the last scene was telegraphed throughout the entire first episode but was still satisfying
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), 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 😏), 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 😏), 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 😏), 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 😏), 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 😏), 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 😏), 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 😏), 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 😏), 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 😏), Friday, 7 October 2016 03:17 (seven years ago) link
or maybe a path to where the rogue bots hide
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), 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 😏), Friday, 7 October 2016 03:49 (seven years ago) link
You'd have to be some pathological rich fucker to play this enough times that trying to ride off until you hit the edge would be a goal during a trip. Maybe that is what Harris's character has become.
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Friday, 7 October 2016 03:51 (seven years ago) link
Oh I thought that was clear that that was exactly what he was
― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Friday, 7 October 2016 04:30 (seven years ago) link
Didn't people escape from one World set up into at least one other in one of the 70s films?Technology and expectations of technology have probably changed massively in the interim though.
― Stevolende, Friday, 7 October 2016 07:15 (seven years ago) link
2nd EP is up on HBO's streaming platforms
― Number None, Friday, 7 October 2016 15:52 (seven years ago) link
You know, to paraphrase Jurassic Park, the is the theme park where the Pirates of the Caribbean try to eat you. Which was probably a Westworld reference to begin with.
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Friday, 7 October 2016 16:30 (seven years ago) link
i thought this was pretty good. kept me going at least. great cast!
the physical character work for the malfunctioning hosts was great and really pretty unnerving, esp louis herthum (the dad) and michael wincott (the old bartender in the basement). i'm kinda hoping the show lets wincott stick around, i've always liked that guy.
funny tho in a world of 'big data' the menacing conversation between the manager and the young writer seemed pretty obvious. what does management get out of this? idk endless data on what people like to eat, watch, kill, fuck etc
― goole, Friday, 7 October 2016 16:50 (seven years ago) link
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― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto),
i thought they were setting ed harris up to be the detective trying to uncover the mystery (AKA the avatar of the viewer) and/or save the robots from their plight?
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Friday, 7 October 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link
industrial espionage maybe
― goole, Friday, 7 October 2016 17:09 (seven years ago) link
yeah I dunno I think he's more of a seeker, having decided that there's something deeper than acting out hero/villain fantasieswhether that's using the simulacrum of the world that's in robot form to find human truth, or finding the meaning of artificial life is yet to be seen
that's the ~deep thought~ stuff that I'm assuming with be telegraphed very obviously -- the androids approaching human, humans returning to the well of simulation in the hopes of finding what being human even means
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Friday, 7 October 2016 17:19 (seven years ago) link
took a sick day from work, sorry for any incoming trite thoughts coming from cold medication and Westworld rewatching
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Friday, 7 October 2016 17:21 (seven years ago) link
if i didn't know better i'd say the character could be a commentary on the psychosis of trying to find the outer limits or glitches in any game; he's the "x0.5 A presses" guy
― goole, Friday, 7 October 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
yeah, possibly unfortunately crossed with the people on LOST who kept turning over rocks looking for secret maps
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Friday, 7 October 2016 17:31 (seven years ago) link
If you'd given me five minutes to come up with my most withering parody of a johnny nolan jarjar abrams joint there's a good chance it would open with a v.o. saying "have you ever questioned your reality"
― Har-@-Iago (wins), Friday, 7 October 2016 17:39 (seven years ago) link
yeah it needed some better dialogue for that stuff. playing shrink to 19th century people as a framing method for getting diagnostics on a robot is a fun li'l writing challenge.
i miss milch :(
― goole, Friday, 7 October 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link
had my issues with the pilot but crazy old dad robot quoting shakespeare and freaking out was genuinely unsettling/good though
― Number None, Friday, 7 October 2016 23:40 (seven years ago) link
whoever that guy was he's a pretty good actor.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 8 October 2016 00:24 (seven years ago) link
When they said he was quoting from his old modules I started hoping that at some point a cowboy will glitch and start screaming about an incoming asteroid field/orc horde, loads of AI prostitutes freaking out wondering what orcs are
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Saturday, 8 October 2016 21:06 (seven years ago) link