In one of the early episodes, someone (pretty sure it’s Logan?) mentions it costs $40,000 per day to visit WestWorld.
Assuming those events in the show are taking place about 2065 (ie 50 years in the future; a figure I’m pulling more or less out of thin air based on the clothing styles we see out of the park and the “modern” guns we see used), I ran some numbers to work out what that might be equivalent to todayish.
Assuming inflation remains more or less the same between 2015 and 2065, you’d be looking at the equivalent of about about $5000 a day in today’s money to visit the park.
We’re never told what year Westworld takes place in so I think we’re meant to assume that the $40,000 per day cost is in today’s dollars. Had they meant otherwise, they would have given us some clue about this.
I was under the impression that “all roads lead to the beach” - I.e., the restricted set of outcomes ended there. Perhaps she could’ve ended up there with different individuals and with different emotional peaks, but within a limited set. ETA: having such a restricted set of outcomes would be in line with the Repetitive Hell that Arnold was seeking to prevent from happening before the first Loop.
As you point it out now, it does seem like, from a Celebrating the Park standpoint - which I believe was the traditional objective of entertaining at Delos Board meetings - a human would be featured in a storyline’s endscreen - even if this time it turned out it was a planted actor who sold their role of entertained newbie guest to the hilt.
On the subject of the stormtrooper guards, while they weren’t particularly good shots it’s worth noting that just before the gun battle we get an example of how well hosts shoot vs humans, with Teddy shooting a glass off a host’s head followed by a board member shooting the host. While I would expect the security staff to be better shots than a party guest, the hosts are likely very good shots indeed and thus have a good chance of taking down the staff first.
Also, I suspect the staff haven’t had to deal with multiple homicidal hosts using live weapons in the main HQ building, weren’t fully prepared for the assault and had to worry about killing real people.
I originally thought that, as well, but my wife pointed out that Sizemore was going to retrieve him when he discovered that cold storage was empty. So presumably Abernathy was among the hosts attacking the gala.
I knew that Hale was going to be outmaneuvered by Ford, but I had wondered why they had her choose Abernathy when it ultimately didn’t matter. Had Sizemore been able to boot up Abernathy, it’s probable that Abernathy’s malfunctions (and lobotomized state) would have impaired his use as a data smuggler. In the end, I think Hale’s choice of Abernathy was just another way to underscore how thoroughly outclassed she was.
She apparently didn’t know about Ford’s plans, which is understandable. But she also didn’t know Abernathy’s issues, and more importantly didn’t know about the explosive charge. Her plan was thoroughly screwed from the get go. Though I admit that I would have loved to see Sizemore’s attempt to write a “discreet” story for a malfunctioning Abernathy with a proximity explosive.
I think it’s also supposed to reflect the first episode, when we assume Teddy is a guest at first. He goes through a whole story with Dolores, and the next day a real guest takes over.
Since the website stuff was mentioned before in this thread…some of the security footage at delosincorporated.com appears to have timestamps on it. 6/15/2052.
A fine conclusion to the season, I thought, even if some very smart Dopers had already sussed most of the secrets out already. It’ll be hard to wait for Season 2.
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Yes! Loved that.
Whoa. Freaky. And Aeden’s really developed a 'tude…
I think that will depend entirely on how Anthony Hopkins’s S2 contract negotiations go.
That or Shogun World, as suggested upthread, I bet. Viking World, Ancient Rome World, Camelot World and Gangland Chicago World could do a brisk business, too.
Thank you for that but I really hope this isn’t the sort of show that requires the viewer to dig down that far on the associated website. I really think that all we’re supposed to gather is that a visit to Westworld is beyond all but the wealthiest individuals.
Ford had left out Dolores’s original dress and gun from the Arnold massacre. She was eyeing it after Ford’s monologue, so she presumably changed into it before shooting Ford at the gala.
Agreed. Though we see William doing some shooting of hosts, we really do not see him “lik[ing] butchery and rape.” If it was the intention of the showrunners to establish this, they failed.
The dialogue described it as (I believe) “Arnold’s favorite painting.” Am I wrong to be irritated that most viewers probably thereby assume it’s a canvas, rather than (as it actually is) a tiny portion of a gigantic ceiling fresco?
I interpreted the butchery at the camp as him basically losing it. I never got a sense that he had enjoyed it, rather that he was filled with rage and frustration at being forced to realize that his beloved Dolores had mechanical guts (though why that should be particularly upsetting, I don’t know–Logan thought he was making a point about her not being a person, but I don’t see why William should accept that robot guts means she didn’t love him) and wanting to expose the truth of all the hosts for himself to see.
At least, that’s what I thought it probably meant, but the purpose of the scene always seemed a bit muddy to me, and the change in William seemed unbelievable and poorly written.
You mean besides the explicit reference to a world where all disease has been eradicated and mankind is close to resurrecting the dead, and the oblique reference to most of the oil having run out? The show very clearly doesn’t take place today; it’s clearly in the future - further than 20 minutes but still sometime this century.
I think Dewey is trying to say that picked a figure of $40,000 to mean “This is only for the super rich” and not to mean “In the future $40,000 is not that much money.”
Exactly. We would have to make all sorts of assumptions or guesses to understand how far $40,000 goes in the time period in which the show is set. Since there’s no basis for making any such assumptions, I believe we are only meant to conclude that a trip to Westworld is for extremely rich people.
the techs came in and picked up Teddy and Delores - repaired them - and sent them back out - Delores changed to the blue dress and picked up the gun that was left out for her.
