The original post: /r/television by /u/factoryal21 on 2025-01-18 05:45:14.
Obviously Silo has been to compared to fallout, but I haven’t seen anyone make this specific connection. If you want to read the full story of Vault 11, look it up on the fallout wiki.
I can specifically see the DNA of several vault concepts in silo, but the clearest by far is the story of vault 11 from FNV (revealed by investigating the vault and reading all the in game terminals and notes left by the long-dead vault residents).
In vault 11, a computer governing the vault forces residents to sacrifice each other, tells them it has the ability to kill them, and doesn’t let them leave the vault. The resulting stress eventually leads to a twisted political system where the vault dwellers adjust to their situation and form factions. Eventually the system breaks down into open rebellion due to the actions of one woman who is simultaneously elevated to a position of power, but who is also intended to be the vault’s next sacrifice. She was motivated to take action by threats made against her lover. When residents of vault 11 are sent to be sacrificed, they’re sent down a long corridor to a special chamber, where they’re shown a special recording that’s designed to put them at ease, just like in silo where people sent out to clean are shown a recording in their visor.
In case slilo ends up also borrowing the end of the Vault 11 story I won’t say what it is, but it seems plausible that that’s where it’s going (I haven’t read the silo books and don’t want to spoil myself, assuming that the show follows the books). But, there are a LOT of similarities to Juliette’s story, at least at a high level. It doesn’t map perfectly, but then again if it did it would be pretty blatant. I don’t dislike seeing ideas from my favorite games show up in other media but it’s made it kinda weird to watch as the show has gone on.
Fallout new Vegas came out in 2010 and the first silo book was published in 2011, just sayin…
It’ll be a bit silly if it turns out that a conglomerate of shady government officials and evil CEOs brought about the end of the world, and then built the Silos to conduct social experiments on their inhabitants in order to figure out how to best run the new society they intend to create once the world recovers, all while maintaining themselves in suspended animation. Because…we already have that story lol, and we even have a fallout TV show now. But after seeing the end of this season of Silo that does seem to be where it’s going. And I’m worried it works better in fallout which is darkly comedic and satirical and can leverage the absurdity of the situation for jokes, while not needing to take itself completely seriously.