I honestly don't know how I'm going to handle it. I'd like to think I'm ready but I'm really not. Hopefully he hangs on another couple of decades.

I mean we're all wired differently, but Colton Haynes is objectively one of the best-looking humans on the planet.

Well if I'm not mistaken that was in Sorbonne, where a bunch of Parisian universities are, so perhaps they were actually all speaking French?

It just looked awfully like the modern day, and Chidi was his current apparent age. I mean who even knows how time works in this show, but I think we can draw a strong inference that he died not that much after. So that makes 4/4 of the main human cast who appear to have been young (and by extension probably died…

I was disappointed that this (almost certainly) shot down my theory that he lived to a ripe old age.

Of course it does - he's powerful so he doesn't think the rules apply to him. She was hot, so he fucked her, and who's going to stop him? There are a bajillion examples of this in the real world, not the least of which is Donald Trump, who even did us the favour of explaining how this works on tape. When you're a…

(paraphrase) "God won't care about one measly human soul."

"I mean, you probably can, but… please don't. I need this."

It occurs to me that hosts might be inclined to protect guests from other guests if it comes to that.

Oh did he die? Classic Teddy. I must've spaced out at the end of that scene.

I'd distinguish it from Thailand because Thailand is a real place full of real things, family-friendly and otherwise just like everywhere else in the world. Westworld is a theme park. There's lots of other cool stuff there, but a major focus appears to be dudes acting out sexual assault, which is just… unpleasant. I'm…

I agree with your friend. To me the game looks fun in many aspects, and I don't personally have any problem with the sexbots in and of themselves. But even assuming no guest safety concerns, I don't think I'd be comfortable hanging out in a giant, super realistic rape simulator. Let alone bringing children there on a…

I don't think Teddy not being able to kill them means they're guests, it might just mean that he's scripted to lose against them without help. Maybe they capture him and the guest he helped get away comes to his rescue? I hope so, I like her.

I agree. No comment on grades in particular, and I don't think Sava's wrong to post some concerns about diversity and character development (though I don't think this sort of premiere is necessarily where you'd find the second of those), but I thought this episode was basically perfect - it felt like the show finally…

That's not nice. What did clay ever do to you?

I agree. It feels like they're throwing out a bunch of the character work they've done, and left me feeling like I don't really understand the dynamics between the cast. I mean, I'll get over it, but it just seems like a weird choice. Guess we'll see where they go.

I was admiring how well they've normalized the abject lunacy of the concept by this episode. All the characters have more or less found their niches and are stable in them. And of course none of it makes any sort of sense upon any sort of consideration, but somehow they've sold it anyway.

I've never gotten the feeling that Cohen objects to schmaltz. The opposite, if anything. He'd probably just say something self-deprecating and gracious.

Fair enough. I didn't mean to call you out in particular, it's a really common refrain.

Yeah. I mean, Cohen struggled with depression his whole life and that's obviously reflected in his work. And I'd say it's fair to characterize him as "dark" too. I guess if you only had casual exposure to his work, particularly around the era of "The Future" when he got a comparably high level of radio play, you might…