Westworld Season 1 Thoughts and Questions

Published December 8, 2016 · Updated July 6, 2022

Hello gents!

Have enjoyed your reviews and thoughts on the show thru season 1 and wanted to chime in with a few of my own and some of the questions I was left with.

The results of Dr. Ford’s grand plan: Looking at Dr. Ford’s final narrative it seems clear he came around to Arnold’s beliefs that the hosts could come to a state where they are truly alive, self-aware, and that they should be given the chance to make their own way in the world.

The paths to this goal that we have seen-
1. Remove the most immediate danger – The Delos Board: Ford does this by recreating the means to bring Dolores back again to the point of true self-awareness by leading her through the maze (to Escalante) as she nearly did under Arnold’s guidance, and again with William. She becomes self-aware now with 30+ years of experience of human nature. This most importantly includes how a human that she loved and who she thought loved her ultimately becomes a disappointment (William).

2. Distract the park security team from protecting the board: Dovetailed with #1 is his use of Maeve and a secretly implanted narrative to simulate her own path through “the maze” and self-empowerment. The goal of that being to activate a host force able to complete the needed goal of removing the Delos board and to run interference herself in the WW control center so park staff can not be available to stop the massacre .

3. Foster Bernard as an influential human and create a worthy successor: The true length of the plan can be in this step as Ford secretly creates and establishes host Bernard in a very influential position in the park to assist him in his desire to make the hosts as sentient as possible while running interference with park employees who start to become suspicious about what’s really going on. His close work with Ford and repeated use as Ford’s means to implement his will means Bernard knows Ford better than anyone else living.

Questions:
1. If Ford really wanted the hosts to be free and survive in the “real world”, would he not have slipped them out of the park in small numbers (like Maeve was about to do) vs starting a conflict that would make the hosts appear to be dangerous homicidal machines?

2. What did Peter Abernathy recognize in that picture of Juliet that broke him and made him deliver the fateful line “These violent delights have violent ends” to Dolores? He wasn’t there in Escalante when Arnold died (that I can detect) so had he met Juliet along the way, or was the reaction implanted programmatically by Bernard at some point?

3. Where the heck is Stubbs?

It has been a great ride this season and I hope season 2 can hold our imaginations in such a spell in 2018.

Keep up the good work!

Ben

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