Warning ! Contains major potential spoilers for Silo time of year 2 and Hugh Howey ’s Shift .
Summary
After watchingAmazon ’s best sci - fi show , I could not help but grow progressively concerned about anApple TV+series ' future . Many incrediblesci - fi show , like1899,The Last of Us , andSweet Tooth , have come out in the last couple of years , but only a few have had a lasting shock on me . The reason being that , as much as I like display with ambitious exploration of human sensing , alternative reality , pandemics , and other heroic - scale phantasy , I ’m always more draw to series with trace of realism and some semblance of accuracy .
Retrofuturism is another sci - fi theme that has always charm me because it creates the perfect paradox between the comfort of the past and the uncertainty surrounding the future . Since Amazon’sFalloutandApple TV+‘sSilotick all the correct boxes for me with their retrofuturistic aesthetic and grounded explorations of dystopia , control , and freedom , I was as emotional to take in both live - action version . Little did I know that watchingFalloutwould uncover a dark truth about Apple TV+‘sSilo ’s time to come and make me worry about the show ’s ability to sustain the same level of novelty in time of year 2 as it had in season 1 .
Apple TV+ ’s Silo season 1 introduces many mystery and nagging questions in its dystopian play and waits till its end bit to resolve them .
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Fallout Has Already Spoiled One Of Silo Season 2’s Biggest Potential Twists
Fallout & Silo’s Bunkers Have Similar Origin Stories
As far as reference beats and plot progressions are considered , FalloutandSiloare significantly different . Even from a visual viewpoint , Silois bare with its rusty orangeness and dreary color scheme , whileFalloutis much brighter with a vibrant admixture of divers and rich pastel . However , when it come to the two show ' big twists , they share more eldritch parallel than one .
Siloseason 1 ’s finale revealsthat Silo 18 is only one of the many underground bunkers in the humans , but the credits set out roll before the show delves into the history and use of the key silo . Since my wonder after check time of year 1 bring the best of me and I could not wait to find out more about the silos ’s parentage , I flicked through the second volume inHugh Howey’sSiloseries , Shift , discovering all the plot points the show ’s second season will likely cover . The al-Qur’an reveals thatonly a few selected human being were move to the silos after a atomic attack made the creation uninhabitable .
While I was ab initio intrigue byFalloutseason 1 ’s ending twirl and revelations , the more I learned the truth about its central burial vault and Vault - Tec ’s plans , the more a good sense of déjà vu dawned upon me .
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Of the 50 silos that exist , 49 accommodate generational population , and only the citizens of one will ultimately be chosen to repopulate Earth ’s control surface 500 years after the atomic blast . One of the silos , Silo 1 , also hold managers / leaders who apply cryogenic technology in slip to curb and manage all the other silo . Although there are a few more nicety to the story , Hugh Howey’sShiftalso break that the nuclear attack was engineer by the same masses who built the fundamental silos .
While I was ab initio intrigue byFalloutseason 1 ’s endingtwists and revelations , the more I learned the Sojourner Truth about its fundamental vault and Vault - Tec ’s plans , the more a sense of déjà vu dawned upon me . I had seen / read all these story ontogenesis somewhere else … in Hugh Howey’sShift . Since Silo season 2 will belike adapt at least the first half of Hugh Howey’sShift , its similarities with Fallout season 1 ’s final arc could seem a niggling too familiar and unoriginalto those who , like me , have watched the Amazon show .
Silo’s World Order Operation Fifty & Fallout’s Vault-Tec’s Plans Seem Eerily Similar
The Antagonists In Both Shows Wanted Control
In Hugh Howey’sShift , the silos ' mental synthesis falls under a government - plan initiative called World Order Operation Fifty ( W.O.O.L. ) . W.O.O.L. ’s primary finish is to prioritize humanness ’s preservation . Therefore , when enemy nations weaponize the United States ' usually used self - replicate nanobots and threaten the nation ’s time to come , the lead force of W.O.O.L. step in and orchestrate a nuclear attack . This attack force selected humans to accommodate the silos , and with each pass on generation , the silo citizen block more and more of the verity .
While W.O.O.L. is drive more by a skew sense of patriotism and Vault - Tec by incorporated avaritia , both highlight the lengths authority would go to maintain control over the tidy sum .
Although there are no destructive nanobots on the planet ’s open inFallout , Vault - Tec , like the government organisation inSilo , also discharge a atomic bomb to make citizenry accommodate the bunker . The leading malefic forces in both franchises are power - athirst , determined to blind the public to their true motives by shrouding facts and confine everyone ’s access to information . While W.O.O.L. is driven more by a skew mother wit of nationalism and Vault - Tec by embodied greed , both highlight the lengths authorities would go to maintain control over the Mass .
The coda of Silo season 1 go out audience with many plotlines to look ahead to , and time of year 2 is certain to develop exciting new stories for viewers .
The Parallels Were Unintentional
Unsurprisingly , on many occasions , Hugh Howey has been call for about his take on the similarities betweenSiloandFallout . In a Reddit thread ( viaReddit ) , the source once explained that he andFallout ’s game designer , Chris Avellone , grew up in " the same Cold War era . " This was one of the primary reason they had similar influences and create similar post - apocalyptic stories . Howey also added that heloved the first two Fallout games but did not think about them while write his books .
Name of Show
Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score
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Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score
Silo
88 %
63 %
Fallout
93 %
In a dystopian future, men and women reside in a vast underground silo governed by strict regulations, believed to shield them from the hazardous world above. The series delves into the complex social order within the silo and the mysteries surrounding their subterranean existence.
89 %
In another audience ( viaTumblr ) , Howey stated how , as much as he loves theFalloutgames , his motive was not to take in any intake from them when he wroteSilo . However , he also agreed thatsome similarities were likely " subconscious and coinciding . “Hugh Howey ’s explanation arrive at sense sinceSiloandFalloutare not the only show and games that dabble with similar ideas . alas , the writer ’s insights do not diminish my concerns aboutSiloseason 2 . What does make me feel optimistic aboutSilo ’s hereafter , though , is the show ’s trenchant tone and vocalization .
The second seasons of bothSiloandFallouthave been confirm . WhileSiloseason 2 is scheduled to be unloose on Apple TV+ in 2025,Falloutseason 2 ’s release window remains strange .
Silo’s Serious Tone Thankfully Gives It Its Own Unique Identity
Silo Season 2 Can Still Be Great
I set forth watchingSiloandFalloutbecause of their similar retrofuturistic visuals , dystopian themes , and exploration of the human condition in the look of extreme peril . However , I continued keep an eye on the two serial for totally unlike grounds . Falloutdrew me in with its uproarious antics and portrayal of all the bizarre vaults and creatures in its humanity . The show ’s laughable gore and non-white comedy also kept me harbour , andpart of its entreaty also add up from its ability to not shy away from spread multiple stories , across several timeline , simultaneously .
UnlikeFallout , Silo ’s serious tone made me contemplate the moral implication of the antagonist ' action and ponder over the show ’s intriguing parallels with Plato ’s Allegory of the Cave .
I was crochet onSilofrom episode 1 because it effectively played with my sense of perception . Like its characters , I was clueless about the world outside the cardinal silo but desperately putting together every small-arm of the overarching puzzle to learn more . UnlikeFallout , Silo ’s serious pure tone made me contemplate the moral implications of the antagonists ' actions and contemplate over the show ’s intriguing parallels with Plato ’s Allegory of the Cave . IfApple TV+‘sSilomaintains a similar introspective approach toward its ideas in season 2 , I ’m sure I will be capable to overlook its similarities withAmazon’sFallout .
In a dystopian hereafter , man and women reside in a vast cloak-and-dagger silo order by strict regulations , consider to shield them from the hazardous world above . The serial delves into the complex societal order within the silo and the mysteries surrounding their subterranean beingness .
