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When did "Westworld" become a must see show for you? (No Spoilers Please) |
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When did "Westworld" become a must see show for you? (No Spoilers Please)
I appreciate there's a Westworld thread, but I wanted to ask this question in a seperate thread as i've only just watched Episode 4 so I didn't really want to read any spoilers as I know the whole series has aired on Sky.
I also appreciate it's a "how long is a piece of string" question as well. But i'm wondering at what point of the show did it truly hook you in ?. I've watched 4 episodes now and I think it's certainly well made and quite intruiging, and I kind of want to see the progression of The Man in Black's storyline, but I still don't think it's really "got" me and is making me want to sit and binge the rest of the series. I'm probably going to watch episode 5 later on, but I think if i still can't get properly excited by the show or really "in" to it, i might forget the rest. Thankyou for your thoughts nice DS people - off to watch the football first
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I enjoyed it, but it was never a must see for me, it's just another TV show I watch.
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I will be honest and admit I never saw or even heard of the film, it was only until someone at work told me about it I decided to watch the film then the TV show.
It took me about 2 or 3 episode to get into it and by the end I just absolutely loved it. |
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Thanks for the replies
![]() I don't mind it being "just another show" to a certain extent, but it has to have that hook that makes me want to watch it rather than do what i'm doing at the moment and go out of my way to watch other shows first and only get around to it because i'm up to date on everything else. |
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From the start, from the first moment Dolores opened her eyes to the last scene.
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I think it was when all the theories started swirling about.
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It never was must see for me, I stuck with it till the end but it was hard work, not sure if I would watch the next series
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For me it was episode 2. First ep was mostly set up.
I had a good feeling about the show from when I first heard about it. It really kicks on in the second half of the series. |
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I was generally invested from the outset but really got snared into this when a certain twist happened. This specific sci-fi genre has always interested me. Blade Runner, AI, iRobot, 2001: A space oddyssey, the Terminator films, etc. The development and "progress" of artificial intelligence is going to have a major impact on future generations. It is not just fantasy. It poses absolutely critical questions for humanity...including what it really means to be human in the first place. The minds of Kubrick, Spielberg, Cameron, Ridley Scott, Nolan, etc certainly believed so as do I. Sometimes they're accused of being Luddites but I don't think so. They're just projecting their notions of the human condition and current developments into the future. So as you might guess I'm interested in the dialogue and philosophical aspects of this show!
A lot of people see the human brain as the last frontier. But yet we already know what each section of the brain does...what it's functions are...If the brain is basically made of proteins and is powered through a network using neurons and electrical impulses. Then why can't this be replicated artificially by science? If you don't believe it can then does that mean you believe humans have a metaphysical state...a soul? It's funny because that question sometimes can make the most secular or ardent atheists suddenly come across like resolute theists, almost as if the thought of sentient AI is too uncomfortable to consider. What will life be like 200, 500, 1000 years from now? A lot of people take some strange comfort in the notion that the end of the world is nigh, you know because of sustainability issues, global warming, wars, etc etc. So they seem to believe that such notions of the future are for nowt since we're on the precipice of extinction apparently. Therefore why bother to answer the question at all, right? It won't matter. However, I think this idea is unlikely barring some cataclysmic celestial event. All those issues can cause utter destruction, deprivation, and even push us into a new dark ages. But the fall of Rome didn't destroy the foundations. So I have a question that's sort of scary yet fascinating. It's one of those verbal analogy like exam questions. Where we are today all began from a single celled organism. The beginnings of life on Earth. Imagine humans in some far off distant future...what if those "humans" are to us today as we are to trilobytes. Can you fathom that...I mean what the hell is that?! No wonder Nietzsche went mad. ![]() My own suspicion is that the future will be an if you can't beat them join them scenario...ie a combination of humans and AI...cyborgs....does Hawking count as a cyborg? The fusion of people and computers seems like a logical outcome the way things are going. Maybe at some point we'll be able to download our own consciousness into newer vessels and we'll live longer. I use "we" in a philosophical sense as "we" will all be long gone. So I hope I answered your question in there somewhere in all that rambling.
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I was generally invested from the outset but really got snared into this when a certain twist happened
Just watched Episode 5 and I must admit it was a lot better, so I'll certainly carry on with Episode 6 at least. Thanks for all the responses so far. |
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Would that be at the end of Episode 5 where Maeve Millay is on the trolley in the room and the butcher turns around and she's sitting up, looking at him ?.
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It never became a must see show to me.
I was good but I was glad it was only 10 episodes. I hope there is a change of scenery for Season 2. |
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I was quite keen to watch the last episode and see how it ended but it was not my favourite show of 2016.
Maybe episode 7 I probably won't bother with series 2 |
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About episode 5 or 6. Although it didn't help with the earlier episodes that I was a long way behind and so couldn't read the threads on here, which do help with understanding whats going on and add to the fun of trying to work out the plot!
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@OP - maybe it helped watching it when broadcast, so 1 a week, so I could then engage in the after show discussion.
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About episode 5 or 6. Although it didn't help with the earlier episodes that I was a long way behind and so couldn't read the threads on here, which do help with understanding whats going on and add to the fun of trying to work out the plot!
![]() http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/ars-...ted?refid=stpr |
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@OP - maybe it helped watching it when broadcast, so 1 a week, so I could then engage in the after show discussion.
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Yep in that respect it maybe worth the OP listening to the relevant Ars Technica podcasts for each episode. There's a lot of the "current" theories of what was going on, captured at the right point in time
http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/ars-...ted?refid=stpr I suppose one of the main things for me that raised my expecations for the show is that i read a lot of the pre-publicity that claimed it would be the "new" Game of Thrones or that it would be the "ideal replacement" for GoT, so i suppose i was probably always going to be let down somewhat. |
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Loved the show since the first episode, but it really clicked a few episodes in.
I saw an advert for it on the side of a bus and thought it sounded lame, Sci-Fi is rarely done well, and only watched the first episode when I saw it was HBO, but on reflection series one was totes amazeballs. |
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I suppose one of the main things for me that raised my expecations for the show is that i read a lot of the pre-publicity that claimed it would be the "new" Game of Thrones or that it would be the "ideal replacement" for GoT, so i suppose i was probably always going to be let down somewhat.
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I watched it all the way through but it never really 'grabbed' me. It may have been something to do with the Western setting as (being of the female persuasion) I was never into Westerns as a child. I also didn't really like any of the characters much with the exception of Maeve and possibly Bernard and then I was quite disappointed when it was revealed that he was a robot. And I found it very confusing until I finally realised there was more than one timeline going on. Like others here, I'm not sure I'll bother with a second season.
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I suppose one of the main things for me that raised my expecations for the show is that i read a lot of the pre-publicity that claimed it would be the "new" Game of Thrones or that it would be the "ideal replacement" for GoT, so i suppose i was probably always going to be let down somewhat.
and there are similarities in production values. I suppose you could put a loose "fantasy" umbrella up and it would just about cover both (and annoy SciFi diehards) but I think it's only in overall storytelling that they should be compared and GoT has many seasons of back story in the can now. Trying to think back to the end of season one of GoT and compare that with WW as it stands now I think they're in a similar place. Actually in ways I won't discuss there are some very significant parallels to how the strands of the storylines have been woven or left hanging. It's a tall order to go from there however to weaving something as complicated as the patchwork quilt GoT has now become. I think it does have the potential to become a GoT replacement, but it's not there yet There were many layers to the season one story-line, many twists that were foreshadowed and I think as they began to be revealed it was the satisfaction from one of the "I knew that was coming" moments that hooked me - took it from a watch sometime in the week to watch the night it's available type of thing. There was also enough"Bugger me didn't see that coming" moments as well |
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I watched it all the way through but it never really 'grabbed' me. It may have been something to do with the Western setting as (being of the female persuasion) I was never into Westerns as a child. I also didn't really like any of the characters much with the exception of Maeve and possibly Bernard and then I was quite disappointed when it was revealed that he was a robot. And I found it very confusing until I finally realised there was more than one timeline going on. Like others here, I'm not sure I'll bother with a second season.
Don't think i'll bother with the rest now thanks to you. Thanks again to everyone else for taking the time to answer. Much appreciated
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You mean there are people who actually fall for the This is the next "whatever"??
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You mean there are people who actually fall for the This is the next "whatever"??
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Thanks for those spoilers ...
Don't think i'll bother with the rest now thanks to you. Thanks again to everyone else for taking the time to answer. Much appreciated ![]() ! Stick with it though, it's great.A friend of mine was banging on about it for weeks telling me to watch it, but i didn't think it looked anything special. Anyway i decided to watch it, just to shut him up haha, and i got completely hooked! I smashed out 7 episodes over a weekend lol ![]() For me it was one of the best things that i had seen for a while! |
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The fusion of people and computers seems like a logical outcome the way things are going. Maybe at some point we'll be able to download our own consciousness into newer vessels and we'll live longer. I use "we" in a philosophical sense as "we" will all be long gone. So I hope I answered your question in there somewhere in all that rambling.
! Stick with it though, it's great.