I really liked season one. It felt complete and self contained. Nothing more was necessary. I think this show has the potential to become very stupid and contrived if they drag it out.
I'm kind of leery about watching season 2. I might just pretend it does not exist.
I agree
shareI understand how you feel... but I am looking forward to season 2... Even though I would have been fine with the end of season 1 being the end of the show... Let us see what they come up with before we start to worry...
shareI thought this was going to be a 1 season mini-series or event series. I don't like the idea of season 2. I don't know where it can go. I don't think it can be a long-running series.
shareSeason 1 was just setting things up. Now we get to the point of the series.
shareKind of agree, though I thought Season 1 got more and more contrived as it went on. At this point, I think (1) everyone is a robot (2) no humans exist, just different generations of robots and (3) they are going to keep using the parallel timeline gimmick to add plot twists and this show will never make sense.
shareSeason 2 seems to be at least partly about the Hosts waging open war for control of the parks. That's right: parks. Westworld is just one of several Hosted themes in the complex. And the story has always made sense to me. I admit, though, that it's not everyone's cup of tea. I am psyched for Season 2.
shareThe original movie opens up with each guest picking the world they want. Westworld, medieval world, Roman World. And Yul Brenner as the gunslinger. Hard to take your eyes off him.
shareYul Brenner in The King And I: hard to take one's eyes off him, indeed. The Children's Marching Song . . . ! And Shall We Dance! I don't thrink that, with the exception of the Disney shows, Broadway musicals have been the same since Rogers & Hammerstein. (I would also exempt Man Of La
Mancha and Miss Saigon from this rant, and please forgive the sloppy organization of my writing.) I saw that movie with my mother! Everyone in the theater applauded at the end. Plus, Yul in The Magnificent Seven, a US transposition of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, as if all US cowboy TV shows and movies were not. Iado = quick draw.
I could replay that King and I dance a thousand times and never once look at Deborah Kerr. Yul Brenner was one of a kind. I, too, love him in Magnificent Seven. Probably have seen it a dozen times. Mostly for him! Seven Samurai great, too, but my favorite Toshiro Mifune role is Yojimbo. A masterpiece and he is SO cool in it. Both Brenner and Mifune make my heart go pitta pat!
shareRogers and Hammerstein SO good. Sondheim as well. Oh and Frank Loesser (Guys and Dolls).
shareAs you know, Yojimbo became A Fist Full Of Dollars. Iado, the art of the qick draw and slash of a Samurai's katana, was transposed into an American gunfighter's quick draw and fire. Interestingly, in the popular American cowboy TV series of the 1950s, Gunsmoke, in the opening credits, James Arness's character, Sheriff Matt Dillon, is beaten to the draw by his opponent, but Dillon kills his opponent because he took
the time to aim carefully. As a point of interest, Richard Boone, as Paladin, the protagonist of the 50s TV show, Have Gun, Will
Travel, was the fastest and most accurate gunslinger whom I have ever seen on TV or in film. As a boy, I practiced throwing down with the all of
them wiith my Matell Fanner 50
and holster, and Paladin
was the toughest. Not Maverick, not Sugarfoot (hell, no), not Rowdy Yates (Clint Eastwood, when he was at the threshold to a jaw dropping career). Richard Boone. Put a gun in Mifune's holster, he may have smoked me; but I want you all to
know that the American
Western began as the Japanese Samurai eastern.
Yup,and Yojimbo/Fistful of Dollars was remade again with Bruce Willis in Last Man Standing. My favorite, of course, is Yojimbo. Opens with that shot of a dog walking along with a man's hand in his mouth and you know it's going to be great.
We seem to watch a lot of things in common. DVR is always set up for Gunsmoke, Maverick, and Have Gun Will Travel. I think Paladin might be the greatest hero character in television history. Might be hyperbole, but man, what a character. Also looks great when he's at work - in his all-black gunslinger mode.
Ha! After watching hundreds of Gunsmoke episodes, never noticed he was beaten to the draw! Thanks for pointing it out.
Completely agree., dt123. There is absolutely no substitute for legitimate theater. What's interesting to me is that, in the film version of Guys And Dolls, the keynote song, Luck, Be A Lady Tonight, is sung by Marlon
Brando and NOT by
Frank Sinatra, who, nonetheless, went on to make it one of his default concert songs. Truth be told, The Chairman of the Board had better pipes than Brando. But lesser acting chops.
Well of course no one would want to buy Brando singing Luck Be a Lady! I don't think ol' blue eyes could resist on that one. Such a great tune.
No doubt about acting vs. singing for the two. Sinatra's a singer, not an actor (tho he did pull his weight); Brando's an actor, not a singer (tho he tried). Reminds me of Russell Crowe in Les Miz! First time you see it, it's painful; subsequent viewings it gets better!
Yeah, I felt the same way ... there is no good way for this to go that makes any sense. The show is one big special effect ... kind of like the Matrix sequels ... no real point to them.
shareThey surprised you in season one ... and they certainly have the potential to entertain you and keep you glued in season two.
shareYeah, but you know... if a show is popular in the US, they'll make another season. In that sense, I'm kind of shocked the greed-driven Hollywood hasn't made a sequel to the titanic yet.
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