【The following content is all the non-professionals watching the drama, including the first to third episodes of the TV series and the plot of the 1973 movie of the same name. Those who have not seen it, please be careful. ]
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Westworld's reference price for one week (Source: Autobrot)
Scenic area in the park (Source: iBrunch)
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E05: Contrapasso
[In view of the spectator curse downstairs LZ is even more dead to the whole family, LZ is still a bit more: added the source explaining the difference between scene and moment, please don't die the whole family LOL] The
host came to slap himself in the face. The so-called "big action in the fifth episode" by the creators should be to expose that the man in black and William are in different timelines. The so-called "revealing" refers to the "instant" transfer of Lawrence to the park under construction as a wanted criminal after being bled by a man in black. This article details the brain holes that reddit users started as early as the second episode: William was the man in black 30 years ago.
"Western World" has a good setting and has the potential to extend many stories based on the original work. The huge fan base is also willing to analyze the details of the play and guess the plot direction. In the first episode, I did not hesitate to give a five-star praise (actually 9/10, excellent, but not perfect), for perfect photography, outstanding performance, and in-depth script. An excellent narrative is not about bluffing the audience with the information that the audience needs to master in a few words, but showing it to the audience through the expression, dialogue, and interaction of the characters (the so-called "Don't spell it. Show it."). In the next few episodes, the level plummeted. The introduction to the role of Arnold is simply a textbook exposition scene, without any fascinating feeling. In contrast, the introduction to the character of Bernard’s son in the first episode is much more subtle: Bernard says he has no children, but the audience sees a picture of a little boy in a seemingly inattentive lens after a long time (not perfect, But very subtle).
Another flaw that is getting more and more serious is that " Westworld " seems to have forgotten how to "Make a scene, not just a moment." [Refer to this wonderful appreciation of Nerdwriter1To help understand the difference between a scene and a moment] There are many unforgettable scenes in the first episode: Walter [Timothy Lee DePriest] blood washes the bar, the milk drank from the shot abdomen, the audience and the two trapped tourists at the same time Feeling an extreme panic; Hector ransacks Sweetwater and pays tribute to the classic westerns, looking enthusiastic. Even in the fourth episode, there are many scenes: The man in black helps Hector escape from prison, the magical effect of "cigar"; the rivalry between Maeve and Hector, in order to find out the truth.
But in the next few episodes, there are too many moments that cannot resonate with emotion. Watching Dolores wake up in bed, scenes can be counted in the first episode (because it is closely linked to her fate the night before), and later it becomes a scene like completing the task. Watching Bernard talk to Dolores in fragments time and time again, but also to pave the way for the follow-up plot, and also to complete the task. In this episode of the rivalry between Sir Anthony Hopkins and Ed Harris, I thought I would see the wet, but it turned into a moment without feeling. In the last scene, Maeve got up and teased the bird, not as shocking as the first episode of Dolores slapping the flies to death-there is no bedding, it is out of nothing, it is a moment, not a scene. The audience can't connect with the characters in the play, and gradually they will not care about the fate of the characters: if you want to die or live, the screenwriter is happy, I don't give as#!t. What? This episode also revealed that the "Western World" theme park was attacked by commercial spies? Sorry, I don't care about the development of your company at all.
Sometimes I wonder, would it be better to write six episodes of the "Western World" learning English drama? Sometimes I wonder, would it be better if the screenwriter and director trusted the audience’s IQ to let the audience infer the plot? Okay, I can’t do it anymore, 5/10, abandon the drama......
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E04: Dissonance Theory
Okay, this drama has become less and less featureless and has no highlights... It's actually pretty cool when it comes to westerns. The key points of this episode are briefly listed below:
1. Who told you that the belt of Orion only has three stars, and the vision of the robot may be very good, and then the star near Betelgeuse is also carved on it. Besides, the connection method of Orion is the connection method of human astronomy. AI can completely imagine the graphics in the night sky.
2. The people in black want all kinds of real human identities. The tourists all came forward to express their gratitude: "I want to express my sincere gratitude to you. The fund you set up saved my sister (or sister). A life.” At the same time, the man in black was sitting on the same timeline as William.
3. The "maze" should be the ultimate level designed by Arnold himself. Not only is the man in black looking for the entrance, Bernard is also encouraging Dolores to enter the maze to find the center.
4. Unsurprisingly, the next clue provided by Armistice [Ingrid Bolsø Berdal] is Wyatt [Sorin Brouwers]. The man in black will definitely meet Teddy again... I'll go, I really will meet again... James is too bad Dedicated to work 233, I should be stripped of being tied to a tree...
5. The action drama was originally a specialty of this drama, but after a few episodes, the repetition marks are too heavy. We saw the second episode of the one-to-many rescue of Lawrence by the man in black outside the frame, and there is no sincerity to do it again. Hector yawned at the beginning of the scene of beating, smashing and looting, but fortunately, there was an opponent scene with Maeve at the back, otherwise it would be really boring.
6. The password of the safe: 60-47-XX, what is the last two digits, and will there be any easter eggs...
7. The only different estimate in each episode is Teddy's 10,000 ways to die.
Go back and continue to brush " Black Mirror》, so far in the third season, I haven’t seen an episode that is more depressing than the first seven episodes (including the Christmas special episode). I don’t know if the psychological endurance has become stronger or Charlie Brooker can’t write six episodes at a time. NS. In the later period of "Western World", I don’t have to work hard and want to abandon the drama. Look at the next episode of Sir Anthony Hopkins and Ed Harris's rivalry...
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E03: The Stray
Fan-made posters for the third episode (Source: pandrewclark)
In this episode of photography Robert McLachlan, you come out, and I promise not to hit you... Teddy taught Dolores to shoot the scene, the green screen CGI watched a good show...
Guess the plot of William and Logan is 30 years ago, you can shut up 233, obviously It's the plot at the same time. William can't be the man in black.
In terms of plot, the third episode fills in many pits dug in the first two episodes. William took the initiative to intervene in the plot designed by the park, unexpectedly "shot", explaining that the bullet is "not lethal" to the real person, but it does not mean that he will not be hit and cause bruising. Teddy taught Dolores to shoot, but Dolores was unable to press the trigger, indicating that some of the hosts were specifically programmed to "can shoot, not hit the vital points or injure tourists." This point was confirmed later-Elsie and Stubbs found a group of hosts trapped in the narrative loop. The reason was that the only host allowed to hit the axe went off the track [no more teasing]. You can compare the setting that Dolores can’t fire a gun. Determined to see. The flashback clip [young Dr. Ford is so handsome, the CGI here looks like a young real person ], explaining that the "trouble" of the hosts is not deliberately caused by Dr. Ford, but rather "meditating" on the part of the hosts. He was able to access the code of Dr. Ford's former colleague Arnold, and this former colleague Arnold died in the garden. At present, fans have speculated that the man in black is Arnold's son, so struggling to fight the barrier, maybe they want to understand the truth of his father's death. Bernard did have a son. He worked with Dolores' code as if he wanted to create an artificial intelligence son.
We can also infer how easy it is for visitors to choose games. The tourist who wanted to make Dolores find one of the "Milk Bandits" in the first episode, Rebus [Steven Ogg], to be a pimp, and found out that it would trigger a duel with Teddy, so he had no guts to follow him at night. Teddy took a few tourists to play the plot of the bounty hunter, and his old opponent (new plot) also took another group of tourists to release the bestiality. Teddy died several times, and this time I felt the cruelest death...
Of course, what must be mentioned is the collective awakening of bionics. Maeve remembered seeing Teddy's "corpse"; Dolores rewritten his program in an emergency and pulled the trigger; the host that ran off the road carved the same pattern on all the statuettes [a kid who grew up in the northern hemisphere should be able to get a glimpse Recognizing that it is Orion, I'm curious why Elsie doesn't know]. To know the origin of human physics, it can be traced back to the ancients looking at the stars in the distance trying to solve the mystery of heaven. The mad robot is really terrible—lifting a rock and smashing it down on his head, the picture is so beautiful that I dare not look at it... As expected of HBO, the first episode is Huang, this episode is violent. So now AI has the ability to hurt itself, and the three laws of robots are all eaten by dogs... Lee is a big metamorphosis, and the horror plot designed is really terrifying...
In general, the story is gradually unfolding, and there are seven Episode, let’s guess which episode of the robot riot happened~~
Sui Sui Nian:
You said Teddy this setting: the first episode of the hero saves the beauty and was shot to death; in the second episode, he was shot with soy sauce and was shot to death. ; The third episode was not shot to death, but was hacked to death by tricks. The screenwriter is muddy!
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E02: Chestnut
Fan-made posters for the second episode (Source: pandrewclark)
I never expected HBO GO to broadcast the second episode three days in advance. After watching it, it gave me a very complicated feeling. Drop a one-star overall rating, and seek a rational discussion.
First of all, I think the first episode is too hard and too delicate, which makes it difficult for the second episode to reach the level of the first episode. In this episode, Brendan Galvin is the cameraman, and the picture still maintains the beauty of the previous episode. However, it is not clear whether it is the book issue of Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy or the editing issue of Mark Yoshikawa. This episode has a clear sense of narrative fracture. The video material provided by the director Richard J. Lewis is quite good. I think if the order in which these materials appear can be fine-tuned, the story may be smoother. For example, the scene where Dolores wakes up at night immediately after the opening is a bit too fragmented. In addition, two consecutive episodes gradually entered the opening scene with the same voice-over and pictures, which made me feel a little aesthetic fatigue, a sense of repetition but no sense of innovation. For a science fiction drama, the lack of innovation is one of the reasons why I am less than three-and-a-half stars in the second episode. If the opening part is changed to the scene of William [Jimmi Simpson] waking up on a bullet train and arriving in the West, I think it will achieve better results.
Logan [Ben Barnes] is really a playboy, and his a**hole nature is exposed in seconds. Logan, an old driver with a duck in his left hand and a chicken in his right (literally) immediately contrasted with the junior player William. In the scene at the train terminal, William and Angela [Talulah Riley, Mei Cry] had a very interesting conversation:
Angela: Any history of mental illness, depression, panic attacks?
William: Still fear of clowns...
Angela:…
William: Joking.
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William: I thought that you couldn't get hurt in here.
Angela: [Seriously] Only the right amount.
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Angela & William: [Laugh in relief] In
just a few sentences of dialogue, we can get a glimpse of what the Western World is like At the same time, it is very "inadvertently" that the AI level of the bionic human has been thrown away from the Turing test. I remember that an English teacher in junior high school once said that mastering a language does not depend on how beautiful you write, how fluently, and how clearly you hear, but whether you can tell a joke when you are sitting with a foreigner . Under the setting of "Western World", AI has obviously been able to simulate human humor. More information about the park is also listed in this play, such as the general distribution of the park (relatively simple and safe in the center, more difficult and dangerous as you go to the outside, like the difficulty level of the game), tailored for each visitor Fashion (from cowboy boots to leather trousers, from denim shirts to jackets, all tailor-made, still available for selection). The dressing scene successfully shaped William's integrity and innocence. The white cowboy hat, that ONE final touch, is perfect. However, Angela still only gave an ambiguous answer as to why tourists can't hurt other tourists-You can't kill anyone you're not suppose to.
Next, the camera cuts to the conversation between Bernard and Elsie, the same, very strange way of cutting [strong] and [inserting]. However, in this scene, I answered how the staff “surveilled” every storyline of every host in real time, and wondered where the surveillance cameras were installed. The camera turned again and cut to the point that Dolores spoke the line of "Romeo and Juliet" to Maeve, as if he wanted to express that this sentence alone could "activate" the memory of the bionic person's "past life", and it could be regarded as a transfection virus. Then the camera cuts back to William choosing a hat and walks into a room that looks like a bar. Unexpectedly, this is the steam train entering the park. This series of jumping back and forth lacks internal connection and logic, and the result is a sense of discontinuity in the narrative. It is not shocking enough to reveal that the bar is actually a steam train leaving a "cavity" (compared to the scene of " Snow Train " exiting the tunnel), William looked out the window in surprise, and Logan stepped forward to talk to each other. The location is very strange, maybe changing to another camera can eliminate this sense of dissonance), the only praiseworthy thing is the piano variation theme song in the bar .
On the other hand, the men in black continued to fight and upgrade. The screenwriters seem to be desperate to convince the audience that the man in black is really a tourist, and by the way, they answered the question "why the man in black kills and kills the staff". People want to give so much money. You can play whatever you want, what do you care about so much. I still believe that the men in black are humans (although the failure rate of this guess seems to be high). Finally, after the man in black almost "slaughtered the city", finally got through the plot of the next level: Lawrence [Clifton Collins Jr.]'s daughter [Izabella Alvarez] told him: The maze isn't meant for you. I am looking forward to the plot that can only be hit by Gaowan.
This episode seems to want to pay attention to Maeve's past and her awakening. I admit that Maeve woke up from the operating table and fled to the disinfection room of the concentration camp. The shot was very textured. The contrast between the living life and the cold building was very horrifying. But the plot about her, like the plot between William and the man in black, was cut into pieces, causing another fatal injury in this episode: no focus, no center. Adding fuel to the fire, the screenwriter also went to this episode of the secret affair between Bernard and the supervisor Theresa [Sidse Babett Knudsen], which is a bit out of nowhere. Then there was Teddy playing soy sauce, which made people feel that he didn’t need to appear in this episode, so that he was later shot to death by drunken tourists, which failed to bring me the emotional impact that I should have, and wasted the good character construction. Chance.
Dr. Ford and the little boy [Oliver Bell] play in the garden is intended to dig holes to lead the audience to jump in, but there is too much information hidden. How much to hide, how much to show, you need to carefully draw boundaries. You have been working for a long time to show me a cross on a high tower. I'm sorry, but you don't have much interest in understanding Dr. Ford's "original plot". In the works produced by JJ Abrams in the past few years, there are such annoying shadows everywhere, and when the ending is revealed, it will be all sorts of wilting. But I beg JJ to destroy "Western World" by destroying "Lost".
In general, the second episode can be described as hot mess. There are good performances, excellent pictures, and excellent soundtrack. But the structure is loose, the sense of substitution is not strong, and the foreshadowing is not stunned. Can only hope that the level of the third episode will rise.
Sui Sui Nian:
1. Was it an ice wolf that ran through the scene on the streets of the corpse? LOL! "GOT" is actually the medieval world. Let's make a crossover between the two dramas!
2. In the second episode, the scene transition abuses the black screen, full of the low sense of the public station TV series. I wonder if it is the reason why the director has directed "CSI" in the past. The first episode is too much like a movie, and the second episode is too much like a TV series. It's fine if it's a little like a miniseries.
3. I like a few details of William: he immediately apologized when he hit the "person"; Logan was wiping the "bloodstain" on the cowboy hat when the clouds and rain fell next door. It's time to give Dolores a good man. If the screenwriter decides to blacken William, he can consider sending the blade, eh.
4. So Lee's original preparation of the American Civil War story was rejected by Dr. Ford. In fact, I really wanted to watch it... The trailer has a picture of James Marsden in a federal army uniform (for adoption). You can still look forward to it. of.
5. It seems that Bernard has a side-project for Dolores, so he tries to keep Elsie out of it. This episode also embodies Dolores’ amazing AI level. It is an excerpt from Lu Sixi ’s words downstairs : She cleverly avoided questions when she was asked. In the second episode [Bernard] asked her if you told anyone about our conversation, she directly said you told me not to. How exquisite!
6. Before Lawrence was put down from the gallows, he clearly uncovered the blindfold. Why did he cover it again as he walked? The man in black slaughtered the city and fired 11 shots with 8 bullets ( screenshot ). He was also drunk, and promised to have a spare bullet magazine .
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E01: The Original
The first episode themed poster made by fans (Source: pandrewclark)
I have watched the 1973 movie version of "Western World", and this time HBO adapted it. Based on the narrative style of the first episode, you can see that there are more or less differences between the TV series and the movie version. However, whether it is a movie or a TV series, the core idea that I want to express is similar: human beings’ fear of technology.
The film introduced the domestic translation of "Blood Wash Paradise" that year may be closer to the fear that the film wanted to express. The bionic people were infected with "viruses" [you should know that computers had just become popular at that time, and even "computer viruses" were unimaginable things] were out of control. So began to slaughter the tourists in the theme park, which led to the fun-filled western vulgar jokes in the first half of the movie, and the second half of the movie turned into a horror movie. And TV series, as the screenwriters say, they want to explore deeper things. The bionics are not infected with the virus here, but have self-awareness.
Perhaps this is why, unlike in the movie, we follow a tourist into the park. In the first episode, we as the audience enter the world through the perspective of Dolores [Evan Rachel Wood]. In a series of questions from the staff (voice-over) to Dolores, we know that Dolores is a bionic, and so is her father. The staff then asked her: "What do you think of the guests?" We immediately saw Teddy [James Marsden] riding a train to the theme park. A tourist sitting in front of him was talking to another tourist. Let’s start with his experience here: the first time the whole family came together, fishing, and riding horses; the second time I came alone and did everything [went straight evil], and it was also called "best two weeks of my life".
Teddy walked off the platform of the train station, very satisfied with the world. He passed by the sheriff, and the sheriff asked him if he wanted to replace the last bailiff who was shot. He replied "Not today, sheriff." He walked into the bar and refused the "invitation" from the prostitute, and then he saw Dolores. Teddy chased out the bar and picked up the can that Dolores accidentally dropped. Dolores raised his head, "You came back." Teddy replied, "I told you I would." They rode toward the sunset, at the edge of the canyon, Dolores said to Teddy, "I forget you dress like a cowboy, but that's about the extent of it." At this point, Teddy's identity as a tourist is confirmed. It seems that he has been to the park before and is still in love with Dolores vigorously. In the night, when the two were about to return to Dolores's house, Dolores found that something was not right, and his father should have been driving the cow back long ago. After that, the plot took a turn for the worse. Dolores' parents were both "killed", and Dolores met a man in black who claimed to be an "old friend" [Ed Harris]. The man in black said that he had come (to play) for thirty years, but Dolores didn't remember him at all. The man in black provokes Teddy and asks him to fight, but when Teddy shoots, he finds that the bullet can’t hurt the man in black. [In the original movie, the gun has a heat sensor and cannot shoot a real person. Obviously in the 21st century, it’s higher. The bullets of technology can't hurt real people]. Just when everything seemed to be out of control, the man in black killed Teddy with a single shot [stunned]. Teddy fell to the ground, Dolores being dragged away by the man in black reflected in his dilated pupils.
WTF! Was it already out of control in the first episode? Didn't it say that a good bullet can't hurt a real person? Why did Teddy die like this? Oh, no, double WTF! So... Teddy... is also... a bionic...? Why is there a feeling of being fooled by the screenwriter, so [no] not [you] cool [stop].
I have to say that the opening 15 minutes of the first episode is one of the best openings I have ever watched in a TV series.
The remaining time of the first episode is mainly used to pave the way for the awakening of the bionic. Dr. Robert Ford [Anthony Hopkins] intends to upgrade these bionics, and seems to accidentally trigger the self-awareness of artificial intelligence. Dolores' father found a photo accidentally left by a tourist and doubted his reality. On the other hand, the man in black insisted that there are deeper games to play on the surface of this paradise, bleeding, scalping, everything, cruel and cruel.
It's also really troublesome level designer Lee Sizemore [Simon Quarterman]. In order not to disturb the tourists, the desperado Hector [Rodrigo Santoro] used various backdoor plug-ins to rob and kill "people" in the town a week earlier, and by the way, the problem of recalling more than 200 bionics at one time was solved. Just as Lee impassionedly said that someone could finally listen to the lines he designed for Hector, unexpectedly Hector was shot and killed by a newly appointed tourist bailiff. The pain of playing a game can’t reach a certain ending, I know you...
The scripts of Jonathan Nolan and his wife Lisa Joy also pay attention to details. reaction. Until the last scene of the whole episode, Dolores killed the flies flying to her neck. Even if the "father" was replaced because of the "awakening" of a photo accidentally left by a tourist, and even if Dolores repeatedly emphasized that he did not feel the nonsense of the "father", Dolores and this group of recently upgraded bionics are welcoming Awakening from my consciousness. Dr. Robert Ford, you give artificial intelligence programming the characteristic of making mistakes, you really won't die if you don't die.
Listening to the words of the previous tourists Teddy met, you will know how distorted the performance of this show is:
——F**k it. He leads us to the canyon and we get bored. We just use him for target practice.
In addition to the risk of bionic riots in the theme park, the world outside the park is also full of bloody potential. The founder, board of directors, controlling shareholders, and management personnel of the park will form a very interesting triangle of checks and balances. Foreseeing what will happen, we can only wait for the decomposition next week.
TV dramas are trying to define a new "horror", and the scale of HBO is even wider than the point-to-stop pornography of movies. The first episode was directed by Jonathan Nolan and shot by Paul Cameron. The wide-angle view of the west is so beautiful and fascinating. It is said that the investment in the first episode (just this one) is as high as 25 million, so it's no wonder that it was a movie. Ramin Djawadi music solely by the control, from the fantastic titles , to orchestral adaptation of the Rolling Stones "Paint It Black", to achieve the perfect combination of modern and Western. It seems that the only ones who can save the Western movie are HBO and this year's " Going Through Fire ".
In terms of actors, I have to say that "Western World" is a good place for powerful actors to practice their skills. Dolores shaped by Evan Rachel Wood are beautiful and beautiful, making people fall in love at first sight. In less than ten minutes at the beginning, people will think that "Dare to hurt Dolores" are all big bad guys. James Marsden still maintains his infatuation and warm male line. This guy seems to have not been old since he played the first part of "X-Men". I think no one will refuse to meet Teddy.
One of the biggest challenges of acting as a robot is the ease of emotion. After recalling the updated bionic person, Evan proved her ability with her outstanding performance. But in the whole scene, what surprised me the most was Louis Herthum, who played Dolores' father Peter. Perhaps Shakespeare’s lines will make the actors take advantage, but in his rivalry with Sir Anthony Hopkins, Louis simply showed an Emmy-worthy acting skill, and Hannibal Lecter was "scared" by his creation. That's Sir Anthony f**king Hopkins, the whole scene is so wonderful, I watched it over and over ten times. Watching Louis appearing in five episodes on IMDb, I can’t expect more!
Bernard played by Jeffrey Wright is also an interesting role. Earlier in the first episode, in the control room, Stubbs [Luke Hemsworth, Thor's brother] asked Bernard if he had any children, and said that sooner or later the children would rebel. Bernard said he had no children. But in the very short scene later, he held a picture of the child in his hand and said to the repaired sheriff, "I really envy you that you have no memory." Will that child be Bernard's lost son? What exactly did Bernard say to Peter before sending him to refrigerate? Let me open my mind: I know Dolores' secrets. Don't worry. I'll look after her for you. In other words, Stubbs is a character LOL who will die miserably after a robot riot...
Maeve, played by Thandie Newton, is also a very in-depth role. Hector came to the front of the robbery, but he was not afraid of danger, and instead complained. I hope that Maeve and Hector's story lines will meet. Simon Quarterman plays such an over the top role of Lee. It is perfect to be a screenwriter in the park. Maeve and Hector must be written together. Elsie played by Shannon Woodward is also curious, why does she kiss Clementine [Angela Sarafyan]? Why was there pity in her eyes when she recalled Dolores? Guiqiu background story!
Finally, I have to mention Ed Harris. Obviously, the first episode implies that what the man in black did to Dolores (cough cough) is definitely not what the audience thought. Those who have seen the movie know that the character of Man in Black was inspired by Gunslinger, a rogue robot played by Yul Brynner. In the TV series version, the man in black is set to be human [see the interview with the first episode director ], and according to the answer of the "official" booking website artificial intelligence Aeden, he is still a VIP. Ed playing the villain has no flaws at all, but as to whether the man in black is a decent or a villain, we still need to wait and see.
In the second episode, we should be able to follow in the footsteps of the tourist William from the real world into the western world. We must be prepared for the bombardment of the tribute movie...
I saw many people asking why shooting can sometimes kill and sometimes not. In this regard, the TV series uses the "special bullets" that are available at the current level of technology. You can read the eleven rules about the "Western World" here [the first one is about bullets]
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How to say I am also a loyal fan of POI, but I can’t see so many fans It’s so silly to score 1 star when you watch this show... Why do you want someone to write about the love and hatred of Li Sizhai’s chief root sister for a lifetime? It’s silly that HBO doesn’t pick you up...
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