Westworld as it relates to the sexworld

[johnsmit]

I managed to view the premier episode of Westworld.
There was a lot of hip for this new series so was expecting more..
I was a little disappointed on some levels but as a cerebral show that makes you think, it is a slow burn like good science fiction should be.

It is definetlybalot more then the old movie from 73 and yet if you remember that one you will now see it differently. This new westworld is about what makes us human by watching the evolution of the robots from programed automatons to AI .An evolution that is being perpetrated by their creator.

Of course the evolution the show is exploring is mankind's evolution and how our environment changes us and how we rebel against the restrictions of our society and position in it. It pertains a lot to women's rolls and the abuse they suffer but also to men and what they seek.

Of course in some way this ties right in to our Sexworld.
Which holds the same premises to supply a fantasy with out consequences..Of course we know that not true.

The women we see put on a character , but there are may cracks in the facade..and often a rebellion against what they have been made to endure .Not just from clients but there own life in general.

This show is going to be very enveloped in developing that evolution as is real life and how the women and men evolve in sexworld

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

I was quietly impressed with the Pilot although I can see it evolving into something really good or something that disappears up its own ass (I hope it doesn't turn into 'Lost' World).

The writing and acting for the most part were very good, particularly Evan Rachel Wood although my jury is still out on Hopkins.

The Ed Harris character is intriguing, I'm guessing there are more surprises in store there...

BD

Rachel Evan Wood was great, and Ed Harris is a master performer. I also like Jeffery Wright as the chief architect of the 'synths'. For those who didn't see it, you really missed something amazing. I have high hopes for this one & I hope they let it find its audience!

 

[Mephitik]

Great pilot for a show. they could have dragged out unravelling the world itself that Hopkins character had created, but instead plunged the viewer in right away to the fantasy world, the real world and everything in between. Can't wait to see what's next.

It also didn't take long for critics to rally against the show for brutality (particularly against women). It's a sci-fi show people! Not to mention set in the Wild West an arguably brutal time for everyone. Much like Game of Thrones and the violence portrayed (in a fantasy world). You can tell already in westworld, as with Game of Thrones it will be full of strong female characters.

 

[johnsmit]

I know i am a man probably with a feminine side ,so I related to the main women character ,but not nessisarily as a women bug more as to the general just reliving the same day every day . Of course there were a few variation when an new visiter was introduced into her life ..but basicly the same same every day ..Sound familiar?
I think it might to all of us. Depends how monotonous and repetitive your job or life chores have become .
I have one of those job . Yes there are different cars I drive each day and a number of different route I take . BUT each day it up at 430 ,shower and shave and out the door by 5 :04 or so ..and then out to the ferry with a stop at Macdonald .At the ferry it's give my reservstion and take my place in line 1 or 2 .and wait for the 7 o'clock ferry .
The same old off on the other side and on my way to the dealer where ever ..
It a route and routine that I have done for 2 yrs now other have done it for over 10 yrs..
Sure every one has a life out side work and does different thing.How much is just the same over and over and over again ..
Now of course there is something more happening here in West world as there is here in the sexworld .There is all those memories and traumas that leave there mark in our memories which we try to write over as they do with the robots in westworld .But they never are really erasedand eventually will surge forward and cause us to chsnge or break .

 

[Ms.Fiona]

Loving this series... the first two were a bit disappointing but I usually try and hang in there for 3-4 episodes to give it a chance but I'm totally into it now... I didn't like the Walking Dead the first couple but am a full fledged TWD fan.

 

[rlock]

Saw the old movie before, and it was B grade stuff, though it did have some merits.
I've enjoyed the show so far. However, I'm not sure how many may have seen the film Ex Machina - I'd say it has more in common with that, and maybe Blade Runner, than the original film.
I like the slow-burn approach they are taking, though I can see why some TV viewers want an obvious hook right away (like the in-show WW customers, I guess?).
I also like the way it plays with the concept of memory, plus what the role that has in suffering. I guess a constant theme is "Man's inhumanity to man", but made possible when the other man is a machine? No consequences, so there's no guilt to feel, right? (Well, by now it's clear the answer is going to be "wrong".)
At first, I was fooled by some of the actors, confusing who was human and who was machine. I'm still trying to figure out who's going to be the mechanized Spartacus of the inevitable uprising.

 

[Tugela]

I think that it may encounter difficulties, because the theme of the story involves such subtle concepts that it will go over the head of most viewers. So they will end up getting confused and eventually stop watching the show. Or it will degenerate into stereotyped slop.

I like the idea, but IMO it will be very easy for the writers to go too far one way or the other.

 

[rlock]

Do you think that any SP's watching can relate to the show's assertion that clients' / guests' personalities basically come down to being either "white hats" or "black hats" ?