Westworld (HBO) TV Show • Page 28

There is 0 legitimate conflict until the last minute. Unless you count Ashley vs. cannibals, which wasn't addressed

 

the conflict of the show is to see how many brooding monologues and montages over piano versions of radiohead songs the viewer can take before they realize the show is whack

 

they got me when they did No Surprises, at which radiohead song did you guys realize it?

 

When I said hurt the guests I meant how did the bullets there at the end all of a sudden affect guests? All throughout the series the man in black was not affected by bullets, yet at the end he clearly got hit in the shoulder or arm. And all the hosts coming out of the woods implied to me that they were all about to mow down the humans. I guess they all had guns that were originally in possession of the humans? Keep in mind I only watched this once all the way through within like five days. I'm probably missing something.

 

Came into the finale expecting to be underwhelmed because I thought the MIB thing was the big reveal but I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed it. I think it's a pretty ballsy move to make the entire first season of a series essentially a prequel to the actual show, and maybe that's what turned a lot of people off, but I liked it and definitely looking forward to S2.

 

Westworld: Why Season Two Won't Air Until 2018 - canceled TV shows - TV Series Finale

damn. that's a fucking long time

 

Wouldn't surprise me if it airs just before GOT's final season

 

Reading those quotes, though, it's not surprising. That they are treating this series like a film, rather than a standard television series, makes sense to me and so, as much as it sucks, the two-year turnaround time follows that. Hopefully it airs in early spring 2018, before Game of Thrones starts, rather than Fall 2018.

Although they're going to have a serious problem around season 5 when all of these supposedly ageless Hosts are suddenly 10 years older-looking lol

 

Finally watched late last night. Hope they explore other worlds in the overall park, got really excited when I realized they were in samurai world (as lame of a name that is, but what else are you gonna call it I guess).

 

Why is Ford doing anything that he's doing? Why have a park at all? He's clearly insane and treats people, real or fake, as his play things.

 

That's definitley a watered down analysis of what's actually happening

 

I mean, what do you want? For him to have some kind of speech about why he doing everything he's doing? What's the point of that?

 

I don't think it's anywhere in the show that he purposely built a code that says they have to suffer a certain amount and then become sentient, that'd be crazy. Their daughter gets killed 500 times and they level up?

It, to me, appears to be a byproduct/"natural" evolution for the robots, which doesn't really make sense either.

 

I might be remembering wrong, but he distinctly says that a hosts suffering is necessary for them to "level up" and become sentient.

He also continually talks about his new story he has planned. It could be as simple as him programming them to become sentient and being able to kill people. That's the new story. I don't see what's wrong with that.

 

It appears to be more metaphorical/theoretical than simply a code. If the robot sentience was a code that was programmed into them then it's not really sentience, that'd be stupid

 

Giving an inanimate object is impossible, so it is just code.

 

not sure this show is for you... haha

 

It started strong, dragged on a bit, but the last two episodes saved it for me. I really liked it overall.

 

And to be clear, I don't care that it's impossible to give them actual sentience. I loved 'Her' and that's essentially the same thing.

 

I meant in the sense that having a block on sentience being possible, even in a sci-fi show, would make this hard to watch

 

I don't think so. Just because they're not sentient doesn't mean that they can't cause real things to happen.

 

Pop Culture Happy Hour put out a quick episode about the finale if anyone is interested

 

So did The Watch. Had commentary from three parties, all with various levels of enjoyment regarding the show as a whole.

 

Enjoyed the finale and was satisfied for the most part, though I would've liked some hint as to what happened with Stubbs and Elsie (apparently the website hints at Elsie being alive). Ford being an Arnold sympathizer in his own twisted way was a great twist, I thought. For the entire season, I'd always thought of them as being the idealistic adversaries.

Felix momentarily questioning if he's human made me laugh. A bit of physical comedy I wasn't expecting from this show, followed by "Oh for fuck's sake, you're not one of us. You're one of them." Lol.

Also, Westworld security is pretty terrible.

 

They were, at the time. Ford only came around to Arnold's POV over the course of the 35 years between his death and the show.