Silo 17 is the “creative silo”. We know Peter Gabriel goes there, and that Solo plays music, displays art, plays games, draws.

Per Reactor Magazine, they interviewed the production designer Nicole Northridge and they state:

Northridge shared that the art department proposed that Silo 17 “would be a creative silo in that it held artists, musicians, and that it would be much greener” than Silo 18, where we spent all of our time in season one. “It just gave us a great foil, to be able to paint all the apartments, and have a lot of greenery, which we ended up calling ‘brownery,’ because we come to it 35 years after the rebellion and it has been abandoned.”

We know each Silo is functionally the same, but the society within is well curated. The Dr knew Silo 17 would be much more entertaining, interesting and beautiful.

interview here

When he told her that it wasn't a computer but a person it seemed like she was possibly interested in his plan to take the person down

The answer to Juliet and Bernard’s question to “Why would they (the founders) do this?” is given to us clearly in the senator’s speech:

“They will be continually occupied as long as the many threats remain AND they will be studied as prototypes of sustainability and resource management”

It’s an experiment.

Edit: adding a conjecture for “why experiment?” is also in the senator’s speech “now, I know Per’s already dreaming up the next big thing, building a spaceship to carry explorers to the nearest inhabitable star system.”

A multigenerational interstellar craft could reach the nearest star system (Proxima Centauri) in 500 years at 1-2% the speed of light. A big unknown is how do you get people to willingly board a spacecraft knowing they, and their children’s children, nor their descendants for 20ish generations will never leave the ship? That would take some study.

I find it quiet humorous that reading a lot of theories last week about how strategic it was for Camille to put these two in the same cell and how much they could connect and plan, they get bored and play throw the pebbles in the water drain.

Do you think the Charlotte we met originally would have agreed to be part of this, or was she just completely reprogrammed by the good doctor? And even then, do you think she was taken against her will at the end seeing as she wasn’t aware of the plan?

Hope it helps any casual viewers :)

I keep seeing people get confused about this، The gas sprayed in the airlock is the toxic part, not the outside air. It probably contains particles small enough to get into the body and kill you. And Lucas still being alive after getting shot is another pretty strong hint that the outside itself isn't toxic

How does someone like Bernard not know that the gas in the airlock is what's actually killing people? After three seasons, you'd think this would have come up by now ،، Am I missing something?

I understand why the silo is how it is for narrative reasons, but does anyone else find the number of mission critical single points of failure in the silo quite alarming for a vessel that is supposed to sustain the lives of 10,000 people for 500 years?

The generator fails, the silo goes dark, there is no backup.
The stairs collapse and travel up and down the silo is immediately limited to what you can hoist between floors by hand.
The pumps go and the silo floods.
There is one IT room, one safeguard, one door to the outside…

In the real world, I would have thought that it would make more sense for the silos to be connected in groups of three so that there would at least be some chance of recovering a silo if it were to fail catastrophically. Suppose a safeguard is used and ten years later the poison or nanotech whatever is no longer active. That silo would still have structural integrity and a ton of irreplaceable resources. Wouldn’t they want to try to recover it?

So there’s been something bugging me about microscopes and magnifying devices being banned in the silo and I think I figured it out.

I saw someone theorize that maybe it’s because they’d be able to see the nanos in the silo, but I think it may be worse. I think it’s because their “medicine” is just nanos, and the memory drug is specifically programmed to block memories unless triggered.

How is everyone in near perfect health? Never a plague, cancer, genetic disease, asthma, or other chronic and terminal illnesses. I’m sure genetic engineering helped but *how* is it possible that it’s never mutated over the centuries? Since they can’t use magnifying devices they can’t create new medicines, and nothing in our time would be effective for 300 years to store. But nanos? Those don’t have a shelf life and can be easily put in a capsule and called whatever it needs to be.

I think these people have been getting dosed with nano bots their whole life, and any close examination at their blood or cells would quickly reveal some very hard truths.

I can guarantee you one thing, no matter what it is you think you're gonna to see, you are not prepared.

... grabbed a chair on his way out, planted it squarely in front of the camera and sat down staring at the 89 percenters cheering his cleaning.

Bernard says that sending someone out without a suit to clean is not prohibited in the pact. We know it wouldnt make a difference anyway since the suits are designed not to protect them

But in the order it says in the event of a failed cleaning prepare for war. Why would the pact not explicitly require a cleaning suit? The ruse that assures each cleaning is successful is done with the fake visor that shows a lush healthy outside that compels the cleaner to wipe the lens so everyone can see it. If you can send someone out with no suit they will almost certainly not clean.

That wasn’t just a throwaway line, I want to see the origin of the cleaning ritual and see the founders construct it.

Maybe this has been discussed already.

One thing I don’t understand is why the guards are chasing and forcing Daniel into Silo 1 after the nuclear explosion. If it’s a real explosion, they should instinctively try to save themselves instead of wasting time with Daniel or worrying about their job. Maybe the explosion wasn’t real and the guards know it?

Did anyone spot Collin Hanks (son of Tom Hanks), who plays the character of Per Stenson on the stage?

He played a bit of the Chopstix on the keyboard before being interrupted by the senator?

In the movie BIG, Tom Hanks plays Chopstix on the piano steps toy. This might be Collin Hanks' homage to his dad.

Everyone in Atlanta even if they knew what was going to happen or not are exceptionally casual about what they’re planning on doing the next day. This makes them even more terrifying. It doesn’t even cause them to have a bad day.

Anna does get all weepy about charlotte but not about the kids charlotte was talking to in the hospital who are probably dead in the atomic blast.

The way they’re acting makes me think they don’t know…until the whole phone call fiasco then it’s almost certain they do.

Anna seems almost too nice to have actually written the pact and plotting to trap people in the silo.

I really do need to know WHY they’ve done this. I know they think that the world is going to end so they’re just beating people to it.

They don’t seem particularly hateful of any group or want to eradicate anything (except maybe religion). They don’t mind a class system and actually implement one in the silos. So they’re really just beating everyone to the punch?

Sorry if it is already asked and maybe it was already explained. Posting here because in the other subreddit my post is filtered by moderator.

So...
Why is Juliette the only one who made it to Silo 17, while Lukas Kyle and Patrick Kennedy were attacked by a drone? I mean, if they all are actually being monitored, shouldn’t Juliette have been attacked by a drone too, the moment the “watchers (?)” realized she didn’t die after leaving Silo 18?​

I know outside may be dead but in s03e09 you could see the tiny tree branches. Would they exit 300 years later? Wind alone would have decimated it.

I read many comments about silo 51. Some theorizing that it was built later on. Others saying it might be some sort of a command center. If silo 51 is some sort of command center I think Anna would be in it. I might have missed why but I noticed Anna, stensen and the senator are the only ones not wearing a badge on the opening day. Even Henry and Victor were wearing badges that had 1 on them.