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On this episode of TransMissions Extra!, we take a trip to the craziest theme park ever, Westworld. We enjoyed the HBO show last fall, and we spend this show giving a full spoiler-filled breakdown. Did you watch Westworld? Did you figure everything out before the reveals on the show? Listen to us ramble, then let us know what you thought!
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This seems like a really good series. Though it is sadly one that I will have to try and watch waaaayyy down the road. Not that i not interested in watching it , just have so many shows and anime I am watching right now. Not to mention I am trying to catch up on some great movies.
I’ve got the answer regarding the guns being deadly for some, but not for others. This is confirmed, by the way.
The bullets have a proprietary tech that allows their velocity to be controlled.
The hosts can hurt guests if the story calls for it, but not kill them. They are not to leave a lasting mark. A scratch, yes. A stab wound, no.
Where was this confirmed? This was the one answer I wanted through the entire season but they didn’t say a word about how it works.
On the other hand, the real guns in WW are marked with a red barrel/tip for handguns and the automatic weapons he guards use have a red stock to differentiate between real and game gun.
It seemed obvious that bullets would impact humans with less speed (not velocity, which is a function speed and direction!) than they would a host. The bullets would bouncing off human skin with little damage, where they would blast through a host.
Two things:
Maeve (Tandy Newton) didn’t leave the park because she was programmed not to. They established that all of her actions were programmed, thus she isn’t programmed to leave the park.
Second: it was proven there are more than one park. The location of Maeve’s daughter on the note says Park 1 sector blah blah. This shows that there are more parks, probably what season 2 will delve further into.
I am an old fan of the story, dating back to watching Futureworld (the sequel) as a kid on Saturday afternoon movies. From there I watched Westworld because it was the original movie.
In Westworld basically the robots went crazy with no reason and started killing people in the park (which, from the human perspective, seems to be what happens at the end of the TV series).
In Futureworld the story is changed a bit, in that the company Delos, who runs all the worlds is kidnapping important guests and replacing them with robot duplicates, and a reporter stumbles on the story and tries to reveal it to the public. They Robots were not on a rampage, they were doing what they were told. Also, in Futureworld they had the twist of some of the park employees being robots. In the movie Futureworld they touch on all the many worlds Delos runs, like Roman World, etc.
Futureworld trailer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTMtu4Z5T-U
The original Westworld movie would have ruined nothing for someone watching the TV series. No characters were in common, really. There was a man in black in the Westworld, but he was a robot, played by Yul Brynner, and the character he was playing was inspired by Yul’s character from The Magnificent Seven. If you watch the Westworld TV series closely, there is a scene in a lab where you see the retired robot of Yul Byrnner’s man in black standing among the inoperative robots.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention how much Westworld is basically the precursor to Jurassic Park. It’s all the same thing, just replace man-made gunslingers with man-made dinosaurs, and written by the same guy.