This is the Season 1 Discussion thread for the non-book readers.
Allowed:
- Everything that happened during Season 1 of the Silo TV show
Off limits:
- Any book spoilers, use the book spoiler discussion thread for that
- Anything beyond season 1 of the tv show
I really enjoyed the first season. I know nothing of the books and went into the season without any expectations. I started off thinking Common wasn’t a very good actor but by the end I felt he did a great job and ended up liking his character quite a bit. I had a few laughs over how roughly they treated the harddrive while it continued to function but otherwise felt immersed in the show. Definitely looking forward to season two.
I went in pretty blind but enjoyed it, killing Holston, Allison, Jahns and Marnes off pretty early meant that I never felt like anyone had too much plot armor and was pretty worried whenever Nichols was in danger.
The middle few episodes did seem to drag a bit but the ending was great, I’m super excited to see what they do with Season 2.
I know nothing of the books. Is there a screen inside the visor when they go to clean? I’m trying to figure out how it looks like it glitches to them. Obviously it’ll get explained but just curious what others think.
This is what it looked like to us. The visor has the happy landscape screen but it’s actually a wasteland outside. It kinda looks more augmented reality than just a flat image though.
Which is weirdly more advanced tech than what we have. They also had modern flat screen monitors in that little room, while the rest of the silo seems to be more at an 80s level tech era. I don’t know whether that’s lazy writing or whether they intentionally made the silos this way for some reason though.
Didn’t read the books and I thought the series started off pretty good. However after about the third episode I started to lose interest. Not sure where exactly, but I found myself starting to notice inconsistencies and convenient plot devices to the point where I’m only finishing it because I invested so much of my time. Situations like Sims’ wife getting out of the handcuff, or Juliette jumping over the stair case and being perfectly fine. There’s so many I can’t remember them now. Just started to be too much. Think I’ll skip season 2
Im not sure whether it was intentional, but I didnt get it. At the end it seemed that she struggled with something, then she placed the sheriff badge near the corpses and then she could stand again. And then she looked at the tape on her arm and said “theyre good at supplying”.
What was is it in the end? Did placing the badge jam some sort of signal that shouldve killed her? Or were the usual tapes bad on purpose, and they gave her one that in fact seals the suit?
She tripped over the sheriff’s corpse, she placed the badge on the sheriff to honor him and a minor consequence of that is that the VR simulation can’t account for that so it slightly glitches.
The clue is that they’ve been using shitty tape to ensure all the cleaners will succumb to the toxic air within a few minutes.
Walk however arranged that the Supply department would deliver the better tape from Mechanical, this went unnoticed because they look very similar and ensured Jules would be able to survive.Ohh I see, when I was watching, it seemed to me she was struggling to breath and fell, then magically got better after placing the badge. I guess the people inside also thought she was going to collapse, so I got just as confused.
Ohh I see, when I was watching, it seemed to me she was struggling to breath and fell, then magically got better after placing the badge. I guess the people inside also thought she was going to collapse, so I got just as confused.
The tape is normally made to fail.
That’s why Jules stealing the tape from IT was a big deal. Not the loss of one roll of tape, but because she found out ITs special tape sucked, even though it was supposed to be top grade. It was really designed to function for a very short amount of time. Just enough to clean.
The engine room peeps figured it out, and got supply to switch it out for engine room tape, which worked.
Ending was kind of frustarting for me, didn’t explain much. I guess they want to leave everything for season 2
I recently read the trilogy and it feels like the show is pretty close to the book. The shoes had dinner a good job of making it more dialogue based but they need to speed things up if they want to keep the show going at a good pace.
I watched this with my wife and if I’m being honest it was a mixed bag. The first 3 episodes were gripping and we were fully committed. But after that it started to veer a little too much in the Mary-Sue territory, to the point by the last episode we were basically troll watching and cracking jokes. But the cliffhanger got us back in so that’s a good sign! Our consensus was that you could basically watch the first 3 episodes then the watch the last and not miss that much.
Maybe it’s time to read those books!
I thought the first 3 episodes were the worst.
I’ve seen some discussions on the show and everyone obviously talks about the ending, but I’m still wondering why the displays in the bunker, before they turned the power off to fix the generator (which somehow doesn’t need the steam to go through the turbines either), showed the fake projection of a healthy outside world. I get it that they use their magic space tech to show that within the visor of the helmets, but why would it even be part of the displays at all? And why the hell did no one react to it? We saw that people saw it, including that cop lady, but absolutely no one even mentions it after it happened throughout the whole season.
