Podcast - Science Fiction - Informative - Opinion - Nerdy

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Language

English

Voice Age

Young Adult (18-35)

Accents

North American (General) North American (US General American - GenAM)

Transcript

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like hiding a serving of vegetables on a pizza. Questions of ethics and morality plays much better when it's packaged in as a few hours of entertainment. Our recent slew of SciFi buries its more pressing questions of dwindling connectivity behind a host of sexy leads and nudity. And, yes, okay, some great writing and storylines, but leave us with an unsettling recognition. Some of that unsettled feeling has to do with seeing a human replica that we aren't obliged to treat. Like humans in West World, the hosts are reduced to being outlets for the urges of the guests. Their lack of sentence leads many visitors to treat them worse than they might on inanimate object. A psychoanalyst or a true crime enthusiast might deduce that a person's vile behavior is a projection of what they wish they could do if they didn't fear the consequences. A guest punches a host barman to death because he hates his boss. Another seduces a cowboy because she feels powerless to be overtly sexual in her real world role as a wife and mother. The terror comes in when we consider that the hosts Armento offer a precisely humanoid experience. They bleed laugh and cry like a guest. My, but those extremely human responses evoke no merciful reaction. It's interesting to compare the hosts, who are initially at least devoid of context but not feeling too zombies creatures who are basically forced to seek what they lack. Brains. Just in case you were wondering through mindless violence, the human guests come toe Westworld in order to fulfill some connection they will not or cannot ask for in their own world intimacy. Release violence, Fantasy connection. By the end of the first season, the hosts realized their emotional availability has put them at the raw end of this relationship contract. Their emotional labour will come at a retro, actively enforced cost.