I persisted though and found the issue of the magazine [1], FWIW. Maybe the site is sketchy? I don't know.
Since I was into Super-8 film making when I was a teen I definitely enjoyed seeing the ads for all the high end film gear and flat-bed editors from 1973 that I could only dream of.
[1] https://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/ac/ac197311/index.php#/p/38
There’s a scene early on where they explain how the guns work. It’s thermal based I think. So if the gun is pointing at something warm like a human body it won’t shoot, meaning you can shoot anyone and it will only fire if they’re not actually a human being.
I was astonished to find this was not a plot point later on.
Or in the worst case scenario, the killer robots will not fire their guns at the poor unsuspecting robot hookers. What a dealbreaker.
Ha ha, reverse Checkov's gun.
But it was never explained, and that’s fine because leaving stuff like that as a mystery is a big part of storytelling. Or, they wanted to avoid having a bunch of scenes with characters spewing technological gobbledygook like Star Trek.
The sequel also has the classic lines:
"I smell heathen scum!"
"You smell yourself sir!"
I did like the Houston airport monorail sections I suppose...
Also the idea of the hosts trying to run from the park disguised by real humans is taken from FW.
And there the similarities end.
The POV is quite different from the Westworld movie.
I would say that they are different like D.A.R.Y.L. and The Terminator are.
Same setup, but different settings, era, technology, storytelling and overall tone.
Westworld the series: just like others commented... Season 1 is a masterpiece.
It was great to enjoy the "same" plot in the movie as a kid and then as an adult with the series.
The show could have taken it to a new level, and did flirt with doing so. Interesting note: At some point in the show, they go down to some sub-basement or something where old models are stored, and in the background out of focus you can see the Yul Brynner robot standing there.
But the show goes off the rails. After season 1 it's absolute shit that will make you angry for wasting hours of your life giving it a chance. I thought hey this is going to be cool if the robots escape into the real world, but the show utterly squandered that scenario.
