FUTUREWORLDit me
― mh π, Friday, 18 November 2016 16:40 (seven years ago) link
xp imo it says more about the habitual delving into scripts as some airtight explanation of a complete fictional world and not just a show you watch and enjoy
I'm all in favor of people doing so in favor of making their own homegrown Westworld tabletop rpg or slash fiction or w/e but when it's just in the service of endless avclub-style "is this a good show" thinkpieces I die inside
at least the people who are probably on tumblr trying to figure out if it's ethical to fuck a robot horse have a goal in mind
― mh π, Friday, 18 November 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link
sexyrobothorsepics
― diary of a mod how's life (wins), Friday, 18 November 2016 17:02 (seven years ago) link
otm
― mh π, Friday, 18 November 2016 17:13 (seven years ago) link
Oh, yeah, it's just fun to speculate. I have no illusion that the creators have a grand and unbreakable master plan so that errybody is like "wait, this bush needs to be two inches to the left to line up with the maps and schematics that we released online that are, like, totally canon." This mode of thinking is sub-Galaxy Quest, but it's a fun distraction in a time where some of us need such.
― marzipandemonium (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 18 November 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
β mh π, Friday, November 18, 2016 10:40 AM (two hours ago)
lol
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Friday, 18 November 2016 19:04 (seven years ago) link
seems dumb that the robots' only override is a vocal command. what if it's loud outside?
― slam dunk, Friday, 18 November 2016 23:37 (seven years ago) link
can i just say that "where nothing can possibly go worng!" is probably the best tagline of all time
― Number None, Saturday, 19 November 2016 11:20 (seven years ago) link
agreed
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 19 November 2016 11:27 (seven years ago) link
it's from golden-era Simpsons (the westworld/jp-spoofing episode) so yeah
― diary of a mod how's life (wins), Saturday, 19 November 2016 11:28 (seven years ago) link
it was on the original movie poster
― Number None, Saturday, 19 November 2016 15:01 (seven years ago) link
Haha shut my mouth. So Simpsons ripped off westworld
― diary of a mod how's life (wins), Saturday, 19 November 2016 15:04 (seven years ago) link
The worng! makes it
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 19 November 2016 16:19 (seven years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjIxMDY2MTAzMV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDA3NjAxMDE@._V1_UY1200_CR75,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg
― slam dunk, Sunday, 20 November 2016 02:24 (seven years ago) link
http://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/55/b2/ab/55b2ab7e14df7f09e0b716ce45c7ae64.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 20 November 2016 02:49 (seven years ago) link
Futureworld tagline accurate for 2016
― great Canadian prog-psych debut from 1969 (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 20 November 2016 02:54 (seven years ago) link
Shea Serrano is funny
I watched the one episode of Westworld where the main robot girl kills Oscar Isaac and then escapes off the compound and it was really good. That was probably my favorite episode. It was funny when Oscar Isaac danced. Oscar Isaac is such a good actor. I wish theyβd have let him be in more Westworld episodes before killing his character. Iβd have liked to know more about him.
https://theringer.com/lets-stop-pretending-we-know-what-s-going-on-in-westworld-e1afd7f584bc#.1new3np5h
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 20 November 2016 03:16 (seven years ago) link
lets-stop-pretending-we-know-what-s-going-on-in-westworld
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 20 November 2016 04:12 (seven years ago) link
if anyone ever fixes the spelling of "wrong" in this thread title I'm quitting ilx
― mh π, Sunday, 20 November 2016 15:32 (seven years ago) link
"not in her character""end of her story"
now they're officially just fucking with us
― El Tomboto, Monday, 21 November 2016 02:22 (seven years ago) link
seems like two timelines = confirmed
― El Tomboto, Monday, 21 November 2016 02:56 (seven years ago) link
what r they
― lagβn, Monday, 21 November 2016 03:00 (seven years ago) link
no wait nevermind, it could still be all one
― El Tomboto, Monday, 21 November 2016 03:04 (seven years ago) link
Talulah Riley (who played the host in white who introduces William to the park) shows up again and MIB says "I thought you were retired?" but on further consideration this is a fake-out
― El Tomboto, Monday, 21 November 2016 03:11 (seven years ago) link
uh yeah he has been visiting for a bit
There are totally two timelines, though. The movie, where the not-convincingly-humans with the bad hand movements flipped out and killed all the guests, and the HBO series
what the movie had that the tv series lacks is the fourth-wall breaking dude who practically did the bugs bunny "eh, ain't I a rascal?" routine
seriously, there is a dude whose role is entirely reaction shots to sell the fact he's doing all this wild shit. but the two shots are him playing with a gun and accidentally shooting a mirror and him making this silly face after waking up and realizing there's a sex worker robot in his bed
― mh π, Monday, 21 November 2016 03:23 (seven years ago) link
I have yet to watch Futureworld to see if it's pseudo-canon
original Westworld set was small enough you could run to the Roman world from there, and also sneak into the command center, so presumably the spot where Fore popped out in view of the church steeple was the original area
― mh π, Monday, 21 November 2016 03:25 (seven years ago) link
*Ford, sheesh
uh why is Dolores's home the 1973 Westworld movie set
:o
β mh π, Sunday, November 20, 2016 9:52 PM (forty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― El Tomboto, Monday, 21 November 2016 03:40 (seven years ago) link
now your other posts make more sense
― El Tomboto, Monday, 21 November 2016 03:41 (seven years ago) link
lol did I post that to the wrong thread? oopsy
― mh π, Monday, 21 November 2016 03:48 (seven years ago) link
I didn't even catch that they seemingly confirmed Elsie's death in this one. Seems like overly short shrift, if so.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 21 November 2016 06:08 (seven years ago) link
it was right before Bernard had his memories wiped. he asked if he'd been made to do violent acts before, followed by a brief flash of him killing Elsie, and Ford saying "oh, of course not"
― mh π, Monday, 21 November 2016 14:07 (seven years ago) link
Wasn't Elsie on the phone to Bernard (who was standing in Teresa's apartment) when she got grabbed?
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Monday, 21 November 2016 14:20 (seven years ago) link
nah their phone call happened just before that
― Number None, Monday, 21 November 2016 14:38 (seven years ago) link
I'm more willing to accept different timelines as a theory now -- the original town was buried, Dolores and William find it now definitely not buried. Although Ford seeing the steeple sticking up and the acknowledgment by others that he was planning on surfacing the old town could just mean the digging/cleaning robots are really efficient.
bad writer dude's new line, "I eat my victims moist" is some great horrible writing. would definitely think anyone who said that is a scary psycho because wtf
btw I am Wyatt
― mh π, Monday, 21 November 2016 16:21 (seven years ago) link
wtf is going on btw
― homosexual II, Monday, 21 November 2016 16:58 (seven years ago) link
I think we were being led to believe that Arnold had some funny ideas and maybe was too invested in the androids, but it's quickly becoming clear that Ford doesn't really give a shit about hosts or guests and just likes fucking with people as a great sport
― mh π, Monday, 21 November 2016 17:00 (seven years ago) link
whats up w that town thats only a church steeple, thx in advance i fell asleep some
― lagβn, Monday, 21 November 2016 17:04 (seven years ago) link
they buried the original western theme park years ago, idk maybe from tragedy, maybe it just looks janky compared to the new sets
apparently the steeple was the only part sticking out of the ground
Ford (according to something I read, don't really remember this bit) said something about excavating it as part of his new story
it looks like Billy and Dolores are there, now, and it's not buried
― mh π, Monday, 21 November 2016 17:09 (seven years ago) link
uh wait, never mind, when Dolores is there now, it is still buried, she's just having an extended flashback
― mh π, Monday, 21 November 2016 17:19 (seven years ago) link
dolores killed everyone
― lagβn, Monday, 21 November 2016 17:36 (seven years ago) link
One problem I'm having with William McPoyle is that he's clearly also Caleb Followill, lead singer and rhythm guitarist in the band Kings of Leon.
https://assets2.amazingradio.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2011/03/Caleb%2BFollowill%2BGucci%2BRocNation%2BPre%2BGRAMMY%2BntylG8mCkkvl.jpg?x64329
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/prisonbreak/images/6/6f/Jimmi%2BSimpson%2BWin%2BWin%2BNew%2BYork%2BScreening%2BD8yeyl2Yo6Fl.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110416195419
Are you seriously going to tell me that these are not the same guy, with different amounts of facial hair?
― marzipandemonium (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 21 November 2016 17:56 (seven years ago) link
well those two are both white guys.
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Monday, 21 November 2016 18:17 (seven years ago) link
um its called acting hello
― lagβn, Monday, 21 November 2016 18:35 (seven years ago) link
YMP, one of them is more of a fathead
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Monday, 21 November 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
idk if it's fathead as much as less of a pronounced jawline
signed, white dude without a good jawline
― mh π, Monday, 21 November 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
is this show good/worth watching?
― Evan R, Monday, 21 November 2016 19:05 (seven years ago) link
no
― lagβn, Monday, 21 November 2016 19:06 (seven years ago) link
It's entertaining gibberish
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Monday, 21 November 2016 19:06 (seven years ago) link
tessa thompson's corporate killer lady is so bad. badly written, badly acted. what a shame. have none of these writers had an office job? the language is... not this brick-in-the-face obvious. (given their treatment of the bad writer character, i have questions about a lot more than that)
on that subjects, i just watched a couple youtubes of key scenes from margin call. that's a great movie.
― goole, Monday, 21 November 2016 19:21 (seven years ago) link