I don't fully understand that line, can you explain it? Is it showing that he was programmed to ignore the door, so therefore he couldn't see it? Because if that's the case, then he shouldn't have been able to interview Dolores in that room in earlier episodes.
Some folks theorize that "Bernard" is just a re-creation of "Arnold", the partner who died many years before, and the scenes with "Bernard" talking to Delores in that room is actually "Arnold" in the past.
"Rêverie" by Claude Debussy is played twice throughout the series so far, which is a reference to the "reveries" that Ford programed into the Hosts. Another big easter egg.
I'm pretty sure Paint it Black played in the first episode. I remember noticing the "black" connection with the songs that episode. First was Black Hole Sun, then Paint it Black, and then Ain't No Grave by Johnny Cash (aka The Man in Black) played over the end credits.
***** - That's what makes this show so interesting (especially since computer based AI could become reality in the very near future). Would be interesting to see what would happen if Maeve (or other AI) ever escaped westworld and got into the real world...
+WJK Judgement day , would occur....is the original poster that naive ?! God created men/women in his or her own image...by taking the reigns of natural selection/evolution we would have actually surpassed our own creator's duties {which probably goes against the ethical and moral standards of time/causality/longevity/love.
You missed the fact that the modern music played classically on the piano would have been considered "classical" and quaint by the time the Westworld future had arrived, hundreds of years into the future.
Easter Eggs my hairy white ass. Referring back to other shows the producer/directors/writers made is just that. Haven't seen Lost (don't want to) for example... Delos isn't an Easter Egg either - nods to Westworld (the original) come thick and fast but they're hardly hidden! This is just lazy.
The reference to Bioshock is so cool. The concept of a voice telling the main character what to do always seems similar to Atlas leading Jack through Rapture. And the Sander Cohen head is spot on because in a way, Ford is also a mad artist.
It's actually weird but Westworld was originally filmed in 2014, with Fallout 4 being released in 2015. I suppose that idea of making (fucking) synths is a well theorized one.
dill tharp Westworld was a movie from the 70's with a "synths" so it definitely didn't get any influence from Fallout 4. Plus, the whole plot of the show is based around hosts (synths), that would be more than just an easter egg.
As already said Westworld is the original given it was made in 1970.There was a follow up in 1976 with Future world.If you are questioning the series, in making the hosts have emotions that they can actually feel ? in essence to be like humans in every way apart from their actual physical make up ? then you should be looking at the tv show Real Humans,which is the whole point of the series and they are actually called synths.The original tv show was a Swedish production called real humans or Äkta människor to give it,it's native title.This was first broadcast in 2012 (you can find all episodes on here) and was later remade into English by channel 4 in the UK, called Humans.So if anything both the video game and Westworld the tv show took the idea from this.Though I imagine it could be just a crossover coincidence given the time frame in which all were made and the concept of having a robot that can feel both physically and emotionally isn't exactly a new idea.
I also noticed that when Bernard goes down to level B-82, the background music (sound effects) sound just like the background sounds from the original movie... A sort of vibrating sound whenever Yul Brynner's gunslinger was stalking the main character. I've heard them use it a couple other times as well.
I think that the big reveal of the show will be that the dark and destroyed area that they used for cold storage and in Bernard's computer scene is from the old park where the events of the original west world movie may have taken place. The whole area looks very poorly maintained and suddenly abandoned like people are afraid to reveal that it exists or to even work on it at all. The guards were also heavily armed when they went down, which might imply that they were expecting an attack from remaining rouge robots.
I also found it interesting how Bernard's theory of someone transmitting data to the outside world led him to discovery of unaccounted hosts, much like the unaccounted dinosaurs in the Jurassic books.
The music easter eggs were what got me SO FUCKING EXCITED ABOUT THIS SHOW. I was like "oho my god those fuckers put black hole sun in old-timey piano form"
Also: Just before you see The Gunslinger, the background music changes to include elements from the original movie's music during the Gunslinger's chase.
The music really is amazing. I have heard "Paint it black" and "House of the rising sun", both versions so different and yet they cut so deep you know them at once.
I feel like there are some similarities to Portal 2 as well. The scenes in cold storage definitely remind me of when you're going through the old Aperture Science areas in Portal 2.
One of the nods to gaming too is how the Hosts are made. If you have ever played Fallout 4 and worked with The Underground science group, you can watch the way Synths are made. Identical to how they are made in westworld, down to the fibers of every bit of the body. So much cool stuff!!
Congrats on finding the Gunslinger. After watching several "did you know" and "easter egg" videos on Westworld, I was thinking, "Has nobody seriously noticed the Yul Brynner "Gunslinger" is standing in the background in episode 1 in the basement?" Great spot!
I've been enjoying the piano's music... last episode had the theme of westworld playing which was not quite the same as the previous song choices. They've had other contemporary songs play as well though. Like a string version of paint it black.
Retalak How? Not meaning to troll, just wondering why it is your favorite show, since I couldn't watch the full last season because of its (to me atleast) non-sensical and repititive nature.
TheKLIMPF It has extremely strong characters and I love sci-fi, clearly. It's a science fiction show, of course it won't make any actual sense in the real world. You just have to come in with an open mind and understand based on the show's logic, not reality. The show is actually extremely deep, there are so many things to find out and so many things to try and understand. What is the island? Who are the others? What are the anomalies on the island? What is Darma? What happened to them? Why has it started showing the characters as if the plane never crashed? Who is the man in black (Lol same question was asked in Westworld)? Who is Jacob? So on and so on.
Another one that nobody seems to be talking about. In the episode where Bernard goes down stairs, and is about to pass the gunslinger, there is a sound effect. Sort of a bouncy sound, like a massive rubber band being plucked. It repeats several times as a dramatic cadence. It's the exact same sound effect used in the original movie, right after the gunslinger first kills and starts pursuing the hero.
I was so happy to see the gunslinger-brynner that I had to stop the video screaming YES! In my dream I wish to see him more than that but whne I hit play all I got was that frame. I hope that before the ending of the show someone goes again in that room and turn Yul Brynner on again!!! Can you imagine how cool can it be? I was so scared by the gunslinger when I was a kid. Only the Terminator was more scaring that him.
Just a little bit of CGI. I modeled Yul Brynner in 3d myself and nobody pay me (sadly it's just an hobby for me). So not a big deal respect all the money invested in Hopkins, the other stars, the far-west towns, costumes etc. I still cross my finger for that.
It's great to see the similarities with Lost, like I think, old William being the MIB (smoke monster), Arnold or Ford as Jacob calling people to fulfiil their destiny and the center of the maze as the center of the island. The park could be the island, with their different places and history. Also the flashbacks and the simultaneous timelines. Not saying it's the same but looks like a bit.
I noticed Yul Brynner standing back there! Whoever saw the original movie would never miss that! I'm hooked on this show! I've been watching it on HBO Go! Fantastic story!
I think there was an easter egg from Fallout New Vegas in the ep. 8. in this episode the man in black ( spoiler alert - William) told Teddy: "the thing is, you never understand the game is rigged". In the beginning of Fallout New Vegas Benny tells the courier:" Truth is...the game was rigged from the start." Also after these words man in black told Teddy: "you see, the house always wins". The House Always Wins is a main quest in Fallout New Vegas.
That's not an exo, that's the actual body just before the last stage. The bath adds their skin and hair. Then the chemical liquid that appears as blood is pumped into them and they get the pigmentation that is more human.
How is this show going to continue for more seasons? A lot is happening within the first season already. I wonder of there are other theme parks they've built.
You haven't been watching then? LOOOOOTS of freaking mind-blowing theories and we are now getting more answers (and more questions) with a breathtaking one...I mean come on the show is slow telling but it gets to you if you don' mind it
GAM3 OVER the next season may move to one of the other parks... in the original story there are three parks. Westworld, Romanworld and Medievalworld. Maybe just maybe
I feel your right as well. By doing so it would allow the creators to keep the show running 3 consecutive seasons and allow them to close out the story line in the event they are cancelled by HBO which they have done in the past with other shows due to budget cost (Deadwood). And if the show runs longer than 3 seasons then they can circle back around to a new story in Westworld. To set it up this way would be smart as it keeps the show fresh since the following season would have nothing to do with the previous they could even use the same actors. American Horror Story proved this could work and helps keep the show fresh to viewers.
evilcowboy But American horror story started to suck. Latest season was by far the worst since the witch one. I like the wild west story of Westworld and I'm not sure the others would hold my interest. I'm not a fan of medieval stories too much. I haven't even watched game of thrones (I think I'm the only one though). 😕
There are many other songs too, and don't forget that Delos is company behind both the parks in the 1973 movie and the current series. In the old movie, there was 3 main parks, Western world (Westworld), medieval world and roman world, and in the current series there is westworld and now we know there is also "S" world (probably for samurai world) where the main theme is feudal Japan.
When Dr. Ford (Anthony Hopkins) is talking about Old Bill and the original hosts, he says, "A simple handshake would give them away" That's a direct reference to the 1973 movie where John Blane (James Brolin) says, "Supposedly you really can't tell, except by looking at the hands.... they haven't perfected the hands yet."
Sylvester and Felix (the techs who work on Maeve) are both named after black and white cats. Also, Sylvester gets pissed when Felix is playing with a "tweety" bird. When I found out about that one on Reddit, I gave up. This show has got me hooped and I'm going to be learning new things about it until I die.
It helps if youre a radiohead fan. when Motion Picture Soundtrack plays, the (unused) 3rd verse matched perfectly with the scene. and the finale with Exit Music, as well
These aren't really Easter Eggs Easter Eggs. You know. It's like any reference to anything at all is taken as an Easter Egg? Or any resemblance of one thing, like even a blurry outline, is what Looper wants it to be and an Easter Egg?
Also a nice foreshadowing: When Maeve kills the first "person" in the very first episode, the guy falls into piano and the piano starts to play itself. There's lots of foreshadowing/easter eggs to be found, when you watch the show second time and know which characters to focus at!
I think the scenes of Bernard talking to Dolores are in the early storyline, where we're seeing Dolores question her world, reading Alice in Wonderland etc., are actually Arnold talking to Dolores, and he's trying to help her find consciousness
Also birds are dinosaurs.. and so him bringing a sparrow (a dinosaur) "back to life" is more than a nod to Jurassic Park's Resurrection of non avian dinosaurs. Though the creators probably weren't looking as deeply into that scene as that.
Simply the Westworld's version of 'Paint It Black' made me think Bioshock might have been an inspiration as I remembered the Bioshock Infinite version of 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun'.
with reference to the Yul Bryner character appearance, the music in Westworld echoes the music which was played in the original movie whenever the Black wearing gunslinger appears. It sounds like an echoing step
When Ford says "when the legend becomes fact print the legend" it is a quote from the Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne film "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" in which one man gets the credit and the glory for another man's deed.
There was another reference to the 1973 WestWorld. The scene where the control room was put in lock down, and one of the technicians peers out of this narrow window as the camera pans out. It was done exactly in the same style as in the original film.
The strange fluttering music played when Yul Brynner, the Gun Fighter, is spotted, in the basement level 82, is the exact soundtrack played when Yul Brynner was pursuing Richard Benjamin in the 1973 movie.
Ive heard somewhere that Westworld (original) is actually a precursor to Jurassic Park, the general idea and some other details are present in both films since they both were probably concepted by roughly the same epoch
Yeah, there is a whole host of 90's indie and grunge music coming from the automated piano. Which is a nice touch. J. J. Abrams is a massive fan of the Beasty Boys, so I expect a one of their songs soon.
Westworld is also full of Hannibal/Silence of the Lambs references. 1. The most obvious is Anthony Hopkins, the original Hannibal Lecter, now a god of this bright, terrible world. 2. Then we have the cannibalism that Lee is so desperate to inject into the storyline. 3. Bernard/Arnold's wife, Gina Torres, also plays Jack Crawford's wife in the Hannibal tv series. 4. Episode 5 is titled Contrapasso, an Italian word meaning "If you play, you pay." This features in Dante's Inferno, Hannibal Lecter's favorite novel, andand is mentioned twice in Hannibal the show. 5. Mads Mikkelsen, the new Hannibal Lecter, co-stared with Evan Rachel Wood (Dolores) in The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman. 6.
Another interesting link between Jurassic Park, and Westworld(the movie and show) There is an exchange between John Hammond(eerily similar to Ford) and Ian Malcolm: John Hammond: All major theme parks have delays. When they opened Disneyland in 1956, nothing worked! Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, but, John, if The Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists. I think It's not a huge leap in logic to see that Westworld has some link to this exchange.
I believe that whole basement segment of the park is reference to the Portal game series. We have old and new logos of the company, older animatronics and bulky laptops, even the Delos globe is there like in 1972 parts of Portal 2.
Just in case you get off the train in Sweetwater (which in real life was in Texas), and think you went through time, when you get to the saloon, the player piano is an anachronism. I know it looks like a proper period piece, but look carefully at the drum the roll goes over. How exactly do you have a cylinder lit from inside without electricity? You might be able to get a point source with mirrors, but not one that wide. So it has to have been either a fluorescent tube or an LED strip.
When Lawrence is arrested, the lawman recites his full name as "Lawrence Pedro Maria Gonzalez". This is a reference to Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Clifton Collins Jr.'s grandfather, who was also an actor. Clifton wore the same prop gun belt his grandfather used in Rio Bravo (1959), starring John Wayne.
Here's THE Easter Egg: Listen to Hurricane from Thirty Seconds to Mars. When I first started my review on the Westworld, I wrote a quote of Edgar Allan Poe poem The Raven (that popped on my mind by the time I got involved in the show) and I had no idea where it would lead me... Directed and produced by Jared Leto under Bartholomew Cubbins name and his crew, Hurricane's signed as a Sysiphus production, an extraordinary and perpetual Greek mythological figure - Sysiphus. Hurricane came up online, back in 2010, on Dec 10 - The day after I watched The Bicameral Mind, and started my review on the show. Exactly 6 years after!! But I had no idea about that!! Well Hurricane is fully connected to the continuous flow - Birth, Life, Death, Re-birth [Samsara] which is exactly what happens to the hosts in the Westworld and to humans on Planet Earth. About 9 minutes from the start in the song timeline, there’s this voice quoting William Shakespeare, most remarkable work Romeo and Juliet: these violent delights have violent ends. The french words in the video are quotes of Marquis de Sade, author of 120 days of Sodom. On the day of my review, early in the morning I read "Inside 'Westworld's' "Epic" Orgy Scene" @ THR, co-executive producer and supervising director Richard J. Lewis where he reveals the influences of 120 days of Sodom. In Cosmos - A spacetime odyssey episode The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth (2014), Neil deGrasse Tyson refers to Alfred Wegener discoveries as a pariah. I know there are no influences from Hurricane to Westworld production. But it exactly because of that, that all those coincidences are a fking puzzle! Merry Xmas!
You know what I love about this show? Everything.
You haven't seen season two, have you..
Season one was good, but I will never forgive JJ Abrams for his Star Wars atrocities.
"What's behind the door?"
"What door?"
I lost it
I don't fully understand that line, can you explain it? Is it showing that he was programmed to ignore the door, so therefore he couldn't see it? Because if that's the case, then he shouldn't have been able to interview Dolores in that room in earlier episodes.
Some folks theorize that "Bernard" is just a re-creation of "Arnold", the partner who died many years before, and the scenes with "Bernard" talking to Delores in that room is actually "Arnold" in the past.
The scene with Bernard interviewing Dolores was in the past(30/35 years ago) He must have been reprogrammed
And "Bernard Lowe" is an anagram for "Arnold Weber".
And "Bernard Lowe" is an anagram for "Arnold Weber".
"Rêverie" by Claude Debussy is played twice throughout the series so far, which is a reference to the "reveries" that Ford programed into the Hosts. Another big easter egg.
They also play "Clair de lune" by Debussy xD
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how do you miss mentioning the rolling Stones paint it black also in episode 3
wrong century
So he can add in his College Radio joke.. lol.
Thanks for confirming that, I remember hearing it but I wasn't 100% certain.
And Radiohead's Fake Plastic Tree and Motion Picture Soundtrack in episode 6
I'm pretty sure Paint it Black played in the first episode. I remember noticing the "black" connection with the songs that episode. First was Black Hole Sun, then Paint it Black, and then Ain't No Grave by Johnny Cash (aka The Man in Black) played over the end credits.
I'm pretty sure in I heard "Back to Black" by Amy Winehouse in one of the last episodes
Also heard Something I Can Never Have by Nine Inch Nails.
Also House of the Rising Sun was in there too. And Fake Plastic Trees
Yeah, also it's played when Maeve is starting to realise her situation, and one of the main lyrics in the song is "I've died a hundred times"
and exit music for a film
Look up the soundtrack for the show, they have the piano versions of these songs on there
What door?
please sthap :(
laza boskovic hold that door
Door #3
The one you had to Hold
Hold the door!
Bernard did not see the gunslinger up against the wall because Ford made sure that he wouldn't.
i feel like the pacing is perfectly honestly
Kara Kelly - Hadn't thought about it, but side stories of new guests would be pretty cool.
***** - That's what makes this show so interesting (especially since computer based AI could become reality in the very near future). Would be interesting to see what would happen if Maeve (or other AI) ever escaped westworld and got into the real world...
doesn't look like anything to me
+WJK Judgement day , would occur....is the original poster that naive ?! God created men/women in his or her own image...by taking the reigns of natural selection/evolution we would have actually surpassed our own creator's duties {which probably goes against the ethical and moral standards of time/causality/longevity/love.
the quote they need fro Jurassic Park is "Clever girl..."
"Must go faster! Must go faster!"
Or "Life finds a way."
"it's a Unix system, I know this"
Douglas Foster "there it is"
Thats how it starts... oohhh oohh... and then comes the running, and the screaming.
I'm sure I also heard Radioheads Fake Plastic Trees as well.
And Motion Picture Soundtrack too.
Yes, The Rolling Stones' Paint it Black as well. There's a short collection of 4 of these tracks plus the main theme on Google Play Music.
I thought i heard radiohead on the piano but thought I was hearing things
also N.I.N.'s 'Something I Can Never Have'
back to black by Amy Winehouse played last episode
When I was a kid my aunt showed me the original movie. I was blow away! the show has recaptured that feeling.
Songs I noticed: Paint it Black, Clair de lune, Back to Black and House of Rising Sun.
Bernard doesn't ask Dolores to read passages from Alice in Wonderland, Arnold does.
You missed the fact that the modern music played classically on the piano would have been considered "classical" and quaint by the time the Westworld future had arrived, hundreds of years into the future.
Some of these are just plot devices not Easter eggs. That BioShock one is pretty cool.
That's not head of sander cohen.
John Smith It looks more like Andrew Ryan to be honest
Easter Eggs my hairy white ass. Referring back to other shows the producer/directors/writers made is just that. Haven't seen Lost (don't want to) for example... Delos isn't an Easter Egg either - nods to Westworld (the original) come thick and fast but they're hardly hidden! This is just lazy.
Marc Draco Shave yo bum!
bernard / arnold was reading alice in the wonderland to his dying son too.
or was he...
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but that is not an easter egg...that is too obvious.
not every1 knows passages from alice in wonderland.
@Prune Tracy your father smelt of Elderberries
Speaking of modern day music, Episode 8 had The House of the rising run by the Animals
That's actually quite an old folk song though. It's been around since at least the early 1900s.
Andy Brice Rather fitting with the setting of the show then
Based off google images, the 1900's were somewhat industrial, with primitive cars and steam boats, not the time setting of the old west.
Also paint it black by the stones was in there during the safe robbery in one of the episodes
The Modern Music played on old time instruments is also something done in Bioshock infinite.
The reference to Bioshock is so cool. The concept of a voice telling the main character what to do always seems similar to Atlas leading Jack through Rapture. And the Sander Cohen head is spot on because in a way, Ford is also a mad artist.
I know you mentioned video games but what about the synth creation in fallout 4 , its really similar o west world
It's actually weird but Westworld was originally filmed in 2014, with Fallout 4 being released in 2015. I suppose that idea of making (fucking) synths is a well theorized one.
dill tharp Westworld was a movie from the 70's with a "synths" so it definitely didn't get any influence from Fallout 4. Plus, the whole plot of the show is based around hosts (synths), that would be more than just an easter egg.
hes talking about the way their made dumbass
Nick Friedell The new show could definitely be based off the synth creations....... Have you seen the similarities. It's almost identical.
As already said Westworld is the original given it was made in 1970.There was a follow up in 1976 with Future world.If you are questioning the series, in making the hosts have emotions that they can actually feel ? in essence to be like humans in every way apart from their actual physical make up ? then you should be looking at the tv show Real Humans,which is the whole point of the series and they are actually called synths.The original tv show was a Swedish production called real humans or Äkta människor to give it,it's native title.This was first broadcast in 2012 (you can find all episodes on here) and was later remade into English by channel 4 in the UK, called Humans.So if anything both the video game and Westworld the tv show took the idea from this.Though I imagine it could be just a crossover coincidence given the time frame in which all were made and the concept of having a robot that can feel both physically and emotionally isn't exactly a new idea.
I also noticed that when Bernard goes down to level B-82, the background music (sound effects) sound just like the background sounds from the original movie... A sort of vibrating sound whenever Yul Brynner's gunslinger was stalking the main character. I've heard them use it a couple other times as well.
B-82 spoken fast sounds like ?
Be (ate) it too...
1:13 - Are you sure, that this is Bernard?
Nice spot. Eagle eyed
I also think this was Arnold, in this scene we are back to the times before the park was open
I think the Jurassic Park line that'll get woven in eventually will be ... "Clever Girl"
You probably mean "Clever man" when Maeve Millay is outplayed.
Shoooot haaa
Bob Peck was the actor. (My mothers Uncle).
Dr. Ford used "Would you kindly...?" with someone once.
That wasnt Bernard telling Dolores to read that passage, that was Arnold bro. Arnolds game cuts deep
The vid came out before the twist was revealed.
Also Josh Brolin made a small cameo in ep3, his father of course played one of the main guests in the original movie
Hey, I was wondering if that was him! But no one online mentioned it, so i just assumed it was a guy who just really looked and sounded like him!
What other Easter eggs have you spotted in Westworld?
Looper an egg
The fact that the way they make the androids in westworld looks exactly the same as when they make synths in fallout 4?
I think the hole Synth thing might be a reffrence to fallout 4, but just maybe.
ya thats what im saying
honestly it is damn near plagiarism how similar the "Hosts" are to Gen 3 Synths from Fallout 4
I think that the big reveal of the show will be that the dark and destroyed area that they used for cold storage and in Bernard's computer scene is from the old park where the events of the original west world movie may have taken place. The whole area looks very poorly maintained and suddenly abandoned like people are afraid to reveal that it exists or to even work on it at all. The guards were also heavily armed when they went down, which might imply that they were expecting an attack from remaining rouge robots.
Aidan303 That would be interdting if that were the case.
you missed paint it black song on episode 2 at the start of the saloon shoot out. The saloon doors where Black
I also found it interesting how Bernard's theory of someone transmitting data to the outside world led him to discovery of unaccounted hosts, much like the unaccounted dinosaurs in the Jurassic books.
The music easter eggs were what got me SO FUCKING EXCITED ABOUT THIS SHOW. I was like "oho my god those fuckers put black hole sun in old-timey piano form"
well made video love the editing around the songs
When you see Logan again after he has become general, he has a pin very similar to the hand of the king in Game of Thrones
Episode 6 has 'fake plastic trees' by radiohead at the beginning.
Also: Just before you see The Gunslinger, the background music changes to include elements from the original movie's music during the Gunslinger's chase.
Absolutely love the premise and storyline thus far. Love entertainment that puts me in a daze of thoughts for weeks.
The music really is amazing. I have heard "Paint it black" and "House of the rising sun", both versions so different and yet they cut so deep you know them at once.
God I love this show
I feel like there are some similarities to Portal 2 as well. The scenes in cold storage definitely remind me of when you're going through the old Aperture Science areas in Portal 2.
One of the nods to gaming too is how the Hosts are made. If you have ever played Fallout 4 and worked with The Underground science group, you can watch the way Synths are made. Identical to how they are made in westworld, down to the fibers of every bit of the body. So much cool stuff!!
Aw every video that mentions the modern songs leaves out 'paint it black'. It is such a good and famous song!
Congrats on finding the Gunslinger. After watching several "did you know" and "easter egg" videos on Westworld, I was thinking, "Has nobody seriously noticed the Yul Brynner "Gunslinger" is standing in the background in episode 1 in the basement?" Great spot!
Looper deserves so many more subs than just 892k
I've been enjoying the piano's music... last episode had the theme of westworld playing which was not quite the same as the previous song choices. They've had other contemporary songs play as well though. Like a string version of paint it black.
Lost is my favorite show, I've watched all of it like 3 or 4 times. But Westworld is definitely giving it a run for its money. We'll have to see.
For me, nothing will ever top LOST. This is a pretty good second place show.
Lost will always be one of my favorite shows. It was number one until Game of Thrones.
Retalak How? Not meaning to troll, just wondering why it is your favorite show, since I couldn't watch the full last season because of its (to me atleast) non-sensical and repititive nature.
TheKLIMPF It has extremely strong characters and I love sci-fi, clearly. It's a science fiction show, of course it won't make any actual sense in the real world. You just have to come in with an open mind and understand based on the show's logic, not reality. The show is actually extremely deep, there are so many things to find out and so many things to try and understand. What is the island? Who are the others? What are the anomalies on the island? What is Darma? What happened to them? Why has it started showing the characters as if the plane never crashed? Who is the man in black (Lol same question was asked in Westworld)? Who is Jacob? So on and so on.
The money people.
Who couldn't notice the music? It was such a good way of blending the two worlds together
Another one that nobody seems to be talking about.
In the episode where Bernard goes down stairs, and is about to pass the gunslinger, there is a sound effect. Sort of a bouncy sound, like a massive rubber band being plucked. It repeats several times as a dramatic cadence.
It's the exact same sound effect used in the original movie, right after the gunslinger first kills and starts pursuing the hero.
I was so happy to see the gunslinger-brynner that I had to stop the video screaming YES! In my dream I wish to see him more than that but whne I hit play all I got was that frame. I hope that before the ending of the show someone goes again in that room and turn Yul Brynner on again!!! Can you imagine how cool can it be? I was so scared by the gunslinger when I was a kid. Only the Terminator was more scaring that him.
To do that I think they would have to pay a lot of money.
Just a little bit of CGI. I modeled Yul Brynner in 3d myself and nobody pay me (sadly it's just an hobby for me). So not a big deal respect all the money invested in Hopkins, the other stars, the far-west towns, costumes etc. I still cross my finger for that.
They did have Hopkins in there as a version of his younger self too.
It's great to see the similarities with Lost, like I think, old William being the MIB (smoke monster), Arnold or Ford as Jacob calling people to fulfiil their destiny and the center of the maze as the center of the island. The park could be the island, with their different places and history. Also the flashbacks and the simultaneous timelines. Not saying it's the same but looks like a bit.
I noticed Yul Brynner standing back there! Whoever saw the original movie would never miss that! I'm hooked on this show! I've been watching it on HBO Go! Fantastic story!
I think there was an easter egg from Fallout New Vegas in the ep. 8. in this episode the man in black ( spoiler alert - William) told Teddy: "the thing is, you never understand the game is rigged". In the beginning of Fallout New Vegas Benny tells the courier:" Truth is...the game was rigged from the start." Also after these words man in black told Teddy: "you see, the house always wins". The House Always Wins is a main quest in Fallout New Vegas.
Never realised that the exo on the poster had eyes...spooky lol
It's not an exoskeleton if that's what you mean.
That's not an exo, that's the actual body just before the last stage. The bath adds their skin and hair.
Then the chemical liquid that appears as blood is pumped into them and they get the pigmentation that is more human.
Well there is more music: Back To Black by Amy Winehouse and Exit Music (for a movie) by Radiohead
I noticed the gunslinger and thought it was really cool that the show was giving little nods like that to the original movie.
How is this show going to continue for more seasons? A lot is happening within the first season already. I wonder of there are other theme parks they've built.
This show is as slow as molasses crawling down a turtle a$$ in a Siberian snow storm. "A lot happening" my a$$.
You haven't been watching then? LOOOOOTS of freaking mind-blowing theories and we are now getting more answers (and more questions) with a breathtaking one...I mean come on the show is slow telling but it gets to you if you don' mind it
GAM3 OVER the next season may move to one of the other parks... in the original story there are three parks. Westworld, Romanworld and Medievalworld. Maybe just maybe
I feel your right as well. By doing so it would allow the creators to keep the show running 3 consecutive seasons and allow them to close out the story line in the event they are cancelled by HBO which they have done in the past with other shows due to budget cost (Deadwood).
And if the show runs longer than 3 seasons then they can circle back around to a new story in Westworld. To set it up this way would be smart as it keeps the show fresh since the following season would have nothing to do with the previous they could even use the same actors. American Horror Story proved this could work and helps keep the show fresh to viewers.
evilcowboy But American horror story started to suck. Latest season was by far the worst since the witch one.
I like the wild west story of Westworld and I'm not sure the others would hold my interest. I'm not a fan of medieval stories too much. I haven't even watched game of thrones (I think I'm the only one though). 😕
There are many other songs too, and don't forget that Delos is company behind both the parks in the 1973 movie and the current series. In the old movie, there was 3 main parks, Western world (Westworld), medieval world and roman world, and in the current series there is westworld and now we know there is also "S" world (probably for samurai world) where the main theme is feudal Japan.
''Bernard''.. haha nice one.
When Dr. Ford (Anthony Hopkins) is talking about Old Bill and the original hosts, he says, "A simple handshake would give them away" That's a direct reference to the 1973 movie where John Blane (James Brolin) says, "Supposedly you really can't tell, except by looking at the hands.... they haven't perfected the hands yet."
Did anyone else read that full quote from Alice and Wonderland? It's eerie how perfect it was.
I'd like to hear someone say "They've figured out how to open doors!" in reference to some sort of high tech bunker blastdoor.
It was so cool hearing black hole sun when it came on!! Also the show made refrence to the dharma initiative once or twice.
Sylvester and Felix (the techs who work on Maeve) are both named after black and white cats. Also, Sylvester gets pissed when Felix is playing with a "tweety" bird.
When I found out about that one on Reddit, I gave up. This show has got me hooped and I'm going to be learning new things about it until I die.
House of the rising sun played on the piano was AMAZING.
It helps if youre a radiohead fan. when Motion Picture Soundtrack plays, the (unused) 3rd verse matched perfectly with the scene. and the finale with Exit Music, as well
Season 2 - Samurai World
Season 3 - Roman World
Season 4 - Jurassic World
About the Alice in Wonderland inspiration - the vest and pocket watch outfit Ford wears is reminiscent of the White Rabbit.
These aren't really Easter Eggs Easter Eggs. You know. It's like any reference to anything at all is taken as an Easter Egg? Or any resemblance of one thing, like even a blurry outline, is what Looper wants it to be and an Easter Egg?
Shamir George These are all Easter eggs - _-
Also a nice foreshadowing: When Maeve kills the first "person" in the very first episode, the guy falls into piano and the piano starts to play itself. There's lots of foreshadowing/easter eggs to be found, when you watch the show second time and know which characters to focus at!
I think the scenes of Bernard talking to Dolores are in the early storyline, where we're seeing Dolores question her world, reading Alice in Wonderland etc., are actually Arnold talking to Dolores, and he's trying to help her find consciousness
Can't believe I missed that BioShock reference!!
Also birds are dinosaurs.. and so him bringing a sparrow (a dinosaur) "back to life" is more than a nod to Jurassic Park's Resurrection of non avian dinosaurs. Though the creators probably weren't looking as deeply into that scene as that.
A big nod to dungeons and dragons can be seen in the form of a mind flayer in the background when the technichian girl finds the uplink terminal
"Spared No Expense"
is the one line from "Jurassic Park" that I'm looking forward to hearing in "Westworld".
Simply the Westworld's version of 'Paint It Black' made me think Bioshock might have been an inspiration as I remembered the Bioshock Infinite version of 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun'.
with reference to the Yul Bryner character appearance, the music in Westworld echoes the music which was played in the original movie whenever the Black wearing gunslinger appears. It sounds like an echoing step
I still haven't seen this series yet and I'm so excited!
I’d heard about the Gunslinger, but only watched the original WestWorld a few weeks ago. Wish they’d have showed his face a bit more. Still very cool.
Speaking of music: Nailed it at the end of the finale with Radiohead's "Exit Music (For A Film)" !!
When Ford says "when the legend becomes fact print the legend" it is a quote from the Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne film "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" in which one man gets the credit and the glory for another man's deed.
There was another reference to the 1973 WestWorld. The scene where the control room was put in lock down, and one of the technicians peers out of this narrow window as the camera pans out. It was done exactly in the same style as in the original film.
I knew that was the gunslinger! That one, and Sander Cohen were my favorite Easter Eggs.
The strange fluttering music played when Yul Brynner, the Gun Fighter, is spotted, in the basement level 82, is the exact soundtrack played when Yul Brynner was pursuing Richard Benjamin in the 1973 movie.
Ive heard somewhere that Westworld (original) is actually a precursor to Jurassic Park, the general idea and some other details are present in both films since they both were probably concepted by roughly the same epoch
How did you not mention the “giant creatures the size of mountains, now trapped in Amber” reference in episode 10?
Yeah, there is a whole host of 90's indie and grunge music coming from the automated piano. Which is a nice touch. J. J. Abrams is a massive fan of the Beasty Boys, so I expect a one of their songs soon.
"But to save my city It had to take place somewhere else. I had to become *something* else."
Westworld is also full of Hannibal/Silence of the Lambs references.
1. The most obvious is Anthony Hopkins, the original Hannibal Lecter, now a god of this bright, terrible world.
2. Then we have the cannibalism that Lee is so desperate to inject into the storyline.
3. Bernard/Arnold's wife, Gina Torres, also plays Jack Crawford's wife in the Hannibal tv series.
4. Episode 5 is titled Contrapasso, an Italian word meaning "If you play, you pay." This features in Dante's Inferno, Hannibal Lecter's favorite novel, andand is mentioned twice in Hannibal the show.
5. Mads Mikkelsen, the new Hannibal Lecter, co-stared with Evan Rachel Wood (Dolores) in The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman.
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Another interesting link between Jurassic Park, and Westworld(the movie and show)
There is an exchange between John Hammond(eerily similar to Ford) and Ian Malcolm:
John Hammond: All major theme parks have delays. When they opened Disneyland in 1956, nothing worked!
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, but, John, if The Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists.
I think It's not a huge leap in logic to see that Westworld has some link to this exchange.
Wasn't Paint it black from Rolling Stones also featured?
I believe that whole basement segment of the park is reference to the Portal game series. We have old and new logos of the company, older animatronics and bulky laptops, even the Delos globe is there like in 1972 parts of Portal 2.
I spotted an Easter egg in an Easter egg one---MIND BLOWN
Dolores's father also said "There is a rose." Combined with the Man in Black... Well, pretty obvious, that they're referencing "The Dark Tower" here:)
Just in case you get off the train in Sweetwater (which in real life was in Texas), and think you went through time, when you get to the saloon, the player piano is an anachronism. I know it looks like a proper period piece, but look carefully at the drum the roll goes over. How exactly do you have a cylinder lit from inside without electricity? You might be able to get a point source with mirrors, but not one that wide. So it has to have been either a fluorescent tube or an LED strip.
A Forest is one of my favourite songs and i'm a little ashamed that i didn't recognise the piano version in WW :P
No no no "Clever girl." is the best Jurrasic park quote.
When Lawrence is arrested, the lawman recites his full name as "Lawrence Pedro Maria Gonzalez". This is a reference to Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Clifton Collins Jr.'s grandfather, who was also an actor. Clifton wore the same prop gun belt his grandfather used in Rio Bravo (1959), starring John Wayne.
I noticed the songs, but I'm surprised I didn't notice black hole sun, it's my all time favorite song!
The one line from Jurassic Park that might be apt in Wesworld is "Clever girl..."
The one Jurassic Park quite I'm waiting for is "Clever girl" said just before Maeve makes a killer attack on a technician :-)
Here's THE Easter Egg:
Listen to Hurricane from Thirty Seconds to Mars.
When I first started my review on the Westworld, I wrote a quote of Edgar Allan Poe poem The Raven (that popped on my mind by the time I got involved in the show) and I had no idea where it would lead me...
Directed and produced by Jared Leto under Bartholomew Cubbins name and his crew, Hurricane's signed as a Sysiphus production, an extraordinary and perpetual Greek mythological figure - Sysiphus.
Hurricane came up online, back in 2010, on Dec 10 - The day after I watched The Bicameral Mind, and started my review on the show. Exactly 6 years after!! But I had no idea about that!!
Well Hurricane is fully connected to the continuous flow - Birth, Life, Death, Re-birth [Samsara] which is exactly what happens to the hosts in the Westworld and to humans on Planet Earth.
About 9 minutes from the start in the song timeline, there’s this voice quoting William Shakespeare, most remarkable work Romeo and Juliet: these violent delights have violent ends.
The french words in the video are quotes of Marquis de Sade, author of 120 days of Sodom. On the day of my review, early in the morning I read "Inside 'Westworld's' "Epic" Orgy Scene" @ THR, co-executive producer and supervising director Richard J. Lewis where he reveals the influences of 120 days of Sodom.
In Cosmos - A spacetime odyssey episode The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth (2014), Neil deGrasse Tyson refers to Alfred Wegener discoveries as a pariah.
I know there are no influences from Hurricane to Westworld production. But it exactly because of that, that all those coincidences are a fking puzzle!
Merry Xmas!
house of the rising sun in ep. 7
Rolling Stones: Paint It, Black. Ep. 1