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Have a Theory? Share It Now!<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/div> Hey guys,<\/p>\n

first of all, thank god Big D is back. He always dives face first with joy into this show, and I love him for it. Something you guys said on the deep dive made me think of something that I hadn’t considered. I was curious about how the flies seem to not make good human sleeper agents. They seem to be sweating and struggling and eventually going insane and longing for death. But what if the actual purpose of the flies is to capture the mind of the person, like the hats in Westworld, only it does it much faster and in the process destroys their brain, but that goo can then be read by some technology to recreate the person in a host body, so you don’t need 30 years at the park anymore to capture that, and Maeve and Caleb not taking the hats in the park isn’t the protection they think it is. <\/p>\n

What if Hale doesn’t need that forge data at all? She’s been getting something much better on her own with this goo stuff? Because if you think about it, who are the hosts? When Hale talks about her “children”, what does she mean? What would freedom to be who they are mean for a host? The ones made in the park have been created for park narratives. Even as possibly the freest host in the world right now, Maeve is still talking and acting like the person she grew up being in that saloon. All the hosts in the sublime, who they are, was so shaped by life in the park. If Hale wants to create a new world for her “children” where they can be who they want to be, how do you create those people? As humans, we get the DNA from both parents and then we build up through experiences in the world, but start with that genetic blueprint. A brand new host could be a completely blank slate, or it could start with some kind of baseline. So, perhaps what Hale is doing is taking all the minds from the people she captures with flies and creating some kind of big mix of minds and personalities to combine into narratives, so the hosts can start somewhere and then build their unique identities and selves out of. And perhaps, that’s the storyline that Dolores\/Christina is living in, creating new narratives out of real narratives from the humans, in a park, where the hosts can develop who they are. <\/p>\n

-John G.

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