[Battalion]

Great show, best thing on TV by miles.

Spoiler

When Bernard had his dream at the beggining of the ep, I knew he was a robot. Great scene though. What door? Best twist since the sixth sense. Was sad for Bernard, pretty heartbreaking not being real.

[Traveller]

Woah, things escalating further.

Spoiler

Elsie. Holy crap. She's either dead and gone or will return as a host now that everyone is aware of Theresa's death.
Although I thought that was pretty clumsy of Ford; he looked as guilty as fuck.
(Maybe that host was being prepared for her and not Theresa as previously thought.)

I guess in his plans it doesn't really matter whether they suspect him at this point.

Loved the significance of the church steeple - and the rooftops of the town showing above the sand. I hope the show can hold it together, that was the first ep where it looked like it wavered slightly - just not as tight as the previous eps.

This post has been edited by Traveller: 22 November 2016 - 10:20 PM

[Nevyn]

This show had me the moment I realized that Black Hole Sun was playing on the piano, lol.

[Slow Ben]

Traveller, on 22 November 2016 - 10:18 PM, said:

Woah, things escalating further.

Spoiler

Elsie. Holy crap. She's either dead and gone or will return as a host now that everyone is aware of Theresa's death.
Although I thought that was pretty clumsy of Ford; he looked as guilty as fuck.
(Maybe that host was being prepared for her and not Theresa as previously thought.)

I guess in his plans it doesn't really matter whether they suspect him at this point.

Loved the significance of the church steeple - and the rooftops of the town showing above the sand. I hope the show can hold it together, that was the first ep where it looked like it wavered slightly - just not as tight as the previous eps.

Spoiler

I saw it as him making a statement.

See what happens when you fuck with my creation?

Nevyn, on 23 November 2016 - 03:27 PM, said:

This show had me the moment I realized that Black Hole Sun was playing on the piano, lol.

Yeah, one of the things i enjoy about this show is trying to figure out the songs playing on the piano.

[champ]

I haven't been able to catch this weeks ep yet, hopefully tomorrow! Killing me not looking at the spoilers.

[Nevyn]

Slow Ben, on 23 November 2016 - 04:59 PM, said:

Yeah, one of the things i enjoy about this show is trying to figure out the songs playing on the piano.

I usually don't spend a lot of time trying to figure it out. Usually I'm watching attentively, then suddenly realize I know it. A lot of them I don't know but so far

Black Hole Sun
Fake Plastic Trees
Something I can Never Have
and
House of the Rising Sun

have just jumped right out at me. Its a cool little extra of the show, and they all blend into the background better than you'd think.

[Nevyn]

Briar King, on 23 November 2016 - 08:30 PM, said:

Radio Head? I've not reco any of them. Someone needs to make a vid of it

I think there have been at least 2 radiohead so far. I was googling and I think Fake Plastic Trees was the second because they mentioned a newer one I don't know.


Fake Plastic Trees I believe was the piano the first time they started showing Maeve waking up for the day instead of Dolores.

[Traveller]

Fake Plastic Trees jumped right out at me - perhaps a little too obvious a theme at the time I thought!

[Nevyn]

Traveller, on 23 November 2016 - 08:49 PM, said:

Fake Plastic Trees jumped right out at me - perhaps a little too obvious a theme at the time I thought!

A tad on the nose, but a great rendition of a great song.

[polishgenius]

I noticed immediately because I think pretty much the first song they use that way (maybe the second? It's in the first episode when the bandits first come to the town) is Paint it Black, a song I couldn't possibly miss. That's easily the one that stood out most to me, wasn't sure if it'd work if every one was that obvious, but thankfully for me they're not and it works really well.

[champ]

Holy. Fucking. Crap...

That was a majestic hour of TV entertainment.

The way it built up to the reveal''s'' and confirmed, just wow.

This show just gets better and better.

Probably one of my favourite episodes of any show.

[amphibian]

I binged this with my friend over the last week or so. There are some very obvious twists with a particular character that were telegraphed as early as the second episode, but what is unusual and likable about this show is how the characters really are willing to be quite mean to each other, even if they like the other person.

I had some concerns about the violence towards women being shown, but every single woman (minus one) has been shown to gain increased agency and ability to affect things in both worlds.

I thought the manipulations between the board and Ford were brilliant. This is a show willing to put that as the C-plot, with the more action-y B and A plots up front, then move that C plot up to affect things majorly. It's quite good and much better written and acted than Game of Thrones.

[Traveller]

amphibian, on 29 November 2016 - 08:02 PM, said:

It's quite good and much better written and acted than Game of Thrones.

So much better. That episode was, for me, the closest that tv has come to giving that feeling you get from a really, really good book. Great build up, great pay-off.

[Slow Ben]

Traveller, on 29 November 2016 - 10:08 PM, said:

amphibian, on 29 November 2016 - 08:02 PM, said:

It's quite good and much better written and acted than Game of Thrones.

the closest that tv has come to giving that feeling you get from a really, really good book.

THIS!!!

I was trying to explain to someone why this show was good and couldnt put it into words. But yes!

[amphibian]

I have quibbles with the major twist in A Well Tempered Clavier, but it's possibly offset by the presence of another character.

Spoiler

Bernard overlooking the possibility of a backdoor seems very dumb if he can go over things on the code level. However, if Maeve has the same administrator powers as Ford now, then there's a worthy adversary in a host gathering an army to murder guests and Ford.

I suspect that the 35 years of information in Abernathy is more important than simple guest tracking. It's gotta be the keys to machine consciousness or something as crazily valuable. The Delos rep is underselling things or doesn't know what's at stake like the Man in Black does.

[polishgenius]

Spoiler

I'm not convinced that Bernard really shot himself. Maeve tells him 'if you're going to get the truth, get the whole truth' and that's kind of narratively meaningless if he's now dead. I think there's quite a high chance that he was playing along. Though we might not find out this season either way.

I'm kinda surprised by the people significantly favouring it over Game of Thrones. I like this show a lot, but I don't think it's on a different level or anything. Nor to BSG, another show it bears some comparison to (actually it hasn't come anywhere close to the best of BSG, but early days, early days. It hasn't come close to the worst of BSG either).

[Traveller]

Maybe because only the last season of Thrones has been a surprise?

I like GoTs, but I've never been on the edge of my seat listening to it like I have been with Westworld. Maybe someone who hadn't read the series first would think differently and maybe had a better experience watching Thrones, but I still find Westworld to be a far better polished product overall.

This post has been edited by Traveller: 29 November 2016 - 11:46 PM

[Malankazooie]

DAAAAAAYUUUUUM !!!!! Now that is how you do a finale!

Oh, and guys, make sure you stay till the end credits have rolled.

Do you think this show will be required viewing for psych majors?

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

So good. So fucking good.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Now we have to wait until 2018