Westworld Telegraph

Published May 30, 2018 · Updated July 6, 2022

Hello, old friends!

I, like everyone else, find myself yelling at my car stereo in order to disagree with you on a weekly basis and I love it. A couple of notes from me:

1. Guys, be careful about the assumptions that you base your arguments on. Generally what makes me yell at my phone the most is when you’re arguing that something is either one thing or another, but the assumption you’ve started with is faulty.! This week’s problem was the assumption that someone wouldn’t mis-remember family details, so one of them must be a host. Not true. You can’t start from that, because as Roger said, parents mis-remember things all of the time. My Mom gets her three children’s likes, etc. confused all of the time, and often that’s because she admits she wasn’t paying attention in the first place. Which leads me to….

2. As for this specific situation, I don’t think that that Emily not being afraid of the elephants necessarily means that either she or the Man in Black is a host. What I got from this is that this was the moment when MIB learned just how shitty of a father he really was. He spent SO much time in the park on his own, and yet he still chose to take his wife and daughter there on vacation? I think we’re supposed to understand that, no matter how upstanding he was in the real world, he didn’t actually know his family all that well because he was too preoccupied with his own quests. And don’t even get me started on how mixed up he has his daughter with her mother… there’s something psychological going on there.

3. Dolores sucks. I mean, I’m enjoying her so much less this season because I don’t trust or believe anything she says or does. She seems like even less of a real person than she was in season one. In the letterbox scene, who says it’s even really Dolores? Could this not be in the past and it’s really Ford? I just keep thinking about Ford masquerading as Bernard’s ex-wife in the video call.

Anyway, love the show. I so enjoy getting to be part of a larger conversation and I look forward to it every week.

-Lesley in Northern Virginia

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