Westworld episode 2 drops a Game of Thrones and Jurassic Park Easter egg in one scene

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The news of a brand-new Easter egg in Westworld isn’t precisely a surprise. The show traffics in referrals, concealed significances, and tributes to almost every category and medium there is.

However the second episode of season 3 managed a unusual accomplishment: a triple-layer Easteregg

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[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for Westworld season 3 episode 2 and for the 1976 film Futureworld.]

Simply like Maeve’s plot in the episode, which layered simulation on simulation on simulation, Westworld’s production managed a comparable technique with the episodes referrals. While Maeve was inside Serac’s simulated version of Westworld, the show went all the method down the reference-rabbit hole to old motion pictures and HBO series.

The first recommendation has to do with as big- photo as you can get. The whole presence of a Medievalworld, which Bernard and Stubbs see as they’re making their method through Delos, is a nod to the 1976 movie Futureworld, the follow up to the initial Westworld film.

Futureworld follows 2 press reporters who have actually been welcomed to Delos’ recently resumed resort in order to review it and show to the public that it’s safe– after the robot-revolt catastrophe at Westworld park in the initial film. One of the brand-new parks that exists in Futureworld is Medievalworld.

As it ends up, in the movie, Delos is copying the DNA of visitors in order to make clones of them without their understanding. Near completion of the film, one of the press reporters kisses the other as a method to identifying whether she’s a clone or not– sound familiar?

However developers Lisa Pleasure and Jonathan Nolan do not stop there with the Easter eggs. Possibly this episode’s most noteworthy gag came as Bernard and Stubbs roamed through the halls of Delos. In one space of the soon- to-be-closed Medievalworld laboratories, there are 2 service technicians discussing what’s next for them. The duo are none besides Game of Thrones TELEVISION-series co-creators and showrunners, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. The 2 are talking about selling one of the Medievalworld tourist attractions to a brand-new business as the cam pans over to their topic: a enormous black and red dragon, who looks really suspiciously like Drogon, directly from Game ofThrones In the behind-the-scenes video that follows the episode, Pleasure states that Dan and Dave were both truly excellent sports and even let them obtain a dragon.

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While the 2’s look on the show, particularly with maybe-Drogon in tow, would be a quite enormous intra-HBO recommendation by itself, this Easter egg decreases one level even more. Dan, that’s D.B. Weiss’ character name in Westworld, discusses that he’s made a offer to offer maybe-Drogon to a little start- up in Costa Rica. Now, what business might wish to purchase a giant-scaly lizard in Costa Rica? Well most likely InGen, the genes business established by John Hammond, who would go on to discovered Jurassic Park on Costa Rica’s imaginary Isla Nublar.

If a Jurassic Park recommendation feels a little out-of- left field here, it’s worth pointing out that the initial Jurassic Park book was composed by Michael Crichton, the author and director of the initial Westworld film. While they do not always verify that they’re talking about InGen and Jurassic Park in this episode of Westworld, it’s most likely safe to state we got the joke they were going for.

And there you have it, the recommendation, layered on a recommendation, layered on a recommendation that comprises Westworld season 3’s secondepisode As an added reward, these referrals and their weird excessive design matches Maeve’s plot in the episode completely, offering the entire show the precise kind of strangeness that Maeve need to be sensation in War World and the phony version of Delos. While Easter eggs on Westworld aren’t brand-new, it’s unusual that they work this successfully to set a tone for audiences.

Neela
Neela
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