- Was the last "accident" in the park mentioned in episode 1 the same incident Dr. Ford (Hopkins) was referring to with his old business partner, Alfred?
- What is this new storyline Dr. Ford has unleashed on the park? It scared the shit out of my girlfriend.
- For the stray host they were trying to rescue, what was the purpose of sawing off its head? I might have missed that. That also scared the shit out of my girlfriend. While we were all waiting for him to drop the boulder on the annoying Elsie, it seems her line of code preventing the hosts from being violent towards guests held up.
because all the computing happens there and they could take it in for testing. But probably just a plot device to show they are developing free will / survival instinct.
We're getting a lot of clues, but they don't really add up to a trail yet.
The new narrative is the Wyatt manhunt, and it might be Ford's experiment in tapping multiple layers of host memory. At a minimum, he's playing with more complex back-stories and less controlled plot lines. Wyatt and Teddy are taking Westworld into Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now territory. That's a lot of psychological complexity for a safe-zone theme park populated by harmless 'droids.
The Bernard-Dolores relationship is beginning to stretch credence, IMV. Security would be all over it by now, especially with what they know about Bernard's personal situation.
...is whether we've already seen The Man in Black's first encounter with Dolores. There have been hints: Maeve's presence in the bar after she appeared to have been decommissioned; changes in casting and prop placement at the ranch; some suggestive edits, etc. But if the show is giving us flashbacks, they are offered without definitive "tells".
What is a flashback, anyway? When the story focuses on the hosts, the whole concept of time gets bent because time for them is mostly a loop. So we might have to sort out two different types of flashback: the host type, which we might call déjà vu but for them is much more radical and frightening because it reveals their whole reality; and the "normal" type, which will fill in the back story on the guests and the staff. Then again, they might turn out to be robots too.
She was supposed to be decommissioned but the female engineer put her back in service.
After Elsie restored Maeve's mojo by resetting her aggression and increasing her emotional accuity, Maeve still wound up in the lab with nightmare flashbacks and a MRSA infection. That was all in Episode 2. She was back in the bar in Episode 3.
By "after", I just mean in the show's sequence. We don't really know where any of these events fall on an absolute timeline. We can be pretty sure that "Maeve" was a frontier mom before she was reassigned to the brothel - assuming that the nightmares are genuine memories and not embedded. Beyond that, who knows?
- What is this new storyline Dr. Ford has unleashed on the park? It scared the shit out of my girlfriend.
- For the stray host they were trying to rescue, what was the purpose of sawing off its head? I might have missed that. That also scared the shit out of my girlfriend. While we were all waiting for him to drop the boulder on the annoying Elsie, it seems her line of code preventing the hosts from being violent towards guests held up.
That's sort of the core of the show though, isn't it? Creating life through these machines?
All the more reason the tired back story of the dead kid is unnecessary (in my opinion)
Although thinking back on it, it was a "back story" episode so maybe they are doing something more clever than I think they are.
The new narrative is the Wyatt manhunt, and it might be Ford's experiment in tapping multiple layers of host memory. At a minimum, he's playing with more complex back-stories and less controlled plot lines. Wyatt and Teddy are taking Westworld into Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now territory. That's a lot of psychological complexity for a safe-zone theme park populated by harmless 'droids.
The Bernard-Dolores relationship is beginning to stretch credence, IMV. Security would be all over it by now, especially with what they know about Bernard's personal situation.
What is a flashback, anyway? When the story focuses on the hosts, the whole concept of time gets bent because time for them is mostly a loop. So we might have to sort out two different types of flashback: the host type, which we might call déjà vu but for them is much more radical and frightening because it reveals their whole reality; and the "normal" type, which will fill in the back story on the guests and the staff. Then again, they might turn out to be robots too.
By "after", I just mean in the show's sequence. We don't really know where any of these events fall on an absolute timeline. We can be pretty sure that "Maeve" was a frontier mom before she was reassigned to the brothel - assuming that the nightmares are genuine memories and not embedded. Beyond that, who knows?