Reminds me of lost.


I find myself really enjoying parts of this show, but generally I find waiting for these moments are the only thing keeping me watching. I don’t enjoy it as a whole. It reminds me of lost in the sense that I don’t think it knows where it’s going, it poses more questions than it bothers to answer. The final two episodes of season 1 were absolutely amazing though.

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Except that LOST had likable characters.
This show...not so much.

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Excellent call

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Season one had a good script - though even there you had many questions posed without any foreseeable answers.
This TV show really turns into lost in season 2 though.
Writers are now on 'make it up as we go along' mode and it ain't working - just like lost.

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No, when you jump around this way you have to keep everything straight - at least as a writer. It doesn't have to make immediate sense to the viewers but you need to have the basic design of the story in place early on.

There's always been deeper things happening than we realized. The longer they go without showing the outside world in the present time frame (i.e. not in a flashback) the more I'm tending to think there is no outside world. Not anymore. That humanity may be gone. Remember they said insects were the only animals on the island which weren't artificial? What usually accounts for all but the smallest creatures being absent from an ecosystem? Mass extinction event. Ford could be a central AI, or the only human consciousness download that ever achieved stability, but his park is one big research project to bring people back. All you'd find on the mainland, if you went there, would be crumbling long deserted cities.

At least that's one theory. But Charlotte-Dolores just got on a helicopter heading back to Delos. If she gets there, and we see a thriving outside world, so much for that idea. On the other hand if they keep being coy about actually taking us to the outside ...

Whatever the deep dark truth is, it's something we've not yet had a hint of. I'm sure if you go back after the final season and watch the whole series again you'll see plenty of bread crumbs that meant nothing before. Which is my whole point, the major milestones and plot elements were there all along. The writers aren't just shooting from the hip.

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yeah , thats what we all thought Lost was doing. Then , 5 series in, we realised it the captain had no map and had been bullshitting us all along ,and we were in fact ... lost

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Then stop watching and for GOODNESS sake, stop whining.

I, on the other hand have faith. I’m extremely impressed with what I’ve seen so far. I also have taste and sense. I never found anything about the concept behind Lost that made me want to see it. More broadcast network buncombe.

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i did i did!
I'm not whining! well , not about Westworld ,I'm whining that i was suckered into watching 5 seasons of Lost, before i realised there were no answers apart from whatever bullshit they made up at the end - which could only be it was a dream/heaven-hell/purgatory/hallucination.

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I don't get that feeling with this show. Lost was a network TV series that had to fill the standard 20-24 episodes per season, and just kept bringing more random stuff into the plot. Westworld has much shorter seasons and much longer lead times. Sure it's expensive and requires a fair amount of post production but they spend a lot of time on scripts. At times it almost seems more like a piece of literature than a TV show.

I really hope they don't prove me wrong. Otherwise I will have to personally kill Jonathan Nolan. Over and over and over again, in an endless repeating loop. :)

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