Westworld - the series

[temperflash]

Can we even be sure it was Ford we saw shot? It would be just like him to send a simulacrum of himself to give the speech.

[scubasteve]

Can we even be sure it was Ford we saw shot?

Exactly what I thought when it happened. Ford is now a host or a Ford host was shot.
It would be a fitting end to a disgruntled zookeepers life to die just as he released all the animals onto a crowd.

[Buc Wheat]

Well, he was making someone, after all, as was shown in various
other eps!

Wouldn't surprise me if he did.

[tay666]

Well, he was making someone, after all, as was shown in various
other eps!

Wouldn't surprise me if he did.

Right.
He was making a host in that lab.
And they made something of big deal about the handshake with Bernard.

[temperflash]

The possibility of Ford replacing himself with a custom made host presents safety net possibilities for the series. Should Anthony Hopkins choose to bow out of the series his character can remain dead, if he signs on for several more seasons he can reappear. Also while he seems in good health none of us are getting any younger.

[Heavy Metal Spike]

Can't remember which episode it was, I think in one of the last three but in an old part of Delos in the background was something that looked like Yul in the original Westworld.
Pretty vague, sorry.

Watched the whole series over the last week and this was one of the notes I made.

7 mins into Episode 6.

Should have known I wouldn't be the only one to spot it

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[Heavy Metal Spike]

I really enjoyed this.

Not at "Game Of Thrones" level but then that is in a league of its own anyways.

I liked that you were left trying to figure stuff out in every episode, and not everything was explained even at the end. Cool.

Lots of things made me smile, and added an extra level of enjoyment - including:

• • The above mentioned "Yul" appearance in E06.
  • The masks on Ford's office wall reminded me of the temple of the faceless men from GOT.
  • There was music that sounded straight out of Carpenter's "They Live" at one point in E06.
  • The "rising sun" in E08
  • The way the pianola music got increasingly complex as the series progressed.
  • The "dark star" line in E08.
  • Anthony Hopkins being creepy enough to permanently seem on the edge of becoming at least a couple of characters he's played in the past.
  • The after-credits scene at the end of E10.

And . . . OH-MY-GOD is Thandie Newton gorgeous - loved her in the 2nd Riddick movie and my appreciation for her acting (and - ahem - physique) has CERTAINLY not been diminished by THIS!

Great story, perfectly cast, acted and directed - pretty certain we'll be getting a 2nd season

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