I knew it!
[Spoilers ahead ... ]
I said in my review of episodes 1.1 and 1.2 of Silo (I haven't read the books) that the display of what was outside the silo might have been what we would in our world, off the streaming screen, call a deep fake. And it makes sense -- the best way of keeping people inside is to convince them that what was outside was death, almost immediate.
And this of course raises all kinds of questions. Who else is outside? Everyone else who left the silo and maybe the children of some of these escapees? Maybe also people who survived the catastrophe that led to the creation of the silo in the first place, if that's indeed the reason it was created. Not that much time has passed from when the sheriff and earlier his wife went outside. But people in the silo had been doing just that for a long time. What happened to them?
And in particular, how come they never came back to the silo, to let their loved ones know that there was a beautiful world, with birds flying, outside. I guess there's a possibility that what Juliet saw on the screen was itself a fake, but I doubt that.
One thing is very clear. Whatever is going on outside, it hasn't resulted in the silo being liberated. Why not? That big question mark may or may not be fully answered, or answered at all, in next week's episode 1.10, finale of this first season. But that's what second seasons are for. And I have a feeling there will be many more seasons to come in this riveting narrative.
See also Silo 1.1-1.2: A Unique Story, Inside and Out ... Silo 1.3: Like Chernobyl, Repaired ... 1.4: Truth, Not Quite ... 1.5: Revelations ... 1.6-1.7: The Book and the Water ... 1.8: What Really Happened
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