I’ve read and enjoyed the novels. Watching the show right now, I’m in episode 3 and it’s losing me. The generator scene is bloody idiotic, and the absolute lack of respect for my intelligence has me wondering if I should just drop it right now. Does it get any better, or is this one of those shows with plotholes galore that you have to turn off your brain to enjoy?

Edit: Since I compiled this list in a comment, may as well add it to the main post.

List of stupidity:

  1. A generator intended to last for centuries, has no shutoff mechanism without blowing up. It was just intended to last all that time, with all those moving parts under immense pressure, without any possibility of repair.
  2. Steam underground can apparently heat up steel to red hot temps, while not baking the lower levels alive.
  3. Throwing some cold water at said red hot steel somehow relieves the pressure on the other side without turning Mechanical into a Dutch oven.
  4. Utter and absolute lack of any backup power beyond keeping a few fans turning. In a facility that’s supposed to last centuries.
  5. Sparkly angle grinders! Best repair tool ever.
  6. Turbine somehow works while walls are removed meaning there’s no pressure.
  7. Knox just yelling at everybody to hurry up. Because yes, rushing and stressing workers in a already high pressure situation works so well.
  8. The generator (again, the one that’s supposed to last half a millennium, and has no backup, or shutdown mechanism) is apparently fragile enough you can break it by dropping a hand tool on it.
  9. Rising pressure does not cause rising temperatures.
  10. The heroine can apparently survive temperatures that turn steel red hot.

That’s just the obvious technical stuff, without getting into things like the stupidity of turning off power to the entire facility with next to no notice.

  • MimicJar@lemmy.worldM
    5·
    19 hours ago

    I went into the show knowing nothing and really enjoyed season 1. I thought season 2 had good elements, but didn’t work overall. I’ll probably still watch (or at least start) season 3.

    For me season 2 felt like a show trying at adapt a book, if that makes sense. Parts of it didn’t feel believable, but I could convince myself it made sense if someone took time to explain it, but the show didn’t. Or the opposite where a subtle reveal would beat you over the head because instead of slowly hinting, they just very clearly make odd decisions that have to have meaning.

    • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      19 hours ago

      Season two was a mixed bag.

      I will be interested to see how season three goes. It looks like it might take place in the past, explaining what lead to the silo’s creation. I’m not really interested in that. And if that’s all it is, I’ll drop it. I’m more interested in the original characters unraveling the mysteries on their own.

      • MimicJar@lemmy.worldM
        2·
        19 hours ago

        I don’t know how many seasons are planned, but I assume the past scene was just a small tease. Assuming 4 seasons as a complete guess, would think season 3 will have 2-3 past scenes right after a character learns something, then season 4 would have an episode of parallel scenes or one full past episode.

        Ultimately leading to a past scene that says “And hopefully, years from now, the human race can rebuild, having learned to treat Mother Nature more kindly”, jump to Solo people starting a new world and the the audience, knowing why, but the Solo people not, if they can rebuild.