{"id":19153,"date":"2025-06-14T06:38:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T04:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/14\/the-guide-195-how-reddit-made-nerds-of-us-all\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T06:38:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T04:38:03","slug":"the-guide-195-how-reddit-made-nerds-of-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/14\/the-guide-195-how-reddit-made-nerds-of-us-all\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guide #195: How Reddit made nerds of us all"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this week\u2019s newsletter: Happy 20th birthday to the forum that reshaped fandom and is one of the internet\u2019s most eccentric collaborative spaces<\/p>\n

It only ended a few years ago, but Westworld<\/a> already feels a bit of a TV footnote. A pricey mid-2010s remake of a 70s Yul Brynner movie few people remembered, HBO\u2019s robot cowboy drama lumbered on for four lukewarm seasons before getting cancelled \u2013 with few people really noticing.<\/p>\n

Still, when it premiered, Westworld was big news. Here was a show well-placed to do a Game of Thrones, only for sci-fi. Its high production values were married to an eye-catching cast (Evan Rachel Wood, Ed Harris, Thandiwe Newton, Jeffrey Wright) and it was run by the crack team of Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, who promised they had a playbook for how the whole show would shake out. This, of course, was an important promise in that immediate post-Lost period, where everyone was terrified that they would be strung along by a show that was \u201cmaking it up as they went along\u201d (as a Lost defender, I have to say at this point that they weren\u2019t \u201cmaking it up as they went along\u201d, but that\u2019s an argument for another newsletter).<\/p>\n

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\nIn this week\u2019s newsletter: Happy 20th birthday to the forum that reshaped fandom and is one of the internet\u2019s most eccentric collaborative spaces
\nIt only ended a few years ago, but Westworld already feels a bit of a TV footnote. A pricey mid-2010s remake of a 70s Yul Brynner movie few people remembered, HBO\u2019s robot cowboy drama lumbered on for four lukewarm seasons before getting cancelled \u2013 with few people really noticing.
\nStill, when it premiered, Westworld was big news. Here was a show well-placed to do a Game of Thrones, only for sci-fi. Its high production values were married to an eye-catching cast (Evan Rachel Wood, Ed Harris, Thandiwe Newton, Jeffrey Wright) and it was run by the crack team of Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, who promised they had a playbook for how the whole show would shake out. This, of course, was an important promise in that immediate post-Lost period, where everyone was terrified that they would be strung along by a show that was \u201cmaking it up as they went along\u201d (as a Lost defender, I have to say at this point that they weren\u2019t \u201cmaking it up as they went along\u201d, but that\u2019s an argument for another newsletter). Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this week\u2019s newsletter: Happy 20th birthday to the forum that reshaped fandom and is one of the internet\u2019s most eccentric collaborative spaces It only ended a few years ago, but Westworld already feels a bit of a TV footnote. A pricey mid-2010s remake of a 70s Yul Brynner movie few people remembered, HBO\u2019s robot …<\/p>\n

The Guide #195: How Reddit made nerds of us all<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19153"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}