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About to pop in the original Westworld in the lead up to this. One of my favorite old sci fi movies none of my friends have ever seen it.

I'm a big Michael Crichton fan so I hope this is good.
 
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The Original
Season: 1
Episode: 1
Air Date: 2016-10-02

As another day of fantasy plays out in Westworld – a vast, remote park where guests pay top dollar to share wild-west adventures with android “hosts” – top programmer Bernard Lowe alerts park founder Dr. Robert Ford about incidents of aberrant behavior cropping up in some recently re-coded hosts. Meanwhile, in the Westworld town of Sweetwater, a rancher’s daughter named Dolores encounters a gunslinger named Teddy in the street – but their predictable narrative is upended by the appearance of a ruthless Man in Black and, later, by a supporting host’s unscripted encounter with an artifact of the outside world.

Testing out how this looks.

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Fucking loved it. I can't wait to watch the next episode.

Really liked the very early "twist".
That Teddy Flood was an android and not a newcomer, made it worse when Delores was dragged off after you thought Teddy was going to save her.
 
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Really liked it, and really strong start. Love how they leave a lot unexplained and not clear. Gonna go ahead and speculate all ready that at least one or all of the employees are also robots.
 
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thought it was a good start, i'll keep watching. one thing i thought was confusing was if the park is a physical location or it's some sort of matrix like dream world. i guess it would have to be the latter since guests can't get shot but then there's scenes with the staff physically moving around the park.
 
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CaughtCross said:
Really liked it, and really strong start. Love how they leave a lot unexplained and not clear. Gonna go ahead and speculate all ready that at least one or all of the employees are also robots.
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I agree, I believe some if not all are androids and he's experimenting with the aspect of them having autonomy and "self." Anthony Hopkin's character is deadset on creating a "perfect world" and possibly a way of immortality via androids. I have a feeling the Dolores is a replica of his real daughter (that may have died) or his past love, and the Teddy is a younger version of him.
 
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Think there's more to the Ed Harris/Delores "rape" scene than sex.

Great start
 
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This and Stranger Things are at the top of my list. If ST is as good as I've been told, then I'm waiting for a proper weekend to sit and relax cos I know I'm going to binge.

I'll watch Westworld on demand when I renew HBO for Thrones/Veep/Silicon Valley and avoid this thread from here on out like the plague.
 
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Springbok said:
Think there's more to the Ed Harris/Delores "rape" scene than sex.

Great start
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My guess is Ed Harris has something to do with the malfunction 30 years prior. A robot probably killed his son or daughter and he's going to fuck all these robots up until he dies.
 
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Rengak

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Call me crazy, but I don't think Anthony Hopkins made a mistake with the software update.
 
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Awesome so far. Love it when hype works out right.
 
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Hype exceeded. That was awesome.

Abernathy's speech was some chilling shit right there ;p
 
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Enjoyed the premiere. Thought the "Old West" versions of modern songs were done pretty well. Casting, acting and writing all seem damn good too. Only complaint is that I can't binge it.

Got a kick out of the show writers making the Westworld script guy an idiot. First thing I thought when he laid out his genius plan was "all it will take is one invincible guest to ruin your plan, fuckhead." When it actually happened I laughed my ass off.

As for all the speculation in this thread, if they go that route, might as well change the name to "Trope-World". Those are the very definition of predictable plotlines, as in boring as fuck.
 
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a_skeleton_03 said:
This show and American Gods are what I am really looking forward to coming up. That being said I think that Ian McShane is a little similar to Anthony Hopkins in that regard. All of his characters you can see a slight touch of psychosis.

I feel that Ian is the more vulgar and unrefined Anthony. Like they were twins separated at birth, one to a rich family and one to a family that had nothing.

Now THAT could be a good movie or show with them being the actors.
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Jimbolini

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Agree with posts here, very solid beginning....let's see what they do with it.
 
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