He’s Not A Host

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I’ve been absent throughout the season but time to break this streak.

A couple of notes regarding the last aired episode, as well as the Instacast and Deep Dive:

From what we could see in the first episode in the season, the place where they find the Ghost Nation robocorpse from which they extract the memory of Wyatt killing is by teh beach, right? And we saw this same GN being killed now in a place that didn1t seem close to the beach. Maybe the beach is only a beach after the flood, as well?

As to the whole Man in Black being a host, a couple of things. I just can’t believe they’ll do it. It’d be extremely cheap and repetitive, and it would also take away the meaning of William’s actions (he just killed his daughter; on Father’s Day! haha). And if that’s how they proceed with things, there aren’t any stakes, so what’s the point of all that’s going on with… pretty much everyone? Other than that, if he’s a host and the “mind transfer” program has been running successfully, and there are other “human hosts” going around, there’s now way it wouldn’t have been militarized by now; so I don’t believe William/MiB is a host.

Now, if he isn’t, it’s a great work by Nolan and Joy. We spend the first season following MiB in his quest for the center of the Maze, to then realize the Maze wasn’t meant for him. But now, by doubting the nature of his reality (and his own self), after a moment of deep suffering (he killed his family, which one could argue was his cornerstone) he has finally found the center of his Maze. If the purpose of the Maze was to awaken the hosts and make them question themselves, William has indeed found it.

Since you mentioned the literary references in the episode, here’s a cool bit I got from a piece in The Ringer. It says that Theseus is the most obvious reference to Greek mythology in the show (after all he’s famous for killing the minotaur in teh center of a giant maze; and we have seen William kill a person with a bull’s helmlet in season 1); “One of the definitive books on Theseus was written by none other than William’s favorite author, Plutarch. In the Life of Theseus, Plutarch broaches the paradox of Theseus’s ship: If one plank of Theseus’s wooden ship is replaced, is it still the same ship? What about if every plank eventually gets replaced?”. That would be an interestign approach to adress the whole mind transfer thing: is a person built from their previous experiences still the same person? I hope they answer that in season 3, when William kills himself but first has his mind transferred to a host body/clone, so he can both pay for his sins and try to live a different life from what he’s lived so far.

And Roger, the hat scanner thing is stupid. They didn’t need to explain how the scan worked.

Well, I’m still catching up on your content, but you guys are still my “Faeve” Westworld podcast.

Cheers, fellows!
Thiago Waldhelm

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