10 Problems With Westworld Nobody Wants To Admit
2. It's No Game Of Thrones
Westworld represents a Game of Thrones copy in more ways than one. It has the same composer, a similar budget, some of the same directors, a very similar title sequence, a similar reliance on plot twists and a similar mix of genre thrills and deep themes. It's poised to take over as HBO's big-budget tent-pole. The trouble is, Westworld is so desperate to be like GOT that, with its epic scale and endless twists, the show is actually undermining itself.
Compare the two: Game of Thrones is a complex political drama with living, breathing characters, all with interesting arcs and meditating on fascinating themes. It's a human drama which happens to feature dragons and battles, with the show's twists actually feeling earned. Westworld is more simple and one-note ideologically, and the show plays more like a 10-hour video essay on AI than a show that's actually trying to tell an engaging story.
Westworld simply isn't Game of Thrones and that's fine. Game of Thrones is lightning in a bottle and it's unlikely there'll ever be anything like it again. It's already perfect, so why try to copy it? If one needs evidence, look how many producers tried to copy Harry Potter... and most of these attempts didn't make it past the first movie.