1] The arrogant screenwriter. The thing I dislike the most is the smart-ass narrative that Brother Nolan and the rest of the writing team tear apart the narrative timeline of Season 2. In each episode, when the climax is about to be reached, the timeline must be jumped to cut the narrative line, and the dialogue of the characters is half said and half. All kinds of smoke and mirrors. After filming, anyone can come back to life, either because ideology exists through a host, or the one who was shot and shot is just a host, and the real person is fine. How can Maeve and Dolores control so many hosts as they want and don't bother to give the audience a logical answer. If they did make up a timeline to tie all the characters together, either they threw the script in a shredder and rewrote it, or were they trying to abuse the audience? Or simply fill the holes left by the first and second seasons, and then let the audience who want the round line play by themselves. To be honest, such a game is quite boring, as long as the screenwriter is happy.
2) Doctrine cannot cover up the lack of substance. In terms of narrative, it is too showy, so that the logic of the story is very far-fetched, and it is all supported by thin and empty slogans (nothing more than I want free will and the right to choose my life freely) until the tenth episode. Some down-to-earth plot explanations. However, this season is used to show how noble and legitimate the pursuit of free will is by the host group (even if Dolores wants to kill all human beings), but it is only a derogation of the image of human beings. The images of Guest are all greedy and ruthless slave owners, who come to the Westworld just to kill, rape and commit human evil. Guests are villains. The tenth episode says that human nature is very simple, no matter how many times you give human beings a chance, they always make the same choice, human nature is but a single algorithm, human nature is predictable, human nature is a book with a thin bronzing cover, each time A book is a villain who has visited Westworld, and all the books make up a library. There is also no explanation for why they say that human nature is predictable and simple. This pessimistic view of human nature is more like that of a 16-year-old who has just entered adolescence and is full of resentment and cynicism about the world.
3) The narrative itself is grandstanding. The first season was criticized by American audiences for being too sexist, because there were a lot of scenes of women being naked, and many of these scenes were very unnecessary. So in the second season Dolores became cold-blooded, violent, and controlled almost all the hosts (and did not explain why she suddenly woke up and how to make everyone else listen--you can say that it depends on the control board, but the control board sees It seems that almost anyone can operate it, shouldn't there be a lot of permissions), speaking condescendingly and bossy. Clementine is cold-blooded and violent. In short, almost all of the main female characters are more ruthless and more aggressive than the male protagonists of last season. This season, the male characters are all images of distress, victims, victims of violence, or simply the tools that female characters need to achieve their goals. Both Teddy's and Maeve's boyfriends are nothing more than weapons for women, and Dolores and others seem to be justified in even violence or exploitation. This is obviously overkill.
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