The worst Finale: much ado about nothing

We don't assume those who enter are already there. We SEE them enter and "split" away from their physical bodies. Those bodies are left with the "virgin" brains.

But no one said the Valley Beyond was a "blank slate" before that.

It contained those whom Ford placed there beforehand as well as those who later walked through "The Door."

Kohana was already there as a kindness from Ford to Akecheta.

Thank you for your post, yours was the only one among all others on this thread I started that actually maybe read my entire post. I got all these other emails people asking me questions or what made sense or didn't, or that I was wrong about the MIB and it was the copy. That again shows that people like us are in the minority to maybe see the mess this show is, but it's seems to also bother some people if you do point out the flaws....Lol

I didn't care for Crithon's work that much, yes, they were interesting like "Coma" and "West World", but he was also into commercial films and not so much about depth. When I first read about HBO doing West World, my first thought was it could really be thought provoking show, because of the time we are in and so close to A.I. When the first episode aired, the production and how they took the premise to such higher level for the androids was very impressive. The malfunction of Peter Abernathy was also interesting but the focus of the show kept shifting, to do that in your first 3 episodes is a bad sign. I think I waited until episode 7 to 10 to get some clarity as to what this show's theme or is there one?.

Arnold's struggle to solve how the hosts reach consciousness was what kept me watch the show. That idea alone should have been the spine of story line; to revisit over and over in other episodes. We see Mauve got awaken, but we didn't see how she arrived to it?.but suddenly in season 2 we are given new info that Mauve has super powers and Admin rights. We watch what appears to be Ford or his ghost, standing over Mauve's injured body, telling her, she was his favorite?. Really? Was there one scene in the first season that remotely hinted that?. Scenes like that are inserted into the second season all over the place; it contradicts other info and the time line, which I wont go into anymore as I did previously posts here.

I always wonder if Rod Sterling was alive today and what direction would he have taken this show?. instead of a rebellion, perhaps at first more focused stories about the hosts, like episode 8 about "Kiksuya "; that got the highest praise of all episode in both seasons. Why? because it's dealt with a struggle and pain that they need to reach consciousness, because according to Arnold in the first season that part is inevitable and no matter how much they erased them. Within the base story line, then you have the rebellion with more structure, not just shoot and kill to find freedom. They could have explored so many other issues that hosts struggle with that reflect on humans too, but we are not living in the age of depth to invoke thoughts. In fact depth is become boring to the "millennials"; they are rather text.

I am sorry I never got interested to watch "Lost", because it felt like it was maybe for younger audience, 20 to 30?. I don't really care much for anything on Network TV, because I don't even watch TV, I have not for over 10 years. I stream on Amazon and Netflix, that's it. However, I recently discovered and watched a show that ended last year called "The Left overs".
I think it was the most interesting creative show I have ever seen in the last decade or longer, I don't know how to even compare it to anything else, because it's so unique in its presentation and story line. Here you truly see a masterpiece where no matter how you felt confused, that you saw something in episode 2 and was not explained until in episode 6, but it was so tight and so well done. That show is like this giant jigsaw puzzle that pieces just come together slowly; every episode to me was like a experience. I have never seen a show that actually move and engage you so emotionally in every episode so strongly. You could never predict where the story was going, you could be in a dream, then reality, then fantasy and back to real time, but all these incoherent broken scenes all connect in different episodes.

I think its one of those shows you either get it and love it or just dismiss and hate it. It challenges its audience to think on a plausible issue, that what if due to an unexplained event, people may actually believe its the end of the world and the effect on human behavior?. That's just one among many other issues in that show that I doubt anything will top "The Left overs" in years to come. What was the most interesting that writer/creators went to HBO and told them from the start the show will end in the third season because it was based on the book and they wont add to it.

I hope you try to and watch it, if you have not already, that show is still on my mind and what it really conveyed about existentialism. We need more shows like that, because this medium was not just for entertainment, but to also reflect on current culture, not as parody or irony, but to invoke thought and conversations. Rod Sterling did that in just 30 minutes with the Twlight Zone episode, but not even a 2 hour movie can do today or WW in 2 season