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Before the second season of [Westworld] began, there was news that:
Anthony Hopkins may continue to appear in the second season...
Although I haven't seen Uncle Huo for a long time after the second season started, the Ford he plays often uses other people's bodies to tell his own stories!
(For example, providing clues through the mouth of Little Ford)
Unexpectedly, the sixth episode flashed the old waist of the detective:
Uncle Huo , who has not been seen for a long time, appeared without warning——
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Season 2 · Phase World
Westworld season 2·Phase world
At the end of Episode 6, Anthony Hopkins' Ford returns...
I was surprised not only by me as an audience, but even Bernard in the play didn't expect Ford to appear.
And Ford, who appeared again, is no longer a real person——
He turned into code and lived in the "mother's nest"!
A reversed dream
Since the first episode of the second season, the dialogue scene between Arnold and Demei in the picture above has often appeared...
This scene is quite familiar to everyone.
The scene in the first season successfully tricked the viewer's eyes into confusing Bernard with robot creator Arnold.
(Arnold and Demei in S1E3)
So when this scene resurfaces in season 2...
As an audience, it is natural to think that this was once Arnold was testing the newly created Dolores.
And in the sixth episode of the second season, Demei turned things around in one sentence:
"Stop all motion functions"
The roles are reversed, and Demei starts to manipulate Arnold?
In fact, it is more likely that this scene is actually proofreading the "fake Arnold" robot made by Ford...
Charlotte found a large number of Bernard clones in the trailer.
Now it seems that it may not be a replica of Bernard, but an Arnold prototype that Ford tried to make!
And the one who gave orders to the robot turned out to be Demei, and the identity she once thought was reversed by the plot at this moment...
(Could it be that he also started hanging like Maeve...)
Ford behind the scenes
At first glance, this scene is like a test copy of Arnold by Demei. After all, this experience belongs to Demei and Arnold...
But after watching the sixth episode, you will know that she is not a German girl at all!
At the end of this conversation, Demei explains the reason for the test to Arnold, who is copied, with "fidelity" ...
But can Demei understand these technical problems?
And this one in the skin of a German girl is everyone's old friend——
Dr. Ford
Like the robot that gave William clues in Ford's tone, this German girl outside of any timeline is not real.
And Ford's debut in this episode is just a virtual projection!
Bernard and Elsie follow the bug to the mother's nest, Bernard lifts the skull and breaks into the mother's nest to find the reason for the strange operation...
First of all, how does the system operate strangely?
According to Elsie, all the orders from the Brood are impromptu orders with no regularity, and the source cannot be found...
Improvisation is an important difference between humans and robots!
This is also one of the key elements that Ford introduced in the first season, how to make robots achieve autonomous consciousness...
(Ford analyzes independent consciousness construct in S1E3)
Secondly, the so-called "brood" is the nerve center of Westworld!
The programmed lives of all the robots are stored there, and the storylines of all the receptionists are managed by the Brood.
This setting is like the concept in [The Matrix] and [Another Dimensional Hacker] ...
People are just fake beings made of program code!
The actions of the receptionist all come from pre-designed instructions, so the presence of impromptu instructions means that "procedural" becomes "artificial improvisation"
There is an invisible manipulator in the hive!
Finally, when Bernard's consciousness entered the hive, he came to Sweetwater, the starting point of Westworld.
Besides Demei and Teddy, a dog caught his attention...
Inspector, I will help you to look through the old accounts:
In the first season, Ford tells that Arnold created childhood scenes for Ford based on his childhood, and a dog named Jock...
The same dog is now in the brood, and brought Bernard to meet the long-lost old friend...
So now the Ford has become a code, immortalized in the mother's nest!
Take a closer look at the dialogue between Demei and copying Arnold...
The picture is the same as when Bernard enters the hive, using a widescreen setting with black borders at the top and bottom, indicating that this scene is also in the hive.
Therefore, the one who gave the order was the Ford deity in the skin of a German girl!
Westworld is just a work of art
"Ford isn't dead"
This belief has always existed in the hunch of many viewers...
Because following the old William's game line, we can always see many robots issuing game prompts to William in Ford's tone.
Even in this episode, when William confronts his own daughter, he suspects it's a replica Ford made!
(Severely addicted to gaming patients, kind of cute)
Now that Ford appears in the "brood", there is no doubt that he is still secretly manipulating Westworld.
Recalling the details of the first season, Ford had already written the script:
"Great artists always hide themselves in their works"
This famous quote from Arnold was repeated many times by Ford, and the general understanding is that artworks can reflect the thinking of the artist...
On the night of Ford's death, he also expressed his views on art:
He spoke romantically about Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin never dying, they just turned into music...
It turns out that Ford is not in the Acura art, but in the master!
Today's Ford, like those masters, has not disappeared, but has become a code hidden in the works he created...
Westworld is the work of Ford for 35 years!
Awakening, or a puppet of art?
Westworld is just Ford's work, so here comes the question:
Did the robots like Demei and Maeve wake up?
Discussing the core issues of the two seasons has been pushed back to the original doubts...
After learning that Ford sent impromptu orders from the mother's nest to Westworld, everyone looks like a pawn in Ford's plan!
Like Maeve.
In the first season, she turned back when she left Westworld, and in the second season, she learned to control her mind without warning...
There are as many doubts in her awakening as there are maternal love in her display!
In this episode, there is a line from the crazy flag:
Mrs. Akane hopes that Maeve will stop Musashi from fighting, and Maeve responds with the appearance of a saint, her own destiny is up to her...
Inspector, I have expressed over and over again:
[Westworld] Although it is science fiction, it has a classical tragic temperament!
In addition, Ford controlled the mother's nest, so Maeve's words of self-consciousness to control fate are simply the lines of the ancient Greek tragedy of fate...
Those who challenge fate often go through hardships and torture, and still cannot escape their fate.
So when Mrs. Qian later learned the famous sayings that Maeve told herself, it was like an inexplicable irony.
And the Indians chasing her say that they have the same path, which indicates that Maeve is not really in control of her own destiny...
Then look at the arrogant Dolores.
The first appearance of the German sister line in this episode is Teddy...
The man who once helped Demei pick up cans now picks up bullets, and the old Madonna has become Demei's real right-hand man.
(very clever camera narration)
Just when Demei was happy that the Teddy flashing machine was successful...
A few words from Teddy reveal clues:
Teddy, who was flashed, described himself in the third person, and even said that Demei cured the person in the past (the former self)
Demei, who was still laughing a second ago, is now stunned: ? ? ?
She didn't seem to expect that the power of the flashing machine was so strong.
Or maybe she noticed the difference: maybe it wasn't her ability that made Teddy change, but another power...
That power may come from the mother's nest, secretly manipulating the progress bar of Demei!
Only Maeve and Demei can't escape the manipulation?
Westworld may indeed be hiding more secrets...
Indistinguishable true and false father-daughter relationship
Inspector, I mentioned earlier that when William confronted his daughter, he mistakenly thought that a robot made by Ford was affecting his plans...
William has played for more than 30 years and can't recognize a robot?
Couldn't William not recognize his own daughter?
That's not even the most suspicious detail...
When the father and daughter chatted, the words of each other revealed more incredible content:
The father said that the daughter was afraid of elephants, and the daughter said that the mother was afraid of elephants...
According to William's indebtedness to his wife and children, it is impossible for him to remember these details of his wife and daughter's life incorrectly.
In addition, when Grace spoke about her own experience, William silently whispered what his daughter was about to say...
It's like in the fifth episode, he faced the copied father-in-law!
So now the authenticity of this daughter is questionable, and if this daughter is the receptionist, why did he stop William?
This has to be left for the next episode of analysis...
After watching the sixth episode, my biggest feeling for the detective is that [Westworld] may return to its original point, and there are still questions:
Westworld, is it puppet art in the hands of Ford?
Maybe this group of self-awakened robots are just acting as puppets in the dreams created by others, just like a trivial detail in this episode...
A stone shrine at the end of the shogunate world is engraved with the dream of everything!
Uncle Huo will continue to appear in next week's seventh episode...
See you next Tuesday!
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