We're going to play another game. What game is that? Super Mario Brothers 3. What's that? On your screen. Some kind of program about Westworld on TV. Well it doesn't sound like anything to me. I'm Red Scott. And I'm Ivan Hernandez. And this... Doesn't sound like anything to me. The third best Westworld podcast covering the penultimate episode. One episode left and read.
Knowing what we know now about the current management of Discovery HBO, that they are willing to can a nine, a completed $90 million Batgirl movie. A completed $40 million Scooby-Doo movie. How much do you want? Honestly? I'm going to take back what I said about them completing it as one movie, as doing the fifth season as an original film. I'm going to say Zaslav walks into that Nolan's office and is like, here's your kill fee, guys.
As long as Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan walk in and pitch it correctly, like if they walk in and say, guys, I've got an idea for this next season. Westworld week. We just have a whole week with new Westworld episodes and then the show is completely done. I feel like the Discovery people would be respected. They'd be interested. 90 Day Fiancé? But the fiance's a host. Yeah! Come on, guys. It's a reality TV show where reality isn't what it seems.
And you know what? It gets both the male skew and the female skew. As we all know, women cannot physically watch HBO Max. What? That fucking... Describe what it looked like. Describe the slide. One slide. One slide had HBO Max on one side and Discovery Plus on the other. And the first thing, the first thing that they put under HBO Max, male skew. The first thing they put under Discovery Plus? Female skew. And they didn't even use man and woman. They went straight. Male. Female.
I did enjoy that the person on the earnings call where this was presented used that voice. Female skew. We dodged a bullet not naming this podcast male skew like we intended. so yeah i'm gonna say that knowing what we know now about the current ruthlessness and i feel so fucking bad for all of those goddamn people Remember when all of those Warner Brothers people who work for Warner Brothers were so pissed because they're putting the movies on HBO Max? And now it's like...
They're putting it. They're putting Batgirl in a vault for tax purposes. The most like, oh, my God, they didn't tell anybody. So Bowen Yang was on Instagram Live talking about this. Oh, fuck! And in the comments, Hannah Einbender, the star of Hacks, just typed, what? Question mark? What? Yeah. Yeah. And apparently the Batgirl people found out when it hit the trades.
This just fucking send a text ahead of time. I mean, it's really a phone call, but the very least you could do to have so little respect for your creatives to put so much of your. creative weight behind the 90 day fiance universe instead of scripted content it's buddy i never thought i'd say this I miss AOL as the parent company of Time Warner. I can't believe we had such a beautiful steward in America Online. Back when America was online, America was unified.
It really was. It really was. Well, thank you for introducing this episode. You're the better fighter. I'll make sure we're properly backstopped. We're going to try. I hate that. I always have to go in front. I hate that I'm always the one with the grenade launcher and you're in the back doing your proper backstopping. Admit that you just appreciate getting the grenade launcher. You actually do like having the grenade launcher. I do like having the grenade launcher. This is season four.
Episode 7 of Westworld Metanoia, a word I know how to pronounce. But before we can get into it, we need to know what happened previously on Westworld. Do you think you can save them? Only if they have a cloud backup. Dad, are you out there? And are you coming back with that pack of cigarettes you went out for? Tense electronic music plays is also what happens if you trip the alarm at Brian Eno's house. If I saw my robot double in a staircase, I would simply make him out with to submission.
No. You know what? Leave it in. Leave it in. Leave it in. I'm going to say make it out with. Yeah, make it out with. Make it out with him. Well, then, let's finish what we started. Is Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan trying to convince David Sazlov to give them a last season? And that was previously on Westworld. We're going to get one more episode this season and then a whole nother season on Discovery Plus. I'm ready for it. I'm excited about it. Apparently, apparently the HBO.
The actual HBO, HBO productions are to be untouched. I was, I was unaware how cleaved HBO was from HBO Max. Yeah, I really thought that they were that it was the HBO management and production structure, but apparently they really differentiated the two in order to so that HBO.
because they have more standing within the company would be able to better resist things like this. Apparently it truly was the HBO buying for Max Landis. And they were finally like, we need to cut this out. We need to get rid of this, which I respect. By the way, apparently they quietly canceled Bright 2. I was gonna make a joke about Bright 2 as soon as you stopped talking. I cannot believe that actually existed. Buddy!
They made the anime spinoff? Was that... And people liked that? No! Did people watch it? No! What are you talking about? How was there a Bright 2 for any amount of time? But they were going to make an actual Bright 2, Bright 2. And it was like, you guys know, right? You guys have seen the trades, right? Do you think we're still getting the Flash? No. After that Batgirl, Leslie Grace, who has done nothing but be a perfect angel. Oh, when she unpinned the Batgirl debut.
photo from her instagram i was like that's so heartbreaking you are a little too on top of the instagram trades is what i'm gonna say you're on the on the on the beautiful actress instagram trades i'm just gonna say uh check your own likes because at some point
somebody's going to look at those and be suspicious. They can't look at them anymore. They can't look at them anymore. Well, they can look at my Twitter likes. And listen, listen, I'm not Bob Odenkirk. I don't care what you people see. Did you look at that? That was a joke. No, it wasn't. It was a true thing.
No, he did follow it. Yeah, he did follow it. So Bob Odenkirk followed an account that's like lovely women's feet or something. Perfect feet. And so I went to his Instagram account. He follows only 30 people. He doesn't actually use Instagram. He obviously thought it would be funny if the top thing, after all of those, which are just his coworkers. Oh, are you the guy who thinks it's his coworkers? Just intentional and a funny joke? It is! Like...
It's only like co-workers and projects he's worked on. That's the only thing he follows on Instagram. You don't think that he's such an old man? And then at the top of that. That as an old person. Yeah. As a Gen Xer. who we are officially classifying as old at this point yeah you think he didn't know exactly what he was doing i think he did he making a funny joke he's a noted wow i've made a lot of funny jokes in my life
I've made so many funny jokes across the spectrum of comedy. I'm going to say that that was done on purpose by... Bob Odenkirk. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm going to go with that. If you believe that, buddy, I'm going to go with it. All right, we are back at the Hoover Dam. And as of... Fan of FDR era public works projects. This season has been a boon. You just really enjoy being able to see man destroying nature.
I mean, I don't want man to destroy this nature. All of our dams are 80 years old. We need to start repairing them now. It's safer to proceed on foot. I would prefer the danger over having to walk. You put me a little closer to it? I don't care. I don't care if there's like an 80% chance we get ambushed by mob. Did you immediately clock that it had the... Anthromorphic... Anthro... Anthro... Anthro... Amph... Amorphic? Amph... Anamorphic? Anamorphic aspect ratio.
Yes. Yes. I knew that. I knew that something was up with this. The aspect ratio of it is like a human. Yeah. That's what anthropomorphic. Yes, that anthropomorphized aspect ratio. I admit it, I didn't catch it the first time through because I'm an idiot. Whenever the black bars appear, you know that some shit's going down meta-wise. Yeah, meta-wise.
I make sure we're properly backstopped. All right, then cast some buffs. Do something. I want haste. Haste or at least barrier. Yeah, or you know what? Do cask of Amontillado. Like, just build a brick wall for us. Real quick. So Dolores chose the damn house, the infinite, the sublime, the great beyond. But Hale can't access it without the key that's in Bernard's head. I thought the entire time the sublime, they got beamed into space.
No, they're just into the Hoover Dam. Yes. So what we saw, it was beamed to a satellite, but they did not know where it went from the satellite. It appears the satellite was a relay connection. So it's just at the Hoover Dam. What? This is the stupidest place to put your robot heaven. Why would you put your robot heaven in a... First of all...
A place that can easily be taken over by the former Mexican cartel and then can change hands as easy as Ed Harris and a bunch of robot flies coming in. This is, as I've said many times. terrible op psych by all of the evil artificial intelligences in this show. Also, by this point, the dam's like 170 years old. It needs to be fixed. Exactly.
What suitable public works project would you beam your robot heaven into? You're putting it into Mount Rushmore? Somebody sticks their finger up Abe Lincoln's nose, they get a little bit of robot heaven? I'm going to put it in the fourth. President's head on Mount Rushmore because nobody even remembers who that is. It's Washington, Lincoln. Right. And then another guy. Roosevelt. And then a robot backup.
That's exactly what it is. It's Teddy Roosevelt. How surprised would you be that it was actually President Trump now and nobody had noticed? He had actually spent most of his time funneling funds that was supposed to go to the wall to go to rebuilding Mount Rushmore to include his head. They just put plastic all, they just put like plastic mods over Abe Lincoln. Just like the original. She didn't choose it. Dolores did. Nevada. Robot heaven is in Nevada.
Was that a Cocteau Twin song? I feel like this bothers you more than it should. And also, it's not proper 3-2-1 backup. Why would you put it in Nevada? They have terrible regulations. I mean, that's why you put it in Nevada. Because we're in there. Aren't we? So she figured out that they're in the Matrix. The simulation Maeve figures out that she's a simulation, as we know from watching the film Enter the Matrix. And they have an explanation for why her clips are a little flat.
I hated this so much. You cannot lampshade the terrible dialogue of this season by saying, I thought my quips were a little flat. Guys, here's the problem. The writing we've done this year is terrible. Each episode has one of the worst lines of dialogue that we've ever had in their life. We could, at great expects, go back and fix it, or... We could just say that it's because it's all been in a simulation.
There were at least two lines that I wrote down because I was like, the fucking dog shit. I hate this. How can you make these wonderful actors say this? I have been watching Tessa. thompson's instagram since you pointed it out zero references to web zero references even in the week your character gets shot in the head you're not gonna even just post it like yep oh i guess i was on that show
She did appear in the behind-the-scenes material. And by the way, she was talking about the robot pool fight, and she confirms the drone suits are very squishy. They get waterlogged very easily. Of course they would. Of course they would. Also, there was just one shot of her just like playfully swimming around in the pool. And I was like, this, this, this.
this woman is having the time of her life. Yeah. And I'm guessing from the amount of wide shots we saw, there was a lot of stunt doubles involved. Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. So it turns out that this is a simulation, which explains the iffy green screen. I'm tired, Maeve. The production team fulfilling their contractual obligations. And so the big thing that we are supposed to interact with take away from this scene.
is Bernard is trying to decide if he is going to let Maeve have the choice, if he's going to tell her that she's not going to be able to make it back to her daughter if she fights with him. And obviously he should. The world's not that big. Just don't lie to your friends. Sacrifice it all. This world's bullshit. What did this world ever do for you? Is that what you'd really say?
Or is that my impression of you? I would never do an impression of Tandy Wayne Newton. No, not to her face. Not knowing that she was on the same continent as me. Oh, God, please. I have to put a continent between me and any person I do an impression of. That's why I've been doing so many Boris Johnson impressions lately. I'm not good at impressions. I'm not good at impressions. I don't know. I felt like Boris Johnson was in there.
They do a very nice, slow expanding of the aspect ratio to let us know that we're back in the quote unquote real world. And we do it again. And this time, which is not. paid off in this episode Bernard hides a handgun in the tunnel did you know you didn't he did didn't it yeah I did notice that he did that so I suppose that some I mean he did leave a he did leave the portal open
So I can assume that- That I noticed because there was a giant portal splitting the Hoover Dam, which for a second I was like, oh no, as I have prophesied, the Hoover Dam has failed. But no, that was actually the Great Beyond. Yes. So I'm going to assume that he's fucking... Also, in this episode, we did not get any mention of the copies of the humans that he made in the previous episode.
Right. I mean, this is one of those we're going to get a lot of a lot of stuff. They're setting up a lot of stuff for payoff. A lot of stuff is going to click in the next episode. And this this has been already been a really fun series of Westworld. And they are teed up to have. A true second great season of Westworld. Like just as satisfying as the first season. I'm glad that you're so positive about this. By the way, do you want to...
Do you want to guess the ratings for the previous episode? Okay. Now, as we mentioned, episode five, we are guessing the ratings for episode six, Fidelity. Episode five, Zhuangzi. was a 0.38, which is an improvement of a 0.31. People have been getting the word out, and the ratings just leapt up to a 0.41. 0.3. Damn it! Nine. 10,000 people tuned in. It's increasing. It's going up. Yes. 10,000 people chose to.
actually turn on hbo we still don't have the uh plus seven hbo max numbers because as we all know none of these streamers will ever tell you the numbers because they're so fucking low and if you actually knew the numbers you'd be able to extrapolate the numbers across all of their platforms and be able to tell how few people are actually watching things i mean the thing i feel like people don't fully appreciate
how much VC money has been paying for their streaming television over the past decade. And, like, the mounds of money that have gone into content over the last decade will never be repeated. No. Your TV shows are going to get a lot worse. And they're already bad. Yeah. Do you think we've crested peak television? I think that might be an actual fallout of this current recession where VC money has gotten a lot tighter and the media landscape has started flattening out. Red, are we in a recession?
Doesn't matter. Is the economy recess? It's not doing well. All these preemptive firings at these companies where the fucking owners literally are billionaires. It's like, oh, you people are just garbage. You people are just garbage. They're not good people. No.
They are bad people. A lot of these people are bad people. So Maeve takes out a riot control droid, which still just looks silly and not intimidating at all. If I had one note... re-watching the last season i was like only show riot control droids at night stop showing riot control droids in full sunlight during the day doesn't it feel like like literally uh ps4 graphics i i don't think it's that good
you're gonna go ps3 you're gonna go back a generation definitely i'm glad they figured out 720p on on 4k it is a laugh also How fucking shitty are all of these automated robots? It literally has a bead on her. There is a red laser sight on her head. And the robot can't take the shot. Yeah. If I was a fucking evil AI. coat every single place that i deem a high priority target in drones you would not you would not be able to get through my defenses for they would be a wall of drones also
The only reason you have the red laser target is so that you can confirm with your human eyes that the bullet is going to go where you think it should. If you are a robot and you don't need the red laser, this is a silly thing. Yeah. Yeah, also, Hale has this place guarded. There's one robot. Yeah, there is one robot. One robot. One robot. I mean, clearly...
What we're learning is the people defending this building are what's left of HBO Max. That's all the budget they have. They fired all the contractors. And that was the entire security team.
So the end of this, when this is over, Maeve says to Bernard, when this is over, send me there. I want to see my daughter. And the struggle on his face, he looks... so uncomfortable he looks like he's about to shit himself i'm gonna say that bernard has a tell when he's saying untrue things and it's just his bowels try to leave his body immediately he's like writhing on the floor just trying not to
Tell the truth. The poop is coming out of his sweat. He's just like... He is sweating poop. Yeah. This man is lying. So we go to Christina, who... I gotta say, once again... No Ariana DeBose in this episode, unless she unless her scam is letting weird older men pay to watch her roommate sleep. That could be it. Also, that could be it. Maybe. Given what we know about her from her dialogue, she went out to get laid. As we all know, art is the enemy of truth. And the truth is you need to. No, wait.
Art is the epitome of truth. And the truth is you need to get laid, honey. Yes. Something like that. I'm so excited for us to get matching tattoos that each has half of that quote. how many fingers do we need to get that quote fingers and toes we gotta do fingers and toes Zero chemistry, zero spark between these two fucking weird robot people. Can we be hurt? How much HP do we have? Is it just me, or does James Marsden seem fully six inches taller than he did in the first two seasons?
Do you think he got that surgery? He got that leg extension surgery? Yeah, he got that Gattaca surgery. I'm not Dolores. Yeah, she was compelling. I did find it interesting that he slipped up and called her Dolores in an emotional moment. I don't think he's even slipping up. I think he's intentionally because we still don't know exactly what she and by the way, that reveal at the end of this fucking episode made me so fucking angry.
Oh, I know. I enjoyed this whole episode. I loved it. Aside from the ridiculous green screens. You loved the. Oh, she's she's not real. She's digital ghost. Which, they don't even give a hint as to what the actual deal with her is, except to say she's not there. She doesn't exist in the real world, so I'm assuming she is a digital ghost. Oh, is that why we saw them like moving inside of the building, but they didn't actually interact? I assume that was time fuckery, not existence fuckery.
No, I assume that she is just completely a digital ghost and they didn't think it through, which is why there's so many scenes of her interacting with what I assume are supposed to be physical people, unless they're not physical people. And we have been inside. the weird simulation. that Tessa Thompson, Dolores, made that they have apparently been transcending hosts into. You're saying this with a tone of condescension, and instead you're making me very excited about next week's episode.
I'm so stoked to figure out how they did this. You and your little puzzle boxes. You and your little J.J. Abrams puzzle boxes. They're fun. Christina goes into the bathroom and basically tries to drown herself. But her body fundamentally doesn't need oxygen. So once she reaches that point, stops struggling. And three days later, she gets out of the bathtub reborn as digital Jesus.
I got to say, I understand if Evan Rachel Wood does not want to appear nude on film anymore. Shoot it from the shoulders up because nothing takes me out more than a character getting. into a shower or having sex with their bra and underwear on. I'm going to say, if you're in a moment where you're questioning the existence of an entire city and your reality and whether or not you're a god...
Maybe you're not so detail-oriented with certain aspects of this. I'm going to say, if you're doubting the entirety of your existence, and you have nice titties... You're going to want to let them loose. You're going to want to be comfortable. You're like, there's only two things I know to be true in this world. That is the worst. I gotta say, women, please tell us, if you thought you might be an immortal robot god, and you wanted...
To test that by drowning yourself, would you take your bra off first or not? You don't actually need to answer this. You don't need to answer this. This does remind me of Game of Thrones. There was this scene where a gray worm went down on... Missandei. Missandei. And they left the door open and like every woman in my life noticed that they had left the door open. And I was like, who cares? I wonder if this is one of those things. She would have, would not have taken her bra off in that moment.
By the way, Natalie Emanuel is in a very terrible looking horror movie called. First of all, it's called The Invitation, which you're stealing valor from Karen Kusama. Second, it is a vampire horror movie. And the name of the evil family is Deville. Devil. Yeah, I got it. Also, Cruella Deville exists. Devil. Yeah. They're devils because they're vampires. Right. They're devils. I follow. Yeah. Movies are not good. Movies are not good. You know what? You know what?
I'm on Zaslav's side now. I feel like more movies should be canned for tax reasons and we should invest it into the one true reality. Reality television. I just think, see, the problem is I think they should stop. the creation of all superhero content. But it's like, they're like finally creating superhero content that has like women and people of color as the protagonists. So to shut it down now just seems like, come on, let them get their money.
Thank you. We need our terrible superhero content, too. I can't wait to see fucking one really terrible Latino leading superhero movie. So I... How this city is getting shut down, I'm not 100% clear on. So...
I'm shutting down the cities, but this time it's the people who will be in cold storage. Does she just mean dead? Or is she actually going to store them away? Or is she going to just like kill them and transfer their consciousnesses into the great beyond? I am very confused about that. I mean, I think they're just going purge.
I'm shutting down the cities. Ubisoft removing online functionality from their old games. Yeah, I mean, this is basically, William found out that they were taking down his WoW vanilla server that he has been managing for many years. By the way, I watched the behind the scenes and at the end of it, Lisa Joy literally says, it's like he's playing Red Dead, but in Manhattan. And I was like, that's Grand Theft Auto.
Clearly you guys play one video game in preparation for this. Male skew, female skew. Wait, which one is the male skew? Is it Red Dead? Grand Theft Auto. Women love Red Dead Redemption because of horsies. I do know someone who came to a poker game and she had only played poker in Red Dead Redemption 2. And did she annihilate you? She did not.
I think they might be stacking the deck in Red Dead Redemption 2. And I just want to add, as always, special disclaimer, all gambling is sinful. You're going to hell for the sin of gambling. Stop! Take off your cardinal. You and your draft. You need to stop the idolatry of worshiping the draft king. I have an arm of the Catholic Church Hernandez. Please stop what you are doing.
So Stubbs and Frankie, I like this pairing. I don't know why. As soon as I saw Stubbs and Frankie together, I was like, yes, I'm watching the show. I want this buddy comedy. I feel like it's... She's going to teach him how to feel. He's going to teach her about 401ks. It's going to be great.
Looks like we're ready for a small war. Maybe if the ratings had been better for last season, it might be a medium war. Yeah, a very small war. Just probably a one-on-one fight. We're just like the representative of each camp goes and fights while we stand around in a circle. More films and TV shows outside of fantasy settings should have one-on-one duels to decide things. Yeah, where they tie each other's wrists together and they each have a knife, sort of a thriller style. Yeah, yeah.
This is the closest we can land to Olympiad. It's so stupid. I love it. I love the artificial. We have to land away from the place that we're going. Because otherwise it'll be unsafe in this airspace. Then the air traffic controllers will shut us down. Why was there not a sky full of drones to knock this insanely conspicuous VTOL out of the sky? Ivan, maybe it turns out that...
This show is real. And you're not. Oh, no. Nothing would make me happier than be a digital consciousness without having to fucking shit all the time. Also, I do want to mention briefly, Frankie apologizes to Odina, who I... Because of this interaction being forced into this episode, I am now convinced as a host. You think that she's a host? I don't think they show that interaction any other way because she has nothing else to do in this episode.
Meet me in Red Hook? Girl, you're going to wait in Jersey for your friends from New York? You're going to wait for them to take the pass train? Red Hook is in Brooklyn, buddy. It is? Yes. Well, see, I don't live there, so I don't even know. Yeah. No, I am the true New Yorker. You really are. You really are. You can take.
You can take the subway down to the ferry and take the ferry down to Red Hook. That's, I think, the most beautiful way to get there. I don't think you need to be waiting off the island for the rendezvous. It'll be a fun time. You get to see all the statues. You get real close views of the tower on the ferry. You've been a good friend.
You've been a hunk of meat this season. Stubbs has just been fucking a big pile of meat just ferrying Bernard around. Stubbs, I think, correct me if I'm wrong, is the only long-running character who has been given... No arc whatsoever? I mean, if you count the reveal of him being a host... that's his arc but he doesn't have any big like emotional change yeah yeah i mean he literally has he kind of doesn't he have no free will
Yeah, he was going to off himself. And then Bernard was like, no, you have to follow me because I've changed your core impetus. And he's like, all right, here we go on this one. I almost expected when Bernard told him and they. They did it ambiguously, by the way, which really annoyed me, because Stubbs says to Bernard, I don't make it. And then Bernard shakes his head slightly, which could mean either, nope, you don't make it, or nope, I don't make it, and that's why you're not going to see me.
Yeah. And it is funny because there's a moment where it seems clear to me that Stubbs thinks he's going to die. Yeah. Because there's an interaction where there's a firefight. And he goes to the door and then he checks his body for bullet holes and he hasn't been shot. And he like smiles like, Hey, I'm still alive. that was very funny i did i did like that hemsworth acting on that it's pretty good have you seen there's like a commercial i think it's one of the deodorant old spice where
You haven't seen this? I can tell in your eyes. I'm so excited to be the one to tell you this. No, no, no. I saw that, but I didn't know that it was Hemsworth. I thought it was a different actor. It's Luke Hemsworth. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
yeah because he i mean yeah who did it yeah yeah because he was playing he was playing that role in uh uh ragnarok i love it it's it's a very funny and love and thunder where he gets even more of a role that's even stupider haven't seen love and thunder yet i'm waiting for um a long flight where i can see it on a very dirty screen with surrounded by tiny bottles of vodka the way it was meant to be seen wait wait for it to come out on disney plus yeah same thing yeah
Hail opens up that company-wide email. This may come as a shock to some of you. Oh, she's not renewing their contracts. You guys are not going to be back here next season. It's time to leave our human bodies and evolve into what we are meant to become. Digital viruses. So, you watch the little transcendence scene that she watches on the little surveillance camera, right? Yeah.
So they pull the brain pearl out of the host. They stick it into the big fucking antenna thing. This seems very Avatar for reasons I can't fully explain. And then the antenna thing walks away? Yeah!
And I want to know, does that mean that individual pearl is being housed in that robot form now while it exists in the different alternate... reality or is that like robot just going to fucking tip over into a furnace and like explode that brain pearl now that it's fucking useless i 100 I'm imagining that it went over and then like drops his head and then it goes into like a Rube Goldberg machine.
It knocks over five decks of cards, and then a boot kicks over a flaming rat, and then that skitters across the floor and lights a candle. It plays that peg game, and it sees what level of robot heaven you get into. Exactly. That's 100% what I'm imagining. But it was a weird, interesting character design to introduce this late. Also, the walking things? That's a person in a suit.
Oh, of course. That's a person in a suit with the classic wearing a plastic thing over them with their green screen suit so that they can out green screen the entire person but have the big plastic thing. It's very funny looking. I appreciate that they did that practical. It's very silly. We get digital versus analog William. And as soon as he comes out of the cryo chamber, he's like, hey, weren't you in the Truman Show? Culture doesn't survive.
Cockroaches do. Or branded mugs. Yeah, now we're talking. All I want to be is a redhead in the future with superpowers and collecting branded mugs across the wasteland of the former city where I used to live, New York. I fucking just, I need them to put it on PS Plus already. It's a great game. By the way, did I tell you that I lost all of my fucking physical games in the move? What? Yeah.
No, no, no. The box that they lost that contained both my Xbox and my backup gaming laptop also contained all of my physical games. Oh, no. Yeah. All my PS4 games, which aren't that valuable. Luckily, I still have all of the Switch games, which are. I told you not to store them physically on the Hoover Dam.
Somebody send me a free Xbox Series X. Look, I don't ask for much, but I need a job, I need a book contract, and I need a free Xbox Series X. That's only three things. That seems completely reasonable. It's very reasonable. It's very reasonable. christina and teddy walking into green time excuse me are you skipping over the fact that he fucking stabbed him and all of the humans from season one through three are now dead so he does stab analog william and all of this season's
All of the humans from seasons one through three are now dead. There is not a single human that we know, a named character who is a human from seasons one through three who is still alive. Not a single one. And I gotta say, I give this show a lot of shit, but that's a pretty ballsy move to kill literally all of your human cast. Yeah, even the actors that are returning are playing somebody else than they represented.
Yes, they are playing robot versions. Yes. Even the characters who come back are playing robot versions of themselves. If we're going to get anything out of the show, it's that free will is an illusion and we are all just biological machines. Oh, yeah. Free will is an illusion until David Zaslav comes in and is like, I'm going to choose no. So Dolores was a lot like you, but the world was cruel to her and she became cruel, too. And then Dolores says.
And then Dolores' story ended. She died. And Teddy's like, I'm not going to say any words right now. I'm just going to make a face and let you assume what I'm thinking. She outgrew those stories. began writing her own and you can find them on fanfiction.net. They're mostly actually alternate Harry Potter stories. So. She didn't prefer her own stories. By the way, going back to the Williams scene, I did write what I believe is the stupidest line of dialogue from this episode. Please.
Civilization is just a lie we tell ourselves to justify our real purpose. Yeah, I think that's the moment where Robot William should have been like, oh, we've left him in here too long. He's spoiled. Yeah. Yeah. He's his brains got frostbite. So they get off. So Christina and Teddy head into the company Obsidian. I forget.
Olympiad. Olympiad. Obsidian. Obsidian. Is the makers of Fallout New Vegas. That makes sense. They head into Olympiad. They get off the elevator at floor 47, which we already knew was the floor that Caleb had been kept on. And. I have to give Christina a lot of credit. She could have just said, hey, go run out the windows. But do you know what she said? She said, it's time for a vacation. Go home to your families. They get to go on vacation.
I just yell, everybody either get out or start kissing. I'm giving you a choice. Yeah. You could have just said, everybody go hog wild, and they would have had to do that. But no, she said- 30 to 50 feral hogs in the office. She said, take some PTO. Get out of here. So Stubbs and Frankie roll up and another piece of dog shit dialogue that the actors just really can't put anything into. Do you need a minute? I don't know why I would.
There's also a very strange line of dialogue where Stubbs gives Frankie some advice. It's not about the moment you see him again. It's about every moment after. Which... Hallmark card. It sounds like a Hallmark card, but it's also like knowing who Caleb is. I'm not sure what the hell she's supposed to do with it. She's just supposed to have a good time afterwards. Don't think about how he's a robot. Yeah.
So people are streaming out of the office as Stubbs and Frankie enter. Christina and Teddy pass by Aaron Paul and they... Who is that poor man? A ghost. Oh, he doesn't want to say, hey, that's your ex-boyfriend. That's another one of your exes. That's one of your Eskimo bros. Yeah, he doesn't belong here. None of us do.
And the explanation that they are just sort of digital avatars that aren't present in this world does make a lot more sense because, like, nobody even sees them. Like, she doesn't even have to, like, Jedi mind trip a lot of them. Doesn't the security guard see them? You're right. The security guard does talk to them. But I don't know. I'm weirded out with what they're trying to accomplish with.
this and i am curious to see what's going to happen in the final episode i will leave my television tuned i will stay tuned for the next week stubs and frankie roll up on williams corpse i know him oh yeah then what's his last name I would pay a million dollars to see that recut. All I want to know is this motherfucker's last name. If we get, if this series gets, okay.
Do you think this series ends or gets canceled before we find out his last name? His last name is William. His first name, Freedom. Freedom William. I'm telling you. Do you recognize me? She has zero resemblance to Aaron Paul. I mean, zero resemblance. Every single one of those jeans is from her beautiful mother. She doesn't look as much like Aaron Paul as you would expect, but that's fine. That's fine.
We find out why her nickname is Cookie. You taught me how to fight because you wanted me to be tough, but you called me Cookie because you said I would always be sweet. I want to die. It might be diabetes. It might be diabetes. You don't know. And, of course, we have Caleb slowly losing his mind. I am me? Are you? I don't know why, but every time I see a new human that's been implanted in the host, too much of me is like, I bet this is the one that got right. This is it. This is the one.
I deciphered their encryption. This is why you always bring the technician class character on a heavily robot based mission. It is very funny that she's just like, and you let me break my neck off there. And it's just like, yeah, whatever. I was fun. By the way, I want to ask you something. You're in an RPG. Sure. What element are robots weak to? What elements are robot weak to?
Yeah. Let's say you have the option of, let's say, fire, wind, electricity. I'm thinking salt. It's going to cause corrosion. Fire, wind, electricity, and ice. What are robots weak to? I mean, electricity. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All robots should always be weak to electricity. Anything that's flying should always be weak to electricity. That makes sense, too. And anything powered by electricity should respond to EMPs negatively.
Yes, exactly. That drone kill was extremely funny where Bernard just walks up to it. The drone gives it the you're not on the list arm and fucking Maeve comes out. By the way. This drone, terrible reaction times. Maeve just fucking does a power walk behind him and fucking slashes his Achilles. And then Bernard gives him the fucking stab right up through. And I gotta say. These drones are jobbing out to every main character. These drones suck. Yeah.
I want one drone to rock somebody's shit. Yeah, I mean, I think he throws somebody kind of far at one point, but aside from that, they're doing very little work. We can't win. There's no way to save this world. HBO executives after the merger. But we can save one tiny part of it.
I have no idea what he's referring to. It still seems like she's on board. She's not mad at him for not giving him this choice earlier. It feels like they're past the point of no return, so it doesn't feel like he's given her much of a choice. Also, be more specific. What's the tiny part? Is it my daughter? Because then maybe I'm saying yes. Is it, I don't know, a USB drive with a bunch of backs that I might care about? Like, tell me what we're talking about here. They encounter hail.
I debated digging you up myself. Why would you leave your greatest enemy in the dirt? When all of my great enemies finally bite the dust, I'm incinerating their bodies. None of these motherfuckers are coming back as zombies, vampires, or liches. I don't know. If something I have left out...
in the hot desert sun. The hot desert sun owns that. I'm not going back for it. That's fair enough. That's fair enough. By the way, the worst line of dialogue in this whole episode is Maeve, I heard you were losing your mind. I didn't know you meant it literally. That is my vote for one terrible line of dialogue in this episode.
Right before they start fighting, Hale goes, what do you suggest? And this is the point where if Maeve had put enough points in her dialogue tree, she would be able to get the non-violent victory ending. Also, a... running plot point is that Hale is just too much of a jerk. That's why people don't want to go into the afterlife with, yeah, they think you think they'd want to spend time with. You? Like, it's a whole plot point that apparently Hale, ni Dolores, is very insecure. Success.
Terrible person, apparently. Such a bad personality, people would rather not go to what is apparently, I think, being billed as robot purgatory at this point. Yeah. And then we get... Tessa Thompson versus Tendiway Newton fight scene, which I initially was very excited about until I saw how many white shots there were. Yeah. Yeah. And Bernard is just watching from the corner like, Cat, fight.
Just trying to pretend like he's only interested professionally. Yeah, so we get that. What a great wide shot fight. So many power kicks. So many shots where it's like... ooh, we're not seeing the person's face who's taking this kick right now. Yeah, and at one point, somebody's being held underwater, and I'm like, that is not award-winning actress. That's Andy Way Newton.
Tendiway fucking she snaps the drone's neck right which again hilarious to watch these drones just job out to every single person fucking Ed Harris comes up and just clips her And he's like, we're going to play another game. Tess Thompson's like, what game is that? And he's like, Super Mario Brothers 3. No, he says The Purge. He says The Purge. That's what his game is.
Super Mario Brothers 3 would be way more fun. I want to see all these people jumping on each other's heads. The last episode I remarked how it turned out that the three major factions turned out to be led by biracial women. What does it say that a white guy comes up and kills two of them immediately? It's not great. It is not great to see who walked away from that meeting.
Yeah. No, no. I think that's pretty indicative of where things actually are. A white guy can just walk into any meeting and end people's lives, take away their entire careers. And literally nobody stops him. So the fucking fake William goes up and confronts Bernard, who is in the middle of leaving a FaceTime message. Yes. You can't miss. Reach with your left hand.
And I did. Did you pause to look at who, see if you could figure out who he's calling from looking at the screen? I may have. I did too. You can't. I, well, I mean, given that I'm pretty sure they're not white. That diminishes the list a lot. If the people that we have seen shot recently remain dead. Which, by the way, they're not. No. No. Obviously, they're coming back in the next episode. I have seen lately...
So many people who do not have the genre literacy to know that if a character dies in like the first arc of a story or in like the penultimate episode, they're probably going to come back for the final episode. Yeah, they'll probably show up. It's not just going to be like, oh, yeah, he got the edge on her and shot her in the head. And now she's never going to come back. They did a Magneto death fake out recently in Marvel Comics. And I was like, excuse me.
Do you expect in the first issue of an event comic for them to kill Magneto and for him to just be dead? The master of magnetism. You should go back to being called that. I enjoy that. It really should. By the way, the X-Men comics right now are fucking great. I don't know if you've been seeing all my tweets, but Jonathan Hickman, who I maintain, if you actually enjoyed superhero comics, you'd enjoy his work. Or I've actually told you, you should read his independent work.
Frequently, which is not superhero stuff like the Manhattan Project, which is an entire like. A really demented take on the 1950s American superpower, science fiction, basically science wars against Russia. It's a very demented book that you'd actually love. He does these coming to a movie. It's Oppenheimer next year. Oh, fucking. I can't. Why are they already promoting Oppenheimer? It's a year away. I don't need you to be fucking promoting the hashtag on Twitter.
No, yeah, it's too far away. Let's stop it with this. Yeah, so Hickman is doing X-Men right now, was doing X-Men, and he revamped it as their basically cult nation, sex cult island nation that's conquered death. And it's a really great book. I mean, that sounds like a lot. I feel like you said a lot of words. A lot of very descriptive words. Wolverine, Gene, and Cyclops are in a throuple now. Good for them. Honestly?
Best way that that could have resolved itself. So William shoots Bernard in the chest and in the head. I'm going to give him one last game. And he just says, winner takes all. We're going for the purge. He turned on riot mode. Did you ever play GTA and engage the riot mode? I've played that. Yes. I am somewhat aware. That's a fun time. That's a fun time.
full weapons riot mode just fucking mowing people down all the all the parents who ever said the video games are evil just looking on disdainfully so stubs frankie and caleb We need to blend in. Your prison garb isn't helping. He says, I'll give you 50 for your jacket. Where did he get currency? I'll give you 50 for your coat. Beautiful looking fitted coat. Has the cost.
How much do you think this Coke costs in the future? I'm going to say $1,500. $800 to $1,500. Here's how broke I am. I was like, that's got to be at least a $300 Coke. No, I mean, this is... Like, because they use real fashion for this shit that they, you know, just put back on a rack after the episode's over. That was a very expensive coat. Yeah, exactly. And just before he actually has to give up the money, fucking riot mode engaged.
And so he gets to keep the coat and he doesn't have to give up the money. Good for him. So everybody's beating the shit out of each other. We go back to Christina and Teddy. Stop! Why can't these people see me? Because it's real. But you're not. David Bowie! Yeah. And then we have the man in black walking along back in full video game mode in a very satisfying way. Yeah. And some Bowie. Yeah.
They gave us some Bowie, the man who sold the world because it's William. William is the man who sold the world. The restraint to not use that for four seasons and to not use the Nirvana cover. Yeah. I mean, this is the version to use, I think. Yeah. So as he's walking away, fucking tower explodes. One episode left. One episode left. I have no idea what the hell is going on with the virtual world surrounding Christina slash Dolores.
I do feel pretty sure that absolutely Teddy doesn't exist in any way whatsoever. Like he is not physically there. But he did beat up that guy. He beat up that guy. He left those physical symbols. Why did he knock over the fucking plant? We're going to go through the... You're going to do your little rewatch of this scene. Your little put-together-the-pieces rewatch. And you're going to see... And it's going to be stuff trying to make fun of me for enjoying...
A piece of media. Yeah, you're going to enjoy a piece of media. Not me. I'm going to be watching the 90 Day Fiance Unip. And you're going to go back to your little picture books. Where they've written these like still images of these former men or X-Men, as it were. It's going to be stupid. Yeah. So one episode left. When do you think...
When do you think they announce that they are canceling Westworld? I think they might slip in a fifth season. Oh, do you think, do you think HBO protects them as one of the last big genre shows? Westworld week. It's happening. We are also almost at House of the Dragon time. It's yeah. I mean, we basically have one more episode. And then the week after that is time for some hot D.
I will not call it that. I refuse to call it that. I mean, if the creator of the show is going to call it Hot D, I don't see what other choice I have. I will not be calling it Hot D ever at any point in my life. Which, by the way, if from what I've heard about... the start of the first episode is true hot d will definitely be an appropriate name well we will see when we get to that all right this has been season
for episode seven oh by the way the show is called met metanoia which i looked up a change in one's way of life resulting from penitence or spiritual conversion which i feel like applies to a lot of people in this show so there now you know what that is and you're older than you were before you started saying it alright this has been
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