#im still on the fence about whether the show is too inaccessible.

[baltears]

just had the thought that i think the reason people don't "get" westworld (imo) is that they're not reading it in a way that really anticipates it all making sense. like i feel like i watched it once, had my scattered first impressions but felt like i was consistently catching a particularly high quality of writing and a certain sense of internal logic to the show (like, even if it didn't make sense to me at the time, the writers did seem to feel like it made sense to them, everything felt very deliberate), so when i went back and watched it again i was coming at it from the mindset of "how do i read this story in a way that makes everything make sense" (ie read it in a way that feels at least somewhat close to how the writers would) and that made everything come together extremely easily. all the themes came forward super clearly, all the character arcs suddenly made sense and tracked perfectly, the details stood out more because the nature of their significance became obvious, i was able to basically predict a lot of the bare bones plot points in s4 and now with the hypothetical direction of s5 also being obvious i feel like i know how the show is going to end. but i guess not everybody read the show like that