Westworld : No Limits On What You Can Do With The Androids?

The one thing that bothers me, sort of a "plot hole", is the engineers and managers of Westworld can obviousy pinpoint any problems and discrepancies in the overall system. So isn't it odd they allow the crazy guy who raped Delores and dismantled the gambler ie dragging him up the mountain etc? It would seem even paying a lot for a vacation wouldn't cover dismembering what's probably a $100K android or whatever. Anyway I think the show is great; I just thought that one extreme tourist was a bit unexplainable (perhaps he is billionaire that gives 'em a million bucks a visit to cover costs).

The concept of the lone gunslinger turned on its head.

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well yeah I kind of figured he's the human version of "Yul Brynner" - it just seems odd that we see the engineers & managers so meticulous about monitoring things; and they don't mention "hey this tourist in black is really over the top and totally dismantled our million-dollar gambler robot"

Why did you Caps Every Word In The Tittle

Because a subject should be like a newspaper headline!

Hmm. I personally love that you capitalized. Nice to see it.



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But why is it a plot hole?

Have you considered that maybe he's not a guest, but a host instead? Perhaps evolved farther than any other hosts, or placed there by management to see what he would do? Or any number of other possibilities?

I guess my point is that you can't really call it a plot hole when we've only seen 1/13 of the story. Give the story time to bloom.

This is your life, and it's ending one IMDb post at a time.

well I put "plot hole" in quotes as a sort of joke ie everybody calls every odd thing a "plot hole" these days. I guess he could turn out to be like the Rutger Hauer character in Bladerunner - ie the first evil self-aware android in Westworld etc. It sure seems he's an "extreme" tourist though.

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Though I believe we are in the minority I think that the gunslinger can somehow pass for human or some variation but that he's definitely not human.

You put a price on the android but not on how much a guest pays to do whatever they want. I'm guessing they pay a lot more.

Let's not call it a plot-hole until the season is over. I''m sure they'll address it later.

Well, they're machines, so if one is willing to pay their creators enough, one could do whatever they want to the machines, including dismembering them.

Whatever happens in Westworld, stays in Westworld, and all that that entails.

If those machines have crossed over to sentience though, they're at the centre of an ethical nightmare.

OK, well the original script was guests pay $1000 a day, I guess adjusted for inflation from 1973, depending on which historial US dollar calculator you use, that's $5000 to $12000 today. Maybe there's a "you dismember it - you bought it" clause. I find this new Westworld update, with the AI angle, much more interesting than the original which was basically just "robots go crazy".

Nobody said what the androids cost so we can assume that the price the guests pay would cover them killing every single android in the park. They mass produce them anyways so they don't necessarily have to cost a lot.

I would imagine that the "company" has robot repair down to the equivalent of us changing a tire. How many hosts got wrecked in the robbery/shootout scene? And wrecking hosts seems to be one of the big attractions of Westworld.


Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.

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It would seem even paying a lot for a vacation wouldn't cover dismembering what's probably a $100K android or whatever

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Many have discussed this, but I think the solution here is simple - the robot itself is cheap and very easy to produce.

What is not cheap or simple is making that robot act realistic. So basically, the software is very hard to program, while the hardware is just produced en mass and easily replaced when needed. That's why they're so fascinated by new small gestures and not for example new eyes or better skin - these things are already brought to perfection by probably years and years of producing spare organs for regular humans. In fact, it's explicitly said in the pilot that the technology is so far gone that soon we may be resurrecting the dead. At that point I don't think it costs much to make an empty "shell".