HBO's Westworld: These violent delights have violent ends

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Entropic: Feb 21, 2007; patriarchy sucks

Just finished binge-watching this over the weekend, holy poo poo.

Though I think the thing that actually blew my mind the most was when I suddenly realized that William is one of the McPoyle brothers.

And I recognized Armistice for somewhere, but I couldn't figure out where, it took me ages to realize she had a tiny role in one of the the terrible BBC Discworld adaptations as Sgt. Angua.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2017 19:56

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# ¿ Apr 23, 2024 22:54

Entropic: Feb 21, 2007; patriarchy sucks

I'm glad to see people from Scandinavian TV besides just Mads Mikkelson getting work in hollywood though. Sidse Knudsen was really good in Borgen. She's like a Danish Mary McDonnell.

This show actually reminds me a lot of BSG, except it seems like the writers actually have a plan (fingers crossed) and are less random with their symbolism.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2017 20:33

Entropic: Feb 21, 2007; patriarchy sucks

I just wanna say the score for this show is really good. Ramin Djawadi knocked it out of the park.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2017 07:32

Entropic: Feb 21, 2007; patriarchy sucks

Bust Rodd posted:

yeah and i think the same interview or one in the same publication says that the showrunners have distinctly said they won't go to any of the other 'worlds' from the movie, so we'll never see Romeworld or medieval World, in part because HBO already has GoT

What if the big twist in the finale of GoT is that it is Medieval World? :tinfoil:

# ¿ Apr 30, 2017 21:44

Entropic: Feb 21, 2007; patriarchy sucks

Yeah, it's pretty obvious within the first three episodes that the park is a physical location with underground access via train tunnels and elevators, with the main base of operations contained in a huge mesa within the park. The only questions are about the outer limits of the park, whether it's enclosed, and where it's located.

# ¿ May 1, 2017 03:59

Entropic: Feb 21, 2007; patriarchy sucks

It seems like you could still pretty easily get shot in the eye with a "fake" bullet or fall off a cliff or get knifed by another guest.

# ¿ Jun 16, 2017 13:58

Entropic: Feb 21, 2007; patriarchy sucks

Gonz posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phFM3V_dors

Goddamn, that shot of Dolores on the horse.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2017 01:51

Entropic: Feb 21, 2007; patriarchy sucks

If normal-rear end biological horses haven't achieved human-level consciousness what on earth makes you guys think robot ones would?

# ¿ Jul 25, 2017 04:13

Entropic: Feb 21, 2007; patriarchy sucks

I am continuously glad no one in TVIV actually gets to write for TV.

# ¿ Jul 25, 2017 15:30

Entropic: Feb 21, 2007; patriarchy sucks

nwiniwn posted:

So, only on episode 3 right now, but I've got some questions regarding things I've seen and how it works in Westworld.

Regarding the hosts, they routinely get beat up, cut up, bloodied, etc. So, does each day have a certain end-time where all the hosts return to the lab and get patched up, or how does that work? Like, could someone shoot Dolores first thing in the morning, and then she would get carted off, patched up, and put back in the game that same day, or is she out of commission until the next day? It seems like there isn't a distinct end-time, but I just don't get how things reset, either. Like, say I pay for a 2-week package. I can basically stay up all day long and night long and go kill a bunch of people...they have to get put back at some point, right? It's just not making sense how the blackhat guy seems to be killing anything and everything-wouldn't that take away from other people's experiences?

Also, from what I've seen, everything is a robot (the hosts, the horses, the rattlesnake in episode 2). Are flies also robots? Just wondering why they are attracted to the hosts, especially in episode 3 with the new script that shows a bunch of people cut up and flies all over them. A female human running around with Teddy visibly appears that she can smell something rancid, so I'm just wondering how the fake skin/blood/etc ends up smelling rancid to humans and attracting either real flies or robotic flies.

They specifically call out that the flies are real, it's a plot point for Dolores and the Sheriff in literally the first episode.

The entire point of the dramatic final shot of the pilot episode is that Delores was able to harm a living thing when we saw through the episode that hosts are meant to ignore flies because they can't hurt anything actually alive.

Entropic fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Aug 2, 2017

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# ¿ Apr 23, 2024 22:54

Entropic: Feb 21, 2007; patriarchy sucks

There's even CONFEDERATE spoilers already!

https://twitter.com/Ethan_Booker/status/892392732223787009

# ¿ Aug 24, 2017 02:28

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