so what was the point of tricking the cleaners into thinking that the world wasnt an irradiated shithole?

S1 was great
S2 was garbage
how are the books?

Keep watching to find out!
But for real I got a bad feeling about the next season.

>>213883501 (OP)
So that they think the lense is dirty and the people need to see that the world is ok. Basically to guarantee they'll clean.

>>213883501 (OP)
it's a metaphor for climate change

>>213883631
but they dont want them to go out... why would they want them to think the world is okay

>>213883562
>S1 was great
No it wasn't

>>213883562
As you would expect out of a mystery box show.

>>213883698
"They" as in the people running the silo don't want them to go out.
"They" as in the people who did are the ones trying to clean the lens to show the others the outside is clean.
It was an interesting uno reverse for the viewer but still retarded. The could have just put a little wiper on the fucking thing.

>>213883698
Only the person who goes out to clean gets shown its nice out, so they want to clean the camera to show everyone else. The Silo is pretty much a massive psychological experiment and the people running it do need people to be sent out occasionally as a form of control over everyone. Also in the books the cleaning isn’t as big of a deal, people don’t even watch it on the screens.

>>213883501 (OP)
to make them clean instead of just walking out
its definitely mentioned in the book and iirc in the show too
>>213883562
books are great

>>213884329
>guy walks out of the silo
>"OMG the world is just as an irradiated shithole as shown on our monitors, the reason someone inside might think it wasn't is because the cameras aren't clean enough"
???

>>213883562
>how are the books?
I went through about 5 "THIS TWIST WILL COMPLETELY CHANGE EVERYTHING" before I stopped reading

>>213883501 (OP)
>>213884444
The trick was a control mechanism: cleaners were shown a false, green world through their visors so they’d willingly wipe the silo’s sensors before dying, while the people inside only ever saw the bleak wasteland. This served two purposes
1. keeping the camera feeds clear for surveillance
2. reinforcing the belief that the outside was hopelessly toxic, which discouraged rebellion or escape.

>>213883562
Garbage. Only the first chapter of the first book is good, which was a short story by itself. Then the author thought to milk to the bone his only half-successful thing.
99% of sci-fi book-series is like that...

>>213884894
>99% of sci-fi book-series is like that
SAAAR

>>213884444
well yea
those guys are being executed they arent exactly thinking straight. the whole silo is designed as a psychological manipulation that way and in most cases it works

>>213884186
>>213884329
>>213884524
actually i just remembered the purpose, bernard mentions that jules is supposed to die "on schedule" because of the bad tape on the suit, so the false images the cleaners are shown is to make them waste time so the toxins can destroy the shit tape and then kill them

>>213885650
a cleaning is supposed to be rare like once every many years/a generation. when they see the outside is 'fine' their first instinct is to show it to the people inside by cleaning not to doubt what theyre seeing remembering how others who cleaned reacted to going outside. wasting time doesnt matter since they'll die anyway no matter what theyll do but the whole ritual is meant to satisfy the silo's curiosity and assure them that the outside is still unsafe. thats why its important to manipulate the cleaners into cleaning

>can make lifelike vr, space suits, self sustaining silos
>can't invent a fucking window wiper

>>213883501 (OP)
So there could be a plot twist

>>213884524
>. This served two purposes
>keeping the camera feeds clear for surveillance
Gosh maybe in one million years humanity will think of a way for a robot to clean a lense or automatic mechanism.

>>213884524
Except everyone who is sent out is from the silo and has seen the recording that the world is shit through what we see as fairly good quality cameras that aren't obscured by dirt making the super nice world seem crap. It's a completely stupid set up.

>>213883501 (OP)
The world isn't an irradiated shithole.

>>213883501 (OP)
So they would clean