The True Goal Of The Silos Defined

Warning: This text incorporates main spoilers for “Silo” Season 3, Episode 8, “Grey Goo.”

Now that is the way you reward the persistence of followers who’ve been determined for solutions. “Silo” has earned loads of comparisons with “Misplaced” over time, not least of all due to its tendency to attract out mysteries and unanswered questions for so long as it probably can. First, there was the matter of whether or not the skin world actually is as lifeless and poisonous because it seems on all of the shows. Then, Season 2 took its time explaining the character of the encircling silos and the way all these folks ended up lifeless outdoors. And, lastly, Season 3 is now getting round to the aim and origin of all these silos.

Whereas data had been onerous to come back by for fairly a while (it took till final week to clue us in on the place the heck these silos are literally situated, in any case), the dams are bursting and viewers are benefiting with a flood of juicy reveals. The most recent one looks like a big payoff to the present’s most slow-burning storyline, unfolding all through the flashbacks with Congressman Daniel Keene (Ashley Zukerman) and reporter Helen Drew (Jessica Henwick). No person must be an knowledgeable on writer Hugh Howey’s books to have found out this may finally intersect with how the silos had been first created. However the final reply that our two shocked characters obtain is as fascinating because it will get.

As defined by trillionaire savior Per Stensen (Colin Hanks) and Senator Rosalind Thurman (Laura Innes), that is barely extra complicated than merely saving the world. These bunker lovers have concluded that the top of the world is inevitable and will not come about by typical means. Apparently, nanotech is the true enemy … and the silos are our final protection.

By no means underestimate a trillionaire with numerous time on their palms. “Silo” hasn’t precisely been delicate about its political commentary all through Season 3 — do not forget that reference to an “administration with a hard-on for going to struggle with Iran” within the second episode? However the Elon Musk parallels with Colin Hanks’ obnoxious Per Stensen are all however unimaginable to overlook, as Episode 8 (ominously titled “Grey Goo”) makes abundantly clear. When Helen and Daniel are lastly shuttled to Atlanta to see their progress on the unfinished silos, Stensen and his political benefactor Senator Thurman lastly lay their playing cards on the desk.

So, this is how that nanotech subplot involving Daniel’s sister/Air Power pilot Charlotte (Jessica Brown Findlay), his investigation with Helen into the circumstances of her mission gone horribly improper, and the present-day storyline with Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) and her pals all come collectively. We study that Stensen and Thurman have launched into this secret (and absurdly expensive) scheme to arrange “seeds” — 50 whole silos that can home humanity’s wealth of data, assets, and, sure, the very best and brightest folks. Their aim? To repopulate the world after every thing falls aside, which they imagine to be an unavoidable destiny.

What’s much more surprising, nevertheless, is the revelation of why they imagine the world will finish. It isn’t about nuclear struggle (as we discover out the “soiled bomb” supposedly dropped on the US seems to have been a cover-up), synthetic intelligence, or any variety of different apparent threats. As an alternative, it is the approaching developments within the area of nanotech, and this arms race has already grow to be an all-out struggle between the U.S. and Iran. All of a sudden, the dystopian way forward for the silos does not appear thus far off in any case.

It is humorous how issues get handed down over time. What we generally deal with with grand, mythological, and nearly quasi-religious reverence nearly all the time seems to be something however that. The identical seems to be holding true in “Silo” Season 3, as the most recent episode fills in all kinds of gaps relating to the creation of those hyper-advanced bunkers and, extra importantly, the main figures behind how they got here to be. All through the present, Juliette Nichols and the remainder of the inhabitants of Silo 18 have been conditioned to view the enigmatic Founders with awe, exacerbated by the truth that no person even is aware of who they had been, why they constructed the silos, and the way the world ended up the best way it did.

In fact, we now know that this surviving remnant of humanity has forgotten their very own historical past because of the Vitamin D+ medicine launched into their water provide (probably a number of instances prior to now, as confirmed by the Mission diary final week), which suggests we’re studying in regards to the origin of the silos simply as characters like Helen and Daniel are. May we now have already met the fabled Founders? Per Stensen and Senator Thurman aren’t fairly what anybody would have imagined, however they definitely look like the ringleaders of this formidable little enterprise — together with the near-silent fixer Henry (Reed Birney) and Physician Viktor Crnkovich (Matt Craven), whose analysis into reminiscence clearly laid the groundwork for the reminiscence medicine that may finally make their approach into the Silo.

With two episodes to go earlier than this season wraps up, there stay many extra mysteries to be resolved. Judging by what we have seen, we’re in for a spectacular end. New episodes of “Silo” stream on Apple TV each Friday.