Silo: 3 Changes From The Book That Totally Change The Show
It doesn't matter if the show follows the book blindly, as long as what we see on the screen is good.
The new Apple TV Plus show has fans obsessing over the plot twists that occur in each episode. With these major cliffhangers that end every episode, it's getting harder and harder to even try to predict where the story is going.
Many of today's fans of the show were actually quite familiar with the Silo story long before the series was released.
The thing is, the show is actually based on Hugh Howey's book trilogy. But as it turns out, the showrunners just used the books as inspiration, but didn't really follow them very closely.
So it's important that book fans understand that fact so they don't criticize the creators for bad storytelling. In fact, there have been several major changes made to the show that make it a totally independent work of fiction.
1. Bernard and his true motives
This is the character that still remains a mystery to the fans. Tim Robbins brilliantly played the role of the morally ambiguous character, but with the promise to be developed in the future.
The antagonist in his portrayal shortly became behaving like the one who is actually there to help Juliette.
But in the book Bernard is shown like a bad guy from beginning to the end. Rather than hiding his ulterior motives behind red herrings, the books make it clear that Bernard is not only the head of IT, but the driving force behind the Silo.
2. George Wilkins and his significance
Wilkins, the IT guy, is the character who is killed off in episode 2. But despite that fact, the show continues to make his story one of the most important in the series. We got to see him even more with all the flashbacks that Juliette has.
By contrast, in the Hugh Howey books, Wilkins is more of a remote recollection for Juliette. In the books it was established that Juliette and George once had a relationship and even reveals how he was killed.
But definitely he is not as important to Juliette and the whole story development.
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3. Holston's real POV of the outside world
The show never showed us what Holston saw when he took off the helmet. But the books reveal that the outside world is actually poisonous. And the first thing he sees through the helmet screen is just a VR simulation.
The books even made it clear that he was actually seeing the same image that his wife saw on the tape and when she was outside. Whereas the show just left that part open to interpretation.