{"id":40173,"date":"2025-01-28T16:14:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T00:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.com\/blog\/?p=40173"},"modified":"2025-01-29T05:07:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T13:07:05","slug":"silo-nine-and-ten-an-excellent-season-two-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/28\/silo-nine-and-ten-an-excellent-season-two-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Silo Nine and Ten – An Excellent Season Two End!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Welcome back Silo<\/a> Science Fiction Lovers,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Season two episodes nine \u201cThe Safeguard\u201d and episode ten \u201cInto The Fire\u201d exceeded our expectations. We give the series a straight \u201cA\u201d for season two. The rebellion in Silo Eighteen become manifest while events in Silo Seventeen reveal important details dovetailing the season two finale setting up excitement for season three!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Showrunner and series creator Graham Yost<\/a> in recent interviews shared where his superb science fiction series adaptation of the novels is going in Silo season three: <\/span><\/span>\u201cThere are a lot of mysteries about Silo 17. The chief one being that all those people went outside, they had an hour to get outside. They didn\u2019t all die in three minutes. What the fuck happened out there? That\u2019s gonna be part of Season 3. You\u2019ll get the answers to all of that. And then there are other things you don\u2019t find out until Season 4\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Viewers will recall that in a July 2013 interview with SFFWorld<\/a> author Hugh Howey<\/a> discussed on the meaning behind the title of his first book \u201cWool\u201d. Howey also shared where we might be going in season four in another interview with SFFWorld conducted in September 2013<\/a> that discusses the final book in the series \u201cDust\u201d: <\/span><\/span>“There are quite a few meanings behind the title of the series. There\u2019s the old phrase ‘Pull the wool over my eyes’ which is the question raised by the (Silo) wallscreens\u201d<\/em> (screen that viewers witness in the television series on Apple TV<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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“What is really out there? Who is being deceived? Or are they? There\u2019s also the allusion to sheep, those metaphorical blind followers who just do what they\u2019re told, go where they\u2019re told to go, never question. A third meaning has to do with humans being compared to sheep when we are taken advantage of or ‘fleeced’.”<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

All of these interviews have contemporary parallels. Readers with the print editions might notice a hidden clue here and there. The cover of the first \u201cWool\u201d is meant to highlight the multiple meanings. “I\u2019ve only pointed this out to a few people (I prefer to let readers discover these things on their own), but if you look at the center of the cover, the two \u2018O\u2019s look like eyes staring out at the beautiful world beyond. Is the wool pulled down over what we see? Or do we see through it? I really hope the answer to this question bounces back and forth for the reader as they progress through the story.”<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In the final two episodes viewers were provided answers to many of the questions posed in the novels including what is in “The Vault”<\/em> of each Silo as well as a surprise ending in the season finale.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n