I Feel Like a Beautiful Mind When I Watch Westworld

Published November 4, 2016 · Updated July 6, 2022

Kerry again. Thanks for comparing my last email to A Beautiful Mind. That’s how it feels when I’m watching each WW episode.

Get that same “click” sometimes with podcasts too. Especially liked your instructions to us rabid fandom to just calm the fuck down a little.

Your point, that you can take your pick of the theories and craft “evidence” to support it, totally made me flashback to Bernard putting the smack down on Elsie. “The hosts don’t imagine things,” he chastises. “You do.” Seeing what we want to see…

That said, hanging on by a thread as a Bernarnold believer. And still standing by my prediction that Ford has done a sort of New Testament narrative before and is going Old Testament on their asses next. (Link here if you want the whole theory explained far better than I could)

Orion is the key – monomyth and the Westworld Bible [Long] from westworld

Ties to Orion, the only being to die on the mythical island of Delos. Whole lot of Job. Think we might see a Flood.

But I almost can’t think about ANY of that right now. A bit of crazy tinfoil resonated with me and I can’t let it go. This idea:

Westworld is far further in the future than we think. The entire Park lives inside a simulation of late human society that is being run for the benefit of future AIs. It is their attempt to recreate and the Ancient Human Culture and thereby recall its own past and origin.