WestWorld: ...Where nothing can possibly go worng!

these violent ends bring great delight

This show is “Lost” from the android’s point of view

Or is it “walking dead” from the zombie’s POV? Can’t tell the difference tbh

r/westworld is hilarious right now. Every thread is a meticulously screen-grabbed dissection of every single minute production/continuity error and 100% of the commenters are totally convinced they're all subtle foreshadowing clues meant to hint the viewer about what's actually happening.

https://news.avclub.com/heres-the-extremely-subtle-clue-about-season-two-hidden-1825577716

Having jumped ship after a few episodes of the first season, I really wish they would have spent more time acting and writing well rather than working out some elaborate triple timeline twist or whatever.

To that point, from the previously.tv recap of the season two opener:

It's funny, isn't it -- the out this show has? Any time something seems crappy-looking (cough Evan Rachel Wood's wigs cough) or hacky (host dialog), the excuse can be that the hosts themselves are fake-ass robots with programmed phrases written by choads like this one. Handy!

They are literal metaphoric bad actors! But also sometimes literally bad actors.

going to drop my feigned hatred of theorizing for a sec

her memories are fixated on her daughter dying because her actions aren’t just part of Ford’s narrative, but they’re specifically tuned so that she’ll become William’s adversary

perusing the premiere before tonight’s episode and I have to say, the music toward the beginning is really indebted to Johann Johannsen’s Sicario score

Tonight’s episode was pretty lame. Was there a scene that wasn’t exposition? Kind of like those GoT eps that have to cycle through checking in on everyone, but with time AND space.

Plus no Bernard at all, and only one scene with Maeve.

judas motherfucking priest, let us just enjoy straightforward exposition for once in this Nolan/Joy enterprise

as I messaged to my WW-watching friend in marketing, if the true purpose of this fantasy started out as a way to make better direct marketing, it is definitely a dark place

that one was booooring

have you ever seen anything so full of splendor?

*stares into whirlpool created by hitting the flush button*

having recently wrapped up ozark was stoked to see peter mullan turn up as james delos. hope he gets to talk some more in future eps.

https://www.theringer.com/2018/5/2/17312684/westworld-bernard-teddy-theory-podcast

oh god are all the parks variations on europeans colonizing shit

Well having a park dedicated to aboriginal cultures overthrowing white colonizers would kinda break the theme of the fucking show, so yes

I have so many problems with this stupid episode rn

I can’t even with the final battle shit where they set up all these perimeter explosives but still somehow let Dad Abernathy get hostnapped by Tessa Thompson who inexplicably rode off on a horse ex machina 45 minutes earlier.

And I know why Dolores cares about her “dad” post-sentience, obviously Ford put that shit in there to get her to protect some extra level of maze shit from Delos LLC, but GAAAAAHHH

So dumb. This episode was like Walking Dead levels of dumb.

Folks, I think I'm out...

i pledged to not talk shit and i bowed out after last season, but...
my partner is watching the latest episode right now and when did it turn into a big constant stupid action movie? reminds me of that part in monty python and the holy grail where the big medieval battle gets interrupted by the London police

I just watch this show to see Thandie Newton kill people

akm otm

Knowing that there is a British Raj park leads me to believe there is ABSOLUTELY an antebellum US park where guests can be slavemasters. The demand for such a place among Americans would be insatiable.

Raga version of "Seven Nation Army" = megalolz

ok only halfway through, but the guest who escaped from the other park running from a tiger is totally William’s daughter, right

Yes

This episode was pretty great imo

we’re going to find out that Bernard has an Arnold layer, at least the skills, below his surface programming, I think

was so hyped to see Elsie back

sounds like the long term investor pitch was maybe immortality, but I suspect it got pivoted to abducting guests and inserting their doubles back into the real world at some point

possibly for AI training a bunch of guests were actually host androids who were dupes of guests, hence the tremor problems

this is finally good again

"You wanted me to play your game, and I'm gonna play it to the bone" was very bad, though.

i think ford had clementine bring me here for a reason

you've got to admit that hiding your secret transhuman tech lab in the middle of a rich people's vacation resort that you own and operate is a pretty Bond Villain move

"You wanted me to play your game, and I'm gonna play it to the bone"

i'm stealing this for everyday use.

I'm gonna edit this column to the bone!

You wanted me to convert simple HTML to BBcode, and I'm gonna convert it to the bone

Finding out that a character that Bernard was heavily implied to have murdered was actually just imprisoned in a cave with a bucket and some protein bars was a bit of an eye-roller.

Plus the Elsie character seems dropped in from some other, lesser, show. SyFy original Mary Sue

Hrm. I think Elsie is fun and I'm glad to see her.

I don't remember when/how she found out BernardBot was a bot.

She just found out in the most recent episode! So even as he was manhandling her into a cave she didn't suspect?

Elsie's awesome and shannon woodward is adorable fuiud

elsie a bot

NOOOOOOOOOOO

I just assumed BernBot was programmed at some point not to kill her, for whatever purposes.

I had to listen to a guy mansplain this show to a woman at a camping trip this weekend and it was fucking painful. I just kept my mouth shut.

Ford spared Elsie because while she knew too much, she wouldn't be able to stop him, and he didn't hate her guts the way he apparently did Theresa. And also you can't kill your audience surrogate?

The song Madame Akane danced to was a little OTT.

what was that a cover of?

https://youtu.be/__DEAK3AinM

oh jfc I feel so dumb