Before his farewell performance in the first season, Ford told Bernard earnestly: "To get out of this place, you need to endure more suffering." No one wants to endure suffering because the experience is too painful, but when When the darkness dissipates and the dawn comes, you will find that what cannot kill you will make you stronger in the end.
Suffering has made Demei hard-hearted, and Maeve's heart has become softer. As a result, they have two completely different attitudes towards the weak: one is abandonment and the other is salvation. This is also the collision of two concepts.
The official title of this episode is "Dance of Akane", and the long-awaited Shogun World theme park finally revealed its true face. This episode focuses on introducing and paving the way for the Shogun World Park, so Maeve occupies a lot of space in this episode. Let some viewers feel that the plot is a bit slow. This episode gives me the feeling that there is no special explanation or explanation. The plot is easy to understand, and it is not particularly brain-burning. One episode is bland and the other is complicated. I think this is also intentionally set by the screenwriter. If so, the audience would have been scared away.
The focus of the last episode was on William. The shogun world in this episode has appeared in the trailer many times. Compared with the appearance of William's daughter Emily in the last episode, the shogun world in this episode is not too big a surprise for the audience. .
On the contrary, the trailer for the next episode contains a lot of information. For example, the conversation at the beginning of the first episode of the second season is different from other full-screen pictures. There are black borders at the top and bottom. It can be seen that this conversation contains important information. The screenwriter started from the beginning. Just digging a hole.
At that time, many people took it for granted that this was a conversation between Demei and Arnold in the past, because there were too many episodes of Demei and Arnold talking in similar scenes in the first season. However, the preview for the next episode seems to be telling us that the first episode of the second season is actually a conversation between Demei and Bernard, who seems to want to guide Bernard to do something.
William didn't appear in the preview of the next episode. It is unknown whether he will appear in the next episode. William has not appeared in the second season for two episodes (S02E03 and S02E05) I don't know how many viewers are like me and want to see it very much William the Man in Black, I personally feel that every time William the Man in Black appears, the storyline is very exciting and the amount of information is huge.
Compared with other parks, Shogun World is refreshing. Although some of the plot settings are drawn from the Westworld theme park, Shogun World still has its own characteristics of the park. The background of the story here is the Edo period in Japan. It can be said that Shogun World is specially designed for those tourists with serious tastes, because compared with Westworld Park, the Shogun World is more chaotic and the receptionist is more fierce, as the screenwriter of the park, Lee Heathmore, said: "This is suitable for the real cunning. slayers."
Of course, this episode, although it looks relatively bland on the surface, is actually not that simple. The neat and clean movements of the Japanese samurai and the performances of actors such as Sanada Hiroyuki and Kikuchi Rinko all add to the plot.
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When the Western Bustard meets the Shogunate Geisha
Following the plot at the end of S02E03, Maeve, Hector, Lee Heathmore, Serpentine, Felix and Hivest encounter the Japanese Ronin Musashi, and the receptionist failure event set by Ford has been removed from the western park. It has spread to the Indian campus, and the Shogunate World is no exception.
In this episode, the plot of Maeve and his party is rather funny in the first half, and a bit tragic in the second half.
I can only talk about the plot of the story line of the shogunate world. After all, there is not much else to say except the plot.
Maeve was confident that everything was under her control, but she never thought that the other party would not listen to her voice commands, and even thought that she was talking too much and gagged her mouth.
The technician Hivest made a mistake that many Westerners will make, that is, blindness, unable to tell whether an Asian is Chinese, Japanese or Korean. Sylvester also wanted Felix to negotiate with the Japanese samurai. He also thought that Felix and the Japanese samurai were fellow villagers.
Felix, the young Asian technology guy, was bullied a lot in the first season. This time he rarely got angry at Hivest, emphasizing that he came from Hong Kong, China, which was considered a bad breath. Nationality is an important matter after all, and it should not be sloppy.
The funniest scene is this feeling of deja vu. Maeve, Hector and Serpentine looked at the person who appeared in front of them and couldn't help feeling that that was who they were.
No wonder there is a plot of Hector and his subordinates going to the bar to grab the safe in the first season of this episode. The Japanese Ronin Musashi is completely a replica of Hector. Similar to the relationship between Hector and Maeve, there is also a little ambiguity between Musashi and Mrs. Akane, the proprietor of the Geisha House.
There is also this agile female archer with tattoos on her face, which is the snake-skinned girl in the shogunate world.
When the screenwriter of the park, Lee Heathmore, explained the similarities in the plot, the reason given was also made people laugh: "Try to write 300 story lines in three weeks." To complete the task, you can only write it as a shogunate here. Sweetwater in the world.
Not all of the storylines went as planned, and scriptwriter Lee Heathmore was surprised by Mrs. Akane's failure to hand over the dancing girl Sakura, the ninja assassination, and the entry of the Shogun into the city.
Hector was upset to see his own copy, but the Serpentine seemed to be enjoying it.
Maeve has found a confidant. Mrs. Xi and Maeve have many similarities. They are both smart people.
The plot of Mrs. Xi protecting the dancing girl Sakura inspired Maeve's emotion and humanity, and Maeve recalled the scenes of her getting along with her daughter.
Intrigued by the situation, Maeve decides to take a risk and helps Mrs. Akane rescue the dancing girl Sakura. It was not easy for Maeve to make this decision. Because of the disparity in numbers between the enemy and us, Maeve could have abandoned Mrs. Xi and escaped as Lee Heathmore suggested, and went to Snow Lake to find the tunnel entrance to escape, but she was still for the sake of her companions. It is also for the sake of the other self who has no hesitation and goes deep into the dangerous place.
Maeve was not a selfless person before. In the first season, in order to board the train leaving the paradise, in order to realize the freedom in her heart, she decisively abandoned Hector and let him stay behind.
Between Maeve and Qian is the resonance and sympathy of the two mothers, Maeve empathizes with Qian's pain, which reminds her of the scene where she was assassinated by the man in black in the past.
I thought Lee Heathmore said he was taking a break but he was just jealous because he was very upset to see Maeve and Mrs. Sy getting along, knowing that the last time he saw Maeve and Hector group CP (S02E03) This kind of plot that deviates from the setting of the story expresses dissatisfaction.
However, I still underestimated the screenwriter. Lee Heathmore took the opportunity to steal the walkie-talkie, and it seemed that he was going to do something very scheming.
The walkie-talkie was found on the human security team who was executed by the roadside. It can be seen that the staff of the park tried to go to the shogunate world to maintain order after learning that the park was in chaos, but failed.
Musashi killed an envoy of the Celestial Empire in Akane's geisha before, which also gave Maeve the opportunity to pretend to be an envoy of the Celestial Empire to save people.
The general appeared in the same situation as Bernard in the episode of S02E01, with cerebral cortical fluid flowing out of his ears. He mentioned that he had fought countless battles, and perhaps he had suffered such a malfunction caused by a strong impact on the battlefield before.
In this case, the general was even more brutal and savage. In order not to be affected by Maeve's "witchcraft", his subordinates had their ears cut off; he forced Mrs. Qian to dance for him in public, and promised that as long as Mrs. Qian danced He released the dancing girl Sakura, but he killed the dancing girl Sakura before the opening, which greatly exceeded the expectations of Maeve and others.
The painful Qian still stabilized her emotions, looking for opportunities during the solo dance, waiting for an opportunity to kill the general ruthlessly and avenging her goddaughter.
In this solo dance, Mrs. Sze's complete explosion and brilliance stunned Lee Heathmore, Felix, and Sylvester.
In addition to voice commands, Maeve found a new way to control the receptionist in this episode - "Spell", she can silently recite a spell in her heart, make a ninja commit suicide, or make a whole battalion of samurai kill each other, which may be The plug-in that Ford opened for Maeve alone may also be that she herself has reached a certain level.
In the fifth episode of the first season, Ford seems to have used a similar method to get Teddy to grab the knife from the man in black, when Ford said something profound before leaving: "We have to look back and laugh at the dangerous past. ." I haven't quite figured out what it means yet, maybe it's an optimistic attitude towards suffering.
Mrs. Xi was still in the stage of self-exploration, and she could not fully accept what Maeve said. She also said that when she was a child, there was a voice in her mind telling him not to, and then she escaped, and the voice was telling her that this is the place. New world, you can be who you want to be. This is exactly the voice that Maeve once had in her mind, and the line in the new world is also the line that Maeve once said.
Mrs. Xi and Maeve have the same parameter attributes. I guess she may also be selected by Ford, and she may also have the opportunity to cheat like Maeve. In fact, I personally feel that Mrs. Qian's aura is actually not inferior to Maeve. She will understand everything eventually, it's just a matter of time.
Demei: "We all need to go through pain"
Westworld is too cruel for Teddy. He should have died the most among these receptionists. He died at least a thousand times, and the methods of death were different.
In the episode S02E02, Demei asked the park staff to show Teddy those "death" photos. Demei has long planned to transform Teddy. She first wanted Teddy to try to transform herself, and slowly become what she wanted Teddy to be under her guidance.
In the episode of S02E03, Teddy asked Teddy to personally execute the leader of the southern army, which was a small test. However, Teddy disobeyed her order and let the gang of southern troops go. At that time, Demei had a disappointed and helpless expression on her face.
This is not the first time that Demei has been disappointed. In the episode of S01E03, Demei has plans to go away with Teddy. This should not be the first time Demei has proposed such an idea. Teddy said that one day he will Take Demei out of here.
At that time, Ford updated Teddy's system, and Teddy was driven by the system to hunt down Wyatt. Teddy said that he had more important things to do, and he was ready to end the grievance between him and Wyatt, so that he could be worthy of Demei.
After all, Teddy has not forgotten the promise he made at the beginning. He just wants to take Demei far away and find a place where no one else can live their own lives. Teddy is still the original Teddy, but Demei is no longer the German. sister. In the past, Teddy begged Teddy to take her out of here, but now Teddy begged Teddy to leave here with him. What a reversal of status and strength.
In the story line set by the system in the first season, Teddy and Demei will never live the life of their dreams. Demei will always stay in Sweetwater Town and be insulted again and again, and Teddy is always beaten by tourists again and again. .
Kindness can't make Teddy survive in the cruel environment of Westworld, let alone become a competent flower protector.
Demei is testing Teddy again in this episode, wanting to see if he has the possibility of taking the initiative to change.
Demei asked Teddy a question: Some of the cattle in the herd have bluetongue disease. This disease is carried and spread by flies. How can we avoid the spread of the disease? Teddy believes that a quarantine area should be built to keep sick and frail cows in enclosure until the outbreak dissipates. Demei said that her father burned all the frail and sick cows to death, so as to prevent diseases from spreading to each other, and at the same time, the smoke produced by the burning drove the flies away.
Although cruel, the entire herd survived. Obviously, Teddy disappointed Demei again.
Demei still repaid Teddy's infatuation with her, and Teddy on the bed looked like Jon Snow in "Game of Thrones".
Demei confirmed her feelings for Teddy and was not affected by the system in any way, but she still made a difficult choice in order to realize the overall freedom of the receptionist group. She didn't want Teddy to be a drag on her because the place she was going and the challenges she faced couldn't accommodate a kind-hearted person like Teddy.
Demei is not completely ruthless, Abernathy is just the father set by the system for her, but she is still ready to save him.
Since Teddy couldn't wake up by himself, he could only take coercive measures. Demei decided to abandon the kind Teddy of version 1.0, and let the staff, the technical guy who showed Teddy's death photos before, forcibly modify Teddy's parameters and attributes. It is a 2.0 version of Teddy, but it is very risky to make such extreme changes without a complete reset. If you can't bear it, it will be completely scrapped. I personally feel that Teddy's adjustment this time is much larger than Maeve's previous adjustment.
Although Demei's decision is very courageous and bold, I still feel sorry for Teddy, he may have lost the opportunity to be himself.
Reminiscent of the plot two weeks later that was told at the beginning of this episode, we also saw Teddy's body in the control center, because the rescue team had recovered half of the receptionist's body floating on the sea, and at the same time sent two teams to search for Abernathy.
Delos Operations Director Karl Strand had technicians reprogram the receptionists for recycling, only to find that a third of the receptionists had their data deleted and left in pristine condition with no trace, not even a single trace. Backup data is destroyed and cannot be recovered. It can be said that the Delos Company suffered heavy losses this time. I don't know if this is Demei's masterpiece, and whether Bernard has anything to do with it.
After watching this episode, I kept wondering whether Demei loves William more or Teddy more.
To be precise, Teddy is the same kind of Demei, the boyfriend set by the system for her. Although he is also a receptionist, Teddy can't keep up with Demei's progress now.
In the second season, Teddy is the only close person beside Teddy. She has a feeling of love for Teddy over time, otherwise she will not have a spring night with Teddy, nor will she stop the new version of Clementine To seduce Teddy, although Demei already knew that "you are new here, you have tender skin and tender meat" is a fixed line for Clementine to attract customers, and she has said it to Teddy N times. (PS. Clementine looked at her new self, the expression on her face was heartbreaking, there was a sense of powerlessness that she actually said my lines)
William has been struggling in human society. Compared with simple Teddy, he is more suitable for living in the environment of Westworld. I personally feel that William is more unforgettable. They are evenly matched to love and kill each other. It is a kind of love Hate mixed emotions.
Before Demei's consciousness in S01E10 was fully awakened, she said to the man in black, "William will find me." When she was in trouble, the first person she thought of was not Teddy, but William with the white hat, but in the end it was Teddy. Di came to rescue her and took her away.
In the episode of S02E02, Demei, who was taken out of the park a few years ago (about 20 years ago), saw William and his wife at James Delo's retirement party, her smile gradually solidified, and then turned to the side Pretend not to care.
Hearing that William didn't care about himself, You Qi said, "You don't even count as an object, you're just a reflection." It was so heartbreaking, Demei still had a sad expression on her face.
William let her see the essence of human beings, opened a door for her to understand the human world, and made her grow. It can be said that William was the person Demei hated, despised but loved deeply .
Now the German girl acts more and more like what William the man in black did in the first season: he will do anything to achieve his goals, even at the expense of his companions. These cruel atrocities are only means that have to be taken in order to survive, and individuals can be sacrificed for the overall situation.
The most terrifying thing is to gradually lose yourself in the killing. Demei wants to get out of here, the most important thing is to know what kind of person she wants to become in the end.
Ford once said, "The thing that awakens the receptionist is the suffering, the pain of realizing that the world is not the way you want it to be." Pain is the trigger for the receptionist's self-awareness, and they grow in the pain. , began to become stronger.
Maeve and Demei represent two concepts, and their temperaments have changed drastically after being reborn in pain: the sophisticated prostitute is more kind, and the kind-hearted silly Bai Tian is more cruel. They are also two completely different behavior styles, one is outwitted, the other is aggressive.
Maeve used to do anything to gain her freedom, and she gradually realized that there are some things that are far more precious than freedom, and she may already know what she really wants.
But does Demei really know what she wants? In my opinion, she has lost the most precious thing. After all, there is a handsome loyal dog boyfriend looking at you affectionately. This is the dream of many single girls.
"Westworld" Season 1 Episode 10 Plot Analysis
Westworld S02E01: Journey into the Dark
"Westworld" S02E02: It turns out that all encounters are reunions after a long absence
Westworld S02E03: Virtue and Wealth
"Westworld" S02E04: A person's life is the process of pursuing oneself
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