Westworld

[livid]

Very strange choice of music but still excited for this

 

[MalaCloudy Black]

Fuck, I need to watch season 2.

[Hellraiser]

Season 2 was very underwhelming but I'm still looking forward to this. 

[MalaCloudy Black]

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[livid]

Well that certainly was a bit different than previous seasons. I like it. 

[MalaCloudy Black]

Guess I gotta have HBO Now or Go or HBO Go Fuck Yourself to watch season 2 eh?

[livid]

1 hour ago, How The Cloud Stole Christ said:

Guess I gotta have HBO Now or Go or HBO Go Fuck Yourself to watch season 2 eh?

People disliked S2 but I enjoyed it so I would recommend it. But they don't really continue anything from it so you could do a recap to get the gist. 

[MalaCloudy Black]

24 minutes ago, livid said:

People disliked S2 but I enjoyed it so I would recommend it. But they don't really continue anything from it so you could do a recap to get the gist. 

I'd still like to see it for completionists sake. Just reading some of the recaps it seems like it gets even more batshit than season 1.

[Hellraiser]

They were also allegedly rewriting stuff for season 2 because someone on reddit figured out a plot twist. I don't know if Jonathan Nolan was being serious when he said that though. 

[FLiam]

Well, season three took a turn from what we are used to.

I liked it. Everything looked really slick and stylistic too. 

[Hellraiser]

I also enjoyed the episode. Let's hope they don't mess it up this time around. 

[livid]

Halfway through the season and the most front and center "mystery" of the season has been revealed. Glad they didn't drag that out. 

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Fits more than shoehorning lesser characters into new hosts just because too. Dolores thinks of herself as a god so why wouldn't she just use copies of herself?

The fight scene between Stubbs and Dolores was great, though. 

Also, I don't think I'll ever got over how awesome/weird it is when Ramin Djawadi covers a contemporary song.  

[livid]

This season has been hit and miss. I'm still really drawn to the setting but the plotting is inconsistent. Which I guess is Westworld to a tee! 

Edited April 22, 2020 by livid

[Hellraiser]

I've enjoyed this season a lot so far. Much more than season 2. The only thing I'm not down with is the Hale-host subplot. 

[Hellraiser]

Spoilers for episode 8:

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So Dolores is in revenge mode and hellbent on destroying humanity the entire time until she finds one human who isn't a complete asshole and suddenly she chooses to see the beauty in the world and humanity is worth saving? Why does she care whether they have free will or not?

 

Edited May 6, 2020 by Hellraiser

[Benji]

Watching season 3...

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I'm on episode 4 and whilst the season started strongly, I find myself drifting in attention this season. I loved season 2 so I'm hoping this pulls back, but a big part of Westworld's appeal to me was.. well, Westworld.

 

[Benji]

Season 3...

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Meh. Westworld became good looking sci-fi 101. Bit let down. It's still good, but everything unique about it is long gone. French dude sucked as a villain, I wanted to turn the TV off every time he was on screen.

 

[gunnar hendershow]

Season 3

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It's kind of weird and disappointing to see the show just completely stray from the parks. There's a lot of intrigue for me still, especially as it's apparent all the hosts are being brought back. But I would suspect it'll be in a non-Westworld setting. And the whole Westworld setting was the biggest draw of the show.

Also, am I right in guessing that the end of season 2 plays directly into what Hale was doing? That is, they all uploaded their consciousness somewhere, and perhaps Hale got it back. And it's been a long time coming for William. Nobody was better mapped by Delos than him, so making all his evil impluses into a host seemed like a logical outcome.

I'll add that it's doubly weird that Joy & Nolan made the show look like this in Season 3 when they're making The Peripheral for Amazon which will probably look and feel about the same.

 

[Hellraiser]

3 minutes ago, damsher hatfield said:

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Also, am I right in guessing that the end of season 2 plays directly into what Hale was doing? That is, they all uploaded their consciousness somewhere, and perhaps Hale got it back

 

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I don't think that she has the key to the place where the consciousnesses are stored. Bernard has that and went to that place. At least that is what I took from that scene at the motel. Haleores is still a copy of Dolores. Her plan is the same as Dolores' plan before she had a change of heart: wipe out humanity and let the hosts take over.  

 

[gunnar hendershow]

10 hours ago, Hellraiser said:

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I don't think that she has the key to the place where the consciousnesses are stored. Bernard has that and went to that place. At least that is what I took from that scene at the motel. Haleores is still a copy of Dolores. Her plan is the same as Dolores' plan before she had a change of heart: wipe out humanity and let the hosts take over.  

 

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Oh yeah that probably makes some more sense.