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

DigificWriter said:
It's not just that the MiB said several times that he'd been coming to the park for 30 years; it's also the fact that the guns didn't harm him.
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He can say whatever he wants. People, and simulacrums of people, lie. A rogue robot who found a way to emulate human readings? Or a designer (Hopkins) who introduced a new breed of synthetics indistinguishable from biological humans to put chaos into the system? Is that really out of the question?

Granted, the writers have probably and sincerely flipped the Gunslinger story from the original Westworld. I'm just making suppositions for fun.
 
Mr. Adventure said:
Boy, you'd have to have a lot of faith that system wasn't going to fail! I figured the robots had some kind of squib system.
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From a real world perspective they probably want them to have guns that can pose a real danger to humans if/when the robots turn against them.
It doesn't look HBO is putting the season up on ITunes or Amazon, so I don't think I'm going to watch the premiere. I don't want to torture myself by having to wait almost a year before geting to see the second episode.
 
It was a pretty good premiere. The scenery was certainly fantastic, despite being digital, and we've got some nice tension and mystery. Interestingly, it seemed like some of the dialogue suggested that this is actually a direct sequel to the original.
 
I thought the pilot was good and got better as it went along.
I loved the bluff re Marsden's character, Ed Harris scares the crap out of me and am I alone in wondering that if any character is going to be analogous to Bryner it'll be Delores?

I thought some of the dialogue/acting was a little ropey, mainly the sweary English writer saying fuck every other word. It felt forced and he didn't sell it well. Hopkins was good, thought Rachel Evan Wood was excellent and sheesh Marsden just doesn't age does he? Wright is good but he does just play the same character in everything now doesn't he? Intrigued to see where this goes
 
As I've already pointed out, Ed Harris' Man in Black is the "reimagining" of the Yul Brenner character; he's just been changed into a human.
 
DigificWriter said:
As I've already pointed out, Ed Harris' Man in Black is the "reimagining" of the Yul Brenner character; he's just been changed into a human.
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But, if you think about it, they say she is the oldest model there and has been rebuilt multiple times. I think @Judge Death might be onto something.
 
DigificWriter said:
As I've already pointed out, Ed Harris' Man in Black is the "reimagining" of the Yul Brenner character; he's just been changed into a human.
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That does not preclude another character from taking The Gunslinger's place.

That said, I think it was a reviewer who praised the show for not being a cheap knockoff of the original Westworld where "oh no, something's gone wrong," making the show richer, deeper and more complex and lasting. I can imagine a show where the attraction is devastated by some catastrophe and it's up to a small team of stars to play Gilligan's Island, trying to get the complex back under control for seven years. I'm so glad it's not that.
 
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DigificWriter said:
I've seen a lot of people identify the opening V.O. interviewer being Jeffrey Wright's Bernard Lowe, but I was under the impression that we saw the direct continuation of that scene after the shootout and in that scene, she was being interviewed by Luke Hemsworth's character Stubbs, so I'm a little confused.
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The opening voice over is Bernard and the dialogue is almost the same as the scene with Stubbs. I don't know exactly what that means, but there it is.
 
I think my one hope is that it doesn't turn into another NuBSG; frankly by the time they randomly decided who the final five were I didn't really care, so if the Westworld staff turn out to be robots all along I'll be annoyed- if it's a single character that's fine, but I don't want weeks of who are humans and who are robots BS.
 
They've already mapped out a 5-year plan, Babylon 5-style, so the pitfalls of writing stuff as they go along should they get multiple seasons isn't going to be an issue, at least not the way some people feel like it was for BSG or for something like LOST.
 
They have? That's the first time I've heard that. Do you have an interview that you can link to?
 
Wright is good but he does just play the same character in everything now doesn't he?
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Not quite. I would say that his character in "Westworld" is very similar to his character in the "Hunger Games" franchise. But that's about it.
 
Nice, thanks! The article is a month old, but some of us didn't see that news. The article seems to be based upon the following quote - not from a producer or writer, but from an actor on the series. Not exactly the best source, but it's close. I'd have preferred it coming from Nolan.

It wasn’t about getting the first 10 [episodes] done, it was about mapping out what the next 5 or 6 years are going to be,” Westworld actor James Marsden says. “We wanted everything in line so that when the very last episode airs and we have our show finale, five or seven years down the line, we knew how it was going to end the first season – that’s the way Jonah and [executive producer J.J. Abrams] operate. They’re making sure all the ducks are in the row. And it’s a testament to Jonah and Lisa and HBO that we got them right, especially the last three scripts. They could have rushed them and get spread too thin. They got them right, and when they were right, we went and shot them."
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The quote mentions "Jonah," but I believe it meant "Jonathan [Nolan]." Nobody hires good editors, if any, any more.
 
I didn't know. The editor should have inserted "Jonah [Jonathan Nolan]" at first use into the quote in the same way JJ was expanded.

By the way, I was going to say at least Westworld won't end up like Lost, but commenter Lauro Rojas, below the article, says, "'We know how it's going to end', famous words that were said when Lost came out." Really?
 
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I wouldn't mind to see the other worlds as time goes on.

Edit: Sorry for the typo. I hate autocorrect.
 
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