Jay 37,378 Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 In season 2 they visit Samurai World and there are tidbits about other worlds too JoeinAR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpy 4,145 Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 9 hours ago, JoeinAR said: I just wondered about the bigger universe Crichton had quite a vision to build on. The show, in varying degrees of success, makes Crichton's original seem quite quaint in comparison. _ One of the elements that makes the show so watchable is that it takes the plot to places that are often too daring to go and it does it without breaking the believability. I think there was a point in season 2 where they almost jumped off the deep end but I think season three might offer more to the reasoning than we have seen thus far - I'm hoping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 ‘Westworld’ season 4 reportedly confirmed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 Yay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 Aaron Paul: Westworld 3 is "even more ambitious" than previous seasons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 Hosts, bitch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,474 Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 Can't wait! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 The only bummer is that season 3 is 8 episodes, instead of 10 like the first two seasons Edmilson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 Edmilson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Season 3 starts March 15! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 So I hadn't actually watched that trailer when I posted it, but we just saw it the other night in front of The Outsider. Holy hell! What a cool trailer! What do all those dates and events mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpy 4,145 Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 The divergence is probably Dolores/Charlotte. The name 'Solomon' appears as if there were several other builds of events/timelines - strange! I figured Solomon was from Biblical scripture so this is what Wikipedia has to say on the name: Quote Solomon was the biblical king most famous for his wisdom. In 1 Kings he sacrificed to God, and God later appeared to him in a dream asking what Solomon wanted from God. Solomon asked for wisdom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon Something Westworld would do and fits both Dolores and Bernard's characters quite well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 Man I can't wait for season 3. Too bad it's only 8 episodes Edmilson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 I'm one of the people who think Season 2 was a big improvement on Season 1 (this puts me in the minority I think?), but I'm still gonna need one of those refresher articles to remember where things stood at the end of that season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 I loved both seasons pretty equally. I think they did a great job with nearly every aspect, really enjoyed watching every week Edmilson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 In addition to the specific plot machinations, I think I found the themes more engaging season 2. These beings originally created to grant immortality to super-rich assholes, the creator (Hopkins) who rebels against that and plants the seeds for the hosts' consciousness, the difficulty with which some of the hosts had with breaking free of their storylines (their programming). It was all just more interesting to me than season 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 Absolutely! Most shows get more interesting as the seasons go on, the first always has to set up a lot of stuff before they can start diving deep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,474 Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 S1 started a little slow, but got really wonderful on its second half - the final two episodes are epic as fuck. S2 was more inconsistent, but it still had some brilliant episodes here and there: The Riddle of the Sphinx, Les Écorchés, Kiksuya, Vanishing Point, season finale The Passenger... There was Akane no Mai as well, but I wasn't exactly a fan of the episode, neither of Maeve's japanese saga. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 I got less interested in season 1 as it went on, actually. I thought the ending was annoying (Heaven protect us from eye-rolling "twists") to the point where I thought about not watching season 2, but I'm glad I did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,223 Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 I found that in Season 1 almost every episode had at least one cinematically thrilling sequence and the story built up to an exhilerating climax, and then Season 2 was rather flat and dull by comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,474 Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 Exciting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 Yea, can't wait for season 3! Catching up with BCS via a recap podcast now, hoping to finish in time for it's season 5 premiere; As soon as I'm caught up with that, gonna check out the same guys' Westworld recap podcasts and hope to catch up before WW season 3 starts. I'm glad season 3 looks like it will be pretty different from seasons 1 and 2 Arpy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 Larger version of the poster https://i.redd.it/krvjaf0a3jg41.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,474 Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 Oh gosh, I need this season, and I need it NOW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 Just watched the trailer. Wowzers, that got me more excited for the new season than I thought it would! It looks really really good. I've been so hyped for the return of Saul I've kind of backburnered any thought about this. It's gonna be a fun end of winter with both these shows running Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 Homeland, Better Call Saul, Westworld.... It's peak TV! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,211 Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 I'm getting some strong Detroit: Become Human vibes from this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A. A. Ron 1,744 Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 Looks great to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpy 4,145 Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 Really interested to see who exactly Aaron Paul's character is and how each of the hosts operates in the outside world, however I'm thinking it's merely another rouse for yet another constructed world they must escape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 He makes meth for the hosts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 Writer-producers David Benioff and Dan Weiss have cameos in the upcoming third season of Westworld Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 Almost done with my recap podcasts for the first 2 seasons. I had forgotten a ton of details about what happened! If I have time I might want to watch the final 3 episodes of season 2 some time before Sunday night. Then again, it seems they are going in such a new direction for s3 it might not matter. Can't wait! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,211 Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 I keep forgetting this is starting to soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 Sunday night! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,474 Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Westworld season premiere was great! After all the complicated timelines, Jonah and Lisa did their best to simplify the story, making it easy for everyone to follow. And the show is simply gorgeous, with Singapore dubbing as a futurist Los Angeles. It's refreshing to see a vision from the future as told by our mentality these days, like a mix between Black Mirror and an updated, cleaner Blade Runner. Djawadi's score was decent too. I liked that it was mostly electronic during the episode, then he brought back mostly orchestral music from the season 1 finale for the ending scene. The trailer for the season that was up after the episode was very spoiler-y. Careful: Spoiler It's clear that Vincent Cassell is the architect behind the Rehoboam or something, and he'll try to recruit Maeve to battle Dolores. Also, the trailers spoiled that the host in Charlotte's body is Teddy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 And has Evan Rachel Wood been working out? Because aw man, she's flaunting a figure in Season 3 that's making me grow a new organ. Fark! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Haven't watched the premiere yet but this gif made me laugh That's some Succession energy right there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,529 Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 I have to say I didn't understand much of the first episode. I'm probably more stupid than most, but I have problems with intrictate plotlines, especially if they involve a lot of corporate intrigue, such as this. Unlike Edmilson above, I thought this was far more complicated than any of the previous seasons. Hopefully, it will make more sense eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,094 Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 6 minutes ago, Thor said: I'm probably more stupid than most If taking this forum as the baseline, I'd say you're not! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 I'm with you Thor. I thought this was supposed to be a more straight forward season after all the complaints about how needlessly convoluted season 2 got by the end, but I have to say I thought the season premiere was just as needlessly convoluted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 You guys seriously couldn't follow this episode? Wtf Edmilson and A. A. Ron 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 No, you're putting words in my mouth. I never said I couldn't follow it. I said it was needlessly convoluted. There's a difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,529 Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 It's why I far prefer shows like BETTER CALL SAUL these days. It has tons of complexity, but it's BENEATH the surface, while the plot itself is always very clean, lean and straightforward -- and with plenty of pauses to take in whatever's happening or wherever the characters are, or how they're connected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 9 minutes ago, Jay said: No, you're putting words in my mouth. I never said I couldn't follow it. I said it was needlessly convoluted. There's a difference. I found it rather simple. Delores is plotting something on the Delos corporation, and Jesse Pinkman is a blue collar guy who needs money to help pay for his sick mum's hospital care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,474 Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 Well, let me try to explain it: Dolores, played by Evan Rachel Wood, is a host (artificial beings) that achieved conscience that she was nothing but a toy on a western thematic park for rich people to play (as in to rape and to murder). With that knowledge, she brought other hosts to her growing army, took control of Westworld, slaughtered Ford (played by Anthony Hopkins) and members from the board on the season 1 finale. By season 2, she discovered that Delos (the company that runs Westworld and all the other theme parks) was studying ALSO the humans that visited the park, through some device on their hats, hoping to gather data about human behavior. So, she freed the hosts, put their consciousness on some sort of hidden cloud storage, and escaped the park using a host that looks like Charlotte (the member from the Delos board played by Tessa Thompson), taking with her five host brains. Once in the outside world, she rebuilt her own body, put one of the brains in the host that looks like Charlotte, and set out in a quest to destroy humanity and get revenge for the years of rape and torture she suffered. By season 3, she was disguising as a powerful businesswoman to gain access to some of the world's most powerful AI companies. She gained access to the heir of Incite, whose father built a sophisticated AI called Rehoboam, which apparently functions by choosing which jobs are more compatible to every person. However, she was discovered by Incite's head of security. After the gunfight scene on S03E01, she put another host brain inside a host that looks like that head of security. Since Liam, the heir, doesn't know how Rehoboam works, she'll try to find the only person that can do that: the architect that worked on it. However, when Dolores escaped Westworld, she also took with her another host brain: the one of Bernard (played by Jeffrey Wright), the host modeled on one of the founders of the park. Bernard doesn't agree with the bleak view she has of mankind, and will try to stop her. But Dolores already has an strategy for that: use the host using Charlotte's body to convice the world that Bernard was the responsible for the massacre in Westworld on the season 1 finale. Therefore, poor Bernard is being hunted worldwide. Finally, we have Aaron Paul's character, Caleb. He apparently is a soldier that suffered through some kind of trauma while at service, and is now trying to find a job. However, Rehoboam (that, as I've said, has the goal of finding the most adequate job for each person) can't find him anything. So, he tries to survive and take care of his mother by using an app that helps him commit small crimes. During the climax of S03E01, Caleb encounters Dolores, and during this season we'll see how them interact. Any doubts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 47 minutes ago, Edmilson said: During the climax of S03E01, Caleb encounters Charlotte Dolores Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,474 Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 41 minutes ago, Jay said: Delores Precisely, typo fixed, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,378 Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 ‘Westworld’ Season 3 Premieres Down 57% From Last Season Will season 4 still happen? Edmilson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 Maybe more people are taping shows now to watch them later? Like waiting for them all to air so they can just watch them all in one hit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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