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Welcome to Westworld! Season 2 Thread WARNING! SPOILERS FOR SEASON 1 BELOW! In the fine tradition of me making a thread wayyy before the actual show comes out because I don't keep up on release dates, I decided to make this thread since everything else I watch is off air and I'm planning on starting a rewatch this weekend. Overview: Westworld is set in the near future. The first season, as revealed in the finale, took place during two time periods, both set in the same place: Westworld, the amusement park of the future. Westworld is a place where all your wild-west fantasies are possible, populated by robots known as "hosts" that are so human that it's almost impossible to tell the difference. In Westworld you can play the noble, white-hatted hero who saves the damsel in distress, or you can play the evil black hat, robbing banks and stage coaches. Or you can just head on over to the saloon and join in on the orgy. Or cut up a hooker. Or shoot your way up and down the boardwalk, killing everyone in sight. The Westworld series is adapted from the original Westworld movie, written and directed by Michael Crichton of Jurassic Park fame. While Westworld draws the majority of its inspiration from the original movie, the first season also borrows significantly from the Jurassic Park novel, in my opinion. From the pilot episode there is a sense of foreboding, with small issues found in the park slowly compounding while the arrogant park creators and administrators dismiss them. Another central issue is that the newest upgrades to the parks robots to make them more human are causing unexpected issues and may require a downgrade. This is similar to how the latest generation of animals in the Jurassic Park novel are too lifelike and not suitable as slow moving, lazy zoo animals and also have unanticipated genetic problems that eventually contribute to the incident at the park. The first season of this show primarily dealt with the quests of three characters: William and the host he's fallen in love with, Dolores, as well as The Man in Black. At the conclusion of the season we discover that the scenes with Will and Dolores had taken place 30 years before the current setting, and that William and The Man in Black are one and the same person. The Man in Black, hereafter referred to as Older William, has become a cynical, violent, possibly insane man obsessed with unlocking the secrets of the park and the hosts who populate it. At the end of the season he and Dolores confront one another and do battle, which eventually leads Dolores to discover the truth of a voice she'd been hearing all season and break her programming. The last we see of Dolores is her assassination of Robert Ford, the "god" of Westworld, who's death he put in motion in order to free his creations. Things do not look good for those guests left in the park: Alongside this storyline is Maeve , a madam at the local whorehouse who began to doubt her reality. Eventually Maeve awoke and manipulated a couple techs into revealing the horrible truth of her existence. She was able to set in motion a plan to escape the park, only to back out at the last moment in order to rescue a daughter she was assigned in a previous character "life". At the seasons conclusion, the park has just begun to fail, with the hosts turning on the human guests, eager to seek their revenge for the inhuman treatment inflicted upon them for decades. This summary is a quick recap drawing upon my memories from last season and can be updated if anyone has a better write-up! Let's look at some characters: quote:
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Westworld is due to return in the Spring of 2018 General Cool Stuff Store Here's a link to some YOPOS thread that people seem to like! Travel at your own peril, pardner! Here's a link to the making of the Control Room 3D Map, which is a practical effect it turns out! Professor Shark fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Dec 31, 2017 |
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FAQ How do the guns work? They have special bullets that do not hurt human guests (much, they can knock the wind out of you) but cause realistic damage to hosts. Alternatively, What is with the multiple milk references? In the first season there is a scene where a host pours milk into the dead mouths of hosts he just killed. He also drinks milk himself, which spurts from his body from the multiple gunshots he has suffered. This was a flaw in his programming, where the host seemed to have some concept that milk (which resembles to fluid injected into the hosts to make them function, like blood) could bring them back to life and was just one of the many signs that things were quickly becoming destabilized. Jimmi Simpson also plays a weird character in Always Sunny in Philadelphia who creepily drinks milk. Where is Westworld located? This place is huge! They haven't said specifically where it takes place, possible locations are Australia or a terra-formed Mars How do the hosts work? While the older hosts were actual robots made of metal and gears, the newer models are organic. They can get diseases and infections, similar to the Cylons in BSG. Theories and Speculation Ford isn't dead It's possible that Ford faked his death. This is based on a single line mentioned that older hosts could be given away with a handshake. Before allowing his execution, Ford shakes hands with Bernard. Bernard looks confusingly at their hands before Ford leaves. There is also the mysterious host that Ford was building in his secret lab. Ford is a host I remember this one coming up in the last thread. I'm not sure if it's put to bed or not, but some goons were speculating that Ford was one of the first hosts. This appears unlikely, as Arnold recreated Ford's family and childhood home as a present. Timeline as of S2E2 Professor Shark fucked around with this message at 10:31 on May 4, 2018 |
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Can’t wait to rewatch season one in 4K
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Another Skarsgard? Or is this an Adam Baldwin situation?
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business hammocks posted:Another Skarsgard? Or is this an Adam Baldwin situation? I fear some of them are host clones. It is almost like WW is intentionally using knock-off brothers for their parts.
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Didn't Maeve also have Felix max out her stats? I feel like that's a pretty important plot point there.
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Collateral posted:I fear some of them are host clones. It is almost like WW is intentionally using knock-off brothers for their parts. Rumor has it Shannon Woodward’s birth name was Ellen Page Jr.
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Proteus Jones posted:Didn't Maeve also have Felix max out her stats? I feel like that's a pretty important plot point there. Yes you're right- I wrote this all based on what I remember from when it was originally on, please feel free to remind me of important stuff
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# ? Nov 18, 2017 21:50 |
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I will watch and probably greatly enjoy S2, even though the supreme stupidity of the Maeve plotline really damaged my enjoyment of the first.
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I'm pretty excited by the new additions. Hiroyuki Sanada is great in everything, I wonder if Samurai World is going to bleed into Westworld like in the movie The guy from Revolution being in the military makes me wonder if governments are going to try and storm the park. Edit: drat, Skarsgard is the son of a famous actor and two of his brothers are also famous actors. Professor Shark fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Nov 18, 2017 |
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Samurai World, coming Spring 2018.
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Professor Shark posted:I'm pretty excited by the new additions. Hiroyuki Sanada is great in everything, I wonder if Samurai World is going to bleed into Westworld like in the movie He's a decently popular actor himself, considering he's spent the last five years featuring on a popular tv show.
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Based on what I've read it sounds like they're introducing a completely new group of characters, and we're going to see the park from their perspective before and after the fall.
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See also: the discount Hemsworth brother who can't pull off an American accent.
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I kind of feel like Shannon Woodward is going for an off-the-rack Ellen Page sort of performance too.
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# ? Nov 18, 2017 23:07 |
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I need to do a re-watch. I thought her character died by the hand of Bernard in manual override.
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# ? Nov 18, 2017 23:10 |
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I think that's the current theory, only not killed. IIRC she sent Stubbs a text or something? That's how he got ambushed.
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# ? Nov 18, 2017 23:25 |
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Is the final sentence of William's character description incomplete? Also I'd love to see more in Bernard's.
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Dumb Lowtax posted:Is the final sentence of William's character description incomplete? Also I'd love to see more in Bernard's. Yeah I ended up having to go out before I finished it. I'll fix it up and add more to Bernard's later. I'm not 100% sure who the audience is for them, I'd imagine most wouldn't pick up the show starting with Season 2, but I'll make them as complete as possible for those who do!
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Professor Shark posted:Yeah I ended up having to go out before I finished it. I'll fix it up and add more to Bernard's later. I'm not 100% sure who the audience is for them, I'd imagine most wouldn't pick up the show starting with Season 2, but I'll make them as complete as possible for those who do! I'll tell you who the audience is, everyone who watched Season 1. After the season ended I had so many questions, but was too intimidated by the previous thread's hundreds of new posts per day to keep up with new theories. It is really helpful to see these post-Season-1 summaries of events, especially considering how much I've forgotten since it ended a long time ago. Thanks and keep up the great work, especially with the excellent overall synopsis up top.
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# ? Nov 18, 2017 23:38 |
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Hype
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# ? Nov 18, 2017 23:45 |
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this thread doesn't look like anything to me...? Until the new season starts, I will go back to a deep and dreamless slumber. bookmarked double nine fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Nov 19, 2017 |
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I can’t loving wait!
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# ? Nov 19, 2017 00:36 |
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Man I thought this thread meant it was only a couple week away. Please delete my self awareness until then.
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Elephanthead posted:Man I thought this thread meant it was only a couple week away. Please delete my self awareness until then. At least it's not the season 1 thread which went up over a year in advance.
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# ? Nov 19, 2017 01:29 |
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So fascinated was I by the Kachina dolls the natives dropped in front of Maeve that I tried to get one while touring through Utah. Didn't find a good one, but got a beaut in eBay:
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# ? Nov 19, 2017 01:47 |
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rewatching the series two things jump out at me: -how the gently caress did dolores get dressed in the exact same gunslinger outfit she had thirty years ago? -the guy who is initially assumed to be arnold in the photo ford shows to bernard is ford's host dad right? did anyone catch that when it first aired? also the maeve plotline is kinda less dumb when you know that they're going to gently caress up from the start
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This is the most beautifully shot and produced show on television, and it is utter loving schlock that thinks it's asking way smarter questions than it is. That said, I'm totally down riding this derailed train all the way to the bottom of the cliff.
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# ? Nov 19, 2017 07:36 |
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Ehh, you might not want to have a huge season 1 spoiler in the thread title.
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sweetmercifulcrap posted:Ehh, you might not want to have a huge season 1 spoiler in the thread title. Oh, for people who are avoiding the Season 2 thread / spoilers but see the title pop up from outside the thread anyway
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I mean, my aunt who knew nothing else about anything to do with this saw "Michael Crichton" in the credits of the first episode and immediately knew where this premise was going. So yeah, it is a spoiler that the robots go crazy and kill everyone, but it's the most obvious spoiler in the world that doesn't ruin anything because we all knew it was coming and it's the journey that's the real fun of it. And it was a good journey even knowing the destination, as I'm sure we all did. Who really thought the robots wouldn't start killing everyone eventually?
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# ? Nov 19, 2017 09:24 |
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Well yeah, I mean I know it's relatively obvious, but it still confirms the conclusion of season 1, ruining the anticipation of "when will they start killing the guests?"
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# ? Nov 19, 2017 09:45 |
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Just a note, the OP says "one in the same", but the actual phrase is "one and the same". I kinda want the op of a thread that will hit hundreds of pages before this is over to not have typos.
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Carbon dioxide posted:Just a note, the OP says "one in the same", but the actual phrase is "one and the same". I kinda want the op of a thread that will hit hundreds of pages before this is over to not have typos. There's definitely more than just that one typo in there, I was in a writing frenzy yesterday, but thanks! I changed that one, worked on the William and Bernard bios, and will type out one for Clementine today. sweetmercifulcrap posted:Ehh, you might not want to have a huge season 1 spoiler in the thread title. I was just eager to get Jeff Goldblum's Pirates of the Caribbean line from JP in there for some reason StashAugustine posted:rewatching the series two things jump out at me: IIRC the thread did catch onto it
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# ? Nov 19, 2017 12:11 |
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The movie Westworld was over thirty years ago and the thread title was the premise of the thing. They even got playful with a line of dialog in the show that was like, "we haven't had an incident in over thirty years."
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LividLiquid posted:The movie Westworld was over thirty years ago and the thread title was the premise of the thing. 44 years, to be exact.
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Christ, I'm getting up there in years.
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Regy Rusty posted:At least it's not the season 1 thread which went up over a year in advance. To be fair, season 1 didn't exactly have a set start date. So it was hard to know when exactly it would be coming out.
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# ? Nov 19, 2017 23:42 |
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smh tryhard OPs are so pre-2017
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blue squares posted:smh tryhard OPs are so pre-2017 There's supposed to be robots to do this for us <>
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