[astrohip]

Ok, I need a spoiler-free piece of wisdom.
Knowing as several folks have discussed where S02 ended in relation to the books, have we reached a point where I can read the first book safely?
I'm more than ok if the answer is " well, yes but" in that case I can keep waiting to savor it.

Yes. But...

There is one more scene in the book than the series, if I recall correctly. The book actually describes what happens at the end, when Juliette & Bernard are in the Silo hatch, and the cleansing fire starts. The series stopped when the fires started.

It's not much, and of course there's no guarantee the series would even follow the books.

Read it, it's a fun book. But be forewarned, it will make you want to read B2 & B3. 🤐


Edit: To be clear, that final scene, the epilogue, is from Book 2.

 

[RickStrobel]

 

[Malcontent]

Yes, It’s True: Silo Season 3 Scenes Won’t Be So Dark, EP Confirms

The future is looking bright(er) for Apple TV+'s dimly lit 'Silo.' (Or should we say "the past" is...?)

tvline.com

Given the shocking, flashbacky finish to the Apple TV+ adaptation’s Season 2 finale — and in the wake of season-long viewer complaints about the post-apocalyptic drama being too dark in scenes — showrunner Graham Yost affirmed for TVLine that Season 3 will be easier on the eyes. Or, at least parts of it will.

That’s because as teased in the final sequence of Season 2, large chunks of next season will be set 300 years prior, in a near-future, pre-dystopian Washington, D.C. and other cities. In actual buildings that experience actual daylight and weather.

Glad it just wasn't me. I had flashbacks to that Game of Thrones episode in which the scenes were pitch black. Silo wasn't nearly that bad but it sure was annoying.

 

[Family]

Not commenting on the stories final content, but seasons 1 & 2 could have (should have) been combined as one.

Season 2 was a huge waste of time despite a few breadcrumbs at the end.

 

[Johnny Dancing]

I really liked both seasons, maybe season 1 a bit better because it had more Juliet and was more of a mystery as to what in the heck was going on. Juliet is one the best female bad ass characters I have seen or read.

I did not notice that things were too dark and I watched Silo in Dolby Vision dark mode.

Now, hopefully it is not a 2 year wait for season 3.

 

[Rob Helmerichs]

Now, hopefully it is not a 2 year wait for season 3.

They're already filming 3 (and 4), and there are no major industry strikes on the horizon. So it should be in a much more reasonable time-frame.

 

[laria]

And when did she have time to go blonde 😁

I think she was blonde in S1, wasn't she? She had dark hair as Lady Jessica.

So let’s revisit a more important observation. She had some blond streaks in S1 but a lot more blond now. Maybe it was due to the helmet.

I've finally caught up now that the season is all done, and I feel the need to revisit this important plot point. 😆

It bugged me every time they showed a flashback to Juliette's childhood and she's a darker haired kid and now she's a blonde adult. She doesn't really seem like the type to be hung up on vanity and dyeing her hair!

I read the books back when they first came out, so I'm not questioning much about the other plot points, except this one... where are the Silo beauty salons?!

 

[astrohip]

where are the Silo beauty salons?!

Level 42.

 

[Random User 7]

I think she looked underground chic.

 

[dianebrat]

I've finally caught up now that the season is all done, and I feel the need to revisit this important plot point. 😆

It bugged me every time they showed a flashback to Juliette's childhood and she's a darker haired kid and now she's a blonde adult. She doesn't really seem like the type to be hung up on vanity and dyeing her hair!

I read the books back when they first came out, so I'm not questioning much about the other plot points, except this one... where are the Silo beauty salons?!

I'm going with working in maintenance and the high temperatures and energy levels are like getting too much sun and have lightened her hair color

 

[Steveknj]

"google" has been a genericized verb for a while now. So even if Google were to disappear tomorrow we'd likely talk about "googling" people for many years to come, just as we "xerox" documents on a Canon or Sharp copier.

But to people younger than say 60 still say they are making a xerox? Twenty years from now, it might be something else entirely.

 

[Tony_T]

This discussion is giving me a headache, I think I need an Aspirin *

* In 1899, Bayer had named it "Aspirin" and was selling it around the world.

 

[Malcontent]

But to people younger than say 60 still say they are making a xerox? Twenty years from now, it might be something else entirely.

My dad used the term photostat (photostatic) when referring "xerox" copies. Now, he was born in 1932 and has since long past away. But growing up in the 70's and 80's, I lost count of the times my dad used the term photostat. Or sometimes photostatic.

 

[Rob Helmerichs]

My dad used the term photostat (photostatic) when referring "xerox" copies. Now, he was born in 1932 and has since long past away. But growing up in the 70's and 80's, I lost count of the times my dad used the term photostat. Or sometimes photostatic.

Which is a little ironic, because photostats are a completely different technology...

 

[Malcontent]

Which is a little ironic, because photostats are a completely different technology...

Given his generation and the fact he grew up on a farm during the depression and didn't have a high school diploma, it's understandable. With all that, he was able to make a decent middle class living and provided for me and my mother very well.

 

[Dawghows]

My mother taught elementary school for 30+ years, starting in 1971, at the same school I attended. After school, she always put me in charge of "running off" copies on the Ditto machine in the teachers' lounge. She still refers to printing anything as "running off" a copy, and she occasionally still calls the copies "dittos." When she uses either phrase or term, I still almost gag at the memory of that smell.

 

[tim1724]

She still refers to printing anything as "running off" a copy, and she occasionally still calls the copies "dittos." When she uses either phrase or term, I still almost gag at the memory of that smell.

Oh yeah, those blurry purple pages that were usually half faded because they'd try to make too many copies from one master … I had those all through elementary school (in the 80s). The school had a photocopier but teachers weren't allowed to use it except to make masters for the ditto machine (a spirit duplicator). This was a somewhat convoluted process. They would first use the Xerox photocopier to make a good black and white copy of something, then they would put that copy through a Thermofax machine with a special heat-sensitive spirit master sheet to make a master for the Ditto machine, then they'd put that master page into the Ditto machine to make the faded purple copies that we kids would use.

Sometimes a teacher would need to make copies of something for which they only had ditto copies. But a ditto copy couldn't be used with the Thermofax machine to make a new ditto master, so sometimes teachers would make a photocopy of the ditto page (with the brightness and contrast settings maxed out to get a somewhat usable image) and then feed that through the Thermofax to make a new ditto master. The copies you got off those were extremely bad, but we lived with it.

It's no wonder the copy room smelled like a chemistry lab with all that going on.

That was only at the elementary school. My dad taught at the high school and they were allowed to make photocopies for everything and no longer had the Ditto and Thermofax machines. (I think they got moved to the journalism classroom for a while, but I think they had been junked by the time I was in high school in the 90s.) I think we mostly got photocopies at my junior high, too.

To bring this back on topic it would be fun to see those old technologies be used in the silos, but I guess they don't have enough paper to make it worthwhile.

 

[Tony_T]

I remember those "purple" copies as well.
Interesting history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photostat_machine

 

[laria]

I can still remember what those cold purple printed papers smelled like when we would huff them fresh from the machine.

 

[Steveknj]

My mother taught elementary school for 30+ years, starting in 1971, at the same school I attended. After school, she always put me in charge of "running off" copies on the Ditto machine in the teachers' lounge. She still refers to printing anything as "running off" a copy, and she occasionally still calls the copies "dittos." When she uses either phrase or term, I still almost gag at the memory of that smell.

In my school, they did copies using a ink based machine. Most copies had purple print. So they weren't "photos" like a xerox machine would be. I can still remember the ink smell. As students we used to sniff it and some kids thought it got them high.

Edit: Guess I should have finished the thread before posting this