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Westworld: Crisis Theory (2020)
fever dream
This season resembles that of a fever dream because it keeps jumping around and makes little sense, this episode in no exception. Characters showing up at convenient moments to carry the plot, gas station scene is pure nonsense. Dolores always twenty steps ahead and when asked for her motivations she responds "Don't ask about my motivations and I won't ask yours". This whole season Man In Black, Bernard, Charlotte accomplished absolutely nothing, stumbling from one location to the other to come upon some critical information or just conveniently someone shows up saves them/carries the plot. Pitiful action sequences all around the season and this episode, hero is surrounded and yet against all odds he survives over and over and over again not once have I felt worried that our "hero" will die.
What annoys me the most in this episode, this is a minor spoiler, Bernard finds out through some database that Dolores wasn't trying to end humanity but in his own words "She was trying to save it." HOW? By murdering people and causing massive riots? By murdering billionaires and stealing their money? How exactly was she trying to save it?! I'm sure even the writers themselves haven't thought of it, but put that as a cliff hanger so they can write it next season. And that's the fundamental flaw - past season one they didn't have the story written so they had to make it up on the go and for that I'd think you really need talented writers and a good sense of direction, neither of which are being used on this show anymore. They're not setting up for season four and frankly after this jest of a season I'm not that interested.
Westworld: Passed Pawn (2020)
same old
Story is getting worse by the minute. Dolores said someone will have to lead this resistance against humans hinting it's going to have to be Caleb, why him? He's human as well, isn't he?
Then we get a snippet of Caleb's past as a soldier, he was in Crimean Civil War. Knowing that the show is set in 2052 and Crimean Civil War happened in 2014 how does Caleb still look the same? He should be an old man by then. Whole bit made for poor writting, they wasted two rockets on two insurgents in a crowded street, why not just shoot them? Also a note, technologies don't make sense in that period those glasses and that space station did not exist back then.
Culmination of this episode is Maeve versus Dolores. Maeve still can't get over the fact that "her daughter" is just an artificial memory engrained in her head and is helping Serac. And the fight begins, Maeve brings a katana to a gunfight. If Serac really wanted Dolores and Caleb dead could he not say send a missile to level the whole facily to the ground or maybe an army to root out those two?
Sad part is show has been renewed by HBO to run for a 4th season and they're planning to run it for whole 6 seasons, if renewed again. It had no coherent story past season one, this show is on it's way to become the new walking dead.
Westworld: Decoherence (2020)
no suspense
There's no longer any suspense present, at every turn when a main character gets into trouble they get out of it alive. Maeve got killed a couple of episodes ago, she's back now. Charlotte gets outed as a host, but miraculously she gets out alive, hell, she even survives a car explosion. Why put your characters through these situations in the first place, we know they'll get out of it unscathed.
Ed Harris is now locked up in some phychiatric clinic, yet when we last saw him he was fine. Whole him sitting in a room full of his own clones/copies made little sense, what are we supposed to get out of that scene? Also noticed that the show keeps dragging in actors from previous seasons just because, we get more waste of time with Lee, Hector but they just stand around doing nothing! What's more absurd is that people are killing themselves over computer predicting their future, is humanity that gullible? Oh, and everyone apparently has a terrible future - lady from this episode is set to lose her job and her family, previous people on that train as far as I recall had god awful futures too, one of the killing themselves etc. Is anyone actually gonna live a decent life?
At this point I'm watching to have a laugh, i'll watch this season till the end but I do hope they're not setting up for a fourth season of "humanity vs robots".
Westworld: Genre (2020)
More Questions
Serac's past is explored in this episode and it brings up more questions than answers to be frank. Serac as a child survived bombing of hometown (Paris(?)) and wandered around with his brother until found and decided to leave France. First off, who bombed who and why did they do it? Is France at war with someone, is it a terrorist attack? It's not disclosed, moving on. They decide to leave to France as kids! How is that possible? Did they have family abroad? It's not told, it's not shown, next shot is of them being adults and working on the super-robot AI. In the words of the show "building a God is not easy" unless you're Serac and his brother of course, then all you need is some millionaire to finance it, once more it's not disclosed how are they even capable of creating anything like that, were they wunderkinds, did they study any at some tech university? For the show it's not important how they did it, but instead that they did.
Let's move on to Dolores and Caleb storyline. They're dragging Liam Dempsey along to... do what with him? They need his private key to use super-robot AI that Serac built to get information on Serac himself? Did I get that right? Serac left information on HIMSELF in the AI and some time later Dolores gets access to it, that's grand. Needless to say this AI doesn't make sense, first they say it's capabilities are predictions of stock markets and such, but now it can somehow access Serac's past? Alright, Serac has had enough of Dolores and sends his goons to get rid of her, by that I mean a couple of cars with incompetent buffoons who can't even lifts up their weapons to aim at the person they want to kill, needless to say they all die and Caleb's two "friends" show up, you know, the people he worked with in the first episode "amused" t-shirt guy and blond black guy in a coat and now they tag along. Forgot to mention Caleb got injected with some drug that Liam had and is tripping for the whole episode, he can't escape his Breaking Bad past can he. I'd talk about Bernard next, but he's a shell of a character he was and accomplished nothing of note in the episode.
Only reason it's four out of ten is because of cinematography, that's an only plus and it's a shame it's wasted on this. Soundtrack was off this episode as well, blasting too loud when people were talking and generally out of place (especially in that car-chase scene, who thought that it was an appropriate soundtrack it has me in stitches). I don't know who wrote the dialogue but it's down right laughable. And the story is a convoluted mess.
The Walking Dead: The Tower (2020)
??
Princess is supposedly the only survivor in the city, I would think that a woman of her loud and obnoxious personality wouldn't survive that long in the first place, but okay. Then off they go through an amazing mine field, that's under a layer of asphalt and somehow still triggers if you step on it, why is that mine field there? What is the purpose of it, and how did Princess actually know that it is a mine field? Logic defying episode as is usual in Walking Dead universe, but the biggest sin of all, after Princess has shown how insane she is they just accept her into the group after some sob story how hard it was to live on her own.