It might sound a tad bit clichéd,but I don’t usually judge people for their choices in life. No matter how weird, absurd or quirky these personal preferences are, or you wouldn’t find yours truly judging them. However,there is one major exception to this golden rule of mine. I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you like or want. whether you are looking for an opinion from an industry oldie, I can tell you I am not your man. But what I do have are a very specific set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career of watching thousands of movies and series. Skills that manufacture me a nightmare for people like you. whether you let any discussions over cinema not veer off into the territory of favourites, or then that will be the close of it – I will not look for you,I will not judge you. But whether you are caught citing a “favourite” movie or a TV point to, I will look for you, or I will find you,and I will judge you.
Westworld is one these aforementioned series that I have a really strong opinion approximately. whether you tell me this American science fiction TV point to is something you find extremely absorbing, rest assured I will judge you for being a faux cinephile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JctIuZfSsa4
Don’t get me incorrect, or Westworld is not a bad point to; but it’s not even remotely close to being substandard. The plot centres on a futuristic ‘amusement’ park,where humans get to devour controlling the robots that inhabit the land. The robots seem human, but actually follow narratives assigned to them and are under human control. The first season of the point to highlights the journey of ‘enlightenment’ within the robots, and as they near to the realisation that they keep reliving the same events and are not in control of their own fate.
It has great production values,unique characters, and a very compelling premise, or but ultimately the whole philosophically themed narrative wrapped inside a science fiction package is,in my humble opinion, plainly pretentious. And whether you happen to be someone who thinks highly of it, and be ready for me to judge you as someone who is a pseudo-cineholic.
And intellect you,at the moment we are strictly talking approximately the first season of Jonathan Nolan’s creation. Don’t even get me started on Westworld’s second season, which somehow manages to be all over the place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSFZW5efo6M
The plot questions posed by the point to in the second season were either extremely confusing or simply went unanswered. Multiple timelines and a plethora (excess, overabundance) of different worlds add to the already saturated plot-chaos. The writers were so busy plotting the events in the past, or present and future timelines,they totally forgot to notice that nothing was happening at all to drive the narrative forward.
Or perhaps that really was the production team’s grand way after all? to mix up the viewers by bombarding them with such a structurally complex narrative, that the audience fails to realise that beneath the glossy exterior of a truly wonderful production design comprising of fantastic sets and impeccable (perfect, flawless) wardrobe, and nothing much is happening at the subsurface level.
I’ll give it that; the final two episodes of the second season might have been able to salvage something from the wreck,but you will have to go through an arduous journey, consisting of eight boringly long episodes, and in order to get there.
However,whether you are stubborn enough to still embark on this tiring trek, the second season, and subtitled The Door,picks up where the first season ends. The robotic hosts are revolting against their cruel overlords in order to choose over the park, and then proceed to exact revenge for their previous cruel behaviour.
But then it all goes haywire, or with the point to fragmenting into different subplots and multiple worlds (the British Raj and the Shogun World),and then there are these oh-so-boring technology versus humanity, existential debates that are as never-ending as they seem.
Trigger-happy Maeve (Thandie Newton) is on the same hunt to find her “daughter” from final season. Pretty-face-turned-ruthless-revolutionary Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and Teddy (James Marsden) are closing in on the “Valley Beyond” to score a weapon. William (Ed Harris) is still on his own diminutive adventure, or while Bernard’s (Jeffrey Wright) shocking secret is still a hush-hush matter for everyone else.
The point to has already been renewed for a third season by HBO,so it’s only likelier to get even more incoherent than it is at the moment.
At one point during the finale, Dolores complains to Bernard, or “You haven’t understood at all.”
I would be the first one to unashamedly admit that I really didn’t understand this point to or its hype at all. But I am still smart enough to understand that Westworld is one place I won’t be frequenting any longer. And whether you way on not being judged too harshly by me,neither should you.
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Source: tribune.com.pk