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Astroman
Apr 8, 2001


Happy Noodle Boy posted:

Closer and closer to :bsg:

Honestly--and I loved BSG--this is on a higher level. I don't think BSG could ever tell the origins of AI this cinematically.

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El Jeffe
Dec 24, 2009

Don't you die on me Maeve :ohdear:

Bill Dungsroman
Nov 24, 2006

This is the good poo poo

packetmantis
Feb 26, 2013
DO NOT KILL HER you motherfucker

Darko
Dec 23, 2004

Its amazing how pro Maeve and anti Dolores everyone got as compared to S1.

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


That shot of Bernard/Ford shooting owned.

Heroic Yoshimitsu
Jan 15, 2008

I still think Delores is Cool

El Jeffe
Dec 24, 2009

Bill Dungsroman posted:

This is the good poo poo

Alkabob
May 31, 2011
I would like to speak to the manager about the socialists, please
Oh gently caress Hannibal Lector is binary code!

Despera
Jun 6, 2011
Use your defrag device bernard!

Dr. Abysmal
Feb 17, 2010

We're all doomed
The shot of Anthony Hopkins firing an assault rifle was funny

Despera
Jun 6, 2011

Dr. Abysmal posted:

The shot of Anthony Hopkins firing an assault rifle was funny

In before gunnut goons

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


Ok that preview loving owned. Next week is going to own.

Westworld owns.

Nottherealaborn
Nov 12, 2012
Bernard is totes sending the Delos team into a trap at Fords behest, yeah?

Astroman
Apr 8, 2001


Dr. Abysmal posted:

The shot of Anthony Hopkins firing an assault rifle was funny

This needs to be gif'd posthaste.

Alkabob
May 31, 2011
I would like to speak to the manager about the socialists, please
So this is all apart of Hannibal Lector's plan. They are going to broadcast him across the globe and your microwave will only be able to properly heat up fava beans.

Darko
Dec 23, 2004

Are we getting a straight up woke nation episode? I didn't expect that.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


the cradle destruction scene was pretty silly.

Macdeo Lurjtux
Jul 5, 2011

BRRREADSTOOORRM!
Ford’s monologue about the Library of Alexander was loving great.

Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
Fun Shoe
Whatever they're paying the PMCs is too much considering their general level of incompetence.

Darko
Dec 23, 2004

Party Plane Jones posted:

Whatever they're paying the PMCs is too much considering their general level of incompetence.

I think we have to accept the conceit that when you cut up a bot's seduction or whatever, it works ridiculously well on a human as well.

Alkabob
May 31, 2011
I would like to speak to the manager about the socialists, please

Groovelord Neato posted:

the cradle destruction scene was pretty silly.

Probably the worst scene in the show.

Edit: Also the jig should be up for Ford the minute they started going over Bernard's brain with a fine tooth comb. Also everyone including Ford is actually dumb because the technology exists to recreate everything so take out an insurance claim, close the parks for "updates" and make new hosts with new stories. Congratulations you have only proven that faulty equipment based on a good marketable concept can be taken back to the drawing board. Therefore Westworld is a bad show and using the same go nowhere plotting LOST did until they were forced to conclude the series.

Alkabob fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Jun 4, 2018

Car Hater
May 7, 2007

wolf. bike.
Wolf. Bike.
Wolf! Bike!
WolfBike!
WolfBike!
ARROOOOOO!
But how was she going to destroy the cradle without that guy's explosives?

Toxic Fart Syndrome
Jul 2, 2006

*hits A-THREAD-5*

Only 3.6 Roentgoons per hour ... not great, not terrible.




...the meter only goes to 3.6...

Pork Pro
That was an amazing episode and definitively answered pretty much every question the thread has posed. :sun:

Macdeo Lurjtux
Jul 5, 2011

BRRREADSTOOORRM!

Car Hater posted:

But how was she going to destroy the cradle without that guy's explosives?

It's a computer, she's a computer. Obviously she was going to seduce it into exploding.

Nottherealaborn
Nov 12, 2012

Scooter_McCabe posted:

Probably the worst scene in the show.

Which is a pretty big accomplishment, considering some of the numerous bad scenes in this show

Dr. Abysmal
Feb 17, 2010

We're all doomed
drat girl, I saw you shooting up my squad earlier but I guess now you're down to gently caress on the floor of this server room while you're bleeding out

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


i assumed it would pan around to her front and she'd have grenades and was just waiting for him to come down the stairs (which still would've been kinda dumb since he shoulda downed her the second he saw her).

TK-42-1
Oct 30, 2013

looks like we have a bad transmitter



Groovelord Neato posted:

i assumed it would pan around to her front and she'd have grenades and was just waiting for him to come down the stairs (which still would've been kinda dumb since he shoulda downed her the second he saw her).

This is what I was thinking too. But whatever. Its not the worst thing and I guess it was Talulah's wrap scene so she got to chew a little dialogue and be hot. But you have to admin, they went out with a bang. Also I completely called Dolores testing out Bernard. I'm sure it wasn't the hardest of speculations but I'm glad I can follow the show well enough to figure some poo poo out on my own.


W O K E N A T I O N It's going to be loving cool to see how Ghost Nation was awake the whole time but no one cared enough about the 'savages' to pay attention to them and how they were changing without their narratives being different. I guess the guests never got out that far enough for them to be reset or really interacted with at all.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


it actually was the worst thing.

Alkabob
May 31, 2011
I would like to speak to the manager about the socialists, please
So William is either going to die, or go on one hell of a wounded/dying old man rampage.

TK-42-1
Oct 30, 2013

looks like we have a bad transmitter



Groovelord Neato posted:

it actually was the worst thing.

Tech jerking off Hector while his headphones are in and he can't sense Armistice killing the other guy was way WAY worse than this.

SgtSteel91
Oct 21, 2010

Scooter_McCabe posted:

So William is either going to die, or go on one hell of a wounded/dying old man rampage.

Or his daughter finds him and drags him back home.

Toxic Fart Syndrome
Jul 2, 2006

*hits A-THREAD-5*

Only 3.6 Roentgoons per hour ... not great, not terrible.




...the meter only goes to 3.6...

Pork Pro

TK-42-1 posted:

Tech jerking off Hector while his headphones are in and he can't sense Armistice killing the other guy was way WAY worse than this.

Tech was jerking himself off while grinding on Hector... :nallears:

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


cradle scene is dumber. i'm the thirstiest sonofabitch alive and that poo poo wouldn't work on me.

Alkabob
May 31, 2011
I would like to speak to the manager about the socialists, please

Groovelord Neato posted:

cradle scene is dumber. i'm the thirstiest sonofabitch alive and that poo poo wouldn't work on me.

Plus if he really wanted it he downs her, saves the day and tells the company he just wants hot girl version 2.0 minus the Patty Hearst settings.

Mad Wack
Mar 27, 2008

"The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:

That was an amazing episode and definitively answered pretty much every question the thread has posed. :sun:

what about the trains

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

STOMP'N ON INTO THE POWERLINES

Exciting Lemon

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

That shot of Bernard/Ford shooting owned.

Could easily be an av sized gif

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

It'd be great for Ghost Nation to be a group of woke hosts that just want to be left alone and live peacefully with humans. A nice change to Dolores and Ford who are now all "kill all humans!"

Plus I think we have to get some new recurring cast members with how many of them died in this episode.

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Khomaniac
Dec 9, 2013

I felt like the 30-45 second seduction of the guard was a bit of a weak point in an otherwise stellar episode. Especially after he made it clear several times he wouldn't fall for the hosts tricks.

Disappointed the guy with the badass mustache got so little screen time before being (nearly certainly) killed.

Of course at this point it's heavily implied that at least one person who got killed is going to get resurrected in host form, so hopefully badass mustache dude will have another shot.

Getting harder and harder to want to see Dolores succeed. Even if there is some way she cannot be seen as a villain, she delivered a straight up Darth Maul style "villain gloats like an idiot instead of just killing the hero" speech to the Hale chick.

I'm honestly unsure how I feel about Ford's monologues. Are they integral to the story? Or did the Westworld cast just know the quickest way to get their show taken seriously in an intellectual way was having Anthony Hopkins monologuing at certain points? Does he have an off the cuff historical metaphor for every topic that could come up in a conversation? It certainly seems like it.

Will Shogun World appear again? I am going to be disappointed if it doesn't. The head sawing scene was the best one this season.



The twist this season is Old Bill, the "not so advanced" host we were casually introduced to, is going to be behind it all. Calling it right now.

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