circuitbird:

I know like half my blog now is me lamenting the Westworld
subreddit, which I’m aware is a pathetically hopeless and irrelevant enterprise,
but if I don’t vent I’ll snap and start dropping f-bombs and invective and get
banned. So you have to endure me.

I am peeling my own eyelids off my face at some of the—I kid
you not—“Oh man, I don’t like what they did with the Man in Black, now he
really is a psychotic irredeemable murderous toxic nightmare”—are you
dfadhdhGDSAJDGASJK KIDDING ME I AM GOING TO HAVE A STROKE

There is still a small but regrettably vocal subset of people
bitching that he and his ilk are not really “bad guys” because the hosts are “just
robots” and—

you know, if they’re not going to listen to me and the 7,000 words
I’ve typed on the guy being a malignant narcissist from day one—not just
face-heel-turn Man in Black, but William, sweet William, who reduced Dolores to
his own narrative prop from the moment she swooned into his arms, DAY ONE WILLIAM—at
least listen to the show, which spent an hour last night telling you he was like this all along. Which is
great. I love that the show is Going There.

What possibly produces this level of dissonance I have no
idea, but if male gamers ages 18-35 are indeed an over-represented demographic
in this community, there’s my prime suspect.