Didn't watch the movie or the trailers so just went into the show blind

Thought it was great!

well that was a pretty fascinating watch. There's so much they can do with this world, makes me glad that they made this a series. Seems to fit much better (granted I haven't actually seen the original movie though)

The scenes in the real world were a lot less interesting overall, but they did start getting better near the end in the interrogation scenes at least

Really liked the classical renditions of modern songs, especially Paint It Black

also that ending. So subtle but brilliant

That was an exceptionally captivating pilot episode. I'm hooked!

I agree that the scenes in the West World were more interesting than the ones in the real world, but I had fun trying to pin point who androids from the real world will be - there has to be at least one who is, no?.

My money is on the black programmer dude - he seemed a little too fascinated by the facial expression of his colleague.

Watched this last night with the wife; both of us had seen the movie previously and so knew the concept.

Pros:

I am interested in seeing where they go with the plot, though in some ways it seems less a rehash of the Westworld movie and more an adaptation of Whedon's Dollhouse to a planetary environment.

I'm looking forward to the potential of them including some of the other parks that started breaking down in the movie (Roman and Medieval environments). My understanding is that the underground "storage facility" is a throwback to the Westworld movie sequel that I did not see.


Cons:

I think we could have gotten the concept for The Man in Black across without having a rape in the very first scenes of the movie, but perhaps I'm more sensitive here. He butchered the boyfriend and the family- we get it- he's a bad guy. We get to watch him scalp the card dealer later. The rape just seems overly gratuitous.

It was a bit more confusing trying to determine why they were keeping the obsolete and defective androids around. Obsolete is one thing, but if we have unfixable ones like Delores' dad, why not just destroy him. Looks like it is too obviously setting up a future plot here.

vladykins @ 5/10/2016 12:09

Cons: I think we could have gotten the concept for The Man in Black across without having a rape in the very first scenes of the movie, but perhaps I'm more sensitive here. He butchered the boyfriend and the family- we get it- he's a bad guy. We get to watch him scalp the card dealer later. The rape just seems overly gratuitous.

theory

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I think there might be something more to that scene; i.e. I'm not 100% convinced that he actually did rape her. iirc he kept his words just vague enough that it could be left up to interpretation After the scalping scene, I think it's clear there's a lot going on with Man in Black's ultimate plan. So it's very possible that he did something similar with Delores - trying to find information (which I'm guessing would've involved cutting her open, but...still) rather than being a pure sadist

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I think the implication was pretty strong, between his "You don't remember me sweetheart, even though I've been coming here for 30 years now?" as well as his later "I don't have time for that, sweetheart." line in town. You could be right that he didn't actually rape her and did something to her in the barn to mess with the programming.

My friend told me he had heard from many of his friends this was shit.

I watched the first two episodes and thought it was great, loved it!

^ I had no idea Episode 2 was already out til you said that. Just watched it

This reminded me of Red Dead Redemption even more than the first ep did. I love that aspect though, of it essentially being an ultra-realistic sandbox videogame. I hope there's more scenes to come like the Man in Black's (just less sadistic) where we get to follow certain guests as they forge their own storylines. I'm guessing that might be the case with this new nice guy

And I like that that aspect hasn't been dropped at all, I was a bit worried after the end of the first episode that the main focus would become the hosts' uprising. That's definitely still a major subplot but there's a lot more going on than just that

Also I thought Odyssey on Red River sounded pretty good :(

Dug the pilot, cool show!

I did have some gripes with it though, the main one being that the guests only appear to be periphery characters at the moment. The premise of the show is that this is a hyper realistic theme park. It would make sense to show more from the perspective of its guests, and I'm hoping this changes in future episodes. There are no obvious main characters in that role yet. They just seemed to be tacked on in the pilot.

Also, this is a bit of a nitpick but it seems silly that the park is reset every night even though the guests seem to stay longer.

Anyway, that's really all I could pick fault with. It was very enjoyable, and ill deffo be watching more.

Wait how was episode 2 already out..? Is it not a Sunday night show?

so who wants to buy me HBO

itsbrianyay @ 9/10/2016 19:39

Wait how was episode 2 already out..? Is it not a Sunday night show?

They released episode 2 a couple days early on HBO Go/Now for some reason

v good show. ERW is goddess. Thandie Newton is goddess. Emmy's for both of them. Category fraud for Thandie if we have to. Go supporting.

The Bernard-bosswoman relationship thing was a bit of a surprise.

Boss lady is a host for sure. Hannibal Lester's mom or dead wife probably.