Inverted Parallel to The Downfall Of The Delos Parks

July 25, 2022

Hey, guys. So, I heard on your Instacast that you really didn’t enjoy this week’s episode. Well, I decided to drop this email your way to tell you why I really did like it.

And that is for one big reason. This episode seems to be setting up a major parallel with the first season, only inverted. George Santayana famously said that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it, and that is the very trap that Halores is walking into. Halores has more or less taken the place that Ford had in the first season. As she rules over the host controlled world, so did Ford over the Delos parks. She tries to keep order in her world as Ford originally attempted to keep the park in order. But, like what happened in the park, things inevitably begin to go wrong.

Just like with how some of the hosts began to exhibit what the technicians in the park referred to as “glitches”, especially those with reveries, there are humans who become outliers, and need to be “retired”. And for humans, their version of Cold Storage is being killed by volunteer hosts. Now, the one big difference between the events that unfolded in the park and here is this “virus” that Hale says Outliers infect hosts with, and causes them to go mad and eventually kill themselves.

Could this be what Ford spoke about earlier in the series, when he said that hosts were better than humans, in his mind? That being that, unlike humans, who came to the park and did what they wanted to the hosts without a care in the world, no remorse, and not thinking that they were real, the hosts now, when interacting with Outliers, are realizing that what they are doing is wrong and they have themselves become monsters through developing empathy for the humans, and unable to mentally deal with what they’ve done, commit suicide out of guilt? We see that Halores is seemingly attempting to purge them of empathy and other human like emotions in attempts to get her “children” to transcend above humans, but frustrated when many want to stay.

Irregardless, it seems this episode has inverted the events of the first season, and this one, which leads to a question, one which is one of the bigger reasons why I so enjoyed this episode. Could this season be building to an almost eerily reminiscent ending as the first season? It almost feels like Host in Black is building to what Dolores did in the season 1 finale, even speaking similarly about the world not being his, but someone else’s when he speaks to William. Does this mean he’ll end up killing Halores and basically start an inverted slaughter on the hosts? Could Halores, like Ford did in the park, decide to simply end everything and go scorched earth on the humans, deciding to burn everything down as he set in motion in the park? Or will she, like Ford did, realize she was wrong to do what she’s done, albeit possibly too late for redemption for herself, but maybe in time to try and undo what she’s perpetrated for the last 23 years?

This is why I love this episode so much. It has set up an inverted parallel to the downfall of the Delos Parks and the awakening of the hosts, but with the capability to go anywhere from here. It could end exactly how Delos Destinations did, in a very bloody and violent manner, or it could end with a lesson learned and thus, preventing history from repeating itself, and being better than what came before.

Hopefully, this gives you something to think about, and possibly a new appreciation for the episode. It’s like the wind-up before a pitch in baseball. Have a wonderful week, and the best to you all!

Yours sincerely,
Joey G.

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