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Apple Shares Full First Episode of Sci-Fi Show 'Silo' on Twitter
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Clever response. Like the blurring! But I’m not sure a reasonable response depends on how many pages into a forum a comment is, does it? You can never assume people have read the book or subsequent books—especially since this is a discussion of Season 1 of the Apple TV show—no matter how deep into the discussion board it is. I think good spoiler hygiene is to always declare that spoilers are a comin’ when you mention anything from a book/series that hasn’t happened in the TV show or movie yet. And it’s easy to do.
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I just added this show to my watchlist. I hope to get to it sometime in the future. Seems like it's getting a lot of fans.
Twitter these days is a good choice
I’d rather see it on rumble than YouTube, youtube I avoid between their ads to their heavy censorship and removing the dislike button, just not a open fun platform anymore
I’d rather see it on rumble than YouTube, youtube I avoid between their ads to their heavy censorship and removing the dislike button, just not a open fun platform anymore
I don’t even what to think of what that man does with those goggles behind closed doors lol
If you've got to page 3 of the comments it suggests you've already read the original article (which itself had a major spoiler for the early episodes - Juliette becoming Sheriff is a major plot point of ep. 1 or 2 - I forget) and several comments about how it was different from the book, asking what the changes were... someone had already mentioned one of the scenes I made vague references to.
I've already gone back and spoiler-tagged the offending posts, but I think you're setting a very low bar as to what constitutes a "spoiler" in a discussion of a TV adaptation of a 10-year-old book. Trouble is, if you over-use the spoiler tag, how does a reader know if it's hiding "There's a great car chase in Book 2" or "Albert was dead all along" (neither of which pertain to Silo by the way - or do they...?)
I'd advise against (say) reading online reviews (where 2 paragraphs in you realise that the writer thinks "review" means "plot synopsys") or IMDB news where they think "Stars discuss the shocking death of (SPOILER) in Episode 8" is OK as a headline just because they've blanked out the actual name. (Again, for the avoidance of doubt, not talking about Silo).
I once nearly crashed my car because I had the radio on and $well_known_author decided it was OK to give away the ending of their own $fantasy_series_with_shock_unhappy_ending in a BBC interview...
I appreciate your thoughtful response, but I see it a little differently. You wrote:
“However, there's a later bit in the book that will have anybody who knows even a smidgin about diving shouting at the page/screen.”
You are writing about something that has not happened in the TV series as of the writing of the article. That means that even if someone has seen every episode that’s currently available, is totally caught up and looking to be part of a discussion about a TV show with others who’ve seen the show, you are going above and beyond to share something that hasn’t even been filmed yet. Which means that even in the already small subset of Mac Rumors Forum readers who’ve seen every episode that’s available, you are spoiling something from an upcoming season that would only not be a spoiler to the tiny percentage of show watchers who’ve also read the books.
Which means you spoiled something, with no warning, for all but a very tiny percentage of Forum participants.
You can attempt to characterize my original comment as a “very low bar as to what constitutes a "spoiler", but I don’t think a reasonable person would think that revealing details that haven’t even been filmed yet is anything but the very definition of “spoiler”.
I didn’t harshly criticize you, I just mentioned that you might wanna give spoiler warnings in the future. If you are determined to not take responsibility for the tiniest of transgressions, and would rather try rationalize your actions and reframe me as rigging the game with impossible standards, that’s certainly a thing you can do.
(You seem like a decent person, but I probably don’t wanna go back and forth too many more times trying to make a fairly simple, straightforward point about an almost effortless bit of internet courtesy when a “my bad, sorry” or even a “good point” would put a nice cap on the discussion.)
Several days ago - and well before your post on Friday re-opened the issue - I did go back and add spoiler tags and an apology to the offending posts. You actually quoted that edited version in your Friday post. So I've done what I can to respect other people's positions, even though I disagree with them.
Now you've re-posted one of the offending lines (which have been hidden in my original posts since Thursday) in the clear, significantly increasing the chances that others will inadvertently read it. If my line was so spoilerific, you could easily have made your point without repeating it, or spoiler-tagged your quote. Now, two wrongs don't make a right, but I think it shows that there needs to be some give-and-take on what counts as a significant spoiler and how far into a discussion it needs to remain hidden.
It’s the slow burn reveal of the story plot and the curious nature each character brings to the show. Not too much is told too quickly in the beginning. So it keeps us hanging for more. Also the UFO phenomena is an interesting subject and the story depicts the phenomenon very well. And the characters are quite interesting to me.
Ive recently found that Season 2 is being released in August. I’ll have to watch Season 1 again.
Apple’s alien show Invasion returns for season 2 in August
That’s a lot of sci-fi on Apple TV Plus.
www.theverge.com
Apparently the second season has a bit more action.
I watched the first two episodes last night. I’m intrigued and I’ve been seeing a lot of Rebecca Furguson lately. Looking forward to the rest.
Well I binged Silo. Started strong, dragged midway, and ended the season with a couple of episodes that were pretty good. Then I binged Severance. Now that show was mesmerizing! I couldn’t wait to see the next episode. Apple is definitely making some entertaining stories.
I loved it.
I thought Invasion was told well with a lot of open questions to be answered for later series. I particularly like how it showed several different character perspectives through the story and the detail about their lives. I can’t wait for Invasion season two. This was why I subscribed to Apple TV. It was the only show I was interested in.
I’m watching Silo now and its story is good. But one of the things I really dislike about “television” is the scenes are always inside in the same old rooms all the time. Silo is that example but seems to be written in a way that you don’t really notice it that much.