Yahoo News Westworld creator warns fans to stay away from Reddit
Westworld's second season hasn't even begun shooting yet, but there's already been spoilers leaking and plot points being rumbled on Reddit.
And while the hit show's creators admire the level of fan engagement and commitment that sees audiences guess the plot twists ahead of time, they're admitting now that it is ruining the game they're trying to play with them just a little bit.
"For us, even though we're creating it as we go along, we feel like we owe it to the fans to be bold and also to play this game with them where we're like, 'Do you want to figure it out? Do you want to play with us here?'" co-creator Lisa Joy told Variety.
"Hopefully now, because of the first season, the people who want to have this purist interpretation of the series, they'll just develop their own theories in a vacuum - and maybe don't log on to Reddit."
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And, really, Reddit is the worst nightmare for creators of a show like Westworld, because that's the place where theories are shared, built on and accepted way before the episodes even hit the airwaves.
"When you're working on a show like this where there are layers and there are details and you try to make every piece count, you're hoping that people will engage on that level," Jonathan Nolan added.
"In our wildest dreams, we didn't expect the level of fan engagement and dialogue, which is why you do it."
Joy continued: "It wasn't like there were surprises that we're trying to keep from the audience consciously; we were trying to lead a path of breadcrumbs.
"We anticipated that a small group of the audience might discover it, that that will be part of the game that we were playing with these die-hard fans.
"What we didn't anticipate was that they would go to social media and talk about it and they would get circulated so that it hit a wider base of people who have an online presence and pick that up."
Of course, the creators don't think Reddit is all bad, having recently taken to the site to tease the title of season two's premiere episode and setting the scene for a lot of fan speculation with it too.
Well, if you can't beat them then you may as well join them – and seeing as Westworld season two isn't expected to air until 2018, we've got to fill that year by doing *something*.
Westworld returns to HBO and Sky Atlantic in 2018.
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