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Quote: zippyboy

Like you, I loved the movie, so I watched Westworld every Sunday till the end, and I didn't like it, here's why.

The intro with credits is tooooo long, like two+ minutes per episode.

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Quote: zippyboy

Like you, I loved the movie, so I watched Westworld every Sunday till the end, and I didn't like it, here's why.

The intro with credits is tooooo long, like two+ minutes per episode.

The stories are mostly told to the audience, rather than shown. Some stories are just too convoluted, like with Arnold and Bernard and Delores and Wyatt. It's like they force feed it to us and expect us to catch it as they say it, instead of just showing us simpler stories by acting them out. I watched every episode and still don't know what happened in the end, and I don't care.

I realize that hosts can be killed and guests can't. But there were a LOT of scenes where guests couldn't possibly by guaranteed their safety, like with the gattling gun during the train heist, or any bomb blast where shrapnel can go anywhere. How can all the guests possibly know all the other guests, and just shoot randomly? I get that hosts might know each other by invisible chips or bluetooth or whatever, but do bullets or arrows also have bluetooth and disintegrate before hitting a guest? So silly, since killing robots and screwing robot prostitutes is what Westworld is selling. Is that really worth the $40,000/day price? Man In Black has been coming back for 35 years just to kill Delores or something? Silly. Many scenes are robots wandering the streets or playing poker in the tavern killing each other even when there's no guests present! I envisioned the Sims computer game....would they kill each other while I'm at work, not watching? LOTS of scenes where hosts are taking guests out into the woods, and meeting with other hosts/guests, and shooting starts all over the place....how do guests NOT get shot?

Writers seemed to change storylines throughout regarding Hopkins' Ford character, or Ed Harris' man in black. Like, the early episodes wouldn't have gone that way given what we learn later in the series. That will become more evident for those who binge-watch. Like, why does MiB search for the maze so determinedly? How did he learn of it? Seems like a manufactured plot for no reason.

In the start, I thought the female leads weren't attractive enough to hold my interest. In a show with lots of nudity, Thandie Newton did a few scenes (nice), and wanted to see more Clementine (kinda on the fence whether she was fine-as-hell, or kinda oddball looking, finally decided she was fine-as-hell), and I never cared to see Evan Rachel Wood nude, and she never did. Maybe next season they can cast more nude-worthy actresses in a nude-friendly series. It IS HBO after all. Nice they cast that niece actress from Banshee, but then never nude? WTH? That girl fine!

I welcome feedback and explanations.

Quote: ams288

And the Ed Harris/maze stuff seems to me to be an attempt to give the show an overarching mythology a la LOST. Not sure I'm buying that.

Quote: Pacomartin

Nearly every fantasy or sci-fi television series has tried to install the overarching mythology.

Twin Peaks (1990) was all about the mythology and it only lasted 30 episodes

X-files (1993) would distinguish between the MOTW (Monster of the Week) episodes and the ones devoted to the mythology. That way they could attract new viewers while at the same time trying to make addicts out of the repeat viewers.

TV executives basically won't OK this kind of series anymore unless there is a mythology aspect to the show.

Quote: ams288

Then the next episode was one of the very best of the entire series: The Body.

Quote: Nareed

Babylon 5 had a mythology and even prophecies (because Sinclair --SPOILER!!). And history. It was part of the story arc, and done on purpose.

Quote: Pacomartin

January 26, 1994 Bablyon 5 series pilot

Quote: Nareed

More important, does it work on Chromecast? If not, there's on point to it really.