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Wasn't psyched about the storyline in the first half, but the second might be interesting. Watching Barry blunder the timeline knowingly isn't fun, but watching a time traveller in a desperate race to avoid a terrible future event is always fun. I doubt the show is going to kill Iris, for the frank reason that the aftermath will be a difficult mess to sift through, so I'm not worried. (As a bonus, Jon Steward demanded to KSmith that Iris should never be killed off, because apparently he's as awesome as I always assumed he'd be). LOL My thinking exactly. Not having a place to get down is a common problem for Millennials who live at home. This would be fantastic, but I can't imagine Iris would be allowed to carry a portion of an important storyline on this show. It'd be a nice surprise, but I'm not holding my breath.

But who says she doesn't know what Bernard is? Theresa didn't, but nothing to say Charlotte doesn't know. I think if they wanted an older actress they would've cast one. See Maeve and Theresa, who are/were both unabashedly confident, even arrogant. Charlotte being so young tells me she's a nepotism hire, like Logan, which IMO is the point. The same species we nearly extinct by destroying their environment or for wanting their skin because it looks good, none of which having to do with evolution or survival? The consensus today is that we're not uniquely cruel or good but we're the far extreme of emotions, motivated much more strongly towards compassion and destruction. With AI it's up to debate. Are they more extreme than us in the emotional spectrum, or less so? If they're more rational they'll probably be less dangerous than we are. So it's possible Ford is worried for them getting destroyed by the terribly devastating powers of human fear.

I did as well, but I still wonder how it is that no one is coming to check up on her since she has apparently ditched her narrative. Or has she? I've seen a Charlotte/Charlie theory connecting the two. I do wonder if Arnold's kid had cancer but never died and that inspired Ford to create a dead Charlie for Bernard. Otherwise the reveal was obvious since the episode we saw the actor reading Lewis Caroll with Delores, but fantastic to watch nevertheless. Do all hosts have the potential to become conscious or only the older models? Ford created Bernard, but the most complex coding was taken from Arnold, which means his coding continues past death. Because in those 15secs she gives him irrefutable proof that their existence is a joke. If anything would make a person want to screw and kill themselves, it's that.

Divorced him twice too, no? I'm assuming since the Elon/Amber Heard rumors. Are we supposed to assume present-Dolores is just hanging around in the same places as past-Dolores/William and the whole thing with her seeing two of herself is her hallucinating? But that can't be, because the only reason past-Dolores was allowed to leave her loop because she was accompanied by a host. How is no one looking for present-Dolores? I hate the MiB = William theory and still hoping it won't be true. Arnold = Bernard makes a bit more sense. I'm intrigued by Arnold being the one who taught and trained Dolores. I don't have an issue with Felix and the other guy getting played by Maeve. Felix already showed he has some low key god-complex tendencies with animating that bird. He's definitely not happy with his job and wanting something more exciting, and suddenly he gets his shot. Not the smartest thing to do, but that's ego. The other one is a straight up lazy follower who would rather not have any scrutiny directed his way. My questions are with Maeve, how old of a model is she (did Arnold get in her head like he did with Dolores?) does Ford suspect anything? How come Dolores or Maeve don't get decommissioned, because Ford is being sentimental?

I'm not sure what you mean by fully autonomous. There are plenty of driverless test cars out and have been for a few years, and now Uber is trying them out. When human-driven vehicles will be completely replaced by autonomous is hard to say due to societal factors above anything else, but the technology is already here and like all available tech it will advance at an exponential rate. Edit: I looked up the article, but only a preview is available without subscription. I'm not familiar with the magazine, but browsing their site, their articles are rather science-entertainment. I prefer reading or watching interviews/lectures with the experts themselves, easier way to get a variety of opinions that way, from the optimistic to the more conservative.

It works for me. It falls near the range of when most experts think we'll have AI. Anyway, our current technology is like magic to people 70-80 years ago and the technology gap increases exponentially.

I don't think anything about this universe suggests they're near future. For all we know the theme park isn't even located on Earth. And I'd have to disagree about the robots. As MiB explained, these AI are not made of machine parts, they're human flesh constructed via 3D printing, cloning and genetic engineering...all of which are technology we currently possess at a smaller scale. The more tricky science is achieving human level intelligence. I've been keeping up on AI development out of geeky interest and the consensus on the timeline for achieving super-intelligence via polling at various conferences seems range from 30-60years. Not so far into the future. My only issue with the technology is the use of tablets, which would likely be outdated. But then, there are many who still use pen and paper nowadays. Interesting enough, Synths on "Humans" are much more unrealistic than the hosts at Westworld. Creating human-like limbs out of inorganic mechanical parts is terribly difficult. You'd notice that robotics design have abandoned trying to make them walk or move like us, instead adapting forms that are more mechanically do-able. Self-driving cars are already here.The main issues are getting people to trust them and the ethics of whose life gets priority.

I don't mind the anachronisms either, but I don't think they're mistakes so much as the kind of liberties contemporary historical romance/adventure writers take to enhance the story for their audiences pleasure. If it had been a very strict recreation to the West we know, I'd have a harder time accepting it tbh.

I don't get it either. Much as I used to love the multiple versions of Wells he's long outlived his usefulness and now he's painfully boring.

Whatever gave you that idea? They've made it abundantly clear that is never going to happen. She gets to be useful on the rare occasion, but when she's not Barry's love interest she doesn't exist in the narrative. She doesn't even have a room or her own living space, and even Patty got that much.

TC grates lately. HR is as annoying as the stupid plot line. Why doesn't Caitlin buy some hair dye? Cutting off random chunks of hair isn't a good look. Good episode. Mirror Master is my favourite and the casting was spot on. Top was alright. I don't see how she looks remotely like JLaw other than the blond hair.

I was mad when Glenn and Abe died, but that 'what if' sequence momentarily tricked me into thinking Rosita and Sasha had died too and I was livid for a second there. Not the most exciting episode, but I'm not ready to write off the season. The death delay prepared me for this blandness and shock for the sake of shock kind of season premier. I'm expecting things to improve. Echoing everyone on the superb acting.

Shipping isn't about whether a relationship is working as part of the story or not though, people could ship two characters who've never met and would never make sense as a couple (could even be incompatible species...). The point is, expecting the narrative of a show to meet fans' shipping desires (often innately based on a set of appealing tropes) is recipe for a disaster. Good romances aren't necessarily shippable by the masses, and shippable romances aren't necessarily a good romance (and could ruin a perfectly fine story). Anyway, Westallen are well acted and have a large fanbase, with no substantial competition. That's as much as any show can ask for. The writing hasn't been consistently great, but that's a larger problem for the show as a whole and as far as fixing goes, Westallen fall rather low on the priority of things that need it right now. (How about giving Iris and Wally more narrative purpose? Or is that too much to ask for?)

I like Valerie. She represents the pesky press side in the cops vs criminals struggle which I always wanted to see more of, and she's the first love interest of Gordon's who doesn't bore me to tears. Plus Jamie Change is gorgeous and clearly having a hella lot of fun playing her. Fish and Penguin had a great moment. I hope this means Fish is the big bad for the final arc. Not seeing the appeal of new Ivy right now.

The upside down reminded me of the Magicians. I'm wondering if the monster is an experiment that went wrong, or the parallel version of 11. I didn't grow up in the 80s, but did watch ET once (and cried, a lot). Loved this show regardless, though I'm very pleased I didn't have to live my life before computers. The kids and teens really didn't have a whole lot to do before things went bad.

This article hits all the points. http://screenrant.com/things-superhero-tv-shows-need-to-stop/

Parts of season one of Daredevil was a bit slow for me, took me nearly two weeks to finish. Season two might've been less straightforward narratively, but I enjoyed it a lot more and finished watching in over a few nights. Little Bats is stealing the show right from out under Gordon. The writers seem to be aware of that fact, given how much more material they've been giving him. He's practically a co-lead.

I don't think it's necessarily nefarious, but when you have majority men (often all white) in charge, certain biases will come into play. Undervaluing female characters/actresses is fairly common. Women get paid less. Important female characters get less to do... I think in this case it's something similar. Not surprising that it'd be the non-powered women left out.

I was onboard with you until the bolded. I would enjoy this twist if I thought the reboot was permanent and the show was going back to the drawing board and reshaping itself. Because like you, I've been tremendously bored with this season and become convinced the writers had fatigued themselves with the current form of the show. Otherwise, I think it's the opposite of breathing life into the show, because whatever is about to happen for however long (half a season? most of the season?) will be completely pointless, and when Barry gets back, we're back to the same tired format. They clearly mean to get Barry and Iris together eventually, if only for the sake of their famous descendants. Of course that could be delayed and left for season ten. Problem is, if they let the actress go and she snags another job, she's not likely to come back. Another problem is, they'll lose a chunk of their viewers, even if the endgame is still promised. Besides, if they keep her, they look more diverse (3 female characters and 4 POC). Since Berlanti is forever advertising his commitment to diversity, the last point matters a lot. lol

Except that's not the case at all. Are Jimmy Olsen or Joe West now superheroes? Because Mehcad and JLM were both present. Look, EBR clearly took issues with it, otherwise her friend, a showrunner on CW, wouldn't comment. And both Danielle and Candice attended afterparties for the event, so clearly they would've been happy to attend too. If you don't see anything wrong with it, fine. But making a snarky comment about how it's out of the realm of possibility that the dudebro club over at DCTV could be shady to their actresses is OTT. Edit: Those are people onstage, if you were on social media and looked at the arrivals at the event for the interview, meet and greet media portion, you would've also seen Carlos, JLM, Mehcad, Arthur... http://tomandlorenzo.com/2016/05/2016-cw-upfront-red-carpet-rundown/

You think sexism doesn't exist in the entertainment industry? Really? Least of all amongst the all bros led backstage of DCTV? Let's be real though, Caity is the only draw left for LoT (the only popular face pretty much) and Meg was clearly there as a token, because she's not actually on any of these shows. It's still pretty off putting how the actresses of Arrow/Flash weren't invited. Certainly side-eye worthy.

Cool, but I think I've watched enough of this show. Supergirl and Arrow aren't for me, Legends lost me without Cold, and Flash is mildly interesting, but not enough for me to bother with a four headed monster this universe has become. I don't mind crossovers in theory, but when there's maybe 5max characters I like in the entire universe things get tired. And the plots in these shows are so hideously bad, even compared to the network's typical standard. What's left? Off to finish Steins Gate and enjoy decent time travel sci fi.

Mechad was there too, as well as other male mains like Justin from JtV. It set Twitter off lol because Carina (the TVD/TO writer) made a tweet about how EBR should've been invited. I don't watch Arrow, but all the jokes I hear about the show being changed to Felicity and Friends I figured she was now an unofficial lead.

I'm bitter about Booster Gold getting his own movie over my favourites and would've rather he'd been the reveal. But big no to GL. I don't want CW anywhere near Hal most of all as they wouldn't know how to use him, they'd probably power him down and just keep hooking him up with Caitlin or whoever else needs a LI. But Hourman works well enough. Since he isn't hugely known they could alter his powers to whatever works for the show.

Apparently none of the Arrow/Flash actresses were invited. Berlanti said it was a network decision. Fitting I suppose for how much importance they get within the shows. Although I'm most surprised about EBR not getting an invite over the others.