Trying My Best at Digestible Bites

Published April 27, 2020 · Updated July 6, 2022

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 kills himself and is turned into Bernard by Dolores and Ford, both who knew they needed Arnold to continue improving their AI. Jean Mi becomes obsessed with the end of the world scenarios and becomes an outlier causing his AI to also suffer from a similar haphazard behavior, Ermahgerd puts Jean Mi into Solomon and on Ice to be preserved for a later date when and if he might be rehabilitated. Now Jean Mi is the voice (and possibly mind) that controls or lays dormant inside Solomon.

Question:
Is William (MiB) stating to “Bernard” that hes “Not Arnold” while at the gas station a blatant way of saying this version is actually Arnold?

Assumption Point:
Ford, when faced with the end of the road for him physical presence, resorts to uploading his consciousness into the Cradle, which he stays until he hitches a ride on Bernard’s Consciousness. Ermahgerd, in his virtual Hey Welcome Back video to his brother, makes mention that he is “not the man he once was” (or along those lines). Previously, in Episode 5, we had Ermahgerd talking to Rohoboam, telling the AI about himself, and how they got there. We also know that he essentially lives on a plane that rarely lands except to beat world leaders into submission.

Questions:
Was Big D right all along, and Ermahgerd that we see, is merely a hologram projection of its creator, who now lives inside Rohoboam? Would that mean that Ermahgerd realized his existence on the planet is was causes humanities end, and therefore he became his machine as to ensure the outcome while also eliminated his personal interference? If Solomon’s Default Voice is that of Jean Mi, could it be then that Rohoboam’s Default Voice is that of Ermahgerd?

Timeline Weirdness
(Still going off the idea that what we are seeing taking place with Dolores and Maeve and Bernard and the whole gang is going on in 2052, NOT 2058): 2037: Russian Civil War breaks out (Release Date Trailer)
2039: Solomon Build 0.06 Initiated (Release Date Trailer)
2042: Caleb and Francis are sent to war (Caleb’s Tablet)
2048: Caleb suffers skull fracture (Caleb’s Tablet) aka his unit was bombed/he was discharged/he begins working for RICO 2049: Caleb and Francis get a RICO job to get a Pharma-tech that asks “too many questions” (Episode 7)/Pharam-tech reveals the real goings-on about Incite and/or Solomon(Episode 7)/Caleb kills Francis (Episode 7/Caleb’s Tablet)/is admitted to Mexican Inner Journey for reprogramming (Caleb’s Tablet/Episode 7) 2052: Caleb tells virtual Francis that he never had to live “in this world” aka, the world of Rehoboam.

Assumed Points:
Solomon was up and running from 2039 until about 2049/2050
Rohoboam came online after Francis had died, possibly right after Caleb was reconditioned.

Questions:
When was Rehoboam turned on/built?
Why did the trailer let us know about Solomon but not Rohoboam? Has it only been up and running for 2/3 years?

Now just random one-off questions from just episode 7:
(A) What the fuck is up with Clementine?
follow the series of events:
S1E7: Clem is used by Hale and Teresa for Rouge coding; She is lobotomized S1E9: Clem is used by Bernard to hold Ford Hostage to force Ford to show Bernard his real memories; Ford “back doors” Clementine’s new programming so she wont pull the trigger, because the “piano does not murder the player” S1E10: Maeve finds Clem in the basement with the gun, kisses her goodbye; Clem is next seen on the outskirts of Escalante, shooting at William during the Host Rebellion. S2E2: Clem was one of the first hosts on display to Logan playing a piano (probably not relevant but whatever) S2E3: Lobotomized Clementine is part of Dolores’ hoard
S2E4: Lobotomized Clem drags Bernard to the middle of the Westworld Park where Daddy Delos’ lab is and Elsie was left S2E7: THE CRADLE THAT HOLDS ALL THE HOST BACKUPS IS DESTROYED S2E9: Lobotomized Clem is taken back to the Delos Facilities, given Maeve host controlling code, demonstrates the power it has S2E10: Rapture-ized Clementine rides a horse to the Valley Beyond, tries to kill all the Hosts about to leap into Host Heaven, is shot down by Armistice.

So…how the fuck did we get a (1) conscious (?) Clementine speaking to Dolores about how she “is the reason” theyre there (2) a Clementine that can fucking speak a sentence since she had NO FUCKING LINES during the ENTIRE season 2? (3) how does she remember that her and maeve used to “sell themselves” WHEN SHE WAS LOBOTOMIZED IN SEASON 1. (4) how does she even know WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON when her BACKUP was DESTROYED by Angela????

So either this whole Mushashi story line is happening in a different simulation from Maeve and Dolores (we havent seen them all together obviously) or somehow Clem just gets to be Season 1 Clem pre-lobotomy post-Dolores Revolution somehow…

(B) How many times was the word “personal” used in this episode? my over/under is at about 17 but I could be wrong. What is up with that word beating us over the head so much

(C) How did Solomon and then Rehoboam account for Ford and his actions? Solomon was up-and-running as late as 2039, it was using Westworld/Delos data prior to that, we know Ford left the park at least one year prior to the Host Rebellion (when he meets William at the bar to slip him his profile card). So….how did Serac miss Ford creating a Host Rebellion that would take down the world?

(D) Please explain how Solomon is different from Rohoboam, at least in its analytical predictor way? Just saying “Solomon version was schizophrenic” does not translate into understandable terms to me (sorry I am slow). Does Solomon account for outliers whereas Rohoboam doesnt (because they are “asleep” on ice in Mexico and therefore Rohoboam doesnt “see” them, but Solomon does)?

(E) Dolores’ plan is to let Caleb get the plan from Solomon, the retired Brain Ball that isnt running the show, and then start his own Human Rebellion?

(F) Is the next episode going to have just the line of the human-cold storage folk lining up on the outskirts of a town awaiting to kill William?

(G) Solomons’ “I must warn you DOT DOT DOT” right as Dolores hit the EMP then knocks it out…that was a bad “i must warn you” right…

(H) Why do gut stabs seem to be the way to kill hosts? Why is everyone going for the fucking gut? Theyre all consciouss of one another and themselves…..why not just fucking go straight for the goddamn pearl?!

(I) Clem and Hanario took Mushashi-Dolores’ head because they want the pearl right?

(J) Do we know for a fact that Charl-lores has the Connells Pearl/Control Unit? Cause then the count is 2 Dolori in the possession of the Maeve crew plus Hale’s unit making it 3 total.

(K) Why on earth is Hanario so pissed off a Dolores for using Mushashi’s image in the real world? Hanario was with Maeve and co when they were at the Valley Beyond, and saw that hosts were leaping off a cliff but their minds were what mattered most, as their bodies fell to the ground, so why does using Mushashi’s body somehow bring dishonor? His mind is somewhere, we assume, in cold storage under Shogun World…so hes somewhere (or thought to be) it isnt like hes gone for good (that we’ve seen) so what does the physical body mean to hosts?

Sorry Gene, I can already sense your eye roll, annoyed sign, and shoulder shrug at this email. This isnt for the telecast, just if you guys can give some insight (no pun intended) to any of these points or questions, it’d help.

-Gillian

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