Yeah I think that's what makes it so interesting. You saw loops/inevitability/man-made and still thought of them as human, I saw them as less than human for those exact reasons. The show did a great job of treating the hosts as normal characters, but then constantly undercutting it with the lab scenes or showing…

I definitely agree that for pure entertainment value the "arms-length" nature of much of the plot was detrimental, but as a thought experiment I thought it brought something that I've never really experienced in tv or film. From the first episode we had to decide as viewers how much we cared about characters who were…