At 71, Lorne has to be considering retirement within the next few years. NBC should take a hard look at courting Chappelle to be his replacement. At first glance, it would be easy to assume that NBC would never be able to accommodate a creator like Chappelle; the constraints of network comedy would likely be too…

Yeah, perhaps. Although it doesn't ring true for me that the stray was trying merely to destroy evidence. If the host was being used as a tool for Arnold, it would follow that it strayed from its programming to accomplish some sort of task. It doesn't appear that its task was complete, if that was the case, as the…

Exactly. What really turned me on to the theory was the emphasis on dehumanization in Episode 3. The show is focusing heavily right now on not just how the park workers view the hosts, but also on the understanding of the hosts the workers are required to hold at the direction of Ford, i.e., that the hosts are…

Oh, and also, the stray's self-destruction did not play as "robots be crazy, right?" to me. It seemed to me the suicide of a desperate being, a way for the stray to escape the intolerable conditions of its reality. Especially after its seeming realization that it was about to be returned to HQ for analysis, and…

I'm okay with the meta-commentary present in Westworld. To me, the tropes being examined by the show are an integral part of the narrative. This is a theme park, structured and coordinated in a way to provide guests with experiences they would expect to accompany the western backdrop. What really underscores the…