A lot of those questions are answered in the books so they’re not wrong in noticing something off there. The whole “that’s not how turbines work” portion is just the curse of expertise. Willing suspension of disbelief is easier when you don’t know how something complicated works. Crime dramas do this all the time with DNA.
Crime dramas do this all the time with
DNAreality.Yeah, treating forensics as an actual science is mistake #1
Breaking news: fiction is fictional
It is fiction; it just feels like bad world-building. The more familiar I am with a world, the less immersive it will be when a writer or producer plays fast and loose with the rules of that world (physical, cultural, whatever) to tie a plot together. This goes for “the real world” obviously but also applies in other cases: e.g. a long-running sci-fi show, despite having made up its own bullshit physics system, suddenly pulling a grand new quirk out of thin air in the finale to let the protagonist snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. It’s lazy, just like the use of tech in crime dramas has always felt lazy, because they’re not trying to build a new world for you - they’re trying to suck you in by telling stories that you can imagine happening in the real world, and anything jarringly unrealistic can pull some people out pretty quickly.
If they’re going to break from reality about understood biological processes or physics or whatever, they should do it on purpose and be more fun about it. It takes ten minutes to skim a Wikipedia page to make sure you don’t sound like an idiot on the show that millions of dollars and lots of labor are going in to making
Yes, but not all fiction is fantasy and it is hack to inject fantasy elements into an otherwise reasonable story. Like, the conflict is about some magical pseudo reality so I can’t emotionally give with the stakes and enjoy the work.
Fictional Copaganda still works tho.
It really is a shit show though. If you have seen or read any other dystopia story then you’ve basically already seen silo. If you played a drinking game where you took a drink every time you called one of the “twists” then you’d fucking die. It’s actually a bit impressive how formulaic it is.
I remember it being episode 3 or 4 of her in the
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other silo and wondering if they were really going to have her spend the whole season in the other silo. they did. it’s not a bottle episode, it’s a bottle season. It really does feel like one of those canceled Fox prime time genre shows from 2007.
I don’t blame them tbh, it’s so much harder to enjoy poorly written garbage when there was zero attempt to get the easy physics stuff right.
I’ve got the kind of autism where hearing people being wrong about stuff I know about is legitimately painful, and I’m also an engineer and a writer, so shows like the one described are unwatchable.
Same goes for ones with red scare bullshit that completely reinvents history to make the USSR a believable villain.
Idk, I’m getting autistic gigachad vibes
I also have this exact type of autism that makes me act like this when watching something I know is Wrong. though, I don’t post it on the internet for people to tell me “just enjoy the show”, I just rant to my wife
Does she give you the look sometimes too? My so does…
my wife is also autistic, and so she just enjoys the infodump lmao
i try to approach all media with a sense of charitability. This leaves me able to enjoy most kinds of dumb/bad slop and I’m much happier for it.
TBF it’s a SciFi show, having tech in it that actually makes sense adds to the immersion.
It was a pretty bad episode from an engineering standpoint tbh.
There’s a reason I was in that thread a year later tbf I was just unprepared for how negative a space it would be
The way i push through the cynical picking apart of movies is to imagine the conditions of the universe that make the thing I’m picking apart make sense.
“Oh in this reality turbines work like this which would imply x y z” (i don’t know how turbines work)
Makes it a lot more fun when something else happens that you can connect to your previous assumptions and create a whole sub-plot about how shit got so weird
idk sounds like incredibly shitty writing
I completely agree with him and I didn’t even know this show exists
Kinkshame bur kinksame. You don’t have to make a story about stuff. If you do it should be good. If a plot point is wrong about the way the world works that is hack writing.
Most importantly, why is this guy wearing a shirt that says “genius at work” when he just spent a bunch of time typing all that shit out?
I started that paragraph trying to be sympathetic and ended it doing the Christman Special
I cant tell which show thisis
Silo
Ty
Anything for my comrades
As long as it’s on my phone
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