Aww. Not being able to have your own opinion until it is dictated or confirmed is not the flex you imagine. Stop seeking validation. Risk being the enemy of your left leaning friends for being leftist. Wake up.
It’s fascinating that the people in Mechanical have way more power than they think and the people on the upper levels believe they don’t also. Why would anyone want to mess with a department that can totally and instantly shut down an entire Silo?
@@josephchurch7871There are many many truths to shows and movies. Example. There’s an episode in the Lioness, where Morgan Freeman mentioned and gave what the news “is”. Season 2 episode 8. In this case, you’re right, We the People have power but the upper echelons use most of us to do their dirty work.
Ironically after unionizing, my father’s power plant was cut to a skeleton crew. He was lucky to keep his job and they have more security employed than workers which is insane.
Because they’re wrong in their belief that they control the silo. Other silos thought the same thing and they aren’t alive anymore. Nobody in the Silos has power, not even Bernard… The only power mechanical has is to end everyone, either by shutting the power down, or trying to displace the current administration which will just immediately result in everyone being ended. In seconds. Not minutes, not hours, but seconds…
Her suggestions were great & insightful, and could avoid a major rebellion w/lots of deaths. But I kinda think that having deaths is a way to keep the population from growing. When Boss Man (forgot his name) says let them figure it out, he is ok with them killing each other. He is dedicated to the ORDER & wont listen to Meadows.
I wasn't surprised by Bernard's action with Meadows because of his commitment to the Order. I'm shocked she trusted him as she caught him in several lies. Despite my prediction I found how he killed her disturbing.
I wouldnt have trust him with nothing around me.. the oldest trick is using food to kill someone.. She knew him , why trust him with with cooking dinner for her ?
@@imalwaysrightI’ll bet plot convenience. She was demanding of him to get her suit. To a level where people thought she was a drunk and she “suddenly” quit and saw the light. Sure. Found out he lied. Sure. She was his shadow therefore knew that he AND her ARE shady. Yup. Plot inconvenience if you ask me, but hey, I only eat mushrooms that I alone cook.
Yeah, in the first episodes they clearly are the shady guys, without understanding the whole plot they are the most obvious ones. I was still looking for some character development or change of heart with Bernard but still nothing. They are straight up antagonist so far haha
18:56 Yes, Bernard has murdered my favorite character, twice. Tanya Moodie’s whole performance and delivery of the line “what did they do” was heart breaking.
it doesn't. Meadows never went outside so she cannot know! Oh FYI recently Students from US proved that With Record Altitude Rocket Launch (470,000 ft). No curvature whatsoever!
@@eazybreezye you are comical thinking I am flat earther? What more comical is ppl like you are so quick judging someone and sticking them with labels that only exist in their own ignorant minds indoctrinated with false science and make -beliefs. Feel free to believe in any fiction you want thats your prerogative.
@outlawedTV88 Thanks for the chuckles. Once again, I don't care about your opinion. I live in a country where you can have freedom to believe in whatever. But I still have the freedom to chuckle out loud. Lolol
I felt Meadows somehow gave instructions to Kyle when talking about the stars, instructions to decode the secret massage she talked with Bernard. There is no other reason to bring up Kyle just to set him back again.
I invite everyone to consider this: there are 50 silos according to Solo. And presumably all the silos are arranged identically. The show has shown that Bernard uses a playbook to guide his decsion making and that this same playbook is in the other silos. We have been shown that the silo is engaged in selective breeding, that it uses drugs to suppress memories. We are also informed that uprisings are cyclical and that they are always suppressed. Except in Silo 17 where the rebels “won” and obtained their ‘freedom’ only to die outside. This set up sounds like a big experiment; that there is some end goal in some form of psychological/physiological conditioning. That there is a periodic culling to create genetic bottlenecks to force natural selection down a specific path. That when a silo goes out of control, there is a protocol in place to exterminate it. I posit that there is an outside agency, only hinted at, that is pulling the strings. The presumption that Bernard is some evil mastermind is ludicrous. It seems clear that Bernard is receiving orders from them and is going along with it due to the threat of extermination. The dust or cloud we see when people exit the lock is significant; it is designed to penetrate the suit and kill the occupant and that the heat tape on Juliette’s suit prevented the substance from killing her before it dissipated. That same substance was used to kill the Silo 17 occupants and the escapees.
Hey Pete, Great video! One thing I didn't see you mention was the numbers on the blackboard that Solo told Jules to erase, there are very likely to be the combinations that they were trying on the vault door to get in.
i think Solo was put into the vault as a kid, like when he was 11 and stayed in the vault the whole time. And part of me thinks meadows might have had a child but gave it away. That child might be Shirley which seems like a nice tie in for something that could get Bernard to stop/hesitate from crushing the rebellion 🤔 and a nice reference to how he questioned sims basically saying his family holds him back
I thought it was established that the exodus from the silo took place fifteen years ago. If so, Solo is a lot older than 26 or 27. Steve Zahn is 57, which blows my mind. So, I think something else happened.
Another thought: I think Zahn is playing Solo like he’s someone on the spectrum. At first, I thought he was just off because of being isolated for so long but his obsession with animals and other things made me think he’s autistic. Naturally, all autistic people are not the same. But, in a TV show, they have to paint with broad strokes so the audience will get it. Solo is obviously bright about a lot of things but maybe he was with the younger kids because he’s not good at other things and he was about 12, emotionally, when the rebellion happened.
I just re-watched the episode, when Bernard and Meadows were in the server room, she asked if Juliette could’ve made it to Silo 17, Bernard said 17 fell before she was his shadow, which would’ve been more than 25 years ago (could’ve been another lie though).
Did Meadows go away to have their child for the four days she was missing. Leading to alcoholism because she gave the child up to someone else to protect them from Bernard and herself in a sense. The video with the little kid made her deeply sad that she would play over and over again. Just a theory.
@kiraj2873 Coincidentally, something happened to Meadows and Walker 25 years ago, but Walker said she doesn’t remember exactly why she left Carla and became a hermit. Meadows clearly remembered her trauma and took it to the grave. Shirley being a link between the two would make a lot of sense, I just don’t understand how a pregnancy would get past Bernard…Meadows was his shadow, and she was only gone for 4 days?
I was hoping Meadows got her suit so we’d have another person on the outside! 😢 She was a good character. Something is up with Solo- let’s find out more
Solo seems to have the 'Natascha Kampusch' syndrome ; poor social skills as a consequence of all the time spent in isolation and immature social behavior. His actions would lend people to believe he is immature but it is in fact a consequence of not being able to exert and develop social abilities.
@@akaidatenshi In the case of that young woman, she suffered a double prejudice. On top of having her teenage years taken away by Wolfgang Priklopil, she was bullied because she didn't get the chance to develop normal social skills. This is so wrong.
Juliette is starting to realize that some of the details in his (Solo’s) story isn’t matching up. ** Spoilers, just in case ** How old was he when the silo went down? He told Juliette that he was the head of IT’s shadow at the time, but in this episode he seemed to slip, suggesting a descripency with his age. I mean, his silo has been dead for “a long time”.
@@eds1942 And there are plenty others. Such as ... (spoilers ahead) ... The numbers on the chalkboard vs those written on the wall besides the vault's keypad. His answer (dismissive) when asked about his changed eye color. How can he have food all the time inside the vault.
@ Different methods by different people trying to figure out the combo. A trauma that he’s not ready to talk about yet. And IT had an emergency supply of rations for a group of people, whereas he is just Solo. The numbers and the food is self explanatory. There is room for character development with what happened with his eye. Likely to save money and time with the sets, the show had Solo confined to just IT and that has the benefit of making his character seem to be more awkward, since now he is almost always outside of his safety zone. It’s not just the years isolation and the trauma from years ago. He is a shut in. And has been for most of his life. Everything he needed, he had in IT.
It was the shortest way to fill in some plot. But yeah, there was probably a much better way they could do it. Unfortunately, there are only 10 episodes in the season.
Well maybe he was too young to understand what these names and the other writings on the wall meant...! I think the events that happened from Juliet going out all the way to Coopers death forced them to figure out what those names and writings meant....😉
@@ResistanceB.7 Very good point. Because in the Silo I’d assume words like “rebellion” or “resistance” are kept mum. Also, that there seems to be layers upon layers of names that covered the ones that are just words. Although… at the same time… wouldn’t they have at least learned what the other words mean by osmosis, or by what their parents told them? There are ways that could explain why they only knew just the names. It’s definitely the weakest part of an otherwise great episode to be honest.
@@dasmysteryman12 Well yeah you got a point there but many things are considered by the order in order to keep the silo calm and non aggressive in any circumstance like the tap water filled with "memory erasing" medicine and stuff plus the celebration days like solo was discussing with Juliet that remind the silo about how humanitarian the founders were etc 🤔😉
Did anyone else notice that the pair of balls has a great relevance in this episode? The woman droped the balls from the floors up to the mechanical , then judge meadows also has two balls in her hands while confirming about the planets and sun and stars, that takle ki wife also had two balls in her hands while speaking with him.
Unless Lukas's story changes dramatically soon, the ending to season 2 could be a bit different than the ending of Book 1. I thought Meadows or Simms could fill the Lukas role to a certain extent, but I really have no idea now. That being said, I could see Bernard taking an interest in Lukas after finding out Meadows and him had a brief closed door conversation. When he talks to Lukas and finds out what they talked about, he could realize how smart and useful Lukas could be... but that would seem like quite the jump/leap for Bernard to go from banishing him to the mines to making him his shadow.
Are you saying Lukas becomes his shadow in the books? very strange In another recap I watched that showed trailers, it looked like Lukas was climbing out of what could be the mines so ...hmmm.
Meadows character build up was very interesting. I thought she will plays a very important role but then bhaam , Bernard killed her. I wasn't expecting the he will kill her. I thought he might have imprisoned her when he asked for dinner and not let her meet with mechanicals. Bernard will do anything to follow the order
Ole Andy Desfrane learned so much from his time in Shawshank and is quite a taskmaster and master manipulator in the SILO landscape. His silent and affable way also twists Shaw and his Raiders in knots! 🤣
If Bernard is so stringent and adamant on obeyong The Pact and Order... wouldn't killing Meadows be truly against them because she asked to go out? Why did Bernard ignore her request which the entire Silo is built around?
Because it demands that he instigates a larger crisis by finding a way to turn everyone against mechanical. Not only did this way help with that, but it also gives him the opportunity to bury her as a hero loved by the Silo rather than see her body lying out of reach every time he looks outside on top of having to invent a story for everyone for about what happened to a rarely seen high level official that some group of uppers publicly wanted removed. The only thing I’m left wondering, is why he believes that following ‘the Order’ is the best way to protect their little society and social order, when not only does it clearly is calling for the exact opposite, despite having the example of what happened decades earlier even if the cause of that incident was blotted out from the official record.
I’ve already realised that we’re not going to get that many answers this season. The questions keep pilling up, though. Anyway, it’s pathological, how a person can literally disconnect its own humanity, just to follow a “script” written by the founders of the silo. There’re no boundaries for that Bernard, everything is fair game. It’s very hard to even stomach the sight of him, to be honest.
The underwater mission and the drama both Zahn and Ferguson pulled off well was some of the best work on the show. Ferguson did her own stunts and the tension of Solo torn between following through with his promise to Julia in the middle of a full panic attack and his need to get to his safe vault made for high tension. Done beautifully by Zahn. Same with that look he gave Juliette as she stripped to underwear. He was showing in the one short moment he was still a man-child. Fascinated by seeing more of Juliettes body and terrified at the same time. Character development of Solo is 1st rate.
I sadly predicted Judge Meadows would be the next character gone soon but I really didn’t expect the way it happened! I for sure thought Bernard would have given her the suit and she would suffer the same fate as everyone else, essentially not getting the “good tape”. Her death was very bittersweet 😢😢
I knew right away that he had planned to poison her…I knew he was going to kill her when she confronted him about lying that Juliette didn’t ask to go clean. He made it clear that even if she were right, he saw her as a threat to the reality the order preserves for HIM. I love this show so much 😩
How did Meadows know there was "the" hard drive and that same one had something on it that she had not only seen but had had figured out how to deciphered the letter on it?
I figured the judge and Bernard had some kind of fling cause they were so awkward toward each other! A Mary the Judge was right she knew he wouldn’t fully love or commit to her bc he is more concerned ab the pact and following the order! He and judicial will kill any one that is in there way!
I read a spoiler on another recap channel and now regretting it lol Almost afraid to read comments now .ppl should put up spoiler warnings dammit..jeeesh
I don't know how you could feel so spoiled. Season 1 and 2 has deviated so heavily from Wool, for better or worse. The show has a bunch more conspiracy arcs that don't exist in Wool and several of the main characters are different. Alot has been added to the show for drama, and alot has been removed to not bore the audience with other details.
Great breakdown! That was so harsh with Meadows and harsh with Kyle. Wonder why she gave him all that info and sent him back. I want to know where she went for those 4 days. Mechanical truly has the power they just aren’t aware of it. And I’m guessing that mechanical always leads the rebellion in every Silo.
Very curious how Lucas is back in the show. It seems a bit abrupt like Kennedy and Meadows before. And it’s been bothering me what the mine is. Where is it? How big? Silo is somehow collecting raw materials like metal ore? The electricity power in the silo must be from something else based on silo 17. That means it’s providing mechanical in silo 18 a false sense of power. I understand for drama, but a bit strange to see a mob of people going down to mechanical for justice, when they should just let the marshal or judicial to handle 2 people causing murder.
Higher ups use "mobs" of people all the time against "others", there are countless examples throughout history and in our current society. Why get your hands dirty when you can just blame "others" for all their troubles.
Why does Bernard bother having a knife put in the chest of the dead Meadows? It's not like anyone is going to stumble on the corpse in an alley somewhere, or some sort of medical examiner called, this is all contained within Judicial.
Hold on. Why would it be impossible for Solo and Lapas to have been together in the classroom? If the rebellion happened about 30 years ago and he was 10ish at the time then he’d be in his 40s. He appears to be in his 40s or 50s. What am I missing??
@@jeettrivedii True, I guess having read the books I wanted to see how the story reflects on screen, it’s not bad to build in some mystery. It’s encouraging that the author is a part of the process.
Given that there were others who have gone out to clean, in addition to Silo 18's sheriff and his wife, where all died before reaching the edge of the silo's circular dirt wall, we should be able to see their remains on the big screen. However, we only see the sheriff's and his wife's on the ground.
I always have a question, far a way from this episode, where the steam come from??? in season 1 they say we have a steam we don't know where come from, that's makes me wonder.
Disclaimer. I have not read the books. Solo is such an incredible character He wa only 10-11 years old when he was told to guard the vault, probably for his own protection in the revolt. He still behave like the same child because he's had no one else. Music is his only escape and can play the bellows powered harmonium well. I think he must've snuck out as a "naughty" kid to play it. A lol. When he realised that the harmonium might be irrecoverably destroyed, and he would not be able to make his own music, I felt his sadness so much that it made me cry. Bravo! That wasn't the only unexpected emotional moment in this episode either. I'm really enjoying the ride! :)
I think it's pretty much guaranteed Meadows went into the mines during her 4 days. I think that there has to be a reason we haven't seen them and no one wants to go in there. How does the mine even work when they're right next to other silos - there's no where for the mine to go where it wouldn't encounter another obstacle. I'm guessing there has to be some secrets in there. Keep in mind that George said he had a way to the door without the water being a problem.
One thing I caught on re-watch is he said "when you were the *legacy* (i think) did you use this" is that like the cult initiation into IT or something? I keep wondering if there is someone higher out there calling shots because of the key chain and a few things. Could be wrong here. Good stuff!!
The food being poisoned was soo predictable that I'm stunned Meadows would just willingly walk into that trap, and didn't even check the suit before the meal. Hard to believe.
She had romantic feelings for him and he had them for her, so she had a blind spot. Even when you don't trust someone in your life completely, you still trust them to not do certain things.
I was trying to figure out what they made those locker props from too eh, it looks really convincing, the angle of filming was very convenient. but she was really whaling on it though eh, after a couple of takes she would have been exhausted.
They used the 1st shot they took. Rebecca was actually hitting the lockers. Because once she bent them, they couldn’t be used again. She played very well into it.
There is much to like in this episode but a number of flaws occur: 1) Moment where Jules is almost drowning. In the book, that moment of suspense makes sense because her distance from Solo and from her air supply is bigger. Here, it makes no sense that 2-3 meters from where she left her air supply she gets stuck with the weight and instead of going back for more air she tries to pull a heavy metal weight in water in a tight spot and upwards BEFORE making sure to get air. By just making the water filled space a bit larger, this could have been turned from a stupid to a truly dramatic moment. Also, they make the never-ending movie mistake of someone seeing perfectly clear in dark waters without carrying a light source. I don't get why, it's such an easy fix plus opportunity for extra tension. 2) The motivation of the Silo population: - First it gets established that revolution is immenant as the population wonders what it means that Jules walked off. At the least and first step, they understandably would want to send out someone else to investigate. - Bernard's claims to having developed a new tape could easily be thwarted by Mechanical and Supply to tell people it was their tape that they gave to Jules that allowed her to walk off (possibly unharmed). Now, in the book the departments, Silo population and individuals also miss out on a number of opportunities that would have made sense based on what they knew at the time. - A small group of people asks for the judge's impeachment why exactly? They may have been bribed/coerced by Sims but they still need to provide a reason to both judge and the Silo. It never seems to come up. - How did the crowd know Mechanical wanted a meeting with the judge? Why were they so massively against it? Yes, there supposedly was one guy in mechanical who threw a molotov into a crowd but how did one cause the other? - When Mechanical is lead into the trap by Bernard, they decide to run. Why?!? They walked up all the way from Mechanical to have a meeting with the Judge. If they wanted to kill her, they'd hardly make an appointment, make it public too, walk in under those circumstances and then kill her (for what?)! And if they didn't come to kill her but things escalated, this would hardly go from "let's have a meeting" to killing her in the minute they have been in there. It would be more sensible to walk back, use the crowd to tell them what they wanted and what they found instead. And it would make sense for at least many in the crowd to be unhappy and/or suspicious about Judicial at this point. The one thing that makes no sense is to try to outrun a policing system and set trap over some 100 stairs. 3) Judge Meadow's final moments: Ok, she was ready to die anyway and she surely would have enjoyed the VR. But between her surprise that Bernard poisened her, then her unwavering loyalty to the system where she feels the need to quickly tell Bernard seemingly vital information but then pauses and Bernard instead of seizing the opportunity to learn what life-changing event happened to her 25 years ago he distracts her with the VR? Not impossible but strange moves by those two characters.
Students in film schools and creative writing classes should study the Mayor as the way you make a good villain. He is far more scary, in his prim, Oxford shirts and tidy vests, than some axe-wielding psycho who slaughters teens at summer camp. I never thought of Tim Robbins as being a particularly great actor, one way or another, but he is doing a masterful job playing the Mayor. I just hate the character so much and I forget that it’s Tim Robbins. And, the mushrooms! The Mayor went way old school. That wasn’t just a classic move, it was literally ancient. It’s exactly the same way the emperor Claudius was killed by his wife: he ate poisoned mushrooms. I’m going to start calling the Mayor “Agrippina”. It was a bold dramatic move but I’m still really pissed that they killed off the Judge. Just as she was starting to get interesting. I’m just speculating but I now have the distinct impression that Rob is their child, somehow. All this season, I suspected the Judge and Mayor had a past relationship but I wasn’t sure. I thought maybe it could also be that there was no actual relationship but rather unrequited love on the Mayor’s part because he still seemed very enamored of her. I think their last conversation pretty much confirmed that they were a couple, though. I think the Mayor vanished to give birth and give the baby to whoever Rob thinks his real parents are. If it comes down to a showdown between the Mayor and Rob, I can see one trying to kill the other and then finding out they are father and son at the last minute when it’s already too late. If that happens, I don’t care if the Mayor is the killer or the victim. I just want to see the look of horror on his face. The stuff with Jules was interesting but I’m getting a little bored. Time to move on, now, and get back to her silo.
In Season 1 it was shown that there is some hot steam (from natural sources I reckon) under the Silo which is ultimately channeled through the turbine which was shut down briefly for repairs.
About as much sense as the Silo persecuting, and having a mob kill, the techs in Mechanical who are required to keep the Silo functioning. It's more like a Fallout vault experiment than a logical system. I'd say violence and killing could be population control, but they can control births.
I knew Meadows wasn't getting a suit when Bernard was taking her measurements and she asked if he was going to write them down and he said he doesn't need to.
Theory: Silo 18 has a dark secret: some of its residents are actually British people pretending to talk normal. 8:02 it’s one of the cooler parts of the show. Their lives are like the premise of a thought experiment, they don’t even know what a horizon is!
to me they completely scuffed the backpack scene. In season one they make a point of things being recycled and given to people that need them when the owner no longer does. Then they act like Juliette could deduce something like how long ago the revolt was based of a likely recycled backpack. Did no one else think that could've been any kids backpack? It just also use to be the ladies he's talking about.
That diving scene was so dumb. Like every choice was there just to be a fk up. No need for the weight, the air tube was just long enough to be of no use lol.
I just thought about it 1) the mystery of the letter might influence him to take that piece of the hard drive he salvage and see what it is. 2) she didn't want "to be tethered to him for the rest of her life" did she get an abortion?
Christ Jules being stuck away from the action is the biggest detriment to the show. A main character treading water and stuck in a B plot for a season is painful.
4 episodes in and she's still in the Silo next door, god this season is so slow. i imagine the season ends with Juliet cleaning...giving me GOT vibes. Still havent established how Bernard knew about Silo 17 being dead
I wonder why they count days or years at all? I get why silo 1 would want to do that but weeks, months, and years aren't needed for a society that lives underground. I'm assuming they have no limited grow season and I'm having a hard time thinking of a reason they would need them. I wonder how silos would be if they had a different concept of time.
They might not need months and years but they continue to exist. Earth still completes a revolution in an year. It might just be mere time keeping which they didn't see the need to change.
Humanity at its worst. Living like rats and being constantly lied to. I was hoping that season 2 would show Juliette discovering a community outside of her Silo that's beyond all of the BS. Nope just more of the same, so depressing.
They killed the judge way too soon…. Like it really pisses me off. She had more character development than literally everyone in the entire show and they just end her. Talk about plot convenience. 🙄
I stop being able to suspend disbelief every time a show pretends someone who doesn’t know how to swim suddenly learns how to swim. People who haven’t been taught simply panic and drown.
One trope I'm geting tired of is 85% of TV and movie judges being played by black actors, when in reality only 0.43% of judges are black. And in most cases it must be a strong black women of near infinite wisdom and a sonorous voice. To bring Justice to the Oppressor race. The actor doing drunken Meadow turned into all-wise Judge Meadows was good. But tired of the trope, and I never became a fan of hers or her mysterious Bernard relationship. Bye! Bye! now time for more interesting story arcs.
Just when it seemed Meadows had put her 💩 in a pile and knew full well Bernard was out to get her, she falls for his trap? I really didn't care about her death since her whole hyped up arc turned out to be a total waste of both screen time, red herring and plot line. Jules is just doing more Jules stuff, not really learning, whilst Solo seems to be the kid that was shown to have died outside after all??
that's what I'm thinking, too, after seeing a spoiler in another recap. It kinda made sense but also bummed out about seeing the spoiler. It all makes sense though and makes you understand the reasoning behind Bernard's motives.
This episode is literally fatally flawed. A bunch of people saw The Mayor and the 2 people from Mechanical enter Meadow's office. They saw the 2 from Mechanical exit and depart. They then saw The Mayor and the 4th guy exit Meadow's office minutes later and announce her murder. The crowd nor the throng of guards aren't going to ask "how'd that 4th guy get in there? where'd he come from? why did they take so long to come out and announce the murder? etc. etc. etc.?" Come on, there's a way to advance a storyline w/o ruining the immersion w/a poorly written scene.
@@new_age_citizenno he was put in the vault as a kid - Which I think is still probably gonna be the case in the show he’s just dragging out telling Juliette
He recognized one of the kid's backpacks (11 or 12) in the classroom, and Juliette asks how Solo could be sitting next to her. So obviously he has been locked in the room since he was a kid.
An episode is not complete until I watch Pete's recap
Thank you sir
Wish he did some other shows I watch 😂😂
@@mh3594 extrapolations, the day of the jackal, landman, maybe something retro like expanse and american gods would be great for pete breakdowns
Aww. Not being able to have your own opinion until it is dictated or confirmed is not the flex you imagine.
Stop seeking validation.
Risk being the enemy of your left leaning friends for being leftist.
Wake up.
@@rodesvilobo8670 This channel covered The Expanse. It's actually how I discovered this channel.
thats cuz you can't comprehend information properly.
It’s fascinating that the people in Mechanical have way more power than they think and the people on the upper levels believe they don’t also. Why would anyone want to mess with a department that can totally and instantly shut down an entire Silo?
Same thing IRL.
@@josephchurch7871There are many many truths to shows and movies.
Example. There’s an episode in the Lioness, where Morgan Freeman mentioned and gave what the news “is”. Season 2 episode 8. In this case, you’re right, We the People have power but the upper echelons use most of us to do their dirty work.
@@josephchurch7871 mutually assured destruction is why. they turn off power, the other 2/3rd of the silo turns on them.
Ironically after unionizing, my father’s power plant was cut to a skeleton crew. He was lucky to keep his job and they have more security employed than workers which is insane.
Because they’re wrong in their belief that they control the silo. Other silos thought the same thing and they aren’t alive anymore. Nobody in the Silos has power, not even Bernard…
The only power mechanical has is to end everyone, either by shutting the power down, or trying to displace the current administration which will just immediately result in everyone being ended. In seconds. Not minutes, not hours, but seconds…
I'm going to miss Meadows!
Her suggestions were great & insightful, and could avoid a major rebellion w/lots of deaths.
But I kinda think that having deaths is a way to keep the population from growing. When Boss Man (forgot his name) says let them figure it out, he is ok with them killing each other. He is dedicated to the ORDER & wont listen to Meadows.
I wasn't surprised by Bernard's action with Meadows because of his commitment to the Order. I'm shocked she trusted him as she caught him in several lies. Despite my prediction I found how he killed her disturbing.
I wouldnt have trust him with nothing around me.. the oldest trick is using food to kill someone..
She knew him , why trust him with with cooking dinner for her ?
Yes, I can’t believe she trusted him. Either a moment of weakness or plot convenience
@@imalwaysrightI’ll bet plot convenience. She was demanding of him to get her suit. To a level where people thought she was a drunk and she “suddenly” quit and saw the light. Sure. Found out he lied. Sure. She was his shadow therefore knew that he AND her ARE shady. Yup. Plot inconvenience if you ask me, but hey, I only eat mushrooms that I alone cook.
Yeah, in the first episodes they clearly are the shady guys, without understanding the whole plot they are the most obvious ones. I was still looking for some character development or change of heart with Bernard but still nothing. They are straight up antagonist so far haha
They better do a flashback episode about the judge.
Right I need more
18:56 Yes, Bernard has murdered my favorite character, twice.
Tanya Moodie’s whole performance and delivery of the line “what did they do” was heart breaking.
Some of the best acting i’ve seen in a while, she absolutely killed that scene, for lack of a better term! Amazing stuff.
The manipulation of the different levels (classes) is shockingly familiar
Reminds me of The Movie Divergent
Reminds me of real life.
Silo confirms the Earth is not flat. Nice
it doesn't. Meadows never went outside so she cannot know!
Oh FYI recently Students from US proved that With Record Altitude Rocket Launch (470,000 ft). No curvature whatsoever!
Wtf are you on about
@@outlawedTV88 I find flat earthers so comical. Your beliefs do not change my life but gives me a good chuckle from time to time.
@@eazybreezye you are comical thinking I am flat earther? What more comical is ppl like you are so quick judging someone and sticking them with labels that only exist in their own ignorant minds indoctrinated with false science and make -beliefs.
Feel free to believe in any fiction you want thats your prerogative.
@outlawedTV88 Thanks for the chuckles. Once again, I don't care about your opinion. I live in a country where you can have freedom to believe in whatever. But I still have the freedom to chuckle out loud. Lolol
wtf I slowly started rooting for meadows this season and this episode I was all in. RIP JUDGE MEADOWS 😢
I felt Meadows somehow gave instructions to Kyle when talking about the stars, instructions to decode the secret massage she talked with Bernard. There is no other reason to bring up Kyle just to set him back again.
I invite everyone to consider this: there are 50 silos according to Solo. And presumably all the silos are arranged identically. The show has shown that Bernard uses a playbook to guide his decsion making and that this same playbook is in the other silos. We have been shown that the silo is engaged in selective breeding, that it uses drugs to suppress memories. We are also informed that uprisings are cyclical and that they are always suppressed. Except in Silo 17 where the rebels “won” and obtained their ‘freedom’ only to die outside. This set up sounds like a big experiment; that there is some end goal in some form of psychological/physiological conditioning. That there is a periodic culling to create genetic bottlenecks to force natural selection down a specific path. That when a silo goes out of control, there is a protocol in place to exterminate it. I posit that there is an outside agency, only hinted at, that is pulling the strings. The presumption that Bernard is some evil mastermind is ludicrous. It seems clear that Bernard is receiving orders from them and is going along with it due to the threat of extermination.
The dust or cloud we see when people exit the lock is significant; it is designed to penetrate the suit and kill the occupant and that the heat tape on Juliette’s suit prevented the substance from killing her before it dissipated. That same substance was used to kill the Silo 17 occupants and the escapees.
Idk seems like this experiment has been abandoned.
No supervision and the outside area has been in ruins for a while.
Hey Pete, Great video! One thing I didn't see you mention was the numbers on the blackboard that Solo told Jules to erase, there are very likely to be the combinations that they were trying on the vault door to get in.
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On the other hand Solo said he only had 3 tries before getting lock out of the Vault
@@Airmkalocked out for a set time period maybe?
@@d15p4tch6if solo was inside whilst they were trying perhaps the code can be reset from within the vault or as you said, resets on a timer.
i think Solo was put into the vault as a kid, like when he was 11 and stayed in the vault the whole time. And part of me thinks meadows might have had a child but gave it away. That child might be Shirley which seems like a nice tie in for something that could get Bernard to stop/hesitate from crushing the rebellion 🤔 and a nice reference to how he questioned sims basically saying his family holds him back
I thought it was established that the exodus from the silo took place fifteen years ago. If so, Solo is a lot older than 26 or 27. Steve Zahn is 57, which blows my mind. So, I think something else happened.
Another thought: I think Zahn is playing Solo like he’s someone on the spectrum.
At first, I thought he was just off because of being isolated for so long but his obsession with animals and other things made me think he’s autistic.
Naturally, all autistic people are not the same. But, in a TV show, they have to paint with broad strokes so the audience will get it.
Solo is obviously bright about a lot of things but maybe he was with the younger kids because he’s not good at other things and he was about 12, emotionally, when the rebellion happened.
I just re-watched the episode, when Bernard and Meadows were in the server room, she asked if Juliette could’ve made it to Silo 17, Bernard said 17 fell before she was his shadow, which would’ve been more than 25 years ago (could’ve been another lie though).
Bernard asking Meadows, what her next step would be, and Meadows responding that she would be walking out the airlock was absolute comedy.
RIP my fav character for this season. The Judge!!
Incredible. Best episode of the entire series so far in my opinion. Excellent execution! Storylines are getting HOT
Did Meadows go away to have their child for the four days she was missing. Leading to alcoholism because she gave the child up to someone else to protect them from Bernard and herself in a sense. The video with the little kid made her deeply sad that she would play over and over again. Just a theory.
@kiraj2873 Coincidentally, something happened to Meadows and Walker 25 years ago, but Walker said she doesn’t remember exactly why she left Carla and became a hermit. Meadows clearly remembered her trauma and took it to the grave. Shirley being a link between the two would make a lot of sense, I just don’t understand how a pregnancy would get past Bernard…Meadows was his shadow, and she was only gone for 4 days?
I love these videos - keep up the awesome work!
I was hoping Meadows got her suit so we’d have another person on the outside! 😢 She was a good character. Something is up with Solo- let’s find out more
Im sad about the judges death, I liked her.
Solo seems to have the 'Natascha Kampusch' syndrome ; poor social skills as a consequence of all the time spent in isolation and immature social behavior. His actions would lend people to believe he is immature but it is in fact a consequence of not being able to exert and develop social abilities.
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@@akaidatenshi In the case of that young woman, she suffered a double prejudice. On top of having her teenage years taken away by Wolfgang Priklopil, she was bullied because she didn't get the chance to develop normal social skills. This is so wrong.
Juliette is starting to realize that some of the details in his (Solo’s) story isn’t matching up.
** Spoilers, just in case **
How old was he when the silo went down? He told Juliette that he was the head of IT’s shadow at the time, but in this episode he seemed to slip, suggesting a descripency with his age. I mean, his silo has been dead for “a long time”.
@@eds1942 And there are plenty others.
Such as ... (spoilers ahead) ...
The numbers on the chalkboard vs those written on the wall besides the vault's keypad. His answer (dismissive) when asked about his changed eye color. How can he have food all the time inside the vault.
@ Different methods by different people trying to figure out the combo. A trauma that he’s not ready to talk about yet. And IT had an emergency supply of rations for a group of people, whereas he is just Solo.
The numbers and the food is self explanatory. There is room for character development with what happened with his eye.
Likely to save money and time with the sets, the show had Solo confined to just IT and that has the benefit of making his character seem to be more awkward, since now he is almost always outside of his safety zone.
It’s not just the years isolation and the trauma from years ago. He is a shut in. And has been for most of his life. Everything he needed, he had in IT.
It's amazing how Solo is less socially awkward than Jules.
Knox saying “I thought they were just names of the founders” … “on this one of
It was the shortest way to fill in some plot.
But yeah, there was probably a much better way they could do it.
Unfortunately, there are only 10 episodes in the season.
Well maybe he was too young to understand what these names and the other writings on the wall meant...! I think the events that happened from Juliet going out all the way to Coopers death forced them to figure out what those names and writings meant....😉
@@ResistanceB.7 Very good point. Because in the Silo I’d assume words like “rebellion” or “resistance” are kept mum. Also, that there seems to be layers upon layers of names that covered the ones that are just words.
Although… at the same time… wouldn’t they have at least learned what the other words mean by osmosis, or by what their parents told them?
There are ways that could explain why they only knew just the names. It’s definitely the weakest part of an otherwise great episode to be honest.
@@dasmysteryman12 Well yeah you got a point there but many things are considered by the order in order to keep the silo calm and non aggressive in any circumstance like the tap water filled with "memory erasing" medicine and stuff plus the celebration days like solo was discussing with Juliet that remind the silo about how humanitarian the founders were etc 🤔😉
I don’t get it. What do you mean?
Did anyone else notice that the pair of balls has a great relevance in this episode? The woman droped the balls from the floors up to the mechanical , then judge meadows also has two balls in her hands while confirming about the planets and sun and stars, that takle ki wife also had two balls in her hands while speaking with him.
Yes excellent observation. I wonder what this all relates to
Who is takle ki? Huh
@@eden20111 its hindi it means the baldie robs wife
takle ki wife 😭😭
goat. been waiting for this to drop since i finished the episode
Unless Lukas's story changes dramatically soon, the ending to season 2 could be a bit different than the ending of Book 1. I thought Meadows or Simms could fill the Lukas role to a certain extent, but I really have no idea now. That being said, I could see Bernard taking an interest in Lukas after finding out Meadows and him had a brief closed door conversation. When he talks to Lukas and finds out what they talked about, he could realize how smart and useful Lukas could be... but that would seem like quite the jump/leap for Bernard to go from banishing him to the mines to making him his shadow.
Are you saying Lukas becomes his shadow in the books? very strange
In another recap I watched that showed trailers, it looked like Lukas was climbing out of what could be the mines so ...hmmm.
Are Victor from FROM and Solo from SILO brothers... they both don't wanna talk about it 😂
I was thinking that they remind me of each other
Meadows character build up was very interesting. I thought she will plays a very important role but then bhaam , Bernard killed her. I wasn't expecting the he will kill her. I thought he might have imprisoned her when he asked for dinner and not let her meet with mechanicals. Bernard will do anything to follow the order
So now we know lucas can make pretty accurate prediction. I wonder how this plays out in upcoming episodes
Ole Andy Desfrane learned so much from his time in Shawshank and is quite a taskmaster and master manipulator in the SILO landscape.
His silent and affable way also twists Shaw and his Raiders in knots! 🤣
If Bernard is so stringent and adamant on obeyong The Pact and Order... wouldn't killing Meadows be truly against them because she asked to go out? Why did Bernard ignore her request which the entire Silo is built around?
Because it demands that he instigates a larger crisis by finding a way to turn everyone against mechanical. Not only did this way help with that, but it also gives him the opportunity to bury her as a hero loved by the Silo rather than see her body lying out of reach every time he looks outside on top of having to invent a story for everyone for about what happened to a rarely seen high level official that some group of uppers publicly wanted removed.
The only thing I’m left wondering, is why he believes that following ‘the Order’ is the best way to protect their little society and social order, when not only does it clearly is calling for the exact opposite, despite having the example of what happened decades earlier even if the cause of that incident was blotted out from the official record.
Because he's only really following the Order, his secret instructions. He only follows the Pact when it suits the goals of the Order.
Also, rank has its priviledges. Like O’Brien shutting off the telescreen in George Orwell’s 1984.
I really NEED your reviews Pete, otherwise I wouldn’t enjoy & possibly not even watch Silo. It’s dystopia on steroids. 😱
I’ve already realised that we’re not going to get that many answers this season. The questions keep pilling up, though. Anyway, it’s pathological, how a person can literally disconnect its own humanity, just to follow a “script” written by the founders of the silo. There’re no boundaries for that Bernard, everything is fair game. It’s very hard to even stomach the sight of him, to be honest.
The underwater mission and the drama both Zahn and Ferguson pulled off well was some of the best work on the show. Ferguson did her own stunts and the tension of Solo torn between following through with his promise to Julia in the middle of a full panic attack and his need to get to his safe vault made for high tension. Done beautifully by Zahn. Same with that look he gave Juliette as she stripped to underwear. He was showing in the one short moment he was still a man-child. Fascinated by seeing more of Juliettes body and terrified at the same time. Character development of Solo is 1st rate.
Been expexting this your vodeo since!!🔥🔥
This episode; amazing suspense!!🔥
Sorry for the dealy, I was in a copyright claim loop for hours before I got it uploaded.
I understand!!@@PetePeppers1
@@PetePeppers1 bummer, man...sorry you had to go through that. Thanks for all the effort you put in. Excellent work.
🏆 These shows are just not complete without your insights -I look forward to them almost as much
I sadly predicted Judge Meadows would be the next character gone soon but I really didn’t expect the way it happened! I for sure thought Bernard would have given her the suit and she would suffer the same fate as everyone else, essentially not getting the “good tape”. Her death was very bittersweet 😢😢
13:55 when there dinner ends i am like oh my god they had a hidden relationship and it just opened up at her last moments so beautiful
I knew right away that he had planned to poison her…I knew he was going to kill her when she confronted him about lying that Juliette didn’t ask to go clean. He made it clear that even if she were right, he saw her as a threat to the reality the order preserves for HIM. I love this show so much 😩
Your recaps are just amazing💯💯💯
Rebecca Ferguson was too damn good gasping for air that I was holding my breath
pretty sure Solo was 11-12 when the rebellion started. hence why he knew the numbers and the backpack of his friend.
How did Meadows know there was "the" hard drive and that same one had something on it that she had not only seen but had had figured out how to deciphered the letter on it?
Maybe when she encountered it, that's why she went away for 4 days and then slipped into an alcoholic stupor
Bernard and Meadows together was amazing acting. Not all actors in this series reach that level
I figured the judge and Bernard had some kind of fling cause they were so awkward toward each other! A Mary the Judge was right she knew he wouldn’t fully love or commit to her bc he is more concerned ab the pact and following the order! He and judicial will kill any one that is in there way!
I like how you worked in the word dastardly
After season 1 I read all the books I'm regretting that now as it's spoiling my enjoyment..
Never read the books if you find a great series lol
Exactly! I already know what's going to happen and the mystery is spoiled.
I was thinking about to start to reading the books because of the series
I read a spoiler on another recap channel and now regretting it lol
Almost afraid to read comments now .ppl should put up spoiler warnings dammit..jeeesh
I don't know how you could feel so spoiled. Season 1 and 2 has deviated so heavily from Wool, for better or worse. The show has a bunch more conspiracy arcs that don't exist in Wool and several of the main characters are different. Alot has been added to the show for drama, and alot has been removed to not bore the audience with other details.
i think theres something about taking water on the fountain, i dont know why but it seems fishy the way it was (deliberately) shown and framed.
Great breakdown! That was so harsh with Meadows and harsh with Kyle. Wonder why she gave him all that info and sent him back. I want to know where she went for those 4 days.
Mechanical truly has the power they just aren’t aware of it. And I’m guessing that mechanical always leads the rebellion in every Silo.
I dont get what the management team are all concerned about. Let them out if they want to go, no need for a rebellion.
Cause if all the down deepers go out...the uppers would be screwed
They need to control population numbers, hierarchy and culture. Otherwise they’ll have rebels, factions and chaos.
Very curious how Lucas is back in the show. It seems a bit abrupt like Kennedy and Meadows before. And it’s been bothering me what the mine is. Where is it? How big? Silo is somehow collecting raw materials like metal ore?
The electricity power in the silo must be from something else based on silo 17. That means it’s providing mechanical in silo 18 a false sense of power.
I understand for drama, but a bit strange to see a mob of people going down to mechanical for justice, when they should just let the marshal or judicial to handle 2 people causing murder.
Higher ups use "mobs" of people all the time against "others", there are countless examples throughout history and in our current society. Why get your hands dirty when you can just blame "others" for all their troubles.
Yeah .I thought the whole scene with Rob inciting the upper mob while the so-called murderers are escaping..lol .. downward,was ridiculous!
Why does Bernard bother having a knife put in the chest of the dead Meadows? It's not like anyone is going to stumble on the corpse in an alley somewhere, or some sort of medical examiner called, this is all contained within Judicial.
More than likely to have evidence in case of a trial
because the rusty knife came from mechanical
at 4:48 the wife is holding a red ball and a green ball. Coincidence?
And Meadows also handles a pair of balls. Weird.
One’s orange and one’s yellow lol
Hold on. Why would it be impossible for Solo and Lapas to have been together in the classroom? If the rebellion happened about 30 years ago and he was 10ish at the time then he’d be in his 40s. He appears to be in his 40s or 50s. What am I missing??
Maybe Judge Meadows found George’s door when she disappeared for 4 days.
I really enjoy your breakdowns but I think i enjoy the way you sign off your videos more haha. 😂
They have veered a little from the book(s), intriguing, hope they don’t mess it up.😂
They made it pretty clear before the series aired that the series won't strictly copy the books
@@jeettrivedii True, I guess having read the books I wanted to see how the story reflects on screen, it’s not bad to build in some mystery. It’s encouraging that the author is a part of the process.
Given that there were others who have gone out to clean, in addition to Silo 18's sheriff and his wife, where all died before reaching the edge of the silo's circular dirt wall, we should be able to see their remains on the big screen. However, we only see the sheriff's and his wife's on the ground.
in the book, they are all out there..
I was right about the backstabbing😁
I always have a question, far a way from this episode, where the steam come from??? in season 1 they say we have a steam we don't know where come from, that's makes me wonder.
It's likely a nuclear reactor that pushes steam to every silo, or it could be Geothermal
Disclaimer. I have not read the books.
Solo is such an incredible character
He wa only 10-11 years old when he was told to guard the vault, probably for his own protection in the revolt. He still behave like the same child because he's had no one else.
Music is his only escape and can play the bellows powered harmonium well. I think he must've snuck out as a "naughty" kid to play it. A lol.
When he realised that the harmonium might be irrecoverably destroyed, and he would not be able to make his own music, I felt his sadness so much that it made me cry. Bravo!
That wasn't the only unexpected emotional moment in this episode either. I'm really enjoying the ride! :)
In the books he is actually about 17 years old. It's less believable since they changed it.
Read the books
I think it's pretty much guaranteed Meadows went into the mines during her 4 days. I think that there has to be a reason we haven't seen them and no one wants to go in there. How does the mine even work when they're right next to other silos - there's no where for the mine to go where it wouldn't encounter another obstacle. I'm guessing there has to be some secrets in there.
Keep in mind that George said he had a way to the door without the water being a problem.
This is a great show
One thing I caught on re-watch is he said "when you were the *legacy* (i think) did you use this" is that like the cult initiation into IT or something? I keep wondering if there is someone higher out there calling shots because of the key chain and a few things. Could be wrong here. Good stuff!!
I’m pretty sure there is some sort of governing body. It seems they already revealed there’s some way for the silos to communicate with each other
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I'm curious now that two Silos have talked about people having dogs and cats but I havem't seen any on the show.
The food..
They’re eating the pets!
The food being poisoned was soo predictable that I'm stunned Meadows would just willingly walk into that trap, and didn't even check the suit before the meal. Hard to believe.
She had romantic feelings for him and he had them for her, so she had a blind spot. Even when you don't trust someone in your life completely, you still trust them to not do certain things.
I was trying to figure out what they made those locker props from too eh, it looks really convincing, the angle of filming was very convenient. but she was really whaling on it though eh, after a couple of takes she would have been exhausted.
They used the 1st shot they took. Rebecca was actually hitting the lockers. Because once she bent them, they couldn’t be used again. She played very well into it.
@@GabrielAlcala956 is there behind the scenes footage or something?
There is much to like in this episode but a number of flaws occur:
1) Moment where Jules is almost drowning. In the book, that moment of suspense makes sense because her distance from Solo and from her air supply is bigger. Here, it makes no sense that 2-3 meters from where she left her air supply she gets stuck with the weight and instead of going back for more air she tries to pull a heavy metal weight in water in a tight spot and upwards BEFORE making sure to get air. By just making the water filled space a bit larger, this could have been turned from a stupid to a truly dramatic moment.
Also, they make the never-ending movie mistake of someone seeing perfectly clear in dark waters without carrying a light source. I don't get why, it's such an easy fix plus opportunity for extra tension.
2) The motivation of the Silo population:
- First it gets established that revolution is immenant as the population wonders what it means that Jules walked off. At the least and first step, they understandably would want to send out someone else to investigate.
- Bernard's claims to having developed a new tape could easily be thwarted by Mechanical and Supply to tell people it was their tape that they gave to Jules that allowed her to walk off (possibly unharmed). Now, in the book the departments, Silo population and individuals also miss out on a number of opportunities that would have made sense based on what they knew at the time.
- A small group of people asks for the judge's impeachment why exactly? They may have been bribed/coerced by Sims but they still need to provide a reason to both judge and the Silo. It never seems to come up.
- How did the crowd know Mechanical wanted a meeting with the judge? Why were they so massively against it? Yes, there supposedly was one guy in mechanical who threw a molotov into a crowd but how did one cause the other?
- When Mechanical is lead into the trap by Bernard, they decide to run. Why?!?
They walked up all the way from Mechanical to have a meeting with the Judge. If they wanted to kill her, they'd hardly make an appointment, make it public too, walk in under those circumstances and then kill her (for what?)! And if they didn't come to kill her but things escalated, this would hardly go from "let's have a meeting" to killing her in the minute they have been in there. It would be more sensible to walk back, use the crowd to tell them what they wanted and what they found instead. And it would make sense for at least many in the crowd to be unhappy and/or suspicious about Judicial at this point.
The one thing that makes no sense is to try to outrun a policing system and set trap over some 100 stairs.
3) Judge Meadow's final moments:
Ok, she was ready to die anyway and she surely would have enjoyed the VR. But between her surprise that Bernard poisened her, then her unwavering loyalty to the system where she feels the need to quickly tell Bernard seemingly vital information but then pauses and Bernard instead of seizing the opportunity to learn what life-changing event happened to her 25 years ago he distracts her with the VR? Not impossible but strange moves by those two characters.
Students in film schools and creative writing classes should study the Mayor as the way you make a good villain.
He is far more scary, in his prim, Oxford shirts and tidy vests, than some axe-wielding psycho who slaughters teens at summer camp.
I never thought of Tim Robbins as being a particularly great actor, one way or another, but he is doing a masterful job playing the Mayor. I just hate the character so much and I forget that it’s Tim Robbins.
And, the mushrooms! The Mayor went way old school. That wasn’t just a classic move, it was literally ancient. It’s exactly the same way the emperor Claudius was killed by his wife: he ate poisoned mushrooms. I’m going to start calling the Mayor “Agrippina”.
It was a bold dramatic move but I’m still really pissed that they killed off the Judge. Just as she was starting to get interesting.
I’m just speculating but I now have the distinct impression that Rob is their child, somehow. All this season, I suspected the Judge and Mayor had a past relationship but I wasn’t sure. I thought maybe it could also be that there was no actual relationship but rather unrequited love on the Mayor’s part because he still seemed very enamored of her. I think their last conversation pretty much confirmed that they were a couple, though.
I think the Mayor vanished to give birth and give the baby to whoever Rob thinks his real parents are.
If it comes down to a showdown between the Mayor and Rob, I can see one trying to kill the other and then finding out they are father and son at the last minute when it’s already too late. If that happens, I don’t care if the Mayor is the killer or the victim. I just want to see the look of horror on his face.
The stuff with Jules was interesting but I’m getting a little bored. Time to move on, now, and get back to her silo.
18:54 - What scene is that and what is going on there?
Death is mayor Ruth. Apparently also killed by Bernard
They are being watched
How does that Silo still have power? Especially after all these decades? Nuclear power source in the vault?
In Season 1 it was shown that there is some hot steam (from natural sources I reckon) under the Silo which is ultimately channeled through the turbine which was shut down briefly for repairs.
@@chengmunwai Yeah, but in that 2nd Silo, didn't they shut off the turbine? Also, the whole under section is flooded.
About as much sense as the Silo persecuting, and having a mob kill, the techs in Mechanical who are required to keep the Silo functioning. It's more like a Fallout vault experiment than a logical system. I'd say violence and killing could be population control, but they can control births.
Silo 17 doesn't have power
@ What is powering the vault?
I knew Meadows wasn't getting a suit when Bernard was taking her measurements and she asked if he was going to write them down and he said he doesn't need to.
Theory: Silo 18 has a dark secret: some of its residents are actually British people pretending to talk normal.
8:02 it’s one of the cooler parts of the show. Their lives are like the premise of a thought experiment, they don’t even know what a horizon is!
What's "talk normal"?
@@KeiGambit English like u and me brother
all filmed in a warehouse in England hence why there's a lot of brits in it
@@charmichealsueflipflop21 idk why people can’t talk like normal like us
to me they completely scuffed the backpack scene. In season one they make a point of things being recycled and given to people that need them when the owner no longer does. Then they act like Juliette could deduce something like how long ago the revolt was based of a likely recycled backpack. Did no one else think that could've been any kids backpack? It just also use to be the ladies he's talking about.
That diving scene was so dumb. Like every choice was there just to be a fk up. No need for the weight, the air tube was just long enough to be of no use lol.
I just thought about it 1) the mystery of the letter might influence him to take that piece of the hard drive he salvage and see what it is. 2) she didn't want "to be tethered to him for the rest of her life" did she get an abortion?
Christ Jules being stuck away from the action is the biggest detriment to the show. A main character treading water and stuck in a B plot for a season is painful.
agree. The books moved, The pacing has become way too glacial.
I liked the first season a lot. This second season is feeling drawn out, tedious, and obvious.
4 episodes in and she's still in the Silo next door, god this season is so slow. i imagine the season ends with Juliet cleaning...giving me GOT vibes.
Still havent established how Bernard knew about Silo 17 being dead
He saw the display in Juliet’s helmet cam.
An there is no way the judge should have trusted Bernard at all!
crazy how she got killed but didnt fight back
Yeah it's terrible execution
there Offing minor character's who are not all around that much to lower the cost for said actor's
I wonder why they count days or years at all? I get why silo 1 would want to do that but weeks, months, and years aren't needed for a society that lives underground. I'm assuming they have no limited grow season and I'm having a hard time thinking of a reason they would need them. I wonder how silos would be if they had a different concept of time.
They might not need months and years but they continue to exist. Earth still completes a revolution in an year. It might just be mere time keeping which they didn't see the need to change.
3:13 ah yes the 'cryptic' writings 💀
Humanity at its worst. Living like rats and being constantly lied to. I was hoping that season 2 would show Juliette discovering a community outside of her Silo that's beyond all of the BS. Nope just more of the same, so depressing.
They killed the judge way too soon…. Like it really pisses me off. She had more character development than literally everyone in the entire show and they just end her. Talk about plot convenience. 🙄
I stop being able to suspend disbelief every time a show pretends someone who doesn’t know how to swim suddenly learns how to swim. People who haven’t been taught simply panic and drown.
She wouldn't drown tho, as it there was a spiral staircase below the water. She used a plastic can to float tho
@ there was no staircase or plastic can.
5:49 Galileo!
Magnificooooooo
One trope I'm geting tired of is 85% of TV and movie judges being played by black actors, when in reality only 0.43% of judges are black. And in most cases it must be a strong black women of near infinite wisdom and a sonorous voice. To bring Justice to the Oppressor race. The actor doing drunken Meadow turned into all-wise Judge Meadows was good. But tired of the trope, and I never became a fan of hers or her mysterious Bernard relationship.
Bye! Bye! now time for more interesting story arcs.
Just when it seemed Meadows had put her 💩 in a pile and knew full well Bernard was out to get her, she falls for his trap? I really didn't care about her death since her whole hyped up arc turned out to be a total waste of both screen time, red herring and plot line. Jules is just doing more Jules stuff, not really learning, whilst Solo seems to be the kid that was shown to have died outside after all??
people who need this just shouldn't bother trying to watch anything without being baby sat
13:29 interesting that men see this scene as a man cooking a lovely meal for his friend. Us women knew what he was gonna do the minute he invited her.
The dust cloud is very important because it only occurs around the fifty Silos.
that's what I'm thinking, too, after seeing a spoiler in another recap. It kinda made sense but also bummed out about seeing the spoiler. It all makes sense though and makes you understand the reasoning behind Bernard's motives.
Debes...I like...
Some of the camera work makes it seem as though Solo and Juliette are being watched. Hmm.
This show is thicc with metaphor about democracy and capitalism.
Isn’t solo from the last of us?
This episode is literally fatally flawed.
A bunch of people saw The Mayor and the 2 people from Mechanical enter Meadow's office.
They saw the 2 from Mechanical exit and depart.
They then saw The Mayor and the 4th guy exit Meadow's office minutes later and announce her murder.
The crowd nor the throng of guards aren't going to ask "how'd that 4th guy get in there? where'd he come from? why did they take so long to come out and announce the murder? etc. etc. etc.?"
Come on, there's a way to advance a storyline w/o ruining the immersion w/a poorly written scene.
Are there No animals in the silos? Or even insects like roaches? Rats? They didn't save any puppers or catos?
In season one someone had a pet. a cat i think.
someone in this episode metioned her dogs
I'm wondering where Bernard got a whole chicken from to cook for dinner.
We saw a rabbit in season 1.
Season one also briefly shows cattle in the mids
I’m pretty sure Solo murdered the kids and was likely their teacher, it’s an interesting twist on the book version.
Was Solo a teacher in the book? I haven't read the books.
@@new_age_citizenno he was put in the vault as a kid - Which I think is still probably gonna be the case in the show he’s just dragging out telling Juliette
He recognized one of the kid's backpacks (11 or 12) in the classroom, and Juliette asks how Solo could be sitting next to her. So obviously he has been locked in the room since he was a kid.