I watched this with my family, we all enjoyed it. A bit awkward with the sex scenes and all the dongs.. Some GREAT casting for this show, a lot of interesting stuff going on too. I've never seen the old movie though, do you guys think watching it would potentially spoil anything?
Is "Futureworld" worth watching?
Also I wonder if they are going to factor in roman work and medieval world into the HBO show
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It seems when a show is made for HBO or Showtime they have nudity because they can have it and not because it advances the story to any particular decree. In the case of Westworld the case can be made that some of it is needed although I don't see why they need the hosts to be naked when they are interviewing them other than to provide some excitement for the viewers and cast.
I look at it like they're doing a full eval, both psych and physical and need to see if there's any damage to the host prior to putting them back out.
Even though they say they can't harm a human, I wonder if they still want to make absolutely sure they don't have anything on them that could be used as a weapon incase they malfunction during the evaluations.
I enjoyed the small twist with the boy that was a host. Nice play off the other kid that was a guest in episode 1.
It has a bit of the Battlestar Galactica feel of not always know right away if the people your seeing are human or machine.
There appears to be nothing stopping one guest from scalping, knifing, hanging or otherwise doing a lot of harm to other guests. What would have happened if the host Ed Harris scalped turned out to be a guest? Would someone have been able to stop him before he hurt or killed them?
Yes - the real life logistics of running such an "attraction" and the very foundation of the show. This is something I'd like ironed out before I can comfortably commit myself to any deeper storyline.
What is to stop a guest (at best) unintentionally ruining another guests stay or (at worst) seriously injuring them by mistaking them for a host? I get the feeling that this is an aspect the writers would rather gloss over.
Hard to say....
The second episode shows two guys... one a repeat guest. He seems to have been to the attraction so many times he can't even enjoy the realism of it because he knows all of the routine/repeat cues of the hosts. So I would imagine he's not as much of a threat to other guests as the guy who goes in planning on raping and pillaging right off the train... How do they know they're not attacking another guest. The only failsafe regarding weapons seems to be the guns. What's the stop someone from stabbing another guest though.
If we can accept that one of those guns can fire a "bullet" that hurts a physical host, but bounces off a human, that technology is absolutely plausible for a knife.
For myself that would be stretching plausability beyond fictional reasonability, at present.
That would entail that absolutely every inanimate object in Westworld that is capable of being used as a weapon is able to somehow neutralise itself intelligently when used as a weapon. How exactly would that work? My dinner knife crumbles as I lunge at someone with it? I smash a bottle to stab someone and it turns to dust? I take my belt off to strangle someone and it knows to snap? And what about my bare hands as a weapon?
The writers seem to want to have their cake and eat it, they show the pride the attraction runners take in a guest not being able to distinguish guest from host, and the selling point of the attraction is (apparently) unfettered immersive fantasy, but they don't show how that could be more of a problem before anything like the hosts showing sentience.
For once I'd like to see a character properly load a blackpowder revolver. Powder, ball, (wad/lubricant of choice) and cap!
They say they have this show mapped out for 5 seasons.
Going to be interesting how they "drag" it out. The original movie was a fairly simple concept that was simply executed.
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Same way BSG was dragged out.
The movie was malfunctioning androids.
The show is more along the lines of androids becoming self-aware or developing feelings, emotions, etc.
They said in the show they're designed to interact with one another to become more "human". At what point do they actually become human... when they start imitating the humans by killing and raping everything around them and taking actual pleasure in it like real humans do?
I felt it has A LOT of the BSG feel to it where it's humans encountering some "alien" sentience where some good/evil characters exist on both sides of the conflict and existential questions arise.It has a bit of the Battlestar Galactica feel of not always know right away if the people your seeing are human or machine.