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What was the apocalypse that drove them underground?
Anyone else find this less impressive on a re-viewing?
Elsie and Sir William
[Spoilers] Merritt's situation
Dollar store Jack Reacher
Spade's tough-guy/killer reputation in this universe
Total smokeshow when she was young
Ruggedly Handsome and Charismatic — why not a bigger star?
What kind of ending was that?
Dollar store Ryan Reyonolds?
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It’s just filler. I think there’s a bunch of more compelling factors when it comes to how many episodes of a show will be produced, most of them financial.
When the screenplay doesn’t have enough material for its format, flashbacks are a low effort way to bulk it out. I keep waiting for them to just cut in scenes from other movies.
I wonder how much the plot will mirror Silo in terms of residents being unhappy with “management”.
It feels like the usual streamer strategy, drag out the narrative unnecessarily so you can get more seasons out of it.
It's been too long since I read the books, but it feels like season 2 could have been largely condensed. A lot of dramatic filler and narrative elements with little advancement that became entire episodes.
I think part of the reason things like True Detective were so good is that they finish a coherent narrative in a single season. TD S1 could have easily been stretched into two seasons if they had bulked it out with bullshit.
I think Silo isn't a single season show, but it's also not really a 4 season show.
This is one of those movies where the director/writer really wants to tell a story different than the background setting they use, so the narrative logic of the "civil war" often doesn't really make sense.
Probably the small town is trying to keep life as normal as possible, including doing whatever commerce they can considering the chaotic economics that you'd expect in a civil war. The rooftop guards are there to keep a lid on troublemakers.
As for the SUV coming into town, it was marked "Press", so maybe it resulted in the rooftop guards being a little bit subdued in their posture. Plus one vehicle with two women and an old guy really isn't much of a threat if you've got a half-dozen guys with assault rifles on rooftops.
I don't remember seeing any children (besides the alien in a child's body). The typical death rate takes away something like 0.8 to 1% of the population every year. After 10 years, I'd think the population loss without replacement would start to become problematic.
But I can see children being problematic for the aliens -- they can reprogram adults, but reprogramming children seems more difficult, especially if you get into switching around children and parents. It'd be "easier" in some ways if the aliens simply had magic cures for illnesses and could resurrect people if they died in ways that didn't destroy their body (heart attack vs. getting run over by a bus).
But without replacement or some other fix, they'd eventually run out of people.
I'm sure that the CIA and military have intelligence, mostly gathered from DEA/CBP/Homeland Security, about cartel operations and various intervention scenarios developed.
But its an absolute mine field of risk to intervene without total deniability.
Trump is weighing them, sure, but his casual attitude is probably meeting real world issues, like 100k refugees flooding the border, large scale civilian deaths and the diplomatic nightmare of the US waging war on Mexico.
It’s “colorblind casting” and it’s idiotic. Why not have costuming or props that ignore the time period, too? A flat screen would look good in the police office. Rose should drive a Tesla. Maybe the cops should wear Roman military outfits.
You can’t do that in a period piece. Every element of it is designed to create the period verisimilitude. Making the cast up with cast members whose racial makeup doesn’t align with history completely disrupts the period realism.
You wouldn’t cast white people in a film about the ancient Chinese or as African slaves.
Of course in some cases it can work, but these are rare and very specific and sometimes requires the story adapted to make sense.
It could have been an off the books black project. Only a few back at the home office knew about it and when they found out they lost control of the xenomorph and the ship was compromised, they scrubbed everything. Maybe even directed the ship remotely into its collision course with the ring planet.
Arguably Parks could have entered without using the secret passage and gained his "sneak attack" advantage because Sir William was poisoned and already dead or at least incapacitated. Parks may have also wanted Sir William to know he was being killed for retribution by his own abandoned son and not cared about sneaking up on him.
I had the same question on my 4th(!) watching of this.
There was some scene where Isobel seems to be talking (very indirectly) something about "her consequences" relative to pregnancy. It was a brief exchange with others around, but I don't think that had added up to me in previous watchings.
What I'm surprised about is how Isobel was able to get an abortion (then quite illegal in the UK) without the aid of someone older/richer/more power/connected. I don't doubt that Isobel *could* get an abortion, but that it would cost a tidy sum and require a doctor with some level of moral flexibility and a certain loyalty or at least fear of the family's influence. Doctors generally were much more likely to be on a more level social playing field with aristocrats than almost any other profession (I'd wager it was a common profession for 2nd or 3rd sons who could at best expect an allowance and not an inheritance).
So how Isobel was able to get an abortion without her mom or dad finding out. It's probably a not unreasonable bet mom faced a similar situation given her willingness to risk the scandal of crossing the boundaries of class and marital status to shag a "servant". Dad is of course dialed into the servant gossip pipeline and it seems unlikely Isobel and Freddy would get away with a sexual affair without the servants chattering about it. Even missing a period in that era was something a maid might have spotted.
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