Background Watching Westworld [it's lost me]
Have you ever walked into a conversation halfway through someone telling a joke, the entire group is laughing and you are just sitting there as the punchline sails right past you?
...well I feel like I was standing there at the start of that conversation and still don't get the joke.
I was super hyped for for WW season 1, the cast was amazing, the budget was off the charts, the concept was cool and HBO rarely lets anyone down.
The first few episodes of season 1 I was waiting for WW to grow on me... it never did, and by about episode 6 or 7, I was pretty much going to see the season out and leave it at that...
Then I listened to the baldmove feed and the hype was real, so I decided I would give season 2 a shot - and considering I barely paid attention to the end of season 1, I went on YouTube to have season 1 explained to me...
Then came season 2, and it completely fell flat. I tried so hard to get into it and embrace the mystery, the riddle, the confusion, the.... whateverthefuck they are trying to do.
Instead I was just completely lost, I was just watching the show going 'who is this guy' 'why are they there' 'what are they doing that for' 'what are they talking about'... I was so confused by literally all of it.
I am usually the person everyone turns to if they want the plot explained to them... but with WW, no matter how hard I concentrated on the show, I could not tell you a single thing about the plot.
It got to the point where I felt the show is not posing these mysteries for some greater narrative sense; instead of felt like they are just being vague for the sake of being vague. In a writing sense, you don't ever want to pose so many questions to the audience that they can't handle it - the art of writing is to pose some questions, answer others; maybe not at a 1 to 1 ratio, but never to the point where the audience gets the sense they are constantly being posed questions and never given any answers.
Well I am way past my capacity to juggle all the questions I have been posed in this show, and I honestly couldn't give 1 answer the show has provided (probably because I am so fucking confused the answers have just sailed past me like the punchline of half a joke).
Am I the only one out there that has no clue what is going on?
I watch an episode and think 'that was garbage' then read the forums and people are loving it, or listen to the podcast and the boys think it was great.
I feel like I need an idiots guide to WW
/endofrant
...well I feel like I was standing there at the start of that conversation and still don't get the joke.
I was super hyped for for WW season 1, the cast was amazing, the budget was off the charts, the concept was cool and HBO rarely lets anyone down.
The first few episodes of season 1 I was waiting for WW to grow on me... it never did, and by about episode 6 or 7, I was pretty much going to see the season out and leave it at that...
Then I listened to the baldmove feed and the hype was real, so I decided I would give season 2 a shot - and considering I barely paid attention to the end of season 1, I went on YouTube to have season 1 explained to me...
Then came season 2, and it completely fell flat. I tried so hard to get into it and embrace the mystery, the riddle, the confusion, the.... whateverthefuck they are trying to do.
Instead I was just completely lost, I was just watching the show going 'who is this guy' 'why are they there' 'what are they doing that for' 'what are they talking about'... I was so confused by literally all of it.
I am usually the person everyone turns to if they want the plot explained to them... but with WW, no matter how hard I concentrated on the show, I could not tell you a single thing about the plot.
It got to the point where I felt the show is not posing these mysteries for some greater narrative sense; instead of felt like they are just being vague for the sake of being vague. In a writing sense, you don't ever want to pose so many questions to the audience that they can't handle it - the art of writing is to pose some questions, answer others; maybe not at a 1 to 1 ratio, but never to the point where the audience gets the sense they are constantly being posed questions and never given any answers.
Well I am way past my capacity to juggle all the questions I have been posed in this show, and I honestly couldn't give 1 answer the show has provided (probably because I am so fucking confused the answers have just sailed past me like the punchline of half a joke).
Am I the only one out there that has no clue what is going on?
I watch an episode and think 'that was garbage' then read the forums and people are loving it, or listen to the podcast and the boys think it was great.
I feel like I need an idiots guide to WW
/endofrant
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I almost want there to a a 'ding' sound every time in his videos he poses a question. (in an explanation video, which probably illustrates my point)
It's okay if you don't like the show, maybe it just isn't for you.
I think there are certain devices in fiction that pretty much doom the work they appear in. Uncertain timelines and uncertain identities of characters are 2 of these. Mr Robot and Legion have used them and I have come close to quitting those shows. I never watched Lost, but I've gathered that it did this too, and I remember people being exasperated by it.
Unfortunately so far season 2 hasn’t been paying off for me personally. There is some interesting stuff going on but none of the complicated stuff has been worth the effort IMO and 6 episodes is kind of far in to hang on for it to start paying off so I definitely see people’s frustration. I’ve been trusting in the show but I’m losing patience too.
I'm fairly confident S2 will end strong, but it's tedious just the same. Also I don't think it's very rewatchable.
There have been 2 really great episodes so far.
Anything that I'm unsure of, I'm assuming will be answered by the end of the season.
I will agree that it's not very rewatchable. In contrast to that, I can rewatch Game of Thrones episodes and seasons many times, and enjoy them almost as much as the first watch.