Official Westworld Season 3 Thread

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first 5 eps were great...last 3 felt purposely slowed down/stretched out

maeve vs dolores (before coming to terms) felt inevitable...especially this season but it was anticlimactic and drawn out imo

last 3 eps were disappointing to me...I liked the season overall but felt it should’ve ended on a stronger note...curious to read the comments but the board about to shut down...I’ll read them later today

I expected dolores main host body (mind?) to finally come to an end this season after she jumped out the window w/ that kobe comment...figured the writing was on the wall for the actress as far as this series goes and she already knew it that’s why she felt comfortable saying that stupid shyt lol
 

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this ep (and this season) felt like two seasons smooshed together.

I'm just gonna claim the studio got Corona'ed and wasn't sure of the future, so they rushed it.

yeah. :francis:

maybe that’s the problem...a lot happened the first 5 eps and by comparison the last 3 felt like a crawl...maybe I would’ve appreciated the last 3 eps more if the season was longer/paced better
 

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I’ve heard it mentioned before but the setting played a HUGE role in S1...I would almost argue that “westworld” itself was a “character” similar to the house (about to be on some heavy nerd shyt) in the short story ‘there will come soft rains’

there is no particular character that I like but when you take everything in totality...“westworld” is what made the story work for me and sparked my imagination...this season although good didn’t do that for me and the characters’ motivation outside of westworld/the “park” seemed “flat” for the most part
 

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this ep (and this season) felt like two seasons smooshed together.

I'm just gonna claim the studio got Corona'ed and wasn't sure of the future, so they rushed it.

yeah. :francis:
Let me find the post where I talked about this before.

To me it feels like they moved the story too far ahead. It feels like this season should have started with Dolores finishing off Delos and the remnants of their plans to replace world leaders with hosts, which leads to her getting the attention of Serac and her finding out about Rehoboam, triggering the further events of this season.

It seems clear Delos will still play a big role this season and Serac most likely wants hosts replacing world leaders so he can steer the future even further. It's just that the jump from Dolores' original plans to this Serac/AI plot is so far removed from where we left off last season that it doesn't quite feel right.

We all know the saying 'You can't have your cake and eat it'. But what happened here is that they had some leftover cake from last season, threw it on top of their new cake and proceeded to gulp down the whole thing as quickly as they could to prevent having any leftover cake for next season.

:francis:
 

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I'm ready to call WW a one season wonder. But I'll wait til we're half way through this season before I'll push that button.
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Still waiting on the final verdict :sas2:
I liked the finale, but it wasn't enough to prop up a season that was trying to do a lot but apparently forgot it had an audience to entertain. I was really into the themes this season wanted to tackle: determinism, how the hosts have more free will than humans, the effects of exposing our lack of free will, etc. This show had to go somewhere beyond a theme park to fukk and kill robots. I was fully on board for the direction they decided to go, post-Westworld. No amount of fandom can make me say they executed this correctly. My fandom will allow me to say I think the failure in execution was trying to please everyone who had an issue with the last season, therefore ending up with this season meandering all over the place. It's a hiccup for a show HBO clearly isn't giving up on. But it's also a show that's expensive as fukk to produce and is seeing dwindling viewership. I am intrigued by where the story is/can go, and have faith they can recapture the magic of the first two seasons

You got your verdict, nikka:unimpressed:
 

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Man what is with every female character being so superior to the male characters. All the female hosts are OP compared to males. This shyt is annoying as fukk.
 

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I really miss the whole "video game" aspect, to be honest. I wish they played up the "gamification" of the apps that the AI's were creating to control the humans. In season 1 the robots were NPCs in a giant computerized RPG. The "crime" app we see in season 3 means that human beings were turned into characters being led around by an AI "dungeon master" without even knowing it. They could have done more with that idea.
 
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