More_Badass
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Oh, damn. Spoilery but so exciting
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Westworld - Live in Your World, Play in Ours - Sundays on HBO
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The actors on this show are incredible. The way they change their performance based on upgrades/modifications. Super level immersion.
Along with that, the first quest option was different than in the pilot. Instead of the sheriff looking for the bandit, it was a bunch of soldiers recruiting.
Unfortunately that doesn't tell us much, because last week they accelerated the bandit event and ended it. So it would have been a different quest either way.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Could be nothing and probably already pointed out, but Ed Harris mentions how he was born there in a sense, and on the train McPoyle's friend talks about how people find out who they really are at the park and he can't wait to see who William really is.
She was always there, no? They just wrote her to take over for Maeve.
More_Badass
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gustave154
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Can't believe they showed what happened to the hosts after the are gunned down by the guests. The actors in this show are very good at acting lifeless.
I posted a while ago thinking we were seeing a hidden flashback episode. I'm not 100 percent on board with William being the MiB simply because physically it's a hard transition to see (you don't just grow a jawline like Ed Harris, though maybe in this future you can) but it is what I thought when first thinking when thinking on the idea.
I do think it's most certainly not the other guy though, Ben Barnes. That character's pretty much already a meta gamer and it would be weird to tell the tale of him going from that to MiB in 30 years. I think if they were setting out to tell his tale they'd be setting up a character that seems normal or sympathetic like Jimmi Simpson's character is.
I do think it's most certainly not the other guy though, Ben Barnes. That character's pretty much already a meta gamer and it would be weird to tell the tale of him going from that to MiB in 30 years. I think if they were setting out to tell his tale they'd be setting up a character that seems normal or sympathetic like Jimmi Simpson's character is.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Will Teddy ever not die?
i mean when William is there. Maeve's being tinkered with during that bit in the episode but that could be some clever editing. could be that Maeve wasn't the madam at that point in time if this took place 30 years prior. i dunno.
DarkLordMalik
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This is literally a video game experience
And they're all good actors so I can't even make the cheap joke about it being easy for them to act like lifeless robo-dolls
More_Badass
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Breaking Bad. the first five seasons of Supernatural...
Shows that are planned out from the start tend to be awesome narratively
WhiteRabbitEXE
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POI was pretty heavily planned out too.
But the guests don't need to find out who they really are. They already know who they are. They want to see a glimpse of who they could be!
maybe this was mentioned already, but on my second watch of the 2nd episode I got heavy vibes that mcpoyle and his friend are going to be enemies in the future. unless character development gives that dude more empathy he's already on the path to be a psycho
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
I hope this all ends in a wrestling match between Ed Harris and Anthony Hopkins over the true experience the park brings.
Yeah Mcpoyle doesn't really care for the guy much. I think he may be Williams's girlfriend or whatever's brother. Maybe this is an extended bachelor party.
andythinkpad
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I didn't think they can make so many Planet of the Apes sequels but the later films are actually pretty watchable.
HBO can go that route.
Breaking Bad wasn't planned out from the start, though.
The Technomancer
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There's no way they can get 5 seasons out of "robots slowly gaining awareness of their circumstances in the park", but if they don't allow themselves to be constrained to that they could take it in who knows how many exciting directions.
The comparison above to Supernatural is a good one
So Romeworld?
I hope it's a running joke and he dies every episode like Kenny.
Cornballer
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- Esquire interview with Jimmi Simpson
- HitFix: The Effects Team Of Westworld Reveals What It Takes To Create A Host
- Slashfilm: 10 Questions From Chestnut
- NY Mag: How Realistic Is Westworld? We Asked a Futurist
- NY Mag: The Best Westworld Fan Theories So Far
- IGN: Who is the Maze Meant For?
- HitFix: The Effects Team Of Westworld Reveals What It Takes To Create A Host
- Slashfilm: 10 Questions From Chestnut
- NY Mag: How Realistic Is Westworld? We Asked a Futurist
- NY Mag: The Best Westworld Fan Theories So Far
- IGN: Who is the Maze Meant For?
That's not what the show is about. It's going to move much faster than that and probably be much more ambitious.
Here's what Nolan says about the big picture: "But one of the exciting things here is being able to commit upfront to a big, big, big story. Our story is a really big one. Its the story of the origin of a new species on this planet, and being able to tell that in chapters and commit to aggressive moves season-by-season that propel that story upwards and outwards and inwards."
More_Badass
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The seasonal progression is going to rapidly expand like Fringe, Lost, and Person of Interest did. Each of their seasons increased the scope of the show to tell a much larger story.
Finished watching the 73' film and watching episode 2 again. I think William is
That's my theory.
Back to the show.
MIB via a flashback. Something probably happens which makes him MIB, his friend probably dies much like the old film. It shows him meet Deloris for the first time. Because he's a survivor I guess he gets a lifetime pass.
That's my theory.
Back to the show.
Only just watched the first ep so not going to read the thread, but I loved it! Easily one of my favourite pilots I've ever seen.
But is anyone else put off by the actress who plays Theresa Cullen? She's the woman in charge of park security. Man her acting just seems really off to me, almost to the point of ruining the show. She's so wooden in her delivery and there's practically no emotion on her face at all - it's so jarring compared to everyone else in the show who are doing a great job.
But is anyone else put off by the actress who plays Theresa Cullen? She's the woman in charge of park security. Man her acting just seems really off to me, almost to the point of ruining the show. She's so wooden in her delivery and there's practically no emotion on her face at all - it's so jarring compared to everyone else in the show who are doing a great job.
Foreshadowing
The Technomancer
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Their bodies essentially being, well, human bodies is both fantastically creepy and completely fitting. What I'm very curious about is what their minds are housed in. Is it literally a computer inside their skull? or do they have organic brains as well? We don't get to see inside the guy who gets scalped in ep 1 right?
dead souls
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Showrunners always say that, and it's almost always bullshit.
You couldn't be more wrong about Breaking Bad. It was written season-to-season with almost no plan.
Could be that. Also could be that she is not good at delivering an American accent being Danish.
I didn't care for her deliveries either.
Moff
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but I'm not talking about park hosts, I am talking about the staff in the control center
and we already know there is something going on with the higher ups, something that's about to happen, to change, and that they are using/testing the robots for another purpose, according to the dialogue between the boss lady and the writer guy.
soldiers maybe?
it wouldn't be that far off if one of them was a robot with more liberties. besides, dolores already killed a fly
Another thing I'm wondering, does each host have multiple bodies? It would make the park operations more efficient if when a body receives significant damage, they can move the host's brain (or even just the code) to a duplicate body while the damaged one is repaired.
The alternative is that the park staff is somehow able to seamlessly repair body damage (using some kind of surgical method, judging by the MRSA scene) in a matter of hours.
Chairman Yang
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It's a very solid show with some of the best episodes of TV ever and some great underlying concepts. Unfortunately, it's held back a bit by the budget/content restrictions and episodic structure of being a network TV show; I can only imagine how incredible it could have been as an HBO series.
The ending is good considering the limitations the creators were under, but the time, format, and budget constraints definitely hurt it. I'd still recommend the show; just be prepared for a heavily episodic (rather than serialized) first couple of seasons, and a disappointing (but still good) ending season.
Wouldn't be surprised if the actual "Westworld" theme park setting is like two seasons max before it branches out entirely to the real world as the hosts are integrated as new citizens, which then makes the real world the "wild west" for this new recognized life form to explore.
I just watched Futureworld, the sequel to the movie. Pretty shitty, but also a hint to where the series could go. Delos replaces all of its staff with robots, including its president. Then, it starts making robotic clones of guests in a world domination plot. The clones murder their originals and pose as themselves in the real world. They start with journalists to brew good press after the Jurassic Park-esque disaster of the first film.
...which I feel like they've already done because Will's friend and the saloon robber look and act so damn similar/ly. Although this must be a coincidence because they have different actors, but even they look extremely close.
...which I feel like they've already done because Will's friend and the saloon robber look and act so damn similar/ly. Although this must be a coincidence because they have different actors, but even they look extremely close.
Should we be spoilering the old movie plots? We dunno how much the new series has cribbed or is even related to them.
http://i.imgur.com/4OOhl3O.jpg
Something I made in regards to the
theory. Linked it instead of posting it directly in-case anyone on mobile wanted to avoid it. Wanted to gif it, but didn't know how.
Something I made in regards to the
William being the Man in Black
yea i'm a believer at this point.
if it is the case, it'll be interesting to watch how his transformation to the MiB happens.
hmm, i'll check it out. it's on netflix and i need something to binge in between episodes of this. thanks!
More_Badass
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Very convincing evidence
Oh my god, first I've heard of this theory, I'm convinced already. Wow this is going to be awesome. It never even occurred to me that William's
timeline could be in the past