Regarding Emily, they are clearly trying to keep it ambiguous whether she’s a host or not. Pretty much every time they could have verified it, they didn’t show. To what end, I don’t know.
One point I noticed was that she told the story about the music box being thrown away. But it the end, she had William’s profile, which was last seen inside the music box.
Emily did throw away the music box, I guess, but her mom saw it and rescued it from the trash. By the time she committed suicide, it was in her desk drawer.
Yes, but Emily had the profile, so presumably she knew the music box wasn’t thrown away really. So was she lying to William or is she a host and Ford didn’t know about the music box?
I thought Juliet took it out of the box later, watched some footage from it, and then hid it in a book. So Emily could have found it without having found the music box.
When Maeve was trying to influence Lawrence to shoot William. She had to convince him and jog his memories instead of directly influencing him through robot mind-meld like she did with the Shogun world fighters.
Westworld is out to lunch. It’s entering LOST territory at this point. The story is getting so convoluted that I’ve stopped caring.
Something I’ve realized recently, as regards dramatic series, is that small-scale storylines are actually usually more interesting than large-scale ones. What do most people really remember from great movies and shows - the overarching story, or the individual moments and scenes and dialog that stand out?
More and more, I’m feeling like a long convoluted story is only worthwhile if it is the setup for some kind of major twist. The thing about that, though, is that it takes good writers with an actual plan to pull that off - which I’m not convinced the Westworld folks do.
Part of the genius of my favorite recent show, Black Mirror, is that the anthology format allows them to create individual, compartmentalized worlds with each episode, yet retain a sense of continuity and immersion that tie them together cohesively. It’s like, they’re all kinda-sorta taking place in Black Mirror-world, but in differing timelines. They make it work. Every episode is gripping and fascinating. That’s the new way forward for the dramatic series, in my opinion. Long protracted “mytharcs” are played out.