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

I was just remembering more perfunctory acting jobs to list and groaned so hard in memory I strained my back

and why has Ford stopped having chats and drinks with buffalo bill in the fridge ?
maybe it's time to have a poll about our favourite character in the show. I suppose Maeve would win it easily. Or Dolores.

Lawrence

well, Lawrence seemed to matter and be important for a while... then he totally disappeared !

The forced gravitas in this show is excruciating

I need at least one more Hopkins speech about anthropology

Maybe at some point Hopkins will eat someone (or a host).
"I like to consume them moist !"

also, I realized recently that Harris had played in another show blurring the line between reality and virtuality... the truman show !

maybe it's time to have a poll about our favourite character in the show. I suppose Maeve would win it easily. Or Dolores.

i think they both put in v good performances (and they're both super h0t).

if yr into bots

the hydraulic model sexier than the genetic material model - pistons really rev my engine

Regarding Maeve/T. Newton I think she must have the contract with the most nudity in it or something. she's naked like half of her screentime !

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It is nice, after years of seeing the internet's theories about Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones turn to dust, that finally we have a prestige show whose big reveals were predicted by the second episode.

― duped and used by my worst Miss U

I was really into Breaking Bad, but even with all the fan-theories about anagrams and colors and whatever, the show's creators were intentionally throwing curveballs that only somewhat rewarded the close-watchers/Internet predictions, but ended up taking the show to even higher heights that nobody predicted. With Westworld, the whole multiple timelines/Bernard Lowe-Arnold Weber/William is the Man in Black/THE MAZE stuff seems like it only rewards the close-watchers by giving them the gratification of proving them right, and episode 9 was only there to spell it out for the more casual watchers.

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finally caught up.
for my money, the show took a bad turn at the beginning of episode six; up until then it was dumb but fun. since then it's been a painful slog toward obvious conclusions.
Geoffrey Wright should be getting paid twice what he is being paid; he's the only one of the actors who is elevating the very very bad material.
glad this is ending tonight right after i finished the last three eps; it has not been v rewarding.

I've finally caught up, too.
I really like loads of things about this show but it is really testing my patience. I hate how you can't tell if plot holes or huge gaps in world-building are stylistic choices, CENTRAL MYSTERY, bad writing, or we'll make it up as we go along. The Truman Show aspect at the beginning was quite cute but that's gotten lost and it feels more like... Lost

Brit writer guy is terrible, he's worse than Gaius Baltar. Main control room looks like BBC News at Ten.
I'm watching s2 of Humans alongside this and that seems a more perfunctory 'what if robots came to life' so at least this has oldey westy capers in as a different angle I guess. The dad in Humans could be the douchey tech in this though, it's confusing me.

I still don't really care about anyone in this, except Maeve and Bernard I guess.

I imagine that binging this would be bad. It's been okay watching it one hour a week, but if I had to "catch up" and ingest 2+ hours of it at a sitting it seems likely I'd be napping and hating too

even at approx ten hours, it's vastly over elongated.

The Truman Show aspect at the beginning was quite cute but that's gotten lost and it feels more like... Lost

― kinder, Sunday, December 4, 2016 6:00 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha i had exactly the same thought, tho tbf lost was more fun

combining prestige and trash signifiers isnt that easy, everyone trying to be game of throne but that show has really good preapproved successful plotting

also Lost was pretty good at eliciting an actual emotional reaction for a good part of its run, even when other aspects were rapidly falling apart

i like this show a lot as a meditation on how we experience ourselves v. other ppl, and associated themes.. the particulars of the whos or whats usually aren't necessarily interesting to me in and of themselves, but they almost all work toward those ideas imo so they don't bug me either. a lot of scenes are more fun to interpret than to watch. i didn't watch lost or thrones so who knows, maybe those shows do this kinda thing better. but yah, psyched for the finale

the aspect I find interesting, though it hasn't really been explored too much (I don't know if they intend to really), is the idea that the "easiest" / most basically effective character motivation is tragedy, which also happens to be the organizing block of ~the prestige drama~. I kind of like the idea of fictional characters getting fed up with this idea and learning to rebel in search of new stories. (sort of a violent fictional manifestation of the limits of post-modernism.)

So we live bloggin the finale or what

ok lol that sucked

god bless billy got what he wanted

true to the source material, westworld is a story where every human dies

because on the pirates of the caribbean, the pirates really should kill all the people on the ride

Felix and Armistice kind of made the finale, imo

Slightly disappointed that Elsie / Security Hemsworth didn't get tied up but it would appear that they decided to leave as many loose ends as possible with the only exception being Anthony Hopkins

still seems possible that they could bring him back, saying that who actually got shot was a host he made special for the occasion

this was garbage; kind of exhausting how tiring every step of exposition must be. they really think their audience is stupid.

well you keep watching it

i'm good and done now

Yeah this was lame as hell

man, j nolan's dumbass musings on consciousness really make me appreciate d lindelof

I dunno, the idea that there have been (and still are) people who haven't realized the voice in their head is actually themselves might explain 60 million votes for Donald Trump

My hopes from the start were were for a) eastworld and b) full-on robot uprising by end of season, and we got both. can't complain.

WHO IS PUMPED FOR S2

in season 2 they should up the % of robots that are naked the first time they're introduced

in season two all the robots are clothed but the people are naked do u c

i like how anthony hopkins' agent shrewdly negotiated his exit from the series before his participation in it rises to wikipedia paragraph 2 level

otoh two different series this year used "Exit Music (For a Film)" to score their closing montages and can we please stop this shit forever

oh shit, it's already in the last sentence of paragraph 2! better find a new agent tonester

it was obvious to me that they were gonna need to shed at least one of their Big Movie Stars by season's end. shit's expensive enough.

luckily, the really bad actress who plays the board member and the really bad actor who plays the storyline writer are still around

with regards to hosts wearing clothes, can an old guy talk about the garden of eden, so I understand the metaphor?

this was garbage; kind of exhausting how tiring every step of exposition must be. they really think their audience is stupid.

― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Monday, 5 December 2016 04:19 (one hour ago) Permalink

That's the thing about sci-fi shows/movies in this vein: explain too much everyone complains, explain too little everyone complains.

dude, the big reveal that mcpoyle is actually ed harris took like ten minutes
basically everyone on this thread figured that out in episode two

I was referring to the use of exposition, not the "twists"