The Westworld Thread

[twonabomber]

I put a hurting on Amazon and the free shipping. Tires, heavy car parts...

I watch more YouTube than anything else.

[Seshmeister]

The rumors about Apple I think are because they have some good stuff but not very much of it so everyone assumes they will buy some since they are richer than most countries.

At the moment I'm paying for Netflix, NOW(HBO for the UK basically), Amazon and Apple (I think). That's $40 a month which mounts up I guess but then there are 5 of us. Anything else I steal on torrents.

I understand that it mounts up over the year but here it's $5 for a beer in a bar and the cinema is $15 so in terms of hours of entertainment I think most of this stuff is ok value.

[twonabomber]

Paramount is CBS and hosts their Star Trek lineups...

That's another reason I don't think there will be more mergers. Every studio has their tentpole franchises and at this point it'll be tough to come up with the cash to get the companies together. Maybe Netflix gets snatched up. Hulu is already Disney/Fox with NBC Universal as minorty shareholder. WBDiscovery has said they're going more unscripted reality, they are supposedly bleeding cash.

I keep hearing "Apple to buy Sony" rumors but on the hardware side that doesn't make sense to me.

I only pay for Prime and Disney+. I guess I got AppleTV free with the Macbook Air I bought last month but I haven't looked at what's on there.

[Nitro Express]

I am gross and perverted
I'm obsessed and deranged
I have existed for years
But very little has changed
I'm the tool of the Government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
And regulate you

I may be vile and pernicious
But you can't look away
I make you think I'm delicious
With the stuff that I say
I'm the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I'm the slime oozin' out
From your TV set

You will obey me while I lead you
And eat the garbage that I feed you
Until the day that we don't need you
Don't go for help, no one will heed you
Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold

That's right, folks
Don't touch that dial

Well, I am the slime from your video
Oozin' along on your livin' room floor
I am the slime from your video
Can't stop the slime, people, look at me go
I am the slime from your video
Oozin' along on your livin' room floor
I am the slime from your video
Can't stop the slime, people, look at me go

[Nickdfresh]

Pluto is a Paramount company. Pluto does have CNN in it's lineup. Seems odd to license it to a competitor owned by NBC or CBS.

Paramount is CBS and hosts their Star Trek lineups...

[Nitro Express]

Mr. Burns owns everything now. You are now his slave. You will eat bugs and love it!

[FORD]

Yeah, I thought so too, but after all the fucking mergers and consolidations it's hard to remember who owns what anymore.

[twonabomber]

Pluto is a Paramount company. Pluto does have CNN in it's lineup. Seems odd to license it to a competitor owned by NBC or CBS.

[FORD]

Now they're saying the old episodes might pop up on an ad supported network like Pluto, Tubi, or Peacock. Not a good move in my opinion, because a show made for HBO wouldn't have any "natural ad breaks" included, which means they would be thrown in at random in the middle of a scene and ruin the whole thing.

It's relatively easy to block ads on Peacock & Tubi, but if it ends up on Pluto, it's a lost cause

https://tvline.com/2022/12/14/westworld-the-nevers-move-free-streaming-services/

[Seshmeister]

I heard the latest stuff was less bad, but like a bunch of other folk I left during season 2.

There is so much good stuff around these days. Why would you watch this instead of say White Lotus?

[twonabomber]

All the episodes are being pulled from HBO Max.

[FORD]

HBO Cancels ‘Westworld’ in Shock Decision

hollywoodreporter.com
The Hollywood Reporter
James Hibberd


HBO Cancels ‘Westworld’ in Shock Decision

The acclaimed sci-fi drama is considered finished after its recent fourth season, despite creators hoping for a fifth season to wrap things up.

HBO has switched off Westworld.

The network has decided to cancel the sci-fi drama after its recent fourth season.

It’s an unexpected fate for a series that was once considered one of HBO’s biggest tentpoles — an acclaimed mystery box drama that racked up 54 Emmy award nominations (including a supporting actress win for Thandiwe Newton).

Last month, co-creator Jonathan Nolan said in an interview that he hoped HBO would give the series a fifth season to wrap up the show’s ambitious story, which has chronicled a robot uprising that changed the fate of humanity. “We always planned for a fifth and final season,” Nolan said. “We are still in conversations with the network. We very much hope to make them.” Co-creator Lisa Joy likewise said the series has always been working towards a specific ending: “Jonah and I have always had an ending in mind that we hope to reach. We have not quite reached it yet.”
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Yet linear ratings for the pricey series fell off sharply for its third season, and then dropped even further for season four. Westworld‘s critic average on Rotten Tomatoes likewise declined from the mid-80s for its first two seasons to the mid-70s for the latter two. Fans increasingly griped that the show became confusing and tangled in its mythology and lacked characters to root for. Looming over all of this is the fact Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav has pledged aggressive cost cutting mandate, though network insiders maintain that saving money was not a factor in the show’s cancelation.

Still, HBO — and, increasingly, other cable networks and streamers — typically like to give major series creators time to craft an ending for their serialized shows as it keeps its subscribers from getting upset (such as the years-long fandom outrage after Deadwood was axed). Plus, a show that can tout a beginning, middle and end arguably increases its perceived value as a streaming and home video product compared to a title that feels unfinished.

The fourth season of Westworld wasn’t entirely a cliffhanger, however. It’s final moments could be said to be rather ambiguous (as discussed in our post-season interview with Joy, where THR associate editor Abbey White pointed out, “It felt like the show could have ended there”).

Here’s HBO’s statement: “Over the past four seasons, Lisa and Jonah have taken viewers on a mind-bending odyssey, raising the bar at every step. We are tremendously grateful to them, along with their immensely talented cast, producers and crew, and all of our partners at Kilter Films, Bad Robot and Warner Bros. Television. It’s been a thrill to join them on this journey.”

And here’s Kilter Films’ statement: “Making Westworld has been one of the highlights of our careers. We are deeply grateful to our extraordinary cast and crew for creating these indelible characters and brilliant worlds. We’ve been privileged to tell these stories about the future of consciousness – both human and beyond – in the brief window of time before our AI overlords forbid us from doing so.”

The move comes as HBO still has several tentpole dramas such as the newly launched House of the Dragon along with Succession, White Lotus, and Euphoria, plus the upcoming zombie apocalypse drama The Last of Us.

Still, just like the show’s frequently resurrected androids, it would be foolish to assume there will never be any more Westworld ever. If Deadwood can get a movie 12 years after the series concluded, it’s always possible that Westworld could like be, well, rebooted.

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These fucking Randtard Libertarian douchebags who took over Warner Media are killing everything good that was ever connected with that company.

[Nickdfresh]

I'm hearing season 3 is much better than 2 but waiting to find out if it's possible to just skip season 2 without being completely confused.

You might be confused. Without a massive spoiler at least. I think Season 2 was a bit disappointing but still good and action packed and I don't think there were really that many episodes....

[Seshmeister]

I'm hearing season 3 is much better than 2 but waiting to find out if it's possible to just skip season 2 without being completely confused.

[Nickdfresh]

In any case the first episode was pretty fucking good!