how do you think the show fell short? What were its flaws? What would have made it even better?
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Replying to @noradio
man why can't I read back like three messages ago anymore? We've reached the threshold where twitter threads start sucking
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Replying to @hoverbird @noradio
idk, this is my favorite show since True Detective S1 or even The Wire. I like what it was trying for & I think it mostly got there
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Replying to @hoverbird
again I suspect the main hang up comes down to you being more generous than I am w/ certain aspects of polish.
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Replying to @noradio
you really haven't pointed out any examples of low polish, inconsistencies or incoherence. Cu
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Replying to @hoverbird @noradio
why are felix and sylvester such pushovers? What are the world's physics - how do the guns only hurt hosts?
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why do the distances seem so long for hosts but staff, esp ford, can apparently teleport to anywhere?
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medicine seems remarkably advanced on hosts but we rarely (though not never!) see it used on humans. What's up there?
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Replying to @avibryant @noradio
our knowledge of the world, as viewers, matches what the hosts know- so in this season, we only see the park.
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similar to howmin Memento, neither the protagonist nor the viewer knows the recent past. it's not just clever- it works
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it owned the unreliable narrator thing enough (eg "what door") that I'll buy into this, even though it's a little cute
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like, you can paper over a lot of incoherence with "well it's just as confusing to the poor hosts".
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Replying to @avibryant @noradio
but limiting the scope of the show to the park isn't incoherent! it's just a creative choice- a focus.
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