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SILO TV Series discussion + Book series worth reading? (lemmy.ca)

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Hi!

I was wondering if any of you all have seen the SILO apple tv series and what you all thought about it. I'm a bit late to the party, but thought it was a fun, mystery, sci-fi show with a cool premise.

"In a ruined and toxic future, a community exists in a giant underground silo that plunges hundreds of stories deep; there, people live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them."

As well, has anyone read the book series? Does it have a satisfying ending? I'm interested to check it out, but don't want to spoil myself. I'm debating just following along as a fun, intriguing, tv series rather than investing into the books.

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[–] guylacaptivite 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was in the process of reading the book when I heard about the series. All I have to say is that , once again with tv adaptations, the writers are doing fan fiction. So while the premise amd character names are the same, too many characters have wildly different motivations and arcs. I don't want to go to into spoilers so I'll leave it at that. The books are way more interesting. The show dives too much into overused tropes like "forbidden love" and "protect the family". Same thing happened to the Witcher series. A bunch of writers couldn't hold back their ego on reinventing the material that already existed that was actually great and what the audience loved.

So yeah read it if you liked the series, it's all better

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, thats a strong recommendation, I will definitely check it out!

It agree, the threatened harm to love one's as a means to fall in line was a bit overdone, but probably realistic.

[–] guylacaptivite 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's also not at all what Juliette does in the book. She's almost entirely motivated by Holston's cleaning and it's myatery. Also the whole Peter Billings scared for his family and his "syndrome" doesn't exist. The whole point of the book is critical people questionning their way of life that find and help each other out. The show is really lazily written by people who did not understand or knew the source material. And that whole "big brother" camera room is a fucking joke. Bernard is a much better antagonist in the novel. No need for Sims as the ruthless killer that loves his son(sôooooo fucking dumb) and the judge that actually was invented for the show. He easily fit those three parts and that makes for a more fleshed out and complex character, just like real life. But ok I'll stop, I'm just tired of poor writers butcheringn an already existing amd well thought out book. There is no excuse, they're just writing by numbers.