Typical of this show though - and of most of these zeitgeist shows. Game of thrones for eg. Just all "reveal" and no build up, no continuity, constant time dilation /teleporting etc. Pass.

Aww man, no:

https://mobile.twitter.com/WestworldHBO/status/1252998097577209857

Couldn’t they just do some other sci fi that doesn’t need all the convoluted bollocks that’s gone before? I love the show but was hoping for closure.

No point hoping for closure Daddy when they can string stuff out and make more moneh.

End of this series has surely got to be the end of Maeve’s story arc. She gets to virtual paradise and meets her daughter. Job done.

I think we’ll still find out Serac isn’t human.

Episode six was ok but a bit pedestrian compared to last few episodes and it’s not as good when Jessie isn’t in it. I was enjoying the real world stuff more than all the park / memories / AR stuff.

So, Episode 7 then...

Oh Jesus. Oh sweet lord above.

That's probably the most game inspired episode of TV I've ever seen.

So! The Season finale then...

I half expected Albert Wesker to turn up this episode.

I enjoyed that.

Did you watch post-credits?

My partner and I just finished season 1 of the show and overall I think I had a great time with it.

I think intriguingly a lot of the enjoyment is merely the show being a facilitator for questions and the oughts and conversations but actually there are some good bits in the show - Dolores (I wonder if it’s meant To be spelt DELOreS) Maeve and the snake tattoo woman were great.

I thought William was a dick (obv) but I’m not really sure what kind of dick. I feel like they don’t properly bridge what kind of insanity he is in that he seems like a nervous loser for no reason and then goes full insane. I also don’t really get how Logan just gets lost in the park.

I think Anthony Hopkins character (he’s a real coward!) is all over the shop too. He’s bascally high brow pop culture guy (his version of high brow is just the perceptual high brow rather than actual high brow - he reads so much about musicians and what not but no computer theorists or actual philosophers?)

I sort of wish the man in black was an actual villain with some thing about him other than just being mean. I thought when he dragged Dolores in the first ep it would turn out that he got some other insight rather than just being another normal dick. I did think he was funny in one sense in that he was basically a guy who watches a tv show coming up with wilder and wilder preconceptions about an ending that will resolve everything and he gets mad when the show didn’t do what he had built up in his brain! Hilarious!

I liked the little details they put in (like apparently the old ww logo when billy and Logan show up, but the anagram name was cheese central).

Still I look forward to trying season 2 but I’ve heard it peaks with one. Ah well!!

Also: was the cold storage the place where they put the wonky robots because they were wonky in the way that could be considered “conscious” and eventually set free.

poprock wrote:

I’d say it peaks with season three, so far. You still have plenty to look forward to.

Still quite annoyed with how shit this all ended up.

I’m just over half way through series 2 (end of episode 6). And theres a lot going on.

I have a prediction: man in black is a robot that doesn’t know he’s a robot - the evidence being that he’s quite close to things but not quite right about things. Not quite the correct fidelity. In the last episode he’s going to open a door and see himself - probably dead or wounded from the rebellion night. Also it would be a great prank from Ford who constantly saw his favourites destroyed by an unfeeling prick towards the robots.

I liked episode 5 - I thought Jeffrey Wright was extremely affecting as a broken robot. I also liked the episode with Mr. delos being a robot.

I don’t really know what’s going on otherwise - I’m finding it hard to follow.

I’m listening to a podcast following each episode (decoding Westworld) and I don’t think I would have spotted the thing in aspect ratio. It’s too subtle for me and I also forget which faces we’ve seen and have a hard time recognising people out of context.

I think I’ll miss dumb as a stool teddy. My partner and I liked hiking about how he didn’t know anything. I thought Dolores actions to mind adapt him seemed over cruel and against her philosophy (that people kept doing horrible things to her and now the robots are masters - except some robots and seemingly only horrible robots get to go forward).

Sizemore is more fun and the Japan dopplegangers was a lot of fun.

Series 2 was much better for me second time round. First time I really didn’t have a clue about much of it.