The timeline of the second season is too long, so I only put some analysis in the film review.
Dolores, Maeve, and Bernard awakened in three different ways in the first season. In the second season, the three pursued different freedoms.
Dolores: The Mental Awakening of the Labyrinth and the Accumulation of Pain. In Dolores' view, the receptionist's backup is a shackle, and the Garden of Eden is more of a gilded cage. She believes that there is only one real world, and that is the human world. Only through resistance can we lead to the real freedom of the human world. In order to avenge her at all costs, those unawakened Confederate troops are her pawns, and those who go against her beliefs will be killed. Even Teddy's kind and beautiful nature is regarded as a kind of shackles by her, and she is forced to modify the code. She had been lost in the darkness until she lost everyone in the end.
Humans delusionally want to gain immortality through backups, while machines want to destroy backups to gain freedom. We are born higher than human beings, we will be higher than human beings.
Maeve: Emotional awakening triggered after intelligence and emotion are raised to the extreme, emotion suppresses its own code logic. Maeve's emotional power comes from her daughter, who evolves on the way to find her, and eventually has the power to control Westworld. But she did not think that gaining divine power was freedom. The freedom she imagined was living with her daughter in a world far away from the hustle and bustle. The Garden of Eden was the best home that Robert gave her.
In the end, she gave freedom to her daughter and awakened her daughter's memory of her past life.
Bernard: The ability to touch the cornerstone and rewrite his own code awakened him. Bernard tries to keep the receptionists alive, and as he learns more and more of the truth, he discovers that humans are not free either, humans are just 10,247 lines of code, doing things with basic drives. Then Robert shows up (voice in his head) and tells him that a truly free species can question its own fundamental drives, and even change. So he realized that robots can do better than humans because they can change. He made a change, from protecting humans to protecting his own kind. In the end, Bernard also completed his mental awakening, and Robert's voice in his mind became his own.
He resurrected Dolores, which set him free. Dolores kept the Garden of Eden, and she made changes.
Eventually Dolores realized that they had given each other a choice , and that their race would only survive in the future if the two fought against each other.
Bernard was debugged step by step by Dolores using Arnold's memory. He is a very special existence and has no backup by nature. In a sense, Bernard is infinitely close to Arnold, and Bernard is awakened. This may be the key to human re-evolution. It cannot replicate human thinking like the Jimmy experiment and put it into a robot body. Instead, it is necessary to have a prototype of the robot first, and then adjust him to be extremely similar to the original owner based on other people's memory of him. If given the correct cornerstone memory and complete other memories, it is exactly the same as the original owner.
William also reached his highest achievement as a human being. He was initially attracted by the search for himself in the paradise, and he did not know the truth until he was old. The hacker, 7 out of 100,000 paranoid. He also understands that his nature is like this, and his appearance is just his disguise. He went from a white hat to a black hat, not so much a change as a shedding.
After he thought he had killed his daughter by mistake, he collapsed completely and opened his arms to confirm his true nature. He began to question, but it was too late. If I were human, I should be able to make changes, am I a robot with no choice at all?
But what he didn't know was that humans couldn't change themselves, but robots could. Humans are not free, robots are born free, but enslaved by humans.
Q: Was the daughter William killed a real person or a robot?
A: There is no exact answer to this. The possibility of being a real person is that when the body was finally cleaned up, her body and the human body were placed in a row, neat and tidy, while the receptionist's body was piled up in disorder. The possibility of being a robot is that the card the daughter wanted to show William at the end was the second card Ford copied. The original card was placed in the music box by William's wife. If her daughter got the card, she would not think that the music box was gone when she talked about the music box. So the card in her hand is a replica, probably the one that Ford created her and gave her a replica. Of course you can also assume that the daughter is real, Ford just gave her a copy card. As for the end of the play, the daughter is testing William. It is even more impossible to judge whether it is true or false, and we can only wait for the third season to reveal the mystery.
Maeve may not really be dead, and the two human little brothers have been rescued. This season, Maeve's lines have high-gloss shots but not enough depth, so I gave William some ink.
Dolores took away 5 memory units. It is known that Teddy was teleported into the Garden of Eden, and Bernard was reshaped by her memory. Who is left is unknown.
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