if anyone ever fixes the spelling of "wrong" in this thread title I'm quitting ilx
― mh 😏, 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
― lag∞n, 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 😏, 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 😏, Monday, 21 November 2016 03:25 (seven years ago) link
*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
― 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 😏, 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 😏, 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 😏, 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 😏, 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
― lag∞n, 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 😏, 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 😏, Monday, 21 November 2016 17:19 (seven years ago) link
dolores killed everyone
― lag∞n, 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
― lag∞n, 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 😏, 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
― lag∞n, 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
otm worst character on the show completely ridiculous answering the door all nude from sexing a robot lol, otm re margin call too
― lag∞n, Monday, 21 November 2016 19:23 (seven years ago) link
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.
― goole, Monday, 21 November 2016 19:28 (seven years ago) link
"Maeve in the World" could be an interesting short spinoff from the main series.
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Monday, 21 November 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
the poor execution of this show angers me because it cld be so good or at least fun
― lag∞n, Monday, 21 November 2016 19:33 (seven years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Monday, 21 November 2016 19:34 (seven years ago) link
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, 21 November 2016 19:39 (seven years ago) link
maybe thats what the corp wants the source code for
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)
― Number None, Monday, 21 November 2016 19:39 (seven years ago) link
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
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Monday, 21 November 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
― 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
― mh 😏, Monday, 21 November 2016 19:47 (seven years ago) link
more like sexcot
― lag∞n, Monday, 21 November 2016 20:07 (seven years ago) link
this seems to be doing marginally better than RECORD LABEL or whatever that show was called - will it take longer to get cancelled?
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 November 2016 20:18 (seven years ago) link
It's already been renewed
― Number None, Monday, 21 November 2016 20:33 (seven years ago) link
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 😏
― mh 😏
err, wasn't that Teresa in his flashback? I might be mistaken, but it didn't look like Elsie?
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, 21 November 2016 20:34 (seven years ago) link
RECORD LABEL didn't have a big central mystery, but then again neither did SUBURBAN MOB BOSS or DRUGS & COPS IN BALTIMORE
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Monday, 21 November 2016 20:35 (seven years ago) link
big central mysteries are a stupid thing to build a show around tbh
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 November 2016 20:36 (seven years ago) link
Vinyl was such a depressing slog, but maybe I can save it in my mind by imagining that it, too, was a Westworld-type immersion-experience theme park.
For a modest fee, you too can be a 1970s record company executive! Discover and sign hot bands, make terrible deals, inhale blow off the belly of a dead hooker. More adventurous guests may choose to venture into the "Hood," a more authentically "urban" milieu where you may hear some groundbreaking "rap" music... but you might also get "beaten up" by a gang of authentically ethnic "hoodlums."
― marzipandemonium (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 21 November 2016 20:39 (seven years ago) link