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10-17-2016, 05:08 PM #26
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10-17-2016, 05:10 PM #27
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10-17-2016, 08:24 PM #28Registered User
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Seems complicated.
Maybe even messy.
More so with each episode; not a good sign.
And this is only the inside; best not to further mess things up with the outside.
Unless the outside is actually causing the inside??
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10-17-2016, 08:50 PM #29
Disappointed so far, not the least of which is the math. For $40k a day I can kill 5-10, what-$5 m robots? Giving the day rate was akin to being told about midichlorons...
so far we are at network+ storytelling, but certainly lacking as compared to the best HBO stuff.Life of a repo man is always intense.
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10-17-2016, 09:07 PM #30Funky But Chic
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10-17-2016, 09:20 PM #31
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10-18-2016, 07:12 AM #32Registered User
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..... although (non-spoiler alert) that repair protocol is about to go horribly sideways.
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10-18-2016, 10:55 AM #33
Westworld
Life of a repo man is always intense.
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10-18-2016, 01:54 PM #34
^ lighten up francis. it's TV.
"Can't you see..."
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10-18-2016, 04:15 PM #35
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10-18-2016, 04:41 PM #36
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10-18-2016, 06:55 PM #37
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10-18-2016, 10:32 PM #38
Like a real life role playing game.
First episode was interesting. Second episode held my attention. Now it just feels like the show is being made up as they go along. What is this even about?
Despite the stacked cast and great production I'm not getting my hopes too high.
Whats her name that plays the blond robot is very good at her job.::.:..::::.::.:.::..::.
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11-01-2016, 07:30 AM #39Registered User
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This is getting to be a lot of effort. I'll see it out to the bitter end, but I'm not recommending it to anyone except OCD nerds.
No, I'm not one myself - just committed to my initial investment.
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11-01-2016, 08:49 AM #40
I'm totally absorbed in this show. The acting has been great. During the first few episodes, I was trying to guess where this was going. There are lots of theories out there (for instance, we are seeing two time periods, William is the Man in Black 30 years later). After this last episode, I decided to just go for the ride and watch with the idea we are seeing everything in current time (more or less). There are robot memory flashbacks, but I'm going with the action is all current.
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11-01-2016, 09:45 AM #41
William = the man in black is what I'm rolling with right now. Would tie a lot of it together.
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11-01-2016, 12:37 PM #42
Good question and, increasingly, that seems to be the point of the show. It is a puzzle as much as it is a narrative. Right off the bat, I noticed an odd lack of context to the setting and mistook it for a fault. But it's not. We were meant to pick up on that. The lack of a fixed where and when is part of the puzzle and also a cue that this is all a big puzzle. Personally, I think the show has been getting better as it starts to mess with our expectations and, imho, that's why the show may feel like it "is being made up as they go along." You aren't watching the linear show you expected. To me, it feels like there aren't many superfluous moments in the show. All the scenes have important information for the viewer, but teasing out what it is can be frustrating, to say the least. Basically, its like doing a puzzle without getting to look at the box.
Keep in mind that Jonathon Nolan (Christopher Nolan's brother) who wrote Memento is behind this and that movie was one long mindfuck playing with both time and memory. That narrative featured an unreliable narrator operating on false memories in two parallel timelines, one running forward and the other running in reverse. We may have something similar going on here with split timelines and "memory loops".Last edited by neckdeep; 11-01-2016 at 02:40 PM.
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11-01-2016, 01:20 PM #43Registered User
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So , it's like telemarking, right?
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11-01-2016, 03:24 PM #44
Having major issues with the walking dead violence, and really am enjoying this show. For christ sakes, people, is just a story. On TV. and HBO has a pretty good track record when they are making big bets.
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11-01-2016, 03:32 PM #45
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11-01-2016, 05:41 PM #46Registered User
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Kind of hard to find the story so far, though, isn't it? We all know what it's fundamentally supposed to be - androids gaining sentience and what they do with it, but there seems to be so many detours, some of which could be entire storylines on their own, that it's somewhat distracting.
Taken as a whole, there's no denying the quality throughout the show, there's just that little, minor issue of cohesion. I'm not saying it isn't credible - that claim has no relevance here. If you think things will eventually sort themselves out, however, I'm guessing you're going to be disappointed. There's still plenty of enjoyment to go around though.
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11-01-2016, 05:48 PM #47
Maybe a spoiler alert (not really), but looking forward to this episode from Sunday night. Through 3 ep's so next-ish? . Old enough to remember seeing original back in the day, but also old enough to not remember much. Need to re-visit it at some point.
http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/west...on-1201905284/
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11-02-2016, 07:06 AM #48
The orgy scene was, 'meh'. It was so peripheral to the main characters I didn't really pay much mind to it.
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11-03-2016, 10:35 AM #49
Have some faith. Jonathon Nolan has a track record for writing meticulously crafted stuff. As I mentioned, he wrote his brother's break through film, Memento, and co-wrote The Prestige and two of the Dark Knight films. I seriously doubt he's going to pull a Lost on the audience. When you consider Christopher Nolan's Inception, as well, you can see the Nolans' films usually feature a central mystery and that they like to keep the audience a bit off-balance until the reveal. These are all films that can be watched more than once. Just sit back and try to follow the clues.
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11-03-2016, 04:39 PM #50Registered User
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I actually think Westworld is better than Inception (so far) - better characters, scenery/setting (thought the morphing of the habit in Inception just became cartoonish and Matrix-like; oh and Dicaprio was incorrectly cast as the lead) but I definitely see your point.
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