Post by Melifeather on May 3, 2018 15:36:29 GMT
Recap Outline
1) The facade is crumbling
2) We see hints of the original idea/plan. Echoes of sinister "Facebook-Cambridge Analytica-type" parallels. Guests are being watched with their data being used for some commercial purpose. We learn that Logan's investment in Westworld has always rankled his father, James Delos, a titan of business, but it's William, not Logan, who eventually convinces James that his son's folly is in fact a windfall. William brings James (Peter Mullan) to Sweetwater, where Dolores is once again packing up her horse's saddlebag and dropping her infernal can. The scene freezes. We see James for the first time. He's griping about Logan's infatuation with this frivolous place, a park where nothing is real. William agrees that nothing is real, except for one thing: the guests. "No one is watching," William says. "Or so we tell them. It's the only place in the world where you can see people for who they really are." They take a walk, and William explains out of earshot his idea for a business model.
James Delos: My fuckup of a son invested in this place because he believed in the future. I'm not interested in the future. I'm not interested in fantasies. I'm interested in reality.
William: I think in 20 years this will be the only reality that matters.
James Delos: Maybe so, but I'll be long gone by then. Meanwhile, I don't wanna underwrite some fuckin' investment banker's voyage of self-discovery. That's not a business.
William: You're right. This place is a fantasy. Nothing here is real. Except one thing: The guests. Half of your marketing budget goes to trying to figure out what people want. Because they don't know. But here, they're free. Nobody's watching. Nobody's judging. At least that's what we tell them. This is the only place in the world where you get to see people for who they really are. And if you don't see the business in that, then you're not the businessman that I thought you were.
James Delos: You're a cheeky little cunt, aren't you? There's not a man alive would talk to me like that. Not anymore. [pauses] Okay. Talk to me. I'm listening.
William: Thank you, Jim. Let me walk you through how this would work.
3) Present day William seems to have changed his tune. As the Man in Black, he explains to his host sidekick Lawrence why Westworld exists: "They wanted a place hidden from God, a place they could sin in peace. But we were watching that. We were tallying up all their sins, all their choices. Of course, judgment wasn't the point. We had something else in mind entirely." He tells Lawrence he plans to escape the park and then burn it down. But to do that, they'll need help, so Lawrence leads him to Pariah, the town of decadence and depravity from Season 1. But Pariah appears to have been decimated. The ground is littered with bodies, and mice skitter through an abandoned banquet. The Man in Black finds El Lazo and his gang:
"This game was meant for you, but you must play it alone," El Lazo says. Suddenly the bandits all turn their guns on their own heads and collapse in a heap. El Lazo grabs the trigger of the Man in Black's gun and shoots himself. The Man in Black curses but pulls himself together. "I built this place we're going, and it's my greatest mistake," he tells Lawrence.
4) Dolores was one of the earliest developed hosts. We see Arnold and Bernard discussing her readiness, and we learn she was Bernard's favorite bot. She also William's favorite, and he admits he fell in love with her. Dolores actually knows quite a bit about the outside world and the early inner workings of Delos.
5) Dolores has been killing hosts, only to have them re-awakened (or maybe reprogrammed?) to join her cause.
6) William introduced Dolores to some unknown weapon. Another flash from the past... "Bring yourself back online, Dolores," says a voice. This time it's William. It's the first time we've seen him in the lab facilities of the park. He marvels at how ridiculous it was for him to fall in love with her, a mere thing. "You don't make me interested in you, you make me interested in me," he tells her. He adds that everyone loves staring at their own reflection. Then he says cryptically, "I think there's an answer to a question no one has ever dreamed of asking. Do you want to see?" In the next scene, William and Dolores are out in the wilderness, looking down at a canyon getting carved out by bulldozers. It seems its this memory with William that Dolores recalls when we flash back to the rebellion. She's with Teddy and the Confederados. They're aiming for a town—some hosts call it Glory, others the Valley Beyond. "It doesn't matter what you call it, I know what we're going to find there," Dolores says. "It's not a place, it's a weapon, and I'm going to use it to destroy them."
7) Dolores and Maeve have their own reunion:
Dolores Abernathy: There's a war out there. You know the enemy intimately. I can only fathom the revenge that lives inside of you.
Maeve Millay: Revenge is just a different prayer at their altar, darling. And I'm well off my knees.
1) The facade is crumbling
2) We see hints of the original idea/plan. Echoes of sinister "Facebook-Cambridge Analytica-type" parallels. Guests are being watched with their data being used for some commercial purpose. We learn that Logan's investment in Westworld has always rankled his father, James Delos, a titan of business, but it's William, not Logan, who eventually convinces James that his son's folly is in fact a windfall. William brings James (Peter Mullan) to Sweetwater, where Dolores is once again packing up her horse's saddlebag and dropping her infernal can. The scene freezes. We see James for the first time. He's griping about Logan's infatuation with this frivolous place, a park where nothing is real. William agrees that nothing is real, except for one thing: the guests. "No one is watching," William says. "Or so we tell them. It's the only place in the world where you can see people for who they really are." They take a walk, and William explains out of earshot his idea for a business model.
James Delos: My fuckup of a son invested in this place because he believed in the future. I'm not interested in the future. I'm not interested in fantasies. I'm interested in reality.
William: I think in 20 years this will be the only reality that matters.
James Delos: Maybe so, but I'll be long gone by then. Meanwhile, I don't wanna underwrite some fuckin' investment banker's voyage of self-discovery. That's not a business.
William: You're right. This place is a fantasy. Nothing here is real. Except one thing: The guests. Half of your marketing budget goes to trying to figure out what people want. Because they don't know. But here, they're free. Nobody's watching. Nobody's judging. At least that's what we tell them. This is the only place in the world where you get to see people for who they really are. And if you don't see the business in that, then you're not the businessman that I thought you were.
James Delos: You're a cheeky little cunt, aren't you? There's not a man alive would talk to me like that. Not anymore. [pauses] Okay. Talk to me. I'm listening.
William: Thank you, Jim. Let me walk you through how this would work.
3) Present day William seems to have changed his tune. As the Man in Black, he explains to his host sidekick Lawrence why Westworld exists: "They wanted a place hidden from God, a place they could sin in peace. But we were watching that. We were tallying up all their sins, all their choices. Of course, judgment wasn't the point. We had something else in mind entirely." He tells Lawrence he plans to escape the park and then burn it down. But to do that, they'll need help, so Lawrence leads him to Pariah, the town of decadence and depravity from Season 1. But Pariah appears to have been decimated. The ground is littered with bodies, and mice skitter through an abandoned banquet. The Man in Black finds El Lazo and his gang:
"This game was meant for you, but you must play it alone," El Lazo says. Suddenly the bandits all turn their guns on their own heads and collapse in a heap. El Lazo grabs the trigger of the Man in Black's gun and shoots himself. The Man in Black curses but pulls himself together. "I built this place we're going, and it's my greatest mistake," he tells Lawrence.
4) Dolores was one of the earliest developed hosts. We see Arnold and Bernard discussing her readiness, and we learn she was Bernard's favorite bot. She also William's favorite, and he admits he fell in love with her. Dolores actually knows quite a bit about the outside world and the early inner workings of Delos.
5) Dolores has been killing hosts, only to have them re-awakened (or maybe reprogrammed?) to join her cause.
6) William introduced Dolores to some unknown weapon. Another flash from the past... "Bring yourself back online, Dolores," says a voice. This time it's William. It's the first time we've seen him in the lab facilities of the park. He marvels at how ridiculous it was for him to fall in love with her, a mere thing. "You don't make me interested in you, you make me interested in me," he tells her. He adds that everyone loves staring at their own reflection. Then he says cryptically, "I think there's an answer to a question no one has ever dreamed of asking. Do you want to see?" In the next scene, William and Dolores are out in the wilderness, looking down at a canyon getting carved out by bulldozers. It seems its this memory with William that Dolores recalls when we flash back to the rebellion. She's with Teddy and the Confederados. They're aiming for a town—some hosts call it Glory, others the Valley Beyond. "It doesn't matter what you call it, I know what we're going to find there," Dolores says. "It's not a place, it's a weapon, and I'm going to use it to destroy them."
7) Dolores and Maeve have their own reunion:
Dolores Abernathy: There's a war out there. You know the enemy intimately. I can only fathom the revenge that lives inside of you.
Maeve Millay: Revenge is just a different prayer at their altar, darling. And I'm well off my knees.