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1 hour ago, DEL901 said:
I actually wondered if Trent drinking from a rainbow mug in this episode was hinting he was gay and that he might end up with Colin.
I think this is much more likely than him ending up with Rebecca: i'm going to be utterly flabbergasted if he turns out to be straight!
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3 minutes ago, bourbon said:
I HATE HATE HATE HATE Keeley and Jack. Representation and visibility are great, but it such a tired trope on TV these days that a female character hooks up with another female character. If you want a lesbian character, write on a lesbian character at the pub, in the press, a trainer...this felt tired and cliched. Ugh. Plus she belongs with Roy, and if they're not Endgame, then yes, this show goes down as one of the most colossal disappointments this side of HIMYM.
But Keeley was coming out with lines like 'dipping my toe back into the lady pool' back in season 1: this isn't something they've just pulled out of their arse, she's always been written as bi.
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7 hours ago, aghst said:
Bicycle kicks, they're common. When they're near the opponent's goal, they're not trying to hurt anyone, they're trying to make contact with the ball and either kick or head it or in many cases just deflect or redirect it towards the goal.
Haven't seen too many players get injured doing a bicycle kick, either others or themselves.
There was one recently where Southampton's Mara attempted a bicycle kick and managed to kick Chelsea's Azpilicueta in the face: it initially looked pretty nasty (the noise was HORRIBLE) but thankfully he was okay.
But, as you say, incidents like that are pretty rare.
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1 hour ago, juno said:
Yes, my Spurs. Richmond won. But they probably would have been them in real life as well.
Hello, fellow long-suffering Spurs fan! Yes, Spurs being knocked out by lower league opposition isn't a surprise at this point, either in reality or fiction...
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Their game against Tottenham last season was an FA cup quarter final, I believe...?
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33 minutes ago, Shannon L. said:
Funny you should use the word "dated". There was one sequence that was a montages of pictures fading in and out and she thought it looked like a special effect right out of the 70s, or what you'd see in a high school production (like the opening of Far From Home).
Was that the scene where Mordo is explaining the dangers of dream-walking to Strange and Chavez? The guy next to me muttered to his companion that it looked like a 'Meatloaf video'. 😆
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18 hours ago, Shannon L. said:
It really pains me to say this, but my least favorite Marvel movie, which hadn't moved from that spot since the day I saw it in the theater, has finally been replaced with this one. I thought the attempts to make it both a horror movie and a typical Marvel movie where jarring and just didn't work. Even the usual fun Marvel cameos were a let down. The only thing I liked about it were the cool, Dr. Strange visual effects, and the strong performances (especially Elizabeth Olsen). Xochitl Gomez held her own with her co-stars and I really liked her character, so I'm looking forward to seeing her again, as well as what comes next with Strange and the new character played by Charlize Theron. Overall, though, I was very disappointed in this one. When I left the theater, I said "Well...Happy Mother's Day." to which my daughter responded "Yeah, that movie should have been marketed like Deadpool marketed his movie as a romance movie.". Our theater was full, as usual, but silent through most of it, which isn't typical for a Marvel movie.
Mine too, even though it was opening day. The vibe was very flat.
I think...I kind of hated this? Somehow both dull AND over-stuffed, characterisation that was shallow as a puddle, horrible dialogue, a forgettable score, and direction that looked distractingly dated. Welp.
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On 4/20/2022 at 11:01 PM, Spartan Girl said:
“I’m sorry, Mr. Great!” Lol
Yet another example perpetuating the “women are too emotional to be rational” trope, huh, MCU? Ugh. 🙄
The last five minutes were something else. I had to laugh my ass off at the way Steven and Marc screamed.
As irritating as that moment was, I didn't think it's something that's gender-specific - the last time I can recall the MCU doing something similar, it was Peter Quill losing his mind over Gamora's death and ruining the plan to take down Thanos.
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15 hours ago, DearEvette said:
sidebar: I am also fascinated by his accent. I am not at all familiar with British regional accents but his kinda stands out. He pronounces 'me' as 'meh' and 'my' as 'me.' Does anyone know his accent?
Jamie's accent? That's a Manchester accent. He's a 'Mancunian'.
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I appreciate that Herron's been put on the spot there...but that branch can't have been pruned, or we wouldn't have had old Steve visiting Sam in the present day time frame.
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5 hours ago, Zuleikha said:
I really hope it's not a Loki. To me, it will undermine a lot of the theme of Loki learning that he doesn't have to be the center of everything if he ends up being the center of everything.
Perhaps - if that is the case - our Loki will see the version of himself who's achieved all the power he could ever want, and then ultimately reject that path for himself. So much of what we've seen in the show thus far is about whether we have choice and free will . For Loki, learning that there's a timeline where he DOES win, but being able to turn away from the version of him that acquires all that power and control, would be a huge character moment.
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45 minutes ago, Prower said:
He didn't expect instructions immediately. If he did, he wouldn't have put Stubbs on ice. He probably expected it to take only hours, not months to years, but still priorities. There was no rush to recieve instructions immediately. He could have patched up Stubbs and then gone to robot heaven. This course of action makes no sense.
Especially since whilst he was in the Sublime - unaware and defenceless - he could have used Stubbs to keep him safe back in the real world.
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There was an absolute mountain of stupidity this week, but for some reason the thing that sticks out as the pinnacle of all the idiocy is Serac leaving that message for his brother...in English. Why?!
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1 hour ago, arc said:
Here's what I don't get. The first time around (s3e2, "The Winter Line"), Maeve was in a VR Warworld hosted on one of Serac's servers, where her stolen pearl had been connected, so Serac could get information out of Maeve. This time, she's in VR Warworld again -- but it's now on the Delos servers, in Delos HQ, with her body about to be printed out in SF. How did her pearl get there? How did Hector's pearl (transported back from the parks in Asia, as @paigow said) get there? Most of all, how did the Serac model computer reconstruction of Lee Sizemore get to the Delos version of VR Warworld? This all happened before the hostile takeover was finalized!
I just assumed that the simulation (which seems to have...just kept running based on the fact that Lee has been merrily programming away in there - why though?) was on a mobile server or similar. Maeve recognises at one point when the world 'shimmers' that they've been plugged into the Delos servers.
That wasn't Hector's original pearl - they found him in cold storage and transferred the data from his pearl over to the Delos labs, before they torched the bodies in cold storage,
A new question: we learn in episode 2 that time moves faster in the simulation, so the real world looks slower. Errr....why didn't that happen here?
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2 hours ago, scrb said:
About which pearl is in which body?
Who gives a shit?
Is that really what they're dangling at viewers, to figure out this shell game of who's on first?
Do fucking better at storytelling instead of this dumb gimmick about whose pearl is in whose body.
Yeah but it will spawn a thousand Reddit theories! These Easter eggs aren't helping the ratings are they?
Oddly enough, i've just taken a look at the Westworld Reddit page - which is just post after post about who is inside Charlotte - and decided I might be checking out for now. If your show has nothing BUT mystery, then it - as you say - just one big, expensive gimmick.
How did Nolan manage to turn out the fascinating, thoughtful 'Person of interest' on CBS (!!!) and yet use his HBO riches to make...this? A glossy perfume commercial of a show, shallower than a puddle.
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1 hour ago, Quilt Fairy said:
You're right, I used that word incorrectly. I was trying to convey that Delos has been portrayed as a powerful, super-secret organization. To now find out that in the outside world there is a much more powerful organization is disconcerting.
In the scene where Bernard fixes Stubbs, who is the body laying on the floor? And when Stubbs coughs up the - is it a bullet? - he implies that he did it to safeguard Bernard. When was he supposed to have swallowed it?
Lastly, does anyone know what the episode title refers to?
In answer to your questions:
1) I think the body on the floor is one of the discarded Bernards - he took the non-explosive C6 from its neck and put it in Stubbs.
2) I believe the bullet Stubbs coughs up is the one he shot himself with. He was supposed to shoot himself, triggering the explosive charge and taking out all the evidence that Bernard is a host with him (and yes, considering hosts take bullets all the time and all have the explosive charge, it would seem to be a very, very bad idea to have them be able to be triggered by a bullet. Westworld's gonna Westworld, I suppose).
3). 'The winter line' was a series of defensive military fortifications built by the Nazis to protect the road to Rome against the Allies in World War 2.
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19 hours ago, magdalene said:
Ratings drop further.
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/westworld-live-ratings-drop-further-for-season-3-e/1100-6475200/
Makes me wonder how they can produce another season with those numbers.
Episode 1 had a lot of streaming viewers, which bolstered the live total considerably, but I haven't seen any figures for that for episode 2 yet.
However, it IS concerning for the show: it seems to be the only one not showing gains at the moment. They can't even get new viewers when they have a literal captive audience...!
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7 hours ago, The Companion said:
I also said he should have frozen and my only fanwank here is that he was substantially more developed than the NPCs. The processing power would have prioritized him. Alternatively, he has his own globe and therefore has essentially some independent processing/code. That would leave the door open on him coming back too.
So many people have theorized that Stubbs was a robot. I really wish there was less speculation on stuff like that.
I thought it was that he knew because the computer identified anomalies that indicated her presence. She disrupted the system.
Aww on both of these. I have face blindness and struggled to recognize Hector even though I knew it was him from context.
I agree. He confirmed she didn't have the answers regarding the forge which gave him several critical pieces of information including Delores's role in everything. He did have a lot of information (to rebuild Sizemore) but he made some incorrect assumptions.
I loved this episode. I feel like I am always an outlier, but I love this show and particularly Maeve. I enjoyed the simulation twist and some of the other reveals. I enjoyed Drogon and would argue that if this is our world, a ton of people would 100% be ready for GOTworld.
That Lee simulation was very good apart from understanding his relationship with Maeve, which made me wonder if they'd pulled his information from what Rehoboam gathered on him in the real world. For some reason, it couldn't collect data from his time within the park, so they extrapolated based on what they had - wrongly - because they couldn't account for/anticipate that period of intense change in him.
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44 minutes ago, sugarbaker design said:
The name Liam could be a diminutive of William.
We know who Liam's Dad is though: Liam Dempsey Sr from this video:
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Well, that was more like it. Amazing the difference it makes when I actually give a shit about the characters involved.
Not too impressed by Bernard re-programming Ashley's core drive without asking given his own history of being controlled, but they seem like they could bounce off each other as a duo really well.
Also delighted to see my favourite duo Maeve and Lee reunited (...sort of) given they continue to have some tremendous screwball chemistry.
That secret lab of Serac's is a ticking time-bomb with all those host pearls - Dolores could create a mini army if she finds out about it.
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6 hours ago, BrooklynRat said:
I found it utterly boring and painful because it seemed like I was just watching some random show i knew nothing about and didn’t care to. With the exception of 3 familiar faces, this show had no relationship to the two seasons I already invested in of a very particular show.
Also, are the writers clueless? Are they unaware of the popularity of Maeve and company? No mention of them whatsoever.
I may sit out future episodes unless some of the discussion here indicates they might be worth it can’t believe this is what we waited almost 2 years for.
Did you see the post-credit scene? Maeve wasn't completely AWOL...
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49 minutes ago, Chris24601 said:
I don’t get why everyone thinks Teddy is one of the marbles. One of the last things Delores did before leaving Westworld was to upload Teddy’s pearl into the paradise realm created for the hosts so he could be happy and the uploading seems to completely erase the pearls (a big deal with the immediate aftermath was that so many of the host bodies they found after the flood had their programming wiped).
Until I see specific evidence otherwise, I think it’d be safer to assume that Teddy is out in uploaded Host heaven and not one of the pearls Delores took with her.
Speaking of which...
Actually, we know that Bernard was NOT one of the marbles Delores took, because that’s what the whole “fidelity test” between her and Bernard at the end of the finale was about. She had spent enough decades observing Bernard that she could rebuild him without the marble.
That take on Bernard was how I read it post-season 2 as well BUT i've seen several season 2 reviews (the ones of half the season) include Bernard as being among the 5 marbles. I'm not sure whether that's made specifically clear for them to state it, or whether they're just assuming...? Perhaps 1 or more of the pearls were empty when Dolores took them from the park? She presumably still needs a way to 'save' her re-remembering of Bernard.
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4 hours ago, ElectricBoogaloo said:
Same, partly because it seems like he's very much alone in this world so having even a computer simulated version of your dead friend to talk to is better than nothing.
I was watching and listening carefully to see if I could detect anything discernible from the other hosts we know in both of these characters. I'm really hoping that's Teddy!
I'm interested as to why you want it to be Teddy? Letting Teddy go and saving him from the horrors to come was the most humane thing Dolores did last season and reversing that bit of emotional growth for her would be deeply unsatisfying for me.
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6 hours ago, Starchild said:
Hey smart people I need a couple of clarifications:
1. Why do we think someone else is occupying Charlotte's body? What am I forgetting from last season? Were they unable to save her mind-marble? Is Charlotte's mind gone forever? Can someone remind me which bodies and which mind-marbles left WW last season?
2. Tommy's character was never a robot before this, right? They've copied his body and put one of themselves inside so they could infiltrate Insite?
1. Remember at the end of last season Dolores left the park in Charlotte's body, but then switched back to her own. So somebody else is inside Charlotte's body now - we have no clue who yet! We know that one of the mystery mind-marbles was Bernard, but the rest are still unknown. Some people think that Dolores is likely to have taken the pearls of her host comrades - Angela, etc - to take control of those bodies, but i'm of the opinion that she could have downloaded the human minds from the Forge and 'tweaked' them to match her needs (similar to what she did with Bernard). We learn that Conells also visited Westworld which supports this a little bit, as his mind would have been within the Forge.
As of now, there's still two mystery pearls from the bag 'o balls.
2. Yep, Tommy's character was a human before.
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S03.E12: So Long, Farewell
in Ted Lasso
Watching this episode, I couldn't help but remember the discussion I had online about the Ted/Rebecca relationship where I was snottily told to 'learn some media literacy' because I didn't think it had a romantic endgame.
Am I a petty, petty bitch who allowed herself a chuckle thinking about that snotty shipper after the finale? Yes, yes, I am.