Westworld Telegraph S02e02

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Hello gentlemen, and lovely Kerri.

I’m saving the pleasantries this week, because you already know how awesome you are.
This has been a crazy week. I have gone back and forth on so many theories.
I loved the idea of pairs. It works so well with the idea of a biblical flood. It also links back to the tarot references from season 1. If each of the character’s is on a path to self-discovery, then each represents the fool. One of the characteristics of the fool is the loyal dog that helps to keep them on their path. That brings us to Argos. There are so many interpretations of this, but one is that Argos was the name of Odysseus’ faithful dog in Homer’s Odyssey.
It’s great to see that you boys have finally come around to the idea that Arnold was not an actual person. At least, no version of him that we have seen has been a real person. The extra Bernard host bodies that we see in the trailer seem to be old bodies.

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Two things of note here. First, the host all the way to Charlotte’s left seems like one of the old models (a la young Robert). Second, each of the hosts seems to have a bullet hole in the same place on his right temple. So that implies that this host has been around since the very beginning and that Bernard has been shot in the head more than just the two times we have seen (once shot by himself and once by Dolores). I really don’t believe there are multiple Bernard’s running around because, by that token, all the hosts could have clones.

It’s very possible that you guys are right about Arnold being AI, but I’ve always thought he’d be an alter-ego of Ford. We see lots of shots of Ford with a reflection in the glass around him, which seems to point to his duplicity.
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I’m not really convinced that it’s a Tyler Durden scenario, but I think there is a possibility that Ford changed his identity when seeking out investments and scrubbed the records of every trace of Arnold.
I also don’t buy the Bernard brain swapping thing. Not with Teddy, anyway. I can’t see any reason for it. The only reason to put someone else’s brain into Bernard is because the PMCs (Private Military Contractors) think he is a human and have him as a high priority for extraction. So, why would anyone want Teddy’s brain? If anything, Peter Abernathy’s brain would be more valuable. It also takes some skill to do that kind of brain surgery. Charlotte has the drone hosts who are well experienced at it and from the photo, she will soon discover that Bernard is a host.

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We know that Daddy Delos is dying at the time of the retirement party and he seems to be saying that he’s was expecting something to happen that would allow him to continue on.
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Maybe he was expecting to have his consciousness transferred into a host body, but the technology wasn’t quite ready. Perhaps they ran out of time and put him into a host for safekeeping. Or maybe, William wanted to give his father-in-law a big F/U and stuck him in Peter Abernathy, so that he could shoot him once a year. That would make Peter Abernathy’s light bulb even a little more valuable.

The scenes with “Arnold” and Dolores in the black dress confused me. Not only because of the far too clean/quiet Asian metropolis. I was sure that Logan had never met Arnold. Although I went back to Season 1, Episodes 4 and 5 and he does say that he wants to get his dad to bump their stake in the park. So, he was an investor at the time of his trip with William. Yet, we know that 5 years had passed between Arnold’s death and that first William visit. Logan and Juliet had been coming to the park for 5 years while she was dating William and he was OK with that? It’s not impossible, but unlikely.

If it was a real Arnold, then he would have died just shortly after the presentation and before Logan pulled the cord on the investment. However, when “Arnold” died in season 1, his son was already deceased. In these scenes, he is building a house and planning to move his family there. I can’t imagine that all of that could take place in the time between the sales pitch to Logan and his investment.
Otherwise, it’s either a fake Arnold or a different time. Personally, I think it’s both. Bernard had a backstory with his son Charlie, but when he “awakened” , he learned that his backstory was actually Arnold’s. Bernard has lost his cornerstone and needs to find a new one. This might be why he is in a loop; there is something he needs to learn. However, the Well-Tempered Clavier tells us that a single note can’t be tuned in isolation. Rather, the entire scale must be cycled through in a very specific sequence. So, we may be seeing two loops (this and the one on the beach). Both are the same host but playing two different characters with intertwined backstories, one who doesn’t know he’s a host and one that does. It’s gives Bernard an opportunity to review the choices he made in both circumstances. Dolores is clearly a weakness for him” his Achilles?

Back to Argos and Homer’s Odyssey. Gillian raised some interesting Trojan Horse references when we were discussing brain swapping. Perhaps the Argos Initiative, from Ford’s perspective, is to put hosts out there into the real world, paired up with world leaders/titans of industry. They could learn, observe, anticipate every need, play on insecurities, massage egos, become indispensable, and ultimately manipulate their targets. Kinda the same way that William got Daddy Delos to up his investment. The loyal dogs to the world’s wealthiest.

In this scenario, maybe Dolores actually does represent Achilles. We’ll see if she kills Hector in front of the gates to Troy.
Of course, this theory also assumes that William is a host. It has nothing to do with the first aid kit, or that he’s paired up with Lawrence. It is more that I believe that Ford has a bigger plan than Delos does and William is key to it. Ford would want a certain level of control, and planting host William would give him that.

There’s just too much already this week. Hopefully, things will start to become clearer next week… Expect charts and graphs. ?
Lots of love from London,
Xo Jez

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