Originally Posted by
summer_ste:
“It reminded me heavily of Westworld. Sorry, but it did. But why does that need to be a bad thing?
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No need to be sorry.
It reminded me heavily of it too (in that my first thought on seeing the trailer was of Westworld). It also reminded Toby Whithouse heavily of it. He spoke about that openly.
there's a difference between acknowledging that one thing superficially looks like another, or may even have taken some inspiration from it, and dismissing the whole thing as a lazy rip off.
The stories were very different.
Also - isn't it a bit odd that the whole idea of the Westworld robot was that it looked exactly human and used period weapons. But the Mercy cyborg was defined by not looking human and using a space age weapon.