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

[JirinPanthosa]

One detail I haven't seen a little discussion over is as soon as Azacetcha crossed over. After he crossed, his wife appeared and they embraced.

Did she materialize from his memory of her, or did Ford secretly pre-upload the decommissioned hosts?

 

[Mudd]

The show's racking up the Emmy nominations...

 

[Snaploud]

The show's racking up the Emmy nominations...

Yep. Game of Thrones and Westworld lead the nominations. Yet the head of AT&T (who seems like a horrible boss and is now, due to a merger, responsible for HBO) says HBO (an actually profitable company) should expect a lot of hardship at it switches to a model more like Netflix (which expects to lose money for several more years).

 

[crookeddy]

Yep. Game of Thrones and Westworld lead the nominations. Yet the head of AT&T (who seems like a horrible boss and is now, due to a merger, responsible for HBO) says HBO (an actually profitable company) should expect a lot of hardship at it switches to a model more like Netflix (which expects to lose money for several more years).

Yeah they are going quantity over quality under this bozo. Sad.

 

[Owain Taggart]

The show's racking up the Emmy nominations...

For what? Most confusing TV show?

 

[The Nth Doctor]

For what? Most confusing TV show?

Cue DigificWriter: "But it's not that confusing! You just need to pay attention!"

 

[RJDiogenes]

That news item was actually about Emmy nominations for season four, but we won't know that until season seven.

 

[Mudd]

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Now that's a version of Friends I would love to watch.

 

[Mudd]

It's nice to see that Bernard and Elsie have worked through their differences.

 

[Mudd]

Damn straight.

HBO boss defends Westworld after backlash: 'Not for casual viewers'

“We’re thrilled about the Emmy nominations. What I love about Westworld is that the people who love it really love it. Even the people who dislike it feel the need to discuss it and talk about it and let you know they dislike and debate it. And for a show to arouse that kind of feeling, that’s what we want.”

 

[DigificWriter]

WestWorld's problem in Season 2 isn't that it was "too confusing"; it's problem is that it tried to be too clever in the way it ended and consequently wasted its own narrative momentum.

 

[Mudd]

It did nothing of the kind.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Season 2 didn't have all that much narrative momentum to begin with, to be honest. All those twists upon twists didn't amount to much and only slowed things down. The season was better when it stripped things down to its bare essentials which is when it shined. The real issue for me this season was the storytelling, because quite frankly, the story wasn't as good as the first season and much of the potential set up by the first season seemed to have been wasted. We can argue all day about whether it was too confusing or not, but I really feel that the narrative wasn't up to par with the first season and that is a quality issue.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Season 2 tried too hard to be clever and came off like a bad hash of ideas ripped from Memento and Slaughterhouse-Five.

 

[JD]

Season 2 is finally up for purchase on Amazon's video service. I'm going to finish up some of the other stuff I've been watching on Netflix and Amazon Prime shows before I start it.

 

[Mudd]

I'd say that season two of Westworld is my second-favorite season of science fiction/fantasy television in the last six or seven years...at least. It was great.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Season 2 didn't have all that much narrative momentum to begin with, to be honest.

That's exactly it. The actual story in season two could have been told in a two-hour movie. They threw out some red herrings, but most of the season was an epic spaghetti Western.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

So is there going to be a season 3? Presumably, it would take place outside of Westworld, apart from perhaps in the virtual reality version that was uploaded somewhere outside the control of Delos. No point in returning to the real one. Perhaps Westworld could also be an augmented reality - overlaid on the real world - as seen through the eyes of some of the protagonists. I assume Dolores has a Plan...

 

[Terok Nor]

Westworld apparently isn't for casual fans. I watched it every week and still thought Season Two sucked. Not a casual viewer.

Season One was superb. Perhaps it should have ended there.