(maybe there should be a spoiler alert in the title of the thread !)
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 10 November 2016 11:28 (seven years ago) link
westworld? more like WORSTworld, amirite
― mh 😏, Thursday, 10 November 2016 15:42 (seven years ago) link
Vestworld: where Anthony Hopkins is never not wearing a vest
― marzipandemonium (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 10 November 2016 17:49 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/jfreewright/status/797253311854444544
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 12 November 2016 01:51 (seven years ago) link
lmao
― lag∞n, Saturday, 12 November 2016 05:24 (seven years ago) link
lol if you thought Simon Quarterman's crappy writer was bad just wait till you see Tessa Thompson's mean girl
― El Tomboto, Monday, 14 November 2016 02:38 (seven years ago) link
ok for real how many times has "Bernard" gotten "fired" though
― El Tomboto, Monday, 14 November 2016 03:17 (seven years ago) link
the board knows what this place is for
btw we can have a meeting now it's fine
― mh 😏, Monday, 14 November 2016 03:19 (seven years ago) link
god that last scene was soooo tedious and drawn-out, doesn't bode well for further attempts at that sort of thing
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 14 November 2016 04:24 (seven years ago) link
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.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 14 November 2016 04:33 (seven years ago) link
it's fun following along at home and ending every one of hopkins' lines with "clariiiiissssse"
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 14 November 2016 05:04 (seven years ago) link
my god this show is bad, what a spectacle
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2016 06:13 (seven years ago) link
the sexy young executive, the most obvious reveal ever
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2016 06:14 (seven years ago) link
at least bernard being a bot excuses his terrible dead child storyline
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2016 06:15 (seven years ago) link
I GUESS
You have to check for hopkins' storyline tropes to find the bots
― tried Blue Apron and we died (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 14 November 2016 06:56 (seven years ago) link
And escape (watching) westworld
― tried Blue Apron and we died (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 14 November 2016 06:57 (seven years ago) link
Game of Thrones credit sequence: mechanical mapworld comes into being before your eyes.
Vinyl credit sequence: an LP comes liquidly into being before your eyes.
Westworld credit sequence: various biobots come liquidly into being before your eyes.
The Crown credit sequence: molten metal liquidly becomes a crown before your eyes.
I think we've found the MMteens' dominant visual cliché. It's the new teal & orange.
― marzipandemonium (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 14 November 2016 13:51 (seven years ago) link
i like the credit sequence. it's not about the 3D printing eye candy, it's about the piano. when the bot fingers first touch the piano it represents the hosts impersonating culture and speech and creativity. it's music that already existed (like a narrative/storyline in the park), and now they're reproducing it. then there's that shot where it reveals that it's a player piano, and then bot hands lift off the keyboard slowly while it continues playing, followed by the shot of the player piano roll. that's alluding to the growing sentience of the hosts, the knowledge of what's under the hood and their true roles in the theme park: the music is already written and will be played regardless, they're just window dressing to make it seem more "real", etc etc
i guess all of that is obvious but i still think it makes for a more interesting credit sequence then, say, house of cards
― Karl Malone, Monday, 14 November 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
despite all that i'm really starting to dread watching this show. everyone around me loves it and were blown away by the last episode and i can't even force myself to like it on the Lost level right now.
better intro sequence would just be the video for All is Full of Love, straight up, no edits, with "WESTWORLD" tacked on at the end
― Karl Malone, Monday, 14 November 2016 16:33 (seven years ago) link
Do we think that Ford was building a host Theresa down there in the basement?
― schwantz, Monday, 14 November 2016 16:34 (seven years ago) link
o god probably
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2016 16:48 (seven years ago) link
we do think that, to the degree that we can be arsed to think about this show at all
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 14 November 2016 18:03 (seven years ago) link
I've watched the first two episodes of this. It's good, but boy is it slow... Not the plot or the action but just... I dunno, I found myself getting itchy and/or tired of waiting for it to move on. Does it pick up?
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Monday, 14 November 2016 18:06 (seven years ago) link
it picks up and gets very bad
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
I'm still into it. I cannot explain why in any convincing way. Maybe I'm just a sucker for AI stories.
― schwantz, Monday, 14 November 2016 18:24 (seven years ago) link
entertaining and dimwitted; i thought the big twist was pretty well executed.
funny how the nature of HBO shows is such that murder (OH SORRY SPOILERS) seems like really low stakes in a conflict.
what used to set HBO apart was how well its shows dramatized people struggling as individuals in a particular organization with its own rules and prerogatives (the mob, cops/gangs, a lawless town). even the Leftovers was at its best when in that mode (how do we live together in a world with different rules). WW is more concerned with 'mystery' in a basic sense, tune in next week etc
wright is so good, can't take any objections here
boy william really went for it didn't he. what a dope.
― goole, Monday, 14 November 2016 18:29 (seven years ago) link
Karl - I respect your deep metaphorical reading: What I don't get is: why would they 3d print a fucking piano? Why not just use one of the like thousands of existing pianos?
I get why you make a personbot; those are needed because otherwise you'd have all kinds of consent problems, what with the frequency with which guests want to fuck and/or kill them. Reproducibility, reparability, comparative disposability. It's nice that they make horsebots too, for some of the same reasons. Birds? Uh, well, sure, make birdbots too, what the hell.
If piano strings are so scarce in the distant future that they need to extrude/spray them out of high-tech nozzles, fine, I guess. But is that also how they get chairs, wood, glass, whiskey, guns? At some point wouldn't it make more sense just to buy and have actual stuff?
― marzipandemonium (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 14 November 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link
idk if there are thousands of existing faux-1800s player pianos
― mh 😏, Monday, 14 November 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
If you wanted an exact replica of a 19th century piano w/o wear and tear you could just punch the details into the printer instead of hauling some antique shop piano into space or wherever
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Monday, 14 November 2016 19:10 (seven years ago) link
They have wood and they have metal. Someone could make a piano the usual way.
― marzipandemonium (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 14 November 2016 19:11 (seven years ago) link
Can't wait for the Westworld character who's the equivalent of Arthur Dent complaining that the replicator can't make tea that tastes like tea
― mh 😏, Monday, 14 November 2016 19:14 (seven years ago) link
why would they 3d print a fucking piano? Why not just use one of the like thousands of existing pianos?
my one remaining wish for this world, this westworld, is that they resolve this mystery at the very end of the last episode of the series, just before dramatically cutting to the final credits, with no music.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 14 November 2016 19:17 (seven years ago) link
knowledge of pianomaking vanished during a data back-up in 2076
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Monday, 14 November 2016 19:23 (seven years ago) link
You know, this whole "Arnold and I built the park together" thing... two dudes, or one dude and his robotic apprentice?
― mh 😏, Monday, 14 November 2016 20:05 (seven years ago) link
"arnold is what i call me left ball mate" --anthony hopkins, final line final ep west world
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2016 20:08 (seven years ago) link
imo arnold was real and anthony hopkins is the left ball
― mh 😏, Monday, 14 November 2016 20:08 (seven years ago) link
fiiiiiiinally caught up to this show after spending the whole run being 1-2 episodes behind (also apparently HBO Go starts hosting episodes the actual minute they finish airing on TV?? who knew!!). The real winner of this show are (were) Bernard's impeccable suits.
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 14 November 2016 21:51 (seven years ago) link
is there a real bernard somewhere? you think HR could have looked this up. am i dumb for asking? yes.
― goole, Monday, 14 November 2016 21:55 (seven years ago) link
true bernard is stylin xp (love jeffery wright generally altogether)
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2016 21:57 (seven years ago) link
OK what the hell this got renewed for a second season. WHAT IS THE SECOND SEASON GOING TO BE ABOUT
― El Tomboto, Monday, 14 November 2016 21:59 (seven years ago) link
a new expansion pack
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2016 22:00 (seven years ago) link
only three episodes left in the season!
at this rate we need a second season to figure out the other half of what's going on other than minor corporate shenanigans and an off-kilter android designer
― mh 😏, Monday, 14 November 2016 22:06 (seven years ago) link
did I miss something or are we still technically up in the air about whether Elsie is alive
― mh 😏, Monday, 14 November 2016 22:11 (seven years ago) link
no clue as yet
this show is lowkey bad but also immensely entertaining
― i've watched a lot of cats do weird and interesting things (slothroprhymes), Monday, 14 November 2016 22:17 (seven years ago) link
idk I have seen what else ppl watch on tv and this isn't that bad
like are you going to watch two episodes of "how i met your mother" or like an episode of "orange is the new black" and unflinchingly say you better spent your time
I'd say some highbrow elitist thing about reading a book but I have read (or at least started) some really bad books
― mh 😏, Monday, 14 November 2016 22:25 (seven years ago) link
The real winner of this show are (were) Bernard's impeccable suits.
OTM
had this same conversation
― Karl Malone, Monday, 14 November 2016 22:29 (seven years ago) link
feel like this show is spectacularly bad in a way that a lesser show cldnt hope to achieve
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2016 22:31 (seven years ago) link
anthony hopkins performance feels like a protest against the show itself
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 November 2016 22:32 (seven years ago) link