[TV] Westworld

[Sorshen]

I think the HBO effect took over, the last few episodes have been all over the place. The season start was good, some interesting concepts and paralels here but the plot is needlessly complicated every time the characters don't talk and just keep going for reasons, Maeve and Dolores/Halores suffer a lot from this. Bernard and Caleb are just strung along the whole time. After that mid-season, William's arc seems wasted.

[Pebrocks The Warlock]

I knew serac was the AI! They kept showing him as a hologram which made me suspicious then they pretty much confirmed it episode 7 when we meet the other super computer talking and they said that the brother made it like himself (mental illness) and then we saw a hologram of serac welcoming the outliners to be put into iso Chambers he said "I wish I was there to meet you" talking in past tense. This season was awesome

But the last episode showed the opposite, he wasn't an AI just being controlled by an AI. We even saw him get shot.

[Koriani]

Finale next week already? 8 episodes? Jeez... I don't know what to say about this. Kinda messy.

Yea ..short season and still felt like half the episodes were filler and the plot would have moved along at a better pace without them... :/

Weaker season than the rest for sure IMO; however, I also agree:

...but this season seems like the first part of something greater.

I'm really thinking so. The setup season to the "Finale" season where, I'm hoping, we'll find more forward movement, less confusing plot characters (helps if they look different lol), and actual conclusions and resolutions!

Cuz this season felt like a whole bunch of not much happening other than 'setting up why any of these new characters care.'

Feels like the same thing they did with Man In the High Castle; last season was hella slow/boring and draggggeeddd on - but we're hoping for payout on the story this season, which is the final one. lol. This Westworld season wasn't 'boring' but it was definitely less engaging than the other seasons.

Though I am a bit disappointed the story has ended up to the trope of 'AI to save humans from itself; oh look it won't' lesson instead of all the varying other places they could have explored with it. But really this season's plot could have been setup and done in three episodes. I thought I had read somewhere we were getting one more and then done, which is why I expected next season to be the 'grand wrapup'. At this point I'm really hoping they aren't shooting for five. There's not enough story left.

[dwightyo39]

I found this season to be entertaining, but less so than the previous two.

Gun fights are not something Westworld does very well, and this season had plenty of them.

[RobertoCarlos]

I could be wrong but I don’t think he was being controlled. I believe he just accepted that the AI knew how to achieve the best outcome for humanity, so he did/said as it said... willingly.

I mean I guess he could just be a human with a ear piece repeating lines fed to him. But what if serac was a host and the AI with schizophrenia thought he was real and that's why he was freaking out more about the AI going down than being killed

[Elim Garak]

I mean I guess he could just be a human with a ear piece repeating lines fed to him. But what if serac was a host and the AI with schizophrenia thought he was real and that's why he was freaking out more about the AI going down than being killed

I think it's very similar to Rick and Morty episode about death crystals. AI whispered to him the things to say and do to avoid (in case of Morty to ensure) the fate Serac wanted to avoid based on AI predictions. He let AI control his actions for the greater good (in his subjective opinion) and could stop it anytime.

[RobertoCarlos]

I think it's very similar to Rick and Morty episode about death crystals. AI whispered to him the things to say and do to avoid (in case of Morty to ensure) the fate Serac wanted to avoid based on AI predictions. He let AI control his actions for the greater good (in his subjective opinion) and could stop it anytime.

Yeah the more I think about it it makes sense he was just a dude. I think I read too much into episode 7 where we saw a hologram of serac talking in past tense. Maybe he was just too busy or didn't want to face the people he was locking away. Plus the series covers timelines in interesting ways I thought Paris was an earlier time line so it made sense serac might be dead by this current time line. But yeah guess he was just a dude who liked using holograms

[Lazuli]

This season is so weak for me, I miss when they are in westworld. Last season was lit they should have ended it there, not much happens here just feels like a bunch of boring filler.

[Elim Garak]

Yeah the more I think about it it makes sense he was just a dude. I think I read too much into episode 7 where we saw a hologram of serac talking in past tense. Maybe he was just too busy or didn't want to face the people he was locking away. Plus the series covers timelines in interesting ways I thought Paris was an earlier time line so it made sense serac might be dead by this current time line. But yeah guess he was just a dude who liked using holograms

The hologram was a security measure, that's what I thought about it and that's how they have even shown it used as. At least once.

[RobertoCarlos]

The hologram was a security measure, that's what I thought about it and that's how they have even shown it used as. At least once.

It was defiantly a security measure but they used it quite a lot. With maeve he used a controller though to disable her

[Mister K]

This season is so weak for me, I miss when they are in westworld. Last season was lit they should have ended it there, not much happens here just feels like a bunch of boring filler.

I like the turn of events. Yes S1 was great, S2 not so much but S3 was pretty decent and comparable to S1. They changed it and made it work with quality.

[Ophenia]

I overall liked this season, even though we may feel it led to nothing and a lot of scenes/characters' arc seem to aim at next season (particularly Hale and William) instead of aiming at the season finale.

I found the end of the finale to be quite poetic and heartwarming. Don't really know what to expect from Hale + Host William vs Bernard, if that's really Bernard who awakens (even though I think that'd be a bit stretched even for Westworld's standard if Dolores' personality was "uploaded" through this thing).

[Adamas102]

Thoroughly enjoyed it even though it felt like a very different show compared to the first season.

[Devilyaki]

Enjoyed season three till the after credits in last episode..

[Strawberry]

On E5 in S3 and I must admit this is the best season IMO. They released it just in time for Cyberpunk 2077 which should have been out by now, haha.
I even enjoy watching Dolores. I hated her in the previous 2 seasons, so much that I skipped every her scene. But now she's one of the more fun characters on the show.

[Nerovar]

This season is so weak for me, I miss when they are in westworld. Last season was lit they should have ended it there, not much happens here just feels like a bunch of boring filler.

Same. Seems like they just ran out of creative juice but HBO wanted them to make more seasons. Oh, well. At least I had my fun with seasons 1 & 2.

[Logwyn]

This season is so weak for me, I miss when they are in westworld. Last season was lit they should have ended it there, not much happens here just feels like a bunch of boring filler.

How do you know that they still aren't in Westworld?!!?

[Elim Garak]

How do you know that they still aren't in Westworld?!!?

How do you know Westworld is a real thing?

[RobertoCarlos]

How do you know Westworld is a real thing?

If you're trying to be deep it's not working.

[Logwyn]

How do you know Westworld is a real thing?

At this point, it really could be a matrix type situation with multiple layers.

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Damn. That would be one hell of a plot twist.

I"m sure someone would post that the show jumped the shark again.