JJ Abrams Turning Westworld into an HBO Series **SPOILERS WITHIN**

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  1. Ancalagon

    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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    So... yeah.
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  2. shootER

    shootER Insubordinate...and churlish Administrator

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    I was reading up a bit on the bicameral mind theory and it would...explain a lot...about ancient human history.
  3. Nova

    Nova livin on the edge of the ledge Writer

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    It wasn't stunning or anything (ep 10) - partly because so much had been previously theorized - but it came together fairly comfortably for me. On the whole I enjoyed it, though there are some plot threads that seems unnecessarily dangly (like, why bother to get Stubbs ambushed then never address him again?)

    I did like that it played out that Ford wasn't

    Also, like how they cleared up the remembered massacre.
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  4. Tuckerfan

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  5. We Are Borg

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    Solid fucking show. A+.

    Well done. :techman:
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  6. K.

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    Excellent, excellent stuff.

    I LOVE how there is no privileged observer in the whole show. All the confusion created by the unclear cognitive and psychological status of the hosts permeates every character's position, no one is spared, and the series as a whole has managed to completely avoid telling us what "it"/TPTB thinks consciousness really is.

    I wonder how the show will work next season, though. They can't do anything similar to this year, can they?
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  7. Forbin

    Forbin Do you feel fluffy, punk?

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    Loved Ed Harris' smile when he got shot, and realized his goal of halping them achieve free will had succeeded - even if it got him shot. :lol:

    Oh, and, Dolores fired a lot more than six from her six shooter there.
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  8. K.

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    That was so ostentatious I think it was deliberate. This isn't the Wild West, after all.
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  10. Steal Your Face

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    Just finished the first episode. Oh...my god!:banana: Love it!
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  11. Rimjob Bob

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    I forced myself to finish this. Holy gods, that was painful. Extremely slow pacing and weighed down with metaphysical nonsense. These nauseating delights have boring ends.

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  12. Paladin

    Paladin Overjoyed Man of Liberty

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    Watched this a couple of months back and really dug it!

    I knew they were gonna pull the ol' he-or-she-isn't-really-human bit at some point, but I didn't see the main twist coming.

    It's a mistake to wait until 2018 to bring this back. People move on and shows like this--that are often binge-watched in a short period--can become a dim memory.
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  13. We Are Borg

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    Agreed. I binge-watched the first four seasons of Game of Thrones and really dug it. But the amount of time between seasons, and the fact that you only get ten episodes before waiting another year, has really dulled my enthusiasm for the show. Now I usually spend the first half of the season just trying to remember what the fuck happened last year.