I liked it. My guess is that it may not end up being too popular with a lot of the fans since it did not really advance the main story nor did it focus on the primary characters but I enjoyed the seeing the park from the perspective of Akecheta, a Ghost Nation warrior.
We see that he had been awoken dating back 30 years to when Deloris killed Arnold. He has also been using the symbol of the maze to awaken others. This explains the sense that Ghost Nation seemed to know what was going. It explains why in S1 the young girl in the parade of a tribe through Sweetwater was carrying the doll that looked like the workers in the Mesa. It may also explain why the warrior, being awoken did not “freeze all motor functions” when Stubbs commanded him to.
I thought the sense of pain that was shown by the GN people for being separated from their families and having members of their tribe replaced over the years by new host characters had a strong emotional impact. Unlike Deloris and Teddy, these host could remember over past loops before Ford's reveries and were fighting to escape and recover loved ones for possibly decades. I found a much more emotional connection to GN’s story in the park than the much hyped samurais of Shogun World.
At the end we find out that Maeve ability to control other hosts was her use of admin commands across the networks that the host use to share information. So the conversations that Akecheta was having seemingly to Maeve’s daughter as he told his story throughout the episode was really a conversation that he was having with Maeve over this network. He was reassuring her that her would take care of her daughter even if Maeve did not survive.
Still not sure how MiB could have survived the gunshots and crawled to safety unless he is a host. Lee Sizemore has become very protective and bound to Maeve as she is in the hands of Delos.
MIA: Where is Hector, Armistice and the samurai warrior that came up from the undergroud portal of the Delos outpost with Maeve?
I wonder what "The door" is?
We know from the movies there is Tomorrow Land. Maybe that's the new world down there.
It possible that its just a machine down there terra forming.
Who cares how much it advanced the story. The same people bitching about that were likely bitching about the cradle scenes last week. I don't want to get to the ending yet.
Fantastic tv.
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It also transforms the picture we have seen of the entire Ghost Nation narrative. Not just stereotypical, blood thirsty Indian raiding parties.
It also transforms the picture we have seen of the entire Ghost Nation narrative. Not just stereotypical, blood thirsty Indian raiding parties.
They should do more episodes like this, kind of, ala Lost..
I wonder what "The door" is?
We know from the movies there is Tomorrow Land. Maybe that's the new world down there.
It possible that its just a machine down there terra forming.
I think it's the door to the backups/servers for the human guests. It was the same spot young William showed Dolores in another flashback earlier in the season.
And what the hell was Ford doing out there scalping them? Did they tattoo them under their scull or was it Ford? I'm a tad confused here.
That's the how I felt... that episode was a masterpiece. Great use of "Heart Shaped Box".
They explained Akecheta. Ford basically says that he allowed him to roam about the park for the better part of 10 years. He was probably one of the hosts that Ford hid from everyone else.
he had help on the inside, remember the one tech once seeing his info demanded he get updated and sent back out asap.