Author: Dick Ebert

Que Serac Serac

Hello Shatworld, Here’s a quick thought. If this entire season turns out to be a simulation, I hope they’ll fully embrace the insanity of it with a musical number. Ford on the piano as the rest of cast sings “Que Serac Serac, whatever will be, will be. The future’s not...

Pawn 2 For Ashley

Dear Ashley, I think this is Caleb’s 2 or 3 time through. The first time would have been when he was diagnosed as an outlier. At the end of that he would have been given his friend Francis and they would go to war as buddies. The second would have...

Caleb, Eclipses and Other Musings

Hi guys, Just finished listening to the deep dive. Great analysis as always. Ashley, dont you be listening to those idiots regarding your voice, nothing wrong with it at all and I’m glad you don’t feel the need to swear every other word unlike some previous Shat on TV hosts!...

Westworld = The Quants

Hi, I was rewatching Ep 7 tonight, and trying to figure out if Caleb’s entire military career is fabricated. He says “the quants fed us names” – who are the quants? Were they just getting data from RICO but that part of his memory is blurred? Michael C

The Effect of Emps On Digital Systems

Hi guys, The Passed Pawn episode tried to borrow from the Matrix in its reliance on an electromagnetic pulse to be the ultimate weapon against the machine world. It kind of made sense in the Matrix because presumably the squid machines were not organic but semiconductor based objects. The way...

Maeve?

Hi Gang, Lance here from the UK, just wondering about your thoughts on Mauve’s character arc. Personally I have become somewhat bored and disillusioned with her character and motivations, I don’t feel like she has progressed since season 1. Her only motivations are to be with her daughter but what...

Dumb Question? Maybe…

Dear Hosts, I’m going out on a limb here, so if I don’t hear this on the telegraph I’ll know it was a dumb question. But I might just blow your mind…so here it goes…. When did Dolores first come out to Caleb that she was a robot/host? I don’t...

Odds of Caleb & Francis Having Success In “The Program”

Guys- I love you all but the possibility of Caleb and Francis being friends and both being successful graduates of Serac’s program is NOT what I’d call unlikely-and certainly not to the point of going tinfoil over. I’m not a mathematics professor but I don’t think this question calls for...