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I would like to have a scenario where my arrival into Sweetwater gets a different reaction from the hosts than just "oh, here's another newcomer rolled into town". It would be cool to have a "character" that the hosts have been scripted to play along with you as. Then your role playing could truly elevate to another

I think that one of the greatest strengths of this show is that they've established this world where the viewers can let their imaginations run wild with questions and scenarios. Some find this frustrating, and would rather have all questions laid out for them in expository scenes, but I find it fascinating to think

It would be cool to see a pre-screening process where guests can select the level of intensity they want in their trip, like choosing the difficulty at the beginning of a video game. "Daddy Don't Hurt Me"-mode Westworld would be you can't travel a certain distance outside of Sweetwater or your host-farmhouse, no hosts

Cuz they'd be zombies?!

Perhaps Ford created the Wyatt host as an equalizer of sorts: one designed to truly test the mettle of the MiB at the heart of the maze? That seems like too straightforward of a story line, but perhaps Wyatt will also end up being Arnold?

Also makes you wonder whether Pariah operates on the same loop system as the other towns. Are there just constant weekly voodoo-style robot orgies with war-obsessed Confederados sulking about? It would have been helpful to have a few throw-away lines from other guests to show us that Logan/William aren't the only

Someone mentioned this below, I think, but some potential proof of there being multiple copies of the same host potentially inhabiting different characters in different loops at the same time is found in the character(s) of Lawrence/El Lazo. Lawrence is killed by the MiB and seemingly soon after shows up in Pariah as

Not seeing much discussion of the importance of the heretofore unseen (save for Teddy's "flashbacks") character of Wyatt. What's his significance? Teddy and the MiB are insistent upon tracking him down. The coffin has the maze symbol on it, is Wyatt the leader of the revolution that Lawrence is taking William and

Yes, she can get it.

Holy crap, this Jack Chick guy is the clear inspiration for The Onion's "Kelly" comics! Wow.

That interview is great if you like to hear people pronouncing words like "what", "where", "when", and others with an extra emphasis on the "wh" sound.

Don't forget their sister Betty Bass Clef Overstreet.

I like "We Are" by Vertical Horizon (mostly because my a cappella group in college did a killer cover - yeah that's right come at me!), and let's not forget "Grey Sky Morning". Dudes had some hits!

"Are you Chili Ray?"

I said a riff-raff, a riffy, a riffy to the riff riff raff, you don't stop a-rockin' to the Bang! Bang!

While American Idiot as a whole may be a passé conceit these days, they were really bang-on with "Jesus of Suburbia". That multi-part track really captures something, not sure what, but SOMETHING. Like a punk-rock Tommy track? Incidentally, Green Day's cover of "A Quick One (While He's Away)" is particularly inspired.

Homer, these are all Grand Funk Railroad songs!

Lots of under-appreciated gems on Nimrod like "Uptight", the instrumental "Last Ride In", and "Prosthetic Head", if you sit through "Good Riddance"

AV Club article from 2036: "Its dominance of the 2010's now appears to be a mildly embarrassing, yet ultimately harmless fad we would just as soon forget, its name forever yellowing in our collective yearbook next to some guy wearing an XO shirt. In a way, that something could be so popular yet disposable makes How I

The Rising Tide gets no love: that's some of the best prog rock of the 2000's.