Felt the same way - I think it was a mixture of fear over Maeve who looks to be in serious trouble, as well as hope as she is fighting over the host network, mixed with the poignancy of her asking Akecheta to look after her daughter (an alternative reading of “Take my heart when you go”). Plus the actors knocked it…

Wish they had used a different bit of music - it has shown up in a few too many films by this point if they’re trying to evoke particular echoes of one. I remember it from Tarsem’s “The Fall” and “X-Men Apocalypse” off the top of my head and suspect it could be quite a substantial list

It might be that there are different agendas at play - James Delos wanted immortality, William was more interested in the customer data side (either for manipulation or replacing), Ford/Bernard were obsessive about the technology and not interested in either apporach beyond it helping to fund them, and Logan as pure…

I think that might be the eventual conflict - Dolores/Wyatt seeing only bad in humans and good in hosts, vs Maeve who starts to see good in more humans and bad in hosts making her more forgiving. Where William’s side quest and his daughter fit in to that picture though is an interesting question...

Apart from when that council picked what Gospels to include in about 300AD if I recall correctly...

I think it’s more intetesting to have the Maeve story play out this way - she can’t send her daughter back now, so they’re stuck together which leaves the question of whether the daughter can remember Maeve, if she can be made to, or if Maeve will try to reprogram her. It’s too early to judge but it feels like there…

I wondered if he was testing his daughter - I still wonder if he doubts that she is real and not a host put in by Ford

The trouble is, those aren’t things that can be measured objectively, and aren’t just in the control of the journalist. The editor may have things removed or added, and there are also issues of presentation where something may technically be true but may be described in loaded language to give a misleading impression.…

I want to assume that the whole ‘Pravda’ idea is a joke, it’s too stupid to be real surely? It should be obvious that the moment you ask people to rate media sites by their honesty, people are going to vote up the ones that support their ideology, and vote down the ones that don’t regardless of how good the journalism…

Maeve hasn’t given up her quest, she is just having trouble traveling across the parks, not helped by getting trapped by the ronin. The delay with Akane/Sakura is in part about her emerging compassion where she is unwilling to leave her double suffering (which makes how it develops from her very interesting as she’ll…

I love the way Armistice pointed it out by saying “This is strangely familiar”, then having it lead in to the musical call-back. Brilliant production decisions on that sequence

Is it usual? I remember William Goldman saying they were often unrelated. You could have a great time on good films or bad films, and similarly a bad time

She is also pretty aware of how lucky she is. In the original interview this comes up near the end (when she talks about missing being able to do simple things with her mother like go shopping)

When the child told William to look back, I just got the feeling that it somehow ties to Maeve. We don’t know who chose to wake her up, it’s independent of the big Ford narrative, but the first thing that broke her programming was William using her to see how evil he could be. If Ford’s game is about challenging…

Story can feel counter-productive in a game. If you want the characters to have the freedom to explore the world, the metaplot becomes almost irrelevant. If you try to present a tight, coherent narrative, you can get a game with minimal replay value. I think the only time I’ve ever appreciated the actual writing on a…

It’s depressing how many Hollywood films are essentially:
quip, quip, explosion, quip, explosion, quip, semi-sad dramatic bit, CGIKake, quip, END.

There is an article on 70s disaster movies on Den Of Geek, and Airplane steals so much from Airport 75

Only the drummer...

Never quite understood how Snape is viewed so heroically. His obsession with a woman gets her killed along with her husband, and while he feels bad about her dying, he goes on to bully generations of kids in to absolute misery, and helps get revenge on the person who killed her. Kind of surprised that it’s not…

Does that mean Elsie is alive though? Only Bernard and Ford knew she was dead so if the Delos website is in character, it would still think she was alive