Post by Melifeather on May 7, 2018 20:23:58 GMT
Hello! And welcome to another Westworld recap! Variety sums this up nicely:
If you were wondering what music could possibly scream “white privilege” more than any other music, “Westworld” season 2, episode 3 has the answer for you: The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” arranged for sitar. It helps if the music is accompanied by images of Edwardian white folks dining outdoors in colonial India, which “Westworld” is happy to provide.
I am a little confused as to whether or not Charlotte knows Bernard is a host or not, but apparently he's a "helpful" host. Dolores/Wyatt comments that he's a combination of his creators. And I'm not sure that he's chosen a side. He seems to be helping Charlotte, but he was afraid of the faceless bots that work below ground. Either we're being fed information from both the past and present, or there is more than one Bernard. Dolores seems to know the difference between host-Bernard, whom she's chilly to, and real-Bernard who she seems to like.
Trivia: In one scene, a character refers to the only "rule" of Westworld being that you cannot die. The name of the company that runs Westworld is "Delos", which is also the name of a Greek island, known for the earliest case of "Prohibition of Death", a political social phenomenon and taboo, in which a law is passed stating that it is illegal to die.
Speaking about there being a "prohibition of death" - I'm confused about how the guns work. The guns in Westworld are very high tech and previously if aimed at humans were supposed to fire at a slower and non-lethal speed, but didn't Ford change them so that humans would be identified by the weapons as being hosts, and therefore get hit at lethal speeds? So the hookup between the man and woman in Raj-world must have taken place right before Ford flipped the switch. That is why we saw the dead tiger in episode 2.
Abernathy! Dolores not only remembered him, but cares for him as if he's her real father, and Peter looks to Dolores as his daughter. Why is he so scatterbrained? Bernard says it's because his old histories are shorting out due to a new larger narrative layered over the top. Bernard doesn't get the file opened until after Dolores/Wyatt walks away, but apparently its something shocking. Bernard said the files in Abernathy’s brain are protected by an “immensely complex encryption key.” But after only a few tries at different passwords and — wallah! — it's unlocked!
Speaking about jumping back and forth between the past and present...Dolores. The Wyatt element of her personality is dominant, so it should be no surprise later when her Tusken Raiders set up the Confederados to be massacred. Dolores/Wyatt says, “Truth is, we don’t all deserve to make it.” Shortly thereafter, we see her disappointed look after she witnesses Teddy allowing the remaining Confederados to live. EW confirmed that Teddy was among the floating dead in the water alongside countless other hosts at the end of the season premiere, but not Dolores. Bernard took responsibility for the drownings saying he, "killed them all", but if Teddy was included and not Dolores - what are we supposed to conclude?
Dolores, Maeve, and Hector all show traits and desires culled from the narration programmed into them by Lee Sizemore. He points out specific lines he's written for them, which I had posted before on the recap for episode 2, and he repeats a whole dialog he wrote for Hector in episode 3. Maeve and Hector act like they have genuine affection for each other, yet Lee still knows exactly what dialogue Hector is about to say. Which begs the question: are some of their motivations coming from this dialog? Maeve seems to be quite aware of some of the dialog being programmed, but she also doesn't question why she wants search for her daughter.
Did anyone catch the names of the two tech workers as being Felix and Sylvester? (two cartoon cats) Felix is the one that helped Maeve reprogram herself, and Sylvester is his unwilling partner.
Last comment - when that woman from Raj-world left that world you saw like a concrete bridge or dam. Then she was forced backward off the cliff by the tiger, and swam across the water and ended up in Westworld. Maeve and her crew - well I guess they forded a stream when they were chased by the Ghost Tribe - but there didn't seem to be a manmade-looking concrete structure to announce that they had crossed into Shogun-world....or did the shogun cross into Westworld?
If you were wondering what music could possibly scream “white privilege” more than any other music, “Westworld” season 2, episode 3 has the answer for you: The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” arranged for sitar. It helps if the music is accompanied by images of Edwardian white folks dining outdoors in colonial India, which “Westworld” is happy to provide.
I am a little confused as to whether or not Charlotte knows Bernard is a host or not, but apparently he's a "helpful" host. Dolores/Wyatt comments that he's a combination of his creators. And I'm not sure that he's chosen a side. He seems to be helping Charlotte, but he was afraid of the faceless bots that work below ground. Either we're being fed information from both the past and present, or there is more than one Bernard. Dolores seems to know the difference between host-Bernard, whom she's chilly to, and real-Bernard who she seems to like.
Trivia: In one scene, a character refers to the only "rule" of Westworld being that you cannot die. The name of the company that runs Westworld is "Delos", which is also the name of a Greek island, known for the earliest case of "Prohibition of Death", a political social phenomenon and taboo, in which a law is passed stating that it is illegal to die.
Speaking about there being a "prohibition of death" - I'm confused about how the guns work. The guns in Westworld are very high tech and previously if aimed at humans were supposed to fire at a slower and non-lethal speed, but didn't Ford change them so that humans would be identified by the weapons as being hosts, and therefore get hit at lethal speeds? So the hookup between the man and woman in Raj-world must have taken place right before Ford flipped the switch. That is why we saw the dead tiger in episode 2.
Abernathy! Dolores not only remembered him, but cares for him as if he's her real father, and Peter looks to Dolores as his daughter. Why is he so scatterbrained? Bernard says it's because his old histories are shorting out due to a new larger narrative layered over the top. Bernard doesn't get the file opened until after Dolores/Wyatt walks away, but apparently its something shocking. Bernard said the files in Abernathy’s brain are protected by an “immensely complex encryption key.” But after only a few tries at different passwords and — wallah! — it's unlocked!
Speaking about jumping back and forth between the past and present...Dolores. The Wyatt element of her personality is dominant, so it should be no surprise later when her Tusken Raiders set up the Confederados to be massacred. Dolores/Wyatt says, “Truth is, we don’t all deserve to make it.” Shortly thereafter, we see her disappointed look after she witnesses Teddy allowing the remaining Confederados to live. EW confirmed that Teddy was among the floating dead in the water alongside countless other hosts at the end of the season premiere, but not Dolores. Bernard took responsibility for the drownings saying he, "killed them all", but if Teddy was included and not Dolores - what are we supposed to conclude?
Dolores, Maeve, and Hector all show traits and desires culled from the narration programmed into them by Lee Sizemore. He points out specific lines he's written for them, which I had posted before on the recap for episode 2, and he repeats a whole dialog he wrote for Hector in episode 3. Maeve and Hector act like they have genuine affection for each other, yet Lee still knows exactly what dialogue Hector is about to say. Which begs the question: are some of their motivations coming from this dialog? Maeve seems to be quite aware of some of the dialog being programmed, but she also doesn't question why she wants search for her daughter.
Did anyone catch the names of the two tech workers as being Felix and Sylvester? (two cartoon cats) Felix is the one that helped Maeve reprogram herself, and Sylvester is his unwilling partner.
Last comment - when that woman from Raj-world left that world you saw like a concrete bridge or dam. Then she was forced backward off the cliff by the tiger, and swam across the water and ended up in Westworld. Maeve and her crew - well I guess they forded a stream when they were chased by the Ghost Tribe - but there didn't seem to be a manmade-looking concrete structure to announce that they had crossed into Shogun-world....or did the shogun cross into Westworld?