Wait, I don't understand. The technology in a fictional future of our own reality in the show, which is set ahead of our own technological progression, is something that doesn't align with our current understanding of physics and technology. They've only had the pilot and explained nothing. What's the deal?
Well, we've now had twice as much show and still no hint of a logical explanation.
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I liked the second episode a lot. What a great show. No idea what's happening, but the visuals and sci-fi themes and actors are enough for me!
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It will be there Monday or Tuesday but I double checked and my recording for the show tomorrow at 9pm is still uninterrupted and I'm really looking forward to watching it. I love the show so far, I'm looking forward to having positive dialogue with differentiating opinions about it in this thread.
Wow what a truly great episode, I feel the show's greatest accomplishment in these first two narratives has been what it hasn't shown us, the mystery is still very strong. I feel what makes bad science fiction is when the writers have a tendency to over explain and to offer too much techno-babble. Rather than immersing its viewers in the world with details, things like flux capacitors, plasma fusion cores or whatever starts to make the body of work less believable. Talulah Riley is deadly gorgeous and while upon my first viewing of this episode all i did was stare at her, in my second watch i really appreciated the show giving me the character William who was also experiencing Westworld for the first time but still it didn't show or explain too much.
I read an article which pointed out that when you visit Disneyland, it doesn't really make much sense when you walk into the Haunted Mansion, only to board a cart that drives you through the attraction as if there's a tiny railroad within a house? Similar to how William enters an old west saloon, which suddenly turns into a train, its a jump in logic that is actually pretty easy to accept. Much of the rest of Westworld is the same, we don't know the details of how the hosts work, how big the park is, how bullets don't harm guests and so on because we don't need to know. That ruins the illusion, the perception is that this is real for the guests and for us the audience, too.
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I'm loving the Ed Harris man in black character and find it hilarious how Teddy has died in each episode, lol
I haven't watched the second episode, but in the first episode I was musing back to the original and it just seemed to be that they really ramped up the human on robot violence in the original. we had people brutally raping robots and outright killing them.
It just doesn't feel that way yet. We can point to the man in black
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but I'm not sure if he's actually human, or if he's a robot that believes he's human so firmly that he's overcome the limitiations
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I wonder if the Netflix way of releasing the whole season at once would have been ok for this, I only say this as I now have to wait patiently between episodes and its killing me.
I haven't watched the second episode, but in the first episode I was musing back to the original and it just seemed to be that they really ramped up the human on robot violence in the original. we had people brutally raping robots and outright killing them.
It just doesn't feel that way yet. We can point to the man in black
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but I'm not sure if he's actually human, or if he's a robot that believes he's human so firmly that he's overcome the limitiations
If he isn't human, then he even has the park people convinced, or are in on it. There was a scene in the control room where they discussed slowing him down because he'd already taken out a whole posse and they said something about him being able to do what he wants.
If he isn't human, then he even has the park people convinced, or are in on it. There was a scene in the control room where they discussed slowing him down because he'd already taken out a whole posse and they said something about him being able to do what he wants.
that's my twist on it.
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At some point I expect that he will be revealed as one of the original new builds that was all too human, and believed that he is to an extent human, and because of that I believe that he can shoot robots and kill them, and actually shoot humans and kill them, and because of his core beliefs and his too perfect nature, stop bullets.
I also believe that the creator of these robots built the gunfighter in private and knows that his creation is now rebelling and has self programmed
Just my theory though
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Can the man in black be shot by robots?
the way he casually took on the hanging party and then the Mexican guys cousins, was either over the top, he dodges 100 bullets, and takes out 4 guys with one of his, or he simply can't get shot and killed by them. Also looked like he got hit a few times by the Mexicans but it didn't effect him.
If he isn't human, I suspect he is kind of a "tester" bot that doesn't have his memory wiped. They monitor him and let him run free to see how he evolves. Everyone could be in on it, or only Hopkins' character knows, and everyone else thinks he is just a weird rich guy. I think they said he has been coming for 30 years? Maybe he is Hopkins' brother...
