OT - Westworld season finale (Spoilers)
Anyone watching the Westworld season finale? Though I've watched every episode, I'm struggling to understand just what the fuck is going on. Really felt they've totally spun their wheels in this entire season. Maybe these last 40 minutes will change my mind....
I thought the season finale was really good and really tied in the whole story really well. I really have to give props to the creators for creating such an interesting world and conflicts between characters that are gray without a clear right or wrong.
MIB shooting his daughter is clearly wrong.
Nah, I'm pretty sure that the post-credit scene took place WAY in the future, with both of them being host versions of themselves, simply running a fidelity test.
i agree about the post-credit scene but MIB killing his daughter is i think real. i think that was analogous to the cornerstone scene james delos telling logan to get off his yard and somewhat having a hand in logan's overdose death.
Oh, I misunderstood. I thought you were saying that the scene wasn't real when you said it was "Wrong". I need to read better clearly.
The biggest question I have his: why does Bernard need glasses?
I believe it is because he is based on Arnold, and Arnold wore glasses.
In season 1 we saw Ford work to help Bernard mimic the exact glasses cleaning process that Arnold would perform as he pondered his response to a question.
Also, Delores ran over 11,000 tests of Bernard to try to get him to be exactly like Arnold.
I think the Bernard at the end that did not wear his glasses, portrayed more of his own personalty, his Bernard-ness if you will, as opposed to just being an Arnold replica.
makes him look smart.
Everything tied together super nicely, right up until that last scene. Now I have so many questions.
Way too much bouncing around all over the place on this show.
I’m with OP here...the first season was interesting without being overly complex. This season was an attempt to be M Night Shyamalan from the Sixth Sense, but it just doesn’t land. The whole season just felt....off, and the pacing of the season didn’t do the plot any favors. After watching this season, including the final post credit scene, I’m honestly not convinced they have enough of a story to tell to validate a 3rd season. It wasn’t as bad as season 2 of True Detective, but it wasn’t great either.
i loved true detective season 2... maybe it's because i watched it a whole year after it's original run and already heard so many complaints about it.
After thinking about it a bit today and reading up a bit, I think my critique of this season is the result of three items.
1. I thought we were going to see the outside world; I thought we were going to get some insights to how Westworld fits into the real world and what happens when the hosts enter that real world. Therefore, I had the feeling of wheels spinning. The real-time covered in the season couldn't have been more than a week, right?
2. Jumping. All. Over. I struggled to follow one episode to the next. Three entire 1-storyline episodes (The William/Delos episode, which I liked. The Shogun episode. The Ghost Nation episode). That plus timeline jumps that were much more difficult to follow.
3. I simply don't care for the hosts. I haven't been sold on their humanity. I think Dolores, as a character, sucks (whereas Maeve is much more interesting). Dolores' lack of empathy made it easy for me to not recognize the hosts' humanity. For this season to hold one's interest, I think you needed to be invested in the hosts' battle for humanity, and I still am not. They're just robots to me. Bernard was probably supposed to get the audience to that point, but I honestly was just ALWAYS confused when he was in a scene.
Sorry, can't find the editor and go back and put paragraph tags in there.
I got this figured out.
Season 3: Dolores slowly puts humans on a track that ends in the building of Skynet and terminators. Arnold is actually revealed to be Arnold Schwarzenegger. Very nice ending, tied up with a bow. You heard it here first.