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I purchased my ‘22 XC60 T8 in May ‘24 as CPO. The ERAD died in June with about 50k miles on the odometer. Volvo has no ETA for replacement ERAD for my MY. Why? How can you sell CPO and not be prepared for this after years of knowing the fault in the part? Why no recall?

I’ve read anecdotes online of Volvo working on an updated replacement part but neither Volvo USA or the dealership service department that has my car has said anything about this. Why?

I’ve also read that Volvo is encouraging dealerships to provide long-term loaners. Mine was generous for a few months then kicked me into an Enterprise rental no more than $40 a day - a Jeep Compass that smells like Febreeze and cigarettes. Hardly comparable and the least of my concerns - but why?

It seems we need to start talking about a class action suit around here.

Book spoilers obviously. This is speculation about how the show is remixing Shift rather than a prediction based solely on the books.

I’ve been thinking about all the breadcrumbs the show has dropped in S3, and I keep coming back to the idea that Daniel is about to become the show’s version of Troy.

The finale is literally titled “Troy”, and the episode description is “A leader awakes to a new world.” The S3 soundtrack also has a track called “Troy,” which is apparently about as subtle as a brick through a window.

But I don’t think the interesting part is simply “Daniel wakes up and is called Troy.” We already know that story from Shift. The interesting part is how the show seems to be rearranging the pieces.

Daniel doesn’t need to be the audience mystery. We’ll know it’s Daniel. The tension will be watching Daniel not know it’s Daniel.

The show has already established Vitamin D+ and the fact that memories can be suppressed and recovered. So I can easily see Daniel waking in Silo 1 as Troy, completely accepting that identity, while we sit there thinking: “Oh, Jesus. They wiped him.”

And then we get to watch him slowly wake up to reality.

Silo 1 may be the big reveal

I suspect most of E10 will remain with 18. Juliette is mayor, she’s with Camille watching Bernard die, and the rest of the immediate crisis is still playing out. I don’t think there’s time to suddenly reproduce the book’s elaborate digger sequence to get everyone into 17 and the tunnel Lukas talked to Silo 1 in hasn’t been revisited.

Instead, I think we may get Silo 1 only at the very end.

People doing their jobs. The creepy shift system. Administrative controls. Records. Surveillance. Maybe that enormous Mission Control view of the other silos.

And then: Troy wakes. That would be a hell of a Season 4 cliffhanger.

And I think Troy will actually investigate Silo 1 from the very start of S4.

This is where the show can do something really cool with the differences from Shift. Daniel is the engineer. He understands the systems intuitively even if he doesn’t remember why. He can work his way into the administrative machinery, examine citizen histories, records, silo status, etc. And eventually he starts finding things that don’t make sense. Including Silo 18. That’s his hand holding a Silo 18 “keychain” fob.

Which brings me to Helen: Helen is obviously the thing that ultimately breaks Troy’s allegiance to Silo 1.

He can discover that Silo 1 is horrible and still rationalize it. But then he starts digging through the history of Silo 18 and finds Helen. At first she means nothing to him. Then something about her does. And eventually he discovers who she was to Daniel. That’s the moment the numbers on the screen become people.

Silo 18 isn’t just another silo. It’s Helen’s silo.

And if the theory about Juliette having Daniel’s watch is actually correct, while the show has already established the PEZ relic connection, then we may have physical objects quietly connecting Daniel’s Before Times life to 18. That would be a beautiful way for the show to use relics as more than just nostalgia.

And then there’s the name Helen + Troy. Come on.

I’m not saying the writers necessarily intend every layer of the Helen of Troy / Trojan horse metaphor, but if Daniel is placed inside Silo 1 under the name Troy, then the metaphor is sitting right there: Silo 1 thinks it has awakened one of its own. Instead, it has brought the person who is eventually going to help destroy it inside the walls. Troy is the Trojan horse.

The Algorithm
And if the prevailing theory about the Algorithm’s voice being Daniel is correct, that gets even better. We aren’t going to discover who the voice is. We’ll discover why Daniel is the voice.

The audience watches him acting like an authoritarian asshole in Silo 1 and thinks, What the hell happened to Daniel?
The obvious answer is: he doesn’t remember being Daniel yet. Then he starts investigating.
He finds Helen. The relics/memories start connecting. He wakes up. And suddenly the person we’ve been hearing as the Algorithm becomes the person working against the system.

Thurman / Svenson / Anna: I also can’t shake the feeling that Thurman’s fate is still unresolved for a reason.

My bet: Svenson kills Thurman. And if the soundtrack cue “No Longer Necessary” is associated with that, I will laugh my ass off.
More importantly, Thurman’s death could be what finally breaks Anna’s loyalty to Silo 1.
Svenson, Dr. Creepy, Anna, Charlotte and Daniel all seem to have fairly clear dramatic purposes going forward. Senator Thurman is the loose end.

Maybe she simply dies in the blast off camera. Or maybe she’s eliminated because she’s no longer useful—and that is what finally convinces Anna that Silo 1 isn’t what she thought it was. Anna’s bout with cancer may provide the bridge necessary from weaponized nanobots to the concept of good nanobots, or Svenson’s DNA tech solves the longevity problem in Silo 1 without conflating Iranian nano killers.

And 17/18… I’m still very interested in that mysterious tunnel. The show has shown the bottom of 18’s digger void as shallowly flooded, while 17 is being actively drained. There’s a tunnel and a door that we haven’t revisited this season.
I don’t think it’s going to suddenly become relevant in E10. But if water has been moving between 17 and 18 through that tunnel, it would explain the flooding beautifully. And it gives the show a much cleaner way to get Juliette between the silos than reproducing the book’s digger-repurposing sequence.

So my current crazy-but-not-that-crazy theory is: S3 ends with Troy waking in Silo 1.

Season 4 gives us the creepy Silo 1 machinery and shift system while 18 continues its story.

Troy investigates.
Troy discovers the truth.
Troy discovers Helen.
Troy remembers Daniel.

And the person Silo 1 thought it had safely put to work inside its control system becomes the person who helps bring the whole thing down. The Trojan horse was already inside.

Hi all, long-time lurker here. I’ve been developing apps since they were web apps. After nearly two decades building other people’s ideas, I was laid off and decided to build an app that’s been on my mind for 13 years. The app was mainly to scratch my own itch: tracking arbitrary things over time without handing my data to anyone - but with style.

The idea is simple. You define your own categories/fields with real units (kg, mL, °C, count, currency, %, or freeform), log numbers against them, then filter, chart, and export to CSV or JSON. It syncs across your own devices through your private iCloud - **no account, no server, nothing leaves your device except your own iCloud.** I can't see your data, and there's nothing to log into.

There are still some rough edges, which is exactly why I'm here. If a few of you would be willing to kick the tires and tell me what's missing or annoying, I'd be genuinely grateful. Totally understand if it's not your thing.