The Original

I loved the first episode, it's really promising. I loved the cast, theme and the background music as it felt so intense.

I'm looking forward to complete the Season 1.

Westworld has quickly become one of HBO's breakout hits. The show's not even two years old yet and it's still attracting new viewers who probably never saw the original film from 1973. The series is a serialised take on the original movie and tells a completely different story from it, but keeps the same philosophical questions and dilemmas in place.

'The Original' shows us that Westworld is a holiday attraction that's like the world's most seamless video game experience except the whole theme park consists of robots who actually believe they're part of the American Old West. This introductory episode is a beautifully shot and bloody affair that we've come to expect from HBO, and the delivery of this episode makes me wonder about the future of the series once it's no longer running side by side with Game of Thrones. I think Westworld easily has strong legs on its own.

Another golden chapter to HBO's ever-growing library of quality programming.

From the beginning, the series addresses heavy-loaded philosophical questions. It raises many questions that have no definite answer and makes the watcher intrigued to follow the dialogues. What is reality? The most basic question that whoever gives himself time in contemplating the existing have thought about it. Here, he exhibits the famous duality between the "true" reality and the "illusion" reality. You can see this meaning throughout the dialogue of the "newcomers." Could we replace our reality? That reflects the purpose of this "Westworld," but is it the ultimate goal of this world?

Another philosophical question is what consciousness is? Can humankind reach the level to implant consciousness in robots? What could be the consequences of that action? The scene of Dr. Robert Ford and Peter Abernathy is a cornerstone in the building of the plot.

Also, a very debatable topic in Philosophy is whether we can program feelings? Dose the robots when they "feel" are they really experience the same experiences we humans do? Or is it a mere reflexive?

There are more questions the series do implicit to it. It would be an enjoyable experience if I could get out thinking about it and if lucky to reach satisfiable answers.

One of the Show's And Pilot's best features (much like Game of Thrones) is that it distances itself to such a degree from anything you've seen before, that anything could happen. The particularly brilliant spin here is that even as we hope to learn the rules, glitches and human interference are pushing those rules aside, so it becomes a wonderfully maddening game of "the more we know the limits, the less there are limits." It plays off of the disconnect it forces you to have by virtue of its own world creation, by shifting these limits, and throwing out your natural reaction to what you're watching. It becomes an amazing dance, as you watch a gunfight while realizing that you don't know what you're supposed to do with it really, or what watching it means. You're used to watching gunfights while knowing the good guys are going to win, but this is a whole new game. 'Westworld' straddles the future and the past of your imagination. In the first episode we get to see this 'Westworld' and it's inhabitants. Guns, Bots, Beautiful girls and an uncertain future make for potential gold with this show. As always HBO delivers in the drama department once again

This show got me instantly hooked on. Evan Rachel Wood is extremely beautiful and gorgeous. She acts well too. Ed Harris looks menacing . Many other characters get introduced and they act really well. The visuals are spectacular and the action sequences are brilliant. Anthony Hopkins is the icing on the cake. Brilliant show .I am loving this.