Review: Westworld
Apr. 30th, 2018 05:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebI am so lucky that when I am sick I don't have to go to work anyway or be a slave or take care of lots of children who feel just as bad as I do. Instead, today I basically slept all day. And yesterday I watched all of season 1 of "Westworld," which had been recommended to me by several friends.
Part Lord of the Flies (people without boundaries turn bad), part Dollhouse (using people and figuring out what the real goal of the business owners is), part Blade Runner (who is a replicant?) and part Twin Peaks/Lost (do they even know where they're going with this?), this was not really my thing.
It's also supposed to look at issues such as what self-awareness is and what our deepest desires are. Mostly I just found it disturbing. Which doesn't mean I'm not curious about season 2.
Link of the Day - Bus Map - Capital Metro is making huge changes the bus routes later this week and finally I found this map. You can hover your mouse over any routes near you and see if they go anywhere interesting. You may find that your old routes have disappeared and you can no longer use the bus for things you used to use it for. Or you may find that finally there are bus routes that are of use to you (which is their plan). Deb-Bob says check it out.
(In my case, they've actually made it easier to get to UT--there is a longer, but prettier walk to the bus stop and the bus runs every 15 minutes instead of every 35. I don't see any other useful buses to me, just like before; they seem to all go to scary parts of town or places that I would just walk to.)
Part Lord of the Flies (people without boundaries turn bad), part Dollhouse (using people and figuring out what the real goal of the business owners is), part Blade Runner (who is a replicant?) and part Twin Peaks/Lost (do they even know where they're going with this?), this was not really my thing.
It's also supposed to look at issues such as what self-awareness is and what our deepest desires are. Mostly I just found it disturbing. Which doesn't mean I'm not curious about season 2.
Link of the Day - Bus Map - Capital Metro is making huge changes the bus routes later this week and finally I found this map. You can hover your mouse over any routes near you and see if they go anywhere interesting. You may find that your old routes have disappeared and you can no longer use the bus for things you used to use it for. Or you may find that finally there are bus routes that are of use to you (which is their plan). Deb-Bob says check it out.
(In my case, they've actually made it easier to get to UT--there is a longer, but prettier walk to the bus stop and the bus runs every 15 minutes instead of every 35. I don't see any other useful buses to me, just like before; they seem to all go to scary parts of town or places that I would just walk to.)
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on 2018-05-03 10:37 pm (UTC)Dollhouse--what? WHY? That's so many hours of my life I'll never get back.
Sally
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on 2018-05-07 01:07 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2018-05-07 02:05 pm (UTC)I know the red line goes to Cedar Park/Leander partly because train tracks already went there, so they could build cheaply, but I see there's also a bus line out there. No clue.