Oooo we need more Silo memes!
Edit: Don't let your dreams be dreams.
That's a tough one. I'm thrilled to see how future me will get this sorted out.
I can hear this picture it's deafening without actually sounding like anything.
What's the opposite of white noise? Because it's that. That's what I hear.
Plaid noise...
They’ve gone to plaid!
What series is that from?
Silo.
it's good.
Script-wise it is struggling in some places, as many sci-fi shows making stuff happen is more expensive than just having people talk. But the performances are great.
One of my pet peeves with the show is that some of the actors had a different accent (like Juliette and her dad), which doesn’t make sense at all. With such a small colony that lived close together for hundreds of years everyone should talk with similar accents or at most a different accent per social class. Like Common’s accent sticks out like a sore thumb, they could’ve at least shown a couple of more people from the floors he grew up in and have them speak like him to ground his accent in the world.
Didn't Juliette grow up down in maintenance? It might have been long enough to develop a slight different accent...
I get where you’re coming from, especially when it comes to immediate family such as Juliette and her father; but given the strict societal heirarchy of the Silo - it wouldn’t surprise me if there was a drastic shift in accents depending on high high you ascend.
Like, the wealthier and more affluent levels on top would put on an almost Transatlantic accent to intentionally differentiate themselves from the riff-raff below.
Just consider of the width and breadth of English accents, given that it would be much easier to travel between English cities now, than ascending 100 levels of the Silo in the show.
The source material isn't great. Interesting concept but painful execution at times. The three novels (Wool, Shift, and Dust) read like YA. I stubbornly read my way through them during pandemic but it was rough going and I ended up donating them to my library because I knew I'd never want to read them again.
I've watched the first two seasons of the show, and I think they're doing a reasonably good job given how mediocre the novels are. Pacing and characters making dumb decisions are both problems, but they were problems in the books too.
Every meme has to be from the 80s because nobody is ever going to watch the same thing enough to recognize loose frames ever again.
What are you talking about?
I'm confused by the confusion. I'm saying media is getting atomized and decentralized so there are no media touchstones other than the algorithm anymore.
So memes are harder to make from newer media because there's no watercooler thing everybody is watching at the same time anymore so there's less cultural overlap that everybody will recognize at a glance forever.
You made me say it all boring now.
Silo is from 2023.
Yes, media is getting atomised and decentralised, but what does that have to do with this meme?
Is this about not everyone recognising every meme template? Because that is like that since the beginning of memeing.
Yes. It's a response to a post asking what the meme image is from, which I also didn't recognize. And then you took it upon yourself to ask about it and now the entire thread below the meme is dominated by two idiots arguing about whether memes can be made from newer media.
Which is why every meme has to be from the 80s because nobody is ever going to watch the same thing enough to recognize loose frames ever again.
Kind of agreed, but also you can just ask
Sure, but... then it's not a meme, right? The point of memes is that spark of recognition. You know what the template means, or at least you can figure it out, you get the joke, then you... well, you meme.
But if you make a meme and every time you post it the chat is about "hey what's that show?" then it's not a meme, it's you recommending some show.
It's fine, it's not the end of the world, and memes can work even if you don't understand where they come from if the image doesn't depend on its original context to work (see for instance: blinking guy meme not needing to know who Drew Scanlon is), but it's a weird reminder that we no longer have a shared cultural repository in the algorithm age.
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