I actually kinda like that the globes separate comedy and musicals from dramas. Otherwise comedies and/or musicals would be much less likely to get any recognition.
That said, their definition of comedy is often baffling.
I actually kinda like that the globes separate comedy and musicals from dramas. Otherwise comedies and/or musicals would be much less likely to get any recognition.
That said, their definition of comedy is often baffling.
Having a single category for both is asinine to the point that it's practically an insult to the concept of categorization. If you wanna seperate into drama and not drama then fucking call it that, but as is it's like having a section of the grocery store for cereal and lunchmeat and mixing them indiscriminately.
The problem is that it's the studios, not the HFPA, that determine what a movie should be submitted as. Which is why you'll end up with The Tourist or The Martian for best comedy, or snubs for best actor/best supporting actor because the studio submitted someone in the opposite category of their actual role. Studios are trying to game the system for maximum nominations.
I actually kinda like that the globes separate comedy and musicals from dramas. Otherwise comedies and/or musicals would be much less likely to get any recognition.
That said, their definition of comedy is often baffling.
Having a single category for both is asinine to the point that it's practically an insult to the concept of categorization. If you wanna seperate into drama and not drama then fucking call it that, but as is it's like having a section of the grocery store for cereal and lunchmeat and mixing them indiscriminately.
I actually kinda like that the globes separate comedy and musicals from dramas. Otherwise comedies and/or musicals would be much less likely to get any recognition.
That said, their definition of comedy is often baffling.
Having a single category for both is asinine to the point that it's practically an insult to the concept of categorization. If you wanna seperate into drama and not drama then fucking call it that, but as is it's like having a section of the grocery store for cereal and lunchmeat and mixing them indiscriminately.
Kinda silly but not actually a big deal?
Yeah I was super over-exaggerating the point, which, maybe given my posting history didn't read as humorously as I intended. It's not a big deal at all, just something that bugs me a little.
I actually kinda like that the globes separate comedy and musicals from dramas. Otherwise comedies and/or musicals would be much less likely to get any recognition.
That said, their definition of comedy is often baffling.
Having a single category for both is asinine to the point that it's practically an insult to the concept of categorization. If you wanna seperate into drama and not drama then fucking call it that, but as is it's like having a section of the grocery store for cereal and lunchmeat and mixing them indiscriminately.
Kinda silly but not actually a big deal?
Yeah I was super over-exaggerating the point, which, maybe given my posting history didn't read as humorously as I intended. It's not a big deal at all, just something that bugs me a little.
I have to assume it's just because there are never enough musicals released to give them their own category, and since most musicals are generally upbeat if not necessarily comedies, it's the best of a bunch of bad options.
Westworld came back last night! I think it was a decent premiere but I was kind of expecting more? I don't have any in depth thoughts right now, which is itself kinda weird!
It seemed like a lot of setting the table, showing new players, where everything's at.
The Bernard stuff is definitely fun and seems like it will be a lot of the 'mystery' part of this season. What he's remembering, when is what's happening to him in the timeline, etc. I'm hoping they take MiB/William somewhere a little more interesting than the straight up "the game is real now" spot but we'll see
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I liked it, it made me want to go and watch all of season one so I could understand everything that was happening
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oh dang i totally missed that this came back last night
as a new father i have particular interest in stories about a person's creation being programmed to care about genre shit their creator liked until they kill them
The only big thing I am sparking on in the premiere is
confirmation that the park is heavily invested in taking DNA samples and behavior metrics from all its guests
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I like the little, off-handed reveal that Westworld is just on an island off of China somewhere. Also, it got me thinking: If there isn't a Wuxiaworld, somebody fucked up bad over there at R and D.
there are maybe at least 6 parks? I think Stubbs said the dead tiger was from Park 6.
I took it the other way assuming there were at least 6 islands at first but considering the tiger shows up in THAT park, I’m leaning more towards they’ve got one big piece of land that they terraform to suit their purposes
The only big thing I am sparking on in the premiere is
confirmation that the park is heavily invested in taking DNA samples and behavior metrics from all its guests
Begin creating the secret robot doubles of powerful people
I bet that security guy is already a robot, and he might be a prototype for the experiment. He got captured last season and not seen since this episode (two weeks after rebellion starts). If you were running the type of operation without the entire park knowing, you'd probably want the security guy under your thumb.
The only big thing I am sparking on in the premiere is
confirmation that the park is heavily invested in taking DNA samples and behavior metrics from all its guests
Begin creating the secret robot doubles of powerful people
I bet that security guy is already a robot, and he might be a prototype for the experiment. He got captured last season and not seen since this episode (two weeks after rebellion starts). If you were running the type of operation without the entire park knowing, you'd probably want the security guy under your thumb.
Holy shit... That's
the hosts' road to fighting humans on their home turf.. they're already there, and already in key positions.-
This is also why dolores said she knows the past, present and future
The flood killing everyone.. Arnold saying "I killed them all", like the god his character was in this story, killing his creation because of its sins..
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I like the little, off-handed reveal that Westworld is just on an island off of China somewhere. Also, it got me thinking: If there isn't a Wuxiaworld, somebody fucked up bad over there at R and D.
This actually really annoyed me because you cant generate the dry conditions of a desert (or the dryer conditions in general needed for the setting) you need all an island, you need a large land mass.
So, on the way in to work this morning, I was working through things and reached a conclusion. I’ll be pleasantly surprised if i’m correct.
S2E1, with inference from a couple other sources
I think the uprising is intentional and the means to kill a bunch rich folks so they can be replaced as some form of silent coup by Delos or an as yet unnamed group.
Evidence for this is Delos was trying to smuggle host code, as well as guest DNA and experiences out of the park. Why do that? Retention of IP is one thing, but I would think for simple blackmail this would be convoluted. However, if you have someone’s experiences, with a heuristic mechanism like the host neural net, that would allow you to simulate a person, much like Bernard is a duplicate of Arnold. This information can be used to create sleepers of anyone they want to duplicate who’s stepped into the parks.
It has been 2 weeks and the only response to a bunch of elites not coming back on schedule is a knock on the door from the Chinese military and Delos’ own PMC response? Feels light touch. Now, if people came back, and no one really noticed, that would make more sense.
You can’t have someone coming back and meeting/exposing their duplicate, so how do you clean that up? Call everyone back to the park for a special event, then trap them. How convenient that hosts have gained sentience now and go apeshit on the people that tormented them before. Pity they won’t be missed since they made it home.
Slightly meta-evidence that could spoil future events
There was also apparently a promotional quiz about WW asking if a Host version of you is still you. Additionally, this was loosely the plot of the WestWorld sequel FutureWorld so it’d make sense for them to pull from that material[/spoilers]
Now why do this? Silent coup of some kind. It’s possible the robots already won and we just don’t know it yet.
"Go down, kick ass, and set yourselves up as gods, that's our Prime Directive!"
I mean to be fair using actual AI to run a theme park is a fuckin' stupid idea so like I would expect there's more going on at the "park" than is surface level.
I like the little, off-handed reveal that Westworld is just on an island off of China somewhere. Also, it got me thinking: If there isn't a Wuxiaworld, somebody fucked up bad over there at R and D.
This actually really annoyed me because you cant generate the dry conditions of a desert (or the dryer conditions in general needed for the setting) you need all an island, you need a large land mass.
I like the little, off-handed reveal that Westworld is just on an island off of China somewhere. Also, it got me thinking: If there isn't a Wuxiaworld, somebody fucked up bad over there at R and D.
This actually really annoyed me because you cant generate the dry conditions of a desert (or the dryer conditions in general needed for the setting) you need all an island, you need a large land mass.
Okay, look, I gotta talk to somebody about Arnold's choice of house design--
1) On a metatextual level, I think it's quite a choice for a dude who designed androids to base his house off of the Ennis House, which is probably most prominently featured in Blade Runner (it was also Angel's house in Buffy and the big bad guy's house in Black Rain, because I guess Ridley Scott has a thing for Frank Lloyd Wright. It's also the basis of the Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend's house in The Venture Bros.).
2) On a practical level it's even funnier, because using textile-based blocks to construct your house out of. Because the Ennis House is falling the fuck apart and has been for years. So are a good chunk of Frank Lloyd Wright's houses, because he ignored most of his engineers and decided that aesthetics were more important than function, which I guess is actually the greater metatextual reference in all of this.
Also, thinking on this made me realize this--
3) While Blade Runner might exist, obviously Jurassic Park doesn't exist in the fiction of this world, which means that @Poorochondriac's favorite novel, The Eaters of the Dead also does not exist. What a sad, weird world these robots must live in. . .
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you know, like "The Martian"
Well, yeah, obviously. It's not a musical though.
Isn't it?
WHAM!
That said, their definition of comedy is often baffling.
Having a single category for both is asinine to the point that it's practically an insult to the concept of categorization. If you wanna seperate into drama and not drama then fucking call it that, but as is it's like having a section of the grocery store for cereal and lunchmeat and mixing them indiscriminately.
Kinda silly but not actually a big deal?
Yeah I was super over-exaggerating the point, which, maybe given my posting history didn't read as humorously as I intended. It's not a big deal at all, just something that bugs me a little.
I have to assume it's just because there are never enough musicals released to give them their own category, and since most musicals are generally upbeat if not necessarily comedies, it's the best of a bunch of bad options.
Westworld came back last night! I think it was a decent premiere but I was kind of expecting more? I don't have any in depth thoughts right now, which is itself kinda weird!
as a new father i have particular interest in stories about a person's creation being programmed to care about genre shit their creator liked until they kill them
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Think about it.
Wasn't nearly as good as the S1 premiere, which ruled, but it was enjoyable and fun to see the hosts running wild on their own for a while
Hopefully it picks up a bit
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The flood killing everyone.. Arnold saying "I killed them all", like the god his character was in this story, killing his creation because of its sins..
This actually really annoyed me because you cant generate the dry conditions of a desert (or the dryer conditions in general needed for the setting) you need all an island, you need a large land mass.
Satans..... hints.....
Spoilers the island is actually Australia.
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This explains the high mortality rate
1) On a metatextual level, I think it's quite a choice for a dude who designed androids to base his house off of the Ennis House, which is probably most prominently featured in Blade Runner (it was also Angel's house in Buffy and the big bad guy's house in Black Rain, because I guess Ridley Scott has a thing for Frank Lloyd Wright. It's also the basis of the Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend's house in The Venture Bros.).
2) On a practical level it's even funnier, because using textile-based blocks to construct your house out of. Because the Ennis House is falling the fuck apart and has been for years. So are a good chunk of Frank Lloyd Wright's houses, because he ignored most of his engineers and decided that aesthetics were more important than function, which I guess is actually the greater metatextual reference in all of this.
Also, thinking on this made me realize this--
3) While Blade Runner might exist, obviously Jurassic Park doesn't exist in the fiction of this world, which means that @Poorochondriac's favorite novel, The Eaters of the Dead also does not exist. What a sad, weird world these robots must live in. . .