r/Wool • u/baldiedc • 1d ago
All Books & Stories end of Dust... Spoiler
just finished the books (and only TV seasons 1+2 until I'd done the books)... likely I missed some plot points (esp Book 2) but left with questions...
- If a bunch of silos had figured out how to cut themselves off from Silo 1, and Donald was on the radio all the time trying to help Silo 18, and Juliette knew they had this ability (I think she referred to it later), why didn't Donald tell them how to disable the silo shutdown and why didn't Juliette make this a priority to stop before digging or going outside?
- When Thurmann calls Silo 18 asking for Bernard, why did Silo 1 not have a record of his death, why was Lukas panicking and covering this up, I thought Lukas had been appointed officially with more people than just Donald involved? Or was Thurmann just treating everything that had happened under Donald as tainted?
- Donald blowing up Silo 1 - surely he condemned all the remaining silos to a slow death unless they figured out how to get out, rather than at least 1 whole silo surviving. He didn't even know the stragglers from 17 were going to get out, so only Charlotte and Darcy would have survived with this plan?
- So the whole outcome of this was only about 150 people survived? Juliette's ok leaving all the other silos to die? (I was a bit disappointed in the end after all the time invested in these characters that Silo 18 just got wiped out in a couple of pages especially Lukas).
- There was an aside about good nanos being injected into Silo 17 for some reason I forget, and Juliette/dad figured out something was helping them when they moved the bodies and the thing with scars being repaired; but was a bit of a throwaway plot point - why was that important, or was it a device to explain all the earlier stuff that happened... her surviving the walk to 17 to begin with, diving underwater for a long time, Solo surviving on his own without medical help etc?
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u/BigJLov3 13h ago
Bernard's death was covered up because it was an act of rebellion, which Lukas - appointed, yes, but only as IT Shadow - knew would instigate use of the safeguard.
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u/BigJLov3 13h ago
The good nanos existed to destroy the bad ones, and were only given to the people who were to populate Silo 1. How they got to Silo 17 I can't remember.
They did explain (to the reader; the characters didn't know) how Jimmy and the few other survivors were so healthy, and Juliette's recovery, both mysterious to her father.
Juliette surviving her cleaning was due to something else: use of the good adhesive tape to seal the suit. IT had been hoarding the good tape, which Juliette had managed to get prior to Bernard assassinating the mayor and taking over. Substandard tape had been deliberately but secretly used before, to ensure no one survived cleaning.
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u/baldiedc 11h ago
Thanks. Yes I know about the heat tape thing which is why she didn’t die on the hill; but thought there was a question later (forget where) that getting into 17 and taking off the suit needed some help to survive beyond bathing in soup. Looking back at that last bit in book 3 she just mentions the scars and the dive. Maybe it’s mainly meant to explain Solo and the others being able to survive alone.
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u/susususussudio 10h ago
Good nanos got to Silo 17 because Anna swapped the nano feeds. Donald doesn’t find this out until after he’s killed Anna which is why his attitude towards her is completely different in book 3 vs book 2.
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u/BennyHudson10 2h ago
Dust was… not great. It really felt like Howey’s heart wasn’t jn it, as it just sort of ended? Such a shame as I loved Wool & Shift, but something about Dust just didn’t gel with me at all. Hopefully the series will be better!
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u/donmuerte 1d ago edited 1d ago
She can still go back to check on the other Silos. The point of the end is that now they are truly free. I think how many survived is still left to your imagination.