'Westworld' Season 1 Spoilers: Show About Robots To Feature 'Romantic Love'
HBO's new sci-fi series "Westworld" hardly seems like the show to feature love and romance, but show creator Lisa Joy said that these two things are actually going to be present throughout the show. "I think it goes back to the notion of romantic love, from the earliest myths, from Pygmalion and Galatea," Joy told the L.A. Times of human guests falling in love with the robotic "hosts" of the theme park. "You fall in love with this inanimate creature that you imbue with all your hopes and dreams. "Oftentimes it's narcissism, because you just want to see yourself in their eyes as something wonderful," she continued. "And that's what a lot of these guests are doing.
Sep-12-2016, 05:05:11 GMT
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