someone told me ed brubaker is a writer on this... true?
― I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 15:05 (seven years ago) link
looks like it!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westworld_(TV_series)#Episodes
I've enjoyed Vincenzo Natali's tv directing work, so the episode that credits Brubaker as primary writer and him as director sounds promising
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh π), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 15:10 (seven years ago) link
I think they may have broken some kind of record for Idiot Plot in a television series - only 40 minutes in and you have a dude interrupting his boss to say "Isn't this a Bad Idea?"Followed by the schtick villain played by Ed Harris doing schtick and then uh
― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Monday, 3 October 2016 01:47 (seven years ago) link
Oh maybe next week they'll use string arrangements of songs that have the color "blue" or "white!"
― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Monday, 3 October 2016 02:00 (seven years ago) link
Anyway, I think I can dig it, even if it does turn out that Jeffrey Wright and/or Sidse Knudsen turn out to be robots, which btw I'm just calling that nowIf they DO run with the color-by-song-title arranged-for-faux-period-instruments idea, I think I'll actually end up liking it even more
― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Monday, 3 October 2016 02:32 (seven years ago) link
helped by the fact that I was expecting a hot mess, I enjoyed that. I wonder if it was the pilot or the subsequent episodes that HBO had to retool?
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 3 October 2016 04:04 (seven years ago) link
the review I read that said it was kind of formless for four episodes... what kind of narrative devices and exposition are these people looking for?
already starting to get the suspicion that stockpiling all your decommissioned androids in the basement, when the glitchy oldest models have been known to just "wake up," might not be the best idea
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh π), Monday, 3 October 2016 14:18 (seven years ago) link
imo Anthony Hopkins is the surprise android out there in the world, and the original creator is in cold storage or dead somewhere
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh π), Monday, 3 October 2016 14:19 (seven years ago) link
watching the original film, a couple of funny moments. The scientists / engineers around a table.. "in some cases the robots have been designed by other computers. We don't know exactly how they work." ?! WHAT
James Brolin looks like Patrick Bateman
Yul Brynner so creepy
― calstars, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 01:28 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/EDCBW3B.jpg1880s American Psycho
― calstars, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 01:32 (seven years ago) link
"check all the snake central mechanisms during tonight's repair period."
― calstars, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 01:44 (seven years ago) link
this is about like sex robots in the old west or something right
― Treeship, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 02:00 (seven years ago) link
I think post-LOST sci-fi television really needs to quit it with the obvious tvtropes.com twist-begging garbage. I want to like this show, but we're being set up for:
* There's a DELOS globe in the sub-basement. Delos destinations! So the old west is just one, hmm hmm wonder what else is out there
* None of the "guests" have any home life that we get to see - nobody really doing a departure from future NYC, nobody changing into their period wardrobe, etc. OMG IS IT EVEN ON EARTH? IS ANYONE oh oh oh oh
* Wait up folks what if they're ALL ROBOTS?
I desperately hope there's no pan away to space, no obvious reveal that Jeffrey Wright is really an android, or god forbid some bullshit about how Ed Harris is an antihero (as opposed to the other obvious non-twist that he's the human version of Yul Brenner's Gunslinger because SCRIPT - FLIPPED!)
There's a lot to be said for Mad Men pulling the Dick Whitman reveal early and then moving on from it. But that was a show ostensibly about a real period and with real events to serve as milestones for the characters. SF/near-future TV needs to try harder to be like The Expanse or even, yeah, Firefly, and get away from stunts altogether. The audience is too ready for it and that makes it impossible to enjoy.
― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 02:34 (seven years ago) link
And by "the audience" I mean me and by "impossible to enjoy" I mean I have fun watching it but the way I watch it is thoroughly tainted by an unruly compulsion to decipher the entire production as if it were some kind of goddamn cryptic crossword and I blame M. Night Shyamalan & Chuck Palahniuk for everything. People with five syllable names wtf
― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 02:43 (seven years ago) link
You are making me not want to watch this
― Ξα½ΟΞΉΟ, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 02:45 (seven years ago) link
I should get paid
― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 03:06 (seven years ago) link
The Simpsons parodied this book/movie when the family visited the Duff beer theme park. If you liked that episode, you might also like this movie. /amazon.comrecommends
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 03:28 (seven years ago) link
the last scene was telegraphed throughout the entire first episode but was still satisfying
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh π), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 14:13 (seven years ago) link
I see the only book was a novelization; it was an original screenplay by Crichton in '73. He has nothing directly to do with this series, right?
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 14:30 (seven years ago) link
well, he's dead
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh π), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 14:36 (seven years ago) link
haha
i don't keep track, i assume it was some horrible theme-park mishap
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 14:37 (seven years ago) link
longer version would be that Abrams mentioned having talked to Crichton 20 years ago or so about remaking it as a movie but nothing came of it
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh π), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 14:38 (seven years ago) link
I think he got some sort of weird climate change-related cancer, of which he did not believe
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh π), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 14:40 (seven years ago) link
What I've read (spoilers?) said that in the first 4 eps provided to critics, there is no robot rampage/human death toll. The question the review raised is how a theme park robot rampage can sustain a series, let alone a second season.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 14:42 (seven years ago) link
season two is when the robot virus makes it to eastworld
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh π), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 14:45 (seven years ago) link
i watched last night and was entertained.
tomboto's Lost reference above seems apt. i watched Lost. all of it. i groaned many times. in some ways it was really predictable and in others just completely nonsensical. sometimes it was a really fucking awesome show. i ordered pizza with friends and watched it together when new episodes came out and tolerated the one friend in the group who was way waaaaaay into Lost.
let's just hope westworld doesn't end up putting out the equivalent of a Jack's Tattoo episode, though
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 14:46 (seven years ago) link
eastworld is the set of cheers
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=115066
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh π), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 14:47 (seven years ago) link
Is there a Five Night's at Freddy's Netflix series in development?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 14:49 (seven years ago) link
xpostso it has already begun
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 14:50 (seven years ago) link
I enjoyed it
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 6 October 2016 02:25 (seven years ago) link
i ordered pizza with friends and watched it together when new episodes came out and tolerated the one friend in the group who was way waaaaaay into Lost.
i did this, too, and it actually makes me a lil misty about LOST
i thought this was fine, and about what i would expect from a pilot ep. trailer had my expectations higher, tho
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 6 October 2016 02:37 (seven years ago) link
Is it just me or was Harris channeling a little bit of Peter Weller
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh π), Thursday, 6 October 2016 02:47 (seven years ago) link
"The question the review raised is how a theme park robot rampage can sustain a series, let alone a second season."
i was under the impression this was a one-off limited series
anyway, I really liked this. you all are picky
― akm, Thursday, 6 October 2016 13:09 (seven years ago) link
It's not. They've talked about doing five seasons
― Number None, Thursday, 6 October 2016 14:40 (seven years ago) link
This is basically HBO's big roll of the dice for a post-GOT blockbuster
― Number None, Thursday, 6 October 2016 14:41 (seven years ago) link
@ least no horses will get shot, probably
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 6 October 2016 14:59 (seven years ago) link
this was fun, but tempered by the post-LOST certainty that it will be sloppy and insulting within four eps
scriptwriting award of the year goes to [looks at robot while holding old photo of son] "good as new huh? sometimes i envy your forgetfulness"
― r|t|c, Thursday, 6 October 2016 16:19 (seven years ago) link
iirc LOST really went off the track when Abrams wandered off to do other things
Person of Interest was kind of ho-hum and samey after a while but never went off the rails, so there's hope?
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh π), Thursday, 6 October 2016 16:22 (seven years ago) link
doubt i will become accustomed to softly jarring danish lady accent
appalled by the brit bloke. could they not tell or were they just not interested in the difference between annoying character and godawful acting
― r|t|c, Thursday, 6 October 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
must admit i smirked @ old timey piano 'black hole sun'
― r|t|c, Thursday, 6 October 2016 16:35 (seven years ago) link
took me quite a while to place the tune
― akm, Thursday, 6 October 2016 17:36 (seven years ago) link
friend of a friend at HBO said this was in development hell for years and went through a million script revisions. allegedly, HBO is in a panic over not haven't a replacement queued up for GoT
― Darin, Thursday, 6 October 2016 20:47 (seven years ago) link
they kept pushing back the release, maybe they have been editing the hell out of it
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh π), Thursday, 6 October 2016 23:41 (seven years ago) link
this wasn't terrible or anything but if there are any riffs left to be had on "ai-becomes-sentient" i don't think they're coming here.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 7 October 2016 01:27 (seven years ago) link
IIRC HBO wanted a more expansive/solid game plan than had been prepared re: the overall plot and future seasons, which set them back 6-9 months or so. Not at all unreasonable considering the investment.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 7 October 2016 02:09 (seven years ago) link
so was ed harris's scalp map a way to the computer room
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh π), Friday, 7 October 2016 03:17 (seven years ago) link
or maybe a path to where the rogue bots hide
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh π), Friday, 7 October 2016 03:18 (seven years ago) link
I assume the map is like the secret of the lost woods in Zelda; the Delos game worlds can't be exited by just riding off into one direction or another (they mentioned nobody's found the edge, right?) but you can hit the boundaries by following a specific pattern, whether you intend to find game HQ + host storage or any other "off map" location.
― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Friday, 7 October 2016 03:47 (seven years ago) link
good theory!
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh π), Friday, 7 October 2016 03:49 (seven years ago) link
^^ otm
Was considering a rewatch of the first season but, uh, apparently Max also wiped this show.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 29 June 2023 17:06 (ten months ago) link
I can't remember another show that started out so highly regarded and crashed so spectacularly.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 29 June 2023 17:46 (ten months ago) link
I have season one on DVD, which, you know β¦ thatβs the best season.
(Season two has moments.)
jimbeaux OTM
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 29 June 2023 18:28 (ten months ago) link
Jon, check your local library.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 29 June 2023 18:31 (ten months ago) link
The last season of this kind of feels like it was a dream I had
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 30 June 2023 04:05 (ten months ago) link
Last season would have been great to close out the series if they had a more cohesive and concise plot structure and tied up all the loose ends, but alas. Another show getting dragged well past its plot due date that can't compensate for the intrigue and mystery of season 1 once the scope expands. Season 2 felt like it dragged and so did season 3. Could have been so much better.
Here's hoping Severence doesn't fall into the same trap!
― octobeard, Friday, 30 June 2023 20:53 (ten months ago) link