The idea of an amoral genius developing AI and nurturing it for 35 years under cover of a theme park is pretty interesting. Hiding all that behind twists and making Delos and the society that this is happening in a mystery seems like a mistake though. All the clockwork pieces work perfectly, but have obscured the story.
Here's a thought, name one character you give a shit about.
I can't think of a one. Initially, I thought Billy, but then once you got the clue that he was MiB and knew he was going to turn into a shit, all empathy was gone, more so when you see he switches overnight from nice caring guy into a killing machine playing the game.
For all GoT's faults it has characters that are far better and you actually give a shit about. Even Jamie Lannister, an incestuous murdering scumbag had positive character traits and those scenes with Brienne showed him to not be one-sided.
The whole show's felt like a conference you have to endure just for the after party.
Going to miss Dolores mug and confused whining like a wet towel slapped across my face.
retroking1981: Fuck this place I'm off to the pub.
The eyebrow dance Dolores and Maeve went through while remembering stuff was fucking irritating once you realised how often it happened per show. You could make quite the gif of Maeve close up face twitching.
Really didn't think too much of this. There were some decent moments in there but a lot of the characters were irritating and disconnecting. The premise of AI becoming self aware and overthrowing their masters is done much better in BSG in my opinion.
I thought BSG was pretty damn decent. If AI being realz aight is proper shit in BSG and Westworld what would you consider an example of it done well? <not trolling>
BSG was great, just got too far up it's own arse towards the end. Think it was another series that fell victim to the writers strike, so willing to cut it some slack, plus it had production values up the swanny.
EDIT - oh and characters you cared about. The Old Man, The Chief, XO and Starbuck were all great imperfect characters that were worth watching. They also handled the idea of "it could be anyone" better than other shows (included WW) by limiting the number of robots it could be to 12.
It's been rather poor this season, but even Humans 2.0 on C4 managed to manufacture sentient AI that I occasionally cared for more than Westworld's posse.
It wasn't until I hit my thirties that I realised you could unlock rewards by exploring the map
Just watched the season finale, and it was the best episode of the season by far.
If only they had kept the first and final episode as is, and compressed the other 8 episodes into 1 episode in stead of draging it, I'd be really thrilled for season two...