Joshua Day that's also why season 2 isn't getting here until 2018 :( they are so careful with getting the script and everything perfect that it takes longer
wtf. i really dont think it was. i mean the storylines were great and so on but only the detail to that. technically and IT-related the attention to detail was really.. sloppy?! i mean srsly. just watch the way bernard uses the tablets.. u can clearly see its just shopped into the video, its like he is hovering his finger just in the air. and when he looks for something on the map the fingerposition isnt even matching the movement.. not that i wanna talk bad about the series, it was pretty amazing but the ONLY part i didnt like was the lack of attention to detail lol great story but so many little things dont quite fit..
Another parallel was in the first and tenth episode. The Man In Black says to Teddy "I'll let you get the first shot." William tells the soldier "I'll let you get the first shot."
And when MIB meet's the Wyatt lady that shoots Teddy it was also the lady who greeted William when he arrived at Westworld. He Say's "I Thought they wouldn't throw out a pretty face"
It is true that can be "funny" the fact that young William and old William say sometimes the same things, but... I honestly think that in true life is actually really difficult that a person repeat to much the same sentences... I mean, I don't think I say exactly the same sentences that a few years ago I said or whatever I'm going to say in the future...
@@alguien1234 It is true that can be "funny" the fact that young William and old William say sometimes the same things, but... I honestly think that in true life is actually really difficult that a person repeat too much the same sentences... I mean, I don't think I say exactly the same sentences that a few years ago I said or whatever I'm going to say in the future...
I aint gonna lie, i was rooting for doloris and william. I honestly thought they would get out together, becoming a real couple. Seeing how it actually went down broke my heart
it shows perfectly why west world is so good. Normally i dont give a shit about relationships in movies or tv but here they handled it perfectly, the way it turned out was a even bigger slap to the face and got me hooked
The scene of William choosing his costumes to enter the park, specifically the one in which he is choosing the hats (his attention was especially turned to the black ones), now makes a little more sense to me.
I hope they make a chronological cut available on HBO or on Blu-ray at some point, because mere mortals are too stupid to fully understand what the hell was going on in this show. I'm not a big fan of non-linear storytelling. It's such a gimmick.
^Just got done with 2nd watch. Now, I have to see this in yet a third different perspective. :] Anybody know how to get a copy of the video from site above (theoutline.com)?
No. Just mixing the timelines does not make it good, its confusing the watcher. Just as mixing dreams inside a dream doesn't. You will see it will go down in history as overhyped like "The Force Awakens" and "Inception"
Mr M I really like the show, but I agree too much exposition. A show like this needs it though. Maybe if it were 12 episodes instead of 10 there would have been more room to show us some plot points rather than someone explaining them to someone else.
Only thing I didn't like about the show was how stupid Maeves technicians were and how that story line just didn't feel trustworthy at all. They basically didn't even resist. They had sooo many chances to make things right as employees but they didn't.
Ford and Arnold were both incredibly smart people. Capable of creating human like robots and later upgrading to organic based. Not only did they design the robots but they wrote the code which would require some serious skills. If they live in a digital society I wouldn't put it past Ford hacking his way to delete any data on him, including photos. I'd have to go back and re-watch but I believe there was a comment earlier in the season about there being no information about Arnold.
I also thought it was quite clever how at the end of the first episode, Dolores kills that fly which sort of foreshadowed the end of the last episode where she kills all the board members.
I watched 7 episodes on a flight and then since then I've woken up at 3am and unable to get back to sleep for 3 nights running - I just watched the other 3 episodes I don't know what reality is any more
Pretty amazing how they pieced everything together in this show, also really glad that basically everything was revealed by the end of it, rather than just being a bunch of random shit that happens and then the writers will figure it all out late *cough* lost *cough*
he got tackled by the indian tribe hosts called the ghost nation, his fate is left ambiguous, purposefully i imagine, he will probably be back in season 2.
Maybe this is nitpicky, and I don't suppose at this point the timelines matter ALL that much anyway, but two things: The MiB's return to the park when he "kills" Maeve and her daughter seems to have been a year before the "present", so 2051 if we're saying present is 2052. And Dolores's walk into the church and down the elevator is not all in 2052/present. It flashes between 2052 and scenes from 2015-18, when she's wearing the blue dress, the church is full of the malfunctioning hosts, young Ford is arguing with Arnold, etc. The one aspect of this scene we haven't had answered yet is why, in the present iteration of her walking down the underground hallway beneath the church, there are all those dead bodies strewn about the hall. Any thoughts, anyone?
another damn good question (I'll muse on that some more, thanks)...and I honor your nitpickyness :D and yet still think New Rockstars did a great job on the breakdown.
Karl D I'm confused by the timing of Maeve's alternative storyline as well. When she first woke in the lab, wasn't she told she'd been at the saloon for a couple years? When she shot MIB/William in her other storyline it'd have to have been on a separate visit, or he's been in the park nonstop for years since his wife's death. And What are they eating while they're in there? I don't think I've seen anyone eat a thing, surely the guests need to get fed.
Joanie Boucher Haha good point about the food. As for the Maeve timelines, I'm pretty sure Felix says to her early in their sequence of lab visits that she'd only been the brothel madam for a year or so. Forget the exact wording, but it does scan for me with the timeline the MiB shares with Angela and Teddy before Wyatt's men arrive in the woods. He says he had been coming to the park all along, but that he basically didn't start doing this apparently evil stuff to the hosts until his wife died a year ago. Since he also suggests that Maeve and her daughter were his first stop in the park after his wife's death, I think the timeline Felix gives Maeve for her madame character does work out ok logically.
atrum pontifex Sign of a truly great show. Layers and layers of riveting mythos and story. I love JJ, but God I hope they don't let him try to turn this into another lost. This is something very special if the story is handled right
Sanity Is Radical Or an average show made better in the minds of those that confuse convoluted story hopping and mind fuckery as "good". It's an ok show. I completely "get it". It's just incredibly overrated and underdeveloped for all but about 4 characters and plot details/"rules". I'll be interested to see the next season though. Wonder if they do open up worlds or if that was just a nod to the film?
Good video as usual, but Maeve is not necessarily self-aware. She may just be following a narrative that requires behavior that would be atypical for non-self-aware. (y)
Except that she got off the train in the end to look for her daughter, while she was programmed to use the train to infiltrate the mainland (see screenshots of the tablet). That might have been the first conscious decision she made.
True, but notice also the slightly-obscured next line in the script on the tablet: Just below "Mainland Infiltration" the next line of code says "OVERRIDE FUNCTION if..." and we can't see the rest. This could imply that the Mainland part could be overridden if she were to, say, receive info about her daughter? Total speculation. I also do believe that she's making her first "choice" as a conscious being, but now that I analyze that tablet script, I thought of this possibility. Just sayin!
Chadwick Jones Maeve is open for interpretation. I personally think by caving into her "Cornerstone" (her daughter) she may have been abandoning her narrative but technically she is still ruled by her programming. In the face of a successful escape she was still persuaded to return to the park, albeit being tricked to think this was her own initiative. I hope that makes sense? If the writers wanted this to be Maeve demonstrating a conscious decision to abandon her own narrative, they didn't execute it very well. Or maybe it was construed on purpose for future seasons.
Paolo Rotarr Ill admit the show looks good. But it was very "meh" to me. Intellectually and in terms of the story and characters. And I don't find the ideas in the show new or compelling. Watch Humans (very cliche too but doesnt feel pretentious to me) and Ex Machina (doesnt shy away from deep questions but it succeeds in my opinion) instead.
Really good summary of the timeline of season 1. Really helps explain some things! Video could be done speaking slightly slower though as there is a lot to wrap your head around!
Just finished watching the show! Because of the thing about the pain as a step to self consciousness I was thinking about Dolores and asking myself in spanish what's the pain that constitutes her, and suddenly I realized Dolores in spanish means literally pain (in a plural form). Great show. Thanks for the video
Kevin Israel I think that's the very question William wanted to be in the minds of the people who eventually found Logan. It made Logan seem even more crazy.
Maybe he sent him to die. Remember when they said in previous episodes that hosts will blow up when trying to go beyond borders of the park? The same might happen to artificial animals. William and Logan were on the edge of the park and the horse Logan was on was artificial so it could have detonated (if it had explosives in it) with Logan on. William just simply killed him making it look like an unfortunate accident.
Nicely done! I caught and understood a lot of it,but your analysis closed some holes and loops. Plus gave me hope re: Dolores, William, and of course, Arm-istice!
Great analysis and great piece. When a TV version of Westworld was first announced, it sounded like a cool idea, but they really took it to another level, sort of how SyFy's Battlestar Galactica upped the ante when they remade the earlier NBC series. Expanding on an interesting and fun sci-fi premise and taking it to far more ambitious levels is what makes for compelling television, which the sci-fi, horror and fantasy genres allow more than any others. I believe the next Jurassic movie is looking to do the same, which just reinforces the talent and mind of creator Michael Crichton that his work still resonates and inspires today.
I thought exactly the same, the originals are great, but they topped them very well. But I never liked the first episode of WW, if you never watched the original movie, it would be very hard to recognize what its about and whats going on. So I like the movie a bit more as a first episode, to get into the story.
At first I was wondering why would William want the hosts to fight back, but then I remembered myself playing GTA and getting bored punching old ladies and not seeing them draw a missile launcher in my face for a change.
There will never be such thing as a mega-huge theme park as "Westworld" in real life. Why? The world is ruined, totally overpopulated and bankrupt for such uber mega projects. If they had started planning for this 20 years ago, it would have been possible.... But not now at all.
Hi, Bioshock Infinite! P.S. Nolan said in interview that he was inspired by Read Dead Redemption (obviously, atmosphere), Skyrim (quest-like style of game and independent life of NPCs), Bioshock Infinite (now we know why) and Bioware games (from his words, free morale choices)
The only part I don't understand is that when older William and Maeve cross paths she is as the mother character, but the rest of Maeve's breakout storyline is while she is the brothel madam.
siddus19 Older William explains this in episode 8 when he tells Theodore about that incident, saying it happened about 1 year ago. The techs who worked with Maeve confirmed this when they told her that she's only been at the brothel for 1 year, rather than 10 years which she was programmed to think.
Jesse Holt I just don't think we are that close to having such advance techs. And I think the park is not on earth. What kind of government would allow a company to use that much land to turn it in to a theme park. And there are also other theme parks. It's just not really possible in 50 years
It could still be in 2052 but just in another universe. Like someone now could write something about us having this technology back in 1987 or something. Its fiction.
Great series, felt in love with it from the start. Just one thing though. How come noone saw that Maeve was upgrading herself and interacting with the butchers?
very excellent...thank you :D much appreciated! And can't wait for our continued adventures in analysis in GoT, and TWD, and future WW seasons! Though I do really miss Molina's contribution, you Erik and your team are still very much rocking it! Was very excited to see you covering WW, Amazing story that it is.
After watching your video I can't help to feel as if I were taken on the 'maze journey', of raising awareness/counciousness upon reflecting on memories, reveries from the episodes. Does it mean Westworld has taken (or, perhaps, is taking) us on a real-life experience of the series? Can't carry on, my mind is blown.
Congratulations for both videos, indeed. U ve been very clear and your explanations are quite coherent. Details are well focused and all together make sense. Now, getting out of the plot when it is about the way the 'Ego' took consciousness of himself, I suggest to have a look at the French psychoanalyst Lacan's theory. Well, for many reason this helped me a lot to get into the whole picture. Cheers.
it disappointed me that the timeline started in 2015. I thought that it started on 2060s or those times. The series implied that by 2016 we already had Androids capable of passing the Turing test, which is very far from the truth.
That editing sequence of Delores fleeing her shooting and "running into" young William isn't out of sequence editing - very little of the show is "non linear" as what we are seeing is what present Delores is actually seeing - shes stuck in the memory of the past in the present- that's why its unclear whether shes with a guest.. she thinks she is and is reporting she is - but they cant see the guest on any other data...
The real question is Felix! What the hell is that guys story?? Butcher turned programmer turned accomplice to helping Maive. Was he apart of Ford's overall plan to keep the Parks security locked up?
2015 to 2018 and they have robots like that!! jesus christ we are in the year 2016 in real life and our robots cant even walk properly,that is depressing.
True. So is the entirety of Westworld. What was it, something like $40,000 just for one visit to the park? No hope for us peons - or the only hope lies with the peons who might escape this brand of a robot apocalypse :-/
The William storyline COMPLETELY blew my mind
I got confused, give me a refresh on what happened with him?
Artie they are the same person
nathan mckenzie I got spoiled on the internet.
he didn't , dolores just kept doing it by her self and imaginning them, as u can see from her visions when she's suddently alone.
The reveal melt my mind 😢
the attention to detail in this show is insane
right? thats what makes is great
Joshua Day that's also why season 2 isn't getting here until 2018 :( they are so careful with getting the script and everything perfect that it takes longer
wtf. i really dont think it was. i mean the storylines were great and so on but only the detail to that.
technically and IT-related the attention to detail was really.. sloppy?!
i mean srsly. just watch the way bernard uses the tablets.. u can clearly see its just shopped into the video, its like he is hovering his finger just in the air. and when he looks for something on the map the fingerposition isnt even matching the movement..
not that i wanna talk bad about the series, it was pretty amazing but the ONLY part i didnt like was the lack of attention to detail lol
great story but so many little things dont quite fit..
+Maomaer Amnon NOT that kind of detail! wtf
I know! It's one of my favorite things about it !
Another parallel was in the first and tenth episode.
The Man In Black says to Teddy "I'll let you get the first shot."
William tells the soldier "I'll let you get the first shot."
And when MIB meet's the Wyatt lady that shoots Teddy it was also the lady who greeted William when he arrived at Westworld. He Say's "I Thought they wouldn't throw out a pretty face"
It is true that can be "funny" the fact that young William and old William say sometimes the same things, but... I honestly think that in true life is actually really difficult that a person repeat to much the same sentences... I mean, I don't think I say exactly the same sentences that a few years ago I said or whatever I'm going to say in the future...
i do
@@alguien1234 It is true that can be "funny" the fact that young William and old William say sometimes the same things, but... I honestly think that in true life is actually really difficult that a person repeat too much the same sentences... I mean, I don't think I say exactly the same sentences that a few years ago I said or whatever I'm going to say in the future...
The mixing of storylines and timelines mimics what the hosts experience when they remember.
Great connection!
Kinda like memento
exactly!
i wish i knew what this meant lol
I aint gonna lie, i was rooting for doloris and william. I honestly thought they would get out together, becoming a real couple. Seeing how it actually went down broke my heart
That's way too cliche, predictable and "happy fairy tale ending"-like. That's luckily not how most shows do it these days.
even if u r right iam with max krampe. something died in me after the big reveal
it shows perfectly why west world is so good. Normally i dont give a shit about relationships in movies or tv but here they handled it perfectly, the way it turned out was a even bigger slap to the face and got me hooked
I hated them, I was sick of their faces and wanted them dead lol.
I shared your feelings, my friend. The show is so good at slapping in the face of any simple, naive expectations like ours. Now it's unpredictable.
The scene of William choosing his costumes to enter the park, specifically the one in which he is choosing the hats (his attention was especially turned to the black ones), now makes a little more sense to me.
Noticing the old Westworld "logo" was very smart indeed.
Mohamed Nadi that's old news though. That's one of the first things people noticed
How does one even think and write so creatively to such complexity... mind blown!
tbh, there are more complicated stories other than Westworld. Far far more. Nonetheless, it's still written complexly.
example?
hmmm. let's see, Inception, Interstellar, HBO's own Game of Thrones. To name a few.
Inception, Interestellar, Memento and WestWorld, all writed by Jonathan Nolan...
i wouldn't say that game of thrones is more complex tbh
I totally hadn't realised that it was Arnold having the chats with Dolores and not Bernard! Interesting!
Sam R ixn
I'm really thinking of doing a full-length cut of the whole series in chronological order
I hope they make a chronological cut available on HBO or on Blu-ray at some point, because mere mortals are too stupid to fully understand what the hell was going on in this show. I'm not a big fan of non-linear storytelling. It's such a gimmick.
Yeah good luck with that :D
***** No, I just didn't do it because someone else already did: theoutline.com/post/637/westworld-recut-into-single-timeline?FB
^Just got done with 2nd watch. Now, I have to see this in yet a third different perspective. :]
Anybody know how to get a copy of the video from site above (theoutline.com)?
do it
Best Sci Fi TV I've seen in a while.
No. Just mixing the timelines does not make it good, its confusing the watcher. Just as mixing dreams inside a dream doesn't. You will see it will go down in history as overhyped like "The Force Awakens" and "Inception"
Whoa I dont think so
I think someone is mad about being confused.
it;s pretty clear for me, it's mindblowing and not confusing what so ever
Mr M I really like the show, but I agree too much exposition. A show like this needs it though. Maybe if it were 12 episodes instead of 10 there would have been more room to show us some plot points rather than someone explaining them to someone else.
I'm going full nerd on this one. Now I kind of know what it feels to be a Trekkie or a Star Wars fan.
mo O k
Only thing I didn't like about the show was how stupid Maeves technicians were and how that story line just didn't feel trustworthy at all. They basically didn't even resist. They had sooo many chances to make things right as employees but they didn't.
Felix was obsessed by her
yea i agree...i hope they expand on felix in season 2 was a funny character but want to see his motives explained to just let terminator loose
yeah, it really frustrated me how dumb they were. so dumb that it didn't seem realistic.
Maybe they too are hosts?
Typical Sci-Fi trope
I don't understand how no one at WW recognizes Bernard as Arnold??
Theoretically it is because none of the original staff other than Ford remain.
Not only that but it was at least heavily implied that Ford removed any information about him, including pictures and what not.
Or they could all be hosts. Bernard/Arnold-style.
Ford and Arnold were both incredibly smart people. Capable of creating human like robots and later upgrading to organic based. Not only did they design the robots but they wrote the code which would require some serious skills. If they live in a digital society I wouldn't put it past Ford hacking his way to delete any data on him, including photos. I'd have to go back and re-watch but I believe there was a comment earlier in the season about there being no information about Arnold.
they do, but as Arnold from different strokes
I also thought it was quite clever how at the end of the first episode, Dolores kills that fly which sort of foreshadowed the end of the last episode where she kills all the board members.
They never did explain that little girl who knew too much, did they?
Well, there is that 2nd season. Starting tonight.
Tony Young it’s ford living on in host’s heads
how come nobody knows Arnold's face?? all of a sudden Bernard appears looking just like him and not even one person noticed?
@rob93ification because there was nearly 20 years difference between Arnold and Bernad... And nobody was old enough in the park, other than Robert..
Pretty sure nobody knew Arnold existed. Everyone always asks "who's Arnold"
Would Ford not have wiped all data about Arnold?
I just binge watched the whole season in 2 days .... huge mistake
same LOL
hice t Your brain must've been fried lmao
I watched 7 episodes on a flight
and then since then I've woken up at 3am and unable to get back to sleep for 3 nights running - I just watched the other 3 episodes
I don't know what reality is any more
hice t HA, I watched it in a day. easily one of the best series there is
Nicholas Jones A
I can't wait until 2020 so I can go to westworld hyped!!!
In your (implanted) dreams!!!!!
Driftar
Start saving, Westworld admission start at $20K per day!
yeah, like I was waiting till 2015 to use power lace shoes
Edubais Hahaha, more like $120 K a day.
Edubais h
Great work in putting this video together - well done!
All my motor functions were suspended after the season finale! o_0
Pretty amazing how they pieced everything together in this show, also really glad that basically everything was revealed by the end of it, rather than just being a bunch of random shit that happens and then the writers will figure it all out late *cough* lost *cough*
Jimmi Simpson and Ed Harris also mirror one another's body language a lot throughout the season.
perfect timing. I just finished the season finale. loved it by the way.
What happened to budget Matt Damon??
Meta Pod he is Chris helmsworth's brother btw... but budget Matt was a good one
he got tackled by the indian tribe hosts called the ghost nation, his fate is left ambiguous, purposefully i imagine, he will probably be back in season 2.
lmao he was a mix of Matt Damon and Chris Pine
I'm cackling, this description is perfect oh my god
Had a moment earlier today, just realized how long Delores wandered around and kept having to start over. Was a wow moment for me.
This is seriously the only TH-cam video describing something I've ever watched in it's entirety.
Great pacing and Info
Maybe this is nitpicky, and I don't suppose at this point the timelines matter ALL that much anyway, but two things: The MiB's return to the park when he "kills" Maeve and her daughter seems to have been a year before the "present", so 2051 if we're saying present is 2052. And Dolores's walk into the church and down the elevator is not all in 2052/present. It flashes between 2052 and scenes from 2015-18, when she's wearing the blue dress, the church is full of the malfunctioning hosts, young Ford is arguing with Arnold, etc. The one aspect of this scene we haven't had answered yet is why, in the present iteration of her walking down the underground hallway beneath the church, there are all those dead bodies strewn about the hall. Any thoughts, anyone?
another damn good question (I'll muse on that some more, thanks)...and I honor your nitpickyness :D and yet still think New Rockstars did a great job on the breakdown.
Karl D I'm confused by the timing of Maeve's alternative storyline as well. When she first woke in the lab, wasn't she told she'd been at the saloon for a couple years? When she shot MIB/William in her other storyline it'd have to have been on a separate visit, or he's been in the park nonstop for years since his wife's death.
And What are they eating while they're in there? I don't think I've seen anyone eat a thing, surely the guests need to get fed.
Joanie Boucher Haha good point about the food. As for the Maeve timelines, I'm pretty sure Felix says to her early in their sequence of lab visits that she'd only been the brothel madam for a year or so. Forget the exact wording, but it does scan for me with the timeline the MiB shares with Angela and Teddy before Wyatt's men arrive in the woods. He says he had been coming to the park all along, but that he basically didn't start doing this apparently evil stuff to the hosts until his wife died a year ago. Since he also suggests that Maeve and her daughter were his first stop in the park after his wife's death, I think the timeline Felix gives Maeve for her madame character does work out ok logically.
They pee also and we don't see that. So...we assume the guests eat - at the very least. ;)
They did. Between William and Logan, there was this scene they were eating and Logan plunged the knife into the old man's hand.
After all that... im still confused.
atrum pontifex Sign of a truly great show. Layers and layers of riveting mythos and story. I love JJ, but God I hope they don't let him try to turn this into another lost. This is something very special if the story is handled right
Sanity Is Radical
Or an average show made better in the minds of those that confuse convoluted story hopping and mind fuckery as "good".
It's an ok show. I completely "get it". It's just incredibly overrated and underdeveloped for all but about 4 characters and plot details/"rules".
I'll be interested to see the next season though. Wonder if they do open up worlds or if that was just a nod to the film?
DannyWilliamH I love when people say "overrated" about things that they don't like but cannot properly explain why they do not like them.
I would LOVE to see the whole thing chronologically. I guess this is the next best thing.
I am way too dumb for westworld. Even with an explanation I feel a little confused.
Well done
I think of all the explanations of West World
this Video is the Best yet !!
5:22 "After Arnold was long forgotten about" .. No Google Images in the future ?
hahahaha xD
Hem Déher äà
I could imagine Ford had enough power over the internet to delete Arnolds entire existence.
Right? That's what I'm saying!
maybe the company wasn't famous enough yet
it's funny how he's searching for the maze but doesn't know he one of the biggest contributors to it lol I love irony
Deno huh? How so? Contributing to them gaining consciousness?
Suffering.. It's been mentioned many times that suffering brings about their consciousness.
Good video as usual, but Maeve is not necessarily self-aware. She may just be following a narrative that requires behavior that would be atypical for non-self-aware. (y)
Except that she got off the train in the end to look for her daughter, while she was programmed to use the train to infiltrate the mainland (see screenshots of the tablet). That might have been the first conscious decision she made.
True, but notice also the slightly-obscured next line in the script on the tablet: Just below "Mainland Infiltration" the next line of code says "OVERRIDE FUNCTION if..." and we can't see the rest. This could imply that the Mainland part could be overridden if she were to, say, receive info about her daughter?
Total speculation. I also do believe that she's making her first "choice" as a conscious being, but now that I analyze that tablet script, I thought of this possibility. Just sayin!
I agree! and I think another was her choice not to kill Felix.
Chadwick Jones Maeve is open for interpretation. I personally think by caving into her "Cornerstone" (her daughter) she may have been abandoning her narrative but technically she is still ruled by her programming. In the face of a successful escape she was still persuaded to return to the park, albeit being tricked to think this was her own initiative. I hope that makes sense? If the writers wanted this to be Maeve demonstrating a conscious decision to abandon her own narrative, they didn't execute it very well. Or maybe it was construed on purpose for future seasons.
But Felix giving the location of her daughter was unscripted.
the Mcpoyal are taking over
Hey, just because I have a short attention span doesn't mean I.....
This video is more entertaining than the show itself
Paolo Rotarr
I hate the show because it fails at being smart. Not because it is. Being pretentious is not smart.
Paolo Rotarr
Ill admit the show looks good. But it was very "meh" to me. Intellectually and in terms of the story and characters. And I don't find the ideas in the show new or compelling. Watch Humans (very cliche too but doesnt feel pretentious to me) and Ex Machina (doesnt shy away from deep questions but it succeeds in my opinion) instead.
Really good summary of the timeline of season 1. Really helps explain some things! Video could be done speaking slightly slower though as there is a lot to wrap your head around!
Great video, made waaaayyyyy more sense!
Just finished watching the show! Because of the thing about the pain as a step to self consciousness I was thinking about Dolores and asking myself in spanish what's the pain that constitutes her, and suddenly I realized Dolores in spanish means literally pain (in a plural form). Great show. Thanks for the video
My brain is completely shattered
What was with the black feather that William gave Logan before he set him off naked on the horse?
ooh good question.
Kevin Israel
I think that's the very question William wanted to be in the minds of the people who eventually found Logan. It made Logan seem even more crazy.
Maybe he sent him to die. Remember when they said in previous episodes that hosts will blow up when trying to go beyond borders of the park? The same might happen to artificial animals. William and Logan were on the edge of the park and the horse Logan was on was artificial so it could have detonated (if it had explosives in it) with Logan on. William just simply killed him making it look like an unfortunate accident.
What if Logan came back and got into Ghost Nation? what if the feather implies that?
Remember
Nicely done!
I caught and understood a lot of it,but your analysis closed some holes and loops.
Plus gave me hope re: Dolores, William, and of course, Arm-istice!
yeah the story had me abit confused sometimes, but it was pretty awesome how it all got explained in the last episode
Great analysis and great piece. When a TV version of Westworld was first announced, it sounded like a cool idea, but they really took it to another level, sort of how SyFy's Battlestar Galactica upped the ante when they remade the earlier NBC series. Expanding on an interesting and fun sci-fi premise and taking it to far more ambitious levels is what makes for compelling television, which the sci-fi, horror and fantasy genres allow more than any others. I believe the next Jurassic movie is looking to do the same, which just reinforces the talent and mind of creator Michael Crichton that his work still resonates and inspires today.
I thought exactly the same, the originals are great, but they topped them very well. But I never liked the first episode of WW, if you never watched the original movie, it would be very hard to recognize what its about and whats going on. So I like the movie a bit more as a first episode, to get into the story.
Great work in putting this video together - well done! Filled in a TON of blanks for me!!! Cheers!!!
Nice work!
Until the end of episode 9 I thought I understood what was going on. When I watched episode 10 I was confused as heck.
At first I was wondering why would William want the hosts to fight back, but then I remembered myself playing GTA and getting bored punching old ladies and not seeing them draw a missile launcher in my face for a change.
Thanks so much for creating this.... SO helpful!!! This is a great show :)
This and the other video about the ending explained, are really well done! Nice job.
07:15 - So in 2052 the soldiers will still be using P90s?
They got a new camo tho
YoSuckazz
lol!
They should have gotten Vector's for them since that gun looks more futuristic.
It's 2017 and people still use AK47 and M16 which are really old guns (40-68 years old)
+ 007cro
Good point, but a rich organisation like that would be using modern weapons. Doesn't low tech Arab nations use AK47s?
I don't think we can take the year as canon, promotional material isn't always accurate, especially since they took it down.
clariola Oh absolutely, just weird having some of it take place two years from now.
There will never be such thing as a mega-huge theme park as "Westworld" in real life. Why? The world is ruined, totally overpopulated and bankrupt for such uber mega projects.
If they had started planning for this 20 years ago, it would have been possible.... But not now at all.
Mohamed Nadi lol it still wouldnt be possible. A.I and robotics cant advance so much in 20 years
Thank you so much for doing Westworld, keep up the good work!
Hi, Bioshock Infinite!
P.S. Nolan said in interview that he was inspired by Read Dead Redemption (obviously, atmosphere), Skyrim (quest-like style of game and independent life of NPCs), Bioshock Infinite (now we know why) and Bioware games (from his words, free morale choices)
Great in depth video gj!
Loving your videos m8, only just discovered them, Westworld wasn't without it's flaws/holes but was overall an excellent first season
your video really enlighten me, thanks a lot!
Great job, Erik!
I have watched Season 1 now, and am waiting for the S2 premiere tonight...
i subscribed. love these type of videos.
Just discovered your channel. Amazing. Congrats.
Quick note, William did not shoot Maeve in the present timeframe. It would have been (from memory) 1-2 years earlier.
Anybody rewatching these, while rewatching the series? The wait is killing me, but at least we got these kind of videos to watch until
best explanation video I've watched.
Great job. Keep up the good work.
I think I need another youtuber to explain your video :))
Great job decoding WW-1
Loved the way u go thru it so fast without wasting time and completing the video asap xD
Fantastic evaluation. Looking forward to season 2!
Love your videos!
this show breaks my brain
THX for posting this it actually helped me make sense of the season !
The only part I don't understand is that when older William and Maeve cross paths she is as the mother character, but the rest of Maeve's breakout storyline is while she is the brothel madam.
I'm confused about that as well
siddus19
Older William explains this in episode 8 when he tells Theodore about that incident, saying it happened about 1 year ago. The techs who worked with Maeve confirmed this when they told her that she's only been at the brothel for 1 year, rather than 10 years which she was programmed to think.
That explains it! Thanks.
Been waiting for this.
finally got this XDXD. hope you guys will publish more videos about Westworld!!!!
Amazing investigative work!
Great stuff Thanks.
Great Video. Congratulations. I'm going to send it to everybody who is watching this series...
what? i thought Westworld is at least 2150
Jesse Holt I just don't think we are that close to having such advance techs. And I think the park is not on earth. What kind of government would allow a company to use that much land to turn it in to a theme park. And there are also other theme parks. It's just not really possible in 50 years
Lothar Scholz i think westworld is really fun, its just that...its impossible to find all these lands. they cant be on earth.
Christopher Jannette This comment will look really dated in 10 years.
It could still be in 2052 but just in another universe. Like someone now could write something about us having this technology back in 1987 or something. Its fiction.
This isn't necessarily 'our' version of Earth. It's a show, they change stuff.
Thanks so much for these videos!
Great series, felt in love with it from the start. Just one thing though. How come noone saw that Maeve was upgrading herself and interacting with the butchers?
very excellent...thank you :D much appreciated! And can't wait for our continued adventures in analysis in GoT, and TWD, and future WW seasons! Though I do really miss Molina's contribution, you Erik and your team are still very much rocking it! Was very excited to see you covering WW, Amazing story that it is.
Fantastic video! Thanks for the insight 👍🏻
After watching your video I can't help to feel as if I were taken on the 'maze journey', of raising awareness/counciousness upon reflecting on memories, reveries from the episodes. Does it mean Westworld has taken (or, perhaps, is taking) us on a real-life experience of the series?
Can't carry on, my mind is blown.
Hello 👋 Clarissa
How are you doing today
Congratulations for both videos, indeed. U ve been very clear and your explanations are quite coherent. Details are well focused and all together make sense. Now, getting out of the plot when it is about the way the 'Ego' took consciousness of himself, I suggest to have a look at the French psychoanalyst Lacan's theory. Well, for many reason this helped me a lot to get into the whole picture. Cheers.
Thanks for answering some of my questions :-)
Love this, it explains so much and leaves so much more to ask.
it disappointed me that the timeline started in 2015. I thought that it started on 2060s or those times. The series implied that by 2016 we already had Androids capable of passing the Turing test, which is very far from the truth.
That editing sequence of Delores fleeing her shooting and "running into" young William isn't out of sequence editing - very little of the show is "non linear" as what we are seeing is what present Delores is actually seeing - shes stuck in the memory of the past in the present- that's why its unclear whether shes with a guest.. she thinks she is and is reporting she is - but they cant see the guest on any other data...
Great stuff!
Good analysis
GREAT video, thanks!
Yeah, the misdirects got me, which directed me here.
Great breakdown!
This was great, thanks!
How is it possible that in 30 years, nobody wonders how Bernard never ages?
rotate ur staff enough & it's conceivably done
Yea they mention the staff works temporarily, living there for a few years.
also Bernard was not made 30 years ago. Ford was old when he first wake him up. Maybe Bernie is like 10 years old.
Black don't crack.
Great job! ;)
The real question is Felix! What the hell is that guys story?? Butcher turned programmer turned accomplice to helping Maive. Was he apart of Ford's overall plan to keep the Parks security locked up?
2015 to 2018 and they have robots like that!! jesus christ we are in the year 2016 in real life and our robots cant even walk properly,that is depressing.
I want to hybernate myself now.
don't get depressed. be happy
Search for "Atlas, The Next Generation" :)
True. So is the entirety of Westworld. What was it, something like $40,000 just for one visit to the park? No hope for us peons - or the only hope lies with the peons who might escape this brand of a robot apocalypse :-/
Good job!