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

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 they’d have let him be in more Westworld episodes before killing his character. I’d have liked to know more about him.

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if anyone ever fixes the spelling of "wrong" in this thread title I'm quitting ilx

"not in her character"
"end of her story"

now they're officially just fucking with us

seems like two timelines = confirmed

what r they

no wait nevermind, it could still be all one

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

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

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

*Ford, sheesh

uh why is Dolores's home the 1973 Westworld movie set

:o

― mh 😏, Sunday, November 20, 2016 9:52 PM (forty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

now your other posts make more sense

lol did I post that to the wrong thread? oopsy

I didn't even catch that they seemingly confirmed Elsie's death in this one. Seems like overly short shrift, if so.

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"

Wasn't Elsie on the phone to Bernard (who was standing in Teresa's apartment) when she got grabbed?

nah their phone call happened just before that

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

wtf is going on btw

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

whats up w that town thats only a church steeple, thx in advance i fell asleep some

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

uh wait, never mind, when Dolores is there now, it is still buried, she's just having an extended flashback

dolores killed everyone

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?

well those two are both white guys.

um its called acting hello

YMP, one of them is more of a fathead

idk if it's fathead as much as less of a pronounced jawline

signed, white dude without a good jawline

is this show good/worth watching?

no

It's entertaining gibberish

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.

otm worst character on the show completely ridiculous answering the door all nude from sexing a robot lol, otm re margin call too

man i just thought of a whole other thing to whine about! on the subject of 'worldbuilding,' there's really *nothing at all* about what kind of larger society exists out there in the world, what kind of situation people are escaping from or buying out of to get into this park, or how (if they are widely present) the kinds of technologies in the park work in daily life outside. it seems to be just p much like today's america.

are we meant to infer that old west adventure is a huge draw again because life is so completely settled and managed? or is it the opposite, and it's the park that is a stable, predictable environment. the guests and the techs haven't given any sign of coming from any particular thing.

"Maeve in the World" could be an interesting short spinoff from the main series.

the poor execution of this show angers me because it cld be so good or at least fun

what if a guest doesnt want to wear old west clothes they want to do the adventure in their furry bondage outfit is the park saying no

u know they wldve developed a second park next door a la epcot where u cn fuck living stuffed animals by now

maybe thats what the corp wants the source code for

man i just thought of a whole other thing to whine about! on the subject of 'worldbuilding,' there's really *nothing at all* about what kind of larger society exists out there in the world, what kind of situation people are escaping from or buying out of to get into this park, or how (if they are widely present) the kinds of technologies in the park work in daily life outside. it seems to be just p much like today's america.

this is surely deliberate. Although that doesn't necessarily mean they have a coherent idea of the world outside the park (apart from a few references to having cured all diseases, etc)

are we meant to infer that old west adventure is a huge draw again because life is so completely settled and managed?

I'm pretty sure a character on the show said this basically

u know they wldve developed a second park next door a la epcot where u cn fuck living stuffed animals by now

― lag∞n, Monday, November 21, 2016 1:39 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol the original movie has a monorail type of thing where they get to the park followed by a relatively unglamorous ride on an airport-style golf cart thingy and my main takeaway was that behind the scenes, Delos is basically EPCOT

more like sexcot

this seems to be doing marginally better than RECORD LABEL or whatever that show was called - will it take longer to get cancelled?

It's already been renewed

Oh wait they actually renewed Vinyl before canceling it lol

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 😏

err, wasn't that Teresa in his flashback? I might be mistaken, but it didn't look like Elsie?

RECORD LABEL didn't have a big central mystery, but then again neither did SUBURBAN MOB BOSS or DRUGS & COPS IN BALTIMORE