Silo: The Dive Show Only
December 28, 2024 4:56 PM - Season 2, Episode 7 - Subscribe
Lukas is assigned a mission. Mechanical sends a powerful message. Juliette embarks on a perilous descent-and confronts a new danger.
Wikipedia summary:
Bernard introduces Lukas to the Legacy, an advanced computer behind a vault that contains all their secret knowledge and records, though the origins of the Silo beyond 352 years earlier remained lost. Using the Legacy to help with his research, Lukas suspects the letter uses a book cipher. Mechanical sends paper messages to the upper levels encouraging citizens to ask what IT has been hiding from them before shutting down power in the Silo, revealing that IT has their own independent power source. Bernard clashes with Sims, who is still angry about being set aside. Sims confronts Camille about her actions; she explains that she wants to play both sides for their safety, and promises to not hide anything from him again. Billings and Hank follow up on spies who are trying to sow discord in Mechanical. Walker worries about Carla and briefly switches on one of IT's cameras to send a message up top, which Bernard receives. In Silo 17, Juliette performs a deep dive to repair the water pump for Solo and almost drowns when her air supply is cut off. After surfacing, Juliette finds evidence of a struggle and suspects there's someone else in the Silo.
Wikipedia summary:
Bernard introduces Lukas to the Legacy, an advanced computer behind a vault that contains all their secret knowledge and records, though the origins of the Silo beyond 352 years earlier remained lost. Using the Legacy to help with his research, Lukas suspects the letter uses a book cipher. Mechanical sends paper messages to the upper levels encouraging citizens to ask what IT has been hiding from them before shutting down power in the Silo, revealing that IT has their own independent power source. Bernard clashes with Sims, who is still angry about being set aside. Sims confronts Camille about her actions; she explains that she wants to play both sides for their safety, and promises to not hide anything from him again. Billings and Hank follow up on spies who are trying to sow discord in Mechanical. Walker worries about Carla and briefly switches on one of IT's cameras to send a message up top, which Bernard receives. In Silo 17, Juliette performs a deep dive to repair the water pump for Solo and almost drowns when her air supply is cut off. After surfacing, Juliette finds evidence of a struggle and suspects there's someone else in the Silo.
I wonder if any dive nerds have attempted to approximate Juliette's dive profile and whether nitrogen narcosis was a bigger risk than the bends, frankly.
In the r/SiloSeries subreddit, there’s been divers talking about this. Also, Hugh Howey is a diver as well (which features in his book The Shell Collector.) The general consensus is that yeah, she’s probably in trouble and that the writers wouldn’t have had Solo mention the bends (even if it’s narcosis, he doesn’t know the difference) unless it was going to come into play after the dive.
posted by azpenguin at 9:14 PM on December 28, 2024 [1 favorite]
In the r/SiloSeries subreddit, there’s been divers talking about this. Also, Hugh Howey is a diver as well (which features in his book The Shell Collector.) The general consensus is that yeah, she’s probably in trouble and that the writers wouldn’t have had Solo mention the bends (even if it’s narcosis, he doesn’t know the difference) unless it was going to come into play after the dive.
posted by azpenguin at 9:14 PM on December 28, 2024 [1 favorite]
Still, nice to see it coming along, can't wait to see how / if they resolve anything this season.
I’m confident they’ll finish Wool (book 1) save for whatever point they use as a cliffhanger going into S3. Regardless there are another 2 seasons planned; we may learn why the Silos were created but will likely end the season with more questions than answers.
posted by nathan_teske at 10:09 AM on December 29, 2024 [1 favorite]
I’m confident they’ll finish Wool (book 1) save for whatever point they use as a cliffhanger going into S3. Regardless there are another 2 seasons planned; we may learn why the Silos were created but will likely end the season with more questions than answers.
posted by nathan_teske at 10:09 AM on December 29, 2024 [1 favorite]
I checked PADI's tables, and it's been a long ass time since I certified, but 140' is 8 minutes max with a safety stop, but IIRC you could still do a CESA to the surface from any depth on PADI's tables and be all right, you'd just have to cancel the rest of that day's dives because you'd need 24 hours to de-fizz, as it were.
But there's a _lot_ of fuzziness in the dive as presented, whether it's happening in real time including all the time spent back in Silo 18 (in which case it's frankly like a half hour or so and well off the recreational charts) or if it's only the time that we actually see her under water (which maybe could be might be almost within spec), above and beyond whether that was only 140' or if it was 160' or greater.
Getting an unexpected blast of narcosis at depth would've been just as much fun as learning to swim while breathing through a regulator and peering out of a mask though, but, y'know, reasonable suspension of disbelief, right?
All of this is exceptionally dense with handwavium though - I haven't dove in a decade, and my last certification is nearly old enough to vote. I'm torn between Solo's comments being Chekhov's bendy gun and Jules is going to end up unable to return to Silo 18 to prevent the uprising because she's going to be bed bound and recuperating, or if it was just there to raise the stakes during the dive but she's fine because the narrative requires it.
posted by Kyol at 12:06 PM on December 31, 2024 [1 favorite]
But there's a _lot_ of fuzziness in the dive as presented, whether it's happening in real time including all the time spent back in Silo 18 (in which case it's frankly like a half hour or so and well off the recreational charts) or if it's only the time that we actually see her under water (which maybe could be might be almost within spec), above and beyond whether that was only 140' or if it was 160' or greater.
Getting an unexpected blast of narcosis at depth would've been just as much fun as learning to swim while breathing through a regulator and peering out of a mask though, but, y'know, reasonable suspension of disbelief, right?
All of this is exceptionally dense with handwavium though - I haven't dove in a decade, and my last certification is nearly old enough to vote. I'm torn between Solo's comments being Chekhov's bendy gun and Jules is going to end up unable to return to Silo 18 to prevent the uprising because she's going to be bed bound and recuperating, or if it was just there to raise the stakes during the dive but she's fine because the narrative requires it.
posted by Kyol at 12:06 PM on December 31, 2024 [1 favorite]
I'm still not sure if Bernard picked Lukas to be in his shadow for any purpose other than to figure out the code left by the former mayor or not. He throws it into the face of Sims, but I don't know he's just doing that because he's pissed at Sims or genuinely did decide that star-gazing Lukas wasn't a bad pick to replace him someday in the future. The Legacy out there being the library we all want.
Felt the Wizard of Oz kind of hit it a little too hard on the nose, though. Heh.
I loved the rocket launched by Mechanical to share their notes. I also love the continuing fact that no one knows how to swim because there was never a need to learn and Solo is just "So you DO THIS!" five minutes before she's underwater.
I still wish Common had a little bit more vocal range or something. When he's interacting with his son, it just sounds like a line reading almost. Not many married couples expect to have a conversation about whether "plausible deniability" is the right choice for them, but there ya go.
Lastly, the whole Solo hides her suit thing from last episode felt totally unnecessary as in this episode, she basically shrugs off the threat and only decides to do the dive after he lays everything out to her sincerely.
posted by Atreides at 11:33 AM on January 2
Felt the Wizard of Oz kind of hit it a little too hard on the nose, though. Heh.
I loved the rocket launched by Mechanical to share their notes. I also love the continuing fact that no one knows how to swim because there was never a need to learn and Solo is just "So you DO THIS!" five minutes before she's underwater.
I still wish Common had a little bit more vocal range or something. When he's interacting with his son, it just sounds like a line reading almost. Not many married couples expect to have a conversation about whether "plausible deniability" is the right choice for them, but there ya go.
Lastly, the whole Solo hides her suit thing from last episode felt totally unnecessary as in this episode, she basically shrugs off the threat and only decides to do the dive after he lays everything out to her sincerely.
posted by Atreides at 11:33 AM on January 2
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Still, nice to see it coming along, can't wait to see how / if they resolve anything this season.
posted by Kyol at 7:44 PM on December 28, 2024 [1 favorite]