The original title is that Ford's game is to let William decide whether to let the hosts go human.
That door is the door for the hosts to the human world, and William can decide whether to open it or not.
After watching the fourth episode, it proves that my basic guess about the plot direction of the second season is correct. Ford's game is to make William have real feelings for the hosts, and decide the fate of the hosts on this basis.
Although I guessed that William's father-in-law retired because he was terminally ill, and William proposed the plan of immortality in exchange for the power of the company's operations, he did not expect to continue this experiment after William already had absolute control. One of my brain holes here is that William didn't want to continue this experiment in the end, but in this experiment, in addition to William, the board of directors also knew that William's father-in-law should not be stupid enough to give his destiny completely to a son-in-law who he doesn't trust too much , so the condition before carrying out this immortality experiment is that William must continue to carry out this experiment, and the board of directors will hand over the operation of the company to William. Otherwise, I really can't think of what is the motivation for William to continue to study how to make this person immortal in the face of a person he hates so much and is no longer a threat. And downloading human consciousness and integrating it into the body can only be done by Ford, so Ford has been able to call the wind and rain in the paradise for so many years, but the board of directors and William have nothing to do with him.
As for the other guy that Ford made Bernard make, I tend to be for the German girl, not Bernard. I think this body is different from the hosts, more like a human than a machine, and can have reproductive capabilities. Why neither Ford nor Arnold, because their appeal is not immortality, their purpose is that the hosts have a more equal future. Why is Demei, because this body was originally designed to carry human self-awareness, only a strong self-awareness can drive this body, and currently, strictly speaking, it really has a mature and complete self-awareness, infinitely close to human beings The host is only Demei. William's father-in-law's consciousness rejects this body, so it always fails. Could it be the same for other humans? Could it be that Ford had already tried to revive Arnold and it also failed. In the end, he found that it was actually the most suitable body to put in this body? Humans but self-aware hosts? And the ultimate result of this development is that humans are replaced. The choice that Ford has to face is to let the hosts live or let the human race live. I always think that this contradiction is the real reason why Ford chose to commit suicide. He cannot give this choice to a person who has no feelings for the host. This game made William have real feelings for the hosts and let him choose. I also wondered if Bernard was already such a successful experiment, but based on the current clues, Bernard still needs brain nourishment to survive, and Ford was still able to manipulate him a few weeks ago. Killing and printing a new body also blurs his memory. No matter how you look at Bernard's current situation, he can't be called mature, and his self-awareness is not strong enough. Ford must have seen something, so that body excludes Bernard.
The appearance of William's daughter, I feel, is to pave the way for another problem for William. The father and daughter are fighting monsters and escalating, gradually the contradictions melted, and they began to understand each other, but they had to start a final struggle when they finally faced the problem of the existence of the host. It goes without saying that William's daughter dislikes the host. The contact with the host since childhood also made her understand that the reason for William's discord with his mother is actually that he fell in love with a host. If Ford's game is to make William have feelings for the host again, his daughter's Appearing is probably forcing him to choose between family affection and host, or between human beings and host. After all, his daughter is the ultimate representative of the idea of a host, and even thinks that the host is the source of their family's unhappiness, the host And this paradise shouldn't exist in this world in the first place. How will William choose at that time, he pursued a generation of truth, and in the end he has a daughter and love, but he is destined to choose only the same. Writing here, I suddenly felt that Ford's suicide was actually the easiest and easiest way to choose. Old William was the one who was left to face everything alone. Although he hesitated for a while, I thought that William's daughter might be out of Ford's plan. After all, if the daughter was a factor in the game from the beginning, Ford was really too cruel to William, but it was obvious how his daughter could be so easy. Escaped from the Indians so easily and found Dad so easily, if there is no guidance and Ford's secret design, only the plot needs to explain. There is a little hope in my heart that William's daughter also sympathizes with the host in her heart. She also had a pleasant experience with the host in her childhood, but then I think about Ford's repeated emphasis on William that this is a game for you alone, if William's daughter can be influenced That's a game for two people, so I guess it's going to end badly. . . I hope that the ending of the second season is not William's dilemma between his daughter and German sister, and then it ends. Please look forward to the third season. . .
. . . . . . . . . dividing line. . . . . . . . .
Now the latest brain holes are sorted as follows: Demei blocked the killing Buddha all the way to get control of the secret base, but only William has permission to obtain the core secrets in the secret base, William was forced to cooperate with Demei to fight against humans , In the process, Demei discovered that the technology of the secret base can make the host also have reproductive ability, whether the overlord can rekindle his love or rekindle his love, maybe the child may not necessarily belong to old William, but old William has been entangled for decades. The lover's children must decide the ultimate direction of the hosts' fate. The begin of the host is the end of William's game, but the end of the game is another new beginning. Of course, begin is the end, and end is the begin has multiple meanings. The following is my analysis:
The first season is about the awakening of the hosts, and the second season I think is mainly about William or the awakening of human nature. The board of directors said that if the information is not released, there will be no rescue team. It only shows one problem. William's father-in-law is the real boss. William is just his spokesperson in this paradise to watch Ford and try his best to keep the code and other core secrets. Sending it out, it must also include how to prolong the life of william's father-in-law, but William has been doing this passively, and even has mastered this information but established his own secret base and kept it secret, which is why Obviously William's wife has committed suicide, but his father-in-law left him and let him spend a lot of time in the paradise, because he needs William to find a way to survive. And all this god Ford in the west world doesn't know? I don't think it is possible, even Ford has been using William's ambiguous attitude towards his father-in-law and letting William build a secret base in the west world to counteract the board of directors, so the board of directors has always been helpless to Ford.
It is highly unlikely that Demei wants to fight back against the human society through a bloody path. I don't think it is very likely, and if the second season is about how Demei recruits troops to fight with humans, it would be too vulgar. At the same time, the chances of counterattacking against humans are too high. The TV series has already said that Paradise is on an isolated island. Even if Demei kills all the humans on the island, how can she send an army to the human society, and how can a host with hundreds of people in the human society compete with the human army? The host can Being repaired requires resources to repair, and being hit and shutting down is actually the same as dying. The best way is for someone to help her sneak into human society quietly, reproduce silently, and replace humans after one or two generations. So how to integrate the hosts into human beings in large quantities, the technology of reproduction, and the resources that come to the maintenance of human society, who provides? Among the human beings who are truly willing to help the host and possess such resources, only the awakened William can do it, and neither can Bernard. So the second season of the game is to awaken William. He is the only one other than Ford and Arnord who knows that Doleros is a robot but still thinks she is different. Even before Ford, he saw the infinite possibilities of Delores, only to be repeatedly Reality Blow finally gave up on the idea that Delores might also have real feelings. The most important point is that William is the only person who has developed a love for the German sister. Whether it is Arnold or Ford, they are like a father's love for his child.
I still prefer that William's begin is not his secret base. The secret base is his means of self-preservation, but not his purpose. His original intention is his temptation for Delores. That is the real beginning of everything, even Ford and The beginning of Arnorld. In the end, both Ford and Arnord chose to commit suicide because they could no longer see the hosts as simple robots. They were godlike beings in the paradise, but they were unable to change the status quo when they walked out of the paradise, and they could not even decide the future direction of the paradise. It was their dead end, so they chose end. If you let a person with more means and power in the real world come, but let him return to nothing in the paradise, fight and entangle with the hosts on an equal footing, let him return to the original self and get the truth he wants. It is also what William has been pursuing in the first season. Will he give the hosts a different end when he returns to the real world? After all, William said in the first season that once you get the truth, you don't want to live in the false, but later he thought that what he got was the false programming. The truth of the labyrinth that William has been pursuing for so many years may just be to prove that what he has experienced here is not false, and now Ford also wants to tell him that it is indeed true and meaningful, but Ford knows that William is too old and cunning and can only let himself be Discovering this will truly accept that the host has awakened and will not wonder if this is another carefully designed game or a piece of code written by Ford.
On the other hand, if Ford's game is simply to let William kill a bloody path and fight against the German sister to fight the ultimate war, what's the point of dying if you die or I die? The purpose of Ford and Arnold is to help Demei and Maeve find themselves and know themselves. They were infected by the hosts because they saw a purer shining point than humans in them, not just that the combat power can be adjusted to the highest. In the second season, the hosts have begun to show different personalities. Demei is now bent on taking revenge on humans. Teddy and Maeve are actually not interested in whether humans are dead or alive. They just want to live their own lives, including William who originally wanted to If the leader of the army that he attracted was not controlled by Ford, he would not be interested in pursuing higher glory. Bernard was torn between the identity of a human being and that of a host. Most of the hosts showed their personalities. Still simple, obedient, not too interested in human society. Although the current clues in the second episode are all pulling up to the goal of a battle, but if a battle is the ultimate goal, how can Ford not let William have a soldier and a soldier, which shows that the purpose of this game is not to pass force to complete the sweep. Demei's goal is not William, but the survival of humans and hosts. In the end, Demei will have to cooperate with William in order to fight against humans. Since the secret base can be used as a weapon or a bargaining chip with humans, and for so many years, even Ford There is no way to control it with the board of directors, which means that only William has control over this thing, and William was forced to do nothing by Ford. In order to protect himself, he had to choose to compromise and cooperate with Demei. After all, it is a problem for William to survive in the paradise without an ally. , and the bigger problem is that without William himself, Demei can't use the secret base, but after losing control of the secret base and leaving the paradise, he may not have any leverage against his father-in-law. Let them be tied together again, but this time, at least in the paradise, Demei has become the strong one, and William has become a weak group. William needs to obey Demei and fight against the same enemy, that is, human beings. How to be brutally slaughtered by the host, let William experience the tragic experience of the hosts, let him stand on a neutral position after going through everything to decide how to choose the end of this game.
What is William's greatest hatred for the world? He wants truth and meaning, but he can't get it in the real world. In the west world, he still thinks he can't get it. The killing is fake because the hosts can't fight back. , love is fake, because he thinks Demei is not even an object. Now the killing is real, and Demei is also real. Will he change his view of the world? In the second episode, it can be seen that although he is completely disappointed with Demei on the surface, he has been trying his best for Demei for decades. With him, the feelings that have been entangled for decades have suddenly responded, but there are too many grievances and hatreds in the middle. Nolan is not a third-rate romance screenwriter after all. Together, and Demei's hatred for humans makes her not stop to enjoy the peace of the world, but Demei is obsessed with the existence of the hosts. If Demei can have children, she can let other hosts She also has children, can she accept William's help to her logically? And after William has been searching for truth and meaning for so many years, what could be more shocking, more real and meaningful than the birth of a new species? This child does not necessarily belong to William and Demei, but it will definitely be Demei's, because it is impossible for other hosts to arouse the interest of cold-blooded old William. Selfishly, I felt that after watching Blade Runner, why is it so like an extension of Westworld? Maybe the child's inspiration for this point was also influenced by Blade Runner.
. . . I don't know how to force a boundary. . .
Seeing the second episode, I suddenly felt that it was a sure thing for the hosts to find a way to reproduce. The second episode clearly implied that William's father-in-law was terminally ill, regardless of whether it was to create a new kind of biochemical person through something like pregnancy. Whether the creature reproduces or retains all the memories and stores it on the robot means that the rich and powerful can get a longer lifespan or even immortality. Although Ford is a god in the west world, there are various signs that he is powerless to change all this in the real world, and the unbearableness of the real world also makes Ford hesitant to let all this continue and let the world be in the hands of this group of people.
William has always been obsessed with finding the higher meaning of life and knowing the true self. He hates himself in the real world but cannot find the truth in the west world. The root of everything is that he thinks that what he is in love with is an illusion, and he thinks that his Love is not real, it was just manipulated by Ford. While indulging in the false pleasure provided by the paradise, he tried to find a higher meaning, but he never faced the possibility that the hosts might also have real feelings, or because of him. It's too painful for the dolores to admit that the hosts will wake up one day. In fact, Ford has been watching all this. It is impossible for Ford not to notice that William has real feelings for the host, so when the time is right, he specially designed this game for him, so that he can see the real himself and let him In the process of this game, he has a deeper contact and bond with the awakened hosts, and then william can see that the awakening of the hosts is real, and can understand the meaning of the west world to him for so many years, the west world is not just a provider In the place of false desire, his every step promoted the awakening of the host, and also promoted the evolution of the host.
Ford understands that once the hosts quietly enter human society, it may be the end of mankind. Whether or not to open this door may even be hesitant for Ford himself. Ford, Arnord, and William are the founders of the west world in the true sense. People who really have feelings for the host, but this feeling means the end of human beings, whether human beings are worthy of redemption, Ford also wants to find the answer through this game.
It is obvious that Ford no longer agrees to let the hosts be slaves of human beings and tools to vent their desires, but how they survive in the world is beyond Ford's control. Going back to the beginning is to find the state of mind when he started in this paradise. Even if he is desperate, even if he lives in a falsehood all his life and gets married to someone he doesn't love, he must keep the original intention of this paradise, and then let such a person decide the end of this paradise. , so begin is the end, and the end is the begin.
Discuss William's choice:
William can destroy all this and go back to face the truth, just like when he fell in love with Delores and decided not to marry his wife at all costs, so he may lose his name and lose everything, but he can guarantee the absolute control of the human race. He can also let the hosts go to the human world, then the future of human beings will be unknown. This is an ultimate multiple-choice question. He has covered up his life in the real world and spent his whole life searching in the western world. He seems to be the ultimate player in both worlds. But he has been running away all his life, he has always been very cowardly, but in the end who is he, good or evil, white hat or black hat (so there is a black hat and a white hat in the title), he never again There is no way to escape this problem, and the ultimate goal of Ford's game is to push him to face himself. This is the meme of the two ships in Batman.
Consider the possibility of maintaining the status quo. Let the west world maintain the current status quo of a purely tyrannical paradise. The price should be to lower the intelligence level of the hosts. After this scandal, will this paradise, reputation and experience still be? There seems to be no suspense to maintain profitability, so maintaining the status quo is a kind of reprieve for the board of directors, and after all, the board of directors does not care about the park itself. For William, it is even more of a long-term torture. This is a complete compromise and bowing to reality. Human cowardice and greed are so powerful, so people always live in the hell they have built for themselves. This is memory. Fragmented stalk.
So in the second episode Ford says to William that it's your game, but you have to do it alone.
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