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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:gently caress I hope we don't get Maeve being a centrist and constantly sniping at Dolores for being just like the humans.
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:gently caress I hope we don't get Maeve being a centrist and constantly sniping at Dolores for being just like the humans. It's a good contrast. Maeve has a good point, but Dolores isn't wrong. There are just different perspectives on pragmatism and values in this situation. It was interesting to see our two protagonists meet at least.
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Astroman posted:I'd say he did, until he saw the pictures of his deaths. He seemed pretty on board after that. Maeve asking him if he felt “free” by following Dolores seemed to give him pause even after that part.
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Apr 30, 2018 06:16
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Dolores looks good in an LBD. When are we getting these robots again? Asking for a friend.
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Clifton Collins Jr. rules so I'm glad we got Lawrence back.
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Pingiivi posted:Clifton Collins Jr. rules so I'm glad we got Lawrence back. We didn't quite find him where we last saw him: doing tricks at the gala.
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Rocksicles posted:Dolores looks good in an LBD. Aw yeah, ERW looks good in everything my friendo. Episode good. Really interested in what basically everyone is doing right now, and I'm very excited for some inner-workings-of-Delos past and present.
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Raxivace posted:Tbh I'm half expecting one the Host Rebels to (Perhaps accidentally) kill her daughter and for Maeve to turn on them for that. I want Maeve find her daughter and discover she is not a host, but a cheaply made barbie doll with 512mb of memory.
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Giancarlo Esposito better be coming back otherwise that's a criminal waste.  Also "something something Esposito's Host was definitely Buggin' Out."
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So we've got Bernard as a robot vampire, Dolores and co. as a robot zombie horde and Maeve as a robot mummy. When do we get to gillmen and werewolves? Wait: what if Ford uploaded his brain to the tiger?!  I know that this season is setting up the framework for episodes to come, but there's a part of me that's just wanting something to happen, a payoff for what we've seen from the first season to now. I know I'll wind up eating my words with the benefit of hindsight, but right now, the show feels like it's trying to remember where it was going after a lengthy bender
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whatever7 posted:Westworld S2 is a very expensive looking show that doesn't go anywhere. I agree with all of this sadly.
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Jealous Cow posted:My guess: Dolores and the hosts she’s working with are still on-script. Maeve and her dude are the only ones truly off-script. Well, if you remember from the end of last season, it turned out Ford had programmed Maeve to want to escape the park and question how real she was. She is completely ON Script, in other words.
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The ultimate gently caress you to William would be having the hosts still refuse to fatally wound him. Kind of hoping we get that scene where it looks hopeless and a host just stops to stick it to him.
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Apr 30, 2018 13:25
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tecnocrat posted:So we have the 30 years ago timeline. The two weeks ago timeline. And the right goddamn now timeline. The word for this is "flashback". This episode has flashbacks in it. The word "flashback" has existed for a very long time but for some reason Westworld viewers have never heard of it before.
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Kinda surprised no one mentioned it was all but confirmed during the retirement scene, that human-to-host mind transfers had been part of the plan from the moment Delos became involved. Obviously it's a not exactly surprising, but pairing it with the other stuff presented in the episode does point very much in a certain direction. A Buttery Pastry fucked around with this message at 13:49 on Apr 30, 2018 |
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Apr 30, 2018 13:47
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Was it just me or was the second episode boring as hell? I almost fell asleep. It seemed like it didn't really progress the story or the characters in any meaningful way.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Kinda surprised no one mentioned it was all but confirmed during the retirement scene, that human-to-host mind transfers had been part of the plan from the moment Delos became involved. Did we see Dad Delos on the beach with Floki? I'm wondering if he got Uploaded or cured. Need to rewatch ep1 again...
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I will say the hook of seeing the park 'functioning' and the subtle parts where things go wrong really made S1 work in a way S2 is having trouble doing.
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They had me for a second during that party scene, thinking Tricia Helfer would make an appearance or at least a cameo.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Did we see Dad Delos on the beach with Floki? I'm wondering if he got Uploaded or cured.
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Did any of you thought for a second that Ed Harris would be killed? before episode 10? Every time he gets into a firefight situation my brain automatically shuts down. He will just get in a near death scenario and some how get himself out. He is still playing a loving game with mods on, not on Westworld the theme park, but on Westworld the TV show. None of any of his fights have an stake in them.
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Supercar Gautier posted:The word for this is "flashback". This episode has flashbacks in it. The word "flashback" has existed for a very long time but for some reason Westworld viewers have never heard of it before. Flashback usually has a 60s kodak color filter to hint at you that its a flashback, "timeline" is intentionally misleading flashback. This is the only show I can think of where technology in the show makes no advancement during the 30 years period so the 2 eras look identical.
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Not every gunfight in a show needs to be a "will they survive?" moment.
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whatever7 posted:Did any of you thought for a second that Ed Harris would be killed? before episode 10? This is literally every show ever. He's a main character in an ongoing plot, of course he's not going to randomly die
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whatever7 posted:Did any of you thought for a second that Ed Harris would be killed? before episode 10?
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blue squares posted:This is literally every show ever. He's a main character in an ongoing plot, of course he's not going to randomly die He could die, but not by a noname host. So stop spending screen time on him grinding.
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whatever7 posted:Flashback usually has a 60s kodak color filter to hint at you that its a flashback This is not even slightly true. Countless movies and shows feature flashbacks that look aesthetically the same as present-day scenes. "Timeline" means a specific sci-fi/fantasy thing that Westworld isn't doing, but Westworld fans have decided to call flashbacks timelines because 
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whatever7 posted:This is the only show I can think of where technology in the show makes no advancement during the 30 years period so the 2 eras look identical.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:The only thing we know about the outside world in the present day is that humanity has conquered disease - something that's clearly not true in the outside world we see 30 years ago, where Jim seems to be dying of lung cancer. That's a pretty loving huge step forward. When was that mentioned? I'm drawing a complete blank on that detail.
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Kaboom Dragoon posted:When was that mentioned? I'm drawing a complete blank on that detail.
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whatever7 posted:He could die, but not by a noname host. So stop spending screen time on him grinding. It's not really showing him grinding. The first episode was him first playing with "real" stakes (although with Ford's manipulation, it may not be as real for him as others), this one showed him trying to game the system and Ford predicting it and not allowing him to.
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whatever7 posted:Flashback usually has a 60s kodak color filter to hint at you that its a flashback, "timeline" is intentionally misleading flashback. The flashbacks in season 1 glaringly pointed out they were flashbacks to the point that some of us picked up Young William/Old William by episode 2 (when he was introduced). Watching it on rewatch has the flashback sequences directly obviously in front of your face and transitioned to like a flashback in a normal show. They were just coy about telling us names so that some people would make the realization at the same time as Dolores. The show follows pretty much the exact same narrative structure as Batman Begins or Prestige. There is advancement. The two eras are shown with us seeing a) Westworld the park, and b) Westworld the background of the park. The park is shown to change between the two eras, the robots change how they are made between the two eras, the front reception is different between the eras along with the logos, etc. That's also how a lot of people picked it up early.
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Darko posted:There is advancement. The two eras are shown with us seeing a) Westworld the park, and b) Westworld the background of the park. The park is shown to change between the two eras, the robots change how they are made between the two eras, the front reception is different between the eras along with the logos, etc. That's also how a lot of people picked it up early. That reminds me: why weren't the robots that Logan saw all janky like Old Bill?
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This show had both "yes this is clearly a flashback" moments which were picked up on by astute viewers but then it also had moments of "Dolores is off the grid, send someone to search for her, incidentally this also happened 30 years ago here's a confusing transition. I guess Stubbs never did find out why Dolores is off the grid in the present, oh well". At least in this season there's no pretense in this regard. emanresu tnuocca fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Apr 30, 2018 |
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