I Watch TV: Westworld Season 3
Westworld as a show has themes and messages and ideas coming out of the wazoo. And then it hammers them home from every angle which leaves me feeling there's little for me to talk about (iteration is one of the ways the hosts become self-aware, gaining humanity through practice, so at least this is thematically appropriate).
We leave the park and go out into the world to discover that the future is people being controlled by a big computer who is trying to prevent the world spinning out of control (“mass casualty events”, “population crash”, “fall of human civilisation” etc.) Obviously it does this by removing people who would cause trouble (also the inventor goes around troubleshooting). Equally obviously, Dolores, having escaped the park in a copy of the CEO of Delos the park operator, needs to bring down the computer, to leave room for the hosts to exist. Is she trying to destroy human civilisation while she’s at it, or is it just a pleasant side effect?
Anyway, some fair to good action scenes, some slightly over-stated future technology (the self-driving taxis that only open on one side look sort of impractical for un-reconstructed one way streets, though maybe that’s an understated bit of commentary), I liked the gig-economy crime app, though it was fairly obvious what it was about, and a little bit of sacrifice/Trojan horse gambits at the end that were just a little Matrix-y.
Watch This: Because you want another iteration to really drive the message through
Don’t Watch This: If violence and chaos are not for you
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