I’m beginning to think that the central arc for this season is actually around the Man in Black. Last season the arc was the hosts discovering their humanity. This season it’s the Man in Black’s turn to re-discover his.
A much better episode than last week - seeing Delos’s repeating days for what turned out to be decades, and learning that everyone he loved was dead, was powerful stuff. Having William hand him the script of what he just said was a nice callback to when Maeve was shown her just-uttered “dialogue” on a computer tablet. Some good bits with the Confederadoes and the nitroglycerine; loved seeing the older William take down the bad(der) guys.
No. She looked much cleaner and better-coiffed than I’d expect someone to be in that situation, too.
I’m not sure if they were offering their assistance, or just demanding to know what the hell was going on, what with the android uprising and all.
Why is there so much REAL nitroglycerine in the park?!!
Old William was fantastic though. “You didn’t even recognize Death sitting in front of you”.
Aaah. Australia!
I noted that the room was full of circles (the record, the goldfish bowl, trays, tables, the pedals on the exercise bike, etc) which made the reveal that the whole room was round rather neat. And presumably there were intended imagery parallels between the milky tea and the bloody white liquid in the lab later.
Also, the “Playing With Fire” song turned out to be rather appropriate. Not sure why they had to torch the whole room each time though - it seems rather wasteful.
Another point: I mentioned earlier the link between the mother-and-child in the new opening credits and Maeve’s search for her daughter, but families are a larger running theme here, especially parents and children: not just Maeve but also Dolores and Peter, whatshisname (the outlaw travelling with old William) and his wife and daughter, and William and his father-in-law and his daughter (and I suppose his dead wife and Logan too). Part of being human is being a part of a family unit.
Bernard is turning out to be quite the complex character - one minute he’s quivering pathetically and fumbling with his glasses; the next he’s gone all Terminator. I’ve given up trying to figure out what he’s up to; clearly he doesn’t know himself so there’s no chance I’m going to get it.
They made it clear a big part of the problem is that the new artificial brain rejects the reality of the situation and starts to malfunction, that’s the main hurdle they’re trying to get over. So if they’re trying to trick the brain into thinking it’s a real entity, it has to feel as though it is part of an unbroken line of conciousness with the original biological entity, which means making him as familiar to the brain as possible as to not break the illusion. Perhaps once they get better at it, and the conciousness accepts their situation, version 2 could be the beach body model.
But it’s clear that mind conciousness transfer is new and secret, not an established technology. They’ve been secretly working on it and can’t get it to work. I’m not sure how you think they’re playing fast and loose with it when it’s clear they’re investing a lot of money and resources into it and can’t even get it right because it’s incredibly complex.
We also don’t really know what society outside of the park is like.
Lawrence.
did anyone notice in Ep 3 that the Indian musicians were playing "Seven Nation Army? "on sitars?
I love the music choices.
Yup. See post 147.
I feel like the director was taking notes from Sergio Leone with the scene right before William attacks the Confederados. I’m hoping this next episode will have some Kurosawa in the directing.
Did anyone besides me think those experimental host brains made the lab look like the world’s creepiest Magnolia Bakery?
The human rail tie thing was disgusting. I’m this close to dropping this show for the extreme depravity.
Yes, the human rail tie scene was disgusting and shocking. But I have to admit that my second thought was that it wouldn’t work, as the bodies wouldn’t support the weight of the train.
I’m guessing you can’t really make people explode by making them drink nitroglycerin and then shooting them.
Hooray for Hollywood!
Best episode of Mythbusters ever.
I went with the assumption that they weren’t doing it because they ran out of railroad ties. I’m pretty sure there’s no train a-coming.
My sig line seems strangely appropriate here.
People, no, but robots?
Yeesh, aren’t there enough safety issues at Westworld already without having exploding robots?
Isn’t oral nitroglycerin used as a treatment for angina?
Yes, but stabilized inside a solid formulation or diluted as to be non-explosive. And it has poor bioavailability and a really short half life. If you, as a human, were to drink a shot of the stuff you’d probably die from the blood pressure drop.