SILO - [Theories] #3 - The Rebellion, The Door + Other Theories Explored

[@NakeshaMoore]

I think the lack of elevators also serve to keep each class of resident separated . With it taking days to travel from top to mid to the deep- people are less likely to mingle with a different class. It is difficult to imagine the people uniting when there is such a disconnect. I think about when Juliet first became Sheriff and the Secretary told her “ I don’t know what you people eat down there” as if it was a whole other country.

[@Erin_J_]

I always imagined it as a way of preventing people from striving upwards, the separation keeps people from maybe even conceiving of upward mobility. You’re going to need more members of the laboring classes than the ruling or other privileged classes, and if you want to ensure that you have enough members of the laboring classes in a society without any kind of immigration, it would be helpful to prevent the laborers from being able to move to a higher class.

[@derekfnord]

Another thought on the "no elevators" rule... It could be an "enforced physical fitness" thing. If each individual level of the silo is not enormous, and elevators could take folks easily between levels, then people might well be able to live without needing to do much walking. And with the silo a closed environment, it's not like there are lots of opportunities for athletic leisure activities. Outlawing elevators literally *forces* everyone (with the rare exception of someone with social anxiety like Martha) to get enough exercise that they don't all turn into couch potatoes. 🙂

[@smooveayy]

silo theory time vs severance theory time. I can't decide which I like best!!! Almost at 10k woop woop 🥳

[@nautilusfiles]

So close lol!

[@henrymach]

The water is probably waist level, which is why it's not a problem

[@Unitos_]

I don't give a fuck if it's 2 inches, I'm not going anywhere near it. Nightmare fuel.

[@Obsidian-Nebula]

@@Unitos_ Wait till you hear about a shower lmao

[@aerynstormcrow]

The no elevators also controls communication. It’s really hard to rebel if people can’t talk to organise in a timely fashion.

[@mariocortez3981]

We need more silo videos ! I’m going to become a patreon just to keep these rolling Lmao

[@mlkasper]

I'll tell you, if the showrunners never answer why tf the founders didn't just put chain link fencing around the staircase to keep people and stuff falling off the edge then this show will end up being a 1/10. Great vid! Having read the books, very fun to see your thoughts develop, plus there are some show specific elements that have me wondering too.

[@platform14]

It's to give the illusion of free movement

[@thearthematix]

For the elevators I think a slightly simpler explanation is to separate the communication by levels. Divide and rule. Bottom levels live their lives and top floors don't even know, not connected with bottoms... Like a classes irl: rich people barely crossing poor peoples paths. So here the same: you want to live better lives, you do as you told, you get higher up the latter...

[@juliemarie612]

I also wanted to mention-it seems that the government in the silo has found a way, or at least attempted, to breed out inquisitive thinking. There are a few scenes in season one implying that people who ask questions are not allowed to have offspring. Whether that would actually work or not on a biological level, idk. But certainly, if you're parents don't question the system they will likely never teach you to question the system, so... It could have a nurture basis if not a nature one. That on top of the limited access to history and knowledge, it makes sense that people in the silo mostly go with the flow.

[@Giant2005]

There are lots of reasons to not have elevators. I think the biggest is claustrophobia. When you are a 5 minute ride away from the two furthest points of the Silo, it is going to feel very, very small. People are going to struggle to endure a 5 minute space a lot more than they are a 3 day one, even if they are the same actual size.

[@jamesduffy7549]

I don't know, I think having grown up underground the claustrophobia has been bred out

[@QuitRuiningMyRecommendations]

The water could just be ground water. When dig enough you're likely to find water, and it probably pools at the bottom of that digger.

[@unyielding_wager]

I thought the same thing when I saw it.

[@duckchaserssssss]

I would of said the same, but how does the structure with the door etc get built with the water already there? Basically has to be that the water came later.

[@patbl61]

Just came across your channel after watching Silo.... I also LOVED From and Severance just like you did! Subscribed!

[@nautilusfiles]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@Werewolfbycandlelight]

Hey man just found your channel and it’s exactly what I was looking for! Love the style! I wanted to give you a heads up just in case you didn’t know. This series is based on a book series and season 1 is pretty faithful with some big differences. But I won’t spoil any of that. Just wanted to warn you that one of your theories you brought up here happens to be right from the book. Just be careful because it looks like some people might be passing off book spoilers as their own theories and you wouldn’t know if you didn’t read the books obviously. If you’d like to know which one I’m talking about I can give you more info. Just want you to be aware so you don’t get crap from people and of course so you don’t accidentally get spoiled.

[@rini6]

I have read the books. So I need to be quiet on this.

[@edgeGabe]

I had to blurt but not much. The book is so much better and creates more mysteries. I am afraid of what they will do to the story as they have messed it up .

[@benckx8999]

Where does the steam to the engine comes from? It's the only source of energy in the Silo. They mentioned they don't know where it comes from, but someone has to be providing it. Or maybe they're sitting on some kind of geothermal source? but those are not infinite.

[@andreiplesa2935]

Honestly being so deep down it might be geothermal I also think that there might be something to do with the mines We've never seen them before and they might offer some answears, seeing as they couldn't mine horizontally very much before running into the other Silos Maybe they also have to mine downward Also that might be a reason why no one seems to come back from the mines Seems like a "concentration camp" situation People that are undesirable are sent there and work to death to contribute to something that's kept secret and the authority make sure they never get out to tell the tale

[@hafeezahbashir2516]

Great question

[@andersthons]

Love that youre talking about silo!

[@cantthinkofagoodun1]

Looks like an air lock if you look at the blueprints. Works like a U bend or Ptrap in plumbing. So water doesn’t need to be deep or drained , if it opens into the the tunnel it looks pretty simple.

[@kristinesharp6286]

Several silos having working elevators after hundreds of years and the energy they would need given the population and to keep people separate and unable to run away… lots of reasons.

[@HeyItsDoodler]

Wouldn’t flooding be a good explanation for the water. You can’t just dig a hole and not expect it to fill up with water if you don’t pump it out.

[@gillmarry8390]

Great content! I wonder if you first record yourself and then find the applicable footage or the other way around

[@nautilusfiles]

Hey, thanks! It's a little of both. When I'm writing I have a few specific scenes in mind, but that's only about a quarter of the script. The other 75% is clip-hunting until I find the right shots. Time consuming, but worth it

[@mwood341]

More Silo theory vids man! Great work

[@lauriesica]

It's easier to control smaller communities than a large one. So it makes sense to create many silos communities.

[@lorenzoabellana1881]

I think Silo is an underground colony in an isolated island controlled or conducted by a semi-private company for a specific experiment. I think their goal is to know the limits of human capacity/behavioral experiment in a controlled environment like Silo.

[@startingover1]

I think there maybe hidden elevators.....

[@GrinerB]

They literally were denying people who displayed the traits of being curious or inquisitive the ability to have kids. You multiply that by a couple of generations and you really do end up with a very weak willed society where people accept their station in life and take pride in being from the down deep…. Sounds extremely familiar unfortunately..

[@hankvirus9305]

Don't be so sure there isn't elevators 😉😉

[@BarrySlisk]

I think the stairs are just a plot device or a way for the writer to gave things happen while other people travel. And it creates tension when raiders rush to arrest someone but gives the people a chance to escape.

[@hafeezahbashir2516]

It definitely serves these purposes that you've mentioned but I don't think it's "just" a plot device

[@edgeGabe]

I fell in love with the Silo story and have not stopped reading all the books. The most realistic story Marina got leg cramps and had to rest sorry Marina from Ann Christy novel.

[@Jensen-C]

I feel like the other silos know about each other and the silo we spend time in has been taken over and run by bad people

[@broslyons8045]

nice vids- thanks -

[@DG-nn8zt]

Elevator one makes sense. What about the magnifier?

[@dancampbell703]

It’s been a while for me, but do we know that the water is deep? The ‘not needing to deal with it’ might be that it’s 3 ft deep. But I could be totally off and it’s confirmed it’s deep

[@sarak5148]

Amazing ❤

[@nautilusfiles]

Sara! Sorry for the late reply lol

[@Obsidian-Nebula]

The people who BUILT the silos ae not the same people who made the PACT. The Pact was a point in time when everything got changed. The original "design" of the structure (in broadest, all encompassing sense) has resulted in a rebellion = failure. The Pact has been made by the victors of that conflict. They started changing and repurposing everything to their own advantage. Thus, I'm certain, there were elevators but they got walled off or straight up dismantled. The Founders had always had the plan of leaving the bunker eventually but the Pact(ers) have taken away that idea

[@68covah]

Are you sure? Maybe the victors are the remnants of the builders?

[@Obsidian-Nebula]

@68covah What do you mean? In a way, everyone in a silo is a remnant of the builders? We don't know who built the silos. Was it the government, local government, or maybe just a corporation. We don't know who built this, but we do know that they were planning to store more knowledge about the world, more technology, more data. They did have plans of leaving. But after the thing went down and the Pact got created, the new order decided to burn the past and get rid of all of it. They wanted all history books destroyed. Got rid of a lot of information and technology, they started destroying things (normal objects for us) which they started calling artifacts. I'm assuming people had wanted to leave back then. So the pact had been created in order to keep control and to hunker down for way longer, then they initially thought they should. I'm convinced all the war happened years and years after they went down into the silo. You're suggesting that the conflict happened on the surface, and after that, they went down into silos. I feel like people would have remembered way more. There would have been way more information knowledge from the outside/ before

[@68covah]

@@Obsidian-Nebula What I mean is what if the original builders still run both IT and judicial inside the silo? The uprising and the pact was just a way to control the people in the silo, and to clense all old knowledge.

[@68covah]

And by "old knowledge" I mean all knowledge that the builders dont want the people to know.

[@Obsidian-Nebula]

@68covah First of all, let me say. I have not read any of the books, so I have no idea what's actually in the story. So maybe you're right. However, if it turned out that every silo went through exactly the same situation just to take away history and knowledge from the people to keep them under control, and above all the other silos, there is another silo that has control over them and all the knowledge - in my opinion that would have been lazy writing. I feel like it would have been much more interesting if it turned out that they had lost control in this silo and every other silo has a different situation

[@tracesizemore6736]

What if they did use to communicate with other silos throb the big doors but one day the neighboring silo had revolt and they came their the big doors and the rebellion was actually one of the neighbor silo citizens attacking and the overseer, er, I mean mayor didn't activate the key fob in time to alert the other silos and that led them to flooding the area with the door?

[@nautilusfiles]

Future theory here: Jules will use that door to reconnect Silo 18 with another Silo's inhabitants in S2.

[@JenniferA886]

+1 sub… cheers for your views 👍👍👍

[@eremitadelle6vie206]

pls more Silo Theorieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees

[@clementwong4347]

More obvious inference of why even the IT mayor wasn't aware of the blast door , because he's one of the descendants of how many generations, you should think about it. Remember, there might be untold controversial events or political issues happened in "how many hundreds of years before not being revealed". For me, it's not just 140 years onward. Should be further longer.

[@clementwong4347]

You can check out the novels as well

[@KDBetter]

I think 🤔… I mean, you soundddd like my cousin.

[@Bondoz007]

At this point - how do we know the Rebellion even happened? It could have been invented to give the community a chance to celebrate its defeat. The Silo reflects a lot of our own society and questions it - western civilization celebrates events like Christmas and Easter which supposedly happened 2000 years ago? History as we know can be subjective

[@tigrantiksntorosyan4900]

Look what happened to Russia during 20 years. They turned from democracy to Noth Korea. So yeah, 140 years could have conditioned people to not only be obidient but also hate those who are not.

[@jawadalla11]

Soviet Russia, Empire Russia, or modern Russia? Russia not North Korea, it’s no where near perfect but not as bad as the western perception

[@nocontextwhatever]

What do we think the Syndrome is??!

[@cleopatraponder9274]

Vitamin d deficiency

[@eftalanquest]

i like how you pretend the books this show is based on don't exist

[@nautilusfiles]

No "pretending" necessary if I haven't read them.

[@QuitRuiningMyRecommendations]

just because something is in the book doesn't mean it will be in the show.

[@user-iw8wl9wu8y]

you don’t need to source material to have discussions and theorize about a separate adaptation of something that’s being presented in a new medium most adaptations to some degree are highly produced and collaborative fan fiction with a marketing budget thats put on an international stage game of thrones, house of the dragon, the boys, gen v, and the last of us are just a few recent examples and all completely different cases of how much it things vary on every level and scale