Agreed.
It seemed clear to me that she grabbed the rapist bad guy’s gun as they were wrestling each other in the barn. He then reached for it in his now empty holster and commented on her spunk or something.
Has anyone else played Rockstar Games’ “Red Dead Redemption”? Westworld and RDR are extremely similar.
I swear a lot of the plot and even the map of the park (on the website) are lifted almost straight out of that game. Even the ‘cannibal cult out in the badlands’ that they keep referring to was in the game.
Granted, you’re talking about two open world games about the old west, so you’re covering a lot of the same tropes, but the overlap is striking.
Oh. Dur. After writing this post I thought to look, and in fact both Nolans played RDR and GTA as inspiration for the show:
Also, now I’m not sure how coincidental it is that Rockstar just announced Red Dead Redemption 2.
We still haven’t seen Dolores’s mom’s face. Twice now, at least, she’s already been dead and unseen inside the farmhouse. I have a feeling that’s going to be a significant reveal.
Clearly they use positronic brains, each a unique artifact.
Why they couldn’t come back in the morning with a jackhammer and more crew is the bigger mystery.
Because they already rebuild a bunch of robots daily and it is probably a lot less effort than sending a crew out there. The host bodies are disposable, making new ones has to be a daily routine.
While it’s clear the creators do take inspiration from the game, it should be noted that Ravenous came out in '99. The Donner party happened in '46. 1846. Alferd Packer went out for dinner in 1874. Wendigo legends go back even further. Cannibalism, including ritual/cultic cannibalism,was part of the Western mythos way before RDR.
True enough.
In that case, you’d think removing heads would be a relatively simple “twist both earlobes at the same time to release neck clamps” process, not requiring large serrated knives.
Ergonomics, people!
Ergonomics, indeed. If I was paying an inordinate amount of money for a little adult entertainment, I’d be more than a little miffed if my robot-hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold’s head suddenly popped off in the middle of our “discussion session” because we twisted the wrong way ;).
Well, alternately, if your adult entertainment does involve a large serrated knife, I’m sure you’d want a realistic disengagement.
Yeah, but the diagnostics lady had her tablet with her. There should be a setting in there for “diagnostic head detach ENABLE”.
They had that once. People kept hitting it by mistake when trying to open Outlook.
A few random thoughts and comments:
- Guy in the hole who climbed out while getting his head chopped out and then started bashing his head in with a rock. Was that because the programmer was able to quickly get a few commands in, or was that what he was trying to do all along? There was blood down in that hole when they found him.
-Ford. Are there two of him or something? In the first few episodes he seemed connected to the hosts. He took walks with a host version of himself as a child. He visited with Bill down in the holding level. Visited with him - like a friend! He introduced the reveries that seem to be causing all of the problems. Ep 3, and now he’s mr. “they’re just machines. never forget that.” WTF? I don’t know what the hell is going on with Ford, but it doesn’t add up.
-Arnold. Not Ed Harris. I tend to think that actually Ed Harris may be more like a corporate spy. He seems to be trying to get into the lab. I think Arnold buried commands in the hosts/operating system. Perhaps the reveries accessed the top level of that pyramid for mentioned and breached the barrier that kept them hidden. I also wonder if Arnold is really dead…
Yeah, if Arnold isn’t Ed Harris, I’m betting Arnold is still alive somewhere in the park, in any event.
:: nods knowingly ::
Another earlobe guy, eh?
Yeah, we still haven’t got a clear explanation of how the guns work. That sure looked and sounded like real bullets hitting the ground, ricocheting, etc. When William got shot by the host why did he go down like he was dead? Wouldn’t his reaction be more like, “Ow!! Shit!!! What the fuck?!?!”
I really can’t believe they just give people a gun and turn them loose in WW without some sort of orientation and practice session with the weapons. Even if you can believe that it’s some sort of non-lethal pellet, what if it hits someone in the eye with no sort of eye protection?
We were told, I think in the first episode, that all disease had been cured. So presumably medicine is quite advanced from what it is today and if a guest were shot in the eye by a host, he/she could probably be treated.
Even if that’s the case it’s not something I would like to experience on my $40,000 a day vacation. 
Quite a buzzkill, losing an eye, what?
…wait, I had something for this…