"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
Alright I am back in. I just can't quit you WW.
TBH I never left but I can only do so many car chase shoot em up Michael Bay episodes before my attention wanes.
I thought this week's episode was the best of the season so far.
i havent watched this weeks episode but the tone of this season is so totally different from anything before it that its almost impossible to adapt to.
the car chases are really, really dumb btw. like realllllly dumb.
and again and again we see the writers fumble really straight forward development by failing to spend any time on the most important, consequential moments.
and i havent seen a single moment so far that played with any of the more esoteric themes from the previous seasons.
worst of all, no anthony hopkins = get the real serious fuck out.
without his charm / gravity, this feels like a will smith movie.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
I thought this week's episode returned to the more traditional themes of the show. It was definitely more satisfying.
I don't see any credits attributed to Anthony Hopkins this season but I am still holding out hope that he will reappear in the next few episodes.
The Peripheral is gonna need a thread pretty soon
to the surprise of no one, renewed for season 4.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
remember when we were calling sonatine breastworld cuz of his man tits
A SIMPLER TIME YALL
finally finished this.
the gunfights have to go.
the retarded martial arts have to go.
the car chases have to go.
the matrix cribbing has to go. as does the fight club cribbing.
oh as does the blade runner cribbing (remake, not orig).
also if you map out the pivotal scene on paper, it makes noooooOooOoOooo sense. like jessie pinkman's motivations are super nonsensical and inconsistent. also the whole thing with frenchie handing off his dirty work and his little robot controller gotcha thing was fucking sloppy.
i mean whatever like literally but im really, really hoping that if they dont have anything particularly well written up their sleeves for next season, they just turn it into scifi porn and run wild with it, just make it a hyper glossy and super obtuse 9 hour music video basically.
ok then.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
the fight scenes are awful
i kinda liked one scene in the final ep that was a blade runner homage with some vangelis knock off synths in the background
the thing that really annoyed me...this is so stupid...but part of the fun for me with the show is playing name that tune with the piano riffs. I don’t want to hear the actual dark side of the moon recording. Stupid but just irked me.
maybe I missed it but how did pinkman just carjack a police drone in the middle of a riot? And then just fly right over to incite???
im gonna go back and watch it again just to make sure I didn’t miss anything but yeah...season was not great. I did find it very interesting that all the rioters were wearing covid masks pre virus. I’m sure team retard can come up with a plandemic video explanation.
like im just going to trot this out:
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
Switching back and forth on the letterbox/full screen Maeve Delores goodbye scene was fucking film school amateur hour
Also we don’t have maids at shitty motels anymore??? Arnold looked a little dusty
maybe they will just seamlessly segue the end of the show into the beginning of Terminator
also heres a weird thing they dont teach you in school; in the future, guns dont fire straight, even guns manned by massive floating military killbots.
oh wait unless a synth is firing one. then they fire super straight.
but only at humans.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
I like the look of the show.
This future city isn't Los Angeles, San Francisco or New York. It's Singapore. America's cities are old, ancient and crumbling.
I like the new fake tech in the future.
Maybe there is hope for VR and AR technology.
Marshawn Lynch's LED T-shirt was cool.
It lists my mood on what I think about the show.
Aaron Paul's Caleb character was mostly wasted.
I did like the Rico app and that "genre" drug was interesting.
Serac just didn't work as a villain.
I didn't understand his motivation.
Was it money? Or to control people?
Or to control the future?
In our real world, Google, Facebook, Amazon and other companies accumulate data about you to sell you shit that you don't need.
In the real world of Westworld, they accumulate data about you and script your life using some mathematical algorithms selected by Serac in order to control you and the world.
Is Dolores gone forever? I doubt it. The actress who plays her will return as someone else. That's the twist. Surprised?
Saw the first episode. Almost turned it off after the first scene. Meh. Of course the evil guy is a straight white male who abuses and murders Asian women.
I'll put up with SJW nonsense if a story is otherwise really good, but if its not I have not time. And it looks like this season is gonna be A LOT of SJW nonsense, and not particularly good, so may pass. And of course, I am sure we can all appreciate that apparently the woke way to do nudity now is to just show a couple cocks and no female skin at all.
I am actually binge watching Battlestar Galactica right now. This is much better. Still plenty of women and minorities who are good guys (including the best fighter pilot being a woman, which is pretty much a must for any TV show/movies nowadays), but they don't beat you over head with it. Just being inclusive in your casting is fine, but if you go full SJW I'm out.
Last edited by ErickAA; 05-09-2020 at 06:32 AM.
does anyone actually care about the rest of this series at this point?
when i think about what i liked about the first 15 hours or so of this series and compare it to the last 5 hours of it, honestly its hard to ignore how far we've strayed from literally everything that made this show charming.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
I didn't hate the last season as much as I thought I would after watching the first episode. I thought it would just be SJW nonsense, and there was plenty of that, but there was some interesting sci-fi dystopia "what does it mean to be human" subplots.
But yeah, it turned into a completely different series.
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