Westworld is a theme park. It’s a tourist attraction. It’s competing for the same dollars as Las Vegas, Miami, New Orleans, and other popular destinations across the globe. Like Disneyland, tourists flock there to submerged themselves into fantasy, and like Las Vegas, they come to engage in activities that they either wouldn’t or can’t...
Though homely in the face and wearing the largest glasses most people have every seen, Isserley has large breasts. They’re modeled after the breasts of a centerfold model, and in all her travels, she had never encountered another woman with a pair that even approaches her size. She needs them because she has a...
I love the what’s happening with television these days. Television has always been about entertainment, but the best entertainment insists on being something more than just entertaining. It insists on delving into the characters, exploring their emotions and the reasons behind them, understanding their goals and motivations, and examining their morals, psychology, and desires....
Rachel can’t move on. Everyday the commuter train she rides takes her past the house where she had lived with her husband, now exhusband. Tom still lives in the house, with his wife Anna and their daughter, Evie. A few houses down lives Scott and Megan Hipwell, the perfect couple. Rachel doesn’t know them,...
I don’t remember much about the 1973 Michael Crichton movie Westworld. Though I remember seeing it and liking it, I also know that it was never a movie I felt a need to see a second time. But when I saw that HBO was rebooting the idea as a series, I found myself excited....
One of the great disadvantage of keeping a personal blog is there is no second person to pick up the slack when I fall behind. I look at the calendar and see that it’s the 7th of October, and I feel bad that I haven’t published any blog posts yet this month. I haven’t...
They did it right! Leaving the theater after seeing The Magnificent Seven, that was my first thought. They did it right! Hollywood had taught us to be wary about remakes. Some are good, some are alright, and some ruin the concept. So anytime I go to a theater to see a remake, I worry...
During one of my writing classes at Eastern Washington University, John Keeble assigned us to read a novel each by three writers whom we had never read before. I do not remember the other two writers I chose, but Bernard Malamud was the third, and I chose to read his debut novel, The Natural....
Hollywood find source ideas from several directions: from novels, short stories, and even comic books, from historical events or biographies of remarkable people, from social crises and political unrest, and from old movies that they want to update for a modern audience. One favorite source are foreign movies that they want to translate for...
Though I wouldn’t call myself an expert in 19th Century English gothic literature, I had read the main works in that genre. Dracula? Check. Frankenstein? Check. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? Check. The Picture of Dorian Gray? Oh, wait! There’s one I’ve neglected. At least, I’ve neglected it until now. I don’t know why...
