It's based on some movie from the ancient year of 1973.

Of course it is. Hollywood has been bereft of any new ideas for years.

Yul Brynner was great.

He was creepy as hell in that movie. I can't wait to see how they butcher this classic.

If you hate Laurence, then don't listen - don't comment. When he co-hosts the B&B show, take that day off ... listen to an old podcast of a Bernstein solo show and jerk off all day.

Have a terrible night and die in MANY fires.

will watch; might jack

HBO has come under fire from Hollywood's biggest union after a casting note calling for actors to agree to "genital to genital touching" was released.

More specifically, the note for Jonathan Nolan's upcoming highly anticipated, futuristic western series Westworld — based on Michael Crichton's (Jurassic Park) 1973 movie of the same name — declared background actors "may be required to perform genital-to-genital touching, simulate oral sex with hand-to-genital touching, contort to form a table-like shape while being fully nude, pose on all fours while others who are fully nude ride on your back [and] ride on someone's back while you are both fully nude," according to The Hollywood Reporter.

That took some balls.

I know if I was paying $40,000/day for a fantasy robot experience, I'd definitely want to ride around on a naked robot like a horse all day.

Trae Young will be a bust. Book It!

at $40,000/day the robots better have at least 6 useable holes.

Weird, I see Dolphin looking in my asshole

So the Ed Harris character has been going there for 30 years according to what he says early on. Is he the one putting the bug in the androids?
Maybe because he knows "how the world works" he has some kind of work around in which he can't be killed off? He is an android but has
"evolved" much faster than the others? I will watch it again this week and really absorb some of the dialogue.

I liked the first episode. Of course now I think just about everyone is an android outside of Anthony Hopkins and Ed Harris. GD, I think it was clear the world does exist in reality. You have that outside smoking scene with the woman and the English wanker taking place in a Western landscape. I assumed the thing they were looking down on was a camera-type projection of everything in miniature. The basement storage is where they place the defective ones, like an android graveyard.

I think he likes to get his rape on a little too much for an android. He's real. He's stealing tech. West World is probably a military project and he's a Russian.

I really liked the pilot episode. So Ed Harris is the original Yul Brenner character?

He's the Gunslinger but I guess he's human.

Well Mac told me to to tell you to go FUCK YOURSELF!!! ..So now it's been said .. .

"One thing that stuck with me and I've been thinking about the entire day, and which I finally figured out why it stuck with me is the importance of the fly. And I'm not merely talking about the ending scene.

In the opening scene it's established that the hosts don't react to them as one crawls across Delores' eye.

Then there's the piece of dialogue about how a host could never hurt a human, they couldn't even hurt a fly. This obviously seems like a setup for the ending scene but there's an even more important scene about it, the one where the sheriff starts to malfunction when he's escorting the guests. Because what's important here is what happens precisely before he starts malfunctioning. A fly lands on his face.

Why is this important? Because of what is being discussed about the hosts in other scenes about the reveries allowing them to pick up small touches/details in human behavior and imitate them so they appear more lifelike, such as the hooker from the saloon rubbing her lips and the sheriff, when fixed, combing his mustache with his fingers. So to bring that back to the fly, what is the most subconscious, instinctive move a person makes when a fly lands on them? They swat it, and I think we all know that we do it without even thinking about it. So what happens when the hosts constantly register the guests doing this? They want to start imitating it, but to do so they would intent on killing the fly, and this goes directly against their core programming. And thus, unaware to the programmers, they have created a paradox in their system, one that is causing them to glitch.

This brings a lot more meaning to the end scene because it doesn't just mean that Dolores' has somehow overcome the glitch, but this means that her AI is evolved far ahead of the other hosts in the park. And we already know why this is because of what is said about her towards the end, namely that she is the oldest host in the park. Which means she contains more reveries than any other host in the park, the same reveries that stand at the core of the hosts' changing behavior.

So we really already know why and how she has overcome her programming, and this leads me to theorize that she is in fact so far ahead of the other hosts that she is evolved even far beyond what the programmers think is going on, and that she has been playing along for a while now."

Fun fact, after 5 months of inactivity on reddit Jonathan Nolan posted a vague reply to a thread in /r/Showerthoughts: "Boy have we got a show for you!"

The title of that thread: "I'm not scared of a computer passing the turing test... I'm terrified of one that intentionally fails it."

I'd take that as 100% confirmation that what you're saying is going to happen.