Apple TV+ Show 'Silo' to Return for Second Season in November
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sjsharksfan12
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Silo and then Severance. There are so many great shows finally coming back in November, and it starts with Star Trek Lower Decks the last week in October.
spicynujac
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This sounds exactly like the plot to the SciFi miniseries Ascension.
600 people are put inside a ship in the 1960s to travel to a foreign world and settle it. The ship is self sustaining and has a connection to the outside world/earth. Only things are not quite as they appear, and those inside the ship weren't told everything about the mission... An issue comes up when they are about to pass the point of no return, when they can no longer turn the ship around and come back to earth.
It's an excellent story, but sadly wasn't picked up for more episodes. The book it was based on was called the Golden something written by Robert somebody... also very good. So if it's similar at all to Ascension, I'll be checking out Silo.
Stella
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Many people liked the books. I thought the story line just dragged on. There are far better post apocalyptic books.
Also the final end game plan for the silos ( i can’t specify - spoilers ) is just illogical.
The over all premise for the Silos was good idea, the storyline just sucked, IMO.
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Hard disagree. I thought the books were fine but nothing special. I thought the first season was excellent. To each their own.
did i watch a different show? i thought it was pretty mid with a slightly higher budget of a syfy channel show. it really dragged one and the lack of curiosity or even people questioning anything was really frustrating.
like: if people that go outside to clean die a few seconds after exiting, what the hell is the suit for? does no one there ever wonder what the suit is even for? if i didn't trust the silo gov, my first assumption would be is that they are killing people with the suit.
but also, why is there a super high def screen in the cafeteria but all the computers are 8bit?
why do they understand that the window screen is a video feed, but they don't know what a video is?
like: if people that go outside to clean die a few seconds after exiting, what the hell is the suit for? does no one there ever wonder what the suit is even for? if i didn't trust the silo gov, my first assumption would be is that they are killing people with the suit.
but also, why is there a super high def screen in the cafeteria but all the computers are 8bit?
why do they understand that the window screen is a video feed, but they don't know what a video is?
I think it explains that the suit keeps you alive long enough to do the cleaning. If you go outside without it you die immediately.
Their technology is like the late 80’s, just with higher quality video than we had at the time. Not some insane stretch to believe this. Perfectly acceptable looking video, DOS-level computers.
I think the situation is that they’re aware there’s a live video feed, but have no idea it’s possible to record video and watch it later. Again it’s one of those “if you’ve never been shown it’s possible, you’d never think of it” things.
I think you’re looking at this through the lens of knowing what came first *in real life*, but either tech didn’t evolve that way in Silo’s world, or the people just aren’t being shown what technology is capable of. All they know is what they’ve been told. The suit keeps you alive long enough to clean. There’s a screen in the cafeteria that lets you see outside. Computers are text-based.
It feels a lot like the early-mid 1900’s to me in their attitude. They just believe what they’re told because life is hard and the world is simple. They have no internet to share ideas and beliefs between large groups and their world is just SO tiny there isn’t a lot to question for their day to day life.