Silo — Season 3 Official Teaser | Apple TV

In a way, yes, but my understanding is that they filmed Season 3 and 4 back to back.

I think they also shot season 4 thats why it took a while.

Have you seen what the Silo set looks like?

it's been a while since i read the book, but i think they ended in the same place

Yeah, seasons 1 and 2 cover book 1, then the next two seasons will contain a sequel each.

I don't get why they turned one book into two seasons. The first "Silo" novel is pretty snappy in terms of pacing, it could have easily been done in one season if they hadn't put in a bunch of stuff that wasn't in the books. It felt like they covered the meat of the content in the first season and then had to pile a bunch of filler in the second to pad it out to a full season. If they're committing to ending the show with the fourth season that means the pacing should be a little better. But I am worried they will cut out large portions of the second book since a lot of it doesn't involve the main cast and replace it with more filler. Shift was my favorite book in the series.

> They could get more seasons out of it if it was better planned imo They honestly could've just not split the first book into two seasons. The third or fourth episode in the first season, with the engine turbine, is about a paragraph long, if that, in the actual book.

Pacing is definitely an issue. I can't even crawl out of season one.

I thought the second book was boring as hell. Only knowing it was a trilogy got me through it. And its not like it was a long or difficult read.

Yeah, I was glued into the world building on top of the mystery, shocked that others think it's slow.

Having read the books, I definitely thought some of S2 dragged. Mainly because in the show they needed to make the end of it line up in a way that didn't have to happen in the book.

I think if you read the books already you’d find the pacing of season 2 a bit slow. Not really a spoiler but >!the scene at the end of the season 2 finale is basically what a lot of us expected through out the season because the second book is a prequel!<

Same. But I also read the books after season 1 so I know the big picture story and every scene was relevant for me.

It definitely dragged if you waited all that time for season 2 to see Rebecca Fergusons story progress.. only for her to do engineering side quests for an entire season.

Steve Zahn wasn't in Fallout S2, no itch has been scratched here.

Every role he has every played kinda reminds me of like Lenny in of Mice and Men.

The weird scene where he explains his dad was a janitor spy and got his bully reassigned to another level of the silo It was so poorly executed, like he was dramatically reading Where The Wild Things Are on reading rainbow or some shit

That is pretty common. Ben Affleck is always billed as an Oscar w*****, and his were for writing and producing.

That's quite literally his character though, he was raised by a "serious and gruff" tough man who had no emotional intelligence or capability, and as a result the only way he knows how to portray himself as competent and capable is by being an emotionally shut off cop. The show goes out of its way to repeatedly show -and- tell us that he's head of security because he's so easily manipulated, that he's only ever been placed in the positions that he has because he's an extremely useful tool, hyper competent, but with 0 ability to question or think for himself. The Judge, his wife, Bernard, they all use him as they want, while oh-so-easily convincing him that everything he does is his own idea. The show is pretty straight forward with all of this.

Definitely agree with your last point. I was able to binge it and had no issues at all with the pacing aside from a point or two in the story where they would introduce a cliff hanger and basically abandon that until an episode later or something instead of resolving it or giving clues. Been a while since I watched so could be misremembering tbf

It's also a criticism that will lessen once people see where the story goes, the unfortunate reality is that book 2 would be basically impossible to adapt. So what seemed like a lot of pointless milling about and meandering will make a -lot- more sense with what comes in the future.

I binged it, no regrets.

Oh yeah this is not a show I would tolerate weekly release for. It's good, but not even remotely good enough for that. I just calendar the last episode and try to remember to watch it around then. Or a year later... If a show isn't going to be respectful of my time, it's not going to be a priority for me.

I’ve wondered about this in all cinema. Idk if it’s I’m getting more lenient on movies/shows now that I’m middle aged but I tend to appreciate them more than others it seems. I’ll watch a movie and think “that was pretty good” and go online and see the majority of people say it was the worst thing they have ever witnessed.

I think its really about the fact that there is source material. I watched season 1, and that got me to read the books. So I had finished them all by the time s2 came out, and I found the pacing in s2 to be off in a way I didn't feel about season 1 or the books. I think for me, I knew exactly how season 2 would end, and it was like "you are really milking these 8 episodes to get there"

No you only want to see the negative that's all. And there are genuine and valid criticisms to form about season 2. Critical thinking isn't cynicism.

You've never publicly disliked a show, then?

I agree. Shift was / is incredible.

Same here. I was so hyped at the reveal at the end of season 2. To say that book has a successful build up/payoff is an understatement. I will say I’ve been expecting them to mix up past/present in the show. I’d be 100% down for a straight up Shift season, but that seems a little adventurous for a tv show.

Opposite opinion, I thought Wool was 8.5/10, Shift 3/10, Dust 7/10, it simply meandered far too hard and the big reveals were incredibly obvious from page 10 so nothing really hit and it ended up just being a book spent with people that had all the personality of a piece of gravel.

Book 2 has stuff in the Silo, but mostly focuses on new characters.

I haven't read these books, no.

Finding this to be a common trait with a lot of new shows these days. Really annoying

To be fair, that's the entire structure of Paradise, and has been since the first episode. Hell, James Marsden is a lead in the show and he dies before episode 1 begins.

Solo was there, and I think they figure out a story mix to keep Rebecca on screen

One of the few exceptions is probably Fallout, since it does a solid job of tying its flashbacks with the actions/mentalities of its characters in the current-day.

almost the entire book is a flash back

Book 2 was my favourite.

It's not really the slowest part of the series bookwise, in the novel it's pretty snappy. The problem is they dragged what should have been half a season into a full season. Don't get me wrong, I still really like the show and will keep watching. But it's so frustrating when people adapting a show get a near perfect blueprint in regards to story, and then muck it up because they want to changing the pacing or put their own spin on things. So much unnecessary filler.

It's very much a sci-fi "don't think too hard on it" kind of thing, because from what we know of the Silo layouts in both show and book, it would realistically take someone around 2-3 hours to climb from the very top to the bottom or vice versa. Whereas in universe it's said to be a multiple day journey, with security teams struggling to complete it in 6-8 hours going full pelt.

Yeah. There was absolutely no need for them to have split the first book to be adapted into two seasons. 

somebody once said that the lesson people learned from *Game of Thrones* was not to race through story too fast, so now TV shows don't tell a story at all I think about that a lot with these streaming shows