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TV Talk: Silo Season 1 Review Discussion · Dad Needs To Talk

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What's up y'all and welcome back to Dad needs to talk.
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I'm your host, Robert. And today, today we're going to
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be diving into a new series called Silo.
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Now Silo just recently aired on Apple TV streaming services, it
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was 10 episodes long and the episodes averaged about 45
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minutes to an hour roughly depending on the episode.
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Oh, and this is just season one because there's definitely a lot
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more to come because and I didn't find this out until
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pretty much. I thought watch the final
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episode, whatever. I'll just kind of do a little
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more research into the show. But this series is based off of
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a set of novels called wool which are written by what was
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his name. Hugh.
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Howey is the name of the person. They that wrote the original
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novels that this is based off of and I almost got myself spoiled
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or something when I was kind of skimming through, trying to do
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some research for this review, but luckily, your boy dodged, a
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bullet, but they are so solow is a Sci-Fi dystopian, drama and It
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was definitely one of my favorite things that I've
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watched recently and I'll go and just mentioned this Upfront for
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anybody. There's new here you know here
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at that is talk is all about conversation surrounding
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fatherhood and family as well as discussions and reviews
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surrounding manga, anime TV movies and video games.
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And what I like to do is I'm gonna start this off with just
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general spoiler-free, talk about the show, just in case.
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If you're new, you haven't checked out the A show and then
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I will give you all a heads up when I'm about to jump into
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spoilers that way. You know, you can go and enjoy
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this wild ride for yourself. Okay.
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So the kind of setup for Silo is that basically, for some unknown
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reason, Humanity has lived in this giant underground.
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Silo that is I believe 144 levels deep tall.
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However, you want to phrase it and nobody in the current line
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of people that are alive in The Silo seem to know too much about
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the history of the before times of basically, why, why is
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Humanity living in The Silo? What happened to the outside
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world only thing that this kind of known as that there were some
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type of like Rebellion at some point that it happened.
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But even that was a long time after Humanity had already been
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living in their The Silo and so we kind of follow at least we
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kind of start are following this Sheriff who is played by David.
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Oye lhamo pronouncing for butchering the name but kind of
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following his journey as the sheriff within the silo as
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certain things happened to his wife and him and some other
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people that you meet along the way, Connor still to question
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the true nature of what is really happening.
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In the sound loud because you know, some some crazy stuff
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starts happening. People come up missing.
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And like I said, it just kind of just leads to more and more
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questions and of course, people with curious minds, try to go
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digging for the truth. And so this show does a really
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great job of setting the tone early.
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Setting the atmosphere. I love how the show kind of
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starts off and they kind of do this little bit in the, in the
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intro as well. But some of the first shots of
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the show is kind of like going down The Silo and looking at
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these different sections that are happening.
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Because there's like, you know, I like a government area, a
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farmhouse area where they have like, cows and stuff and, and
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crops and stuff. And then on the lower levels
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where you have the mechanics and engineering and all this stuff
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and so it's kind of like a fascinating structure to kind of
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think of it kind of reminds me a little bit of anybody.
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That's a fan of the Fallout series of like life in the
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vaults in the Fallout video game series where there's just all
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these different sections and pockets and stuff. but yeah, so
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that that's kind of like like like like like the basic Journal
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setup of the show and they like I said they just do such a good
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job of kind of like bread crumbing hits and teases and
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making you really think about like okay what is really going
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on? Who can I really trust?
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And they're kind of giving just enough reveals to kind of like
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keep you intrigued and asking questions but also sprinkling in
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a nice amount of surprises along the way.
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Whether it be certain reveals were saying characters, know
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whether it be like their true intentions or who they might
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actually be in relation to their role within the silo.
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Because like I said, kind of sort of following the the
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sheriff and then kind of gets this engineer who is played by
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Rebecca, Ferguson Juliet Nichols is the character's name.
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She is a engineer basically down at the bottom of the silo kind
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of helping to kind of in a way. Keep the silo running and I also
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enjoy because those are all the no or less.
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Into my show for a while know that all working it as my
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professional career. And so finding out that there is
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a whole actual it Department that also has a hand and keeping
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things going with in the life of The Silo and stuff.
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And there is like this judge that's kind of like looming
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overhead, so to speak kind of helping call the shots from the
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shadows and you. Have a great kind of antagonist
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character played by a common named Robert Sims so of course
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there's my hair Robert in the show I'm like oh that's me but
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by so overall really dope Solid cast of characters.
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Like I said the the mystery and the questions continue to build.
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They do a good job of pepper and in a little bit of flashbacks
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here and they're not too strongly but just Enough to kind
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of feeling a little bit of gaps, where it needed, or the kind of
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give context for certain characters relationships in
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relation to each other and stuff like that.
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And by the end, they do a very awesome job of ending it on a
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very powerful note to, you know, answer some questions.
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But also introduced some bigger questions, which We'll be
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talking about in the spoiler section A little bit but the
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show is just all in all just a fantastic watch.
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Like I said, if you enjoy Kind of sci-fi stuff with drama and
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some Mysteries and things of that nature.
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The Silo is definitely a show that you want to put on your
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radar to check out on watch. I'm not much of a person for
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reading novels and stuff but part of me is a little bit
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tempted because I said because of how The season ended.
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I am, I man, I need more now. And honestly, I kind of really
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just stumbled across the show just because I think I had
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watched severance a little bit before maybe like a month ago.
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Now, I'm at least a month ago from when I'm recording it.
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I still haven't posted posted the review, but that'll be
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coming at some points. Already recorded just saving it
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for a rainy day, but I was kind of just browsing different other
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things. Just like what is on there?
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And Silo is one of the recommended shows though.
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Like, I do pin and like that first episode immediately hooked
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me and it's such a big Thanks were freaking apple.
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He even put the whole episode up on Twitter, because now with how
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Twitter and stuff is now you can upload full length movie, link
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stuff, whatever. So they posted a whole one, our
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first episode on Twitter the other day, but bad that so, so
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it helped me really strongly from episode 1.
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I benched watched through the episodes that were available.
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And that's when I got hit with the reality of oh this show is
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still airing. I thought this is maybe like an
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older show that was already done.
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So I'm like loving it. I'm flying through episodes and
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like a day or two and then I hit that wall Toreros like episode 9
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coming next Friday and it just so happened that the timing of
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when I was watching it episode 8 had just came out at that point
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in time and so my it was devastated because I'm like, no,
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no, this is weekly as so I didn't watch it for two weeks
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because I was like, well, okay, I found I did some research
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found is going to be 10 episodes long and I was like, okay well,
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I'll just, you know, waiting to that final episode is out.
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And then watch these last two together, and I'm glad I did
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because they wrote together perfectly.
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So, So yes, all in all Silo highly recommend watching this
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show giving it a chance like I said, super dope cast of
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characters and super awesome setup for a world and
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environment that like I said, we'll give you mystery and
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Intrigue all along the way, from beginning to the end.
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Because like I said, just the whole idea of Humanity seemingly
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has been here so long that they don't really know their true
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origins of how we got to where we are now.
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And what the outside world is really like, you know, because
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it's like okay, are they actually telling the truth?
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Type of situation is stuff. So but yeah.
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So go watch Silo, if you haven't already and come back and let me
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know what you thought because we're about to dive into the
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spoilers. And three, two, one.
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If you're still here. Let's Talk some spoilers and
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clearly I hate doing this. But I have to jump to that
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ending because Looking back at everything.
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That happened along the way, everything from like, I don't
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know from from basically, when the freaking hard drive when the
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hard drive kind of first came up and he started hearing this
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thing about the relics and You know, all these items from the
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before a time, they were kind of like forbid and two seemingly
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seeing the oh no. The outside world is actually
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fine. So why are we still in The Silo?
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And just everything in between there, which I said I'm gonna go
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back and touch on some of the stuff to begin with but This
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show the way that finale That season finale was was one of the
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rare times where I was like, man.
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I wish I did live reactions because like, the way my jaw
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just dropped and they kind of hit us with a kind of like boom.
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Boom, one, two punch, because first it was She gets outside,
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she said she thinks she's saying, oh man, lush green world
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and environment and stuff and she refuses to clean the camera
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and so the head out together. Bernard, he's like whatever her
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times with the run out because similarly, you know the way
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their suits are designed the poisonous are kind of gets in
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and eventually kills them. And I was talking with a friend
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of the show. And we was talking about how,
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you know, probably because of the time that people take to
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clean the camera because they want everybody to see what they
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think that they're seeing that. They kind of adds more time for
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them to get poisoned by the air and all that stuff whatever.
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But Basically, with the help of the old lady Walker Mark, Martha
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Walker. Working the people in the supply
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chain to kind of basically better fit her suit to wear it.
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Be kind of like more sealed airtight and then the sheriff
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badge that she got to keep from the previous Sheriff.
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She kind of got to see the truth that what she was seeing was
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actually an illusion. And that, yes, the world is
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actually after up really bad. And so, that was the first kind
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of wine makers, like yo. Okay, so they weren't lying.
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So, what you're seeing on the camera, the cafeteria is the
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real deal. The sheriff.
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And his wife, the previous sheriff.
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And his wife are literally both sitting dad on the hill or
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whatever. But when we see nickels, be able
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to break the illusion and go over the hill and then we get
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this dope shot where the camera is kind of like spinning around
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and zooming out. And we see that there are
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possibly hundreds of silos. All over the place and it just
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like, yo, yo. Wow like wow.
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And so yeah, yeah, that that moment just kind of just like,
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just started getting my mind racing of all.
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The possibilities of yo, is there may be other people that
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are out there that either made their way outside of their
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respective silos or other people that maybe I didn't get to make
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it into the silo, so maybe there's like a whole pocket of
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humanity. That is just living out in this
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Wasteland or whatever. Likes it just presented.
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Just so many questions and theories in my brain and stuff,
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whatever that I am, that much more excited for the next season
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to come. Whenever that might be by, I saw
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that, I was a fantastic way to kind of build up to where she's
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like. Yes, COK COK So there really is
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the word is okay, or whatever, but then they're harsh reality
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of, I actually know the world is after the band.
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This isn't the only silo So I'm excited to see where that goes
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from now. It'll be like, just like very
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dope and just kind of funny if she just like walks up to The
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Silo and just like knocking on the door asking for entry, but
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I'm pretty sure Bernard probably hit up one of the other silos or
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whatever because it seems like they are in Silo 18 potentially
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because the hard drive had an 18 on it and this little key he had
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there was flashing earlier whatever, which kind of
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suspicious but then, when he realized that she was, Realizing
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or breaking the illusion here. Add to some server room or
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whatever and used this number 18 key to go and so maybe he's
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going to be contacting some other silos.
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My friend. We were also talking about the
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the underground door. That is underneath all that
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water. Probably maybe back originally.
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That was maybe a way for all of the silos to be connected
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Underground. or something, or whatever, because it kind of
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makes sense because If it seems like from that shelter the show
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at the end like all the silos are hundred percent underground.
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So yeah, so that probably was a way originally for all of the
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silos to connect and all that stuff, whatever.
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And just kind of makes me wonder if like did all the silos
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disconnect themselves from each other, whatever or is out or is
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a 18, an outlier and they're kind of jazz.
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Just, you know, went rogue or something whatever and everybody
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else was like, yo, we thought that Silo 18 was destroyed or
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whatever because we lost contact with you who knows just lots of
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theories, but going back. Now I really I like some of
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these characters but I really liked Juliet, I liked the
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sheriff's wife. I believe her name, Allison,
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just like they're inquisitive Minds to kind of want to know,
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more was just so dope to see. Because from from the shared the
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first share, his wife figuring out.
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That the whole birth thing was fake.
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And that a lot of people were actually getting their birth
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control taken out. And that's why I was like, no
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matter how much they were trying, whatever they can never
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get pregnant or have a child and then makes it feel like
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something was wrong with them when it was like, no, they
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actually lie to y'all and finding out that the main doctor
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that does. This was Juliet's father Who was
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involved in the incident back in the day, with her mother,
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getting in some trouble because her mother invented.
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This very dope magnifying like double Ultra magnifying glass
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design thing that got her in trouble and stuff forever ended
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up leading to her death and stuff but of but yeah, but did
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this show like say was just so dope just watching all the
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twists and turns The original Deputy saying his little
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Adventure from you're having to deal with his partner.
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The first share of being like hey it's been three years since
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my wife goes, I just want to go build my wife and him being put
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in that situation. And then having to deal with
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his, the sheriff's decision, to pick to pick Nichols to be his
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successor to then seeing like, His relationship and he had with
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the previous mayor and what they were kind of going through.
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And then, you know, both of them getting killed and that that's
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also kind of another thing, like when, you know, we already have
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some questions and stuff like that first episode, but they're
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like, when people want body started turning up, you know,
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and kind of And I love when we're kind of like in like a at
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least like starting off and kind of like isolated environment to
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wear okay, when body start turning up.
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We now, okay, whoever the culprit is is within the silo.
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Now Granite is 144 level, so that's a lot of ground, a lot of
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people to cover, but that's different from okay.
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A crime happened and you know, Houston, while the person is on
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the Run, they could go anywhere in this anywhere else in the
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city, anywhere else, in the State, anywhere else in the
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country. A world.
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You get what I'm saying versus here in the silos like yes it
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is. A lot of ground to cover but
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y'all are insulated with in this area and then kind of when we
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got to the point where we started kind of see more of mr.
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Simms of Commons character. And I really loved that story
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that he shared with his at least the guy who seemingly was going
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to become a shadow or whatever about the janitor.
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Is it so to speak and how his dad was a janitor and how, you
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know, he had when he was a kid, he was dealing with the bully or
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something, whatever. And then all of a sudden,
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something happened where the bully got either disappeared or
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got transferred. Something happened with the
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bullet, whatever, and then his dad was busy, kind of like, all
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right, you got, have you had any more problems with him or
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whatever? And there's like no.
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And then finding out you know, that You know, cam is character
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went on to basically do that. Do that same line of work on
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which I guess is the Judiciary or whatever people.
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And finding out that there are freaking cameras everywhere in
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this facility pretty much a camera and everybody's home
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around every corner, all that stuff and just kind of seeing
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some of these hints and teasers because I kind of went back and
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watch some of the episodes on one again and just seeing the
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sheriff, literally, at the beginning of the episode, taking
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a vase of flowers and sitting them in front of the mirror.
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Our and then, of course, you know, we find out later on that,
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he did that to block the cameras view because he discovered about
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the cameras and stuff whatever. And so just kind of and I said,
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it's kind of makes me interested if I had more time whatever
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which I probably could have, but I was just just excited to talk
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about it. I definitely want to go back and
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re-watch this to kind of now that I know what I know.
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Now, go back and see what other hints and clues.
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And stuff was kind of there along the along the way.
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Because we also kind of get that big reveal that seemingly.
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This big bad judge person who seems to be the true authority
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of of the silo. And you're thinking that she is
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the person pulling the strings behind the scenes, whatever.
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Then for a moment, you have to have way I do it.
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Is it actually, is it actually Sims is actually Comics
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character. Pull the strings and then the
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reveal, no, it's the guy is the head of IT.
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Who is the 10th? Who is the temporary interim
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mayor? After the untimely, death of the
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previous mayor due to poisoning or whatever.
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And I'm like of course of course.
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It's somebody from freaking it, there's up here, pulling strings
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and stuff is the true Figure Head behind the scenes like like
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this is some like, like one piece.
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We thought that the the Goro say were the true ones, pulling the
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strings behind the world Nobles and as like surprise, it's
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actually a mu. So is like, Bernard is actually
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a mu the true person behind the curtain this behind the curtain
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top of situation. But by yeah, but like I said,
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like like like, like like things just like really sort of heating
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up. And the body started popping up
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and then, you know, funny, I'm more about Juliet and like I
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said, finding out where her father was actually doing with
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the birth control stuff and then how her father actually kind of
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Helped stems and his wife have a child who know they have a very
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dope son, but then finding out there like that Juliet, she
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pretty much run away from home at 13 and that I tell she really
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became sheriff. She hadn't seen her father in
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like 20 years because she just ran away after the incident.
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That happened with her mother and you know, live this life
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down. Down in engineering or whatever.
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And maybe even like that whole episode where they had to pretty
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much they like, hey, we need to shut the silo down in order to
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make this critical repair. Otherwise if this thing fries
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and blows, we all going to be screwed or whatever.
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And so I just liked her character's initiative and sense
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of responsibility because she didn't want to leave to go do
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the sheriff then because he's like, no.
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If I'm not here to make sure that this thing is running or
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whatever, then we're all down for all ten thousand plus people
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in The Silo. But like I said just kind of
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watching her get into this role as sheriff and the head-butting
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that calls for people who didn't like her or just didn't like the
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way that that all this stuff kind of transpired or whatever
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it was all, just just very dope to see even like her Her newly
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appointed. Deputy Paul Billings and him
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band, a guy that is like, super, buy the book.
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He follows the rules, he know he won the competition for knowing
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all the rules, or whatever multiple years in a row.
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Just all these different things but then, even see him
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questioning. So, the question is some stuff,
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of course, I didn't like, when he freaking burnt that picture
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book, I was so sad about that even though he kept a page out
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of it. But I'm just like, come on man,
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why? Why why did you have to do that?
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Yeah, and I say, shout out to Walker for mustering up the
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strength and courage to leave her home for the first time in
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over 25 years, in order to help out this young lady who came to
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her in her hour of need, when she was a teen 13 years old and
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just their body, that they had gained over the years and stuff,
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also, man. When they were doing all the
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sneaking around and stuff and like an episode 9, where Juliet
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and the one guy she saved early on the older, our favor.
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And then this kind of like hacker dude working together
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where they're kind of like sticking from place to place
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trying to get into the system trying to post a video on all
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the televisions in the facility and all that stuff.
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And then like that moment where they were when she was trying to
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escape down the trash chute thing and they were trying to
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throw garbage down there to knock her off and then
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basically, common them or Sims them being like, hey, Let's do
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something that we know is not going to miss and they do this
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like freaking gigantic like air conditioner thing and they're so
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like that moment. When Juliet, let go of the
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ladder just to fall down the Chute and when she freaking fell
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all the way down and let them that pile of junk and then the
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people saw her and pulled her out the way just in time.
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Before they died. They came across her man.
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My heart was pounding in that moment and like I said, like
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going back to the mama work, it was revealed that Bernard was
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the true person, pulling the strings whatever, They were kind
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of like in the garden area and stuff and then they were talking
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and then basically kind of like, oh, it's a shame that you said
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that you want to go outside. She said, no, you did it.
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No, I did it. And then he was like, ain't that
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right? Mr. Simms.
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He's like, yeah, it's a shame, it's a shame.
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Ain't it mayor that that the sheriff said that she wants to
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go outside and so, like, all that stuff?
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But man, this show are just so freaking dope and I could
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continue talking about it forever and ever and ever.
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But all in all, like I said, fantastic watch.
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And like I said, it is, it was definitely a very memorable
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experience like so I can't wait to kind of take some time but
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it's simmering my mind and rest a bit and then maybe go and then
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I said, go back and revisit it at some point like she just a
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kind of See what other stuff I might notice that I did, I
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didn't catch beforehand. Like saying, just shout out to
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all the people who like left Clues along the way in the
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series to, I love how I came early guys name, but the, the
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kind of Julie has kind of boyfriend dude from it and how,
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you know, they kind of started discovering the truth or
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whatever and that he created a video.
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Record a video titled it start here and then you know that kind
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of helps get things going from there.
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But yeah, fantastic watch can't wait for more but I must stop
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rambling. I'm a wrap this up here but
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thank you so much for watching and are listening to this
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review. As always, you can find me
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everywhere at Danny's to talk. So reach out to me, let me know
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what you thought of Silo and You have any dope recommendations
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for series. Either of this like, or
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something that you might feel. Like, I might enjoy watching
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reading, whatever hit me up and let me know.
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And if you're not already, make sure to subscribe to the YouTube
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streaming service of choices. We can get the audio version of
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everything that I do. But with that being said, this
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has been very dope and very awesome.
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Awesome. But I am out y'all have an
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awesome rest of your day and week and I'll catch y'all in the
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next review or the next podcast episode until then peace.
31:59
Awesome. But I am out y'all have an
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awesome rest of your day and week and I'll catch y'all in the
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next review or the next podcast episode until then peace.