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

also you guys referring to every character by the actor name rather than the character name is weird imo

I think people's inability to remember character names is symptomatic of the boring nature of the characters

Nothing about this show sticks really

I realized during this episode that I only learn character names after someone dies (or "dies"), because only then do other characters talk about them by name.

Man I was really enjoying this show til I read this thread

lex otm p much. especially re: dolores and the old town. william being like, "uh you're wigging out, we just walked like a week to get to this secret location in the expensive video game park, but let's leave w/o figuring out anything" so disappointing!

i really wish the show had gifted william with a double consciounsness -- having the time of his life in the technological marvel of the park that allows this experience of heroism and adventure, but getting increasingly enthralled with the beauty and persona of the dolores-bot that's in front of him. like, finding yourself moved by watching a robot lose its grip, even though you know what it is? wouldn't that be interesting? i can feel the show TRYING to tell that story, but, not really doing it.

or at least having a moment of self-loathing after catching feelings and boning a robot. like, get a grip genius.

xp lol happy to help

i think william's jealous of whoever "arnold" is, and the special connection dolores seems to have with him. so he's like fuck this place where i'm not the apple of your eye, 24/7

like, finding yourself moved by watching a robot lose its grip, even though you know what it is? wouldn't that be interesting? i can feel the show TRYING to tell that story, but, not really doing it.

except it sorta is? he's staying pure for logan's ritch bitch sister... except he's not.. except whoa wtf am i doing, get a grip william

many things in ep8 but it pretty much left me uninterested.
Agreed about the silly part with Dolores finally getting to the place she's been looking for... and then they just leave directly !
It also confirmed I really can't stand the terrible corporate evil bitch character. Almost enough to make me switch the thing off...
Actually, I'm "that" close to giving up on the serie...
At this point I think I mainly keep watching it because I've already invested too much time in it to give up now that the end of s1 is so close !
Also, couldn't Maeve be... Wyatt ? It's her claim about raising an army, her capacity to mess with the system, etc. that makes me wonder.
I have no idea if that would be possible/make sense with all the info we have so far (and I can't bother trying to think closely about it !).

Also, couldn't Maeve be... Wyatt ? It's her claim about raising an army, her capacity to mess with the system, etc. that makes me wonder.

― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, November 24, 2016 10:51 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nice

i thought they already showed wyatt at some point. I fell asleep when they discussed that dude's (the guy who was in love with dolores) backstory in episode 3 or 4 though when all that was introduced and have been slightly confused ever since.

hum. it's true that we see the mass shooting by Wyatt and we might see it's a guy... Thinking of it, isn't it the same shooting Dolores remembered when she entered the village in ep8 ?

Yeah, they showed us a picture of Wyatt, I'm pretty sure. He's a former army officer who's pulled a Colonel Kurtz.

there's no way that dude is actually Wyatt

it's Dolores, Maeve or maybe even Teddy

i like the idea of it being maeve and her self awareness just being part of anthony hopkins scheme

i can't bring myself to watch this after the terrible jeff wright reveal. i tried to continue last night but couldn't. all the characters are dire and boring. most of the acting is awful too but maybe that's the script.

no shame in that, it is objectively terrible on many levels

Felt like this could be a really interesting and smart thing early on but has sadly revealed itself to... not be that. Will finish out the season. I'll check back in for S2 if people shout loud enough about it being actually good now.

Oh, FUN thing too. It's missing a lot of that.

Yeah, they showed us a picture of Wyatt, I'm pretty sure. He's a former army officer who's pulled a Colonel Kurtz.

yeah, they did say that at some point. So it wouldn't make sense if it turned out to be Maeve or Dolores, I guess...
And Teddy is supposed to have fought him so he should know.
but there's definitely something weird about Wyatt and his army. At first I thought they weren't hosts because they couldn't be shot by Teddy and other hosts. But then in ep8, Teddy actually killed one of the Wyatt guys so ... I don't know !

I can't even begin to give a shit about the Wyatt storyline or think of it as important

I mean what possible reason have we been given to be intrigued by it on any level beyond the show's own exposition

yeah, sure. but it's the same issue with all the plots in the show !
I don't even remember how it was introduced. It was simply a new story/villain that was uploaded in Teddy or Dolores'father, wasn't it ?

yeah, but while I feel invested in Maeve because of the pace with which her storyline is moving, her dialogue and Thandie Newton's performance, and the potential of where it can go, I don't have any reason to even speculate about Wyatt aside - the show has intimated that he is extremely important but it's not clear why this is or what the stakes are. Shooting up a bunch of hosts ≠ real stakes

ah of course, agreed the Wyatt story is seriously underdeveloped... even by the (low) standards of the show !
but the Maeve one has serious flaws too, especially since I still don't understand why the two tech guys decided/had to obey her in the first place when it seemed so easy to just fix the problem in a second...
Anyway, I suppose we all agree, at this point, this show is a mess (with some redeeming qualities) !

Tonight's big reveal:

the robots can pee

Yeah this episode was a decent workout for Jeffrey Wright but left me feeling a bit numb from all the obvious surprises

The Assassination of Bernarnold by the Coward Robert Ford

I can't believe that's the first mention of Ford's name in that context on this thread. So on-the-nose

Way to go Bernard btw, wasting all that time trying to remember who you really are instead of remembering that time you installed hardcoded root credentials on yourself and all the other hosts

they reaaaally stretched out and milked the super obvious Arnold reveal. was that supposed to blow minds?

guess if it hasn't been confirmed 100% already, the william/logan/dolores storyline is definitely set in the past. also seems nearly certain at this point that william = man in black. lot of the big fan conjectures made around ep 2-3 turning out to be correct.

wtf I hadn't picked up on that at all. I also fell asleep again in the middle of this episode though.

I guess that was confirmed by her having mechanical innards? I dunno. At this point I'm actually hoping William isn't the MIB because that seems to leave very little action in the finale that isn't already predicted.

Still no corpse for Elsie though, and Hemsworth might actually have something to do in the finale.

the completely egregious and absurd fucking-in-a-burning-tent scene made this worth the price of admission

mechanical innards is the main thing, yeah, but also that photo of William's fiance, which is discovered weathered and buried in the dirt in the "current" timeframe early on in the season.

kudos to William for going completely batshit crazy

Yeah he thought he was playing Stardew Valley, then realized he's just another murderhobo

how could william be the man in black? Dolores wearing the william-era outfit goes back to the church, remembers her history and shit (the outfit shifts show when she's remembering vs what's happening now - now = the william narrative), and then she comes but up the confession booth into the church and the man in black walks in. unless william turned into ed harris in like 20 minutes how could ed harris = mcpoyle?

wtf I hadn't picked up on that at all. I also fell asleep again in the middle of this episode though.

― akm, Monday, November 28, 2016 9:11 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

im with u brother

i'm with mordy on that timeline theory still seeming janky, but dolores is kind of the textbook definition of an unreliable narrator by now

we're all agree that in the "present" of the show the old town is still buried, right, and any time we see it as anything other than a burned up church steeple poking out, it's a flashback

maybe? i thought maybe ford suggested they were going to dig it back up?

how could william be the man in black? Dolores wearing the william-era outfit goes back to the church, remembers her history and shit (the outfit shifts show when she's remembering vs what's happening now - now = the william narrative), and then she comes but up the confession booth into the church and the man in black walks in. unless william turned into ed harris in like 20 minutes how could ed harris = mcpoyle?

― Mordy, Monday, November 28, 2016 11:11 AM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Are you assuming the same version of her that escaped after being stabbed is the one that found the church?

ford suggested it and it's been kind of a red herring so far in that we're like "uhh maybe they finished digging it up" but it's been all flashbacks

yeah, Ford has had the town dug up in the current time.

will have to watch that church segment again, the costume changes/memory/time fuckery was pretty thick there.

Are you assuming the same version of her that escaped after being stabbed is the one that found the church?

i need someone to break it down for me by outfit but it seems like she's wearing the same clothing (slick shooter Dolores) when she escapes as she is when she finds the church, and that she's wearing the homestead Dolores outfit in the flashbacks. i guess it could be she escaped wearing slick shooter edition clothing and also re-found the church much later once again wearing that outfit.

the clothes r nice on this show btw

yeah for sure. i don't even care that the show doesn't make any sense i still enjoy watching it. it turns out that w/ enough sex + violence i don't care if there's much of a plot.

ed harris's dude being on the board of delos, surprising or no

love how the corporate lady showed up and neither of them commented on the fact that ed harris was just almost murdered by the robots

I feel bad for him, he's wanted to get robot murdered for quite a while and it's still not quite happening

hopefully he gets the full-on, bang-up, robot murder/mutilation he wants