^^that article is bang on.
I'll revert back to my comparison with True Detective season 1.
The show may be actually about its character driven plot, themes of humanity and entertainment and a major mind #### twist but when all people care about is shocking twists like TWD and wild mysteries like Lost, they are gonna be disappointed if the payoff isn't some huge reveal.
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Partly it’s that whatever cleverness you may feel at guessing the ending surely must be diminished when there are thousands of potentials floating in the ether, a few surely right just by random. But more to the point, it seems to reduce the wild expanse of narrative to essentially a Rubik’s cube, something to just be turned around and futzed with until every side is duly monochromatic.
That’s doubly a shame for a show like Westworld which is asking questions about humanity and posing any number of other straight and metafictional questions and problems: what drives us, what we want out of our entertainment or each other. Rather than grapple with that – perhaps turn inwards and actually allow ourselves to be affected by a piece of art – a lot of us are left just trying to solve it, no greater thrill or insight, apparently, than learning a new way to untie knots.
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