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HBO's "Westworld", starring Anthony Hopkins/produced by J.J. Abrams

More and more questions keep popping up in my head.
Do they ever explain how things are contained to the park? We see the train traveling for quite a distance and we see Teddy and Delores riding pretty far through the desert, but we never see any kind of wall or force field, or even a reference from about not being allowed past a certain point. I'm assuming they must have some way to keep an ambitious host from riding off into the sunset, and then showing up in some a normal outside city.
Now that I mention the outside world, that brings up another point. Where are they?
If these are plot points then just a yes they address or no they don't is fine.
 
I saw in the credits that Micheal Chrichton had a story credit, was that just because he made the original movie, or was he involved with the show before he dies?
 
JD said:
More and more questions keep popping up in my head.
Do they ever explain how things are contained to the park? We see the train traveling for quite a distance and we see Teddy and Delores riding pretty far through the desert, but we never see any kind of wall or force field, or even a reference from about not being allowed past a certain point. I'm assuming they must have some way to keep an ambitious host from riding off into the sunset, and then showing up in some a normal outside city.
Now that I mention the outside world, that brings up another point. Where are they?
If these are plot points then just a yes they address or no they don't is fine.
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I think that artificial horses help with this. Horses will turn back to the town at some point so only way to continue is by foot. And then things start to get more wild further you go, so only really determined and skilled people go that far. No idea if there is actual fence at some point. And no idea where the park is actually located.
 
I've watched the next two episodes and I am loving it.
I think knowing about the timeline and some of the other spoilers is actually making it more interesting than if I didn't.
I know Bernard is a recreation of Arnold, so now that they've introduced the whole Arnold history, now I have to wonder what it all means for Bernard/Arnold. For instance when are the conversations with Delores happening, it seems like he's trying to wake her up to full consciousness, but then that brings up the question of when it's happening. Is it Bernard in the present trying to wake her up, or is it Arnold in the past? If it is Bernard is he actually doing all of it on his own, or did Ford simply give him his own narrative where he's continuing Arnold's work?
I thought it was pretty interesting seeing how Teddy's new narrative affected Delores's. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the timeline there. I also like how before they're slowly showing different parts of her and Teddy's original narrative each time instead of just replaying the same scenes each time.
I'm assuming what we saw with her having the flashbacks to the first version of her father and William/The Man In Black's attack was the present, but that very last scene of her walking up to young William's camp was actually in the past, and just the normal continuation of her narrative after the attack on the ranch.
 
@JD: It's hard to comment on your posts without getting into significant spoiler territory beyond what I think/suspect you may already be aware of, but I will say that a lot of your questions end up getting answered by the end of the season, so keep watching.
 
I hope you guys don't mind me posting my thoughts, if it's annoying I can stop.
 
Oh, I understand that, I just like having a place to get my thoughts out of my head.
 
Watched episode 4 today, no new questions, but a few comments.
It was nice to learn a bit more about Arnold, and we're really starting to get an idea here of just what the scale of Ford's new narrative is.
Damn, Anthony Hopkins is good at being creepy, without really doing anything creepy. The whole cast really is just giving great performances every episode.
Some nice new developments with The Man in Black 's search for the maze and what it's all about.
Maeve remembering the people who run the park was interesting, and I'm curious how all of that is going to play out. I'm thinking the Indians having them as part of their religion must be a safety precaution to explain away stories that might pop up about them.
I'm getting to be really curious how Young William and Delores's relationship will lead to what he did to her as The Man In Black.
I know when this came out some people were complaining about how they thought the way people treated the Hosts was unrealistic, but I really don't think it is. I just look around at the stories about how people treat other real people and animals when there will be real effects, and I don't doubt that there are a lot of people who would take advantage of place like WW where they can do whatever they want to whoever they want with no repercussions.
Hell, I play a lot of video games, and I won't deny I get pretty into it when it comes to the fights and stuff like that. I really that is the way to approach Westworld, as a really, really, really realistic video game. They pretty much treat it as that in the show itself, with all the references to it being a game.
 
I've just seen the first five. Just stunning and brilliant so far.

Wish I hadn't just read about "Bernard." C'est la guerre.
 
My interpretation is that the open sky is simulated and the park is actually closed in. I don't remember if anything contradicts that.

Hosts can not ride out of the park because they would just have a feeling they should not go that way, and if that ever failed and they ever chose to they would find their legs unwilling.

If I can accept the ability to simulate all weather conditions in a closed space in Truman Show I can accept it in a science fiction show set decades in the future.
 
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I can't remember the exact line, but I watched episode 4 this morning and it kind of gave me the same impression.
One of the great things in movies and shows is when you get two great actors together and just let them do their thing. I think we got that in the scene with Ford and The Man in Black.
We definitely got some hints of William's future in this one.
Elsie's discovery of the satellite uplink in the host was surprising, and I'm curious if/how that ties into everything else going on.
Some interesting little bits of world building, with the tech's reference to a "VR tank" and the description of what the outside world is like and why people come to Westworld.
The end was another surprise. I had expected Maeve to wake up, but not how she acted after she did.
 
We don't even know if Westworld is on planet Earth. It could be a self-contained biodome in another galaxy.
 
I thought they'd already said it was on Earth once the theory that they on the Moon started getting popular?
 
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