[Shaun]

well

Just watched episode eight and it confused me, really. And I'm worried I'm tiring of the show already... everything seems to be boiled down to just Ford and his machinations and I'm not sure that's a premise big enough to interest me in the long run? Like every possible emotional following point now has either already been exposed as an orchestration by him (Bernard, Dolores), or I'm constantly thinking is secretly down to him (Maeve, William, The Man in Black). I guess this is why I never bothered getting into Lost, I kept hearing bad things about the need for a mystery being greater than the story being told.

It seems to be killing off surplus (female) characters (sort-of growing to understand those negative reviews... it's a bit formulaic now, just bash the woman's head in, strangle her, blah blah blah) that're sort of interesting to me (ALL THE WHILE KEEPING OBNOXIOUS ****HEADS WITH NO TANGIBLE STORYLINE VALUE. SIZEMORE. LOGAN. SYLVESTER.)... I should imagine Charlotte will go the same way soon

I don't know, I'm enjoying the concepts the show are throwing about but not so much...the show itself, the past few episodes. For once, I agree with the AV Club

“Trace Decay” didn’t need to be about Bernard’s efforts to cover his tracks, but it’s mark of how Westworld has struggled to deliver as an episodic TV show that this introduction and casual discard of a potentially strong hook is as disappointing as it is. Wanting to know the answers isn’t the same as crafting a well-rounded narrative—it’s the reason we don’t weep over crosswords. The show hasn’t completely failed to deliver interesting characters, but it has done an inconsistent job at finding ways to make those characters matter as more than just pieces in the machine.