Westworld

[OhMrsQ]

Has anyone seen the first episode?

Bloody hell.

Amazing.

I can't wait for next week

Hopkins is quite creepy, isn't he?

I wonder what's going on with the Ed Harris character. From looking online, he seems to be based Yul Brynner's Gunslinger character but in the film, he was one of the rogue hosts whereas EH appears to be human.

I wonder if we're going to find out that some of the 'human' characters aren't what they seem.

What about one of the female robots not sure if it was dolores or the hooker woman asking Bernard 'have you done something wrong ? '.

I think Bernards up to no good

Holds the attention well and makes you think. The cliched ball-breaker female boss is incomprehensible so hope she doesnt appear too much.

Also amused to note that the status of an actress in the cast determines where the frame cuts off in the nude scenes...

I really like this. The point of the girl killing the fly and the cowboy rubbing his chest is not so much an indication of rebelling (although that's obviously what it will lead to),but more a (possibly unexpected) effect from the latest upgrade that the controllers keep arguing about. The hosts have been given a degree of memory recall, something to do with enhancing their attractiveness/'realness' to guests.
I suppose if they start to accumulate a small amount of memory from each day spent witnessing and suffering unspeakable acts the consequences will play out in weeks to come.
I feel as if AH said something about the farmer having been involved with Shakespeare's work at some point in the past - is that where the quotation comes from? Again, this would tie in with the new memory function.
Interesting to see the outcome of the fresh-faced girl uncovering the gun - I wonder wherher it was ahost's one or left behind by a guest, and she's remembered seeing it?

I'm wondering now whether the gun is one that would be able to fire on humans? Otherwise I'm not quite understanding the significance of the gun at the moment. She will surely have seen a gun before? (Or have I missed something?)

But they will know she's found it because they knew her dad found the photo. I'm bloody loving it, so many layers and things to unravel. I'm watching ep2 again at the weekend with DH who hasn't seen it yet and I can't wait for ep3.

Yes that's why I was wondering about the gun Hippo - if it was left behind by a guest who knows what could happen?

How come you all seem to understand this 😱😳

So basically the robots relive each day again but some are slightly remembering stuff

Was the girl running in the field once a mum?

Blondes head explodes 😂

Which girl do you mean? The farmer's daughter? Or Thandie Newton, the madam at the saloon? She was once a mum as we saw a memory break through, where she and her daughter were attacked by Indians. Must have been another 'script' she lived through.

My take on it is that the hosts live out the same day over and over unless the humans interact with them and then they start a storyline.

Some of the hosts have had different 'parts' but they have been reprogrammed, so should have no memory of their previous lives. They're now remembering them, possibly due to something Anthony Hopkins has done to them.

It looks like Thandie Newton was part of a story that involved an 'Indian' raid and subsequent killing, and in this storyline she was a mother with a child instead of a brothel madam.

This is my opinion and I'm could be wrong I think it helped me that I'd seen that the film, even though that's a totally different beast to this series really, but it gave me a rough idea of what to expect.

Yes the brothel madam

So she think she was a mum in another plot and has small memory of it

I loved the film. Amazing to think it's years old 😬

I'm another one hooked by this. Looking forward to getting the time to find and watch the original film!

It's possible, as someone upthread said, that it's the phrase 'these violent delights have violent ends' that's triggering the previous memories as Dolores said it to TN's character outside the saloon. There's another phrase that makes them go into sleep mode too, so it looks like it has been programmed into them at the minute.

I agree TheHipho. The quotation is from Romeo & Juliet. Found a Popsugar article theorising about it. Until we see the story unfold, it's al just a theory I suppose, but the basic premise seems to have been laid out.
I hope it doesn't start to disappoint .

I watched it again

I missed that the boy Hopkins was talking to was a host, first time round. I'm wondering if he made the boy as copy of his childhood self, with the conversation they had about 'boring' people.

I can see that I'm probably going to miss loads of key bits of info and do my usual trick of wondering what the hecks going on and why can't I make head nor tail of it!

It's good. I'm thinking the robots were 'based' on real humans and there is something that is in the new upgrade that is making them remember their distant human past?

ner that crossed my mind too because I don't understand how the photo that Peter Abernathy found triggered something in him otherwise.

It's reminding me a bit of battlestar galactica and the cylons. They could do with a camp amusing character like Galrn

*gaius!

I think the female boss is a robot.

DP's idea is that the mean yul-esque cowboy is actually a virus infecting the hosts as he doesn't seem to interact with real people. Or a rogue robot off grid trying to get out.

We will stick with it see where it goes.

Loving it so far....but then I like all Michael Crichton books/films and the dystopian society
I rewatched the original film last night to refresh my memory..such a classic
.I think this series is going to be my new addiction!!...it's a bit like Twin Peaks in some respects too

Or a rogue robot off grid trying to get out

I wondered that too, but didn't they show him in the control room killing a load of hosts? And one of the directors (or whatever they are) said that he can do what he likes because he's paying for it.

May be a bit of misdirection though. It does strike me that's it's like a real life version of a computer game like GTA. You can either get involved in a storyline or just run around killing and shagging people willy nilly. Why on earth would you take a kid (like in the first ep) into an environment like that though? I wouldn't describe it as a family holiday.

That could explain the triggering effect of the real-lifephoto Ner; that still doesn't seem to have been covered in what we've seen so far. Hope they do explain it and it's not just left as a disssatisfying loose end we're left speculating about.

I might have to re-watch it again to see what I might've missed.

I also think that hopkins character is dying and is trying to perfect the hosts so he can transfer his mind into one, if he hasn't done so already. I think he wants his creations to be free.

Maybe they have already been attempting doing that which might explain dolores' father's reaction to the modern photo?

I do overthink thing though
They are definately trying to distract us from what's really going on!