Westworld season 1 episode 9 review
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If Invasion had followed a different path this might have felt like an intriguing mystery, but as it stands it doesn’t any more than any of the other questions S1E9 insists on leaving unanswered.
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It’s increasingly frustrating that we don’t know where that shard of metal came from, by the way. That’s something of a running theme in Invasion S1E9, actually, as the American commander insists on nuking the coordinates Mitsuki found, with no knowledge of whether it will work, and some random guys with guns attack the transport the Maliks are on in a move I actually struggled to understand at all for most of the episode, until I realized it was just their small-minded egoism leading them to desire the shard of metal that’s been shown to be able to kill the aliens. There is something deeply human in that, but it’s not the kind of thing that makes you root for the species so much as bemoan how terribly bone-headed we can be. The best I can say is that certain moments in S1E9 are enjoyable as camp, as when Casper stares down an alien in the hallway of the hospital, or Trev continues to fire his gun at it and laments when he runs out of bullets, even though bullets have absolutely no effect on it at all. The sound design remains excellent, but even that doesn’t feel right when what it’s punctuating is so cheesy. The narrative is messy, the tone is muddled, and the characters have become cariactures of themselves. It’s with all of that in mind that I say that Invasion S1E9, “Full of Stars,” is objectively bad. We can only approach things from our own perspectives, perhaps allow those perspectives to be broadened and pushed, aiming to comprehend or empathize with as many points of view as we can, to read things as charitably as possible in search of the way of thinking that is most fruitful and most interesting. There is no such thing as a neutral, or disinterested, critical point of view. The following contains spoilers for Invasion S1E9, “Full of Stars”