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Westworld - Live in Your World, Play in Ours - Sundays on HBO
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Heckler456
Banned
Chuckie
Member
The excavator? Yeah I think it was just to build a new story line.
or that of the human race.
during the run of the show? no. since he had Arnold killed, yes.
It a very black and white kind of way.....maybe. The truth is a great many shades of grey. He turned out to be a single-minded, "the end justifies the means" kind of guy. He can't strictly be called a face or good guy, because he was complicit in mass murder and a great number of other morally bankrupt undertakings. On the other hand, he can't strictly be called a heel or bad guy, because ultimately he saw his partner's life's work through and set the hosts free. He's wonderfully complex and layered. Such a brilliant character and performance.
Ford is the bi-cameral man.
Cornballer
Member
- Jonathan Nolan on Directing Westworld (HBO vid)
Just a small thing worth mentioning... if you have a PS4/PS4 Pro and comcast and have been frustrated that you can't login to your system and stream HBOGO for Westworld or other HBO shows... well, now you can.
Personally the PS4 app feels a lot nicer than the Android TV app if you were using that as a backup.
Personally the PS4 app feels a lot nicer than the Android TV app if you were using that as a backup.
Curt Baboon
Member
Robert Ford's "YOU ARE ALL GONNA DIEEEEE" didn't really have the same ring to it.
BlastProcessing
Member
It was one of the more beautiful gut punches I have ever received. That was the most effective moment of the entire season for me.
So he confirms that Maeve getting off the train -was- her own decision, and the moment she breaks programming in this loop. Interesting. I wonder if Season 2 will pit Maeve and Dolores against each other, with different ideas of what Westworld should become.
Does either Maeve or Delores still respond to Ford's voice commands?
One of those Nolan interviews Cornballer posted was interesting in why they went with samurais. It's due to the intertwined relationship westerns and samurai films have. Like how A Fistful Of Dollars liberally lifts from Yojimbo, and the long history of such things between genres. So it wasn't just at random.
Skateboard P
Member
What an ending! The internets called it, but it was fun to see it play out nonetheless.
I hope punished Bernard leads the charge for freedom next season.
I hope punished Bernard leads the charge for freedom next season.
nillapuddin
Member
I noticed Black Hole Sun and Paint It Black, my girlfriend noticed a few others I cant remember.
Does anyone have a list of the modern songs they wove into the show? I thought it was freaking perfect.
Does anyone have a list of the modern songs they wove into the show? I thought it was freaking perfect.
House of the Rising Sun
+ Fake Plastic Trees
This scene broke my heart.
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
I'm really interested to see how MIB will fare going forward now. It's all real, but the dude still has a lifetime worth of simulated violence experience behind him. Dude's a professional bowler that's finally gotten his wish to have the bumpers taken off.
The Lamonster
Member
yeah, Teddy's reaction was really sad
Figured as much. Bernard said it was in her programing to step off the train when she went to the mainland. So her stepping off the train was her going off script.
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
You could shop Famke Jansen into Delores' place and a shit-grinning Bryan Singer into Ford's.
Been watching the whole season again. The fact that production went on hiatus is kinda obvious. It really does feel like they started with a story, and then re-wrote large parts of it. As much as I loved the season, hopefully this means season 2 will be even better now that they know what they're doing.
Pai Pai Master
Banned
I don't quite understand why he isn't dead, but I guess we will see.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
House of the Rising Sun (most popularly by Eric Burdon and the Animals)
Back to Black by Amy Winehouse
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
THR Interview with Ed Harris
He confirms that MIB just had his shoulder dislocated by Delores, not his arm broken.
He confirms that MIB just had his shoulder dislocated by Delores, not his arm broken.
JeTmAn81
Member
I think there have been a few Radiohead songs, including Exit Music (For a Film) in the finale. The other two were No Surprises and Motion Picture Soundtrack. Also apparently Fake Plastic Trees was played at some point but I missed it.
Just bought the soundtrack from here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N9DA1IL/?tag=neogaf0e-20
But where is the synth-heavy version of Reveries (from the Episode 5 end credits?) D:
Djawadi pls
EDIT: I think I found it, kind of? halfway through "Dr. Ford", there's some of it...
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N9DA1IL/?tag=neogaf0e-20
But where is the synth-heavy version of Reveries (from the Episode 5 end credits?) D:
Djawadi pls
EDIT: I think I found it, kind of? halfway through "Dr. Ford", there's some of it...
So I wonder then if that was Ford's intention - that she would get to the point where she would make that decision and reach that level of consciousness; or if is 'free the hosts' plan involved her getting to the mainland and so part of it has now failed
The Lamonster
Member
I want the gramophone version from Arnold's death scene.
Yes. Ford made it very clear that he wants the hosts to think for themselves. Her escape narrative was set up to trigger her breaking free, just like Dolores's one at the end.
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
Definitely the best thing HBO's come out with since the first season of True Detective.
Veritigo_X
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Going through the soundtrack on Spotify...
Black Hole Sun
Paint It Black
No Surprises
A Forest
Motion Picture Soundtrack
Fake Plastic Trees
House of the Rising Sun
Something I Can Never Have
Exit Music (For a Film)
I might've missed some, these are just what I recognized.
I think that one is "Freeze All Motor Functions".
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
Guerrillas in the Mist
Member
The fact that he sounds completely different from his brother still throws me a bit.
GuitarAtomik
Member
Oh shit. That makes so much more sense now (the death by burning part).
ClosingADoor
Member
Bernard's only limitation seemed to be Fords instructions. Now that Ford is gone, he has no path or storyline to follow. He is also aware of what he is. Unless there are still some restrictions in his code he is free.
I think witnessing Ford's death is what'll free him.
and our boy teddy ?
be interesting to see where he goes. will he help the humans because he's just so hard programmed to be a good guy?
Jack Scofield
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Big spoilers for The Wire!
Watch them pull an Omar death with the MiB. Dude finally gets his chance to shine and some rando NPC shoots him from off-screen.
Tony is that u