Westworld has no idea what to do with Lee Sizemore
Westworld’s narrative architect is basically a waste of a character.
When Westworld began it had a problem un-engaging human character. The actual people behind the park often came off as two-dimensional and, frankly, boring. That’s not a problem that the show has entirely gotten away from — focusing on the lab and its soap-opera drama for too long still feels like wasted time. But nothing is worse than spending time with Sizemore.
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Yes, we’ve complained about Lee Sizemore before. As soon as he appears in the first episode he was troubled, and not just because of his huge ego. Sizemore is as one-note as television characters get; he is basically a stereotypical, poorly written antagonist. That may seem harsh, but sugarcoating would be a disservice to everything else that Westworld gets right. Lee Sizemore brings nothing to the show, at least at this point. He’s full of himself, he complains, and he engages in drunken antics. He’s pretty much a poorer version of Jurassic Park’s Nedry.
That means that we already know that he’s going end up on Ford’s bad side, if he’s not there already. He could even be one of the people leaking information outside the park. In fact, it would be more of a surprise if he wasn’t. Watching Sizemore drunkenly urinate in the control room in ‘The Adversary’ is the perfect example of the kind of character he is. Sure, some people aren’t going to take such offense to him, but to us he is an example of bad writing.
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The writing on Westworld isn’t perfect, and again, the show is more comfortable when spending time with Hosts instead of their human overlords. But Sizemore adds nothing. There are more interesting villains (the Man in Black, Ford (?,) the mysterious Wyatt) that try our patience less. Sizemore’s own conceivable purpose is to alert us that he’s probably going to die later, and it’s going to be due to his own ego.
On the plus side we barely spend anytime with him anyway.