![]() Just when you finally get a grasp on what’s happening, it ends up tasting like old trout. It’s like trying to catch a fish with your bare hands. It’s a little hard to follow when they can suddenly become new characters entirely because PLOT TWIST! Trying to follow what’s happening in this show is just exhausting. But I’m completely lost on what is motivating these characters anymore. Westworld emerges as a multi-genre and multi-medial tour de force with a meta-filmic or meta-theatrical message at its core. Don’t get me wrong, the acting & cinematography are phenomenal as always. It feels like the writers have no idea what they’re doing anymore and are just running us around in circles like a dog chasing its own tail. It’s just plot twists for the sake of plot twists, time jumps for the sake of time jumps, and none of it adds any value to the story being told. ![]() Of course this season had plenty of the familiar Westworld plot twists, but it had none of the payoffs. But the moment that they moved on from Westworld, everything that I loved about the show was over and it became much less interesting to watch. I fell in love with this show because it was something new, mysterious, & sexy. This show’s greatest mistake was leaving the robotic theme park that was “Westworld”, and moving the story into such a generic dystopian real world. It was my hope that the show runners would reclaim their footing after a disastrous third season, but it seems they’ve decided to delve deeper into the same lifeless sci-if world that we all hated in Season 3. To be honest, I remember absolutely nothing that happened in those 8 episodes. It was my hope that the show runners would reclaim their footing after a disastrous third season, but it seems they’ve decided to delve deeper into Just finished Season 4. ![]() That's part of why it's been so hard for me to tell you about season two today I don't want to wax poetic about it at you, I want to theorize and argue about it with you all.Just finished Season 4. I love discovering that the park can't possibly be as small as we've been led to believe following along as Bernarnold is confirmed (as are so many Bernarnolds) watching Ford's narrative expand and take on new life and other even crazier ideas. Above all that though, I will admit I love the puzzles. I watch Westworld because it's beautiful, innovative and strikingly cinematic. flexible, and each person, host and being must define for themselves what is "real." There is definitely a season(s?)-long mystery awaiting us underneath it all, but the near future brings some quick answers. You will have far too many short- and long-term theories before the end of episode one, Journey Into Night and that's OK! What's great about this season is that many are answered shortly thereafter.As we all hunt for the Door and a certain father figure, the layers only get larger. With growth comes questions, and the parks are very, very large this season. This version of Westworld is perhaps even more mysterious than last season's The Maze.So when the Season 1 twist for Dolores occurs - it was a logical offshoot of her struggle to orient herself in the stream of time. But for hosts, each moment of the past is equally vibrant and clear - so it's easy for them to get confused without a mechanism for marking time. We know we are in the "now" because the feeling of it is less degraded than the "then". What characterizes human memory, for me, is degradation. Every detail, every nuance, every smell, sound, sight, and feeling is a precise recreation. When she remembers the past, she remembers a "full rendering" of it. But host recall is not like human recall. I recommend checking out the full conversation, but one of the most important parts is this answer from Lisa Joy:ĭolores in season one is a host who is trying to understand her world and remember her past. The show's creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy recently held an AMA on Reddit, and in between the shitposting (sorry, still bitter about the spoiler threat), touched on some key points about memories, what is real, and what it means to be conscious. Memories are still a bitch-and-a-half to sort through, and new looks at the internal workings of the hosts gives us a better idea of why time is so hard to decipher.(Have no fear, our Morning After After Show will help beginning April 23 subscribe to our limited-edition Westworld newsletter for more info.) You will still be constantly trying to figure out the timeline, and it will definitely still need constant tweaking to make every theory we have fit. Season two is just as timey-whimey as we've come to expect.So, here are some wide, sweeping categorizations for you: Put another way, I want to dissect every episode with you all right now but that would spoil the fun (and my computer just can't handle it). ![]()
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