Men and women live in a giant silo underground with a lot of regulations which they think are supposed to protect them from the toxic and ruined world on the surface.
An excellent series. Love Tim Robbins. Season 2 following the books well. I read them all after viewing Season 1. It is so understandable how they try to keep control and what sets people off to rebellion. Some good human nature stuff here. Imagine how much effort originally had to go into building so many of them? Will there be some exploration of that. Wait and see?
by paisley1 posted 2 weeks ago
greatscott said:
lighton wrote:
(If you have watched s02e01, this is no spoiler. Just in case, I still put in as spoiler)
I watched it as her decontamination attempt - am I right? Was there more to it?
You are smart. Indeed it's her decontamination attempt. The fluid is some soup in the fridge that smells very bad, etc.
Yes, here's the line in the book...
"She wanted to dilute the toxins as she would with any other chemical spill back in Mechanical."
"She could feel the liquid soup splatter over her suit, crinkling it and splashing to the floor. Her knees slipped in the stuff. She felt for the next one and did the same, ran her fingers into the puddles and coated herself in it. There was no way of knowing if she was being crazy, if she was making things worse, or if any of it mattered. Her boot slipped, sending her flat onto her back, her helmet cracking against the floor."
They turned the soup into dirty water, but even still, the way it's written is more engaging and has a sense of urgency and inner thought, that the show didn't do, and the show also downplayed the toxic odor and urgency of finding fresh air...
"Out of the fog of rotting soup, and took another gulp of air. Air. She took a lungful, the odor still overpowering, the soup coating her. But beyond the stench, something else was there. Something faint. Something breathable that began to force away the dizziness and the panic. It was oxygen. Life. Juliette was still alive. She laughed madly and stumbled toward the stairwell, drawn to the green glow of light breathing deeply and too exhausted to appreciate this, the impossible Life still in her."
Like, the mind paints in the missing parts when reading, but that's more engaging, right?
by greatscott posted 2 weeks ago
(If you have watched s02e01, this is no spoiler. Just in case, I still put in as spoiler)
lighton wrote:
I watched it as her decontamination attempt - am I right? Was there more to it?
You are smart. Indeed it's her decontamination attempt. The fluid is some soup in the fridge that smells very bad, etc.
by lighton posted 2 weeks ago
paisley1 said:
I seem to be at odds with the other comments, never having read the books I found this first episode of S2 slow and it did not hold my attention like the first series. The only thing that will make me watch s02e02 was the last couple of minutes otherwise I would have dropped it. Hopefully it will get back to more like the first series from here on.
That tracks, especially in how perspective plays a role in engagement, like... in my mind reading this, the camera was further away and gave a greater sense of isolation and how alone she was, whereas the episode had too many close ups and didn't give the viewer enough sense of isolation/separation/abandonment/fear. It also felt like we new some of her decision making process in the book, like when she spills that dirty water on her uniform it's explained what's going on in her head and why she's doing it, which engages the reader, but in the show you're just watching her decisions without knowing the internal struggle she's going through, which isn't as engaging. I watched it as her decontamination attempt - am I right? Was there more to it?
by paisley1 posted 2 weeks ago
colinsp said:
I seem to be at odds with the other comments, never having read the books I found this first episode of S2 slow and it did not hold my attention like the first series. The only thing that will make me watch s02e02 was the last couple of minutes otherwise I would have dropped it. Hopefully it will get back to more like the first series from here on.
That tracks, especially in how perspective plays a role in engagement, like... in my mind reading this, the camera was further away and gave a greater sense of isolation and how alone she was, whereas the episode had too many close ups and didn't give the viewer enough sense of isolation/separation/abandonment/fear. It also felt like we new some of her decision making process in the book, like when she spills that dirty water on her uniform it's explained what's going on in her head and why she's doing it, which engages the reader, but in the show you're just watching her decisions without knowing the internal struggle she's going through, which isn't as engaging.
by lighton posted 2 weeks ago
colinsp said:
Hopefully it will get back to more like the first series from here on.
Yes... I would be very surprised if they'd keep it ... a show with only two characters. :D
by Wizard posted 2 weeks ago
I would recommend you read the books (all three of them) and if you really like then, there is a huge amount of fan-fiction too.
by colinsp posted 2 weeks ago
I seem to be at odds with the other comments, never having read the books I found this first episode of S2 slow and it did not hold my attention like the first series. The only thing that will make me watch s02e02 was the last couple of minutes otherwise I would have dropped it. Hopefully it will get back to more like the first series from here on.
by paisley1 posted 2 weeks ago
201 - A play by play straight from the book, exactly how I imagined it. Really good start to the season.
Can't wait to see her unplug the drain deep in the water and nearly drown on her way up.
by lighton posted 2 weeks ago
BiltonLodger said:
Season 2, Episode 1 just 'dropped' here in Australia, and, in this humble Fans opinion, is the best TV episode released in 2024.
'The engineer' left me completely satisfied with the uncomfortable feeling I had with the ending of Season One. It built on our world, grew a bit of the past histories of a few people we had already met, it opened up an insanely huge step into the Silo's much larger world.
Whoever wrote the script for that episode is a master storyteller and deserves awards, money and recognition for that brilliant episode.
Yes, what a great episode. That was Rebecca Ferguson's best performance I ever saw!
And her falling into the abyss... and hitting the perfectly still water only two levels down... Just wow!
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(If you have watched s02e01, this is no spoiler. Just in case, I still put in as spoiler)
I watched it as her decontamination attempt - am I right? Was there more to it?
Yes, here's the line in the book...
"She wanted to dilute the toxins as she would with any other chemical spill back in Mechanical."
"She could feel the liquid soup splatter over her suit, crinkling it and splashing to the floor. Her knees slipped in the stuff. She felt for the next one and did the same, ran her fingers into the puddles and coated herself in it. There was no way of knowing if she was being crazy, if she was making things worse, or if any of it mattered. Her boot slipped, sending her flat onto her back, her helmet cracking against the floor."
They turned the soup into dirty water, but even still, the way it's written is more engaging and has a sense of urgency and inner thought, that the show didn't do, and the show also downplayed the toxic odor and urgency of finding fresh air...
"Out of the fog of rotting soup, and took another gulp of air. Air. She took a lungful, the odor still overpowering, the soup coating her. But beyond the stench, something else was there. Something faint. Something breathable that began to force away the dizziness and the panic. It was oxygen. Life. Juliette was still alive. She laughed madly and stumbled toward the stairwell, drawn to the green glow of light breathing deeply and too exhausted to appreciate this, the impossible Life still in her."
Like, the mind paints in the missing parts when reading, but that's more engaging, right?
lighton wrote:
That tracks, especially in how perspective plays a role in engagement, like... in my mind reading this, the camera was further away and gave a greater sense of isolation and how alone she was, whereas the episode had too many close ups and didn't give the viewer enough sense of isolation/separation/abandonment/fear. It also felt like we new some of her decision making process in the book, like when she spills that dirty water on her uniform it's explained what's going on in her head and why she's doing it, which engages the reader, but in the show you're just watching her decisions without knowing the internal struggle she's going through, which isn't as engaging.
I watched it as her decontamination attempt - am I right? Was there more to it?
That tracks, especially in how perspective plays a role in engagement, like... in my mind reading this, the camera was further away and gave a greater sense of isolation and how alone she was, whereas the episode had too many close ups and didn't give the viewer enough sense of isolation/separation/abandonment/fear. It also felt like we new some of her decision making process in the book, like when she spills that dirty water on her uniform it's explained what's going on in her head and why she's doing it, which engages the reader, but in the show you're just watching her decisions without knowing the internal struggle she's going through, which isn't as engaging.
Yes... I would be very surprised if they'd keep it ...
a show with only two characters. :D
Can't wait to see her unplug the drain deep in the water and nearly drown on her way up.
'The engineer' left me completely satisfied with the uncomfortable feeling I had with the ending of Season One. It built on our world, grew a bit of the past histories of a few people we had already met, it opened up an insanely huge step into the Silo's much larger world.
Whoever wrote the script for that episode is a master storyteller and deserves awards, money and recognition for that brilliant episode.
Yes, what a great episode. That was Rebecca Ferguson's best performance I ever saw!
And her falling into the abyss... and hitting the perfectly still water only two levels down... Just wow!