Hootis

This is just silly. Who's this new whispering wormtongue with the cane? How does Daemon who was banished just waltz into the hall? And how did anyone allow violence in the presence of the king AND his heir? Sir Crybaby would've been dogpiled after the first punch. I'm surprised someone wasn't filming the fight with a cellphone. "Worldstar!" What nonsense.

Skim skim skim.....Mergatory. Mergatory?

So far he has been funny and not too insane. The wood memory mattress joke was great!

Okay. Suzanne. Please, huh? This is paralysis, day 3 and no shelter. You don't need to worry about proving yourself when you're shelterless on day 3.

I'm on season one, episode 4. I don't like any of these people. That's not a good sign.

This episode had a lot of tropes for a show that is anti-trope. Starlight running out of power to help Hughie because she blew a hole in a fence. Huh? Frenchie's friend ODing during his mission and the guilt tripping, "go on, you don't care about us," leading to not stopping Lamplighter. Maeve's girlfriend Elena blaming her about the plane. What was Maeve supposed to do about it? There's more, but it was all very lazy.

That's another thing that bothered me: She didn't confess to Murder like the DA said. She confessed to adultery and talking on the phone. Why didn't Perry Mason bring this up? "My client isn't on trial for Adultery, she is on trial for MURDER. Even if she was WITH little Charlie she couldn't have stopped those men." Of course, if you've BRIBED A JUROR you don't have to be a good lawyer, just a corrupt one. Boo! Boo this man!

Just watched it. Perry Mason's rabbit in his hat is bribing a juror? I watched the series because of Rhys, but that is just too much.

One line I'm becoming tired of hearing: "Come with me, I want to show you something."

If they're gonna portray modern military, I wish they'd hire someone who could inform them of basic tactics. Charging across open ground against a prepared position is suicide. Cars or no cars.

I like all of the characters less now than at the beginning, excepting the boss. Ford is making real headway in manipulating the suspects / serial killers to get what the unit supposedly wants, which is real data. He keeps fucking everything up by breaking trust with the group. He surprises Tench in the interviews. He suborns the new guy. He lies to Dr. Carr. He lies to his boss, lies to the oversight guys....he needs to be UP FRONT with them instead of laying landmines. He's sabotaging himself. Tench is acting way too skeptical this far along. Like he's not fully on board with this new thing. It's like two different characters; when they're brainstorming, he's right there with Ford, but when they're back with the unit he's Brad Pitt in Se7en. They're all nutbags, no other explanation needed! Dr. Carr is dismissing outright the need to make a subject or suspect comfortable to get them to talk. If you're trying to get any stranger - not a narcissist, just a normal person - to do you a favor (the questionnaire), you would butter them up a little first. She should know better.

Did anyone else get a new WW email today?

I guarantee there are rules we don't know. Otherwise this would be too easy. Get your $500, buy cheap food and water, and go camping. Or squat somewhere if you didn't already have camping equipment. Submerge once and don't surface.

I wasn't sold on the love story between Bernard and Theresa they showed us tonight. I mean, they were sleeping together, okay, I could believe that. But the little lovey notes? Bernard's declaration of love? Did anything before this episode even HINT that she saw him as anything more than a convenience? Or that she was capable of anything more? On a completely unrelated note - where are these robots getting the programming for hand to hand combat? Clementine didn't just haymaker that securitybot during the demonstration, she whupped his ass. And Bernard seemed plenty sure of his one-punch kill on Theresa.

Got the day-after email, now it says Dear Delos Employee, For internal review ONLY, Park Director Dr. Ford has outlined the future of Westworld. Please take a look here (this was a link). Note that this is confidential and exclusively available for planning purposes. Best regards, Westworld Guest Relations Unfortunately, the link only led to the main WW site.

During her chop socky scene I remember thinking, "one bullet ain't gonna stop HER, pal....er...oh. Maybe she's playing possum....no. Well, okay then."

Also remember, Ford is apparently aware of the real purpose behind Delos' interest in his creation. "I simply wanted to tell my stories! It was you people wanted to play God...with your little undertaking..." Perhaps his evil is less. Another thing - I expect the reason Theresa's lack of fight at the end was that she was scared to death. Unfortunately, like most people who are being murdered, not actually capable of believing that they are going to die. Hopkins' nose crest crinkles make him look scary, even when he's relaxed.

DOES NOT COMPUTE: It takes thousands of hours to build your personalities. Or, we can just adjust 'em right here on this sliding scale. Courage. Loyalty. Charm. Humor. These are personality traits. Developed over a lifetime. Patience. Humility. Cruelty. Learned behaviors. So which is it? Thousands of hours, or changing the stats on a D&D character? It's like trying to do surgery by running someone over.

I really hope the Two Timelines Theory is correct at this point. Otherwise, we have a situation similar to the first season of True Detective; a ton of clues and hints of a deeper occult meaning, only ending up as window dressing for a hillbilly sister-diddler. Besides, it'd be cooler.

They're robots. So what if they're naked? You have to include the context. Did you see "Under the Skin" with a very nude Scarlett Johansson? Or "Ex Machina?" Did you find those things sexy? EDIT: Sorry for the repetition, I didn't realize the recap comment section fed directly into this thread and vice-versa. The more you know....

The thing that really grinds my gears about this show is the lack of consistency in the technology and it's use. Here they have built robots that are so human-like you cannot discern the difference. Not just on the outside, no; they bleed (in fact, judging from this episode they actually NEED the blood for some internal function), they mass about the same as humans, they sweat. The technology required for something like this - the individual technologies that would need to be combined - are absolutely staggering. Fine. I can suspend my disbelief. What I can NOT understand is the relative stone-age world that we are shown behind the scenes. I'm not asking for JJ Abrams Star Trek shiny world, but these people are shown in concrete bunkers using crappy tablets and chopping these technological marvels up with bone saws. They go searching for rogue robots by hiking with a lantern...the idea that anything down to a rabbit could elude them in this controlled environment strains credulity in the first place. They wear modern (2000's) clothes and hair styles, live and work in rusty Raccoon City. None of it matches with the foundational premise we are asked to believe about the Host technology.

IMHO, nudity requires a certain context to be titillating - robots aren't sexy for me, so seeing a bunch of naked robots isn't gratuitous. The only way I'd be sexually attracted to a robot was if I didn't know it was a robot. Did anyone here see the film "Under the Skin" with a very naked Scarlett Johansson? Did you find her sexy in that movie? Eeyugh. The orgy scene was mostly an excuse to shoehorn Roman World (from the original movie) into this world anyway. If you didn't like that, do NOT watch the recent Spartacus series, ho ho.

I am so disappointed in this show. The blood bath that Naz would've taken in a violent stabbing like that - one of the very first things I assumed the defense would catch. Show ignores it. Naz is actually a decent kid who made a bad mistake in....NOPE! He's a complete idiot, through and through. Finally, Jack the plea bargain king gets to stand in front of a jury and do his stuff....DENIED! He sits silently while doe-eyed Chandra bores us to death. And then....the kiss. GIVE ME A BREAK, WILLYA? Turturro is just fantastic, but he's buried in eczema and allergies and cat. Show went to shit. Is the BBC series Criminal Justice Season One any better? It won some awards.

Nope, I meant to post here; I'm fishing for information as to why people still support the show Arya after this wasted story line. I had to assume she's much better in the books. Honestly, I think it's the actress (Maisie) who puts me to sleep - she reminds me of Paige in the Americans with her two facial expressions. Worried Face and Stone Face. Thanks for filling me in.