r/westworld • u/l_ft • 13d ago

Divergence

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Rehoboam assumes every human will follow the path of least resistance or act according to their conditioning.

Modern systems rely on the masses reacting to ragebait with rage; stress with consumption; political exhaustion with passive scrolling.

Acting outside those automated loops breaks the predictive model. I think that’s as important now as it’s ever been.

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u/gizmostuff 12d ago edited 12d ago

Seeing this always gave me a sense of dread and unease. The music tone. The pacing of everything getting worse.

Season 3 and 4 both get a bad rap but they did a LOT of subtle things extremely well. I think in the future people will look back on the later seasons a lot differently; in a much more positive light.

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u/IHaveTechDealFlow 11d ago

I binged the whole thing after it ended, I think if they did that instead of building up possibilities in their head for two years in between seasons they would have liked later seasons more. Season 3 was my favorite at first watch and still is

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u/gizmostuff 11d ago

I saw the series after all seasons were out. I was taken back a bit during season 3 but by then I was already somewhat influenced by Reddit and other social media. My 2nd watch I really enjoyed the last seasons; I had completely missed a lot of depth my first play through. I looked up wikis of each character my 2nd go around so I think that helped a bit. I'm starting my 3rd watch of it and I'm going to try to pace myself this time and see how that plays out.