I’ve heard this kind of rationalization before. Once in a while though, a deer, a cyclist or someone just walking will be right at the apex...

Not a sci-fi or horror movie alas. Despite that Stonehenge set.

The Prowler was essentially a mass-produced street rod. If you were disappointed by its performance, don’t ever drive a real street rod. The fastest ones perform well only in a straight line, until you need to stop. They are built to cruise and be noticed, which the Prowler did well.

That kinda went... nowhere

I thought so too. Or - even better - that she’d pushed back and was controlling it in the way she learned to control other Hosts, and so had found out that way. She could have taken over the whole shebang and revealed to Serac that she’d been pulling his strings for a while. That’d have been cool.

The writing was on the wall from Episode 1. This season did not have the masterful storytelling of Season 1, nor the clunky-yet-appropriate plot progression of Season 2. It was as if someone entirely different was given the reins and they hastily wrote a fanfic. New technologies were thrust upon us with robotic (heh)…

There was a second when I thought they were saving it - when it looked like Maeve had been communicating with Rehoboam directly all along - but then they just doubled down on her stupidity.

They also gave away the Russian war deceit by casting an actor as the target who is well known as an American.

It’s because the producers and director’s and apparently the audience all couldn’t wait to get to the fireworks factory.

Thanks for the response! Keep up the awesome job that everyone at io9 does, Jill.

My husband I audibly groaned at the whole “war that was anything but civil” line. WHOOF. Who wrote that and can whoever it was sit in the corner and think about their actions?

I’ve always liked Maeve better than Dolores, but this season seems to have forgotten Maeve’s character. She was always extremely thoughtful and suspicious of others’ motives, even before being upgraded. The Maeve of seasons 1 and 2 would never so easily agree to do Serac’s dirty work. Why is she doing it now? Some…

You would think a hyper-intelligent AI like Maeve would notice that Dolores was crawling her way towards the “military-grade EMP” (with a giant red “On” button, no less.)

Also, why does Maeve want to perma-kill Dolores if Dolores has the only password to the virtual-reality server containing Maeve’s daughter?

Does the…

I don’t say this with any pride or joy, but I think I might be joining the ranks of the black hat commenters who find more to criticize in the show than enjoy. It’s still nice to look at, and there are some very good acting performances, but the plot, the world-building, and the character motivations just seem very…

Generally speaking, the show just isn’t must see quality this season. The acting talent is great. The story, not so great. The production and direction apart from some good CGI, is almost amateurish for this scale of an HBO production.

In as much as the episode made sense, it didn’t make sense. A lot of showing instead of telling, a lot of plot contrivances, new rules for how the simulations work...

no, more like when he was talking about the world changing in an instant and my home has become an unrecognizable ghost town in the space of a week

I’ll let Jason Cammisa explain why.

Blazing trails alright, to Costco and hoarding all the TP.

Yeah . . . you’re wrong.