The stars in our eyes are like ghosts, and we are like ghosts in the eyes of the stars. ——Liu Cixin, "Three Body 3: Death Immortal"
The eighth episode of the second season of "Westworld" arrived today as scheduled, but it shook the hearts of every audience like a blockbuster. This episode is the only one that unfolds from a single perspective since the inception of "Westworld", and the protagonist of this episode is not a character we are already very familiar with, but Akochi from the mysterious indigenous tribe "Ghost Country" tower. In view of the special narrative style of this episode, I will no longer analyze this episode in the POV way, so let's talk about it along the plot.
This episode follows the timeline of the previous episode "Now Progress", and we see a seriously injured William being taken to the "Ghost Country" camp by Arkochita. What I want to say here is that in the last episode, we saw that William was almost smashed into a sieve by bullets. Judging from the pictures at that time, whether it was the amount of bleeding when he was shot or the part where he was shot, as long as William is a normal human being, Then he will surely die of hemorrhage or organ damage.
However, in this episode we saw that William survived for several hours without any medical treatment, and his body automatically stopped bleeding, which makes people suspect that William at this time is an artificial human. If it can be determined in later episodes that William is still human, then the screenwriter can only blame him for making him too buggy. Whether this black-clothed old man is a god or a sloth, I am afraid we can only wait for the later plot to reveal it for us.
Returning to Akochita, this episode has solved a lot of mysteries for us. As for the content, I will not repeat it for you. I think the best part of this episode is that through the mysterious artificial man of Akochita , I seem to see a gossip, a cycle, a strong fatalism.
First, Arkochita and Logan. We saw Arkochita and Angela in the second episode of this season lobbying "Big Uncle" Logan Delos to invest in the Westworld project in the real world. This is the first time the two meet, here , Arkochita brings Logan into a party full of androids, opening the door to a new world for him.
In this episode, we see that Logan, who was once thought to be mortal, met Arkochita once again on the brink of death. Although Arkochita's memory was erased, the hidden Consciousness made him help Logan, and it was Logan's performance and words during this encounter that became an important driving force for Arkochita to find and see that "mysterious place" in the future. Roots opened the door to a new world for Arkochita.
Second, the daughter of Arkochita and Maeve. In search of a "new world", Arkochita searched all over the park and was inevitably attacked. Just when he was on the brink of desperation, it was Maeve's daughter who came to his aid and saved his life. Later, when Arkochita woke up, what he did was to find this little girl quickly, to protect her and tell her the truth, but his kindness was always misinterpreted or interrupted by William at critical moments.
However, after this android riot, Arkochita still found Maeve's daughter right away. We thought his goal was to loot, but his real intention was to protect the little girl. It can be said that the relationship between Akechita and Maeve's daughter is also a circle, and in this circle, there is a layer of oriental story core of "repaying kindness", which has quite the meaning of "The Legend of the White Snake" in Chinese folklore.
Finally, there is the wonderful "fatalism" between Arkochita itself and the entire Westworld story .
When Arnold couldn't bear the mental torture and chose to leave this world with Dolores and other androids, Arkochita seemed to hear the call in the dark, and walked into the scene of the tragedy from the tribal settlement, where he Found Arnold's gift to his son, which was like a snap of fingers in the ether, turning on the switch of Arkochita's self-awareness.
Later, Akochita began to awaken, but his awakening was not as violent as Maeve later, but a gradual process, and in this process has been acting as a guide, the toy he saw, this something inspired him, so he thought it was a sacred, unknowable, sacred object with some kind of "apocalypse", so he began to leave this pattern everywhere, hoping that the thing that inspired him would also be able to Inspire other androids.
It was this kind of inspiration that allowed him to see the "mysterious place" and the "land after death". In the "land after death", he saw the beloved wife he missed and realized that he lived in In a false world, it can be seen that Arkochita is the first awakened android in the entire Western World.
After seeing the "land after death", Arkochita wanted to give Maeve and her daughter a hint, so she drew the pattern of the maze, but was discovered by William who broke in halfway. In addition, in order to spread the "Apocalypse", Arkochita had left the pattern of the maze in the toy in many places and in many ways, which made William, who did not know the truth, mistakenly think that he had discovered the "hidden mission" in Westworld. And so began the search at all costs that we saw in the first season.
(Off-topic: At the end of season 1, we see William finally reaching the end of the maze, but there, there is nothing. And at the beginning of season 2, Ford's quest prompt for William is "The game begins It ends where you end, ends where you started", coupled with the unraveling of many mysteries in this episode, it seems that what William needs to do this time is to walk back to the starting point step by step from the key point of this maze. )
And it is precisely because of Arkochita's repeated reminders and protections that it also triggered Maeve's self-awareness. It can be said that Arkochita's behavior "guided" Maeve's self-awakening unintentionally. From the experience point of view, the two are extremely similar. It can be said that Maeve is the 2.0 version of Akechita.
I have always said that Maeve was a line that Ford deliberately let go of, in order to observe her reaction to the world after her awakening. Now it seems that Ford has been secretly watching. Arkochita and Maeve can be said to be Almost the same character setting, but with different talent points, and Ford guided Arkochita but let Maeve go. The deep meaning of this can only be seen by what the screenwriter said later.
At the end of this episode, the 2.0 version of Maeve has evolved again, becoming a supercomputer "Skynet" similar to the movie "Destroyer" series, and the two autonomous awakeners, Akochita and Maeve, also The remote connection is turned on, which makes me look forward to what Maeve and Arkochita will do next.
Looking at all of this, it can be said that Arkochita is a key to stirring the whole plot of "Westworld". It is like a "chosen person", which drives the world to a path that Arnold does not want to see. The road of "inevitability" makes the whole story full of "fatalism".
I liked this episode of Arkochita's story so much that the whole episode was like a "ghost song". Backstage at Westland, when Arkochita walked among the buildings, he was a lone ghost, not of this world but looking for wandering; and when he returned to Paradise, he was still a ghost, because he had never died from "death" Back Land" came back with memories no one else had seen, his loneliness and his grief no one understood. He is a ghost in both the real and the fake worlds.
"If you're alive, come to us, if you're dead, rest in peace"
I was very moved by what Arkochita said to the void and the ghost. If you are still alive, come to me, and I will guide you, protect you, and work with you to find that door of life; if you If you die, then may you rest in peace, and don't be like me, a ghost that doesn't belong to any world.
Take my heart with you when you go, and put my heart in yours.
Akochita, may you find that door and may you cease to be a lonely ghost.
Finally, let's put up the most interesting screenshot since the season started. When I saw this scene, I could see four big characters across the screen: What should I do with this question?
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