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genxlib

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5. I agree
Mon Jul 18, 2022, 05:20 PM
Jul 2022

That was one of the major reasons that Season 1 was better than subsequent seasons.

The park works as an allegory for how easy it is to lose your humanity with the lack of consequences that should be part of real life. That includes the actual danger of being in high stress situations and the actual outcomes of killing/raping/rampaging/etc. Turns out most people are psychopaths when they don't have consequences.

Then they reinvented the storyline to be about freewill which still worked better in the park because the manipulation was still overriding no matter what the hosts thought they were doing.

Breaking out into the free world just makes it seems like an extended revenge story.

But we are trying to see it through. Mostly on the strength of the cast.

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Westworld Season 4 - Anybody watching? [View all] SleeplessinSoCal Jul 2022 OP
Just started it last night genxlib Jul 2022 #1
last night's was a real turning point. SleeplessinSoCal Jul 2022 #4
I gave up on Westworld... FarPoint Jul 2022 #2
So did I, after Season 2. RipVanWinkle Jul 2022 #7
I started to lose interest when it stopped being about the park. Aristus Jul 2022 #3
I agree genxlib Jul 2022 #5
The Driver and I, the Backseat Driver, are watching. Backseat Driver Jul 2022 #6
You expressed my sentiments exactly. SleeplessinSoCal Jul 2022 #8
After season one I gave up on it. Bring back DEADWOOD! Emile Jul 2022 #9
a very good summation of the series so far... SleeplessinSoCal Jul 2022 #10
Writing a Metaphor SleeplessinSoCal Jul 2022 #11
I watched the whole thing! SleeplessinSoCal Aug 2022 #12
and if there is a moral or an overriding message it is.... SleeplessinSoCal Aug 2022 #13
k&r, uponit7771 Aug 2022 #14
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