Bernard’s Weakness From His Son’s Death
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Hi guys,Georgia, from Brisbane Australia here. After watching episode 3 a theory’s come to mind, and I may be way off, but here me out.
We’ve seen over the last two episodes that Dr. Ford is developing a big narrative for the park. I think this episode is where Dr Ford’s new narrative is revealed and major foreshadowing for this plan is laid out. At the start of the episode Dr Ford brings Teddy in and promises him a new origin story based in truth, that ‘starts in a time of war, a world seeped in flames’. The story line he uploads into Teddy’s narrative was about Wyatt, a host that claimed he could hear the voice of God – perhaps the same voice Deloris is hearing – who disappeared and came back with ‘some pretty strange ideas’. And we later find out that Wyatt doesn’t fear death, he believes they’re already in Hell, and that Westworld is it. Sound like a familiar Shakespeare quote to you? These are the same strange ideas Abernathy had before he was decommissioned. Later in the episode Dr Ford tells Bernard that he had a partner, Arnold, who died mysteriously in the park, wanted to create consciousness for the hosts. I think that this is Dr Ford warning Bernard what his big plan is for his narrative. I think Ford also hopes to sway Bernard to unknowingly help in this plan – playing on the Bernard’s weakness from his son’s death – to keep talking to Deloris, and create a domino effect of sorts. We’ve seen through Teresa and Bernard’s conversations about Dr Ford that he’s starting to become an issue for the board and that his time at Westworld may be coming to an end. I think that Dr Ford plans to carry out his old partner’s work, and send the park into chaos before he is forced out of the world he built. What do you guys think?
Love the podcast!Georgia.
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I hadn’t connected Abernathy’s and Wyatt’s beliefs, but that makes a ton of sense.
Perhaps the narrative is paying homage to another landmark piece of literature: “Paradise Lost.”
If Dr. Ford is God, Westworld’s surface is Earth and the hosts are mankind, it follows that Cold Storage or being wiped is hell. And that would make the guests demons. They visit mankind, tempt and torture mankind, and they drive mankind to hell.