“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real…

Trump supporters literally do not care that Trump is enriching himself. He’s a businessman, that’s his job to do business and make money. Who cares! Are you someone who hates success? America is going to be so successful under him, only a total cuck would care that Trump’s going to make himself even more rich because…

Mmmm no weirder than the rest of their relationship. There is historical precedent for daughters/nieces to fill the role...granted usually when the Prez. was a bachelor or widower. But as you said if Melania is not having it, its kind of a natural thing.

UGH Well, Anna, I liked it. I thought it was a nice juxtaposition of how even the littlest things are impossible in that kind of weather, and yet, people are LITERALLY CAMPING during this and TRYING NOT TO DIE just so they can PROTECT THEIR DAMN CLEAN WATER. I thought it was a cool way to do it, and I GOT IT SO ROCK…

lol, “alarmingly huge pants”. Girl that is a base layer at best!

I thought Ford said, while explaining how Dolores killed Arnold, that Wyatt was an antagonist they had been developing, and that Arnold used the code from that character to make Dolores capable of killing everyone. So the Wyatt narrative was actually one of the original ones based in the original town, and Ford…

There were so many clues, that I gotta think that the big reveal scene was mostly for the Dolores character’s benefit. I mean if they really didn’t want us to figure it out, would they really have given us multiple closeups of that damn photograph?

“Well I’ll be damned” was what it said, and it was perfect.

I wonder if Delos opened the other parks using Ford’s technology... but Westworld is the one giving them trouble due to Ford’s tinkering and the reveries and all that. They did mention making the hosts “simpler” once he is replaced.

I think we only saw 2 hosts achieve consciousness, Maeve and Delores. If Maeve’s whole story was to escape, why did she get off the train? She was given the information about where her child was and made a choice at the end, one that (hopefully) wasn’t programmed for her.

45 minutes in to the episode I still was thinking that they couldn’t pull it off. And yet they did.

I was thinking...

There IS something wrong. It’s not deep enough. You’re missing the point, philistine.

And here I was thinking that the whole point is to get the viewer to come back next week to see what happens. They need to invest the viewer because that’s how you get the viewer to watch again. There’s nothing wrong with feeling attachment to characters or trying to predict what will happen next. I don’t watch for a…

Are we in the part of the cycle where think pieces are being written about how lame people are for being invested in a well-acted and well-written piece of entertainment, even though it’s not nearly as intellectual as the masses might think it is?

Wow, that’s sobering. I grew up in NJ, and I’ve raised my son here, and we bitch about the education systems, but where we went to school is actually pretty damn great compared to what you’re relating. I come from a family of people who like to think, so educating yourself was always a high HIGH priority. (My father…

She would be amazing fodder for TV drama. She’d be this character who is supporting her repugnant father while espousing beliefs that completely contradict his platform. The audience would constantly be asking whether she has an internal battle between her own desire to do good and her desire for power. You’d wonder…

We call them hoagies in Philadelphia. Not heroes.

You know what? Fuck it. Bring ON the swamp. Make the swamp swampier than it has ever been. Fill the cabinet with rich white men who want nothing more but to make other rich white men like themselves wealthier.

Way to drain that swamp, Turmp voters! You sure showed us big dumb libruls.