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Westworld Season 4 - Teaser Trailer (HBO, June 26th)
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Once they showed how easy (ie, extremely) it was to change a host's entire personality and goals - like a third of the way into S2? - I was hard out. Nothing mattered anymore. A bunch of lunatics letting appliances kill people because they're too lazy to fiddle around on an iPad and/or they're too invested in their sex toys.
This show more than almost any other convinced me that robots will never be people.
This show more than almost any other convinced me that robots will never be people.
I enjoyed season 1 so much that I'm in for this. Season 3 was a let down, but there were some interesting ideas buried in there. I felt like the worldbuilding was the best part.
That being said, I think they really need to deliver a solid season, or I don't see how this show can keep going.
That being said, I think they really need to deliver a solid season, or I don't see how this show can keep going.
The fall from Season 01 - which I firmly believe is some of the finest television ever made - to S02 and S03 was borderline criminal.
But… I'm in.
But… I'm in.
I remember Nolan/Joy saying they wanted 5 seasons so we're almost there~ Remember that this is the other big budget show that fills in void Game of Thrones left.
Season 1 is one of the best seasons in modern TV and season 2 was pretty good as well, but that third season was just plain boring and filled with baffling choices from the writers.
This looks like more of season 3 and I will watch it, but at this point it feels like the show has run its course.
This looks like more of season 3 and I will watch it, but at this point it feels like the show has run its course.
Nah - you really, really don't need to bother with this one at all.
At least Westworld S2 had Episode 8, an episode so good I actually remembered it without googling
Can't say that for whatever happened in S3 tho :P
I enjoyed S3, honestly, but it's certainly a different animal than the slower, thought provoking Anthony Hopkins masterpiece we've seen before. It's fair to say I'm more invested in where it's going than what it is, which I guess is mild criticism.
It's been awhile. Covid really destroyed the shooting schedule. But here is roughly how it went:
It's been awhile. Covid really destroyed the shooting schedule. But here is roughly how it went:
- Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) has to adjust her plan to take over the world when she discovers that human society is already controlled by an AI ("Rehoboam") that is trying to prevent the collapse of civilization. It periodically eliminates people to prevent this, AKA "Minority Report". A delicious irony to her - humans controlled by AI - and something that slowly aligns her Caleb (Aaron Paul) a human targeted by the AI who still demands to exercise choice. Eventually, Dolores/original sacrifices herself to end Rehoboam, throwing the world into anarchy.
- Copies of Dolores are discovered in multiple hosts (Charlotte the Westworld company VIP, Connells the head of security, Sato the Shogunworld ronin) Although they are copies, they have been apart long enough to not all have the same agenda. Charlotte has trouble reconciling her human/dolores sides until her family is killed in a car bomb.
- Maeve (Thandie Newton) escapes a WW2 park and up making a deal to with the richest man on earth (Serac / Vincent Cassel) to (a) save Rehoboam and (b) kill Dolores. What's in it for her? A ticket to "The Sublime", the NPC heaven her daughter escaped to in S2. She switches sides in the end, realizing the cost of her deal. Maeve and Caleb look on at a city crumbling around them, Fight Club style.
- William (Ed Harris) escapes his asylum on a quest to kill all hosts, but on confronting Charlotte he is killed by a fresh host version of himself. Charlotte begins mass production of hosts at Delos HQ with her new ally/bodyguard/key stakeholder in Delos.
- Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) figures out that Rehoboam is only delaying the end, not preventing it. He ends up getting a key from Dolores into "The Sublime" to search for answers on how to rebuild. He wakes up in the real world, covered in dust, at the end of the season.
idk wtf is going on anymore
do they transform now?
If I'm not mistaken, the previous models of the hosts could do that.
Definitely thought the same. Watched S1 at the time S3 was just starting and it was amazing, checked reviews and saw that S2 was meh and S3 was a burning trackwreck based on the currently aired episodes so I basically have treated it as though the show ended with S1. Probably missed some cool bits, but also happy with how that season ended and glad to accept it as a series ending in my mind at least. The summary above sounds linteresting but also an absolute clusterfuck. Barring some miraculous change and salvation in S4, I can't imagine how it makes it past to another season because, as you said, I feel like the general vibe online was that this show was already dead and over.
In! Didn't hate the last season but pretty sure the creators have no idea where they are going. But all the actor are bringing their A game and it stays entertaining, and I didn't mind the indigenous semi-self contained one off that was a good allegory for the genocide they faced.
While it's selling itself as a high end meal when it's just Mcdonald's, the fries are always hot and the ketchup just right on the burger, lol
While it's selling itself as a high end meal when it's just Mcdonald's, the fries are always hot and the ketchup just right on the burger, lol
pretty sure they already slashed the budget based on how S3 looked at times
I don't remember anything about the show.
Tony Hopkins and that's about it.
I just struggle to care after S3. It was so meh.
In for more Evan Rachel Wood and Thandie Newton, I guess...?
In for more Evan Rachel Wood and Thandie Newton, I guess...?
Literally just a completely different show that started doing things that others had already done and better, and abandoned what was most interesting about it. It stopped being Westworld and started being less good Person of Interest.
The teaser looked interesting so I'll get back on the horse for one more rodeo. Let's hope S4 gets us back on track.
Season 1 remains one of the strongest single seasons of television for me. And a masterclass in being confident in your storytelling, and not caring if some of the audience figure out the plot twist. If you construct a competent and compelling mystery, then it won't matter if some people figure it out. Stop trying to fool Twitter/Reddit.
Season 2 largely forgot this lesson, but still had some great standalone moments. "Kiksuya" was fantastic and, fuck it, I LIKED Shogun World.
Season 3...outside of showing us the human world I honestly don't know what story they were trying to tell.
But still...I'm in.
Season 2 largely forgot this lesson, but still had some great standalone moments. "Kiksuya" was fantastic and, fuck it, I LIKED Shogun World.
Season 3...outside of showing us the human world I honestly don't know what story they were trying to tell.
But still...I'm in.
Binged all three seasons toward the end of last year. Seasons 1 and 2 were mostly great with a wealth of memorable moments, but I remember almost nothing about season 3. It's like my brain blocked it out. I remember Aaron Paul being even more grating and out-of-place than usual, which was surprising because he was already an extremely bad actor prior to this. I remember Dolores being in futureland and meeting up with him. And...an evil technology overlord guy? No clue.
Either way I'll be watching this, so I guess HBO wins.
Either way I'll be watching this, so I guess HBO wins.
Aaron Paul is a great actor. Misuse of his talents on Westworld with all the mystery surrounding his character not amounting to much.
I couldn't get past the first however many episodes of season 2 I watched. Can't remember how far I made it in, or what was happening really, just that it was structured in such an obtuse way that the basic narrative felt like a fucking puzzle which might eventually be solved if you're patient enough to stay on board to the end. It's just that the puzzle pieces it was delivering on the way were starting to look like a jigsaw of a blank overcast sky and I got bored.
A show about killer robot cowboys and samurai shouldn't have been that boring.
A show about killer robot cowboys and samurai shouldn't have been that boring.
