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

imo Anthony Hopkins is the surprise android out there in the world, and the original creator is in cold storage or dead somewhere

watching the original film, a couple of funny moments. The scientists / engineers around a table.. "in some cases the robots have been designed by other computers. We don't know exactly how they work." ?! WHAT

James Brolin looks like Patrick Bateman

Yul Brynner so creepy

http://i.imgur.com/EDCBW3B.jpg
1880s American Psycho

"check all the snake central mechanisms during tonight's repair period."

this is about like sex robots in the old west or something right

I think post-LOST sci-fi television really needs to quit it with the obvious tvtropes.com twist-begging garbage. I want to like this show, but we're being set up for:

* There's a DELOS globe in the sub-basement. Delos destinations! So the old west is just one, hmm hmm wonder what else is out there

* None of the "guests" have any home life that we get to see - nobody really doing a departure from future NYC, nobody changing into their period wardrobe, etc. OMG IS IT EVEN ON EARTH? IS ANYONE oh oh oh oh

* Wait up folks what if they're ALL ROBOTS?

I desperately hope there's no pan away to space, no obvious reveal that Jeffrey Wright is really an android, or god forbid some bullshit about how Ed Harris is an antihero (as opposed to the other obvious non-twist that he's the human version of Yul Brenner's Gunslinger because SCRIPT - FLIPPED!)

There's a lot to be said for Mad Men pulling the Dick Whitman reveal early and then moving on from it. But that was a show ostensibly about a real period and with real events to serve as milestones for the characters. SF/near-future TV needs to try harder to be like The Expanse or even, yeah, Firefly, and get away from stunts altogether. The audience is too ready for it and that makes it impossible to enjoy.

And by "the audience" I mean me and by "impossible to enjoy" I mean I have fun watching it but the way I watch it is thoroughly tainted by an unruly compulsion to decipher the entire production as if it were some kind of goddamn cryptic crossword and I blame M. Night Shyamalan & Chuck Palahniuk for everything. People with five syllable names wtf

You are making me not want to watch this

I should get paid

The Simpsons parodied this book/movie when the family visited the Duff beer theme park. If you liked that episode, you might also like this movie. /amazon.comrecommends

the last scene was telegraphed throughout the entire first episode but was still satisfying

I see the only book was a novelization; it was an original screenplay by Crichton in '73. He has nothing directly to do with this series, right?

well, he's dead

haha

i don't keep track, i assume it was some horrible theme-park mishap

longer version would be that Abrams mentioned having talked to Crichton 20 years ago or so about remaking it as a movie but nothing came of it

I think he got some sort of weird climate change-related cancer, of which he did not believe

What I've read (spoilers?) said that in the first 4 eps provided to critics, there is no robot rampage/human death toll. The question the review raised is how a theme park robot rampage can sustain a series, let alone a second season.

season two is when the robot virus makes it to eastworld

i watched last night and was entertained.

tomboto's Lost reference above seems apt. i watched Lost. all of it. i groaned many times. in some ways it was really predictable and in others just completely nonsensical. sometimes it was a really fucking awesome show. i ordered pizza with friends and watched it together when new episodes came out and tolerated the one friend in the group who was way waaaaaay into Lost.

let's just hope westworld doesn't end up putting out the equivalent of a Jack's Tattoo episode, though

eastworld is the set of cheers

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=115066

Is there a Five Night's at Freddy's Netflix series in development?

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so it has already begun

I enjoyed it

i ordered pizza with friends and watched it together when new episodes came out and tolerated the one friend in the group who was way waaaaaay into Lost.

i did this, too, and it actually makes me a lil misty about LOST

i thought this was fine, and about what i would expect from a pilot ep. trailer had my expectations higher, tho

Is it just me or was Harris channeling a little bit of Peter Weller

"The question the review raised is how a theme park robot rampage can sustain a series, let alone a second season."

i was under the impression this was a one-off limited series

anyway, I really liked this. you all are picky

It's not. They've talked about doing five seasons

This is basically HBO's big roll of the dice for a post-GOT blockbuster

@ least no horses will get shot, probably

this was fun, but tempered by the post-LOST certainty that it will be sloppy and insulting within four eps

scriptwriting award of the year goes to [looks at robot while holding old photo of son] "good as new huh? sometimes i envy your forgetfulness"

iirc LOST really went off the track when Abrams wandered off to do other things

Person of Interest was kind of ho-hum and samey after a while but never went off the rails, so there's hope?

doubt i will become accustomed to softly jarring danish lady accent

appalled by the brit bloke. could they not tell or were they just not interested in the difference between annoying character and godawful acting

must admit i smirked @ old timey piano 'black hole sun'

took me quite a while to place the tune

friend of a friend at HBO said this was in development hell for years and went through a million script revisions. allegedly, HBO is in a panic over not haven't a replacement queued up for GoT

they kept pushing back the release, maybe they have been editing the hell out of it

this wasn't terrible or anything but if there are any riffs left to be had on "ai-becomes-sentient" i don't think they're coming here.

they kept pushing back the release, maybe they have been editing the hell out of it

IIRC HBO wanted a more expansive/solid game plan than had been prepared re: the overall plot and future seasons, which set them back 6-9 months or so. Not at all unreasonable considering the investment.

so was ed harris's scalp map a way to the computer room

or maybe a path to where the rogue bots hide

I assume the map is like the secret of the lost woods in Zelda; the Delos game worlds can't be exited by just riding off into one direction or another (they mentioned nobody's found the edge, right?) but you can hit the boundaries by following a specific pattern, whether you intend to find game HQ + host storage or any other "off map" location.

good theory!

You'd have to be some pathological rich fucker to play this enough times that trying to ride off until you hit the edge would be a goal during a trip. Maybe that is what Harris's character has become.

Oh I thought that was clear that that was exactly what he was

Didn't people escape from one World set up into at least one other in one of the 70s films?
Technology and expectations of technology have probably changed massively in the interim though.

2nd EP is up on HBO's streaming platforms

You know, to paraphrase Jurassic Park, the is the theme park where the Pirates of the Caribbean try to eat you. Which was probably a Westworld reference to begin with.

i thought this was pretty good. kept me going at least. great cast!

the physical character work for the malfunctioning hosts was great and really pretty unnerving, esp louis herthum (the dad) and michael wincott (the old bartender in the basement). i'm kinda hoping the show lets wincott stick around, i've always liked that guy.

funny tho in a world of 'big data' the menacing conversation between the manager and the young writer seemed pretty obvious. what does management get out of this? idk endless data on what people like to eat, watch, kill, fuck etc

You'd have to be some pathological rich fucker to play this enough times that trying to ride off until you hit the edge would be a goal during a trip. Maybe that is what Harris's character has become.

― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Thursday, October 6, 2016 11:51 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh I thought that was clear that that was exactly what he was

― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto),

i thought they were setting ed harris up to be the detective trying to uncover the mystery (AKA the avatar of the viewer) and/or save the robots from their plight?