Silo - By Hugh Howey - May 5th

I'm not familiar with the source material, but this series has got a kind of Hunger Games-ish, young adult novel vibe to it. Kind of overexaggerated/one dimensional characters, and the plot twists/reveals leave you thinking a little "ehh..ok, I guess". I can't say it's particularly captivating me all that much.

The chase sequence in ep5 was really pretty stupid. Like a completely random event thrown in to try to force some tension, and the people being completely oblivious to the fight despite them literally running in the middle of all the other runners that everyone was supposed to have been watching
 
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Smeghead said:
I'm not familiar with the source material, but this series has got a kind of Hunger Games-ish, young adult novel vibe to it. Kind of overexaggerated/one dimensional characters, and the plot twists/reveals leave you thinking a little "ehh..ok, I guess". I can't say it's particularly captivating me all that much.

The chase sequence in ep5 was really pretty stupid. Like a completely random event thrown in to try to force some tension, and the people being completely oblivious to the fight despite them literally running in the middle of all the other runners that everyone was supposed to have been watching
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It was a sequence crowbarred in for TV, the book contains no such event.
 
i was hooked in for the first few episodes, but as others have said, its been a bit flat since.

I fear this will get cancelled if they dont sort it out soon.

It annoys me that, even now, with TV shows constantly being cancelled, that a new show just assumes they have all they time in the world to tell the story, so they never get around to it, everyone gets bored and stops watching, cancelled. It does my head in and it happens time and time again.

In this case, if everyone knew at the outset, there were going to be three seasons, one for each book. Viewers would be much more likely to stick with it after a few slow episodes, because "all will be revealed" in a reasonable time frame.


I saw some chatter on reddit about the screens, a few suggested that the "green view" was shown in the helmet, so that the person is encouraged to "clean" so that others could see it too. When he took his helmet off, he managed to stagger to his wife, and he seemed to hold her hand, and i think you saw her arm move as he fell. He wouldnt have been able to see her on the green view we saw as there were no bodies. There is also suggestion there where three scenes... ive rewatched it, and i'm not sure if its really three:


 
Ive stopped watching this, its clear there will be nothing even resembling answers until well into S2 if it even gets that far.
The first episode and abit was incredible and its just turned into Emmerdale underground since then. So many of these concepts would make great 2-3 hour films. Not pointlessly dragged out to meet contractual obligations to studios.
 
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I really enjoyed ep 6. I do agree it was so slow in the previous couple of episodes.

I’m distracted by Common’s beard in every episode, it’s such a weird shape.
 
i am trying to save the books until i go on holiday at the end of summer, not sure if i can wait. going to see how i feel in the next few episodes, has there been any announcements around how much of book this season will cover.
 
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