Recent studies show that there is a big divide not with class and income, but with education, even at the higher ed level. The kid who goes to a community college won’t get the same education as if he went to Harvard.

Your point is confusingly made with lots of supposition. And even if you made it more clearly, I would disagree almost 100%. There are two huge problems with your premise.

It might not be that, since WW would be the oldest park with the most generations. Considering they had all been operating normally when the uprising began, there may be fewer cycles/memories to cover up. In their case it may be a story of someone trying to teach the hosts they are actually slaves, eventually…

No, you are wrong. It means that if 25% of seats are blocked than 25% of children zoned for that school will not have a seat. I don’t understand why parents want/need to send their child to a school they have to travel to vs a school they could walk to. Please don’t tell me about your crappy school because if that is…

Delos Destinations is a subsidiary of Delos Inc. In the context of the show, I’d imagine the parent company has a presence and interests in just about every nation on the earth and would want to cater to as many wealthy customers possible.

That’s also not how their school system works. Schools get to set admission requirements, so the 25% that used to be virtually assured of getting into the best schools will now bump down the students who used to get into the very good schools, and so on.

All the hosts have to shift into “slowmo mode” for each fight. ..and turn their swords around backwards. Then they roll their robot eyes back in their heads in disgust.

It isn’t even subtextual. It is just a realistic statement. It means, you will be entering a visually stunning world where a bloody war is going on and you get to participate in it.

“and then there’s the subtextual messaging that’s conveyed by phrases like “a landscape of highest beauty and darkest horror” which gets more problematic the more you sit down and think about just what all that entails.”

The entire show is about the commodification of people and culture for the purpose of base entertainment; it strips individuals of agency and personhood and strips culture of anything but the most surface value. I’ve always assumed this was meant to be a negative, and I don’t understand how anyone could have possibly…

Nolan and Joy have expressed their excitement to share a Shōgun World-centric Westworld episode dropping later in the season that takes place almost entirely in Japanese, and it very well could be amazing. Here’s hoping that the show manages to stick the landing instead of shooting itself in the foot.

Oh for fuck’s sake. This is some pearl-clutching, vapor-inducing shit here. By this logic, any ‘World’ that is not essentially white is racist. Roman World would be ok, even though it is really fucking foreign? And has been pointed out, this island is near Japan so who exactly is this foreign to? To the park’s guests,…

It seems inevitable that the guests in Shogun World will fetishize and degrade the hosts just like they do in West World. And we’re likely to meet at least one WASPy hedgefund bro living out his own personal version of The Last Samurai. But so far the show has consistently aligned our sympathy with the hosts,…

That sounds like a repeat of what Dolores and Maev have already gone through. I am curious to see how they will handle things differently instead of beat for beat of season 1.

You could compare it to the real world sex tourism to Thailand and the Philippines. Beware googling what you can’t unsee but there are communities and even travel businesses where the pitch is flat out “have sex with submissive Asian women.” Take advantage of another country’s poverty to live out your fantasies with…

Not that I really care, but the melee weapons in West World kinda confuse me. If you are fighting bots with lots of humans around...and these people are definitely not adapt at melee weapons...I can easily see someone accidentally getting hurt badly.

Segregate the WestWorld Parks by race.

“guests are invited to live out their wildest fantasies” - wildest, not most historically accurate or culturally sensitive fantasies. 

Bad people, doing bad things can also be racist?, a side from the wonton murder of robots, just because and their fucked up way to fuck and kill the same robot at the same time.