So...anyone else watching Westworld?

[goon3423]

I must admit I'm liking it so far. It's obviously not a "true western" by any stretch but it keeps you guessing.

[Shub-Nullgurath]

Acting by Anthony Hopkins is something else. I think he might even be topping his performance as Hannibal Lector.

Some "surprises" are pretty obvious, but I've not watched this week's episode so...

[Captain Blood]

Yep. Beautifully done, and obviously much more richly detailed and textured than the original movie(s).
That said, I can't help feeling that they are massively dragging out the essentially simple premise of Crichton's book, which made for a very good 90 minute movie, across 10 (or 12?) one hour episodes, and potentially across several seasons?
So I do find it slow, because we all know more or less what's going to happen, and it's taking an awfully long time to get there. But I accept it's a different kind of creature... This version is more about the journey than the denouement.

I do kinda wish that (like the original) they'd included a Medieval World and an Ancient World too though... 

[goon3423]

Yep. Beautifully done, and obviously much more richly detailed and textured than the original movie(s).
That said, I can't help feeling that they are massively dragging out the essentially simple premise of Crichton's book, which made for a very good 90 minute movie, across 10 (or 12?) one hour episodes, and potentially across several seasons?
So I do find it slow, because we all know more or less what's going to happen, and it's taking an awfully long time to get there. But I accept it's a different kind of creature... This version is more about the journey than the denouement.

I do kinda wish that (like the original) they'd included a Medieval World and an Ancient World too though... 

Agreed on the pace but I've resigned myself to the fact it's more of an adaptation using the setting & title more than anything else. As for other worlds it's already renewed for season 2 so maybe they'll expand.

The alternating timeline theories are very interesting. 

[Elk101]

Loving it. I'm enjoying the pace funnily enough as it offers more opportunities to see the world. Hopkins doesn't even seem to be acting, he seems to be Ford. I can't make my mind up whether he is good, bad, crazy or a bit of everything.  

[Shub-Nullgurath]

I'm thinking more and more that the series is focused on the creation of emergent intelligence and that's what the place "means" to the corporations funding it. Having a self-aware AI would allow literally any dream or potential to be reached.

[FierceKitty]

"So..."?

[Inkpaduta]

I tried watching it but just did not get into it.
Can't really say why. I really enjoyed the movie and perhaps
the show is quite different. Maybe too deep background for me?

[Shub-Nullgurath]

"So..."?

So it's a bit more than androids going wild and killing people as a premise.

[katie]

It's not using the plot from the original movie -- it's set AFTER the original movie.

They refer to the park not having had a critical failure in 30 years. And in one of the scenes, in the background of the abandoned service areas, you can briefly see the Yul Brynner "Gunslinger" character, deactivated, standing against a wall.

[Elk101]

It's not using the plot from the original movie -- it's set AFTER the original movie.

They refer to the park not having had a critical failure in 30 years. And in one of the scenes, in the background of the abandoned service areas, you can briefly see the Yul Brynner "Gunslinger" character, deactivated, standing against a wall.

I'm glad someone else mentioned that. I half thought I'd imagined it!

[WillieB]

Yep. Beautifully done, and obviously much more richly detailed and textured than the original movie(s).
That said, I can't help feeling that they are massively dragging out the essentially simple premise of Crichton's book, which made for a very good 90 minute movie, across 10 (or 12?) one hour episodes, and potentially across several seasons?
So I do find it slow, because we all know more or less what's going to happen, and it's taking an awfully long time to get there. But I accept it's a different kind of creature... This version is more about the journey than the denouement.

I do kinda wish that (like the original) they'd included a Medieval World and an Ancient World too though... 

The destination is not all that important, the roads we travel on towards it is what we call our life.
Then again, although not having seen any of Westworld yet, I'm also a little disappointed that there isn't a  Medieval and Ancient World.

[goon3423]

Anyone else on board with the William/Man in Black theory (William being MIB in the past)?

[Elk101]

Possible spoilers:



I haven't seen the last episode so I don't know if there's any more clues there but it was looking like that. I do wonder if it's perhaps a careful misdirection though?

There's definitely something at play with the timelines shown.

[Eric the Shed]

How big is the park...? It would appear you can travel all night by train and still be in the park..

loving it...still catching up on episodes recorded