OT: Anybody watching Westworld?

[Xenomorph]

The cast, performances and production are absolutely amazing.. So I can't figure out what it's missing. I've looked forward to each new episode on Sunday nights but I'm not sure why because it hasn't really hooked me yet. Maybe it's faith in HBO..

Evan Rachel Wood is amazing as Delores. Switching between accents and mannerisms mid sentence is really something.

Ed Harris and Anthony Hopkins have more screen time than I was expecting.

I dont understand the whole story of huge mining company next door... Maybe we're not supposed to yet. Why did the mining machine plow up the Agave crop? They don't like tequila?

I wished the used the characters names more. All I know are Ford, Bernard, Teddy and Delores. Maybe I need to pay attention more. It just seems in GOT they're saying the names all the time.

Ford obviously sly knows there is a problem with the hosts. What's his motivation for allowing it to continue?

 

[11thEagleFan]

I'm really into this show. I really debated whether I was going to watch last night's episode because other than some light yard work, I spent all afternoon watching TV (football, Walking Dead). I'm glad I did watch. I thought last night's episode was the best so far. Anthony Hopkins is great, but Ed Harris is killing it as the Man in Black. It makes me sad that he wasn't cast in The Dark Tower, but that's a completely different conversation. Learned some interesting backstory on him last night. It also feels like the path to the endgame is speeding up considerably, and I like that.

 

[notoriousD_O_G]

I think the show is really building towards something great. It has been slow at times but I just think there is a lot to set uo

 

[captain.sixpack]

The thing that is missing is that the the stakes aren't real(yet). Guests can't die and hosts can't stay dead. Once this starts to change it should really ramp up the hookiness. Great start to the show. Can't wait to see where they take it.

 

[tired]

Is that hook-uh-ness or hook-ee-ness?

 

[captain.sixpack]

hook-ee-ness for sure. almost put it in quotes

 

[Dawg1976]

Thread hijack. If you have Amazon Prime they have a new original called Goliath staring Billy Bob Thornton. I'm half way through it and it is pretty damn good. An 8 episode series. Check out the trailer......

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4687880/

 

[Dawgzilla]

I'm enjoying Goliath, but the legal aspects of it are really ridiculous. Like hard to suspend disbelief that much. I loved his Bible citation: "Hoosiers, 1986".

 

[Dawgzilla]

I am withdrawing any potential endorsement of "Goliath" that my prior post may have suggested. Billy Bob Thornton and William Hurt are great to watch, but the show absolutely stinks. They should have consulted at least one attorney before making up their courtroom drama scenes. And the resolution of the actual drama was quite unrewarding even if you overlooked the legal insanity of it all. I should have stopped after the third episode.

 

[DudyDawg]

Is it a full series or just a ten episode kind of deal? I like it, hope it goes a few seasons if it won't dilute the story line.

 

[Dawgzilla]

'They have a deal for up to 5 additional seasons, and have already mapped out the plot lines. I can't see hanging in that long....I'm already bored with it.

 

[Pars]

Show hasn't really hooked me yet either. The only real plot is the man in black and Fords fooling with the host. I want to be hooked I really like the premise.