Doppelmaps

Published May 23, 2018 · Updated July 6, 2022

Hello, Fellas.

Thanks for the shout out last week and a BIG thanks for props to the Preds!

I have something a little different for you this week. I was screwing around on the Delos Destinations site and noticed that there is now a map of Shogun World tracking Maeve’s progress. Almost immediately, one notices that the topography is a dead ringer for the map of Westworld. It even lists the names of her stopping points: Hirafuku and Jinmaku. A quick google search shows that these names mean “Rail Station” and “Military Curtain” respectively. They also just happen to exactly match up with the locations of Sweetwater and Fort Forlorn Hope.

This got me thinking about another map; the hand drawn one that Emily/Grace (I believe that their names are William Grace and Emily Grace but that’s for another email) was carrying around The Raj. Low and behold, EUREKA. They match up almost exactly. Not only that, there is a path that seems to track William, Logan, and Dolores’s path at least to Pariah. I don’t think this was a map of The Raj at all but instead it is William’s journal with a map of his original journey.

Something else
to note: the hand drawn map seems to denote that North is to the left. This leads me to believe that all of the maps we’re being shown are oriented sideways for misdirection. As far as I can remember, the only time primary directions have been used in the show, it’s in reference to something we’ve never seen “Valley Beyond in the west, place where the ‘water’s so pure it washes the past clean off ya’ in the south, etc”. We are never given an opportunity to gather our bearings in relation from one place we’ve actually seen to another.

Hopefully y’all can take this half baked idea and finish cooking it into a nice new theory.

Thanks for making the show experience so much better for us every week!

-Chris in Nashville

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