9/16/2023 0 Comments Westworld paint it black episode![]() ![]() That is to say, it’s a minority of a minority who can make it into Westworld, so these additional parks have a tiny potential market. The first season never actually gave a price tag for entry to Westworld, but made it clear – as did the sheer work and bordering-on-magic technology that goes into maintaining the place – that it was ludicrously expensive. The existence of Shogunworld as hard-mode raises wider questions, though. Exactly how this manifested itself when the park was running as designed remains a mystery, assuming they weren’t just letting the guests be chopped up. First of all, they’d be dressed all wrong – but it’s not just the aesthetic which would be at risk, since per Sizemore, Shogunworld has the difficulty ratcheted up for those who find Westworld too tame. While we saw Rajworld had an artificial sea between it and Westworld, to keep things understandably compartmentalised, Shogunworld has a direct land link – and on the face of it that seems like a strange decision, since that opens up the possibility of guests wandering into a different park. Seeing as the place is taking its cues from the pop-culture version of the Edo period, and as everyone’s a robot, they might as well have just had them all be badly dubbed, which would look ridiculous but make about as much sense. They’ve been taken captive by samurai after drawing too close to the borders of Shogunworld, which means Japanese dialogue and subtitles, but that’s ok, because apparently all the hosts have a subconscious fluency, which I’m sure isn’t just purely for convenience. (Elsie, of course, knows he’s a robot – having had to refill his robot-juice, among other things – and is nowhere to be seen in the flash-forwards, so I don’t particularly fancy her chances over the next few weeks.)īack in the actual timeline, as opposed to the aftermath, we rejoin Maeve and the gang. Of course, with Delos now hunting down hosts like dogs, and cutting them apart in a vain attempt to figure out just what’s going on, he has a pretty major incentive to keep himself firmly out of the firing line. And we know he’s responsible for all those hosts they found belly-up in the water, not to mention at least one massacre in the backstage areas, so the question that remains is why. Presiding over this oh-so-coy cold open of people wondering ‘but how? How did this all happen? And who could possibly be responsible?’ is good old Bernard, looking particularly stoic and stony-faced as his robo-brethren are cracked open all around him. One obvious dead giveaway is when the script seems to be echoing verbatim exactly what members of the writer’s room think of all this – and when you’ve got a character actually asking ‘how did all these disparate threads come together to create this nightmare?’, well, it feels on the nose in much the way a straight left does. When you have a story about stories – which is what, to some extent or another, Westworld has been since day one – it will always run the risk of getting a bit too meta, of having winks to the audience degenerate into frantic wide-eyed gurning to sell each and every punchline. ![]()
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