10 Problems With Westworld Nobody Wants To Admit
5. Maeve's Story Was Pretty Ridiculous
Obviously, Thandie Newton's performance as Maeve was fabulous and the character herself was interesting. So, yeah, Maeve is great. Her story wasn't.
Her story essentially comes down to her blackmailing two of the world's dumbest technicians for help repeatedly. Although, to be fair to them, apparently everyone else at the company is also insanely stupid. Despite all the CCTV and surveillance in this futuristic facility, no-one is aware of what's going on. It's wonderful that Maeve has managed to escape and everything, but once you start to think of it in terms of actual logic, it falls apart immediately.
It's never clear why the technicians were helping her and what exactly their motivations were. As well as this, as if both the technicians being boring and wet characters wasn't enough, the relationship and interactions between them and Maeve isn't even compelling either.
In general, Maeve's story-line of self-discovery wasn't massively interesting and everything that happened to her wasn't entertaining at all. There was a general feeling of "Do we have to?" every time the show went back to her and those scientist buffoons.