Notice! This article contains spoilers for Silo season 2, episode 1.Silo Season 2 Episode 1 seems to miss the perfect opportunity to make up for an important moment in Juliette’s story from Season 1. Created by Graham Yost, Apple TV+’s Silo adapts Hugh Howey Silo series of books. While the show stays true to the essence of the source material’s plot and accurately captures most of the story beats and themes, it doesn’t hesitate to introduce some of its own original elements. The second season of the series continues this approach, recording its own identity while paying homage to the world created by Hugh Howey in the original books.
Setting the tone for future episodes, Silo the opening episode of season 2 goes back and forth between timelines. While its current timeline cycles through Juliette’s new adventure outside of Silo 18, past timelines feature flashbacks that give a glimpse into Juliette’s childhood and the destructive history of a new Silo. After watching the events of the current timeline, it’s hard not to notice how the second season of the Apple TV+ sci-fi show seemingly ignores a crucial scene from the first season, despite having the perfect opportunity to pay off for it.
Juliette apparently learned to swim in a silo season 1 sequence
The steam engine incident forced her to swim
One Silo The opening episodes of season 1 feature a sequence in which Juliette and her team from the Mechanical department race against time to repair the turbine that drives Silo 18’s steam engine. To regulate heat generation during the process, Juliette even puts his life at risk by throwing cold water on the hot plate of the steam engine. While she’s at it, she almost drowns to death after getting stuck in the gutter beneath the hot plate. As Juliette continues directing the cold water onto the hot plate, the trough she sits in fills to the brim, leaving her underwater.
However, despite being afraid of water, Juliette stands firm in the face of danger, ensuring that her team has more time to repair the turbine. Even after being submerged and unable to swim, she somehow manages to return to the surface. The fact that she comes out alive in this scene suggests that she learns to swim and saves herself before it’s too late. Strangely, however, Silo season 2 episode 1 tells a completely different story.
Silo Season 2 Episode 1 Confirms She’s Still Afraid of Water
She panics when she falls into deep water in season 2
After Juliette enters a neighboring Silo in Silo In episode 1 of season 2 and manages to take off her helmet before being suffocated, she faces her first big challenge. The bridge connecting one end of the Silo to the other appears to have been broken, forcing Juliette to use her engineering skills to find a solution. She tries to get from one side to the other using a rope that goes down the railing from an upper level.
Given as Silo the steam engine sequence from season 1 shows that she has learned to swim, the season 2 Silo moment where she almost drowns seems to create a continuity error.
However, when she swings the rope to get to the other side, it surprisingly breaks and she falls into the water that floods the lower levels of the Silo. Juliette panics as she struggles to stay afloat and only manages to make it out alive because she finds a large floating object. This scene shows that Juliette hasn’t overcome her fear of water and still doesn’t know how to swim very well.
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Silo Season |
Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score |
Rotten Tomatoes audience score |
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Season 1 |
88% |
67% |
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Season 2 |
95% |
79% |
Given as Silo the steam engine sequence from season 1 shows that she has learned to swim, the season 2 Silo moment where she almost drowns seems to create a continuity error. However, since Juliette never had exposure to large bodies of water while growing up in Silo 18 and always feared waterit makes sense that his encounter with water in season one wasn’t enough to quench his fear.
One Silo Season 2 Image Confirms She Will Eventually Overcome Her Fear
Juliette will eventually improve at swimming
As the above embedding reveals, Silo Season 2 will eventually feature a sequence in which Juliette will not only swim in the depths of the new Silo’s waters, but also carry out some repairs to its lower levels. While only time will tell how the show’s story will progress, the image above confirms that with repeated exposure to water, Juliette will overcome her fear. Juliette’s ability to find solutions to the most serious problems and overcome all adversity proves that she can also help the people of Silo 18 in Silofuture episodes before it’s too late.