Author: Dick Ebert

An Open Door for Teddy

Hey shat crew, My idea for why the sublime is left open is that there are multiple reasons, some of which we won’t know until the finale. One reason I think it’s left open is what Big D said. This is the lifeboat for saving a small sliver of host...

MIB Will Unlock His Human Element

Oh boy I think I nailed it with MIB Big D. You got what you wished for! More details on the fidelity testing of Caleb! I think the showrunners and set designers are showing us what computer multi-threading looks like or multi-core synchronous processing looks like. As sentient AI, they...

Westworld Episode 7 Review: “Metanoia”

Westworld Episode 7 Review: “Metanoia” Our “Westworld” Deep Dives are always dense, but this one truly is a thicc-ass boi. In this breakdown of Season 4, Episode 7, Gene and Big D compare simulations to reality, dissect William’s conversation with himself and ask why Bernard would leave The Door open....

Season 5 Could Be In The Sublime

BOOM! Sorry. Hi Shatfans. I think I know what is coming. I usually avoid trailers, religiously, but I caught a glimpse of a photograph, which I think might have been Christina holding a pearl. As you may be aware, I’m convinced Christina is in the sublime. I stated in the...

Where Did the Cause Go?

Hey Shat Hosts! I’ll keep it short and sweet this week: What the heck happened to the rest of the freedom fighters? They just … vanished and were never mentioned thereafter. Best, Ray Owings Mills, MD

Westworld Episode 7 Instant Take: “Metanoia”

Gene and Ash crown “Metanoia” the best episode since “Westworld” Season 2 in this instant-reaction episode of Shat on TV. Season 4, Episode 7 gave us gripping dialogue, heartbreak, big reveals and, most importantly, the old-school pairings we’d been craving. Was this payoff for the previous six episodes? Will it...

What Was the Point of Maeve?

Hello Shat Hosts, Hopefully, you can provide clarity to something that troubled me in the last episode. What was the purpose of digging up and resurrecting Maeve if they just killed her in the next scene? The writers built her up to be a weapon that’s needed to take down...