Westworld - Cancelled

Watched the 90 min season finale last night on-demand (X1) because it looks a lot better than Comcast's HBO broadcast, for some reason.

While there were a few things they might have left open, (I might take that back if I re-watched) they actually made sense of almost every plot-thread that had everybody so confused early on. I had a really good idea what was going on with the man in black a few episodes ago, which meant of course, this is a different timeline... Then you realize there are two completely different host awakenings, over quite a big time gap... Maeve inevitably must be Delores 2.0, and so on.

It all really makes sense, and not a much like "Lost", but more like "Pulp Fiction"! You only are confused because the timeline is out of sync in the narrative. In fact, if someone edited this show in chronological order (and I'm sure someone will), I would bet that it would be pretty slow moving and probably not very confusing at all. I don't want to say boring, but probably tedious.

I may have known some key points of what was going on by the finale, but I thought it was still very well put together, and was highly enjoyable. I probably won't watch the whole season over, but I may watch some early episodes over, since they will be seen in a totally different light. One cool thing is that the first season completely stands on its own, as an entire story. I'm glad that they did that. I heard that season 2 only got picked up a few weeks ago, so it makes sense to have a contained story for at least the first season, even if they left the obvious setups for beyond that.


Thank you! If I hadn't seen that yesterday, I probably would have have stopped at the credits, since I watched on-demand. There were some interesting things going on there.

Is it out of chronological order? Seemed to me as though everything happened as it did, the only exception would be the man in black story, and even the ending to that story should have been evident very early on to those paying attention.

I enjoyed the show though. Have seen a lot of people putting it down but I found it interesting and didn't get bored once. The casting was perfect. The performances were all on point. The constant wavering of evil and good for both sides was clever in the greater context of the story.

I could easily and gladly binge watch the entire series again....and am looking forward to seeing season 2.
 
Is it out of chronological order? Seemed to me as though everything happened as it did, the only exception would be the man in black story, and even the ending to that story should have been evident very early on to those paying attention.

I enjoyed the show though. Have seen a lot of people putting it down but I found it interesting and didn't get bored once. The casting was perfect. The performances were all on point. The constant wavering of evil and good for both sides was clever in the greater context of the story.

I could easily and gladly binge watch the entire series again....and am looking forward to seeing season 2.

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As far as I could tell, is in chronological order. It's just that they purposely leave you in the dark to the fact that there are 3 separate timelines, which is of course the key to understanding exactly what's unfolding right in front of your face, since the first episode.

You could call this the main spoiler, imo.
 
Finally finished it last night. Very unusual, but I really enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would.

One thought I have on this is it seemed like while WestWorld was populated by robots trying to evolve to consciousness, the Park invited humans to Devolve there; a prime example being the Man in Black. I do think MiB always had a darker side, but his personality was balanced with a noble side and over time that was cast off. I almost wonder if that is why he was intuitively drawn toward the Maze puzzle. He came to WestWorld and lost his humanity and in a way violently seeking towards the deeper meaning of the maze to become whole again like he used to be.


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Now I'm really going out on a limb with speculation here, but while MiB was shot, I don't think we saw him die. I really wonder if he could surprise us and step on a path of redemption. Maybe what he needed was someone to break him or be able to stand up to him.

Or worse for him, Maeve and the robots break MiB completely mentally and physically as payback doing to him what he had done to the robots; then with Delos Tech and Felix's help, rebuild him to serve their cause like a cyborg making Ed Harris' character into a new iteration of Yul Brynner character? I think this could be a fascinating deep theme of robots striving toward humanity while in a way humans can choose to become machines and each side is crossing paths.

Okay final thought, why did we see a room of Samurai Warriors being tested and trained? I think we are being teased for the complete overhaul of the park and Westworld is done. The park will be broken up into multiple other historic times as was done in the original sequel. I'm wondering if Season 2 will actually be FUTUREWORLD.



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I can't really remember how it ended, so I'm gonna have to re-watch some of the season before season 2 starts.

Is it a weekly show, or is it all at once?

I can't stand having to wait each week. GoT is killing me.
 
I can't really remember how it ended, so I'm gonna have to re-watch some of the season before season 2 starts.

Is it a weekly show, or is it all at once?

I can't stand having to wait each week. GoT is killing me.
It was weekly, and that is how the next season will probably play out.
 
I can't really remember how it ended, so I'm gonna have to re-watch some of the season before season 2 starts.

Is it a weekly show, or is it all at once?

I can't stand having to wait each week. GoT is killing me.
It ended in a massacre.
 
Just finished watching this a few weeks back, which works out since it had a bigger downtime between seasons. Overall great show and honestly one of the things I found most interesting was the samurai stuff and the tech saying something along the lines of it being a long story. I feel like there might be something bigger to the overall world that we don't know yet.
 
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Just finished watching this a few weeks back, which works out since it had a bigger downtime between seasons. Overall great show and honestly one of the things I found most interesting was the samurai stuff and the tech saying something along the lines of it being a long story. I feel like there might be something bigger to the overall world that we don't know yet.

It's definitely one of the better shows going. HBO's next big thing, i think. The story kinda feels all over the place, but eventually i was able to get into it. Even if it didn't make much sense, i really like the setting. TV man, there's too many good shows right now and that's a good thing.
 
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Just finished watching this a few weeks back, which works out since it had a bigger downtime between seasons. Overall great show and honestly one of the things I found most interesting was the samurai stuff and the tech saying something along the lines of it being a long story. I feel like there might be something bigger to the overall world that we don't know yet.

I feel like it's supposed to represent our own world somehow. But I always get that feeling.
 
I tried to like it but didn't. I couldn't get behind any of the characters other than from Bernard Love and it seems as if Anthony Hopkins plays the same character in everything he is cast in. And William; I couldn't get Liam McPoyle from It's Always Sunny In Philly out of my mind when watching him.
 
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I usually just watch trailers but not sure I want to know anything about season 2 before going in so I'm going to skip this.

Did they give a release date, or hint anything like that?
 
My two favorite genres are sci fi and westerns and I couldn't get past the 6th episode. It just felt like an overly drawn out episode of Black Mirror or something.
 
It's back. Not sure if I'll wait and watch all 10 episodes over a couple days or watch it weekly
 
Ended up watching and Enjoyed that a lot. Good to have the show back and it's looks like it's going to be darker and a lot more violent
 
With how bad things have already gone im not sure how they will do 5 seasons
 
Got a bit lost several times in the finale but still Cracking tv.

5 timelines was maybe a bit much but be sure to watch the credits.
 
I worry about how they keep this interesting but I was worried after the first season

Best show on HBO