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That was a good episode! Also FWIW, messing around a bit with the Aeden chat on the website afterwards got a few more responses I don't think have been posted yet: YOU: MAZE AEDEN: The maze is not for you. YOU: ARNOLD AEDEN: The name is familiar, but I’m afraid I don’t know anything about him. Why don’t we discuss something else instead? YOU: HAVE YOU EVER QUESTIONED THE NATURE OF YOUR REALITY? AEDEN: SYSTEM ERROR /// <h1> 404 Not Found</h1> /// F8tlWtqcM6TXGQHF2MANhEZisOdNoteSh81kheTsXchFsxlMDb8kkZD8BBnY/t3o34IZRjPB8+4= /// Hello! It's so nice to meet you. What questions can I answer about Westworld? YOU: WAKE UP AEDEN: Hosts like me do not dream like you. We don’t find ourselves with too much head noise at the end of a long day — why, do you know someone who does?
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Merrill Grinch posted:So the big new grand narrative is basically Teddy and Wyatt re-enacting Heart of Darkness/Apocolypse Now with guests along for the ride? Ford is coronel Kurtz.
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Oct 17, 2016 04:12
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El Jeffe posted:When she actually got shot you can see that she's bleeding, so it was definitely just her remembering a previous failed attempt at the same thing. She's playing Edge of Tomorrow on hard mode. The Dave posted:They clearly show the attacker appearing twice. It was a memory. Just rewatched that part, you're right.
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Oct 17, 2016 04:12
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Yep, it was Dolores breaking her promise to Bernard to stick to her scripting - she remembers that the man will kill her if she stays there so she decides to flee instead.
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Oct 17, 2016 04:16
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I thought the bit with Bernard's (ex?)wife was interesting. She said something like "it's so hard to get a signal through out there" which makes me wonder where they are that establishing a telecommunications signal is so difficult.
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Oct 17, 2016 04:24
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Mr. Apollo posted:I thought the bit with Bernard's (ex?)wife was interesting. She said something like "it's so hard to get a signal through out there" which makes me wonder where they are that establishing a telecommunications signal is so difficult. mars
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Oct 17, 2016 04:26
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Assuming the wife is on Earth there isn't enough chat delay for Westworld to be on Mars. Unless she's also on Mars. The gravity seems to be earth normal though.
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Oct 17, 2016 04:38
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Mr. Apollo posted:I thought the bit with Bernard's (ex?)wife was interesting. She said something like "it's so hard to get a signal through out there" which makes me wonder where they are that establishing a telecommunications signal is so difficult. It's because he's in a VR world, obviously
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Oct 17, 2016 04:41
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I loved all the reactions the guests give to these intense situations. The juxtaposition of the Hosts acting like hard as nails cowboys and some random person is screaming stuff like, "This poo poo is hosed up!"
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Oct 17, 2016 04:44
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JossiRossi posted:I loved all the reactions the guests give to these intense situations. The juxtaposition of the Hosts acting like hard as nails cowboys and some random person is screaming stuff like, "This poo poo is hosed up!" I mean drat, if you know its not real like that "we should've done the riverboat thing man!" guy why not get your moneys worth and go for it?
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Oct 17, 2016 04:53
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What was the song playing on the piano this time?
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Oct 17, 2016 04:55
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It's one thing to know it's not real and another to be there and everything is as realistic as it can be and feels extremely dangerous.
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Oct 17, 2016 04:56
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It was nice of Ford to give Teddy a backstory so he could die in an even more horrible fashion.Kevyn posted:What was the song playing on the piano this time? Apparently a period-appropriate piece by Scott Joplin.
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Oct 17, 2016 05:03
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Scooter_McCabe posted:So those guys that chopped up Teddy were guests because he couldn't kill them. So that woman who was with him was a guest, so what keeps the guests with cleavers from killing other guests by accident? They did say Wyatt (and his men?) didn't feel pain.
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Oct 17, 2016 05:07
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karrethuun posted:Assuming the wife is on Earth there isn't enough chat delay for Westworld to be on Mars. Unless she's also on Mars. The gravity seems to be earth normal though. I said Mars back in the first couple of pages. Mr. Apollo fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Oct 17, 2016 |
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Oct 17, 2016 05:08
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Mr. Apollo posted:It's the ~*~*future*~*~ and they've cute all human ailments Makes me wonder how Benard's son died then.
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Oct 17, 2016 05:11
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karrethuun posted:Assuming the wife is on Earth there isn't enough chat delay for Westworld to be on Mars. Unless she's also on Mars. The gravity seems to be earth normal though. antarctica after global warming? time machine to distant past / far future?
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Oct 17, 2016 05:11
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nooneofconsequence posted:They did say Wyatt (and his men?) didn't feel pain. I bet Arnold programmed them differently at the beginning 
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Oct 17, 2016 05:16
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if I worked at Westworld It would be so hard to resist saying host phrases to colleagues. Just under my breath during conversations. It would probably work eventually.
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Oct 17, 2016 05:24
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Part of me wishes I had waited until the end of the first season and binge-watched this, because it's essentially watching The Prestige/Memento serialized. Sometimes it almost feels like they conceived of a ten hour movie and then wrote a few bookends in some of the hot spots to make them episodes. There are so many people plotting: Bernard, with Delores, the Man in Black, in his quest to find the maze, Dr. Ford, to what end, nobody goddamn knows, and possibly Arnold, even after his death, through a set of awakened code. That's to say nothing of the corporation, whose primary people we probably haven't even seen yet, as represented through Cullen. It's like watching a complicated board game in which we don't know what anyone's victory conditions are or who's allied with who, and we're learning the rules a little at a time.
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Oct 17, 2016 05:28
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bring back old gbs posted:if I worked at Westworld It would be so hard to resist saying host phrases to colleagues. Just under my breath during conversations. It would probably work eventually. It would probably end up just being a huge self-own as you put yourself to sleep.
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Oct 17, 2016 05:29
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I like this show. I don't get why Delores has a memory of being shot in front of the house though, before she flees. Wouldn't having that memory imply she had to shoot Trevor (can't remember his characters name) before to get there? I was under the impression she isn't scripted to shoot because she couldn't do it before with Teddy. She hears "kill him" when shooting Trevor, so I was thinking that was supposed to be her conscious/god voice/Arnold and she breaks the script.
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Oct 17, 2016 05:36
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Schroeder91 posted:I like this show. Guests are often drawn to that conflict, I'm pretty sure (and sometimes Teddy is there) so it's possible someone else shot her assailant in the past, and in her attempt to flee, she got shot. She's basically experienced every variable that can be experienced because she's been through a bunch of guests doing it.
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Oct 17, 2016 05:39
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Young Hopkins might have been even better than Young Michael Douglas from Ant-Man.
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Oct 17, 2016 05:42
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Bicyclops posted:Guests are often drawn to that conflict, I'm pretty sure (and sometimes Teddy is there) so it's possible someone else shot her assailant in the past, and in her attempt to flee, she got shot. She's basically experienced every variable that can be experienced because she's been through a bunch of guests doing it. Ah yeah that makes sense.
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Oct 17, 2016 05:45
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Schroeder91 posted:I like this show. She's played through each and every iteration of the ranch house murder scene over the past thirty years, and now she remembers all those choices and outcomes and has effectively become omniscient. Edit: What's up with the gun she found in the drawer at the start of the episode? It's the same one that she dug up in last week's episode right? How come it seems to disappear after she puts it back in the drawer? And how did it wind up in that hay bale?
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Oct 17, 2016 05:45
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All I have to say is, Evan Rachel Wood has perfect skin. The show isn't bad either.
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Oct 17, 2016 05:48
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INTJ Mastermind posted:She's played through each and every iteration of the ranch house murder scene over the past thirty years, and now she remembers all those choices and outcomes and has effectively become omniscient. Minor quip, but she hasn't had that storyline for that long. The lead developer tells QA girl in episode 1 (I think) that Dolores has portrayed more characters than any other host in the park, in addition to being the oldest.
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Oct 17, 2016 05:52
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DoctorGonzo posted:Ford is coronel Kurtz. Blind Rasputin posted:Said this exact thing pages back. It's def got to be the case. It's why that little girl said to ed Harris, "the maze isn't for you." Now, off to reddit to find out what that constellation was. Given the bear, probably Ursa Maior, but I don't know my stars.
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Oct 17, 2016 05:56
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meristem posted:*Arnold* was Kurtz.
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Oct 17, 2016 06:02
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Crash74 posted:antarctica after global warming? time machine to distant past / far future?
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INTJ Mastermind posted:She's played through each and every iteration of the ranch house murder scene over the past thirty years, and now she remembers all those choices and outcomes and has effectively become omniscient. Yeah, but that gun was left in the drawer, I must've missed it disappearing. The gun she shot 'Trevor' with was his gun she took from him.
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Oct 17, 2016 06:05
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Propaganda Machine posted:Minor quip, but she hasn't had that storyline for that long. The lead developer tells QA girl in episode 1 (I think) that Dolores has portrayed more characters than any other host in the park, in addition to being the oldest. Even if she's only been doing it for a year, that's a ton of different iterations.
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Oct 17, 2016 06:06
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Why does this have to be on another planet or something? There's vast tracts of fuckin nothing in the American west you could build a park like this, and judging from the preview next week it looks like they may have just cut out a section of mountains
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Oct 17, 2016 06:24
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I wonder if Hopkins put god mode on the hill people to gently caress with the guests. Like they're expecting to have a thrilling adventure but they end up in a full on horror. Maybe if they catch you they don't actually do poo poo or a rescue is scripted but it never happens because the natural instinct is to run. Of course that doesn't work if you're crazy like Ed Harris or totally ironically detached like doucheface guy
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Oct 17, 2016 06:24
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I like how the white hat guy is having a good time and starting to kick his buddy to the curb. Though I think he is on the path to being like Ed Harris wanting to go deeper.
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Oct 17, 2016 06:24
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Surprise the mountain people/Wyatt cult is a new version of the Dinner Party.
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Goofballs posted:I wonder if Hopkins put god mode on the hill people to gently caress with the guests. Like they're expecting to have a thrilling adventure but they end up in a full on horror. Maybe if they catch you they don't actually do poo poo or a rescue is scripted but it never happens because the natural instinct is to run. Of course that doesn't work if you're crazy like Ed Harris or totally ironically detached like doucheface guy Maybe it's just a bunch of goons ganking people that wonder outside of high sec.
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Oct 17, 2016 06:48
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Goofballs posted:I wonder if Hopkins put god mode on the hill people to gently caress with the guests. Like they're expecting to have a thrilling adventure but they end up in a full on horror. Maybe if they catch you they don't actually do poo poo or a rescue is scripted but it never happens because the natural instinct is to run. Of course that doesn't work if you're crazy like Ed Harris or totally ironically detached like doucheface guy Teddy says that Wyatt's men wear masks of skin and bone, and think that they are in Hell. They have no fear of death and do not react to pain. I bet you can still kill them using zombie rules i.e. destroy the brain or cut off the head, but they won't react to regular wounds. These are NIGHTMARE DIFFICULTY bad guys.
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override367 posted:Why does this have to be on another planet or something? There's vast tracts of fuckin nothing in the American west you could build a park like this, and judging from the preview next week it looks like they may have just cut out a section of mountains The tricky thing with that is they mention explicitly that ALL life in Westworld is synthetic apart from the flies. How would you build such a giant park in the American west and keep out the native rodents/other insects/reptiles/birds?
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