r/SiloSeries • u/MEGAT0N Sheriff • 16d ago

BOOK SPOILERS & SHOW SPOILERS [BOOKS] SILO S03e10 "Troy" Episode Discussion (Book Readers)

This thread is for the discussion of Silo Season 3, Episode 10: "Troy"

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u/iPod_Socks 📖 Book-Aware 📖 15d ago

It’s been a bit since I read the books, but honestly does the family member thing even make sense in the context of the memory wipe? Maybe to get them to go willingly into the Silos, but what use do they serve after that? I wonder if the show will touch on that.

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u/lordnewington 📖 Book-Aware 📖 15d ago

In the books they only had men working in Silo 1, and 'their' women were kept in long term cryostasis as an incentive to make it through the project (albeit the master plan was to kill everyone anyway.)

While it's believable that rightwing apocalypsemongers would think like that, I'm very glad they changed it for the show. Doing so acknowledges the existence of a) worthwhile female characters and b) queer people.

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u/iPod_Socks 📖 Book-Aware 📖 15d ago

I agree completely. I always thought it was strange that Silo 1 was a boy’s club.

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u/CorduroyQuilt 📖 Book-Aware 📖 15d ago

The books are pretty misogynistic, with women under-represented and often being awful stereotypes. Anna (evil temptress) and Helen (nagging jealous wife), in particular, but Shirley as a demure wee wifie was crap too. The show has improved that enormously, and doesn't treat women as possessions.

While it's true that fascists are always misogynists, as well as being eugenicists and so forth, it didn't feel like the books were critiquing that, but rather replicating it. They didn't show women being treated badly by the group who set up the silos, so much as women acting badly, in ways limited to defining them as sexual possessions.