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

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

big central mysteries are a stupid thing to build a show around tbh

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."

lol

Actually now that I think about it, almost all TV shows benefit from this thought experiment.

Turn? Revolutionary cosplay.

Netflix's The Crown: pretend to be an insufferable aristocrat for a day!

hmm almost like all of life... is acting...

Quantum Leap would make a dope park

feel like this show but done as a farce w a huge mishmash of every entertainment idea

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

it was def the latter

of all of the minuses you might perceive in this show some things are pretty straightforward

Bernard: "have you made me do a violence before?!?"
*cuts to scene of him violently attacking a prior victim
Ford: "of course not!"

big central mysteries are a stupid thing to build a show around tbh

― Οὖτις, Monday, November 21, 2016 12:36 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm. Hopefully they either have thought through some 5-year arc, or they plan on revealing the mysteries sooner and moving on to something else driving the plot (like "Maeve in the World").

season two is medieval world or w/e, season three is romeworld

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

― lag∞n, Monday, November 21, 2016

a nolan joint, you say?

i can't tell if the tone is too serious or not serious enough

ha yeah xp

"Maeve in the world" would basically be the same as an Ex Machina sequel (as noted above).

Medieval- and Rome-worlds sound decently diverting but are both so stratified that your initial position (cf. Rawls) must be aristocratic or else it'd be no fun. No one pays serious dinero to be the designated toilet-scrubber at Castle Whatever. In Westworld, everybody who gets off the train in Sweetwater has a comparatively wide range of potential social stations. Still no one chooses "poor agave plantation worker" or "syphilitic whore."

Or so one assumes.

I was wondering what the role that Maeve had before she met Ed Harris involved. Was she the other half of a family that the guest fit into. Otherwise seems odd that you would make a robot into a female homesteader if she would be away from other population as I think she would have been if she was an actual homesteader.
Just finding it a bit 0f a peripheral role for them to create a robot to fill unless there was going to be some direct guest contact.

wait so tessa thompson was telling awful british dude that Ford's new narrative that he was currently in the process of building was abt some dude named Wyatt and a bunch of masked men terrorizing ppl
Man in Black is currently participating in a narrative abt a dude named Wyatt and was terrorized by a bunch of masked men

this wd mean that MiB's story is some point in the future, yes?