[astrohip]

I really wish Judge Meadows had told Bernard why she quit being his shadow before he killed her!

I have a feeling we're going to find out what happened 25 years ago. Why Walker holed up, why Meadows quit. Maybe they deciphered the mystery message?

 

[Anubys]

Can someone remind me who the person they are talking about is? I don't remember the name. I think he was the head of IT 140 years ago or a person who would not clean 140 years ago (or both)? they are trying to decipher his code right now...

 

[kaszeta]

Salvador Quinn. The head of IT during the rebellion 140 years ago.

 

[mooseAndSquirrel]

Mechanical’s easy ability to shut off the power seems to have been forgotten. Dude’s trying to starve you; seems like a good time to respond.

 

[Anubys]

Mechanical’s easy ability to shut off the power seems to have been forgotten. Dude’s trying to starve you; seems like a good time to respond.

YES! I was thinking the same thing while watching...you JUST shut down the power to show them that you mean business. So why aren't you using your weapon to get food?

 

[RickStrobel]

6 out of 10 episodes in this season, so I guess it's gonna come down to this: Jules will make it back to her silo just in time to quelch the rebellion, or just after the bloodshed and it looks just silo 17.

 

[Hank]

Adam Savage has a bunch of really awesome videos on the making of Silo/Silo2
Here's a link to his page searching for "silo": Adam Savage’s Tested
You have to look closely as not all Silo videos have "Silo" in the title -- look for Silo in the descriptions.

 

[astrohip]

** Discussion for S2E7 Starts Now **


(or later this evening when it drops...)

 

[kaszeta]

So there is someone else in Silo 17.

And more than a little suspension of disbelief with that dive.

 

[Hank]

And more than a little suspension of disbelief with that dive.

OMG yeah.

And with all that Solo pre-dive talk about decompression sickness, and then she quickly surfaces from what looks like well over 100 feet, and then is totally fine? She'd probably be unconscious or dead halfway up. I think a smarter "Solo dive-tips" monologue would have been just "make sure you're always breathing out when going up or your lungs will explode" and not the confusing DCS stuff that most of the audience wouldn't really get and she didn't suffer from at all.

 

[Steveknj]

Have they mentioned before how long they've been in the Silo? Bernard talked about 354 years, so it's quite a few generations. It explains why they are so removed from anything from pre silo days. I loved Solo's description of swimming.

I thought the season was dragging, but this was a better episode. Feels like things are finally moving along.

 

[kaszeta]

Have they mentioned before how long they've been in the Silo? Bernard talked about 354 years, so it's quite a few generations.

All we really know is “more than 143 years”, since S1E1 happened in SY140 and 143. We know they reset the calendar then.

 

[Hank]

But Benard did say that the Silo started 354 years ago, but before that they have no record of the "Before Times".

 

[kaszeta]

OMG yeah.

And with all that Solo pre-dive talk about decompression sickness, and then she quickly surfaces from what looks like well over 100 feet, and then is totally fine? She'd probably be unconscious or dead halfway up. I think a smarter "Solo dive-tips" monologue would have been just "make sure you're always breathing out when going up or your lungs will explode" and not the confusing DCS stuff that most of the audience wouldn't really get and she didn't suffer from at all.

She only managed to survive oxygen toxicity, severe nitrogen narcosis, possible poisoning (from that sketchy compressor contaminating the gas), decompression sickness, and overexpansion injuries, arriving at the surface just fine.

 

[Hank]

But what I really want to know is how their sewage treatment plant works and where the processed waste goes.

Maybe that technology is super advanced.

 

[vertigo235]

But Benard did say that the Silo started 354 years ago, but before that they have no record of the "Before Times".

He said they had no record of why they moved into the silo.

 

[RickStrobel]

I thought the season was dragging, but this was a better episode. Feels like things are finally moving along.

Agreed. Good news is that there's only three episodes left, so I can imagine it's going to keep moving at a good pace.

One thing I just can't reconcile - why would anyone want to live?

Solo, especially. He wants Jules to fix the pumps, worried in 5 years he's going to drown. Who gives a flip. You live by yourself in an empty silo. Well, maybe he doesn't now as we saw at the end. But again, where's the will to live?

Same for the members of Silo 18. What meaning do their lives have. Seems like such a miserable existence.

 

[vertigo235]

I think most humans are capable of adjusting to unexpected conditions and adversity.

 

[Hank]

Solo, especially. He wants Jules to fix the pumps, worried in 5 years he's going to drown. Who gives a flip. You live by yourself in an empty silo. Well, maybe he doesn't now as we saw at the end.

I didn't read the books, but I suspect that Juliette will find a way to take Solo with her back to Silo 18. Assuming he's not dead.

 

[Steveknj]

Agreed. Good news is that there's only three episodes left, so I can imagine it's going to keep moving at a good pace.

One thing I just can't reconcile - why would anyone want to live?

Solo, especially. He wants Jules to fix the pumps, worried in 5 years he's going to drown. Who gives a flip. You live by yourself in an empty silo. Well, maybe he doesn't now as we saw at the end. But again, where's the will to live?

Same for the members of Silo 18. What meaning do their lives have. Seems like such a miserable existence.

Well you have to remember this is all these people know. It's like living in North Korea. You'd think those people living repressed like that would just want to kill themselves, but that's what they know. It's what their life is about. So Solo, only knows about living the way he's lived until now. And the people in our original silo know nothing else but living like they do. They don't know anything else.