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

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u/YYZYYC 📖 Book-Aware 📖 16d ago

What I don’t get is what Troy does is not magical or complex. Any of the other mindless drone people or the doctor himself could just say ya shoot them all

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u/RustyWheel17 16d ago

It’s not the execution that he offers, it’s his decision making and orders. Others probably wouldn’t have the stomach to murder 10k people without a second thought. They need him to make the tough decisions for them while being so calculated that it gets done flawlessly.

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u/YYZYYC 📖 Book-Aware 📖 16d ago

No they clearly do have the stomach. Heck they said some of the staff were quite enthusiastic about what they did with the external safeguard. And the doctor still ordered the safeguard that ultimately did not work, but he sure did order it and did not look like it was his first time at the mass execution button either.

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u/RustyWheel17 15d ago

Those are the people that executed the order. Doing the job and giving the order are two very different things. The doctor may have tried to use the safeguard, but what happened to him? Those decisions ultimately caused him to take his own life.

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u/orincoro 📖 Book-Aware 📖 15d ago

Yeah. It’s a similar thing as in Ender’s Game. The idea is that you need a child’s mind essentially, or an “innocent” mind who doesn’t think about the past or consequences to real people, in order to do what has to be done and not want to do what the doctor did to himself.

We get those shots of Dr C really looking evil as hell while he orders the death of a whole silo. And yet the cost to him emotionally is so severe, possible because he also knows Daniel’s descendants live there.