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SpikyAube ago

Yeah I know it's a remake, but I'm not sure how much of the same symbolism was in the old one. I'm not sure if I believe that there are people putting things into TV shows deliberately as foreshadowing, but I do think that there is some kind of unconscious connection between us all, just due to experiencing similar things, hearing about the same events, eating at the same kinds of restaurants - it's even more likely we humans will all start thinking similarly and having similar ideas and dreams etc as the world becomes smaller and the big news in Australia or China is big news over here, and we all have similar urban landscapes and the same branding and chain stores, we listen to the same music and watch the same movies and see the same viral memes and stories online. So there can be a sort of collective consciousness I think, that influences creative work. So it might not be that the people making this show were deliberately drawing parallels between the story and things happening in reality, but that the concept of doing Westworld and doing it this particular way arose because of the cloud of a million different little interactions and pictures and soundbites and ideas and projected feelings that buzzes around human societies, a cloud that unknowingly tells you something fundamental about the state of the world and your fellow humans, and thus in some way guides your actions accordingly.