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I finished Westworld S2 and I do have to say a few of the episodes are really great, the one featuring the indian was very poetic and almost like a dream, really great. I thought the finale was pretty decent as well, tied up a lot but also it sort of left too much "to be continued" stuff lie thandies madame character being I guess an immortal in this show. Her arc to giving up the escape to the real world to come back to find some little girl is pretty stupid, filler stuff. I get the telepathy thing for her character tbh because "machines" this sophisticated should easily have RF etc communication and it's not believable that if the parks makers have telemetry that they can't give commands and such from radio waves. This should NOT have been some magical got you thing at all, bad writing.
Also William the man in black owner seems also to never be able to die even after being shot several times, being human((or I assume so but this show...), he then never bleeds out over a long time period. Dumb stuff there, more bad writing. Deus Ex Machina stuff that is just for "the story" but gets to be a little too much.
The setting changes with not much point, into the Japanese Edo period to just illustrate that there are other "worlds" in this sim but that's it, has little but some cool fights and recreation of that period in a high quality tier production.
There was too much flashbacks, flash fowards, flash-etcs in there too. A unified time line and story would have made more sense and the series would have appealed to a larger audience. They have the art of the "Do-over" to the extreme in this series so far. We are shown Ford leading helping Bernard the whole season and before, but at some point it says "welp he was just bernard packaging his free will as not free will" type of thing. I mean come on. Stop lying to us visually and in the dialogue and such and then come back and have some dumb "gotcha"! later on with some dramatic music and "serious voices" and such nonsense. It's a turnoff.
I also didn't like the lead female blond who magically just gets transferred to the bad guy black female techie who was replaced at some point with a "host" doppelganger. Oh please.
From the comments on imdb I plan on just watching the first and last episodes of S3 and S4 to not waste time on this series any more. Almost the only episode that was amazing was S2e8 the indians story telling. The rest of it is just too confusing and skips here and there and uses tricks to get what the writers wanted.
No wonder this thing was cancelled after 4 seasons. How it really lost focus in S2 is a shame, they really needed to not do the tricks of this and that and focus on 2 or 3 at the most storylines and have a consistent time line going on. I get the 'gotcha' flashbacks and such are necessary but it's overdone and has too much "do-over" type stuff to fit some convoluted narrative. The creators started to smell their own fancy farts too much in S2 and it went to shti in later seasons.
Also William the man in black owner seems also to never be able to die even after being shot several times, being human((or I assume so but this show...), he then never bleeds out over a long time period. Dumb stuff there, more bad writing. Deus Ex Machina stuff that is just for "the story" but gets to be a little too much.
The setting changes with not much point, into the Japanese Edo period to just illustrate that there are other "worlds" in this sim but that's it, has little but some cool fights and recreation of that period in a high quality tier production.
There was too much flashbacks, flash fowards, flash-etcs in there too. A unified time line and story would have made more sense and the series would have appealed to a larger audience. They have the art of the "Do-over" to the extreme in this series so far. We are shown Ford leading helping Bernard the whole season and before, but at some point it says "welp he was just bernard packaging his free will as not free will" type of thing. I mean come on. Stop lying to us visually and in the dialogue and such and then come back and have some dumb "gotcha"! later on with some dramatic music and "serious voices" and such nonsense. It's a turnoff.
I also didn't like the lead female blond who magically just gets transferred to the bad guy black female techie who was replaced at some point with a "host" doppelganger. Oh please.
From the comments on imdb I plan on just watching the first and last episodes of S3 and S4 to not waste time on this series any more. Almost the only episode that was amazing was S2e8 the indians story telling. The rest of it is just too confusing and skips here and there and uses tricks to get what the writers wanted.
No wonder this thing was cancelled after 4 seasons. How it really lost focus in S2 is a shame, they really needed to not do the tricks of this and that and focus on 2 or 3 at the most storylines and have a consistent time line going on. I get the 'gotcha' flashbacks and such are necessary but it's overdone and has too much "do-over" type stuff to fit some convoluted narrative. The creators started to smell their own fancy farts too much in S2 and it went to shti in later seasons.