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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/RaceHard on 2023-09-06 03:10:44.

So first of all, that ending was rushed. It felt like it needed to be longer, much longer.

Donald is a traitor and honestly this may mirror discussions from 10 years ago but. He just doomed every innocent person in Silo 01. Possibly all the other Silo’s too.

What if there was a backup system in which a Silo losing connection to 01 was a trigger for the explosive decommissioning of the Silo’s. If so he killed everyone else. He never once paused to think things properly, same with Anna, his own guilt made him kill her. Disgusting.

We never got an answer as to why it was a 500 year wait time. Or what kind of genetic design the computer had for pairing people the way they were being paired.

What really happened to the rogue Silos that went dark, how many are still operational, what is going on in them?

Juliette has no way of knowing this but her tiny group of people are doomed to genetic inbreeding and death. She accomplished nothing but get her people dead. If she had put her anger aside and asked the right questions of Donald she might have saved her people.

Donald and Thurman, he should’ve shot Donald on the spot. And he should’ve had that drone level properly scoured of paperwork. And the way his sister was able to move about, did he never hear of lockdowns? Checking which access cards had been issued, when and used where? Where there no cameras in the elevators and just outside their doors at each floors?

And in the end, he shoots Donald once, and does not keep on shooting?

The hibernation pods, was there no system to alert when one was being opened to operations?

It feels like the author thought of some things but not of the very obvious security stuff that would have cropped up for a place like that.

As the story ends, we have some Silo’s that may or may not be still around, with no more direction from 01, and a group of 150-odd survivors that will most certainly die out to inbreeding, births, diseases, etc. (Even if they don’t due to the nanos, the next gen and the one after that will exponentially have less and less nanos and still be inbred.)

I feel that Donald would have had a better ending if he had tried to convince more and more people of the truth and then topple down Thurman. Still a traitor to the plan, but an ending in which the future is much more hopeful.