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Westworld. (US Pace) Spoilers
What have they done to this great film.....????
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What have they done to this great film.....????
It is also fun trying to figure out who is a robot and who isn't. And also which bots are sentient and which are not. |
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It's a long time since I watched the film, but the story was about normal humans going to a theme park & the robots starting to go wrong, & thus the humans having to escape. Now there was a build up, a story, & tension. This new Westworld had none. I just can't see where it is going. I am almost having to beg my wife to watch the second one to see if it goes anywhere, but her thoughts after seeing this first episode was " what a pile of ....". TBH I agree with her. I have no wish to try to guess which is a robot & which is human. I WANT A GRIPPING STORY & I don't see this having it. I will watch the second one to see if they can save this, but all I watched today was no story & over the top violence. If it carries on like that I will leave it for the 6 year olds it seems to be aimed at, apart that is for the violence.
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It's a long time since I watched the film, but the story was about normal humans going to a theme park & the robots starting to go wrong, & thus the humans having to escape. Now there was a build up, a story, & tension. This new Westworld had none. I just can't see where it is going. I am almost having to beg my wife to watch the second one to see if it goes anywhere, but her thoughts after seeing this first episode was " what a pile of ....". TBH I agree with her. I have no wish to try to guess which is a robot & which is human. I WANT A GRIPPING STORY & I don't see this having it. I will watch the second one to see if they can save this, but all I watched today was no story & over the top violence. If it carries on like that I will leave it for the 6 year olds it seems to be aimed at, apart that is for the violence.
There is also the story of how the bots are becoming self aware and sentient. Something that was never explored in the films. The violence fitted in with the Western theme, and was integral to the story. This could be a great series if they play the AI theme right. |
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It's a long time since I watched the film, but the story was about normal humans going to a theme park & the robots starting to go wrong, & thus the humans having to escape. Now there was a build up, a story, & tension. This new Westworld had none. I just can't see where it is going. I am almost having to beg my wife to watch the second one to see if it goes anywhere, but her thoughts after seeing this first episode was " what a pile of ....". TBH I agree with her. I have no wish to try to guess which is a robot & which is human. I WANT A GRIPPING STORY & I don't see this having it. I will watch the second one to see if they can save this, but all I watched today was no story & over the top violence. If it carries on like that I will leave it for the 6 year olds it seems to be aimed at, apart that is for the violence.
This is a HBO series, they like to slow burn their shows and gradually build everything up. They treat their shows like an onscreen novel and they are usually better for it rather than having each episode be a mini short story where it is too packed and lacks any characterisation. Personally I loved the first episode and cant wait for the next one, and I'm very picky about what shows I watch. |
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I thought it was very good. It will play on the 'What is reality?' question and the 'What is life?' questions.
It is also fun trying to figure out who is a robot and who isn't. And also which bots are sentient and which are not. Up until yesterday I presumed he was just playing the Yul Bryner Gunslinger Robot role but then read an article that mentioned he was a visitor to Westworld and not a Robot. However after seeing the episode I think it's possible he actually is a robot. One of the early ones like Buffalo Bill that somehow gained Sentience and escaped from the Theme Park. It could also explain his fixation on Delores given that she is also a very early model. Obviously we saw that he couldn't be killed by a Robot when other robots can be but that can be explained (depending on exactly how the guests are protected). |
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Dreadful in so many ways, it was like something that was dreamed up by a bunch of "creative" people sitting around a table, we need boobs,bloodshed, shooting, lots of shooting and talk about nothing, yep lots of talk about nothing the slower the talking the more we can fill up the episode.
One and done for me. |
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So Ed Harris's Man in Black, Robot or not Robot?
Up until yesterday I presumed he was just playing the Yul Bryner Gunslinger Robot role but then read an article that mentioned he was a visitor to Westworld and not a Robot. I was also not sure about the 'Bot or Not' that he scalped until we saw the insignia or (was it a circuit?) in his skull. I'm also wondering if any of the staff are bots too. |
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I really enjoyed the first episode and will be following the series.
I have seen the orginal Westworld film. In its time is was good, but this new updated version is something else again. The work and production values that have gone into making this for me is amazing. I know that there are others who may not agree, but then that's what DS forums are all about. We're all entitled to our opinions. |
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****ing awesome opening episode. That said, how can you not like a show featuring a violent shootout with an orchestral version of Paint it Black playing in the background?
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Not too sure about it yet, just came away thinking Deadwood meets Blade Runner.
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I haven't seen the film (it's the one with Will Smith, right?) so I have nothing to compare this series with, but after watching the first episode, I am intrigued. I think the show has some interesting potential. Quote:
So Ed Harris's Man in Black, Robot or not Robot?
Up until yesterday I presumed he was just playing the Yul Bryner Gunslinger Robot role but then read an article that mentioned he was a visitor to Westworld and not a Robot. However after seeing the episode I think it's possible he actually is a robot. Quote:
Obviously we saw that he couldn't be killed by a Robot when other robots can be but that can be explained (depending on exactly how the guests are protected).
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I enjoyed the opener. Thought it was a nice twist from the robot's perspective. Also, I think the Ed Harris character probably isn't what he first seems. I think he's human, but we don't know what he did in the barn. Maybe not what people think.
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I enjoyed the opener. Thought it was a nice twist from the robot's perspective. Also, I think the Ed Harris character probably isn't what he first seems. I think he's human, but we don't know what he did in the barn. Maybe not what people think.
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It's early days, but at the moment I'd say that it's promising.
I think what's missing from the series at the moment is that in the classic film we are carried along with the human protagonists who are the guests. We relate to them. However we haven't got that with this series at the moment. Are we expected to relate to the scientists or a couple of the robots? |
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Are we expected to relate to the scientists or a couple of the robots?
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Maybe he used to be human, and has since uploaded his consciousness into a robot? There was talk from Hopkins' character of immortality and reviving the dead...
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I'm wondering whether the term robot should be used here though, cause (short of their programming) they're a little too human to be robotic, no? |
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I haven't seen the film (it's the one with Will Smith, right?) so I have nothing to compare this series with, but after watching the first episode, I am intrigued. I think the show has some interesting potential.
I am in agreement with you, I too think he's a Robot that has escaped the management of the corporation. His scenes with Delores relay that I think (though why he deemed it necessary to take her away I don't know? Was it implied he was going to rape her, or that he was going to cut her head off too and get the map in her head?) Maybe the bullets aren't real? Maybe they're simulated to some foreign degree? |
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****ing awesome opening episode. That said, how can you not like a show featuring a violent shootout with an orchestral version of Paint it Black playing in the background?
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I'd say the robots cause I'd imagine a good number of us feel exactly the same.
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Plausible, robots creating robots so that some robots can experience more than other robots at the expense of robots, all being controlled by robots.
I'm wondering whether the term robot should be used here though, cause (short of their programming) they're a little too human to be robotic, no? Obviously there's going to be an allegorical aspect to this and this sounds very plausible. A functioning society where people in it don't even consider that they're just as controlled or as brainwashed as the people they consider to be of a lower status than them. I can see this as a viable theory that works. |
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The more i read about this, the less i want to watch it... I saw the trailer on Sky and it just felt a bit meh.. Looking forward to The Exorcist on SyFy
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I'm not sure I understood what was going on but I found it interesting enough. it's certainly something you need to pay attention to
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I'm not sure I understood what was going on but I found it interesting enough. it's certainly something you need to pay attention to
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I've got a feeling that the staff member who was holding a photo of what I believe was his dead son, is also a bot.
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that he scalped until we saw the insignia or (was it a circuit?) in his skull.