So…the last book?

I guess the thing for me was it felt like they were touching on stuff like the illness as though we already knew about it, and those of us not already in the know wouldn't understand what was being referenced. It felt more like "You probably already know this," and less like "here's something you should know."

I tried the pilot, but got bugged by how glum it was. It also felt like they were retreading a lot of ground (the cancer/intestinal issues) that existing Tig fans knew about, and it felt less like they were telling those stories in a new way in a new medium, but rather just reminding us that they happened.

*slide whistle*

That makes about as much sense as nipples on a bat suit.
-George RR Martin, repeatedly.

This makes sense. I remember constantly groaning and rolling my eyes at the Wonka's-dad-was-a-dentist subplot in Tim Burton's Willy Wonka because they didn't devote the entire movie to it.

I borrowed the first two Prophet trades from a friend, and I'd say the storytelling format of dropping the reader into a fantastic, dense world without much context was both a strength and a massive weakness. I just never quite got attached to the characters or story, but loved all the wacky, wiggy concepts.

This kinda assumes they all occur on one timeline. I gather each episode was its own "universe," considering the major technologies covered in each episode don't really overlap, or the societies depicted are often drastically different in mood and priorities.

I didn't mean to make any claim. I just meant to posit the question "how will this particular online action help the physical protesters?"

You mean the article above, which explicitly states " it remains unclear whether or not this protest is working the way it aims to"?

By whom, and where?

How so? Like they're checking out who checked in at the protest and knocking down doors after the fact?

What? The copy-pasted explanation says its real, concrete action. It's right there, in permanent pixel.

I'm eagerly awaiting any explanation of how confusing the police in this capacity is preventing them from targeting the protests, especially considering all action taken by the police is in person, at Standing Rock, as they break up protests.

Hey so why are some robots incinerated and others taken to the creepy standing robot garage?

It's timing and timeline stuff like that which has me keeping Westworld at arm's length. Same goes for the mysteries that are keeping all the characters and situations so thinly drawn (it seems like they don't want to flesh out characters out of a desire to reveal deeper truths as plot twists).

Seems odd that there'd be a group of native americans who straight-up carve dolls that look like park technicians. I'd prolly put a lid on that.

See, I wondered if perhaps all those conversations were taking place in some floating timeline (if that's the case, the show's doing a poor job of expressing that), but Bernard seems to be referencing recent developments with each conversation. They definitely strike me as periodic check-ins.

I'm usually not one to get confused by or nit-pick a plot that doesn't move chronologically, but four episodes in, and I'm way too confused over how Dolores ends up in Jeffrey Wright's office every night (day? afternoon?). Does she just get up from wherever she's sleeping and walk over to an access hatch? Are we to…

Pffft, anyone can be a competent father *figure.*