Westworld Season 1 REVIEW!

[@MaciejKarpusiewicz]

This channel is sooo underrated, you guys deserve much more attention, subs, etc. :) Thanks for great content and happy xmas!

[@NerdSoup]

Maciej Karpusiewicz Thank you my friend, Merry Christmas!

[@MrLasso15]

Maciej Karpusiewicz word

[@justinhodge-adams3413]

Maciej Karpusiewicz I agree, I lowkey think what is holding this channel back is the animation. Either do a better animation, slowly transition to "live" conversations

[@jayanti2371]

disagree. i love this retarded animation. the commentary is great, but i doubt i'd be watching if the show was "live"

[@Adwnpinoy310]

Maciej Karpusi

[@karlthefirst8690]

Damn, I have so much to say about this video, but to start- I think you're the only reviewer I've seen who manages to so intelligently & detailedly analyze this show without seeming off-putting and pretentious. While it's nearly impossible to keep people (myself included) interested in a typical review show post-season, a concise and pointed analysis like this made me start thinking about Westworld all over again. Well done, merry merry.

[@michaelerler9228]

The slap for TWD - made my Day!

[@TheNewsDepot]

Yes. Maeve was supposed to go to the mainland. If you freeze the frame at the right moment when Bernard hands her the datapad with her narrative on it, you can clearly see the chapters of the narrative and the chapter after "Escape" reads "Mainland Infiltration" My hypothesis is she was suppose to join human society and rise to a position where she could help the hosts gain legal rights. In fact I think Ford's plan doesn't end with setting the hosts loose and hoping for the best. That body he was printing in his basement is part of his plan somehow. Could he have printed out copies of the board members to replace them once the hosts take them out and dump their bodies in the handy dandy furnace they have? That would put hosts in charge of the company and in a position to usher in a new world order slowly replacing human leaders with hosts.

[@danielcharman9550]

Lol that DC intro is too relatable

[@karlthefirst8690]

Your lady friend's thought about the Friar Laurence quote and how Romeo & Juliet's mutual suicide by tragic misunderstanding stopped me in my tracks. Not only is she the only other person I know of who has mentioned a parallel to Westworld in this specific respect, but she took it an entirely different direction than I had: instead of seeing the same tragic plot play out between William and Dolores, I had seen it in the context of the MiB's reveal about how his real-life wife (named Juliet, by the way) had died. The MiB had died inside in a metaphysical sort of way as a result of his earlier experiences as William in the park, which eventually led to his wife actually killing herself. And the MiB gains a suicide wish as a result of her suicide, going back into the park with the sole desire of the hosts becoming real and gaining the power to fight back, i.e. kill him. I like your Dolores-MiB/William take on it as well. I think I only first thought of the older William-wife Juliet take because of her name, but both are intriguing. Again, great video.

[@mduckernz]

KarltheFirst Yeah, it's a really clever observation!

[@ps-ny7rl]

The animations in these are awkwardly amazing

[@NerdSoup]

A headache My head hurts that is a very accurate assessment my friend lol

[@KulaGGin]

Your animations are very good but video clips from the series you insert suck real hard: 1. 360p resolution? Seriously? With all of these fancy animations? 2. Bitrate. What's up with that 128 kbps bit rate? Why not just take 1080p bluray source and use it? 3. Mono sound. Originally pretty much all movies and shows nowadays are in 5.1. KZbin supports 5.1 sound. Why you use mono when you should be using 5.1? Voice should be on center channel and effects on front left/right and rear left/right

[@kdkseven]

Eh...

[@notquitekeanu]

This intro is incredible. Well done sir.

[@KabbalahSherry]

"Martha...Martha.... Trump is PRESIDENT!!!" 😂😂😂 I DIED 💀💀💀

[@marifrank6196]

i am so impressed with your channel. I absolutely love the main commentator, Blue(not sure your name) Absolutely love to hear your thoughts and deductions on my FAV shows, GOT and Westworld.

[@charleswaldon8362]

been going through your stuff and I have to say, I love watching the content. this truly is an underrated channel. keep it coming, im hooked, I am in.

[@BigSmokinJoe]

Oh my god that intro ia gold!! You guys are incredible, thanks!

[@edbuttree1384]

You really are underrated, Great coverage of Great shows! Just a side note, Love the Bob Ross shirt!

[@JotaP1n]

Dude, this review deserves loads of views!

[@karlthefirst8690]

Oh, and I was in on the discussion to which I think you're referring when someone lit into you about supporting the hosts' cause over the humans (in the show!!). Granted, I think it was just a lone angry commenter, but it raises a good point that you analyzed well here, i.e. the difference between allowing ourselves to follow the emotional logic of a storytelling arc, supporting the characters we're "intended" to support by the work's authors, and that somehow meaning that we would also be swept up in being desirous of the annihilation of the entire human race were this to come to pass in our real world. The distinction should be obvious, but OK, something good came out of that: it was a great illustration of the power of great storytelling, and how we choose to emotionally invest in it, whatever the medium.

[@zincChameleon]

Thanks, Nerd Soup. I'm going to buy a trenchcoat, fedora, a 1938 Ford coupe, and open 'The Zinc Chameleon Detective Agency'.

[@hitmanhatton]

This season on it's own is among the best ever put onto tv. Even though season 2 and 3 weren't as good. They're still propped up by the brilliance of this one

[@jde6561]

Clearly Ford gave Maeve the escape program to test her and put her in the position to as you say "break the loop"..to give her the opportunity the make her own choice. He was betting on that emotional tie with her daughter..what she felt when William killed her daughter...her first real awakening. As for the acting I agree Anthony Hopkins and Evan Rachel Wood are phenomenal but I also feel that most the acting was excellent; especially liked Ed Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Thandie Newton and Leonardo Lam (Felix).But basically all the acting was superb as is to be expected from an HBO show like this and I thank HBO for having HBONOW as I refuse to have cable TV

[@13_faces]

J DE he also said that they turned on ford in the end and killed him.. but didnt ford plan it so that Dolores would find her consciousness and then decide for herself to kill him and then shoot up the crowd, it was his final f u you humanity

[@aaasubs]

Love the tramp stamp, nice touch =)

[@NerdSoup]

Andrey Anisimov hahaha I couldn't resist..

[@MADDMOODY516]

Pixton....

[@Bob11808]

Just found your channel! It's great man, keep it up! Now, Westworld wrecked my mind, it was all i could think about for two days after the last episode.

[@MegaTamer111]

I stumbled upon this channel like 3 hours ago and I already love it. How do you only have 5K subs? you deserve 1mil.

[@tnpsupporter]

They will get there in 18 months. Already at 150k.

[@metinaydogdu2616]

this deserves sooooo many views.... God damn this is so good

[@ernesto8290]

I started watching yall from GoT but just started watching Westworld, and man, I love your videos. I just finished s1

[@FenrirInFlowers]

I always thought Ford knew about Maeve, but I was guessing from the first time it was mentioned that he was the person who was changing her code. I mean mysterious person toying with her code under Arnold's name and who had tons of permissions and knowledge... who else could it have been? As a result, Maeve's story was always one of my favorites.

[@chrismartin3613]

More people need to know about this channel... Great job, awesome stuff

[@vertigoz]

By most mechanical and dirty hand, I shall have such revenges on you... both! The things I will do, what they are, yet I know not but they shall be the terrors of the earth! You don't know where you are, do you? You are in a prison of your own sins.

[@Lucie.Greening]

vertigoz Every single line delivered on screen makes you think really hard and long just to what lengths they had to go in order to make everything click at the end of episode 10. Meticulous.

[@kennyknight07]

Love your review. One point though.... I think what trigger the host to transcend may not be simplified as "Trouma" , from my perspective. "LOVE" .... the ability to love truely.... may be the true journey inward to achieve "human consciousness" Deloris broke outside of her loop after her parents were brutally killed. She also escape her home to find the truth.... as she said in scene... "I lost people I care so dearly~~~" She also was asked if she wanted to be removed of the memories of the death of parents , and "Said did not want to let go of the only thing she had left of her beloved parents... Same thing with Mave... She reacted so VIOLENTLy when people were trying to remove of her daughter's memories... S1... the creators are still in exploring stage themselves... They weren't sure if they could get a "go ahead " for the next season... So they did try to give their best shot to gain popularity. " I am sure the creators will do much more home work and try to define what WW will be standing for. The drama must have a strong core big bone- to build strong frame/foundation of the arc of story. The scale of theme itself is very simple minded... thus impactful and does stand out amongst the clusters of flood of series. But doesn't have the core as strong as that of GOT, which includes everything.... of humanities...upto world's environment / the faith of the people / earth. Personally I believe the creative industries which tend to lean toward the LEFT side, wanted to lead people into "Women in power and justify the fact."" .... but the brainwash, could not withstand the hackers from Cremlins... hahaha... What do u think?

[@kennyknight07]

forgot to mention... Arnold lost of his child... And the theme from classic tales " Pinnoccio" ~~~> wooden doll turn human... with love of him to his creator.

[@kdkseven]

-Underlying not underlining. -Inexplicable not inexplainable. -Michael 'Critton'? Otherwise, excellent overview! Especially appreciated Marissa's insight.

[@murtrahnosemaj4961]

So interesting we had such opposite opinions on the Meave Arch. It may have been one of my favorites leading up to the end, but I do agree the end was brilliant I thought the entire subplot was wacky entertaining. Just the idea of her being aware of the park while trying to play the game was too brilliant. . . The secret main character though? TEDDY! xD

[@matthiascieslik5301]

When Mave was going down to the train, I got goosebumps and was so emotional that I almost cried! In the train I saw it coming...I thought "they will do that - we will go back..." but I secretely hoped that she would leave the parc because i would have liked to see what she is doing...but for her chracter-arc it was the right thing to do. Great video BTW! :D

[@dpakk]

you should also post the audio files on the vids as podcasts! amazing job

[@lexbenjamin]

This is the best review/explanation of WestWorld that I've seen so far. Well done people.

[@lauchlan17]

Great stuff as always, keep up the great work!

[@kaiman6539]

this channel just became my go to chnnel for show reviews

[@Latrina_Bidet_IRS_Enfrocer]

Thank you for this truly wonderful analysis and review! Still trying to process everything after the end of season 1, and this has really aided in the catharsis.

[@VHSandALLtheREST]

OMG where have you been in all my life!!! It's been two months since you made a vid. I need my movie/tv show fix! Hope you doing okay. We all miss you!

[@DarioCruzII]

Merry fucking Christmas everyone!

[@AceSpaceSpades]

well done guys. please keep some analysis, predictions, or theories coming during the off-season. Merry Christmas.

[@Lucie.Greening]

Had to check the Globes nominations just to be freaking sure. They goofed up big time. So neither Sir Hopkins nor Ed Harris... Only further proves everyone's fairly low opinion about these ceremonies. Thanks for the video, though. Funny and interesting to watch. Earned yourself a sub. Have a lovely day!

[@KatyColby]

Please do a video on the Westworld season2 preview. I love your GOT videos but I discovered this channel because of Westworld. (I'm having serious Westworld withdrawal,)

[@KellieDoll28]

✨Back in March you’d 5k subs. Now it’s 145k subs!! ✨Congratulations you guys are FANTASTIC !! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🌟🌟🌟

[@MrLasso15]

Word Hopkins golden globe

[@sdom401]

Dolores's cornerstone is William coming for her. Teddy's new loop with Dolores is exactly that to mimic William to keep her there...content...in Westworld. When she finds out the MIB is William she realize he is no different than all the rest ( of mankind) and at that point she feels it's time to let it all go. Dolores is Fedrick Nietzsche's Overman.

[@kisusti]

Quick fact check: at 21:10 you claim that Inception was written by Jonathan Nolan, but I failed to find any evidence of that. The other three titles you mention were indeed co-written by him, along with his big brother Christopher. Like the channel by the way, keep up the good work. Cheers!

[@NerdSoup]

Yes, you are right. I assumed Jonathan had co-written the script with his brother. Thank you for watching my friend!

[@phlyghstaff9965]

More, about anything. I love this channel!

[@sienakay]

Nerd Soup.... I fuckin love you guys. I literally only watched Westworld so that I could watch your Westworld videos when I ran out of GoT.... Thank you

[@trooperkev19r5]

I hope they keep the mysteries in season 2, but chaos sound like there could be some twists. Can't wait to watch your videos for season 2.

[@toml1281]

Fantastic review and analysis, love this channel. Happy Christmas! :) x

[@NerdSoup]

Tom L Thank you my friend! and merry Christmas to you!

[@Cramble21]

Awesome review, Merry Christmas from Sweden!

[@NerdSoup]

Thanks, Captain!

[@mossadon]

Nice xmas bonus ! Thanks guys. i've been thoroughly enjoying your content and poppin online with an xmas beer and a smoke this is a nice lil extra xmas present. ...and that intro.... :D Merry Yule and here's to more great content next year and i'm sure more subs, y'all deserve it. >Raises bottle of beer< CHEERS! >glug glug glug glug

[@ResilientWon]

That intro was awesome!

[@ilyabolshevich3975]

Love you guys cool animations

[@johnandersonii]

I looked at the Dr. Ford character very differently. I saw him as a person who doesn't crave power and manipulation, but a person of conviction. I think Dr. Ford is convinced that the androids shouldn't ever become "a real boy", and this conviction is his main motivation, while keeping the secret of the android's evolution is a secondary motivation. I'm not sure about the secondary motivation, but I kind of agree with his primary motivation. These androids are capable of being dangerous to humanity, and I think Dr. Ford recognizes that, and believes he can subtly manipulate West World into fixing this problem without anyone getting wind of it. At least until the end. Now I don't know what is going on.

[@relytnehpets154]

You should do a review/analysis of the new westworld trailer.

[@Judessin]

All i was thinking was that so many hosts did something outside their loop, but it did not alarm in the control room like it was shown first episode. minor nitpick. Ford could not have hidden that all

[@CibiCZ]

Great summary.Keep it up the subs will come !

[@caroososanti7829]

Nice, thank you for the video

[@NerdSoup]

caro osoSanti thank you for watching! Happy Holidays!

[@calibanxpable]

William is the innocence of a human being. The Man in Black is the corruption of a human being. This is why both actors come off very different.

[@davidpo5517]

[Spoilers:] I'm mixed on the show. The reveal of who the Man in Black was is the best twist I've seen in forever! It was awesome!!! But the reveal that the androids can become truly alive by searching for their own consciousness in a psychological maze via trauma was just stupid. And then to have Ford--the one guy who claims the androids aren't alive--only to then go and reveal he not only believes it but he wants them to replace humanity! Just no...it ruined the realism for me.

[@uhtijmai]

Somehow couldn't get an emotional connection with this series... Dark was more of my liking.... Nice video

[@ali6125ali]

First: Great review as always. Second: where in h*** were these writers when LOST needed to be tied up??? Best season ending ever🤯🤯🤯🤩😍

[@jessharkness5534]

i know i'm literally 4 years late but i just watched season 1-- and I noticed a plot hole, maybe I'm remembering the scene wrong, but when Dolores and Ford have their conversation, the one where Dolores asks if they're old friends, Ford mentions that Dolores was the only one there when Arnold died, the only one who remembers... but Teddy was clearly there as well, right? And he also obviously has flashbacks to the massacre that he and Dolores performed? I don't think it's important to the plot or anything, just an inconsistency that I noticed.

[@madworldproductions855]

I was hoping for a West World type twist because of the constantly switching between who he was talking to

[@larrygm18]

Are you kidding! The dude has the painter on his sweater. SOOO Funny!

[@MartialArtzz]

oh my god 0:32 is one of the most relateable things ever

[@Peekul1]

great review... hard to know where the show goes from here. They used a lot of their best shots.

[@Erni3K]

Coming back to this after the Snyder Cut....Oh Beau. You really did care, all this time.

[@ProjectShadow4]

Just love your channel 😁

[@anudtp]

You had me from before minute 1!!!

[@NerdSoup]

LOL! Thank for you watching!

[@5TailFox]

No. If you did see it coming, it just means you more than likely played Fallout 4 before Westworld came out. Because (Spoiler Alert!) the replacing humanity with Synths thing was essentially what the character "Father" wanted to do in the game. And if you played through the story of that game, it becomes pretty obvious early on that you're essentially watching what happens when someone makes a tv show about The Institute. At least that's how it was for me.

[@stevedowning4572]

Having just seen "FutureWorld" the sequel to the original 1973 movie, I'm hoping that's the direction the show follows in future seasons

[@gutenberggg3689]

Hi Nerd Soup, is it somehow possible to download your videos as a podcast? Sometimes I'm driving for hours in my car and it would be really nice to be able to listen to your discussions while driving :p

[@ThenManuelPerin]

i think its time i sub to you man you guys are great :)

[@sligiseesi5393]

nice tat!;-) great job guys

[@theOGofREDS]

Isnt the kid in the park Anthony Hopkins? My question is who repairs him if it belongs to Ford?

[@Swaay420]

Can’t read through all the comments..but, if Bernard was an exact clone of Arnold, was his death unknown to anyone but Ford? (been awhile since I watched, don’t remember)

[@jema.flores]

You guys are too fucking underrated. And it hurts.

[@anhaymsn]

Lol that opening though!

[@theOGofREDS]

Hopkins brings out the best in women. Clarice and now Dolores...

[@Laura-ck2hh]

That's it, I have to subscribe to this channel. You guys are AWESOME! You make me feel smarter and dumber at the same time, and I laugh SO much.

[@thenickseditious]

I love nerdsoup Jesus u guys are hilarious when he slapped him lol

[@krichardj]

Lol! Martha Trump Whiskey Tango TWD7 this is brutally funny. Review is great too.

[@Lmnop913]

Nicely done.

[@MaxHarley80]

Did you read the "Bicameral Mind" book, or did you get a summary somewhere? I'd like to learn more about it.

[@NerdSoup]

Haven't had a chance to read it yet, but I'm planning on it. I really want to make a video solely focusing on the bicameral mind theory.

[@morriemukoda45]

Did is see wings on the back of the blue weird thing?

[@surfohio1173]

Thanks for the review man I really appreciate it.

[@NerdSoup]

No problem! Thanks for watching!

[@surfohio1173]

If you take requests Once Upon a time in the West: review

[@jackdutfield6096]

Merry Christmas everyone

[@theworldneedsmorehippies]

Hi Nerd Soup, can you do a review of "A Cure for Wellness"

[@Jwolf31B]

I've watched this video several times, how am I just noticing the tram stamp on Blue Cricket (can't remember your name)

[@Mordamir]

I like to think that some if not most the employees in the show are also Hosts. My reasoning of this is because the weapons within the facility (all of which are made in the facility) are seemingly built with the sole purpose of disposing the Hosts, even the security (QA?) weapons are only ever used on the Hosts. So why would QAs weapons work on other human beings if all they ever do is dispose of Hosts? Note that all the Host are almost indistinguishable to humans I also don't think that Maeve or any of the characters have "broken the loop". They're only stuck within a new loop that they, the Hosts, aren't aware of that was created by Robert Ford. Everything just seemed to convenient to me.

[@TexasRed99]

Totally thought that was baby Yoda by the fire place then I looked at how long ago the video was posted

[@andymcleod8276]

What are the best shows of 2016?

[@presidentecamacho8579]

Hola nerdsoup...................... I was waiting for your move..lol

[@kalepro]

I enjoy you guys

[@jimmythekiller8148]

hahahaha.. limit your emotional affect. what prompted that response? fucking perfect.

[@elisawhitney5599]

Love it! You're awesome

[@NerdSoup]

Elisa Whitney Thank you Elisa! Happy Holidays!

[@confusedabsurdist]

Yo, Negan from Walking Dead was still pretty cool. Even if the show sucks.

[@NerdSoup]

Frank Sinatra Agreed. I really enjoy waking dead and JDM is the man.

[@confusedabsurdist]

I wish they wouldn't use so many clichés and instead try to bring more originality. Sadly the show has gotten to a point where every episode is pretty predictable. Except maybe episode one of season 7. They don't make enough episodes like that one. But I'm glad we have Westworld. It's something new and it tells it's story in a very different way. For me it's the best show running right now. I love nearly everything about it. But then again, TV Shows always struggeled with keeping the quality and I guess that's the biggest problems with the small screen. Movies do not have to deal with these kind of problems. Still, I am continuing to watch The Walking Dead, because of some good parts that the show has, despite it's narrative problems.

[@NerdSoup]

Walking dead definitely should have ended with no more than five seasons. It's not a story that can be stretched out to 8 or 9 seasons because then it just becomes repetitive.

[@nickmattio3397]

Stopped watching Walkin Dead after season 3 with the prison just getting so cheestacular

[@charlesthompson8013]

I have a theory and wondering if u made the connection being so close to it but u havent mentioned it in any of your videos but back to my theory but i dont see ford letting himself die like that cuz like you said he wants to b immortal and he said its a narrative that hes been working on for a long time so i think that since arnolds death he has been uploading his mind while he figures out how to get thru the maze via mave or Delores which would mean the body in the secret lab being built is him all the while letting mave n delores n bernard free all the dormant hosts when ford was ready to die so they would kill all humans that would have a chance to stop the transistion n n e one with knowledge of his death or n e thing that happened there n ill bet like the other deaths he will cover them up like a plane crash or big accident cuz u have to admit the amount of control he has over the other hosts is nothing short but extraordinary makes me think he might already b a host n the body in the lab will b a back up like the seen with Theresa how he makes all those hosts stop in the whole area without saying a word even if a word was said how did it stop the ones hundreds of yards away since u already seen the rest of his family in that secret house n i coukd see him wanting to be able to spend eternity with his loved ones

[@20DollarGoldPiece]

I wouldn't mind if they don't make a second season

[@Tadaia]

That tramp-stamp tho lol