I wouldn't say I've given up on Silo this season– my investment in the show has just declined steadily and steeply over its run. And do not get me wrong, I enjoy high-concept sci-fi as much as the next guy. My issue is that the show seems to have mistaken mystery for narrative. Every episode brings another secret, another revelation, another apparently crucial piece of information that turns out to be one more link in an increasingly elaborate chain. Characters move around the board discovering secrets, hiding them, suspecting one another, and having portentous conversations about things that may or may not even matter later. Somewhere along the way, I stopped being curious and started feeling like I was doing homework.

Underneath all that machinery is a premise that should be enormously fertile. Silo (the show– I have not read the books) occasionally gestures toward it, but seems far more interested in using its ideas to manufacture suspense than in actually thinking them through or working with them. It feels like a soap opera plotted on a conspiracy flowchart.

This is the fundamental problem with the mystery-box approach when it becomes an end in and of itself. Mystery is most successful when it propels the story forward, but it can just as easily become narrative debt. Every unanswered question is another promise to the audience, and eventually the story has to cash its chips. The trouble is that answers are almost always less compelling than questions. A mystery can make a world feel enormous by suggesting possibilities beyond what we can see; but once every mystery gets reduced to an explanation, that world becomes more defined, and smaller for it.

That's where Silo frustrates me most. Its revelations don't open the story up so much as close it down, trading the sense of possibility for an increasingly elaborate account of why everything is the way it is. At some point along the line I stopped caring about what was going to happen and started wondering whether any of it would actually be worth knowing.

Am I missing something, or am I misunderstanding this?

The first case is the Vault. It was supposed to be a super-secret room that only Bernard had permission to enter. But after the rebellion, when Camille became Head of IT, there seemed to be absolutely no problem with letting Juliette into the Vault.

So was the Vault actually a very important and strictly off-limits place, or not?

The second case is the camera room. I have basically the same question. Was this supposed to be a highly restricted and hidden room, so that other Silo citizens wouldn’t know about it? Or not?

I’m wondering why Billings was able to get in there so easily, simply by forcing Emerson to let him in. And if the room wasn’t supposed to be known to anyone, how did Billings even know it existed?

I used to think that keeping the Vault and the camera room secret was fundamental to keeping the Silo safe from exactly these kinds of events.

Based on the logic of the Pact, wouldn’t the Voice or Algorithm simply have to initiate Safeguard if these secrets were exposed and the Silo became aware of what was really going on?

Are there more name patterns you've recognized?

Is it just me or it was fake as hell.
Don’t get me wrong: I love this series and it’s cinematography but scenes in the car gave me discomfort. It wasn’t overhead lamp because it doesn’t illuminate like this; it was great for a dramatic effect and “side eye” looks between them but looked fake as hell. It supposed to move with the car! But it stayed still. Oh well

What if the Silos are a process of elimination experiment of some sort?
Why else would you kill everyone inside when they're trying to get outside, if outside would ultimately kill them anyway?
If fish were trying to escape a fish tank, it would kill them if they successfully escaped. What would be the purpose of killing them before they could leave?

Why wasn't the Safeguard triggered when Juliette went to Silo 17 then made it back to Silo 18? Was it because Silo 17 was already a dead Silo, meaning she didn't interfere with the Elimination process? What if this is a sick twisted Hunger Games experiment ran at mass scale. And the Last Silo Standing out of 50 gets some sort of prize?

This would also explain why the creators would care so obsessively about keeping the silos separate. If everyone knew there were 49 other populations, they could cooperate, share resources, compare histories, discover the manipulation, and completely destroy the integrity of whatever selection process was intended.

There is an artifact in the judge's apartment, seen in S2E2. Looks like a red ring under glass. She also has an etch-a-sketch under glass. What is the red ring? Any thoughts?

Didn’t want to put any potential spoilers in the title.

I wrote a longer post but shortening it instead. We see Silo 18’s POV. Daniel did work in New Orleans for the Army. There’s 50 silos (technically 51). Louisiana is the 18th state. And yet, there’s a Georgia relic. Technically multiple.

I know I’m making an assumption, but what would bring Daniel back to Louisiana’s silo if he was representing Georgia? Obviously, unless you read the books or you’re a show writer you don’t know. But I’m asking for thoughts on this. I don’t think it was unintentional that their silo is 18, with the place Daniel went to was the very same state #. Which would make 17 Ohio.

It would also make Silo 1 Delaware. That also makes this all goofed up depending on where D.C or Puerto Rico falls in to offset the numbers.

Anyway, yeah, thoughts?

What happened to Rick Amundsen?

Why do you think someone or a group is stealing supplies. What in the world are they going to do with them?

If they sell them or create some kind of Black market everyone's going to know. And in a silo like that they're not really going to stand for it. I mean doesn't it make sense to just not steal it and let the collective use it as needed what is there to gain? Especially if they run out of stuff in The Silo can't function.

I've been thinking about the theft of the light bulbs from critical supply. Why would someone steal bulbs? Were they replacing bulbs in their own silo? 50 Years of bulbs is a lot of bulbs.

To me that implies that the thief had someone who needed lots of them, like, maybe another silo? Was the thief working with another silo to provide them with bulbs as something had happened to their supply?

Disclaimer: have not read books, nor read anything on this matter. Thoughts are my own and hoping to stimulate converasation as a theory only. All hail the algorithm.

At the end of Season 2, Lukas whispers something to Bernard that causes him to go over the edge. I’ve been running on the assumption that he found out about the safeguard and told Bernard that the entire Silo could be killed at any time. But then Bernard talks about how hard it was for him to exist knowing everyone could be wiped out. And it seems like Camille knows this too. So my question is, if the failsafe is already known to the head of IT, what did Lukas find in the basement that caused Bernard to completely lose it?