Ancestors

Toot

Written by Z̈oé ⛵ on 2025-01-18 at 23:49

Watching the first episode of season 1 after the season 2 finale hits so different

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Descendants

Written by Z̈oé ⛵ on 2025-01-18 at 23:56

I really wish they spent more on consulting engineers and scientists; the worldbuilding is very good, excellent acting and drama, they could’ve made it bit more scientifically believable but maybe my expectations are too high for scifi since The Expanse

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Written by Z̈oé ⛵ on 2025-01-19 at 00:04

Speculation: the silos were initially created as part social experiment, part survival strategy. The Founders wanted to have an isolated human population, and those who left, were poisoned so that they didn’t all just leave.

Then thermonuclear war happened and it got actually unsafe to get out, so that strategy was adjusted. Their history has been rewritten, Rebellion wasn’t a thing.

I’m not sure if I like the message that a totalitarian society is stable.

[#]silo

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Written by bipolaron on 2025-01-19 at 00:08

@uint8_t I got a little lost, but does the protocol make it so that it's temporarily safe... or temporarily poisonous... they seemed awfully worried about it being activated for their Silo. But at another point they implied it made it safe for a little while.

I am not sure why the thermonuclear thing would necessarily be true, I never got the impression anyone had real facts. Is it for sure not fine if you get away from the experiment?

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Written by Z̈oé ⛵ on 2025-01-19 at 00:30

@bipolaron I think their air filter unit was rigged and contained the poison, or the airlock „decontamination“ was it, their suit wasn’t sealed, so they died shortly after

As for the Safeguard protocol; basically the moment the experiment found out about itself that it was an experiment, it lost its value to the Founders, so they poisoned the silo. Maybe. I’m speculating.

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Written by bipolaron on 2025-01-19 at 00:45

@uint8_t I'm still not quite getting why Camille could stay but not Sims. I feel like it implied she had yet another mystery role, presumably the protocol somehow. But it is not enough information since we don't know what she did...

You're right that the very very end implied [well a dirty bomb], but... in the 70s with Nixon? But people aren't all dead so it wasn't armageddon.

Did you recognize any of them in the after bit? I did not, it was very disconnected.

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Written by Z̈oé ⛵ on 2025-01-19 at 00:50

@bipolaron no I‘d expect that to be totally disconnected with like a hundred years in between. except the pez dispenser.

the dirty bomb could’ve been a false flag. either way, big doomsday time.

but I think the silos were already built and operating as a secret social experiment by the time of the last throwback scene.

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Written by Z̈oé ⛵ on 2025-01-19 at 00:54

@bipolaron I would’ve loved to see something like this underground https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2 I think the showrunners weren’t autistic enough about the biology, agriculture, and engineering problems

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Written by Zło To on 2025-01-19 at 18:56

@uint8_t

But in the show rebellions are journaled with the writings on the wall below mechanical, so every time there's risk of everyone escaping. Whether they die or not, it's not stable

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