I love this and hate it at the same time

Hornets pose is flashbanging me with memories of people forcing hair worms out of preying mantises

The wrinkles at the joints makes me think the of the Working Joes from Alien Isolation
Creepy! Great art

I'll be thinking about the movie for a long time.

I'm actively trying to forget the show. I wish I could erase it from my brain entirely.

Anyway that's enough angry ranting from me lol. Watch the movie, it's amazing!!

The gunslinger was an amazing and intimidating antagonist. The very simple glinting eye effect paired with the actor's performance just works so well.

The evil guest just feels like a generic monologuing villain archetype. Ooh he got lost in the fiction and it revealed his evil nature. How deep.

Is the theme of the show just supposed to be "using sentient beings as living entertainment against their will is bad"?

I guess it's about becoming conscious, but the setting just doesn't work for that imo.

Not sure how I feel about the choice to make the story more focused on the robots. It's cool how they make you unsure of who's a bot and who's human I guess. I can see some kind of interesting commentary there.

Except for the fact that the "robots" are basically identical to real people.

"Most immersive experience" my ass. The park in the show is more akin to that failed fantasy theme park than anything.

There are some things that were cool. It kinda started to expand on the theme of becoming desensitized by media with the evil guest guy but it's just. Everything around it ruins it

How the parks run in the show makes no sense.
In the movie presumably there are groups of guests who stay for two weeks then leave for another group to come in, with the parks maintaining the experience throughout.

In the show the park is reset daily, but the guests still stay for multiple weeks???

The show feels unbelievably pretentious as well, constantly having monologues to explain everything to the audience as if we're toddlers. It's absolutely mind numbing to endure.

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responsible for making sure over 200 highly advanced robots stay working correctly.

Mind you the movie had whole teams working behind the scenes to maintain the robots as well as another team to manage them while they're active in Westworld and the other parks.

In the original things all went wrong In Spite of the management doing every in their power to avert the crisis.

In the show it feels like they're intentionally setting up for the robots to revolt. Holy shit.
And despite the show's park being much grander in scale, they have one, yes ONE guy -

So you KNOW that these things which are basically identical to people including in intelligence are sentient, but somehow you don't see the problem with the numerous faults that keep happening as a result of your flippant treatment of safety.

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It's loud, has distracting, generic music playing almost non stop. The characters feel so fake. And every person behind the scenes of the park is painfully incompetent. We had to stop watching after that woman made the lobotomy comment.

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The movie is so well written. It's very subtle and knows exactly how to use quiet to draw you in. The soundtrack is amazing and is used perfectly. The characters feel like real people with realistic interactions with each other and the robots.

The show has absolutely none of that.

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