judas motherfucking priest, let us just enjoy straightforward exposition for once in this Nolan/Joy enterprise
― mh, Monday, 30 April 2018 02:46 (five years ago) link
as I messaged to my WW-watching friend in marketing, if the true purpose of this fantasy started out as a way to make better direct marketing, it is definitely a dark place
― mh, Monday, 30 April 2018 02:47 (five years ago) link
that one was booooring
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 30 April 2018 23:04 (five years ago) link
have you ever seen anything so full of splendor?
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 3 May 2018 02:36 (five years ago) link
*stares into whirlpool created by hitting the flush button*
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 3 May 2018 02:51 (five years ago) link
having recently wrapped up ozark was stoked to see peter mullan turn up as james delos. hope he gets to talk some more in future eps.
― andrew m., Thursday, 3 May 2018 14:41 (five years ago) link
https://www.theringer.com/2018/5/2/17312684/westworld-bernard-teddy-theory-podcast
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 3 May 2018 15:29 (five years ago) link
oh god are all the parks variations on europeans colonizing shit
― mh, Monday, 7 May 2018 01:17 (five years ago) link
Well having a park dedicated to aboriginal cultures overthrowing white colonizers would kinda break the theme of the fucking show, so yes
― El Tomboto, Monday, 7 May 2018 01:58 (five years ago) link
I have so many problems with this stupid episode rn
I can’t even with the final battle shit where they set up all these perimeter explosives but still somehow let Dad Abernathy get hostnapped by Tessa Thompson who inexplicably rode off on a horse ex machina 45 minutes earlier. And I know why Dolores cares about her “dad” post-sentience, obviously Ford put that shit in there to get her to protect some extra level of maze shit from Delos LLC, but GAAAAAHHHSo dumb. This episode was like Walking Dead levels of dumb.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 7 May 2018 02:23 (five years ago) link
Folks, I think I'm out...
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 7 May 2018 08:00 (five years ago) link
i pledged to not talk shit and i bowed out after last season, but...my partner is watching the latest episode right now and when did it turn into a big constant stupid action movie? reminds me of that part in monty python and the holy grail where the big medieval battle gets interrupted by the London police
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 22:46 (five years ago) link
I just watch this show to see Thandie Newton kill people
― akm, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 22:54 (five years ago) link
akm otm
― mh, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 00:24 (five years ago) link
Knowing that there is a British Raj park leads me to believe there is ABSOLUTELY an antebellum US park where guests can be slavemasters. The demand for such a place among Americans would be insatiable.
Raga version of "Seven Nation Army" = megalolz
― Westworld more like Worstworld right? (Phil D.), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 14:18 (five years ago) link
ok only halfway through, but the guest who escaped from the other park running from a tiger is totally William’s daughter, right
― mh, Monday, 14 May 2018 02:05 (five years ago) link
YesThis episode was pretty great imo
― El Tomboto, Monday, 14 May 2018 02:31 (five years ago) link
we’re going to find out that Bernard has an Arnold layer, at least the skills, below his surface programming, I think
was so hyped to see Elsie back
sounds like the long term investor pitch was maybe immortality, but I suspect it got pivoted to abducting guests and inserting their doubles back into the real world at some point
possibly for AI training a bunch of guests were actually host androids who were dupes of guests, hence the tremor problems
― mh, Monday, 14 May 2018 03:30 (five years ago) link
this is finally good again
― Tapes 'n Tapes of Osho (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 14 May 2018 06:23 (five years ago) link
"You wanted me to play your game, and I'm gonna play it to the bone" was very bad, though.
― Tapes 'n Tapes of Osho (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 14 May 2018 06:33 (five years ago) link
i think ford had clementine bring me here for a reason
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 00:40 (five years ago) link
you've got to admit that hiding your secret transhuman tech lab in the middle of a rich people's vacation resort that you own and operate is a pretty Bond Villain move
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 13:55 (five years ago) link
"You wanted me to play your game, and I'm gonna play it to the bone"
i'm stealing this for everyday use.
I'm gonna edit this column to the bone!
― andrew m., Wednesday, 16 May 2018 14:18 (five years ago) link
You wanted me to convert simple HTML to BBcode, and I'm gonna convert it to the bone
― andrew m., Wednesday, 16 May 2018 14:19 (five years ago) link
Finding out that a character that Bernard was heavily implied to have murdered was actually just imprisoned in a cave with a bucket and some protein bars was a bit of an eye-roller.
― Dan I., Wednesday, 16 May 2018 15:30 (five years ago) link
Plus the Elsie character seems dropped in from some other, lesser, show. SyFy original Mary Sue
― Dan I., Wednesday, 16 May 2018 15:31 (five years ago) link
Hrm. I think Elsie is fun and I'm glad to see her.
I don't remember when/how she found out BernardBot was a bot.
― it's a leaf that the nomads chew (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 15:46 (five years ago) link
She just found out in the most recent episode! So even as he was manhandling her into a cave she didn't suspect?
― Dan I., Wednesday, 16 May 2018 15:47 (five years ago) link
Elsie's awesome and shannon woodward is adorable fuiud
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
elsie a bot
― andrew m., Wednesday, 16 May 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
NOOOOOOOOOOO
― it's a leaf that the nomads chew (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link
I just assumed BernBot was programmed at some point not to kill her, for whatever purposes.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 15:58 (five years ago) link
I had to listen to a guy mansplain this show to a woman at a camping trip this weekend and it was fucking painful. I just kept my mouth shut.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
Ford spared Elsie because while she knew too much, she wouldn't be able to stop him, and he didn't hate her guts the way he apparently did Theresa. And also you can't kill your audience surrogate?
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
The song Madame Akane danced to was a little OTT.
― incel clown posse (naus), Monday, 21 May 2018 03:09 (five years ago) link
what was that a cover of?
― El Tomboto, Monday, 21 May 2018 03:10 (five years ago) link
https://youtu.be/__DEAK3AinM
― incel clown posse (naus), Monday, 21 May 2018 03:34 (five years ago) link
oh jfc I feel so dumb
― El Tomboto, Monday, 21 May 2018 03:40 (five years ago) link
OK so I stuck around for Shogun World and managed to disappoint myself because the show will never 100% become Bene Gesserit Maeve and the Seven Samurai.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 21 May 2018 05:54 (five years ago) link
near the beginning of the ep, when the bald security dude is back at HQ he looks down at a body - is that elsie? with chopped-off hair, holding a big knife?
― just1n3, Monday, 21 May 2018 06:15 (five years ago) link
I don't know who that was but none of the recappers have picked up on it. Again, my money is on them not killing off the audience surrogate(s). Teddy is always never not doomed, but Felix and Elsie and Stubbs are our people.
Eve Batey @ previosuly.tv has the best hypothesis for how Maeve's jedi powers work.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 21 May 2018 14:45 (five years ago) link
also the link she includes to the page about the actual bluetongue virus (http://www.thecattlesite.com/diseaseinfo/245/bluetongue-btv/) validates that Teddy's suggestion was the right one all along and pops abernathy is just a sadist / firebug
Control StrategyThe strategy is to contain the outbreak and minimise trade impact by:-*using a combination of quarantine and movement controls to prevent spread-*treatments and husbandry procedures to control vectors, reduce transmission and protect susceptible animals-*tracing and surveillance to determine the extent of virus and vector distribution-*zoning to define infected and disease-free areas.There is no justification for stamping out but some animals may need to be destroyed for welfare reasons. It is not possible to eradicate the bluetongue vectors.
The strategy is to contain the outbreak and minimise trade impact by:
― El Tomboto, Monday, 21 May 2018 14:59 (five years ago) link
shogun wolrd is 1000x better than westworld
― 808s & Deep States (voodoo chili), Monday, 21 May 2018 15:39 (five years ago) link
in other words, elvis telecom otm
― 808s & Deep States (voodoo chili), Monday, 21 May 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
the host-to-host network was pretty obviously the thing Maeve is using because she's a host communicating with/controlling other hosts?
also I have no idea why a virus that was 90% backstory and not infecting real animals needs delving into. it's a metaphor about killing the weak before they get sick and infect the strong. teddy's gotta get strong real fast or he's heading to the dustbin of history
shogun world having a lot of stories photocopied from westworld was a nice reverse on seven samurai/magnificent seven
― (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (mh), Monday, 21 May 2018 20:30 (five years ago) link
teddy's gotta get strong real fast or he's heading to the dustbin of historyAnd he winds up that way anyway! Dolores’ idea of strength is completely sociopathic.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 21 May 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
nah, he's still weak
she's talking about unrepentant killing any host she thinks won't be of use in battle, and Teddy's letting people go
― (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (mh), Monday, 21 May 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
she might be sociopathic but she has a damn ethos
I think Teddy's still just tryna find ways of advocating that the two of them just go off and do cuddly homesteadin' while Westworld burns
― The floor is larva (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 21 May 2018 21:04 (five years ago) link