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I still don't quite get the logistics of how the park works timeline-wise, like the duration of a stay, and how often guests arrive. Is everything first-come, first-served? Like if I wanted to try the Dolores storyline on a visit, would I just be out of luck because William bogarted her for 30 years? It seems like the workers reset everything pretty immediately but other storylines take multiple days to complete.
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BrianWilly posted:I swear to god a full twenty minutes were eaten up by him just helplessly gawking at nothing in particular. We get it, show. He's confused. How riveting. A Buttery Pastry posted:At least they're not pretending like it's a twist or anything, it's just a way to tell the story. By having dual-timelines, they can spread out both over the entire season, rather than having them come sequentially. That means more variety in the plot on a per-episode basis, and the ability to introduce new characters early on rather than halfway through the season. For Westworld in particular, the fact that the hosts have perfect recall when not artificially hosed with, obviously also makes the device potentially useful.
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rich thick and creamy posted:You gotta remember William is the principal shareholder in the company. So odds are good that he is well aware of the DNA harvesting and might have even secretly authorized it himself. There's a good chance he wasn't to overcome with horror when he witnessed board members get wiped out as he was planning on replacing them with hosts-doubles at some point anyway. Neurosis posted:but yeah even then the thought of trapping someone to a groundhog day which might involve being repeatedly raped and killed for kicks should still be enough to stop that line of thinking... not to mention even if they were totally unconscious i cannot imagine having a rape themepark doing good for society when the guests go back.
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flatluigi posted:I think it's definitely going to have to be several more episodes before we can judge if Dolores' monologues are supposed to be corny in-fiction as well as outside it because it easily can be chunks of what was written for Wyatt shining through, just as easily as it can be just dumb writing Judging by the scene on the beach in the S1 finale, her recent dialogue is most likely intentional. The way she speaks now has the exact same melodramatic vibes as that scene. I think she's carrying out a malfunction/misinterpretation of her new story - dramatically scripted, but with a new agenda.
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Louis Herthum is knocking it out of the park. He plays the malfunctioning, programming-conflicted AI so well. I'm surprised he hasn't been in a lot of major roles before, mostly just bit-parts.whatever7 posted:That was the peak of white people. On that note I'd honestly be surprised if one of the parks didn't turn out to be Pirate World. Or at least an explanation of their lack of a pirate theme park being "Too much water, we couldn't protect the guests from drowning or the hosts from shorting out." That, or "We didn't want to make the same period parks as Assassin's Creed."
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drunken officeparty posted:Also if he thinks Ford made the daughter know about the profile, why couldn’t he also have given her the actual card. Having it is only more evidence that she’s a bot. Find a big rock and get head smashin’ William, it’s the only way to be sure. -A host could still have the card if Ford was the one sending her in. -Wouldn't real security guards still be carrying the target-smart weapons that don't kill humans? Even if the bots can shoot humans now, why would the guards be able to? -They made sure to not have her be the one shot in her intro scene at the Raj, made sure we didn't see her scan, and made sure William stopped before cutting her open. -They focused on the music box with the dancer on the right side, when she clearly described it being in the middle. -Ford directly said "no William, one more game" in this episode shortly before the shooting scene, at a party his daughter attended. If nothing else they made it super ambiguous on purpose.
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DaveKap posted:
I was looking closely for purposely vague words and phrases in the interview with Lisa Joy, and when she addresses the post-credits scene she doesn't spill as many details as it seems. She's addressing what the viewer interpretation of the "story" is supposed to be, and how the interviewer "got it", but she doesn't reveal the details directly or say what "version" of William it is. I think her "very different timeline" comment is her being cagey about when that scene takes place, and that it's a direct continuation of the scene when he got up and walked to the elevator. So the scene where Stubbs sees him in the tent happens after that. Host-Emily giving him a fidelity test is the game Ford designed for him, and she's just making him (and us) think he's in the future, and a host, when neither is true.
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