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

No one noticed the Yul Brynner model on the Lower level?

Thumbs in pockets etc

beyond the "Motion Picture Soundtrack" sequence I found this one a snooze

No one noticed the Yul Brynner model on the Lower level?

― calstars, Monday, November 7, 2016 7:38 PM (seven minutes ago)

Yes, loved this.

I thought I saw a Marti the female gunslinger model too. Thought she was a guest.

unexpectedly fun episode imo. p okay with it being portentous nonsense on rails if it keeps up at this silly clip

guessing/hoping it's the securitybro that grabs her at the end and they can resume being xander and riley

Does all the surface apparent vastness of the park have sub levels to it? I was surprised by Bernard being able to take a lift into the place where he found the family. Since I thought it was way away from where other events were happening.
Not sure how centralised the maintenance area where they're fixing broken robots is , seemed to be a single multilevel building from what i've seen elsewhere. Including the trip that Tandie Newton took with the tech guy.

Also I thought the bird thing was a robot but one that the tech didn't have direct permission to be working on. & it seemed that protocol was to stick as close to documented procedure as possible. Since he was working on his own projects in company time he was going against the protocol. But I guess it was only to herald the idea that this was going to be the guy that could be manipulated into upgrading Tandie against protocol.

& the bird and teh pleasure droids have had me wondering how heavy an individual unit is. Would think that making a machine taht was capable of human like movement would mean the workings had to weigh something. & a pleasure droid would feel all wrong if the weight was wrong.

I read or heard somewhere that thsi was supposed to be 200 years in the future but not sure if I've come across anything else to support that. It hasn't been announced in the actual show or anything has it?

Do wonder what the story is on population in the world of this show. how the park could be as large as it appears to be if the population is still growing.
& presumably the only people we're seeing in this are the wealthy elite plus the technicians for the park.

The swimming pool/bar where the writer meets the company executive girl. Is that employee only area where staff are allowed to relax between shifts or is there part of the park that isn't themed?

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Finding it odd that if Arnold or Ford wanted to hide the family based on Ford's he'd do so next to a liftshaft point. Unless there are a lot of them around and not everybody has access to the interconnecting routes.

Also had previously thought of the surface as mainly accessed from the surface. Presuming that surface area genuinely is surface area.

only two episodes in but this is ... pretty good? Still a little skeptical of any show that's built around a central "mystery". Also some of the meta-commentary stuff about exploitative entertainment is a pretty heavy-handed, would prefer it if they stuff to things like character development. Am encouraged by the involvement of some of my favorite people, at least (McPoyle actor + Charles Yu!)

Was so thrilled to see Tessa Thompson introduced that I didn't notice if that scene was badly written :)

This show lost me episodes 3-5, but came back strong this week and I'm very, very excited to see how they plan to end it. For my money it's just badly conceived as a serial but will probably end brilliantly, fingers crossed

It's funny because the show aspires to be a smart, deep-thinking show, but once you start thinking about it, it crumbles. But in the moment, the show is super watchable and entertaining. I look forward to it every week.

you know how disneyland/world has a bunch of secret doors and elevators all over the park to the staff has access? it's like that. you know how dl/world has a bunch of land that isn't being used right now where old rides were? it's like that.

dear god if I ever wake up on a table with those two I'ma be like DIAL ME BACK DOWN TO CLETUS

irl lol

srsly

in my layperson opinion I'm fine with all kinds of unexplained plot devices, trailing off, and the occasional inconsistency as long as I'm entertained

the shows that go on for years after they lost any reason for existing, that's another matter

like if there are random areas in the basement of the admin facility where weird things are happening, or if there's an access portal to the park in an older area that has shady shit nearby, I'm not going to rant about how all these things would be monitored and someone should have noticed

this is definitely not a show where I care about technological verisimilitude or realistic mechanics

at least not yet! I hated how BSG established a bunch of stuff (cylons can't reproduce, etc.) and then just violated them willy nilly. internal consistency is *kinda* important...

yeah if we find out that the intelligence level doesn't top out at 20 but at 21, I am out!

The stuff with Maeve and the two techs, all I could think about was rolling up D&D characters.

Thandiebot was pretty good at understanding 2216 tech for someone programmed to think they grew up in the 19th century

the x-y skills grid was very similar to some of the aptitude test visualizations I've seen

well i did finish this ep, my ill will pushed back down below the 'won't watch again' line i guess

rly feel like there needs to be some character with some humor or cynicism or idk un-ponderous attitude to what's going on. no gallows humor anywhere? a huge entertainment conglomerate running a valley full of fuckbots and rich people larping? how is this not hilarious? everyone is in the same spooky register as the confused and unhappy robots. i don't buy it! the two surgical techs at least were at least kind of gross but they've been swept up in the ~mystery~ now too

the scene between wright, hopkins and the secret robot family struck me as the real worst. wright was given nothing human to say. "i find this troubling" MY FRIEND YOU NEED SOME COUCH TIME THIS IS TEXTBOOK DISTURBED. "these robots are safe" BUDDY YOUR DADBOT JUST ATTACKED ME AND DIDN'T RESPOND etc

and why wasn't harris more psyched in that soldier camp sequence -- the 'wyatt' plotline and teddy going ham are genuinely new content, right? that has to be exciting after decades of this shit. new dlc man!

the English writer is probably meant to be the "funny" character

you've gotta bring your own humor to this one, folks

Westworld, from the mind of Dr. West, noted robofuckologist, has created the ultimate theme park for aspiring robot fuckers

(what it says about me idk but) i can't get over what isn't there. there's no demonstration of the JOY of escapism, either of having access to a simulated world with so much technical genius put into it, or of being able to take part in an archetypical american adventure story. there's no disney element, no jurassic park. are all these people paying to enter... an hbo series?

the family with a kid who encountered the littlest robot seemed to be having fun on the trail

the people just screwing around in town (figuratively and literally) seem to be having fun, along with the guy who just randomly shot the leader of the pillaging gang and saved the day

the main focus seems to be on the newer story which is about self-discovery and self-actualization. that whole track seems less about disney-style theme park times and more of an interactive sitting in a yurt experience

of course, the guy crafting this has his own self-discovery cabin built by his shady, dead partner that is inhabited by... his own family, as they were when he was a kid. it seems like it's built to goad Hopkins' character into letting loose some sort of inner demons

along with the guy who just randomly shot the leader of the pillaging gang and saved the day

ha i was going to mention this guy. yeah he seemed to be enjoying himself.

I have some of the same quibble - that you're like one third of the way into the first episode when OMG THINGS ARE GOING ASTRAY. The viewer barely gets a chance to see the steady state, so the impact of ASTRAY is minimized.

But as I said this is pretty normal with this type of entertainment; Jurassic Park movies did the same shit. You're just on the cusp of grasping why it's an interesting park when things start to unravel.

Jurassic Park didn't even get to open :(

but when the pirates of the carribean breaks down... the pirates don't fuck the people

I was a little disappointed by the latest episode.
I can't tell why exactly but most of the storylines weren't very interesting to me.
And as El Tomboto said upthread, the two guys not being able to deal with Maeve is pretty silly as they're supposed to be able to... control her (which they do when she asks them) !
I didn't really understand the leverage she had over them in the negotiation, though.
the MIB/Wyatt part was just a useless big gunfight. ok.
the Elsie/Theresa/Bernard/conspiracy thing is important, I guess.
the hidden hosts family/dog thing is also important, I suppose.
oh, and yeah, the writer dickhead is really bad !
also, nothing about Dolores in this one.

(maybe there should be a spoiler alert in the title of the thread !)

westworld? more like WORSTworld, amirite

Vestworld: where Anthony Hopkins is never not wearing a vest

https://twitter.com/jfreewright/status/797253311854444544

lmao

lol if you thought Simon Quarterman's crappy writer was bad just wait till you see Tessa Thompson's mean girl

ok for real how many times has "Bernard" gotten "fired" though

the board knows what this place is for

btw we can have a meeting now it's fine

god that last scene was soooo tedious and drawn-out, doesn't bode well for further attempts at that sort of thing

I thought it was some of the best acting Jeffrey Wright's gotten to do so far! And Anthony Hopkins being horrifying. It was certainly more fun than that confederates & ghost nation nonsense.

it's fun following along at home and ending every one of hopkins' lines with "clariiiiissssse"

my god this show is bad, what a spectacle

the sexy young executive, the most obvious reveal ever

at least bernard being a bot excuses his terrible dead child storyline

I GUESS