushed through some of the middle sections.. could have done with some expansion around quite a few of the relationships.. with some more in depth character development.. to fully explain their actions.. which at times.. seemed to go against their previous motivations..

I have read the books, and the differences are quite marked.. not really in a bad way.. obviously as with any book, to truly do it justice and get the character development to the same level would take 20-30 episodes per book.. and maybe that's the difference.. in a book it takes time to read.. probably a good 20 hours per book.. and there is no "rush" to the story, it's much more about the characters as much as it is the main story moving along.. but people clearly don't have the same patience with a "tv" show.. shame really.. but heyho.. at least it got made.. and they haven't cancelled it yet :crossedfingers: :)

Looking forward to S3 and S4..
 
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