Throughout a press day for season 2, Den of Geek requested Silo showrunner Graham Yost whether or not or not this was an intentional homage to the books, or only a joyful accident that got here alongside as they have been creating the story this season. “It was a contented accident in that we determined to begin the season that manner,” Yost says. “We do get into issues towards the tip and also you’ll ultimately see the ultimate episode the place we’re going, ‘bang, bang, bang.’ However the massive factor was, we shortly determined within the writers room that we needed to begin with Juliette.”
Based on Yost, the writers had a “loopy concept” about following the construction of the e book and alternating episodes for “4 or 5 episodes,” however finally realized that it might ”grow to be annoying” to have a tv present formatted that manner. However even when they couldn’t do it for all the episodes, they might do it for the primary two, after which “settle into only a common story the place we’re going forwards and backwards between these two [silos].”
It’s typically difficult to adapt formatting components throughout mediums, like gameplay from video video games, or on this case the chapter construction from a e book, with out it feeling odd or misplaced within the new medium. By utilizing the primary two episodes as chapters, nonetheless, Yost and the season 2 writers got here up with a enjoyable and surprising technique to pay homage to the books with out making it really feel pressured or unnatural to look at as a TV present.
Yost says that writer Hugh Howey and his spouse Shea love the season, and that’s “the perfect assessment we will get.” Simply because a narrative may change barely because it’s tailored, doesn’t imply that the guts of the unique isn’t nonetheless there, and this nod to Wool in Silo is additional proof of that.
