Author: Dick Ebert

Westworld – Free Stallone

Hi, I think Caleb/Solomon’s plan will be to free the frozen outlier known as John “Demolition Man” Spartan and let him take down Serac. Ken C.

Oh William

Hi Falcão, Zico and Sócrates, there’s something satisfying about seeing a character prove your instincts right and William didn’t disappoint by demonstrating that his slaughter of the Williams wasn’t cathartic but instead was an act of repression. Despite my continuing misgivings about that scene, what he says to Bernard and...

Trying My Best at Digestible Bites

Hi, Ok so heres just stuff going into the deepdive that I would love to get you take on/answers to in case i missed them, and some points that Ive just assumed are now true but wouldnt mind correcting: Assumption Point: Arnold and Jean Mi both became their AI: Arnold...

Person of Interest And The Matrix?

Hi hosts! A couple more of Person of Interest (Nolan’s previous show) plots this episode — pitching partners against each other after a top secret operation & super AI vs super AI. And they include the lines like “they are listening” and “asking too many questions” again. This is on...

Westworld

Hey Guys, I’ve seen people questioning online why Dolores would wreck team Rahobo’s brutal utopia. And I think the answer is “because it will destroy humanity.” That is, after all, Dolores’s mission statement. So if she’s staying true to that loop, then it also absolutely makes sense why she would...

Westworld Comment:

Sure, they have a military-grade EMP by Solomon. It probably belonged to Checkov before it ended up in this episode. Technical Comment (and I’m not the technical expert to go into details on this, so here’s Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse?wprov=sfti1) an EMP isn’t a physical thing–it’s a burst of energy. They probably...

MIB As VIP?

Hey gang, I know I’m too late for the mailbag, but something just hit me: Given his psychological profile, how was William able to rise to such prominence? Wouldn’t Incite have tried to hold him down? We’ve seen that others are prohibited from social ascension, having children, etc. Why not...