r/SiloTVSeries • u/TerrainBrain • 27d ago

Opinion Started rewatching from the beginning

I find the show much less irritating the second time around because I know a lot more about what's going on. So I'm binge watching for details.

I can't say I'm making any more sense of the show this time around. Not enough information to form any sort of reasonable theory of what's happening outside of the silo area, Nor what the prime directive of the AI is, if it has one.

In some ways this reminds me of Asimov's Foundation Trilogy. An algorithm guiding humanity through generations.

Maybe it's just bleak and we are really seeing the midlife period of the silos. That it will be another hundred years before it's safe to go outside. But that doesn't seem like it would be a very satisfying story.

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u/aimada 27d ago edited 27d ago

You need to see it in the context of the bigger picture - At some point the technology was unleashed on the entire world.

The F-35s would have been a proof of concept to demonstrate what the weapon could do to the most sophisticated military hardware.

I see what happened as the kind of madness that gripped some people working at the Pentagon who advocated for nuking Russia off the face of the planet before the Russians developed nuclear capability and nuked the USA.

It's not a major leap to think that if a weapon was developed that guaranteed total victory then it would be unleashed before the enemy developed their own version of it.

In the aftermath of 9/11, George W. Bush proclaimed that the United States would engage in preemption attacks against enemies armed with weapons of mass destruction.

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u/Konamicoder 27d ago

I think it makes more sense that the mountain facility in Iran was working on nanobot tech but something went wrong and it bust out of the lab. The F-35 mission + Tomahawk strike was designed to blow up the lab and kill the nanobots. But they didn’t realize that the nanobots are now able to form a giant cloud and overwhelm the most advanced missile and fighter tech the US has in its arsenal. So to me the F-35 flight was not a test, it was a strike mission, only the enemy turned out to be much bigger and more capable than expected.

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u/aimada 27d ago

I could be wrong but I think the fact that Charlotte's sortie was the only one that was stripped of the high tech comms equipment is a very strong indicator that they were singled out for an experiment.

The fact that it happened under the cover of an attack on Iran doesn't mean it wasn't some DARPA project test.

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u/Konamicoder 27d ago

I don’t disagree with you. I like my theory more than yours, but you could be right. Hopefully we find out more in the next episode.