James Marsden plays robot host Teddy Flood in Westworld. James Marsden is the poster boy for charming robots. In Sydney this week to promote Westworld, he was on stage in front of a giant poster of himself playing sentient robot Teddy Flood in the HBO show. Marsden might have ditched the cowboy hat and stubble in real life, but he still looks like a theme park's version of a perfect human. But the good guy Teddy of season one (who died five times but was still so gosh-darn polite) has made way for a darker Teddy in season two.

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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.