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 Jadenim wrote:
I have a stupid grin on my face every episode; I’m absolutely loving this season. I do appreciate that it has lost the “Western” part of Westworld (and my wife feels the same as you), which is a shame, but I think it would’ve been difficult (and felt very contrived to keep everything in that totally artificial boundary.

I think the thing I most enjoy is that we have at least four different factions / protagonists and I don’t know which of them will be the actual “big bad”.

Spoiler:

At the end of season 2, it was clearly hinting at Delores, but 3 has been casting Surac / Rehoboam as the villain, but I’m not even sure they’re the same faction (I think one is controlling / deceiving the other and I’m not sure which way round it is.)

Maeve is a complete wildcard as always (do we finally have a replacement for Han Solo as the archetype for chaotic neutral?!)

Finally I wouldn’t put it past Bernard to totally screw things up accidentally whilst trying to do the right thing, as his role always seems to be tragic loser (in the best possible way.)

Oh and I suppose there’s always one or more of the Delores’ going rogue from the others ( Charlotte?), so I guess that makes five. And counting,

The social comentary is ok and quite interesting and build on stuff about freedom in previous seasons but the drama has faded away for me with the lack of people to feel any empathy for plus the emptyiness of the world both in terms of what it is and lack of people.

Delores is playing god the same as the people she hates and I wonder what proportion of the population would have prefereed to live in ignorance and relative comfort bit like the Matrix IF they had a choice - something she did not give them either.

I think most people don;t want "freedom" whatever that is but just want a nice (or at least tolerable) life and the illusion of freedom of choice is enough?

I am not sure anyone is a big bad in the traditional sense - they are all trying to make a better world - its more of a conflict of how you do it. Also I am not convinvced that Delores has a goal / endgame for either species

Sadly Maeve has been hardly used in this season - I assume she has been repaired by now....