Episode 3 timewaster ....

It needs to make a lick of sense to some degrees...

> Hopefully this is the low point of the season and it would improve in the following episodes.

Sadly I've watched too much TV/Movies in my lilfe to hold out much hope. That episode was completely idiotic - a real waste, because that book is so long and detailed that there is really no time to waste of crap like this.

I think what they did was to conflate the ideas in the whole book series and pick and choose the stupid stuff they thought they could make a story 2nd graders could follow, but even 2nd graders are smart enough to know that generator thing was nonsense.

How when they are fixing it the pressure was building up, and they pretended like you can ease the pressure by cooling one small spot or the door. That was stupid.

Then, when they are restarting for drama they show rivets popping out of the pipes and steam venting. But it's all OK when the generator starts again.

There is so much wrong with that episode, with the whole thinking behind it. No backup. Steam coming from some imaginary place that they have no control over. No documentation.

Clearly the steam was supposed to turn the rotor ... but they did not put the cowling back on the turbine, and where is the steam supposed to go after it turns the turbine?

The whole episode was just downright insulting.

Have you read any of the books?

You may want to rewatch the three episodes.

It has been explained in those episodes

here is hint for you uprising destroying history (discovering the hdd and material on it was illegal) so no records and old drill found stripped this could mean they had already used the other parts or destroyed.

What do you expect them to do to repair the blades rub hands over it and magic happens.

Other points made by some of the other user posts I would agree but its a tv show which is not based on reality

Nothing but spoilers here .... be warned
This really didn't make a lot of sense in the book either.

The first hint we get is that the helmets are not just normal protective helmets is that they are packed very carefully in the IT department. Also their packs only have a limited supply of air - so getting sent out is a death sentence if one doesn't take off their helmet, which Holston did.

What I interpreted as happening is that for some stupid reason people who go out to clean see this fake projection of a green living Earth, and only clean because they think the reason the people in the silo don't see it because the lens is dirty. That is such a stupid plit trick I have to wonder if I am way off base.

So, Holston, went out, and saw the nice green view of Earth and did the cleaning? Why not go directly over to where his wife's body was supposed to be - or better yet just take off over the hill?

One thing they did not go into, or didn't go into yet, was that Juliet is mentioned to have stolen tape, that is why she was supposed to be a criminal. The tape she stole was the tape they used to tape up the suits for when people go out to clean. She said the tape was crap, which is correct, it was crap because they wanted the tape to deteriorate when exposed to the outside so the cleaner would die.

The thing that I always questioned about the book was the trips up and down, top to bottom of the silo. That never seemed reasonable to me. But they did do a good job or building the world.

The Empire State building as 102 floors and people race up and down it in way less than a full day. They could have solved some of this by scaling the silo larger. Or maybe the people in the silo are by nature of their environment weak and unhealthy, weaker than we are because they don't get a lot of exercise? Or maybe they break the trip up into two days because they don't want crippling leg cramps for a week to recover.

Then there is always the question of in this incredible Silo built to last hundreds of years, why didn't they just build in a windshield wiper for the camera? And what about if the camera breaks - how does it get replaced? It's just very obvious stupid questions that stick out. But there is a techno elite that runs the Silo, so they may have all these answers and just force the lies on their public.

But the generator ... that was pure stupidity.

The later books go into the past and future of the Silo. The silo(s) are many, many generations old.

Oh, and in the book it is the Will Patton character who dies of poisoning, not the Mayor.

I would really like to be a fly on the wall when the folks who make these dumbass decisions discuss it, and why they decide to stupify movie to the point. Do they talk about deliberately making their movies idiotic?

I mean it could've been in more depth obviously, but ultimately it didn't need to be for the shows purpose.

I'm sure you'll be a big shot if you ever repair a generator on TV.