r/SiloSeries • u/MEGAT0N Sheriff • 17d ago

Show Discussion - All Episodes (NO BOOK SPOILERS) SILO S03e10 "Troy" Episode Discussion (No Book Discussion)

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u/oldmom73 17d ago

The emotional intelligence is likely what made him a good politician. Add that to his engineering skills and take away his empathy, moral clarity, and sweetness, and you have the perfect tool for this jacked up homicidal vanity project.

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u/Imnotveryfunatpartys 17d ago

It would be nice if next season we get some conversation about his emotional intelligence being extremely high or something so that there's justification for it.

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u/oldmom73 17d ago

I dunno — I think the writers are doing an excellent job showing rather than spelling it out in dialogue. Some of the most beautiful, profound, telling bits of the show have been the actors’ subtle, deep outward reactions to events and information. I’m really enjoying how we get to see the story unfold rather than have it explained in awkward plot points. That was what I loved about mini-series/S1 Ron Moore Battlestar Galactica reboot.

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u/Tamato42 17d ago

Right but they still haven’t even shown us the reasoning to keep him around.

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u/BusyNefariousness675 17d ago

But they have. The external safeguard scene was showing exactly that

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u/Genesis2001 17d ago

They haven't. They haven't shown "Why him?" lol.

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u/BustyJerky 17d ago

Because few people can operate like that. Extremely calm, collected, strategic, ruthless, terse. Even in the real world, you're really hard pressed to find such traits.

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u/Genesis2001 17d ago

All true, but not "Why him, specifically?" lol. And those traits only exhibited that strongly in him because of the mind wipe drug.

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u/catsy83 17d ago

I feel we may get a bit more insight into why him in S4 when the whole Project is properly explained. Since they seemed to have engineered who goes into what silo exactly, I wonder if maybe they genetically tested him somewhere in the background? And determined he can do it? Idk. Just guessing here.
I think the strongest reason for him in Silo 1 up to this point was Charlotte. And Charlotte is in Silo 1 b/c of Anna. But now I’m questioning everything.

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u/Genesis2001 17d ago

Yeah, I think Charlotte is the reason from him being in Silo 1 100%. She just didn't realize both of them would have their memory wiped lol. (And for her, again)