Westworld (NO SPOILERS)

[skinny]

antspants said:

I've decided to watch season 2 again, feels like I've forgotten most of it as I started to watch ep1 s3.

Im 95% sure i watched at all s2, but the 'previously on WW' s3 ep1 i didn't recall half the stuff going on there. Sadly i found S2 such a mess I'm not sure I be bothered to sit through it all again. Maybe S3 will sit as a standalone but i strongly doubt it sadly. It's a shame as i think the story was probably strong enough to make a good series without all the confusing timeline hopping.

[chris watton]

dieselgrunt said:

chris watton said:

I will give this a try later, but if it turns into yet another 'All men bad (white men especially), all woman great' series, I will give the rest a miss.

Lol, the first 10mins is exactly that.

Yep, I did persevere though to almost the end, but realised it's just as convoluted as the 2nd series (I did by the 4K steel box set for Series 1, so really wanted the following series' to be as good).

I do hope that with so many 'woke' Hollywood films flopping hard, they will start to make more balanced films/series. I sat though every episode of series 2 and wish I hadn't. Not making the same mistake with series 3, which seems to be more of the same, but with the woman robots being even more over powered, and they strut around, righting the wrongs of the hateful patriarchy, presumably to sate Hollywood's collective fake guilt on how they themselves treat people..

[Watchman]

JamieBeeston said:

Sparky137 said:

I also found the dialog muffled causing me to miss parts of it.

Glad it wasnt just me.. I ended up switching between the Sky and Downloaded version and even got my home cinema remote out to alter sound modes to they and stand a chance of hearing what was going on dialogue wise.

Was worried I was simply getting old!

I already find listening to TV troublesome so I bought a set of headphones which has helped immeasurably. But even with those, I watched this episode with subtitles. There are a lot of background conversations which I suspect aren't intended for you to actually hear but are presented with subtitles switched-on.

[trooperiziz]

skinny said:

antspants said:

I've decided to watch season 2 again, feels like I've forgotten most of it as I started to watch ep1 s3.

Im 95% sure i watched at all s2, but the 'previously on WW' s3 ep1 i didn't recall half the stuff going on there.

Same! I watched all of S3 and didn't recognise any of it Just shows how memorable it was.

[Flumpo]

I struggled to watch. It wasn’t particularly engaging and I ended up half watching.

It’s now so far removed from the beautiful scenery, gratuitous nudity, stellar Hopkins and twisting but understandable story that made me watch s1.

It was only Peter Mullen that saved s2 from being a complete waste of time.

I will no doubt watch the next episode, but I think I’m better off just watching s1 then leaving it there.

[Nimby]

skinny said:

Im 95% sure i watched at all s2, but the 'previously on WW' s3 ep1 i didn't recall half the stuff going on there.

Same here. Maybe it's previously in the future?

[antspants]

Nimby said:

skinny said:

Im 95% sure i watched at all s2, but the 'previously on WW' s3 ep1 i didn't recall half the stuff going on there.

Same here. Maybe it's previously in the future?

I came to the conclusion that the 'previously' was actually previewing some of what's coming in s3 because I didn't recall quite a bit of it. I'm getting old so it's probably me, but I've got some time on my hands so will binge watch s2 this week.

[Flip Martian]

Flumpo said:

I struggled to watch. It wasn’t particularly engaging and I ended up half watching.

It’s now so far removed from the beautiful scenery, gratuitous nudity, stellar Hopkins and twisting but understandable story that made me watch s1.

It was only Peter Mullen that saved s2 from being a complete waste of time.

I will no doubt watch the next episode, but I think I’m better off just watching s1 then leaving it there.

This is kind of how I’m assuming to feel about it. Not sat down and watched yesterday’s yet. Hoping to be surprised but the beauty and suspense of S1 seems a long time ago now.

[dieselgrunt]

Aaron Paul has put some weight on since Breaking Bad. He looked bored all the way through it.
As mentioned, i had the volume waayy up and could barely hear it.
Seems more of the same as S2, henchmen who can't shoot for toffee and an incomprehensible plot. But the cinematography was lovely.

[rustyuk]

I'm probably one of the only people that really enjoyed series 2. Didn't think much of the first episode or series 3 and was half watching, though will stick it out for another couple of episodes.

[dxg]

Dear God, the audio really was bad. Someone turned the bass up to eleventy-million and you literally couldn't work out what was being said...



I like the themes building about the corruption of money and the origins of the AI, but they're somewhat hackneyed at this point.

Hopefully they sort the audio out for next week. If not, it's going to be too much trouble to watch / try to listen to.

[Doofus]

I watched S3E1. Made it as far as the openig credits.

Nope.

[ashleyman]

I’ve decided not to watch it.
I want to save it and binge them all!

[Doofus]

ashleyman said:

I’ve decided not to watch it.
I want to save it and bin them all!

Good choice.

[Scabutz]

This is going well then. I was going to not watch and save them up in case I got really into it so I can bing. Sounds like I should put myself out of my misery though.

[unident]

I’ll go against the grain and say I enjoyed it. Agree that S2 was a right mess, but this has started more promisingly for me. Nothing revolutionary about it, angry main protagonist getting even with some baddies and a soon to be capable sidekick with a load of emotional baggage.

The comments about multiple storylines being confusing is a bit bizarre, S1 was multiple storylines set in multiple timelines, none of which really made any sense at all until the last few minutes of the series and few were complaining about that. I wonder if the complaints are more because there’s a woman as the main character. The uproar over it being woke is pretty pathetic and wonder how some of you get on in the real world when you come across a woman.

[boxsey]

I'll try to stick with S3 and see how it goes...if only for the fact that they've made Dolores drop dead gorgeous in this one.

[boxsey]

...oh and for using a lightly disguised 918 Spyder

[dxg]

boxsey said:

...oh and for using a lightly disguised 918 Spyder

Actually, that car confused me.

It looked just like a normal 918 to me, but was a long tail?

(the fact that I was paying that much attention to the cars (like the upgraded screens in the Land Rover, for example) was probably down to me not being able to hear the story...)

[Flip Martian]

Just watched it, and enjoyed it! S2 was a bit of a confusing mess but Ep1 of S3 seemed pretty straight forward and telling the story in pretty much the same timeline, albeit switching between the 3 main protagonists. I can't remember how Dolores ended up being shot in S2, her "brain ball" thing being moved into the host version of corporatebhboss, and Dolores still getting off WW but I guess I'll just have to go back to the last ep of S2 and catch up.

Enjoyed this. Not as much as S1 but its early days and I hope there's actually a bit of original WW to come.

Also watched it with subtitles - wasn't just the audio; there seemed to be a lot of mumbling too.

Edited by Flip Martian on Wednesday 18th March 14:12