Plus there is nothing hypnotic or mesmerizing about Negan. Nothing.

The fact that we have to speculate week after week as to what Negan's hold over all these people is — that's a serious problem with the show's writing.

The problem with Negan is that the writers are in love with him as a concept and that shows, big time. They are trying to write him as both really bad and really fun, instead of writing him as really bad and trusting the viewers to find that as fun as they, it seems, do. The result is just a huge windbag in a scarf.…

That's what the scene seemed to imply, but I don't think it implied it enough. There should have been a more momentous reveal, I think.

But wasn't that after Ford had obviously already decided to kill her? Honestly, all of his interactions with Theresa don't make much sense now that we know what he was planning all along.

But only "four or five" hosts had gained sentience, according to Bernard in that scene.

There seems to have been no real reason for Ford to go to the lengths of having Theresa killed. Other than making him seem villainous.

Leaving their options open in every possible way. I don't believe the future of this show has been as carefully planned out as the creators imply. They may have five seasons roughly sketched out, but they clearly haven't yet decided what they're going to do with most, if not all, of the characters next season.

"Reveal" is a discourse term.

It really doesn't help that he isn't scary or intimidating, does it?

Hahaha — people don't like this show because it's TOO MUCH LIKE Days of Our Lives. Can't you fanboys get that?

Did you wince when the train announcer said they would be leaving in fifteen minutes? Both of my kids and I GROANED.

Yes. For a couple of seasons I thought he was going to be ok after all, and then last season he took a nosedive and has gotten even worse this season. It's only 50% his fault, though; you can tell he's not being given good or consistent direction.

No. I'm sorry. The scene where Negan picks Judith up? I have never seen such terrible acting as Chandler Riggs pretending to look scared. It doesn't mean I think Chandler Riggs is a bad person or even a bad actor in general, but he is terrible in this part.

Yes, of course.

Chandler Riggs is doing a terrible job in this part.

I'm up to the iron scene, watching it now. It's terrible. Terribly acted, terribly edited. Those women are completely unrealistic-looking, like they're in an episode of Dynasty or something — this is just so bad.

Right, I know what Ford was really working on. It's just that the narrative seemed really important to everyone else in the show.

Were we supposed to know what the audience saw? Because honestly the more I think about that scene the more ridiculous it seems to me. From our point of view the conversation between Dolores and Teddy was contingent on everything that came before it, but that can't have been what the Westworld audience saw.

Did we ever find out why Ford's new narrative required so much ground-moving? Was that explained and I missed it? I was very confused over what it was the audience was supposedly watching, and am still confused as to how a narrative in the park could just be watched.