YJ02
Well Known GateFan
I waited until I watched the entire 10 ep season before I made the thread, just to be sure that nothing went 'wonky' after I posted that it was a worthy show to watch.
So, it IS a very worth your while show to watch.
Apparently there is a book series that I know nothing about and I did not look it up or watch any compare and contrast videos. I am just going with what I have seen onscreen.
First off, great acting and very good actors old and new. Tim Robbins and Iain Glenn are the old, known actors who both do great roles in this. Rebecca Ferguson, a Swedish actress who I see has been in several Mission Impossible movies as well as the new Dune movie, plays a lead role. Common also plays a major role and is very convincing as a "enforcer" type of guy. And a actor I never heard of, Chinaza Uche.
The basic premise- ""Set in a dystopian future where a community exists in a giant underground silo comprising 144 levels, 10,000 people live in a society bound by regulations they believe are meant to protect them. The community thrives without knowing their history, as records were supposedly destroyed 140 years earlier during a failed uprising.""
they have very little tech.. no cameras, no radios or other commo devices other than the ones used by Law Enforcement; no elevators or other powered means of going up and down through the levels. They have computers, but no TVs. The computers appear to operate on a late 1980's early 1990's DOS type of system but maybe with better hardware? It is almost as if the original group of Silo inhabitants entered in the 1990's with tech as is - maybe they entered as part of some Doomsday cult? They never intended to re-emerge, hence the massive control
the way the place is run, the way its government is set up, doesn't feel like it was built and set up by any actual Government. more like it was set up by some private group or corporation...
the levels include the lowest level where they mine for things like iron ore and other minerals, where fresh water is extracted. other levels are nothing but food production under UV lights; wheat, corn, vegetables. Another level doubles as both cemetery and fruit orchard
the power for the Silo is a massive generator powered by geo thermal.
there is one external camera outside the Silo's entrance monitoring the same scene day and night. the top level has an actual window where people can see the stars at night but they don't know what they are or what they are called, just 'lights at night'
no books from before. any books found are contraband
if someone says they want to go outside, it is considered major crime and can not e taken back. the person is suited up in an environmental suit and 'sent out to clean' . clean the lens of the camera "so that we may see when the world is safe for us to go out"
but there is NO effort or monitoring program in place to check on the outside environment, at least none shown. when a person goes out, they see a much diff picture, one with blue skies green grass and birds, soon after they collapse and die (??)
after a few of these incidents, a new sheriff is appointed to investigate why ppl asked to go out as well as a murder, then more happens.....
its defi sci fi, as is seen through revelations along the way. the sci fi is in the questions you are left with
S2 already written pre writers strike. no release date planned yet
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZYhuvIv1pA
So, it IS a very worth your while show to watch.
Apparently there is a book series that I know nothing about and I did not look it up or watch any compare and contrast videos. I am just going with what I have seen onscreen.
First off, great acting and very good actors old and new. Tim Robbins and Iain Glenn are the old, known actors who both do great roles in this. Rebecca Ferguson, a Swedish actress who I see has been in several Mission Impossible movies as well as the new Dune movie, plays a lead role. Common also plays a major role and is very convincing as a "enforcer" type of guy. And a actor I never heard of, Chinaza Uche.
The basic premise- ""Set in a dystopian future where a community exists in a giant underground silo comprising 144 levels, 10,000 people live in a society bound by regulations they believe are meant to protect them. The community thrives without knowing their history, as records were supposedly destroyed 140 years earlier during a failed uprising.""
they have very little tech.. no cameras, no radios or other commo devices other than the ones used by Law Enforcement; no elevators or other powered means of going up and down through the levels. They have computers, but no TVs. The computers appear to operate on a late 1980's early 1990's DOS type of system but maybe with better hardware? It is almost as if the original group of Silo inhabitants entered in the 1990's with tech as is - maybe they entered as part of some Doomsday cult? They never intended to re-emerge, hence the massive control
the way the place is run, the way its government is set up, doesn't feel like it was built and set up by any actual Government. more like it was set up by some private group or corporation...
the levels include the lowest level where they mine for things like iron ore and other minerals, where fresh water is extracted. other levels are nothing but food production under UV lights; wheat, corn, vegetables. Another level doubles as both cemetery and fruit orchard
the power for the Silo is a massive generator powered by geo thermal.
there is one external camera outside the Silo's entrance monitoring the same scene day and night. the top level has an actual window where people can see the stars at night but they don't know what they are or what they are called, just 'lights at night'
no books from before. any books found are contraband
if someone says they want to go outside, it is considered major crime and can not e taken back. the person is suited up in an environmental suit and 'sent out to clean' . clean the lens of the camera "so that we may see when the world is safe for us to go out"
but there is NO effort or monitoring program in place to check on the outside environment, at least none shown. when a person goes out, they see a much diff picture, one with blue skies green grass and birds, soon after they collapse and die (??)
after a few of these incidents, a new sheriff is appointed to investigate why ppl asked to go out as well as a murder, then more happens.....
its defi sci fi, as is seen through revelations along the way. the sci fi is in the questions you are left with
S2 already written pre writers strike. no release date planned yet
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZYhuvIv1pA
