Even then, the action stops dead for an episode to explain what the Ghost Nation wants to do and what their plan is to get to the Valley Beyond. It shined some light on a group that we’ve assumed were bad guys and makes me want to rewatch the first season with this new information in mind. On the other end of the spectrum, Episode 8, “Kiksuya”, served a purpose and explained the history of West World from the Ghost Nation’s perspective and what they’ve been doing for the past 17 episodes. The episode was one of my favorites in the season, but if you’re looking at the season as a whole, it’s contributions were minimal at best. It was literally just a shortcut to get to Maeve’s daughter and an excuse for the creators to play around with feudal Japanese sets. Hell, it didn’t impact the plot of the overall season. But when the episode ended and the group left Shogun World, it was never spoken of again. There’s even a pretty kickass cover of “Paint it Black” that you should really listen to. In it, they help a geisha find her daughter-like apprentice and there’s a lot of Japanese imagery and music. The episode centered on Maeve’s group making a pitstop on their quest to find her daughter in the land of Shogun World, the Japanese answer to Westworld. Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, the showrunners, described season 2 as being a season “defined by chaos” and that’s what we got. So when the second season was about to air, I had tons of theories about what could happen now that the Hosts were able to attack humans and Dolores was leading a rebellion against the humans. It helps the fans get more invested in the world and they start to have a stake in the action, trying to figure out if their theories are actually right. I love shows that tease ideas and makes the viewers start asking questions about what they know like Gravity Falls. It was tricky to figure out, but eagle-eyed fans saw some clues and irregularities and cracked the code.Īnd none of that is bad. The community was able to piece together that William was the Man in Black, Bernard was a Host, Dolores was Wyatt, Arnold wanted the Hosts to make their own decisions, and the season was actually told in a split timeline, one where William was younger and one where he was an old Ed Harris. Specifically, Westworld treated its audience with respect and knew that they were smart enough to figure out major plot points ahead of time. So in order for us to talk about the second season, I think it’s important that we just talk about the first season and what made it so special. So I’m going to try and vocalize and figure out what made me apathetic to a show about robot cowboys and samurais fighting against an evil corporation in an attempt to gain free will. I’m not someone that goes on Reddit to discuss the theories of Westworld, but I can tell just by talking to my friends that watch this and even some of the other Flixist staffers that something seemed off. And I don’t think I’m the only person that thinks that. A show that I used to watch every night on HBO as it aired turned into a show that built up on my DVR and sat there until I had nothing else to do. That being said, when I finished the second season my mind was filled with dozens of questions, but the one I kept coming back to was “Why don’t I like this more than I do?” Why am I not head over heels about the second season when the first season was so rock solid?Īnd really, I’ve been thinking about this for a while. This isn’t to talk about the overarching positives and negatives of Westworld and what it did right or wrong. I felt like I needed to get that out of the way right now so no one has any false expectations going into this post. This is not a review of Westworld’s second season.
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