Silo: Solo Show Only
November 30, 2024 1:03 PM - Season 2, Episode 3 - Subscribe
Bernard turns to Judge Meadows for help. Billings begins to wonder if he's being lied to. Juliette finally meets the man in the vault.
Wikipedia summary:
In Silo 17, the man introduces himself to Juliette as "Solo". Juliette learns that dozens of Silos exist and that her actions may cause a revolution in her Silo. Solo struggles to connect with Juliette and gives her food before suggesting that she can use a firefighter's suit to go outside. Solo refuses to abandon the vault, but as Juliette leaves, he changes his mind and Juliette offers to help him to the upper levels. In Silo 18, the worker Teddy is arrested for leaving graffiti stating that "Juliette Lives". Sims offers an incarcerated Patrick a drug that will help him forget his deceased wife in exchange for a favor and recruits retired raiders to send down to the mechanical level. Shirley riles up a group of protestors and demands Teddy's release, but Patrick attacks the deputies, and in the chaos the rookie engineer Cooper is killed. Pete meets a woman who hopes to win a lottery that will allow her to have a child and defies orders not to remove her birth control by performing the procedure anyway. Billings interviews everyone present during Juliette's arrest and brings his report to Meadows, stating that Juliette never asked to go outside.
Wikipedia summary:
In Silo 17, the man introduces himself to Juliette as "Solo". Juliette learns that dozens of Silos exist and that her actions may cause a revolution in her Silo. Solo struggles to connect with Juliette and gives her food before suggesting that she can use a firefighter's suit to go outside. Solo refuses to abandon the vault, but as Juliette leaves, he changes his mind and Juliette offers to help him to the upper levels. In Silo 18, the worker Teddy is arrested for leaving graffiti stating that "Juliette Lives". Sims offers an incarcerated Patrick a drug that will help him forget his deceased wife in exchange for a favor and recruits retired raiders to send down to the mechanical level. Shirley riles up a group of protestors and demands Teddy's release, but Patrick attacks the deputies, and in the chaos the rookie engineer Cooper is killed. Pete meets a woman who hopes to win a lottery that will allow her to have a child and defies orders not to remove her birth control by performing the procedure anyway. Billings interviews everyone present during Juliette's arrest and brings his report to Meadows, stating that Juliette never asked to go outside.
A'ight, I started reading "Wool." I blame everyone but myself.
posted by Atreides at 12:45 PM on December 6, 2024 [4 favorites]
posted by Atreides at 12:45 PM on December 6, 2024 [4 favorites]
Yeah, I keep thinking about abandoning the last third of Seveneves for Wool or something else, but I'm torn on reading a story that I'm enjoying the TV version of. Hrmph.
posted by Kyol at 10:39 PM on December 7, 2024 [1 favorite]
posted by Kyol at 10:39 PM on December 7, 2024 [1 favorite]
At this point, i can still do what nathan_teske suggested in the previous Silo thread regarding how far to read to avoid spoilers, and we'll see how much my self control will kick in. Depending on how much I enjoy Wool, I know I can hold off through this season. But waiting for a third season may be the end of me.
I've been enjoying it, and there are differences, not major major differences, but enough to make it interesting to keep reading along.
posted by Atreides at 7:23 AM on December 9, 2024
I've been enjoying it, and there are differences, not major major differences, but enough to make it interesting to keep reading along.
posted by Atreides at 7:23 AM on December 9, 2024
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We finally get to see Steve Zhan's face other than his eyes, though his voice was virtually instantly recognizable. Juliette's interactions with him were enjoyable and he remains a mysterious figure even though he finally stepped out of his vault. I liked how he freaked out over someone touching him for the first time in....a long time? Juliette raised that question of "what else happened here?" referencing the bodies that were fresher than those outside. How did the water rise? There surely wasn't 9,997 bodies outside of the Silo or near the top as far as I could tell.
My theory is that Sims has decided to create chaos to use as a....ladder. I.e., he wants the situation to push Bernard to make him his shadow, and ultimately, replace Bernard. The summary failed to note that Sims specifically brought in a fixer on the raider side to take down Patrick, rather than actually follow through with his offer to give him a drug to forget his wife. The Judge was really hounding Bernard on this and he just kind of was "ah, yah, no, no big deal, part of the plan, yada yada."
I assume Bernard would want to give Meadows the good tape so she can get out of camera view, as a new dead body would probably be noticed once the cafeteria screen turned back on. But then, how does he explain Meadows being gone? And why does being the head of IT mean he gets his own suit? Is there a scenario where the head of IT might need to go outside for maintenance or something?
I love Juliette's "I'm gonna science the hell out of this" approach to her problems in Silo 17. Need a bridge? Build a bridge. Need to go underwater? Build a pump to send oxygen my way as I go underwater. I may end up succumbing to the siren call of the books to learn how everything goes, alas.
I'm cautiously interested in the going ons in the lower levels.
posted by Atreides at 8:45 AM on December 5, 2024