warm fuzzy lovescene.
Madame Gao walking around Rand in office hours.
corpse disposal.
patricide.

i loved this episode. i like the slower pacing - it means when the action happens there's more weight behind it.
it's weird - normally bad shows are bad and good shows are good. but i really like this one, despite the critics tearing it apart. apparently this was "cheesy" - which just puzzles me. and apparently…

He's been in another dimension where normal rules don't apply. duh.

this was such a good episode. it was funny, it was exciting and the action - even just the sneaking onto the pier - was tense and pretty thrilling.
favourite moment - Colleen charging at the armed security guard and flying through the air, smashing her knee into his ribs. and then stealing his car.
i think i love…

oh, this is just the best thing ever.

but it's been his entire life for years. he's going to stop what comes naturally to him because he's somewhere different now?
no.
this is your problem and you're projecting your own baggage onto the show.

"the cinematography is really lacking".
don't agree. much of the framing, lighting and construction of shots is really very accomplished.
it's a handsome show.

Scott's films still look good, but they've been empty experiences for years now.

On the more niche pages you could have some good discussions and people would spend the time to make recommendations for similar films, and the like. I'll miss that.
But discussion pages for popular films there are/were a waste of time.

actually you become alumni *after* you've graduated or finished whatever it is. so no, you're wrong.

Also the plot of Mass Effect and pretty much Battlestar.
The difference here would be these entities choosing this fate for themselves, which is completely different.

Mamet had an interesting few years (ignoring his play adaptations) where he seemed interested in deconstructing crime genre pics and putting his own spin on them.
Homicide is the usual revenge/cop movie… but without any redemption.
House of Games is his version of The Sting.
The Spanish Prisoner is a spin on a…

"Fat Lindsay" is purely in the pilot. things change from pilots (though Gretchen's line "Yeah, me and Fat Lindsay are hella tight" is still one of my favourite lines). it still holds up. maybe a year or two earlier she was. it's a nickname that's presented as just something Jimmy's heard somewhere, not that it's…

You're the Worst makes so few mis-steps.

two photos would have been too obvious from a presentation aspect. they weren't ready to reveal that twist that obviously.
all that matters is that when Bernard looks at the picture we're pretty-much sat on his shoulder; it's the nearest thing to a POV as we're going to get. and there's something Bernard can't see.
it'…

my original reply seems to have gone AWOL.
Ford likes to have old things around - i didn't say the Yul Brynner bot had been recommissioned, otherwise it would be walking around - and it isn't.
also, the WestWorld we're watching is set WAY after the film - decades, maybe centuries.
there isn't an actual human in the place…

i gave that some thought at the time, but it's the only way to represent it to the audience. and notice where the camera is - right on Bernard's shoulder. Ford looks at the photo but when he shows it it's not from his POV.
and the fact remains that the photo is obviously missing information.
two photos would have been…

i meant it had been superficially repaired, not that it was active. Ford likes old things - he likes having reminders of the originals around. so it got fixed up, at least superficially, but i wasn't suggesting it was re-activated and strolling around, otherwise… it would be.

Bernard (which i called 2 weeks ago in these threads) isn't real. Ford isn't either. But Ford needs a backstory he can believe in.
it's another loop. i've written about it in these threads a couple of times. there isn't a human in the place.
for Ford to believe he created and controls this huge park with all this…

Maeve is purely set on self-survival, not revenge. it's Delores who "destroys" the park, and probably has done many, many times.
the whole story is about "loops".
every 30/40 years some of the robots start to become self-aware. at that point the park needs to be reset - which is where Maze comes in. becoming aware of…