“Fake plastic trees” by Radiohead on the piano. Apt!
Did anyone catch the Yul Brynner robot when the black dude (I still don’t know most of their names) went down to the restricted basement? It was dark and he was in the background out of focus, but the hat and the stance were quite distinctive.
I saw that, but didn’t make the connection until you mentioned it.
Interesting episode, wheels within wheels within wheels. It’ll be interesting to see what Maeve makes of the situation, with her parameters reset.
When Bernard took the elevator downstairs, he said he was going to B82. Are we to understand that there are 82 levels (or more) underground? Why would it extend that deep?
And earlier when the MiB was doing the jailbreak, the control room monitored everything. The small explosion he wanted was authorized by the control room. But in this episode, when Teddy shot down all of those soldiers, he blew up a wagon, but no one in the control room seemed to know or care. Are they being inconsistent?
They mentioned level 82 in the first episode as well, when they see Ford chatting with the creepy bartender character down there.
I assume that it’s something like a mineshaft where they’ve got excavated caverns deep underground, not that there’s necessarily built-out structures on all 82 underground levels.
Of course, why they need to do it underground at all is a bit of a mystery, given how much land they seem to have at their disposal.
I guess they need to do a lot of tunneling for their magic [del]turbolifts[/del] elevators that we saw in this episode. Those were cool.
Yes. Here’s an architectural elevation drawing of the Mesa Gold facility:
https://i0.wp.com/media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/wp/wp-content/images/delos-map.jpg
And an image of the escalator well:
http://static4.thisisinsider.com/image/580130da6d8e031a008b4b9a-1920/delos%20mesa%20hub%20facilities%20escalators%20westworld%20.png
It’s basically like a self contained corporate headquarters, luxury resort, transportation hub, laboratory, high tech manufacturing and testing plant, storage facility and amusement park control and maintenance facility stuffed into a big mesa, with housing and other amenities for probably hundreds or thousands of staff.
Plus it’s got to have a whole network of maintenance and transportation corridors for the staff to access every corner of a park that’s so big it would seem to take several days to cross by horse.
Great episode! And Anthony Hopkins is a joy to watch, he is such a superb actor. I loved the shout-out to the original movie with the glimpse of Yul Brynner’s Gunslinger android.
In an interview on The Hollywood Reporter the director of this week’s episode and next week’s reveals that Episode 7 is a real gamechanger. I cannot wait!
Maeve having her intelligence bumped up all the way is going to have interesting consequences. I’m wondering what effect that will have. Just a fascinating episode all around.
I also feel like her asking the tech “how do you know” that he’s human might and his ability to give a coherent answer be a foreshadowing of something. I mean until a few days ago, Maeve “just knew” she was running an Old West Whorehouse.
I guess we have to wait until next week to find out that Stubbs the Security Guy grabbed Elsie in the old haunted robot theater, after which point they will continue solving their Scooby Doo mystery.
I don’t know why Lutz and Sylvester agreed to bump up Maeve’s intelligence; that seems incredibly dangerous. She had very little to threaten them with.
It was almost as if she used Jedi mind control on Lutz, she at least used traditional blackmail on the other guy. But why would you let a robot blackmail you? Here, let me upgrade your parameters to format c:/s
So now Maeve is a hyper-intelligent self-aware robot slave that can wake herself from sleep mode and has been given a full tour of the facility? I don’t think this is going to go well.
Also, did Teddy’s flashback reveal that he was the one who shot up the town in his backstory?
Kinda hoping they don’t kill off Shannon Woodward - I have a soft spot for her from Raising Hope ;).
Apparently the second guy was running a whorehouse with the hosts, if she figured it out there was no way they could keep it from being found out if she got “fixed”.
Because you said “We’ve already seen workers (non “hosts”) in the fields who are robots.” Not sure how to interpret that other than you thought they were something other than hosts.
Yes, but they could have just lowered her intelligence. Or they could have shut her down and report that she was achieving consciousness.
Seriously. Just drop her intelligence down to 2 until they have a chance to re-group and figure something out.
Yeah, in fact I thought that’s exactly what they were going to do at first. It seemed like an ideal way to get time to think while Maeve sat quietly drooling in the corner. But I guess the plot demanded otherwise.
Yeah, like “The fire’s getting out of control, we’d better just pour gasoline on it in hopes that’ll work better”.
And yes, Teddy was a killer - he even admitted so. And the other soldiers seemed to think so, too.
Ford seemed surprised that the “Young Robert” robot said Arnold told him to kill the dog. Even though Ford asked Dolores if she remembered the man he used to be - Arnold. So Ford used to be Arnold, but he’s not Arnold now?
Mesa Bar looks like the place to be if you are far enough up the ladder, Elsie mentions she wants unlimited access as part of her reward package.
A super-intelligent sarcastic robot prostitute. What a great idea.