Are You Familiar with the Greek Myth of “Daeadalus and Perdix”?

Published November 4, 2016 · Updated July 6, 2022

Great Job, Guys!!

This is a compendium of several of my IMDB WW Message Board posts:

Are you familiar with the Greek Myth of “Daeadalus and Perdix”? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daedalus

Daedalus the “artificer” is credited with constructing the Labyrinth under the Minoan palace at Knossos. At its center waited the Minotaur who would kill anyone who ventured there. In Hopi culture, the “maze” represents a path to enlightenment.

Putting it all together:
Now…how Dr. Ford is drawn from Daedalus in the myth? Jealous of his cousin’s superior craftsmanship, He kills Perdix/Arnold 30 years before the present. As you theorize before dying Arnold is able to upload his consciousness/soul into Bernard. Then Dr. Ford places a device at the center of the Maze to broadcast a “Jail-Break Key” that unlocks the top level of the Consciousness Pyramid” an catalyze a Synthetic Self-Awakening.

Building on the speculation that the the plot action alternates between “the present” and “30 years ago (where William is the young MiB)” it would seem that the “reality” of the outside world could itself be virtual, or at least, “alternate” (cf Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, “The Matrix”, “Stay”, “The Signal”, “Inception” et al).

Remember the Kachina doll that falls from girl’s bag represents a “Shade” – a man who can walk between worlds. Say there are two (or more) very similar parallel “worlds”/”realities/Universes”: The Shades could know quickly which one they’re in by the number of stars in Orion’s Belt. Their “reality” has four, ours has three.

Regarding Teresa’s luncheon with Dr. Ford:

I think it will “coincidentally” turn out to be 30 years ago that Theresa and her family sat and ate at the same table; and she (unknowingly) witnessed/participated in the launching of the major plot arcs: The creation of the Maze (and the MiB, as a first-time guest, embarking on his quest to find it), Dolores coming online, and Arnold losing his sanity. (This last will turn out to be Dr. Ford’s cover story for his … metamorphosis). I’m hoping for a “Luke-I-am-your-father”-type Reveal

Spaghetti Western References:

The “Lawrence/MiB” dynamic seems to be drawn from the Eli Wallach/Clint Eastwood relationship in “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”.In the he plot action of TGTBATU Clint Eastwood repeatedly “rescues” Tuco from hanging by the Law (having turned him in for the reward money) and then runs the same scam on the next town. There are several scenes of Eastwood pulling Tuco through the Badlands by a rope tied to his horse.

The MiB himself is a mash-up of “Blondie” and the “Man With a Harmonica”. The MiB’s rescue of Lawrence is actually a reference to another Serio Leone movie, “Once A time in The West”.

You can Youtube the Scene, “Shy One Horse”.

Both the MiB and “The Man With a Harmonica” are on a quest to resolve a conflict from their distant pasts and both need their socially awkward “sidekicks” for a crucial piece of information they possess.

Thoughts in general:

WW seems quite the “Masqued Ball”: At the close of the evening everyone takes off their costume. Yes, some of the “sheep” will in fact be wolves, and vice versa! (Just like in the old Warner Bros “Sam and Ralph” cartoon 😉 The “trick” is to give us just enough seemingly “disjunctive” plot points, say as snippets of flashbacks/ back-story, to keep us guessing. Then in the final episode(s) align them to point to a seemingly “inevitable”, Gosh-How’d-we-Miss-It Reveal.

Keep up the Good Work, –Omar

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