Did West World Season 2 just jump the shark or is it Crazy like a Fox

West World Season 2 - Delores is not Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

is west world crazy for going to the shogun world angle, or crazy like a fox? 

Places listening - UK second / Colombia third  (Ashburn VA #2 this week Props to Frankfurt Germany, Lima Peru and Hengelo Netherlands

Curtis Fingers watched a Derek Lowe tribute on NESN? And got teary eyed? 

Possible Silver linings — 

Maeve realizing she has telepathy mind control in any language may have been a necessary evil

The man in Black’s daughter showing up / right after the decided that the live forever project is the wrong thing - could prove interesting 

This is classic early in the series epic saga HBO move — you take the long way home, everybody starts to get a little impatient and then… BOMB SHELL

Delores is essentially building a mutant droid army - even Teddy wasn’t safe - i predict she makes Man in Black’s role miserable

I think once the explain delores’ dad’s deal with Charlotte Hale and the Delos Board — we finally should be able to go back down the funnel to a more succinct story line with more of a zero sum game plot line

Episode five May 20, 2018

Back to Maeve and the Samurai World peeps - Her power over them isn’t working like it did in west world. We learn the the Samurai world is for people who think west word is too tame. 

“Paint it black” plays on a japanese instrumental arrangement — and the Japanese droids are just samurai versions of the the westworld gang. British writer guy mentions that he didn’t have enough time of character development and therefore they’re basically the same characters. Fun “meta wrinkle” 

Maeve speaks Japanese — i like the wrinkle of bizarro west world - Maeve escapes

Back in West World Delores and Teddy stumble onto Sweetwater again and everybody is dead as usual

Delores and Teddy are out on the Range - thought Delores was gonna kill Teddy just then

Maeve is ready to kick it with the SHOGUN and his army - he cut off their ears so avoid Maev’s mind control — but she’s got mind control now — so it shouldn’t matter write. 

Teddy and Delores finally have a bonetownScene

And then she double crossed Teddy - and they just did some crazy alterations to Teddy’s settings - likely to make him meaner

Wow WuTang 36 chambers on the Japanese flute / fiddle/ etc C.R.E.A.M. cash rules everything around me - And a Decapitation of the Shogun by Akane  - BOOOM Roasted — since he killed Sakura

And Maeve gets all the dudes to kill each other with telepathy

Episode four May 13, 2018

Elsie Comes back — Bernard has had her chained up in like sector 22 or 23 — and he keeps having flashbacks to previous trips to this facility 

Bernard is at the center of the whole darn thing — we keep thinking he’s a mope or loser or getting played — but i think it’s obvious he’s not in control of himself and who ever programmed him still has a chance of “winning” at this contest. 

Elsie explains to him that his memories aren’t anchored sequentially - which explains more about why he’s so confused — and likely why we’re all so confused. 

Jim the father in law is “what they were making” in Sector 23 — and when Elsie and Bernard find him — he’s in a really bad spot. Bernard effs him up. We get a poignant quote about the devil not being real but the reflection of god laughing back at him

Interesting when William sees Jim as an older man. Explains that he’s hit a “Cognitive Plateau” He’s been brought back 149 times. He’s lasted 35 days this time around. So, William is basically coming around to abandoning the idea of Delos and living forever. “People aren’t meant to live forever”. "The world is better off without you Jim, possibly without me”. 

Bernard mentions that another “live forever printer” is created but we don’t know for who - my guess is man in black. Also Elsie trusting Bernard (BAD IDEA JEANS) 

Also the scene where the droids kill all of the scientists and then themselves  at Bernards command and then he curb stomps the last guy — crazy scene and Elsie is screwed methinks. 

Does Elsie look a lot different than she did in season 1? 

The Facility with the faceless droids - is trashed — we find out that bernard ordered it to be trashed. 

The confederados capture the man in black and Laurence

The scene with Young William and his father in law in (Jim) the chamber — is Delos’ play making people immortal? The guy died but they somehow have maintained at least a portion of his consciousness. The actor playing Jim is really good at the part where he’s not programmed to keep going

Man in Black tells the confederado he knows how to find “Glory” — when he shoots the bartender’s hand off - I think i’m supposed to hate the guy… but I just don’t really care about him.

Confederado talks about “death being an old friend of his” — and Man in Black hits him with some hot truth — death is the only thing that’s true — and then he stabs him in the throat with a broken bottle and lights up the whole crew. and then he makes the guy drink the “nitro” and let’s Laurence blow him to bits. 

Laurence’s daughter tries to call William out (as Ford)  one good deed doesn’t undue everything else.- William says he’s going to play the game to the bone, and she says then you still don’t understand the game we’re playing, if you’re looking forward, you’re looking in the wrong direction. 

Also man in black’s real life wife killed herself

Handsome security guy and the lady who almost go eaten by a tiger are with the Native American tribe — and the lady just ran off into the woods. The lady who ran off in the woods is Willam’s real life daughter. WOWZERS, now we’re talking

Westworld Season Two Break down show (Eps 1-3) w/ Andrew Patterson

Westworld Season 2

Episode three May 6, 2018

Opening scene - White Stripes “7 Nation Army” plays on the Sitar — is this a young Doctor Ford and his wife or something? crazy shooting scene by the lady he’s trying to seduce on his Indian safari — not Doctor Ford - different part of the park. more hosts killing guests — including the tiger robot

Elephants? the budget for this show is nuts

Bernard/Arnold and Charlotte Hale looking for Peter Abernathy Droid (delores’ dad)

Delores is getting her “wyatt on” and i’m wondering how we’re going to feel about her at the end of the season. 

Maeve’s little view has encountered the native warriors -and she’s having flashbacks. And they are running for their lives

Delores encounters her Father and Bernard. And she tosses Bernard in jail with the other humans — not good for Charlotte Hale’s agenda at all

Snake Tattoo lady is back - with a flame thrower - and the two techs from last season appear - felix and the other guy with the beard. Thought they were dead

bernard working on delores’ dad — and discovers the encryption that charlotte wants

standoff between delores’ army and the park’s swat team. 

Bernard is face to face with Clementine - she knocks him out

Teddy lets confederado dudes live — gonna be beef with Wyatt

Lady who got attacked by Tiger is now in Native Warrior country - tough day for her

Samurai coming at Maeve in final scene - cliff hanger

Who won episode? not the park’s swat team 

Who lost episode? Delores - lost her dad and lost Teddy’s loyalty 

Gratuitous nudity? None really

Most mind blowing thing? Mostly straight forward episode

Episode two April 29, 2018

Interesting City setting beginning to the episode with Arnold and Delores - wondering “when in time” this is supposed to be

Delores, Teddy and everybody crashes the base - and Delores says she “knows what the outside” world is like - and the piano plays that “Kayne song here’s a toast to the D-Bags aka Runaway fast as you can.

Seems to be a “flash back” to young william and his brother in law, Logan. - Just realizing this is pre-west world park being built — he’s a dinner party with all “robots” and has no idea. 

Logan has week facial hair for a bearded guy on his left side

Man in black and Laurence alluding to the fact that Westworld been tallying the sins of every guest  

Delores is suing the “techs” to build her an army

The scope and scale of this level of story telling is incredible

Young “William” helicopters into westworld with his “dad or father in-law” - he says the guests are real - and essentially lays out the business plan for why westworld is a business. 

I still can’t believe that McPoyle is a lead in this series. 

Face to Face: Maeve and Delores  - going to be interesting to see their paths weave in and out

Delores face to face with the Confederados - she lights up their whole crew and they’re gonna reboot them all to follow her. Heck of a growth plan. 

Why isn’t the “Park’s power shut down yet?” - how can the rehab tech still use his software to revive Robots?

Young william sees Delores at a party with his wife and kids at a retirement party. 

Is that Gustavo from Breaking Bad ???? Yup! The new “bandito revolution honcho” talking to man in black…

Who won the episode? Young William for getting westworld built?

Who lost the episode? Probably Logan - seems like he ended up some type of heroine addict of something // or old william for letting Delores know “about the weapon she can use to destroy humans”.

Gratuitous nudity of the episode? Looks like the Rehab center - bunch of naked Robots on the floor 

Most mind blowing moment? The mass bandito Suicide that prevented man in black from getting an army — Dr. Ford keeps needling Man in Black

premier April 22, 2018 on HBO

Who won the episode? anybody who is still alive one. probably Delores 

Who lost the episode? ahhhh humans?

Gratuitous nudity of the episode? only males really - such a season 2 fad: dudes nude

Most mind blowing moment? bernards brain goo is running out — also he’s both with handsome security guy and Charlotte Hale in separate story lines at once 

Forgot how long the intro song with the player piano was