Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Westworld: Very Creepy but also entertaining: HBO

I found Westworld when I watched a DVR of it last night on my TIVO both creepy and entertaining at the same time. Also, Ed Harris has to be the creepiest person in this movie and so far I have to believe he is a human (although this has not been absolutely established). There is this very sweet Ranch Girl (who they say is the oldest robot in the park) that is interesting too.

But, I have the same problem of this HBO: Westworld that I had with the Twilight Saga series. The real problem is ethics (any ethics) are ambiguous on multiple levels so right and wrong are blurred the way they are in video games when many people are also killed on those videos.

So, what I found disturbing is the amount of death and mayhem against robots who look and act mostly just like human beings in the wild west. And you get the feeling by the end of the first episode that other things alive (like real humans) in addition to flies are going to be swatted to say the least.

The two most interesting programs so far I have viewed this fall season also have to be: Timeless and Westworld so far, even though Westworld might be too creepy in the end for me to watch because it can be so psychologically disturbing that may wind up being like "Ex Machina" in the end.


  1. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470752/ Drama · A young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a ...
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_Machina_(film) Ex Machina is a 2015 independent science fiction psychological thriller film written and directed by Alex Garland in his directorial debut, and produced by ...
  3. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ex_machina/ Critic Consensus: Ex Machina leans heavier on ideas than effects, but it's still a visually polished piece of work -- and an uncommonly engaging sci-fi feature ...

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