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Think gunfights and cowboy posturing are a big yawner? Delos Inc. now offers guests an even bigger spectacle: Shogun World. And Lee Sizemore (Simon Quarterman) lays out everything we need to know about it in a lengthy stretch of exposition at the beginning of season 2, episode 5 of Westworld, “Akane No Mai.”
HBO’s bloody, robot-rebellion sci-fi series introduced the much-anticipated Japanese-themed park this week, and fans ate it up.
SHOOOOOGUUUUUNNNNNN! #Westworld #WestworldSeason2
— Jeff Favreau (@jeff_favreau) May 21, 2018
Here are some highlights from the episode:
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Ronin capture Lee, Maeve (Thandie Newton), and the gang, and march them back to the nearby town through a forest littered with the bodies of disemboweled police.
Cue Lee for exposition: “This is just the tip of Shogun World’s prick” – keeping it classy! Designed for guests who found Westworld too tame, Shogun World is based on Japan’s Edo period – “for the true aficionado of artful gore.”
Except: ninjas!
Ha! Good old fashion Ninjas #Westworld pic.twitter.com/SXvGucQtd2
— Stingray☯️ (@Stingray_travel) May 21, 2018
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Westworld has introduced the word “doppelbot” to language, and we see all kinds of uses for it. #Doppelbotamovieline: “I’ll be your doppelbot.”
Westworld looking at Shogun World like: #Westworld pic.twitter.com/5Y2c6OwANA
— Katie (@danceflosilly) May 21, 2018
Akane (Rinko Kikuchi) is Maeve’s doppelbot. The ronin Musashi (Hiroyuki Sanada) is Hector’s (Rodrigo Santoro) doppelbot. Both are badass and deadly.
Did we give Rinko Kikuchi all of the awards for her slayage of Akane?! #Westworld
— Oscar (@oscarGosei) May 21, 2018
One observer literally lost his mind during Akane’s dance to Ramin Djawadi’s adaptation of Wu-Tang Clan’s “C.R.E.A.M.”
Geisha performs dance to Wu-Tang Clan and immediately saws a dude’s head clean in half… Then an army of robot samurai are mind controlled into murdering each other.
Good luck explaining THAT one to those not watching #Westworld— AJ Ginn (@aj_ginn) May 21, 2018
That was CREAM. This show is amazing. #Westworld pic.twitter.com/Ip1XqcBzkm
— Neg Lakay ?? (@steelyourself) May 21, 2018
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So Teddy and Dolores are now in the worst place narratively any characters can be: road-tripping and being chatty. They’re talking about their future, and Teddy goes all West Side Story:
“Someday,” he says in reply to her musings. “What if someday was right now?…Now you can’t tell me that somewhere out there in all that beauty, there isn’t a spot for us.”
Did anyone else start singing? Just me? Moving on…
Teddy is finally getting some .
I'm so happy for him lol#Westworld— Taek & Nayoung (@lucym123475) May 21, 2018
After some sexercise with Teddy, Dolores does the coldest thing she’s done yet: She overwrites sweet Teddy with – something sure to be foul and devastating. We’ll find out next week.
Damn Dolores is really just gonna screw Teddy twice in one night #Westworld
— brady (@brady_munn) May 21, 2018
Get you a partner who doesn’t overwrite your system without your consent.#Westworld
— Charlotte Clymer?️? (@cmclymer) May 21, 2018
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The cliffhanger promises one of two things: more dead samurai piling up or Maeve showing off her hacking skills. Or both. Or, you know, possibly something else entirely.
“I told you: I found a new voice. Now we use it,” Maeve promises.
Maeve has cheat codes now?#Westworld
— Colt Humbert (@colthumbert) May 21, 2018
#Maeve on #westworld be like… pic.twitter.com/gvS6EKXvvb
— Jeremy Hall (@jhall1351) May 21, 2018
I literally just gasped out loud. Maeve is about to go WILD on all of y'all. Know that. #Westworld
— Zakiya "Ziggy" Jamal (@ZakiyaJamal) May 21, 2018
What did you think of Shogun World? Did it live up to your expectations?
Westworld airs on Sundays at 9 p.m. on HBO.
