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Thought the show was great. Didn’t have any difficulty following season 4. Was hoping they were finally headed to space in season 5. Tried to cancel my HBO sub

by ianai 4y ago

Thought the show was great. Didn’t have any difficulty following season 4. Was hoping they were finally headed to space in season 5. Tried to cancel my HBO subscription after this announcement. Only way to show disapproval. But it’s bundled with my internet service if I want the tier I’m in currently.

eurasiantiger 4y ago
I agree. The show was particularly well written, especially regarding world-building and character development. Shame there won’t be a conclusion to Ford’s narrative, I feel like we would have seen him again in season 5. Perhaps it was a bit too well-written; there were certainly times where it felt like the writers were entertaining their peers.
Melting_Harps 4y ago
> Was hoping they were finally headed to space in season 5 That would have been an interesting setting for sure. But, I just did a re-watch of it these last couple of months and I finished season 4 this weekend; Doloris clearly states it was going back to West World (wild West) in the last episodes. And the whole World was being re-built (from memory?) in order to play one last game [0]. To think this launched at the same time as Game of Thrones, which I never bothered with as it's just a mangled recount of the sordid dynasties and ruling classes of of former empires, but Game of Thrones was asking some much needed questions in regards to the implications of a Society more heavily reliant on technology. And while AGI will likely never come to fruition in my lifetime, 90s kid, it's still a rather good juxtaposition if it will just accelerate our demise and lead to our hasten extinction in this headlong pursuit and seemingly more dystopic existence. Sidenote: The Cyberpunk theme of season 3 was visually interesting, with some solid premise (the importance of free will rather than a dictatorship via technocracy) but woefully bad as a whole in it's execution. Zero HP Lovecraft's gig economy app was heavily influencing the RICO app plotline for sure. 0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QFTwl7OE90 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QFTwl7OE90
- ShamelessC 4y ago
  Yeah I mean I felt like it was clear-ish that Dolores was going to channel a Ford persona inside a big virtual simulation of the Wild West, probably eventually “remembering” him enough that he is technically reborn as immortal.
- Slow_Hand 4y ago
  The moment I realized that that was going to be the pretense for the final season (a simulation) I groaned out loud. That idea sounds exhausting to experience after seeing how the writers have handled things lately. I love dialogue-heavy shows, but the last two seasons of Westworld were needlessly ponderous and often melodramatic without a density of stimulating ideas to sustain interest. More often than not later episodes felt like never-ending exposition. You're just sitting there being told what IS or how the character feels without experiencing anything for yourself. Seemingly this final scenario (a simulation) would be super-fluid and un-moored from the internal consistency of a real-world setting, and that makes it hard for the viewer to give a damn about anything because the rules are so far beyond anything they can predict. So I was gearing up a full season of characters talking in a lofty manner with a diminished amount of substance at the core.
- gamblor956 4y ago
  To think this launched at the same time as Game of Thrones GOT launched in 2011, 5 years before Westworld.
  - Melting_Harps 4y ago
    > GOT launched in 2011, 5 years before Westworld. I stand corrected, I just recall everyone trying to get me to watch GOT and I was just exhausted telling them I wasn't interested in it when we spoke about WW. Since WW dealt with more pressing issues: the Human condition, and it's ever greater reliance on tech, and our collective extinction due to the aforementioned being inevitable unless we have a consciousness shift.
ShamelessC 4y ago
> Tried to cancel my HBO subscription after this announcement Fair enough, but while you still have it check out Succession and Barry. Not at all similar to Westworld, but both great shows.
- ianai 4y ago
  Barry’s good but i have a strong preference for sci-fi or at least fantasy.

by ianai 4y ago

eurasiantiger 4y ago

I agree. The show was particularly well written, especially regarding world-building and character development. Shame there won’t be a conclusion to Ford’s narrative, I feel like we would have seen him again in season 5. Perhaps it was a bit too well-written; there were certainly times where it felt like the writers were entertaining their peers.

Melting_Harps 4y ago

> Was hoping they were finally headed to space in season 5 That would have been an interesting setting for sure. But, I just did a re-watch of it these last couple of months and I finished season 4 this weekend; Doloris clearly states it was going back to West World (wild West) in the last episodes. And the whole World was being re-built (from memory?) in order to play one last game [0]. To think this launched at the same time as Game of Thrones, which I never bothered with as it's just a mangled recount of the sordid dynasties and ruling classes of of former empires, but Game of Thrones was asking some much needed questions in regards to the implications of a Society more heavily reliant on technology. And while AGI will likely never come to fruition in my lifetime, 90s kid, it's still a rather good juxtaposition if it will just accelerate our demise and lead to our hasten extinction in this headlong pursuit and seemingly more dystopic existence. Sidenote: The Cyberpunk theme of season 3 was visually interesting, with some solid premise (the importance of free will rather than a dictatorship via technocracy) but woefully bad as a whole in it's execution. Zero HP Lovecraft's gig economy app was heavily influencing the RICO app plotline for sure. 0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QFTwl7OE90 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QFTwl7OE90

ShamelessC 4y ago
Yeah I mean I felt like it was clear-ish that Dolores was going to channel a Ford persona inside a big virtual simulation of the Wild West, probably eventually “remembering” him enough that he is technically reborn as immortal.
Slow_Hand 4y ago
The moment I realized that that was going to be the pretense for the final season (a simulation) I groaned out loud. That idea sounds exhausting to experience after seeing how the writers have handled things lately. I love dialogue-heavy shows, but the last two seasons of Westworld were needlessly ponderous and often melodramatic without a density of stimulating ideas to sustain interest. More often than not later episodes felt like never-ending exposition. You're just sitting there being told what IS or how the character feels without experiencing anything for yourself. Seemingly this final scenario (a simulation) would be super-fluid and un-moored from the internal consistency of a real-world setting, and that makes it hard for the viewer to give a damn about anything because the rules are so far beyond anything they can predict. So I was gearing up a full season of characters talking in a lofty manner with a diminished amount of substance at the core.
gamblor956 4y ago
To think this launched at the same time as Game of Thrones GOT launched in 2011, 5 years before Westworld.
- Melting_Harps 4y ago
  > GOT launched in 2011, 5 years before Westworld. I stand corrected, I just recall everyone trying to get me to watch GOT and I was just exhausted telling them I wasn't interested in it when we spoke about WW. Since WW dealt with more pressing issues: the Human condition, and it's ever greater reliance on tech, and our collective extinction due to the aforementioned being inevitable unless we have a consciousness shift.

ShamelessC 4y ago

> Tried to cancel my HBO subscription after this announcement Fair enough, but while you still have it check out Succession and Barry. Not at all similar to Westworld, but both great shows.

ianai 4y ago
Barry’s good but i have a strong preference for sci-fi or at least fantasy.