I’m enjoying this AMC show so far - and would say it is the best SF airing currently - that I am aware of.

I have not read the books but my SO has read the first of them and is also enjoying it. She can’t recall a great many details from the book though - her memory doesn’t work that way.

One tiny point that I am curious about - a detail that my SO doesn’t remember - is whether the characters who have seen the Pez dispenser actually recognise duck as a duck? Do they know what ducks - or birds in general - are?

From episode 1, IIRC, it seems to be suggested that they did not understand what the things flying in the sky in the outside world were.

Anyway - what are your thoughts on Silo?

  •  _n9   ( @_n9@lemmy.ml ) English
    2•1 year ago

    I fully agree, the show is amazing, hooked me from the start! Though I haven’t had the time to watch past episode 5 yet.

    I just started reading the first book because of the show, and in the book at least they still allow childrens picture books, and I guess they learned what birds were from them: “Most people doubted those colours in the books, just as they doubted purple elephants and pink birds ever existed.” So maybe they saw a duck in the book and now only know what a cartoon duck looks like, but if it would have been a realistic duck on the pez, they wouldn’t have known what it was?