Silo - By Hugh Howey - May 5th

It was said in jest.. (mostly! ;) )

When people say things are too slow.. maybe they should point out all the bits in the programme that were superflous?

Each person sees things differently.. but the amount of times I see people these days moaning about things not "moving along" or "progressing too slowly" i'm unsure what people want?

You either want a fully developed world.. and are happy for it to progress so that each scene says something about the characters.. or you just want the story to "move on".. and what ?? you can tell most stories in less than a couple of hours.. so what are people after?!?!

I do wonder if the people that want this are not book readers, (and that is in no way a criticism!, you don't have to read books to watch tv..) but are therefore not used to the pace at which things can progress given the source material?

I am genuinely interested in which bits of the series were not building the characters? and or world that you are obviously interested in watching.. otherwise you wouldn't be in this thread...

(There is so much missing in the TV series that it's really quite incredible that they have managed to build a coherent slightly different story (at the detail level) at all given the TV constraints..)

I agree the ticktock line could be taken the wrong way.. and I apologise if you took it the wrong way.. it was more about the number of times people complain about the pace of TV series these days, without giving things time to breath..

I enjoyed the pacing and as I said earlier I think the characters and world needed more away from the main story world building.. I guess that's just me..
 
You're making a lot of silly assumptions, if all you can so is insult people that disagree with you then you aren't going to find people that want to engage with you.
 
The first season was slow and dull after about the third episode until perhaps the last one or two, so I thought I’d give it another chance. Perhaps they’d learnt from some of the feedback of the first series.

Sadly not.

This season really takes the biscuit in both padding, pacing and general don’t give a **** stakes. I don’t want to watch some generic ‘rebellion’ with terrible acting. I’ve already watched one in the last year with For All Mankind’s subplot.

I don’t understand why they need to pad it out so much, make each season six episodes. It works for others absolutely fine. Focus more on Juliette, less on generic rebellion actor #1 and #2. I don’t even remember their damn names.
 
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The first season was slow and dull after about the third episode until perhaps the last one or two, so I thought I’d give it another chance. Perhaps they’d learnt from some of the feedback of the first series.

Sadly not.

This season really takes the biscuit in both padding, pacing and general don’t give a **** stakes. I don’t want to watch some generic ‘rebellion’ with terrible acting. I’ve already watched one in the last year with For All Mankind’s subplot.

I don’t understand why they need to pad it out so much, make each season six episodes. It works for others absolutely fine. Focus more on Juliette, less on generic rebellion actor #1 and #2. I don’t even remember their damn names.
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It was the sheer amount of " gamer side quests" in the other silo, go to point A, first you must flip the power switch, well shoot that doesn't work, now you have to do an under water level!...but first you have to search though all thoese random drawers and wardrobes for a suit!

And for the size of the bloody place, she sure seemed to be on the same 3 floors for the entirety of her ******* stay.
 
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Watched one per week like I do with all shows that I am remotely interested in, thought it was great. I think if you tried to binge it over a week or some then you'll find it 'too much' but otherwise I think it struck a nice balance of plot and character building with a good amount of mystery and suspense.

Looking forward to the next season, especially with the way it ended.
 
Converge said:
The first season was slow and dull after about the third episode until perhaps the last one or two, so I thought I’d give it another chance. Perhaps they’d learnt from some of the feedback of the first series.

Sadly not.

This season really takes the biscuit in both padding, pacing and general don’t give a **** stakes. I don’t want to watch some generic ‘rebellion’ with terrible acting. I’ve already watched one in the last year with For All Mankind’s subplot.

I don’t understand why they need to pad it out so much, make each season six episodes. It works for others absolutely fine. Focus more on Juliette, less on generic rebellion actor #1 and #2. I don’t even remember their damn names.
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I don't recall finding the first season a bit slow and dull, I think there was a lot of the story and characters that they had to cram into the first season.

I definitely thought the second season dragged in places, there's quite a few storylines that could have been shorter, or cut completely. With a couple of other storylines that barely had much context at all such as
the tunnel at the base of the silo
 
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I watched about half of season 1 when it came out and this week I watched the rest to end of season 2. It's not bad, a bit slow in parts but at least the story and plot actually moves forward, unlike LOST.
 
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I'd give it a 7/10 overall. It was my last hangboard workout viewing, so I'd watch 30mins a day.

Good but not great. Will keep watching for sure.

No idea what they're going to do with that ending to S2.
 
Another good season on the whole, I'm looking forward to seeing how season 3 ties up some of the loose ends. I did find it hard to remember some of finer details from season 1 so I think a rewatch of this season will be needed nearer the time!
 
We have very much enjoyed watching both seasons of this series. Not having read the books, or heard of them, meant we had no idea as to what to expected.
The pacing and the characters were wonderfully created and so refreshing to feel the slow, but engaging, depiction of what life was like in a PA world.
We enjoyed each of the characters, and look forward to the next season.
 
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I enjoyed this a lot. Didn't think the pacing was that slow. Sure, a few episodes were a little fillery, but overall very decent show.

I really want to read the books now but I'm not sure if that's a good idea half way through the TV show. Might wait until they finish it in a year or so!
 
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mid_gen said:
I'd give it a 7/10 overall. It was my last hangboard workout viewing, so I'd watch 30mins a day.

Good but not great. Will keep watching for sure.

No idea what they're going to do with that ending to S2.
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The next season will jump between the timeline leading up to the creation of the Silos & the current Silo timeline we have watched for 2 seasons.
 
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