"The Unsullied!" Dany galloped in front of them, her silver-gold hair fluttering behind her, and every step she took was accompanied by the soft ringing of silver bells. "Kill the good masters, kill the soldiers, kill everyone who wears a toka or takes a whip... The slave traders run around them, crying, begging and dying, the dusty air fills With spears and flames .----George. RR. Martin, "A Song of Ice and Fire Volume Three: A Storm of Ice"
The third episode of the second season of "Westworld" arrived as promised. This episode showed us another paradise. At present, the official name has not been given, so I will call it "colonial paradise" without authorization. At the end of this episode, the long-awaited "Shogunate World" finally revealed a little shadow. The whole world is constantly expanding, and danger is approaching step by step.
Bernard
In this episode, the public's attention is again shifted to Bernard, and we gradually reveal what happened to Bernard in the two weeks of the android riot. In addition to what happened to Bernard, another important figure appeared again, and he was Abernathy who had disappeared for a long time.
As an important person of unknown significance, Abernathy is naturally impossible to be sent out, so we followed Bernard to find him, but the Abernathy system at this time has been disordered and has become a walking " Shakespeare's famous sentence reader", and the voice is very loud, with such a character like a tweeter, it is difficult not to be discovered. So Bernard was arrested by the Confederates and met his old friend, Dolores, again.
This meeting is very interesting. On the surface, Bernard, who once controlled Dolores' behavior, is now Dolores's prisoner, and the social status has changed, but from a deeper perspective, this is the two For the first time, human beings have a conversation as an artificial human, that is to say, it is the first time that the two of them have conversations in a situation where they are essentially equal.
In their brief conversation, we actually saw two very different ideas. Bernard had long been aware of his android identity, but he did not smash all the shackles, but still walked along the path that he had designed to complete the task he was given. As for what task , we don't know yet; while Dolores is completely on the road of resistance and destruction. Therefore, it is foreseeable that in the subsequent plots, the two people who were once the closest will go further and further apart.
In the process of treating Abernathy, there is a sentence worth noting, that is, Abernathy suddenly smiled strangely and said to Bernard: "What's the use of this violent pleasure, if you can't take pleasure... .." The most famous line in the last season was "This wild pleasure must have a wild end" , and it is the original sentence of Shakespeare, but the sentence here "What is the use of this wild pleasure" is not. is self-created. We all know that the last "brutal joy" ushered in a "brutal ending" when the humans in the paradise were wiped out by artificial humans, and the riot led by Dolores in this season is undoubtedly the second " brutal ending" joy" .
Therefore, I think that Abernathy's words were actually influenced by the high-level secrets stored in his brain, and the meaning of this sentence has two possibilities: one may refer to the first "brutal" Joy", that is, the evil deeds committed by humans in Paradise, which are controlled by some kind of control, that is, the small group within the Delos company that I predicted; and there is another possibility that the West The "brutal joy" that is taking place in the paradise seems to happen randomly, but there are forces behind it.
And after Abernathy finished saying this, Bernard also successfully unlocked the encrypted files in Abernathy's system, and thus saw a shocking secret that we don't even know. As for what this secret is, only Can wait for the sequel to slowly unravel. But it is worth noting that when Bernard was unlocking, the "one-time key" was displayed on the control panel . This secret key, which had been designed long ago, was only prepared for him.
There is another person worth noting in Bernard's POV, and that is Miss Hale, an executive of the Delos Company. I've always thought of her as a calculating chick with a high IQ, but in this episode, she seems to have something else. Whether it was to deceive the android bandits at the beginning, to lead the army to kill the southern army fortress, or even to rob Abernathy later, this kind of iron-blooded quality is definitely not something that a woman who sits in an office and plays palace fights can do. , so I strongly suspect that she also has a military background.
Dolores
As the leader of the rebel army and the savior of the androids, Dolores is now more and more like the "Dragon Mother" Daenerys in another HBO drama "Game of Thrones", holding an android With the resurrection technology, she has become an invincible existence like Daenerys in another world holding a three-headed dragon.
In addition to her, there is another person who can see the shadow of the characters in "Game of Thrones". He is Teddy who always follows Dolores, and in Teddy, I see Jon Snow and Jorah Mormont's shadow. Saying he looks like Jon is because he doesn't "understand anything" either. He is always confused and can't keep up with Dolores' rhythm, and he can't even recognize his father-in-law, so konw nothing. And it is said that he is like Jorah, because at this time he has created a bigger and bigger gap with Dolores, and even disobeyed Dolores' order and let go of the Confederate prisoners, and this Everything was seen by the disappointed Dolores. Perhaps, it won't be long before Teddy will usher in the fate of being exiled by Dolores.
The focus of this episode is on the offensive and defensive battle of the Confederate fortress. My original guess was that Dolores would join the Confederate soldiers here, hold back the recovery troops of the Delos Company, and send another troop to the beach for execution. "Decapitation", I didn't expect Dolores to play "borrowing a knife to kill" here. Not only did it annihilate the vanguard troops that were pursued by the Delos Company, but also the Confederate army in the fortress.
As for why Dolores made such a "two-fifty boy" move, I think she was still trying to accumulate her own strength. Dolores' trump card is to give new life to the dead androids, so that they can bow to their own miracles, and the number of southern troops in the fortress is so large that it is difficult to destroy them in batches. It can destroy the chasing enemies, and can realize the transformation of self-force in large quantities. This move of Dolores is very vicious.
At this time, Dolores is more and more like Daenerys in another world, and her strength is constantly being strengthened. But at the same time, the danger is constantly approaching. What she annihilated this time is just a vanguard, and there will be more powerful forces and more advanced weapons preparing to attack her, and Dolores is now also She seems more and more emotional and self-willed, and there is also a lack of characters around her who advise her. Therefore, it is basically an impossible mission for her to rush out of the paradise to conquer the world with an undead army like zombies in her hands.
Maeve
As the first awakened android, Maeve is a god-like existence, her ability is much higher than that of Dolores, but in this episode, she encounters a trouble, that is, she can control ordinary androids Humans, but can't control the Indian androids in Paradise at all.
That's one of the weirdest puzzles in the show. Let's recall that in the first season, the security director of the park, Brother Hammer, disappeared after being attacked by Indians and appeared mysteriously in this season; in the first episode of this season, we also saw Delori Silk massacred these Indian androids, and simply killed them without transforming them; and in this episode, Maeve, who can control the androids, has nothing to do with the Indian androids.
So I think it's very likely that these Indian androids, like the faceless androids in the safe house, are not part of the park's system network at all. In the first season, we also saw that these Indian androids were honestly acting according to the plot before, but in this season they were out of control, so the most likely reason is that someone "released" them out. System, and this person is likely to be Ford who has become a ghost.
By the end of the episode, Maeve's team is all together. In addition to Maeve, the "god", there are two androids with MAX strength, Hector and Red Snake, and a technical team of three humans, which can be said to be an invincible celestial group. And this team has just formed, it will face a super large copy - "Shogun World".
About Xinyuan
Two new paradises appear in this episode, "Colonial World" and "Shogun World". Needless to say, "Shogunate World", we had the first clues at the end of the last season, and the samurai rushing out of the darkness at the end of this episode is very impactful, making people full of expectations for this paradise. By the way, if I heard correctly, the background music for the end credits is played with a traditional Japanese woodwind instrument, the shakuhachi, and this mysterious world is finally about to be unveiled.
Let's talk about the "colonial world", it seems that the plot of this world is nothing, but it only gives us the source of the mysterious Bengal tiger in the first episode. But there are two things that I think are worth noting: one is the scene of the couple sleeping, which makes us see that in the real world in the play, people have already doubted the secret replacement of human beings with artificial human beings in Paradise , which may have further influence in the future development of the plot; second, we can see that what human beings do in the "colonial world" is nothing more than drinking tea, enjoying life, making love, hunting, etc. These things can basically be done in the real world, why do humans have to build such a world? One of the most likely reasons is that the environment in the real world at this time is already very bad, so bad that people can't do any hunting for wild animals, which also makes people very curious, at this time, will the outside world have changed? A cyberpunk world?
Thank you for reading the plot analysis of this episode, see you in the next episode.
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