I'm with you there. Inserting the language of activism or progressiveness into the conversation doesn't make it better if you're trying to pressure someone into dating someone they don't want to date. Ian is talking through whether he's comfortable having sex with his new friend. Do we really want to push Ian to have…

Read up on the finales for Lost and Battlestar Gallactica. People are also sick of Christ figures popping up in everything.

A thought: I'm wondering why we're focusing on the sentience of the robots, which is fun but also not worth the time of discussion that the show thinks it is, and not the fact that Arnold has possibly extended his life through his imprint on the robots? What is life/sentience/consciousness humanity? If you act and…

Remember when GoT gave us, "idk, let's do zombies v. giants"? Basically all I'm saying in all my comments is that Westworld better give me some version of that. If you can't be as smart as you think you are, at least commit to being mindlessly entertaining. Westworld has all the moving parts for a great bonkers…

I think the existence of Liam as a character proves that the writers were never going to be graceful about race stuff.

I'd go that route if I were convinced that the sci-fi/intellectual stuff is going to reach an endpoint that's intelligent enough to justify the posturing. As of now, it's a lot of fancy words that point to Arnold and Ford having god complexes. Arnold gave Dolores consciousness via an approximation of religion, which…

I'm watching because I like westerns and I'm not sure I'll tune in for season 2 if we don't get a good season finale this year. The most purely entertaining scenes have been when the robots are acting out their own Ford-penned narratives in the world that they think is real. I loved the scenes of Dolores and Teddy. It…

"This DJ is wild/This band is sick" = things you say when you're not paying attention to the music when you're drunk and trying to get laid. So yep.

I'm wondering if Debbie's DCFS thing will spiral out to Fiona being reminded that she's Debbie's guardian (Fiona doesn't have to give her spending money, but she cannot threaten to make her homeless or demand money for housing or food). All Debbie has to tell the dude is that she was out trying to make money for rent,…

This reviewer also missed how, in the episode about theology and consciousness, Dolores overcame her programming after hearing the disembodied voice of Arnold, who embedded his voice in the hosts as the voice of god.

I think my issue with the show is that it focuses wholeheartedly on the science stuff and in the meta-narratives (the guests who are talking about enjoying the park) but not so much in the western narratives. We see Ford and the other nerds talking about creating storylines and I want to see them! I suppose it ties…

Are we supposed to be reading Goran's accent into Flynn having Soviet ties (I realize that Goran isn't actually Russian, but roll with me here)? Maybe my X-Files rewatch is triggering some old post-Cold War paranoia, but Goran has a famous (and attractive) accent so it would be weird if that wasn't part of the point.…

I've been thinking about why the guardianship angle bugs me so much (it's not like this show is concerned with having everyone stick to the letter of the law) and I think it's because Fiona is supposed to be smarter than this. Within the framework of the show, she's our default protagonist because she's smart and also…

I think they just really want to make a sci-fi western, which is basically the American transposition of the way Brits always want to make sci-fi Medieval stuff. It's natural to want to tap into the mythos of your national heritage.

I don't think anyone's saying that Debbie shouldn't try to get a job. We're saying that Fiona can't legally charge a minor dependent for rent money or threaten Debbie with homelessness.

I kinda think that the guardianship plot might have existed mostly as a way to push JimmySteve away. She basically adopted five kids and then got mad when her live-in romantic partner felt he hadn't signed up for that. Beyond the strings-pulling of pushing JimmySteve out of the picture, the guardianship angle never…

I share your concerns about how Fiona's guardianship is being handled but I think the "inside baseball" reasoning is that seeing Carl and Debbie in potentially wacky employment scenarios is better than dealing with more high school junk. Lip has been pulled out if the college stuff too so I get that. Hasn't Carl been…

Lip and Ian are not the legal guardians of the younger children though, which is the point I'm trying to make here. When you go to court to fight for custody, you can't turn around a few years later and decide that your aged-out former dependents should fulfill the parent roles now.

Not legally, though many companies hire post-college interns anyway. It is the law that you must be compensated for your work in some way. If you are not earning college credit, you must be paid a wage.

"I didn't get much sleep last night" is a typical snarky thing to say to the person you spent the night with but don't really like. I'm not sure why everyone is overthinking this and wanting everyone to secretly be a robot.