Warning! This article contains spoilers for Silo season 2’s episode 1.
The new silo, whereSiloseason 2’s episode 1 unfolds, is heavily flooded, making it hard not to wonder how it filled up with so much water and why Juliette cannot swim in it.Siloseason 1 endedits run on a satisfying note where Juliette stood tall against Bernard’s tyranny while many of her fellow citizens helped her survive the outside world. Season 2 picks up where the first installment left, following Juliette’s journey inside a neighboring silo. Realizing that the heat tape on her suit will not hold for long, Juliette tries to enter a neighboring silo.
However, the closer she walks to it, the more she realizes that it has been long abandoned. After walking along a path marred by many dead bodies,Rebecca Ferguson’s Juliettebreaks into the new silo, hoping to find shelter. However, she faces her first major challenge when she discovers that a bridge that connects one end of the silo to another has been broken. When she attempts to cross the broken bridge using ropes, she accidentally falls and almost drowns to death after dropping into the water that floods the silo’s lower levels.
Why The Second Silo Is Flooded In Season 2’s First Episode
The Silo Was Flooded During A Massive Rebellion
AlthoughSiloseason 2’s episode 1 does not explicitly mention why the new silo is flooded, it hints at what might have happened in an opening flashback. The opening sequence features a rebellion in the new silo where its citizens are divided into two factions. One faction includes freedom fighters who wish to break free from the silo and escape to the outside world. Meanwhile, the other conforms to the higher authorities' orders and prevents the freedom fighters from leaving.
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In the episode’s opening scene, a young boy named Timmy carries a message from the Engineering department for his father, who seemingly leads the freedom fighters and was also the Silo’s Sheriff before the rebellion. The message says the generator room will be flooded in 15 minutes, suggesting that the Sheriff and his supporters had planned to flood the lower levels of the Silo to ensure no one can live in it. Filling the generator room with water was likelya tactical move to sabotage the Silo’s power infrastructure, forcing everyone to leave the underground bunker for good.
Why Juliette Can’t Swim In Silo
Silo 18’s Citizens Never Got The Opportunity To Swim
Juliette is not able to swim after she falls into the new silo’s lower levels because she never had access to any massive water bodies while growing up.Siloseason 1 establishes that, like others in Silo 18, Juliette and George fear the massive pool of water in their Silo’s lowest level because they never got to learn how to swim. Owing to this, Juliette struggles to stay afloat when her rope breaks inSiloseason 2’s episode 1 and falls to the lower levels of the new silo.
After the steam engine incident inSiloseason 1, Juliette should have been able to swim in season 2’s opening episode.
It is hard not to notice how Juliette’s inability to swim inSiloseason 2 seemingly creates a continuity error. InSiloseason 1’s early episodes, Juliette seems to learn how to swimwhen she nearly drowns herself while watering down the hot plate in Silo 18’s steam engine. After the steam engine incident inSiloseason 1, Juliette should have been able to swim in season 2’s opening episode. However, given how she barely made it out alive from the steam engine incident, it is possible that it did not give her enough confidence to fully overcome her fear of water.
Silo
In a dystopian future, men and women reside in a vast underground silo governed by strict regulations, believed to shield them from the hazardous world above. The series delves into the complex social order within the silo and the mysteries surrounding their subterranean existence.
