Which was basically the plot of Futureworld, the sequel to the original Westworld film.
I’m not so sure. Without knowing what’s his intentions are, it’s hard to say.
I did note Bernard turning to Ford several times in that scene yet being unable to say anything. Which became more understandable later - it wasn’t that he didn’t know what to say, it was that he literally couldn’t implicate Ford.
Or HBO’s version of **Altered Carbon/Takeshi Kovacs **stories, where consciousness can be stored on “cortical stacks” at the base of the skull, and people can be “re-sleeved” into younger, differently-abled bodies, or clones of their own bodies. And there is a divide between the rich, very old folks who can afford this immortality vs the lower classes, whose cortical stacks can be put into storage as part of a prison sentence.
They are clearly stating that the Westworld IP is desired for value outside the park, but we haven’t been given a glimpse of how.
It does make me wonder about the overall arc of the show: will the revel of the world outside and Delos’ intentions continue to lurk just off-screen until the final episodes? Or will that be revealed mid-way through a 7 or 8 season arc, with the tone of the show evolving into a plot to thwart those intentions. ??
Not his partner in doing good deeds, his other partner in business and in inventing AI, who was actually killed before the events of Person of Interest and is only seen in flashback. It would be like if Ford and Arnold invented hosts for the government, and Ford was killed by the government but they didn’t kill Arnold because they didn’t know who he was or that he was important, and then Arnold teamed up with an ex-CIA guy and used the host technology to kill people.
I just re-watched Ep. 2 and in the previews, they showed him being drill-nosed.
We only know what Arnold looked like from the picture Ford showed Bernard, and we might only have seen it as Bernard saw it due to his programming. Arnold might look just like Bernard, or the man in the picture, or someone totally different.
I don’t understand your parenthetical phrase.
:: golf clap ::
Heard on a podcast that season 2 won’t premiere until 2018.
<Luke Skywalker> But it’s a whole 'nother year! </Luke Skywalker>
There was a real life person named Robert Ford, who is famous because he killed his partner Jesse James. I figure there must be significance to the name and parallels to the real life western figures. It could be metaphorical, and Ford just betrayed Arnold and let him die, but I’m guessing that Ford actually killed Arnold.
The lady from the Delos board, Hale, says to Theresa:
(bolding mine)
What might she be referring to? Clearly Delos wants the code and resultant IP, but is there a “little research project” going on that we as viewers are not quite aware of yet?
Ah, got it. Thanks.
Just read about this while browsing on Wiki:
Jesse James was murdered: Jesse James - Wikipedia.
His killer was eventually murdered: Robert Ford (outlaw) - Wikipedia.
Aaaaaand his killer’s killer was shot and killed after attacking a police officer: Edward Capehart O'Kelley - Wikipedia.
Wow. At least the chain stopped there…
Right I was just laughing at my daughter’s interpretation of the events. Teresa seemed more robotic than the hosts and I was guessing that was just to mislead. When Bernard killed her by smashing her head in my daughter was sure she must have been a host because they had just shown in the earlier episode how that woodcutter host smashed his own head in.
The best part of this show has been watching it before my daughter so I can catch her reactions. 
This definitely reminds me of Lost right down to the maze design looking like one of the station logos.
Also, in the final conversation between Theresa and Ford.
Theresa: “You’ve been playing god for long enough.”
Ford: “I simply wanted to tell my stories. It was you people wanted to play god with your little undertaking”
By the way, has anyone else noted that the actor playing the Board member’s fuckbot, the outlaw guy who helped Maeve extract that bullet from her body, is Rodrigo Santoro, who played Xerxes in the movie 300 and its follow up?
His look is obviously very different in this show, but I kinda chuckle to myself every now and then when the connection registers as I watch.
He also played Paolo (of the infamous ‘Nikki and Paolo’) in LOST.
Well, now I’m confused as to why they put the body in storage then, as opposed to just destroying/recycling it.
As I mentioned, Delos probably has interests in the application of autonomous AI beyond robot prostitutes and NPCs in a live-action version of Red Dead Redemption.
Ah! I didn’t realize that. Different indeed.
Though that would preclude the possibility that the ‘Bernard [actually Arnold] questions Dolores’ scenes depict something that happened years ago, and led up to Arnold’s death.
The obvious is that Bernard is just the brilliant, loyal but inquisitive assistant that Ford always wanted. He could be some brain copy of Arnold but that just seems like a unmeaningful twist.
Ford seems mostly disapproving of Arnold’s attempts at building true consciousness. He mentions that the last remnant of Arnold’s strategy is making subliminal programming seem like the “voice of god” in their voice command system. So this seems like a point of conflict that must be addressed.
What is Ford’s actual mode of control of the hosts - hand gestures? Voice commands? In some scenes it doesn’t seem that he actually does anything before the hosts respond to him (as when the farmhands left as one while he was having lunch with Theresa). Could almost be telepathic…