Destination: Delos, home to MedievalWorld, RomanWorld, and WestWorldDisaster: homicidal robots
Imagine you are vacationing with your family at Walt Disney World, riding the popular It's A Small World attraction, and suddenly the animatronic children of the world jump into your boat and starting mercilessly slaughtering everyone around you (feel free to imagine this happening on Pirates of the Caribbean if you prefer). That is pretty much what happens in Michael Crichton's Westworld.
Set in a near future where everyone dresses in 70's garb, Delos touts itself as "the most exciting vacation place in the history of man." Clearly they've never been to historic Williamsburg. Boy howdy--now there's a good time! Our heroes choose to spend $1,000 a day to hang out in WestWorld, a replica Old West town chock full of robot cowboys to shoot and robot hookers to bone. It's a virtual wonderland, for people who want to senselessly kill others and solicit prostitutes.
Set in a near future where everyone dresses in 70's garb, Delos touts itself as "the most exciting vacation place in the history of man." Clearly they've never been to historic Williamsburg. Boy howdy--now there's a good time! Our heroes choose to spend $1,000 a day to hang out in WestWorld, a replica Old West town chock full of robot cowboys to shoot and robot hookers to bone. It's a virtual wonderland, for people who want to senselessly kill others and solicit prostitutes. As it goes in most sci-fi thrillers, the robots begin developing some kind of disease which causes their circuits to go haywire and next thing you know they're refusing sex to creepy fat guys in MedievalWorld and filling James Brolin with lead on the streets of WestWorld. The scariest bot of them all is known as The Gunslinger who develops a hard-on for harassing Peter, played by Richard Benjamin. The Gunslinger follows Peter from the dusty streets of WestWorld, through the corpse-strewn walkways of RomanWorld, all over the underground catacombs of Delos, and finally catches up with him in MedivalWorld where Peter sets him ablaze.
On a side note, if I could choose a section of Delos to vacation in it would totally be RomanWorld. Why? One word: robo-orgy!
