On August 03 2016 10:06 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: Texas is it's own topic, its very own mental asylum one could say. That and the series isn't based on real life western story. It's a SciFi.
I can't really figure out the setting. From the trailer it looks like a mix of Matrix and Wild West? Btw, actually I'd really love to watch a good series with real life western story... :/
It is based on a movie by Michael Crichton released in 1973 of the same name. In the original it's a western themed amusement park that malfunctions and the robots start killing visitors.
On August 03 2016 06:41 Pandemona wrote: I was just saying that it seemed a bit extreme i have nothing against shows like it, Deadwood was also completely different as there was no excessive nudity and crazy stuff in it. Might have been vulgar language but was barely any nudity at least in the dozen episodes i have seen. Where as GOT and this looks like it again pushes the boundaries. I just don't want to watch another show like that where it is basically all about that and the story gets very lost fast.
A lot of the nudity in GoT (and likely this show as well) is fan-service, but I doubt GoT got where it is now by being "all about that". That being said, I don't understand this fear of on-screen nudity. Good looking people being naked for a scene? How truly horrible.
Nobody bats an eye if there is a severed arm or some brain matter splashed around but a naked pair of wonderful, uninjured, healty boobies is a nogo.... lol
On August 09 2016 22:08 Harris1st wrote: whats wrong with some boobs once in a while?
Nobody bats an eye if there is a severed arm or some brain matter splashed around but a naked pair of wonderful, uninjured, healty boobies is a nogo.... lol
The trailers have been great, but some of the camera shots look a little... cheap? for an hbo show. There doesn't seem to be too much potential to the story, beyond the typical escalation plot leading to robots escaping or being able to live on their own.
On September 01 2016 05:29 ForTehDarkseid wrote: Same kind of story as GoT for me: all style, no substance.
Is it edgy to hate on GoT these days? The writing has deteriorated the last season or so but saying it has 'no substance' is ridiculous baiting. It's no 'The Wire' but it has its moments. Also not sure how you can say WW completely lacks substance based on that trailer, of course they're mainly showing the flashy stylistic shots and hiding much of the narrative.
On September 01 2016 05:29 ForTehDarkseid wrote: Same kind of story as GoT for me: all style, no substance.
Is it edgy to hate on GoT these days? The writing has deteriorated the last season or so but saying it has 'no substance' is ridiculous baiting. It's no 'The Wire' but it has its moments. Also not sure how you can say WW completely lacks substance based on that trailer, of course they're mainly showing the flashy stylistic shots and hiding much of the narrative.
I'm not going to quote him because you're right about GoT. Not sure what would make a man say that it has no substance. Less substance than it did in the first seasons but no substance? No intelligent person would say that.
And the stuff on the previous page about "extreme nudity" and the hogwash about the sex scenes... there's a few dicks and tits and 5 second sex scenes. There's also a man's head being crushed and exploding in a mess of blood and a slew of people getting dismembered and killed in gruesome way. Just because you react poorly to a floppy dick doesn't mean that it's gratuitous. Your reaction to nudity is your own and it sucks if you can't control it. (I'm talking to the thread).
Anyway, this looks interesting, I'll be sure to watch the first few episodes and hopefully it'll be interesting. It looks like a mindfuck kind of show and sometimes that doesn't mesh well with me.
Well, yeah, by no means I am a GoT fan, lol, but I won't waste any time bashing it here. The problem I see in the trailer is that the conspiracy theories are heavily implied right from the start. It could be great, it could be nonsense, but personally I thought that a heavy and slow-paced world building set around high-tech sexual fantasy amusement park and all that replicants feelings theme was the selling point of the show. In other words, less cowboy shootings and complex storytelling, more sci-fi and misoginy.
The hope is still high, though. So far it's only a marketing issue, and the setting has enormous potential even if the plot goes the trivial way. Let's hope that regular folk support the show so it gets a decent budgeting for the next year and didn't turn into a mild content cashcow the same time.
Earlier this year HBO shut down production on Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy‘s television remake of Michael Crichton‘s Westworld. When the J.J. Abrams-produced series was greenlit, HBO was hoping to premiere the series in 2015. Whatever the real reason was for the delay, Abrams was correct when he said it’s never a bad move not to rush to a premiere date. They took their time with the series, and according to actor James Marsden, it was somewhat because they were plotting future seasons. In fact, if all goes according to plan, we’ll get a total of five Westworld seasons.
The break allowed Nolan, Joy, and all involved the time to polish the scripts for the final episodes of season one. They needed time to catch up on writing while the show was in production, but they did more than just work on the first season. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the talent behind Westworld said they wanted time to figure out how to start building towards the potential series’ finale.
Here’s what James Marsden said about the process:
It wasn’t about getting the first 10 [episodes] done, it was about mapping out what the next 5 or 6 years are going to be. We wanted everything in line so that when the very last episode airs and we have our show finale, five or seven years down the line, we knew how it was going to end the first season – that’s the way [showrunner] Jonah [Nolan] and [executive producer J.J. Abrams] operate. They’re making sure all the ducks are in the row. And it’s a testament to Jonah and [co-showrunner] Lisa [Joy] and HBO that we got them right, especially the last three scripts. They could have rushed them and get spread too thin. They got them right, and when they were right, we went and shot them.
When Nolan and Joy first pitched the series, they envisioned three or four seasons, but it sounds like their story has grown during the making of season one. What would future seasons of Westworld be about? Nolan didn’t go into specific detail, but he said each season would be different:
We didn’t want to have a story that repeated itself [each year]. We didn’t want the Fantasy Island version of this [where new guests arrive at the park every season]. We wanted a big story. We wanted the story of the origin of a new species and how that would play out in its complexity.
Perhaps future seasons could explore Romanworld and Medievalworld? That’s doubtful, although we can always keep our fingers crossed for a nod here or there to those other worlds. Nolan’s comment on “the origin of a new species” is telling, though. If the artificial intelligence develops free will, will they ever become free? How would the world react to this new species? There’s plenty of questions to ask with Westworld‘s concept — questions that aren’t fully explored in the original — so it’s not surprising Nolan and Joy already have enough material in their back pocket for future seasons.
It just looks so good, hopefully this will be the next HBO hit. Despite making very good mini series ("The night of" and "Show Me a Hero") HBO imo lacks a really good ongoing drama. Yeah they have GoT but 1. The quality got worse and 2. It ends soon anyway
It just looks so good, hopefully this will be the next HBO hit. Despite making very good mini series ("The night of" and "Show Me a Hero") HBO imo lacks a really good ongoing drama. Yeah they have GoT but 1. The quality got worse and 2. It ends soon anyway
It just looks so good, hopefully this will be the next HBO hit. Despite making very good mini series ("The night of" and "Show Me a Hero") HBO imo lacks a really good ongoing drama. Yeah they have GoT but 1. The quality got worse and 2. It ends soon anyway
We need a new series on masterpiece lvl.
Does Girls qualify as a good ongoing drama?
You're joking right?
I really hope this series delivers. Hopefully this series won't be hindered too much by the production problems it had.
It just looks so good, hopefully this will be the next HBO hit. Despite making very good mini series ("The night of" and "Show Me a Hero") HBO imo lacks a really good ongoing drama. Yeah they have GoT but 1. The quality got worse and 2. It ends soon anyway
We need a new series on masterpiece lvl.
Does Girls qualify as a good ongoing drama?
I actually never saw it so i wouldn't know. So yeah maybe it is, i just don't see a lot of people talking about it which is why i didn't even take it into account
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