Bad Robot/Jonathan Nolan Bringing "Westworld" to HBO - Part 1

[Dr Lee]

Love that Sky UK simulcast the episodes... means i don't have to hide all day before they air it in the evening now...

 

[squeekness]

Another fantastic episode.

 

[David H.]

Everything could use more Gus Fring.

Loved the Dolores / Maeve meet-up.

 

[The Shape]

The stuff in the real world was very interesting.

 

[The Shape]

https://imgur.com/1lTHOEv

 

[chamber-music]

I'm still on the humans side rather than the hosts. The majority of the humans were completely unaware the hosts were sentient beings and believed they were just programmed machines.

 

[kvz5]

The stuff in the real world was very interesting.

TBH I was paying more attention to those scenes rather than the Dolores revolution stuff. Not that the latter was boring but I’m just really interested in how the whole park came about.

 

[squeekness]

I'm still on the humans side rather than the hosts. The majority of the humans were completely unaware the hosts were sentient beings and believed they were just programmed machines.

Still doesn't make it okay to be cruel and torture and rape them.

 

[NotNickFury]

Just got the greenlight for Season 3.

 

[FunkMiller]

Just got the greenlight for Season 3.

Fantastic. It’s easily the best show on tv.

#trustnolan

 

[squeekness]

Just got the greenlight for Season 3.

Squeekness approves this decision.

 

[Man in the Suit]

Yesssssss t:


Here's what Nolan said about future seasons...

How many seasons of Westworld are you planning?
NOLAN: When we wrote the pilot we thought we’d get a bit further [into the story during season 1] than we did. The shape of the season emerges as you get down to writing. We want to feel like the show is rocketing ahead, and want to be fearless. We have an idea about how this breaks down but it’s not so much the number of seasons but the ambition of the story we’re telling. These hosts don’t live on the same timeframe we do and don’t have the four-year lifespan as [Blade Runner] Replicants. If left to their own devices, they could live forever. So our story has some real scope to it. There’s a story here with a beginning and middle and end. To that end, we don’t like to endlessly build mystery. We like to settle our debts by the end of the season. We view each season as a self-contained chapter and the questions [raised at the start of each season] are largely answered by the end of each season. We want each season to feel satisfying the way a film franchise feels satisfying with each film. We want you excited to come back after 18 months but that you haven’t been left hanging on the edge of a cliffhanger — that doesn’t really feel fair to the audience.

You said 18 months. The first season debuted in 2016. Do you expect to not return with season 3 until 2020?
NOLAN: It’s an ongoing conversation with our friends at HBO, and for us, with a show of this scope and scale, we’re not interested in doing the compromised version. We want the show to get bigger and bigger and more ambitious and this takes time. We want to take all the time we need to get it right.

 

[FunkMiller]

Yesssssss t:


Here's what Nolan said about future seasons...

His comment about the Blade Runner comparison reminds me how much the score during the scene with Delores and Arnold looking out over the city sounds suspiciously like Vangelis.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Just watched the latest series episode. Anyone else think Jimmi Simpson would make an amazing Lex Luthor? Between this and his role on Hap and Leonard, that guy is amazing. He’s come a long way from Liam McPoyle.

 

[Marvolo]

This last episode was edited and written like it was supposed to have commercial breaks. I've never seen an HBO episode put together like that.

 

[squeekness]

I didn't even notice.

 

[Whatupman]

I loved seeing Jonathan Tucker in the last episode.

I noticed he was also in the flashback when Logan was introduced to the androids, looking quite different. Hopefully he'll have a big part this season.

 

[squeekness]

Being that Delores just recruited him I'm thinking he will.

 

[Deck Rickard]

I loved seeing Jonathan Tucker in the last episode.

I noticed he was also in the flashback when Logan was introduced to the androids, looking quite different. Hopefully he'll have a big part this season.

Loved this guy in The Black Donnellys and Justified. I think he’ll have a significant role here because they made an announcement back when he was cast.

Also, it was awesome seeing Gus Fring, even if it was only for one brief scene.

 

[Inhuman117]

I wonder How long til we see the Shogun World and Hiroyuki Sanada

 

[Whatupman]

Loved this guy in The Black Donnellys and Justified. I think he’ll have a significant role here because they made an announcement back when he was cast.

Also, it was awesome seeing Gus Fring, even if it was only for one brief scene.

You have some good taste in TV shows. I miss Justified I would recommend the oh so underrated show Kingdom. Tucker has never been better and his character in that is my favourite TV character ever, even beating Raylan Givens

 

[Aximili86]

Yeah, cool seeing Tucker, the more Person Of Interest alums the better.

Hell, I'd give anything to see Caviezel/Emerson/Shahi/Chapman or Acker turn up in a supporting role down the line.

 

[Deck Rickard]

You have some good taste in TV shows. I miss Justified I would recommend the oh so underrated show Kingdom. Tucker has never been better and his character in that is my favourite TV character ever, even beating Raylan Givens

Thanks!

I want to see that show but I’ve never had a cable provider that carried the channel. Is it on any streaming services?

 

[Whatupman]

Thanks!

I want to see that show but I’ve never had a cable provider that carried the channel. Is it on any streaming services?

I'm afraid not I really wish it was on Netflix or HBO or something so more people could watch it. I'm trying to get my friends to watch it, but it's quite hard when it's not on anywhere. If you're living in Australia I think you could get all of the episodes through Itunes. Since I'm Swedish, I had to watch it ... through other means

 

[squeekness]

It continually amazes me just how fantastic this show is. So delightfully complex. I just love it!