The show has a lot of good stuff so I feel bad about pointing out something that bothers me a lot - the two engineers in the body shop.
The engineers in the body shop annoy the hell out of me. From the moment they make their first appearance you already know they're set up to be a weak link. It's frankly hard to suspend disbelief when you have two characters that are written as naïve as these two bozos are. I know they're supposed to be buffoons but they stick out way too much as a convenient plot contrivance.
I even have a problem with the way the blonde guy taunts the Asian guy. It's written and performed as if they were in an 8th grade playground. I'm not saying it's impossible to have that dynamic but it's a common actor's choice/mistake to play it out like this. IRL when it's just two guys in a room with one taunting the other it's more typically passive aggressive. I'm sorry but some things stick out to me.
The Asian guy was way too eager to show Maeve how she works and the compound - especially when he knows she has been retaining memories. Is he so stupid that he can't see any long term consequence to doing this?
When the engineers are tasked to reprogram Maeve's attributes what's to stop them from messing her up completely? Why don't they just detune her aggression, initiative, independence etc?
It makes me wonder why Westworld doesn't have safeguards against staff bonding with hosts - at least a psychiatric evaluation for staff members, no?
I know the obvious explanation would be that Maeve was designed to be incredibly perceptive and persuasive regarding human behavior but it's just too convenient that Westworld paired her with the two dumbest engineers on planet Earth. I suppose if Arnold (or his AI) set this up I could buy the scenario but, until/unless that's the case, it just looks to damn... convenient.
It's probably been mentioned already but it just dawned on me that we're looking at an inevitable Maeve-Dolores showdown with Maeve seeing cruelty in guests and Dolores seeing hope. I'll be really upset if that's the big climax we've been waiting for.
The engineers in the body shop annoy the hell out of me. From the moment they make their first appearance you already know they're set up to be a weak link. It's frankly hard to suspend disbelief when you have two characters that are written as naïve as these two bozos are. I know they're supposed to be buffoons but they stick out way too much as a convenient plot contrivance.
I even have a problem with the way the blonde guy taunts the Asian guy. It's written and performed as if they were in an 8th grade playground. I'm not saying it's impossible to have that dynamic but it's a common actor's choice/mistake to play it out like this. IRL when it's just two guys in a room with one taunting the other it's more typically passive aggressive. I'm sorry but some things stick out to me.
The Asian guy was way too eager to show Maeve how she works and the compound - especially when he knows she has been retaining memories. Is he so stupid that he can't see any long term consequence to doing this?
When the engineers are tasked to reprogram Maeve's attributes what's to stop them from messing her up completely? Why don't they just detune her aggression, initiative, independence etc?
It makes me wonder why Westworld doesn't have safeguards against staff bonding with hosts - at least a psychiatric evaluation for staff members, no?
I know the obvious explanation would be that Maeve was designed to be incredibly perceptive and persuasive regarding human behavior but it's just too convenient that Westworld paired her with the two dumbest engineers on planet Earth. I suppose if Arnold (or his AI) set this up I could buy the scenario but, until/unless that's the case, it just looks to damn... convenient.
It's probably been mentioned already but it just dawned on me that we're looking at an inevitable Maeve-Dolores showdown with Maeve seeing cruelty in guests and Dolores seeing hope. I'll be really upset if that's the big climax we've been waiting for.
