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The scientists in the locked control room


When I saw this movie I thought they were just sleeping after being awake for too long monitoring the chaos, then in the sequel they say that they were killed. My question is how? The room was locked and appeared to not have been breached.


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They mentioned oxygen. For some odd reason they thought having an air tight control room was a good idea. It was not a good idea!

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Yeah kind of an oversight, having a control room where external communications, air supply and the doors can be killed by a simple power outage. Noone thought to prop the door open before shutting off the power? Oxygen shouldn't have depleted that fast anyways.

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Exactly. Somebody would have opened a door.


"I like simple pleasures like butter in my ass and lollipops in my mouth." - Floyd Gondolli

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> Noone thought to prop the door open before shutting off the power?

That's why OSHA was invented; so that workers can't be locked into a room. There are always safety exits.

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you think in that high tech place theyd have a few scuba tank or the like around to breath from in case they got locked in. and how could they die that fast? there was enough air in the room, for a day or 2 minimum

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That's another part of the film fraught with problems. Not only are the doors sealed because the power goes out (???), they're super air tight and apparently the only source of air (like there are no air ducts into the room), so they all suffocate in short order.

The other cheesy part is: what, all of the Westworld employees were in this one room when the power went out? Because Richard Benjamin runs all over the place down there and finds no more employees.

Because, you know, when the robots start misbehaving, the entire electrical grid for all 3 fantasy world's go apesh!t and ALL robots go on a killing spree and kill ALL guests ... except for the star, of course.

I remember being impressed with this film as a kid in the 70s, but now, just laughed when RB sets the gunslinger on fire and he goes up like a torch -- think of all the problems that could have happened before that with robots that were that flammable!

I certainly don't need to see this film again.

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The control room with it's multiple banks of modern computers was an airtight "clean room," so designed to prevent outside dust and dirt contaminants from infiltrating internal components of sensitive scientific equipment like keyboards, CPUs, sensors and safety features of killer animatronic robots.
It was modeled after the one found beneath Disneyworld, which controlled that entire park's fully automated functions.

Ah the 70's... Computer chips were slightly larger in size than the rectangular Lego's pieces.
My Mom's Chevy had a steel dashboard (standard) ,no seatbelts (standard) and you could remove the key from the ignition (in the "on" position) while driving and continue to drive the car.

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Right. Its a central computer room so its air-tight. Or more likely there was filtered air being pumped in. But that stopped when the power went out. Just a guess based on what I've been told of underground structures.

As for where everyone else was? Wondered that too. Probably some are dead elsewhere in the facility and just never seen. Or died trying to escape like the maintenance worker.

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This movie has so many plotholes you would think it was written and directed by Christopher Nolan 😂

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