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Hey guys,
Love the podcast – thanks for all of your hard work. A few scattered thoughts about this season for you:
- I think episode two brought up some delicious irony: The park guests think Westworld is a chance to be themselves, when really they’re being recorded for market research/cloning/blackmail/whatever. Meanwhile, humans like William (either by himself or with Jim) think they can speak freely in front of Dolores, who will always be wiped clean (and is sometimes frozen solid, seemingly “off”), but it turns out all those memories were being stored, and are now available to her.
- I hope to see Maeve and William cross paths this season. We haven’t seen them interact since Maeve regained her memories of her daughter (if at all), and based on Maeve’s memories of William gunning down her and her daughter, I don’t think it will be a warm reunion…
- Prediction: If Dolores is on team hosts-take-over-the-world and William is on team burn-it-all-down (which seems at least adjacent to Dolores’ team), then maybe Maeve’s animus toward William will inspire her to join team save-the-humans. As a mother committed to reconnecting with her daughter, Maeve is one of the most “human” characters on the show right now.
- Your Arnold-was-never-a-human theory is interesting, but one scene that doesn’t quite fit is in season one when we saw Ford starting Bernard up for the first time, when he’s telling Bernard how to adjust his glasses. Why would Ford do that if Bernard wasn’t based on a human? (Unless Ford just wanted Bernard to think he was based on a human, but I don’t really buy that…)
Cheers! – Sarah
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“Your Arnold-was-never-a-human theory is interesting, but one scene that doesn’t quite fit is in season one when we saw Ford starting Bernard up for the first time, when he’s telling Bernard how to adjust his glasses. Why would Ford do that if Bernard wasn’t based on a human? (Unless Ford just wanted Bernard to think he was based on a human, but I don’t really buy that…)”
It’s the one part of the “Arnold was AI” story I can’t reconcile. And I hope the explanation isn’t just “it was Ford’s way of making him more believable and they do that with all the hosts.”