Westworld - would you visit?

Anyanka Bunny Killer said:
There are those who have idealized perceptions of life in the Old West, which I've never understood. Bathing was infrequent, and most people stank to high heaven.
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Even among the most civilized, the Saturday night bath was part of the ritual so the parishioners didn't stink out the church. Among cowboys, bathing was less frequent. Among prospectors, it may have been an annual thing. This was part of the reason brides carried a bouquet down the aisle - so the stench would be covered by a floral stench.
 
Ethan Reigns said:
This was part of the reason brides carried a bouquet down the aisle - so the stench would be covered by a floral stench.
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Well, I can say I've learned something new today! 😀

The lack of bathing facilities in Westworld would be a real problem for me.
 
WARNING, OFF TOPIC.
There are bathing facilities there along with a swimming hole in the building that has the name The House of Black Thorn. Some folk get everywhere don't we?
 
I just finished it. I found it a bit boring, very predictable and wordy for no reason. I loved some of the characters and actors, they made it enjoyable enough to watch. I'd rate Humans much higher, even Dollhouse was better.

Would I visit? I duno - do the horses buck? I could ride for days in that setting. They better not skimp on the stars.
 
It made sense to me and I could see it was supposed to be a twist, but I suspected early on that Arnold was within - with no records of him left - it was kinda obvious he had a host body somewhere. It was not a surprise more than predicting that particular twist. The names seemed to fit A, B. I duno if thats a thing. And once the old man started planning, I knew how it would all end. Fun to cheer it on.
 
I think the question has to relate to the world as depicted in the original film or this televised version. We don't really have anything else to go on.

Thing is with this sort of thing its very hard to go half-way. You either do the full experience or not. I think there would be too much of a risk involved. After awhile it would be quite boring. And I agree that these things are always more interesting to watch than to be a part of.
 
Anyanka Bunny Killer said:
There are those who have idealized perceptions of life in the Old West, which I've never understood. Bathing was infrequent, and most people stank to high heaven.
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Many of our "idealized" perceptions of the old west come from the way that it has always been depicted in either literature or in the movies. Even before Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, there were dime novels and even legitimate literature that depicted the frontier as being far more adventurous and exciting than it really was, exactly the way that King Arthur and his knights idealized medieval Europe. I grew up with western movies that depicted singing cowboys riding palomino stallions and carried two stag handled Colt revolvers. They never seemed to have any source of income, yet never worried about living expenses. Neither Roy Rogers nor the Lone Ranger made any attempt to be historically accurate, and if they were, we wouldn't have wanted to pay money to see them.

Westworld depicts a futuristic theme park based on that fantasy, not any part of real history, and it modifies that fantasy from a PG-13 theme to an R or even a soft X in order to attract the type of people who could logically afford to go to such a place (affluent men and women with adult tastes and perversions). It's Disneyland meets Las Vegas with robot horses.
 
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