It’s a real gun. Technically it’s a cartridge-firing replica of a real gun. But yes, some gun designer back in the 1860s actually built a revolver with an underbarrel shotgun.

I guess? Those arguments seem like kind of a reach to me. Victor is probably scared that the Bride will reject the Monster because then the Monster (and probably the Bride, for similar reasons) will take revenge on him. And the primary motivation for him still seems to be preventing a race of monsters that could harm…

The Bride of Frankenstein movie was written by the scriptwriters based on Mary Shelley’s characters and ideas in Frankenstein, but she never wrote a Bride of Frankenstein book. I don’t know if the original Frankenstein novel had particularly feminist themes.

Clowns are basically an attempt to make a real-life person look like a cartoon, and as such are creepy in a similar way to attempts to portray a cartoon character in real life.

I think the board representative is the brother-in-law, since he mentions bumping his company’s stake and that he’s there on business.

The guns sense whether they’re pointing at a human or a robot (or are told by the park’s sensor network) and their smart ammo fires at full velocity for the robots and low velocity for the guests.

The guns sense whether they’re pointing at a human or a robot (or are told by the park’s sensor network) and their smart ammo fires at full velocity for the robots and low velocity for the guests.

I think the brother-in-law is the board representative, since he mentions bumping his company’s stake and that he’s there on business.

That makes sense to me. With the ubiquitous surveillance they seem to have of the park, it should be possible for some central computer to check that every shot has no real humans intersecting its cone of possible trajectories. I can’t get on the fake Westworld site (it just sends me to the HBO website); do they say…

My problem is that we see the shell go through a wall and kill a guy with his back to the wall. So the shell would have to have enough power to penetrate the wall, and could only fragment milliseconds before impact if it sensed that guy was a guest, and would still hit like a shotgun blast. Maybe if it fragmented into…

In the most recent episode, I thought he wistfully mentioned something (to Lawrence?) about how he’s been playing this game for years, and it seems real, but it’s not really real if he can’t be killed. That’s where I got the impression he wanted to make the game fair, as it were.

I guess? But he shoots the guy through a brick (?) wall. So the brick wall (and by extension all the structures in Westworld) would have to be flimsy too, but only in selective ways (because they still have to work as sturdy, load-bearing buildings). And the hosts would have to be flimsy in selective ways too, because…

Nope, that’s actually a real gun, admittedly one modified to take cartridges. The LeMat 1861 revolver. The switch on the hammer adjusts the firing pin to set off either the cartridge in the cylinder or the shell in the tube under the barrel.

I saw “Ouija: Origin of Evil” instead of this and it sounds like it was a good choice.

He’s only going to start having fun once he’s sloshing around in those milk tanks with the robots.

Does it seem to anyone else like the MiB is helping the robots become self-aware? Because he keeps traumatizing the robots in just the way that seems to lead to them having flashbacks, he refers to Arnold and carrying on his legacy and he gives the impression that he’s bored with invincibility and that the game he’s…

“Hector sexually dislodges the buried bullet from Maeve’s abdomen”

Ask a psychologist to be sure, but I thought credible, professionally-validated IQ tests couldn’t reliably measure scores over 160. Some high-IQ societies have their own tests which supposedly measure in that range, but I don’t think any psychometricians take them seriously.

I support rehabilitation too, but this is a hard one. With a prison sentence, he’s definitely not going to be raping any 12 year-olds for the 25 years he’s in prison, so the medical recommendation would have to be pretty convincing to counteract that. It’s hard to come up with a hypothetical set of circumstances under…