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[Danster]

This is really great. 

[Sane]

I thought the last episode was a bit meh. The story seems a little uninspired at this point and the genre stuff didn't do much for me either. Also, with only 3 episodes to go I feel a rush to the finish line coming. 

[jonamok]

Thought that last Ep was shite. Try-hard and boring at the same time. Genuinely glad when the ads came on as it meant I could skip forward five minutes each time. I also thought ‘genre’ was ridiculously naff in its execution and entirely unnecessary.

 

And I’m increasingly tired of ‘Aaron Paul stares at things under heavy brows’. He seems to have but one expression.

 

Fingers crossed we get back to Maeve next week.

[Broker]

Westworld always suffers during episodes without Maeve. For me the tier lest is pretty much:

 

Stuff with Maeve

Delores doing cool stuff

Future tech

Heavy exposition

William doing a cover of last season

Delores talking to people

Bernard looking at things

 

This episode had no Maeve, and not enough cool Delores stuff to offset all the bits where she talked to people.

[Professor Puzzles]

My list is as follows:

 

Anything that shows off what boots Dolores is wearing.

Everything else.

 

There's just something about how she wears those boots.

[Captain Novaforce]

Yeah I'm loving this, pure sci fi and it forces you to pay attention.

[Girth Certificate]

It's like every so often they realise 'oh fuck we've not done a music'y bit in a while' and bust out 3 or 4 to catch up

[Nicky]

this weeks episode was brilliant!!!

[CGB]

That was indeed amazing. Absolutely love this show. 

[makkuwata]

The editing of the "previously on" is better than full episodes of most shows!

[dug]

William's therapy session was amazing.

[sofasurfer]

Another cracking episode and obviously setting up for an explosive showdown in the last episodes. 

 

Now that

Serac has wiped out Charlores' "family" I can only imagine she's going to go full Terminator on him. She activated at least 1 riot robot but as there are 300, will she be using them all on him?

 

Still no idea who the last pearl is and where Dolores is jetting off to. 

 

 

[Danster]

5 hours ago, sofasurfer said:

Another cracking episode and obviously setting up for an explosive showdown in the last episodes. 

 

Now that

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Serac has wiped out Charlores' "family" I can only imagine she's going to go full Terminator on him. She activated at least 1 riot robot but as there are 300, will she be using them all on him?

 

 

Still no idea who the last pearl is and where Dolores is jetting off to. 

 

 

Spoiler

If it was Serac... 

 

[Chadruharazzeb]

Just to clarify the rules re host mortality -

in the park if they took the same damage as a human they died and were recomissioned. Out of the park they can be briefly wounded but can heal themselves and they can survive multiple gunshots and explosions (Delores and copies (except Martin who, presumably, died in his explosion)), but die immediately if they are stabbed (Maeve)?

 

I think Maeve might stand a better chance of winning this if the next time she meets Delores (and/ or copies) she doesn't forget that she can control hosts with the power of her Professor X-like mind.

[Chadruharazzeb]

Also

I thought that the greater society were unaware that an AI was shaping their lives, so why does everyone take it so seriously when they get an anonymous text telling them their future will suck? And it

is always bad news, it's like Rehoaboam shares a common ancestry with Marvin from Hitchiker's Guide.

[makkuwata]

17 minutes ago, Chadruharazzeb said:

Just to clarify the rules re host mortality -

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in the park if they took the same damage as a human they died and were recomissioned. Out of the park they can be briefly wounded but can heal themselves and they can survive multiple gunshots and explosions (Delores and copies (except Martin who, presumably, died in his explosion)), but die immediately if they are stabbed (Maeve)?

 

 

I think Maeve might stand a better chance of winning this if the next time she meets Delores (and/ or copies) she doesn't forget that she can control hosts with the power of her Professor X-like mind.

 

 

Blood loss seems to be a big one. Coolant? It always sat weird the way MiB gave Teddy a transfusion in season 1. Like an awareness of the hardware helped the situation rather than code.

[Danster]

16 minutes ago, Chadruharazzeb said:

Just to clarify the rules re host mortality -

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in the park if they took the same damage as a human they died and were recomissioned. Out of the park they can be briefly wounded but can heal themselves and they can survive multiple gunshots and explosions (Delores and copies (except Martin who, presumably, died in his explosion)), but die immediately if they are stabbed (Maeve)?

 

 

I think Maeve might stand a better chance of winning this if the next time she meets Delores (and/ or copies) she doesn't forget that she can control hosts with the power of her Professor X-like mind.

 

 

Spoiler

I'm pretty sure that the hosts (in park) were programmed to die if they took damage - out of park they can survive better (they're not immortal though) but can't simply heal themselves.

 

Maeve can't control Delores, don't think she ever could.

 

16 minutes ago, Chadruharazzeb said:

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I thought that the greater society were unaware that an AI was shaping their lives, so why does everyone take it so seriously when they get an anonymous text telling them their future will suck? And it

is always bad news, it's like Rehoaboam shares a common ancestry with Marvin from Hitchiker's Guide.

 

 

Spoiler

I was thinking that as well - everyone has been living a lie? Or maybe we're just seeing the minority who are and are now freaking out because of it. None of the board members seemed to fussed.

 

[Harsin]

“Rehoboam says your life sucks, you won’t amount to anything and you’re predicted to die sad and lonely” 

 

/shrugs, goes back to playing Animal Crossing

[JohnC]

Renewed for another season.

[Chadruharazzeb]

You mean a fifth season? 

[JohnC]

No, a fourth.

[Girth Certificate]

I liked how Hale-bot had to walk stiff and upright to avoid losing her ridiculous cape-jacket, made her seem more mechanical than usual.

 

the ending needed Terminator music.

[makkuwata]

6 hours ago, Mr Combo Breaker said:

I liked how Hale-bot had to walk stiff and upright to avoid losing her ridiculous cape-jacket, made her seem more mechanical than usual.

Ha. It actually gave me that temporary self-conscious “what do I do with my hands” sensation, and I was just sitting there.

[cassidy]

6 hours ago, Mr Combo Breaker said:

I liked how Hale-bot had to walk stiff and upright to avoid losing her ridiculous cape-jacket, made her seem more mechanical than usual.

 

the ending needed Terminator music.

Agree totally. Made me laugh a smidge tbh.  This series though is so much better than 2.

[Professor Puzzles]

To be fair, she was walking around without moving her arms in other parts of the episode too.

[Harsin]

 

[Lorfarius]

I don't like where this is going. All this new stuff is destroying the mystery of the earlier seasons, they are ditching the park as the main story point to go off in the new world but its all a bit disjointed. Ruins what's come for me before. It's not bad to watch in any way but just not what the show was about.

[5R7]

8 hours ago, Lorfarius said:

I don't like where this is going. All this new stuff is destroying the mystery of the earlier seasons, they are ditching the park as the main story point to go off in the new world but its all a bit disjointed. Ruins what's come for me before. It's not bad to watch in any way but just not what the show was about.

 

to go in a different direction...i think its fucking brilliant!

 

I'm really liking this season, its like a proper sci fi show, with the budget and actors to back it up! I dont care that its not set in "west world" any longer, i think its better because of it!

 

I think they took the premise of a 70's movie , and went with it in the 1st season, and have then...gone there own way lol, and i like that way!

[makkuwata]

I haven't watched this morning's episode yet, but i'm enjoying watching the show evolve.

 

Delores becoming self-aware at the end of season 1 left us at roughly the same point the first Matrix movie did with Rage kicking in. Imagine if the sequels were as well written as Season 3 of this!

 

Been distracted today by this rabbit hole..

 

 

[Popo]

I’m really loving Bernard and Stubbs walking around like a couple of Chippendales, shirts just one size too small like they might rip them off if only a hen party was going on. 
 

Re: tonight’s episode:

 

Spoiler

The EMP must surely have destroyed Delores and Maeve’s control units, or that’s at least what we’re supposed to think, right? We got that long stare into Delores’ dead eyes and that shot of the control unit-shaped AI going dark. 

 

I think on balance, this season is a lot more high octane thrills and spills but the narrative is nothing like as complex and satisfying to unravel as the previous series’. I mean, there’s nothing to unravel, for one thing - plot points are introduced, explored and dropped all in one episode so there’s no layering. I don’t mind the change of setting or pacing but that completely different approach to both the journey and the destination of the plot does make the show something different. 
 

I don’t blame the writers at all - this is ‘merely’ AAA television, and god only knows making that first season in particular must have been an exhausting, tortuous process. But it’s also less satisfying. 
 

Anyway, things seem to be building up now, keep it coming.