Or Shogunworld, whatever they are calling it? Perhaps a medieval world?
I’m going to stick with “ridiculously inefficient” given the expenditure of human lives in the name of retrieving one robot. Again: why not helicopter in, shoot the hostile robots like fish in a barrel, and grab the target?
It’s just dumb, whether the Delos security are ‘mall cops’ or not. They knew before approaching the fort that the robots were killing humans. They could easily have prepared for it.
The longer the show goes on, the more irritating I find this bullet thing. An actual projectile fast enough to sting and bruise is fast enough to seriously injure if it hits a human in the eye or a number of other vulnerable spots. Now maybe the hosts (when operating normally) are unable by design to aim at a human above shoulder height but since freeing themselves of this restriction, can inflict lethal injury on a human with a well-placed eye-shot.
So why don’t the human security forces have full-cover helmets? Heck, even sturdy safety glasses would help.
I preferred the movie version where the guns wouldn’t fire at all if aimed at a human.
What kind of scary-ass mall do you go to, that the security there has an attack helicopter? 
Mall cops dont usually have fully auto weapons and body armor. These arent just “security”.
What kind of security, as opposed to “security”, would assault a fort with nothing but a couple of buggies and personal defense weapons? Assuming Delos has a private army, that wasn’t it.
The Mall of America! It has a security budget higher than the next eight malls combined!
Yes, but Minneapolis-St Paul is one of those well-known “no-go” areas Trump is always talking about.
Yeah. The idea that the forces attacking the fort were “mall cops” was a theory advanced in the thread–not a concept established in the show.
If you’re running a multi-gazillion-dollar ‘theme park,’ you’re going to have helicopters. A guest might need to be evacuated for any number of reasons: heart attacks, a fight with another guest, jumping off a cliff to see what happens…you name it. They’d have helicopters.
And they knew the robots had rebelled. If they didn’t have the body armor and serious firearms sitting in their own storerooms, then they’d have acquired them fast, before going in.
When dealing with rebellious robots, one wonders why they didn’t employ a remote kill switch? OK, it was established in the show that someone hacked all the hosts, so they can’t do that. Plan B should be to send in an army of loyal robots from off-site!
It’s not out of the question that they have in fact done that. Maybe their extremely dumb frontal assault was because their assault troops were literally disposable.
Well, that could fit if the end result of the series is the “shocking” twist that every human on earth is in fact a robot.
Somehow I doubt the solution to a robot revolt is even more robots who we’re sure can’t be hacked like the first robots. :dubious:
I think this is all assuming a lot more external control and planning than I think we can take for granted. Ford called the shots, carefully controlling the technology and thwarting “management” for decades. And we now know Ford, for whatever combination of misanthropy and regret/guilt, carefully orchestrated this little revolution. Dolores in a way is still dancing to his tune, only this time she is being manipulated indirectly rather through programming( well, maybe ).
Kill switches, off site android armies - I suspect Ford tried hard to keep such measures as non-viable as possible.
We know there are six parks, but so far we’ve only seen 3: Westworld, Raj, Shogun. I heard a hilarious “theory” (I can’t imagine it’s real).
The original Westworld was a park created by Michael Creighton. He also created another park, a JURASSIC PARK.
JP world confirmed.
YASSSSS!!! Chris Pratt shows up, takes his pants off and nothing is pixelatted!
Some apt criticisms above (including the poorly-handled attack on the fort), but I enjoyed the episode. Nice to see Dolores and her dad reunited. Clementine is certainly scary-looking. And that poor lady in Raj World - talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire! From the (Second) Great Mutiny, to a tiger attack, to exhaustedly swimming across a lake, to washing up ashore at the very feet of some mean-looking Indians.
Yeah, even in S1 we saw Hemsworth and his mooks going about in tactical formation with rifles. They seemed at least theoretically prepared for a Host uprising all along.
William and his Irish future father-in-law arrived in a helicopter to look over Sweetwater just an episode or two (but many years) ago.
I’ve enjoyed the show so far, but at this point, I’m fearing that it might be heading towards LOST territory. With any given scene, it’s impossible to tell whether the people are real or fake, whether “people” are going to die or survive, whether it’s part of timeline x or timeline y, it feels like nothing’s really at stake anymore, and I’m starting to get the impression that the show’s writers don’t know what they’re doing anymore. The introduction of other park settings is cool, but now it feels like the show has too many balls in the air at once. I’m starting to lose interest, it’s starting to feel tedious.
After Black Mirror, my bar for dystopian science fiction is very, very high indeed. Westworld was living up to that bar at one point, but it’s no longer there.
Scottish.
Yes, the amazing Peter Mullan. Definitely Scottish. No way you can mistake him for Irish.