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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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This is literally the concept of a popular science fiction TV series. I won't say which one because I don't want to spoil it, but its next season is eagerly awaited, and it was huge when it was airing its previous season(s).
The series is based on books, and some fans of the series have read ahead; some have finished the books and know what all happens. Of course adaptations do change things, but killer nanobots that were used to wage war were the catalyst and a hidden plot point. I think the next season will reveal this.
(No, it's not Fallout. Fallout is good old-fashioned nuclear war. The show doesn't follow any of the games, but they share the same lore. The show is changing some of that, adding onto it (e.g. Vault Boy origin story in the first season), but they aren't changing that. Also, not based on books.)
If you know, don't say. Or at the very least use spoiler tags.
Gimme the spoiler tag! I wanna watch this!
You kinda can't because that plot point hasn't been revealed yet. That said, if you know that's what's going on, it makes the show's first mystery trivial! I read the books after the first season, and I loved picking that mystery apart. I think after the first episode we had enough to speculate and go back and forth on theories. Of course now you can binge watch the whole season, so you aren't forced to take all that time to think about it.
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The show is called Silo, on Apple TV. You don't need an Apple device to watch it; Apple TV is on most smart TV app stores. You can also usually get a free trial. The show is 2 seasons so far. Again, nothing about the show says nanobots (yet). And be warned, the books were very thin on details, but the author is an executive producer on the show, and he's adding a ton of stuff (and changing others). So they might change it, but you can read the books if you like the concept.So the back story is, humans killed each other with nanobots rather than nukes, and, much like the world of Fallout, they live in underground bunkers called silos. And also like Fallout (more so the games), some of the silos run experiments. Some social, some scientific. They have a ton of strange rules, knowledge is forbidden, all that good stuff.
The mystery I mentioned was about the first person on in the series sent outside "to clean." The question was whether what he saw on the visor real or not. Once you know they're gassed with the nanobots as soon as they step outside (there is zero radiation out there), that explains the show's first mystery. "But he's in a suit," you think. That gets answered by the end of the first season.
Hope you can still enjoy it!
Thanks, that's fine. I don't think it'll be a problem at all, since I read the entire plot summary to The Substance and was still floored upon watching it (though apparently some of the wording in the article was confusing so I didn't even understand the whole plot lol).
Fallout the Show doesn't follow any of the games because it's an entirely new story told in that same universe. The games and show all share the same timeline, and yet each game (including the show) has an entirely different story, taking place at a different location and point in time, in each installment.
So there's really nothing for the show to follow, other than the established rules of the world it inhabits, and imo it does a very good job of that.