Re:The science of Westworld
by simonw on Saturday January 07, 2017 @11:30AM
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According to Jonathan Nolan it's the bullets: https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/11-rules-of-wes...
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Which is a reasonable handwave until you start asking about the physical damage that the bullets do to [EDIT] hosts and ignore the mayhem involving explosives, fires, etc.
It doesn't especially bother me though. We know that TV and movies generally have a convention that trauma that would put someone in the ICU in the real world is brushed off as a flesh wound. And I'll accept technobabble about the bullets. I'm also happy to accept that maybe Westworld takes place in a culture where theme park risks on par with base jumping are considered fine and proper.