12-11-2016, 06:35 PM
(12-11-2016, 06:11 PM)Awful Llama Wrote: Yeah, that's the one bonus for me missing things like that: it keeps the surprises coming.
They'd have to be careful if Hopkins was a host there.
That's very tricky territory - we can't really tell who is and isn't a host, and with one exception they hinted or clued us in very little. As I think about it, that could very well ruin the show because you don't know if somebody really just died, and what they just said/did/thought was genuine or programmed code.
It worked well with Bernard, but there was no trickery or bait-and-switch. I think Hopkins character has to be gone because if that was a host then you're telling the audience there are no rules and they shouldn't expect to know what's real. Existential as that may be, it really doesn't make for a compelling theme.
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