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[Roscoe]

Posted: 10/25/16 at 10:36am

Question:

 

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Will anyone ever say, "Oh my God, you've killed Teddy!  You bastard!"

 

[Steve C.]

Posted: 10/25/16 at 4:13pm

I just watched WW from Sunday night and it's really getting deep. I do like it a lot; and Anthony Hopkins is just jaw dropping in his acting, mannerisms and those snarls, his eyes!

I'm going to drive myself crazy trying to place all the piano player songs...so tricky to slip those in that way. Of course there was "Carmen" this week but a few others I'm not sure of yet.

Very little of Teddy this week (and he was kind of messed up in that scene too)...next week James!! 

[Steve C.]

Posted: 10/29/16 at 9:59pm

Success! Just watched Westworld again. Naturally you could identify Joplin; it was the Pineapple Rag...and the Carmen suite. The one I couldn't get was the player piano; "The Forest" by The Cure. This music guy is so tricky, I like him.

Please let's see James Marsden on Sunday night.  

[Roscoe]

Posted: 10/31/16 at 9:20am

OK, they're starting to annoy me with all the careful ambiguity.  Let's just get on with it already.

[HorseTears]

Posted: 10/31/16 at 8:57pm

I'm still loving it.  Evan Rachel Wood and Thandie are fantastic.  Hope we get a lot more of Thandie in the weeks to come.  Also, I have to wonder if we're watching stories in alternate timelines.  It's never explicitly confirmed that the conversations that Anthony Hopkins and Jeffrey Wright are having with Delores etc. are happening immediately after the scenes in-the-park with guests.  

[Roscoe]

Posted: 11/1/16 at 9:10am

It is also possible that there's more than one Dolores.  Remember she caught a glimpse of herself in the Day Of The Dead parade in Pariah, and a couple of the other dancers looked like heavily made-up versions of other characters, including Thandie Newton.

[Kad]

Posted: 11/1/16 at 9:58am

There's a lot of theorizing about timelines- the interviews between Dolores and Ford & Bernard do suggest them, otherwise they don't make a lot of sense. Hopefully now that everything seems to be set up, we can start unraveling the mysteries.

When was the last time Hopkins was this good, though?

[SmoothLover]

Posted: 11/1/16 at 7:45pm

There is a movie on HBO now called Vice with Bruce Willis and it is about an artificial human at an exclusive resort who flees after becoming self aware.....hmm?!?

 

 

Agree that Hopkins is very good in this......

[Roscoe]

Posted: 11/14/16 at 9:06am

Watched the most recent episodes back to back.  Very cool indeed.  With one or two major exceptions, this is one of the best acted shows on TV.  

So do gay men not go to Westworld?  There's plenty of female same-sex activity shown, worked into the sidelines during orgy and brothel scenes, but I can't remember a single instance of male same-sex activity going on.  A quibble, but given the show's aggressive depiction of sexuality, a telling absence.

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one of the "humans" was going to turn out to be a Host.  It makes a deal of sense thinking back over the rest of the show so far -- we've only been given access to the dreams/memories of Hosts, haven't we, and Bernard was the only "human" whose past we ever saw enacted, those memories of his dead son and all.  

 

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I'm digging the show.  I'm hoping that the player piano will keep on working, I really enjoyed the Radiohead tunes it was playing.

[Kad]

Posted: 11/14/16 at 10:38am

Roscoe: I had the exact same thought about the lack of gay sexuality. If there was a luxury wild west fantasy park with obedient androids that look like James Marsden, rich gay men would be throwing their money at it.

The closest we've gotten is William's brother-in-law walking off with both a male and female host when they arrive.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 11/18/16 at 3:24am

At some point, early in the episode, I thought, "Oh, I just caught a glimpse of Hannibal Lecter from Anthony..." I should have known stuff was about to shift. 

[SmoothLover]

Posted: 11/23/16 at 1:24am

I think the show has gotten better with all of its twist and turns. I find myself looking forward to t every Sunday.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 11/28/16 at 11:34am

Well that was interesting, wasn't it.

 

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There's a theory out there that William, played by Jimmi Simpson, is a younger version of The Man In Black played by Ed Harris, that the stories are operating at different timespans.  I never thought much of that theory, until the most recent episode where the inner workings of some of the hosts are displayed, and they're more clunkily mechanical, with wires and metallic joints, than the hosts in other scenes who seem to be more fleshy creatures.

 

[Roscoe]

Posted: 12/5/16 at 8:45am

So the finale was cool enough.  I'd have liked it a lot more if, after 9 solid hours of vigorously avoiding the topic altogether, they hadn't decided at long last to depict a gay man in only the most vulgar and retro terms possible, in a scene of MelGibsonian offensiveness, as a repulsive, depraved sexual predator who gets what's coming to him.  It's like something out of BRAVEHEART.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 12/6/16 at 8:02am

Other than that scene mentioned above, I thought this was the most exciting new show this television season. The ed Harris reveal didn't really come as a shock to me, but I thought it was extremely clever. The other reveals were nice too. I don't like how they ended Maeves story, I either wanted to see her leave the park or find her daughter. 

I think that glimpse of samurai world is hinting at a second season. 

[Roscoe]

Posted: 12/6/16 at 9:07am

I liked the possibility of other worlds -- that tasty little line, "it's complicated." 

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 12/6/16 at 11:50am

Roscoe, I was very disappointed by that scene as well, which was as icky as an earlier scene of Elsie talking about a black droid's large dick in a way that recalled some of the most exploitative portrayals of hypersexualized blackness.

I just love this show and loved this season. The Internet ruined the MIB twist but I still enjoyed seeing the reveal and the way the story unfolded at the end was wonderful. Anthony Hopkins reminded me why he is an Oscar winner, his delicate work in the finale was masterful. And Evan Rachel Wood and Thandie Newton have never been better. Oh and Jeffrey Wright! Really, an embarrassment of riches.

 

[Petralicious]

Posted: 12/12/16 at 4:56pm

Just finished watching.  Not sure I will watch next season. It was very slow paced. I found most of the scenes with Anthony Hopkins or Ed Harris boring. It seems like most scenes with them were monologues. 

[hork]

Posted: 3/9/17 at 10:28pm

I finished watching this series last night, and thought it was brilliant. Maybe the best show on TV right now. HBO is really killing it right now. It seems like they have all the best shows.

Artificial intelligence normally doesn't interest me as a subject, but this show has taken it to a new level, becoming the "movie" that the likes of AI and Ex Machina wanted to be but didn't quite succeed at. It explores so many interesting ideas about fatalism versus determinism and our need for stories. I feel like it even works as a prequel to Battlestar Galactica.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 4/22/18 at 11:01pm

Has anyone watched the first episode of season 2?

[Roscoe]

Posted: 4/23/18 at 11:57am

Yeah, I watched it -- it was pretty good.  I went in cold, without revisiting the First Season Finale.  Glad to see Jeffrey Wright as always, and the sublime Ms. Newton.  We'll see where it goes.  Maybe they'l put aside the gratuitous homophobia that left such a vile stain on the last episode.

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In the lake full of dead folks -- it looked like the writer guy, the one that Maeve was using as a guide, was floating there, but it was kind of hard to tell.  I saw an online recap that claimed to see Teddy.  Anybody confirm?

 

[Taryn]

Posted: 4/23/18 at 4:21pm

Watched and was reading Vulture's "Our 16 Biggest Questions About the Westworld Season Premiere, ‘Journey Into Night’" and just keep laughing at:

 

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How happy was the Man in Black to get an actual gunshot wound?

This is a rhetorical question. He was incredibly happy.

Not really a spoiler, but.

[Huss417]

Posted: 4/23/18 at 4:40pm

Never watched the show but I hear the first episode of this season had full frontal male nudity. Maybe now is the time to check it out. :)

[Steve C.]

Posted: 4/24/18 at 5:50pm

I had a super busy weekend with "Carousel", "Three TW" and "SpongeBob"(again) so I just was able to watch the S-2 premiere. It's hard to believe it's been 17 months! I think "WW" is still able to capture intelligent and thoughtful themes. I don't want to add any spoilers, but the premiere did leave a few storylines open...

The male nudity was brief but fun, (the actor looked fine), but they still have to show a lot of "pee-pees" to catch up on the prominent female nudity... I want more Teddy! James Marsden is just so "dreamy"! I love how "bitchin' fine" and strong Dolores and Maeve have become...ERWood and TNewton are just so good! 

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/26/18 at 3:22pm

I lost interest about 5 episodes into the first season.  I just found it...dull.  What I loved about the original film was its terrifying perspective from the POV of the guests.  I found this was the reverse and basically just another adaptation of Asimov's Robot canon and I got bored.  If Marsden gets naked, then I'd go back to it, but I didn't see this heading in an interesting direction.