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

My friend says the control and repair areas are just another "world" in which the Asian dude is a guest.

https://youtu.be/l0k92RSxYq0

I have trouble explaining why I (or anyone) watched all the way to the end

it was never quite bad enough to stop or escape the feeling that lurking somewhere in it was a really good show

i didn't even think it handled its ~philosophical pretensions on the nature of consciousness stupidly, just...slowly

I don't know, my wife smelled a rat in episode two, which also put her to sleep. That's when we jumped RoboShip.

The soothing smell of rats...

Do Androids Dream of Electric rats?

Last night while trying to get some tiny amount of fitful sleep against a bunch of flu symptoms that hit me all at once like a truck (I got my shot, wtf) I had a dream, clear as day, that they had a fantasy setting park, but since the host dragons couldn't actually fly, they had to hide a functioning autogyro/hovercraft thing inside and a human pilot had to fly it. There were other shim technologies for magic but not as specific as the dragon-belly-aircraft bit.

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so I was wondering : what is the huge construction area that ford started ? is it the old town that was dug out ? or some kind of land of the free were the hosts will be able to live and fight the Man in the next season ?

It isn't as bad as the old series anyway.

I never watched Lost so don't have that as a comparison. Not sure what else there is comparable.

Have been enjoying Humans the Channel 4 remake of a Danish show also exploring AI. Though I think that has its flaws too. Have wondered what the original is like though.

Still wondering just how vast the area of the park is. Somebody was it Logan mentioned it was prety huge in the last episode.
Also wondering what is next to the park. Almost sounded like William took Logan to the edge of teh park and then set him loose off the edge. INto what I don't know. It looked pretty green though.
& I've been half thinking that the only reason you could have vast space for park is if the adjoining land was in some way damaged/needing reclaim. Still not sure exactly how far in the future this is set.

What was shown of towns has looked like it's neon but not sure how far from present taht would make things. & maybe Neon is a thing that is no longer taht futuristic anyway.

Do wonder what season 2 will bring us. Some coherence?

during the final scene on the beach, it was obvious that the moon was artificial. which means that the whole world is actually artificial (moon,sun, sky...). like in the Truman Show !
so who knows where the park is set considering that...

http://pitchfork.com/news/70292-westworld-soundtrack-released-featuring-radiohead-nine-inch-nails-amy-winehouse-covers-listen/

thinking about it, the music is pretty good in the show (the saloon piano covers didn't become as over the top as could be feared). and the heavy use of Radiohead (especially OK Computer) obviously makes sense for these paranoid androids !

The moon was artificial how? I missed that.

They copied and pasted the winking emoji over the man in the moon

The moon was artificial how? I missed that.

Well, it's not said or shown (I think ?) but it seemed obvious to me !
after a quick search, I found this :
http://screenrant.com/westworld-future-location-setting/

All right guys, now rewind the whole series and watch it again. This time not looking, but seeing. #Westworld #WestworldFinale

— #EvanRachelWould (@evanrachelwood) Dec. 5, 2016

http://www.salon.com/2016/12/05/westworld-season-finale-violent-delights-violent-ends-and-new-questions/

and make sure you listen instead of hearing

let's bot and say we did

i think that "fake moon" was just a spotlight used for that particular scene set up for the investors, but would have to re-watch to comfirm. which i won't.

let's bot and say we did

petition to make this the title for the eventual s2 thread

I figured it was going to be...Westworld Season 2: It Doesn't Look Like Anything to Me

Westworld Season 2 : fucked up as f**k (Insecure style !)

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Link isn't working for me

should i watch this ??

no

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does it not look like anything to you

it's just this picture of nothingness, kind of like the blank spot I feel in my heart since family was killed by bandits

TY g∞n

np

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some days it's good to read the last few posts before you do that

so sad that woman killed herself though

rip too fine to live

We've blasted through the first...7, I think? episodes over the last several days. Very engrossing as entertainment while, I fear, maybe pretty dumb in its plotting and world building (I guess we'll see how things ultimately shake out). Mostly, I'm greatly enjoying it as a show that follows a couple of androids on their journey toward self-awareness (Wood and Newton are fantastic), and the rest is mostly post-L O S T window dressing.

people who are still watching this or plan to do shouldn't read this thread because it's spoilers all over the place !

regarding the soundtrack, I really like the Radiohead's "exit music" instrumental version. I like it more than Radiohead's version, actually, which has never been a favourite.
It has a morricone feeling, it's dark and moving and fits perfectly with the final scene, which somehow might be my favourite moment of the whole season !

So the consensus here is that this was bad? You guys are weird. I thought the ending was pretty satisfying. This mostly worked for me as a developmental psychology narrative with a side of shooting + boobies.

It was fine. By the end I was sort of wishing this whole season had just been a preamble/prologue movie a la the BSG "pilot" (which wasn't very good, but saved them a ton of exposition time and let them get straight to the point with the first proper episode)

I got a good reality cross-check when my previous manager at work walked by my desk last week and exclaimed, "Have you seen Westworld? Wasn't that great?"

WW is the new MBDTF

I made the mistake of briefly chiming in when people were discussing this in my office and now I have a coworker emailing me theories they found.

I don't even know what there is to really theorize about at this point, beyond like 'what are the other Worlds?'. Most of the big questions were resolved.

Yeah I didn't read the email so I'm not really sure what it was a theory of exactly, at this point.

do the robots fuck each other when no guests are around

Do the robots have hollowed-out control rooms inside their heads that are operated by tinier robots?

Is Westworld itself actually a giant robot?

is westworld just dumb or what??

do the robots fuck each other when no guests are around

we've seen them do this!

yeah man but we were watching it. fourth wall

fifth wall, the robot wall

hmm yeah