Westworld

3 episodes in and am loving the show. i think it's really well produced and am looking forward to the development of the various storylines.

one question - does anyone know the physics (assuming it has been thought out and isn't just magickum) behind the bullets making a hell of a mess of the hosts and not hurting the guests anymore than paintballs would?
 
Mr Orange said:
one question - does anyone know the physics (assuming it has been thought out and isn't just magickum) behind the bullets making a hell of a mess of the hosts and not hurting the guests anymore than paintballs would?
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IIRC the original Westworld (film) guns used some temperature sensors to ensure they weren't targeting a human being. I would imagine with modern technology you would use multiple methods for ensuring target acquisition was valid.

By the way - Episode 4 is fantastic!
 
SilentRoamer said:
IIRC the original Westworld (film) guns used some temperature sensors to ensure they weren't targeting a human being. I would imagine with modern technology you would use multiple methods for ensuring target acquisition was valid.

By the way - Episode 4 is fantastic!
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that would make sense, except the hosts actually target and shoot the guests, the bullets just have no effect on them (well, apart from giving a kick and a little bruise).

looking forward to ep 4...
 
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Has anyone else had the thought that maybe Ford is a "Host" and Arnolds first creation. And if that's the case did Ford kill Arnold?
 
Mr Orange said:
that would make sense, except the hosts actually target and shoot the guests, the bullets just have no effect on them (well, apart from giving a kick and a little bruise).

looking forward to ep 4...
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Episode 5 was very good as well!

Yeah I was thinking about that and my thought was that the guns have a second chamber that fires rubber bullets at guests - real time target acquisition that ensures the right "round" is fired.
 
I am following this show avidly. Is it just me or is it very Dickian, with the "what is real(ity)" meme being very prominent.

What are the huge earthmoving machines we see in episode 4? (or 3 or 5, not sure) I thought Anthony Hopkins character had one coming for the boss lady at one point but it seems not.
 
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I think the Earthmoving machines were creating a canyon for Ford's new storyline.
A lot is going to hinge of Elsie's fate in the spooky house. Who is there? Is Arnold really dead, or has he been hiding out there? Did he upload himself into a host? Or did he leave behind some kind of AI program in the system? Who can say, but I'm looking forward to the next episode. They've been fairly clever so far and it hasn't been boring.
 
Just three episodes into this. Slow start, but things have gotten interesting.
My first thought was "With Hannibal Lecter in charge, what could possibly go wrong?" :)
 
Ajid said:
Has anyone else had the thought that maybe Ford is a "Host" and Arnolds first creation. And if that's the case did Ford kill Arnold?
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Yeah I have, I also thought Bernard might be as well.

Frost Giant said:
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I think the Earthmoving machines were creating a canyon for Ford's new storyline.
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Yeah that's it - Ford actually mentions it himself. They are basically huge land sculpting machines for creating artificial landscapes.
 
I also like the player piano and the selections it plays. I recognized Black Hole Sun as soon as I heard it.
 
So now that we know Bernard is
a host
.

Are the entire Board of Directors
hosts too?

The only reason I think this is because Ford seems to have a hold on the Board of Directors, but I don't think he is as powerful in the company as he pretends to be. He's obviously a very powerful person in the world, so that leads me to believe that the Board of Directors are
hosts
. Otherwise why wouldn't Ford worry about them?

I think Ford is the mastermind behind everything, as they keep saying in each episode. The way this show is going is so layered that I wouldn't be surprised if Ford
created different types of hosts to fulfill different roles in the company.
Or maybe Delos is just another part of the maze, and getting out of Westworld isn't really the end of the road...

Does anybody else find it weird that no one cares about the Robot Technicians and what they are doing? They can monitor everything in WW but nothing inside their own company. Or maybe Delos is supposed to be humongous so they can't?
 
I think we'll encounter more Bernard-type revelations as the series progresses. I felt the most recent episode was excellent, the series seems to be coming together nicely so far. I'm not too impressed with the rumor that HBO might delay season 2 until 2018. Sometimes having an extra long hiatus like that can hurt the popularity of a show.
 
Cli-Fi said:
Does anybody else find it weird that no one cares about the Robot Technicians and what they are doing?
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It seems odd in a place where everything tends to be under surveillance. However, since we've only had glimpses of the larger forces at work behind the scenes, it is likely that the "awakening" of the host in this case might be part of a larger agenda. If this is the case, technology and circumstances could be manipulated from behind the scenes to ensure the robot tech's shenanigans go undetected.
 
Frost Giant said:
It seems odd in a place where everything tends to be under surveillance. However, since we've only had glimpses of the larger forces at work behind the scenes, it is likely that the "awakening" of the host in this case might be part of a larger agenda. If this is the case, technology and circumstances could be manipulated from behind the scenes to ensure the robot tech's shenanigans go undetected.
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This is the reason why I think there are
plenty more hosts in Delos. Everyone seems too calculated to be human, especially the bosses. So maybe the technicians are ones who are truly human, and I also think that writer guy is human too.
Those at least are the characters that have shown the most emotion on the set.
 
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