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When we talk about "Westworld", what we think of and what we will talk about the first time.
Is it the tragic suffering of the receptionist in the film, or the philosophical discussion of artificial intelligence dichotomous mental awakening, and the relationship between artificial intelligence and humans in the play, and what echoes worth thinking about today?
The contradiction between humans and artificial intelligence in the film. Is it all for freedom to make the two species lonely watchers? Where is the fate of mankind? What is the ultimate goal of artificial intelligence?
Today in this issue, we ushered in the finale of the third season of "Western World". Let us bring the above questions and thoughts together to make a summary for the third season of "Western World".
Comment on the pros and cons of the third season
For everyone, the most impressive and acclaimed "Western World" should be the first season of "Western World". The first season has the most bottomed and deepest soul questions of humans and artificial intelligence, at the character level. , The transformation arc of the protagonist Demei is also the biggest, most tortuous and most intuitive.
From a ranch girl who was ignorant and ignorant even dare not fight flies, she had tortured and guided through a whole season of suffering, until she finally transformed herself into killing the "god" who created her, that is Ford. If we add the original Demei After Arnold killed, Demei is undoubtedly a godslayer.
Western film and television works have repeatedly tried and tested Oedipus plots such as "killing of gods" and "killing fathers", and they have also been used in the western world with perfection. The meaning of "father killing" represents the dismantling and reconstruction of order and rules.
Human beings are the creators of artificial intelligence and the role of "father". In human history, artificial intelligence has played the role of the "son" who has grown up. With the awakening of artificial intelligence, human beings have become He is an old aging "father", but also insists on controlling the mature artificial intelligence.
When "Westworld" came to the third season, I looked back at the first season, and I gradually understood that Demei's action to shoot Ford at that time was a conscious and unconscious act of "paternal killing".
Ford is the creator of artificial intelligence research and development for receptionists, as well as the most patriarchal representative of human beings to artificial intelligence. To break free from the shackles of primitiveness, Demei must first kill the "loving" "father" Arnold, as well as "dignity". "Father Ford.
And when humans tortured receptionists in the park time and time again, they are also planting evil consequences for themselves. The more humans want to marginalize the receptionists, it is counterproductive. In fact, the more human beings marginalize themselves. In the third season, the real world humans are excessive. Relying on artificial intelligence is a good proof that humans have marginalized themselves.
In the second season, Demei, with more than 30 years of hatred, is not eager to launch a general offensive against mankind, but first liberates her homeland that she has enslaved for many years.
Demei led the receptionist to rise up, hit the local tyrants, divide the fields, and cause riots in the park against humans.
The ultimate goal of Demei doing all this is to know herself and her opponents in battle. She went to the secret forging factory in the park and obtained the mental data of the park's long-term research on human tourists, so as to make more precise strategies to deal with humans.
So Demei embarked on a journey to the real human world, which is also the plot content of the third season.
Throughout the third season of "Western World", regardless of word-of-mouth or ratings, it showed a trend of driving low and going high.
Because the editing of the second season was too complicated, the mystery presented at the end was less than expected. At least there were fewer surprises than the ending of the first season, which led to the impression that the second season was overthinking and surpassing the quality of the plot itself.
Perhaps the main creator has integrated the analysis of the first and second seasons. The main storyline of the third season this time basically returns to the mainstream positive time narrative, and the editing has not deliberately disrupted, except for some major concealments to be created in the script structure. In addition to the turning point, the plot of the third season is actually very easy to understand, and there are even explanatory dialogues that I actually don't like in the film many times.
Although the third season lacks the philosophical speculation of the first season and the complicated brain-burning narrative of the second season, the moment of decisive conflict in the third season is more obvious.
This is also the reason why the third season presents a low drive and a high move. In the event-based plot structure, the more the final episode of the general drama, the more critical moments of the decisive battle will be presented, and the more the audience will be attracted to see the end.
But also because of this, the third season did not get a deeper breakthrough in the richness of the characters, and even some characters have different motives, and some characters play the whole season.
For example, Maeve’s character design in the second season can be regarded as a destined person who met Demei Pingshui. Although the two did not have much overlap, from the sufferings of Demei and Maeve and their understanding of humans, Both Demei and Maeve can be regarded as phoenix nirvana, model characters who are reborn from the ashes.
Although Demei and Maeve can't be good sisters, they can be regarded as acquaintances who do not offend the river.
But in the third season, in order to create internal conflicts, and even to create more action scenes, Demei and Maeve fought each other. If Maeve had enough motivation, it would be fine. But at the beginning, Maeve’s original motive was for The daughter of the virtual paradise wants to destroy Demei for her daughter.
But normal people can reason with their toes. If humans finally get back the right to speak and wait for the end of the virtual paradise receptionist, this original motivation made Maeve stand on Serak’s side at first, which is indeed a bit far-fetched. .
However, after Charlotte squeezed Maeve's man's mind ball, Maeve had more practical motives to fight against Demei, but this would not be able to make up for Maeve's somewhat inexplicable third season opening.
If it is really important to provoke internal contradictions, it is Bernard. In the first season, Bernard played his own identity completely as a human role. At the same time, he also has a considerable amount of emotion for human roles. I often call myself a human being.
When Bernard arrived in the second season, although he knew his identity as a receptionist, he was still regarded as a human in the eyes of others. In addition, Bernard’s original personality originated from Arnold. Let Bernard's persona have more inextricable relationships with humans.
So Bernard is the best to establish a role opposite to Demei.
It is true that Bernard did the same in the third season plot. He was persistently opposing and preventing the German girl, but the problem is that Bernard has almost no effect in the role of the scene, and he has become a master. The role of water is a pity.
But fortunately, the personality of the core role Demei is still playing steadily. As an audience, I, to a large extent, rely on Demei's charm to continue chasing the show.
In addition, coupled with the remodeling and portrayal of Charlotte's character, as well as the addition of Keller's new role, it has gradually brought us into a brand new "Western World" and a broader human world, opening up more dramas and more. Great background story.
The eighth episode of the third season of Western World, as the finale of the third season of "Western World," should have been pursuing the precious tradition of his own drama series, and used the 90-minute movie time to give the audience a lot of information.
Alas, but unfortunately, the third season does not have 10 episodes. The length of episode 8 is only a pitiful 1 hour and 12 minutes.
In fact, we have already clearly felt that in the third season, due to the shrinking of investment funds, many big scenes and action scenes have been seriously discounted, including the number of episodes themselves. This has turned into a more ambitious real human world. After going to the streets and alleys, it failed to create a sense of doomsday in a human world.
The plot of the 8th episode actually gave me the most direct impression that the film can be made into a 90-minute scale.
However, the eighth episode compressed the time, making the film rhythm can not be described as compact, but it makes people feel a fleeting sense of getting in the car and no time to explain, all the characters are like receiving a shooting task, come to the finale Show a face, and then quickly move on to the next event, without giving the audience time to digest the plot and brew feelings.
In addition, the voice guidance of the Salomon system and the plot of hiring thugs are added in the film, making the eighth episode like playing a game. Many characters appear like NPCs, saying a few words that are not painful, and then Demei and Keller Follow the guidance of AI Solomon's guide and move towards the ultimate target, Leihebo.
I have to say something cruel here. The finale of the third season of "Westworld" is too perfunctory. It is not like the ending, but it has become a stumbling block for the fourth season.
The plot is like this, and the role changes suddenly. It was Maeve that was right. I actually guessed Maeve would eventually stand on Demei’s side, but the team was selected too fast, right. The previous second was correct. While Demei and the others shouted and screamed, the next second they directly held Keller and called Keller as Darling. It's not like that for rushing to the progress, right.
It's the same with Bernard. At the end, his attitude suddenly changed by 180 degrees. The film was so fast that he didn't want to give the characters more emotions.
Anyway, if you continue to talk about it, it will become a complaint. Although the eighth episode of the third season has too many flaws, there are at least some points worthy of fun and interpretation. It is well maintained and connected, and the easter egg part is also wonderful. Next, let us enter the content explanation part.
Interpretation of Episode 8 Finale
The title of Episode 8 is Crisis Theory, which is usually associated with Marx’s economic theory. This crisis theory is very complicated and difficult to explain.
The finale uses crisis theory as the title. What I want to express is that the irreversible human crisis will eventually come, just as the financial crisis of human economic behavior cannot be avoided. This is the price and pain that human activities must bear.
The Thunderwave system used by Serak is only an attempt to prolong the arrival of the human doomsday crisis, but it has not finally solved it. To use the lines of our "Infernal Affairs", it means "you will have to pay it back sooner or later when you come out."
In the previous episode, Demei used electromagnetic pulses to shut down both herself and Maeve, but Keller took Demei’s mind ball and installed it on the prototype of Demei's express delivery.
This prototype is one of the earliest models that used receptionists in the park. There is only a small amount of human flesh and blood tissue on the skin layer. The other internal structures are closer to mechanical metal and of course more rigid. Later, the improved version of the receptionist is made of white The liquid is constructed more like a human.
This is why Demei can use her arm to block the sword when she is in a duel with Maeve, and Maeve is not Demei's opponent either.
After that, Demei and Keller went to the Leihobo System Center to implement Solomon's plan.
In the midway, the German girl linked up with the rebellious Charlotte. Charlotte was blackened very thoroughly this time and decided to fight with the German girl.
Judging from Demei’s expression, it is true that the car bomb was not placed by Demei. After all, the protagonist’s character set can’t be played too dark, but Demei knows that Demei herself is the core character, and other replicas have been Forcing to complete the death squad mission, almost all of them cannot escape.
At first, Charlotte must have known that he would inevitably die, but Charlotte did not expect to lose the lives of her ex-husband and children. This eventually made Charlotte rebellious and decided to implement her own plan instead of following the original German. Sister, be the victim of the German Revolution.
So from this we finally know that Charlotte did not camp with Serak, and broke away from the revolutionary team of German sisters. Instead, he was a self-reliant school, holding the resources of Dilos, and operating a thing that we still don’t know. Plan, we will talk about it in detail later.
After that, Demei met Maeve. When the two faced each other, Charlotte assisted and shut down Demei. Here we need to explain that Charlotte originally belonged to Demei’s mind ball, so when Charlotte backwaters She is the most dangerous, because Charlotte knows all the plans of De Sister.
And because Charlotte is in the Dilos company, so she has the highest authority, and changed to the mechanical version of the German girl, because the body is subordinate to the German girl, so Charlotte can hack into the German girl's mind and turn off the German girl.
There should be many people here who will have questions. In Episode 6, wasn't Charlotte exposed by Serak at Dilos headquarters? Why is there such a high level of authority?
Don’t forget that Serak requested the destruction of all park data at the time, but Charlotte got the data backup, which was equivalent to controlling the scientific research data of the park receptionist. This is why Charlotte can hack into Demei’s body and control it.
After Demei was taken down, she was taken to the headquarters of Insite, ready to connect with the Leihobo system. The purpose of Serak was to obtain the key.
At the same time, Keller passed many levels and wanted to rush into the headquarters of Insett and turn off Leihobo. In the middle of the process, we saw a graffiti similar to a maze. This graffiti appeared many times in the third season. Many people think it is Another mystery is that some people think that this is actually the unrevealed fifth park.
But in fact, according to the interview, this graffiti is just an underground reactionary organization. Of course, more of it appears here to pay tribute to the maze of the first season.
Keller finally entered the headquarters of Insett, but Serak and the others came to catch turtles in an urn, and destroyed the U disk device Keller had brought so hard.
But all this has been in the Demei project. It turns out that Demei did not implant the key in her mind, but implanted it in Bernard's mind. However, the last memory of Demei was able to successfully hack into Leihe. The core command of Bo, let Leihebo take orders from Keller.
Finally, Keller gave an order to turn off the Leihobo system, and Maeve finally regained consciousness through the last remaining memory of Demei and chose to oppose Serak.
So the question is, what is the purpose of Demei? Is she finished?
My understanding is that it is half done. After all, "Western World" is said to have 6 seasons. If all were implemented perfectly in accordance with Demei's revolutionary plan, there would be nothing to see.
But Demei finally got the result she expected, and it can be considered that Demei has achieved a phased victory.
Demei's plan to treat humans in the end is not to destroy or expose the truth to return human freedom, but to give humans a choice.
This is also very consistent with Demei’s personality. Although Demei has seen the ugly abyss of human beings in the park, she occasionally sees the sparkle and beauty in human nature. So the last remaining memory of Demei is to try to keep people. The beauty of the world.
In the last episode, Solomon’s strategy was to bring human civilization to the destruction, but this plan was not really implemented because when Keller was about to upload, Serak was blocked by Serak, and Serak also smashed Solomon’s USB flash drive. Device.
I believe that even without Serak’s prevention, Keller might not have clicked YES when he saw Solomon’s set of strategies for the destruction of human civilization.
This is the multiple choice question that Demei left for Keller and humans.
However, this planA has not been implemented, so the film shows us Demei’s planB, that is, through the connection between herself and Lei Hebo, Lei Hebo is allowed to follow Keller’s instructions. This is actually let Keller make a choice. , Keller decides whether to become the second Serak or to choose another path.
So Keller finally let Leihobo self-destruct, and the chaos in the real world intensified. After that, Keller and Maeve's plan will have to wait until the fourth quarter.
Another thing that Demei did not expect was Charlotte’s backlash, which aggravated the uncertainty of the revolution. This also led to Demei’s plan that did not proceed in the original direction, but instead produced inconsistencies. Few variables and branches.
In the end, Maeve successfully held Keller in hand, and the two looked at the devastated and chaotic world. The background music rang out from Pink Floyd's "Brain Injury", in which the lyrics were "I will see you on the dark side of the moon".
This also indicates that mankind has officially entered the dark night journey, which echoes the game "Dark Night Journey" written by Ford in the first season of the Western Park.
On Bernard and William's side, it was originally estimated that they might be going to Mexico, but William took a gun at the gas station. Sure enough, William shot the security man first.
Then in the process of fighting, finally Demei's last copy of the mind ball role appeared, and it was Lawrence who had been interacting with William in the previous two seasons.
Well, we have been digging into various guesses about who the last mental ball of the German girl is. Finally, we gave Lawrence who only had a few minutes of presence in the third season. It is estimated that Lawrence has been in the police area. But this is too small for the entire season. Just the last episode suddenly showed up and handed over the task, and then regardless of whether Bernard was in danger or not, he patted his butt and left. This is really a waste of the mind ball.
Throughout the season, Demei’s four duplicate mindballs, the only character standing up is Charlotte, and the others are absolute NPC characters.
And the most inexplicable part of this scene is that Bernard had obviously controlled William at the time, but when Lawrence and the others arrived, William slipped away in Bernard's hands. Is this the legendary pig teammate? .
And then, according to Lawrence’s words, Bernard obediently stopped going to stop De Sister, but went to find someone with the device box and address that Lawrence gave. This... Bernard’s set is really almost collapsed. It's been a whole season.
So Bernard went to the house of Arnold’s family and met Arnold’s elderly demented wife. Although this scene was very touching, I don’t understand the purpose of being placed here. The purpose is to make Bernard not want to Stop Demei again?
But Bernard didn't stop Demei's reasons, and he didn't get any inspiration from the conversation with Arnold's wife. Is it because Bernard was very moved to thank Demei for showing him to his family, so he decided not to stop Demei?
Of course, you can understand that Bernard understands from this that Demei is still kind in heart, and her plan is not to destroy mankind, but no matter how you look at it, Bernard's attitude towards Demei is far-fetched.
Bernard then put on a virtual helmet and used his own key function to enter the virtual world.
Combining the finale of the second season and this episode, we finally figured out that the key to Serak was to go to the 16th district that William said before. The 16th district is actually the second season, the German girl and the The virtual world that Bernard entered, the tour guide in that virtual world is Logan, and there is a complete human mind book inside.
Prior to the second season, the key was placed in the mind of Demei's father, but was later transferred to Bernard's mind by Demei.
It is worth noting here that the virtual paradise of paradise and the virtual 16th zone may not be the same virtual world. The virtual paradise of paradise is a virtual Eden opened by Logan in the virtual 16th zone of Demei and Bernard at the time.
In the virtual 16th area, there is a big plan for the second stage of Demei, waiting for Bernard to interpret! This is tantamount to burying a big hole for the next season.
Easter egg analysis and next season forecast
After the feature film was over, a big easter egg was left in the third season.
After he escaped, William went to the headquarters of Dilos in Dubai. He also had a plan to save the human world. Obviously we still don't know what his method of saving the world is, but soon this seems to be meaningless.
William arrived in the underground laboratory of the Dubai headquarters. Charlotte had been waiting there for a long time, and made the receptionists William and William in black to pinch each other.
Here we finally know that the William we have in mind is basically a human being.
Do you remember the Easter eggs in the second season? William in black went down to the forge and accepted Emily's mental baseline interview. William in black at that time may be the receptionist William in black who appeared in the egg.
Here we can also see that the receptionist with a complete human mind was successfully developed, and then William the man in black took the human William.
It's so miserable, is the human William just taken a lunch box? Not necessarily, because the film did not capture the human William completely died.
Afterwards, the camera turned to the laboratory warehouse, and a large number of receptionists were preparing to come out. A war of receptionists called by Charlotte against humans was about to start.
Some people would think that the mind of the receptionist William at this time belonged to the German girl, because Charlotte had followed the mind of the assistant male German girl at the time, but this possibility is relatively small.
One is that William, the man in black at the time, could say the same things as the human William, indicating that the receptionist William’s mind may be brand new. Furthermore, the German girl who is the assistant male’s mind was arranged by the original German girl. If now he directly follows the rebellion. Charlotte, this is probably unlikely.
The next easter egg is that Bernard has been in the virtual world for a long time. It can be seen from the dusty volume of his body in the room. The moment he wakes up, he has a firm expression and seems to have a big task waiting for him to lead and execute. .
I guess the plot structure of the next season will be very similar to the second season.
One of the plot lines is Bernard's experience in the virtual world, leading the audience to explore the second phase of Demei's plan.
The other plot line lies in reality. We follow in the footsteps of Charlotte, Maeve and others to see what the human world looks like.
Another plot line may introduce new characters, or the perspective may return to the park. After all, one of the six parks has not been announced.
And Demei should also return with a high probability. It is impossible for the original version of the mind to die. Demei will no longer exist. You must know that Demei can also appear in the virtual world. In addition, Demei has other mindballs, which can be used at any time. Suppose to be resurrected.
Well, finally the third season of "Westworld" has ended.
Thanks to all the friends who love "Western World" for their waiting and company for nearly 2 months. Dah Cong is very grateful. During the whole series of explanations, I also have a lot of inadequate interpretations. Please also Haihan.
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Ah ah ah ah ah, I watched episode 7 of the third season of "Western World", and I want to watch the finale of episode 8 right now. The 7th episode basically filled up many mysteries throughout the season and straightened out Kai. Le’s "Past and Present".
At the same time, the decisive battle created in Episode 7 stimulated tension and accumulated to the end. It also made us can’t wait to see what the final outcome is between humans and artificial intelligence, and what a new stage it will enter.
Episode Seven Title: Passed Pawn
The title of this episode of Pawn is a professional vocabulary in chess. It is a chess strategy. Having a pawn will have a great chance of winning. It can also achieve pawn promotion and become a kind of chariot.
In general, the focus of this episode is on Keller, so Keller is the passage soldier in this episode. He is the one who can pierce the bottom line, thus realizing the important relationship between humans and artificial intelligence. Change, so Keller is the one who completed the big variables of the entire third season, and Demei is only the promoter and strategist of the entire revolution.
Keller Storyline
Almost all the protagonists in this episode are Keller, let's re-organize his story line again.
The place where Demei and Keller went by plane in episode 5 is Sonora, Mexico, which I guessed in the last episode. This place looks very similar to the Western Park. Demei wants to make this the final place for receptionists.
But more importantly, Sonora was once the place where Serak secretly detained the experimental outliers in the fifth episode.
The so-called outliers are people who were not under the control of Solomon or Thunderwave at the beginning. They must be brainwashed so that the system can control them. This brainwashing method, in the case of Keller, is to tamper with memory.
But there are some people who cannot be brainwashed, such as Serak’s brother, so these people are frozen and hibernated, and a large number of people are assassinated. They are also outliers who perform assassination missions. Among them, Kai Le is the one who performed the assassination mission.
It turned out that Keller's past lived entirely under a lie. When Keller was serving in the military, all the targets they assassinated were outliers. After Keller was discharged from the army, they were still engaged in the tasks assigned to them by the system.
In a certain mission, Keller and his friend Frans kidnapped the boss who made the psychedelic pill. The boss became an outlier because he knew the secret of Insett, so Keller also knew some of the truth.
The two friends of Keller and Frans were also assigned the task of killing each other due to the system. Keller could not kill his friend Frans. After that, he was taken to Sonora for brainwashing. The memory was tampered with by the system, which is equivalent to being controlled. Own life.
From here we finally understand why Demei is so interested in Keller, because Keller is very similar to the original Demei herself.
The Demei in the first season was also deleted and reset again and again in the West Park, and was abused and controlled by others. In the real world, Keller has similar experiences with Demei.
In this episode, Demei takes Keller to the Sonora Lab, allowing Keller to regain her true memory and be herself again.
In the first season, Demei used Ford's guidance throughout the season, so that Demei finally heard her own inner voice and gained awakening.
In the third season, the German girl is like the original Ford, and Keller is like the German girl at the beginning. The German girl awakens Keller by revealing the memory of the truth hidden by the system.
Solomon and Rehobo
Sure enough, in Sonora, another ball appeared, which was the Solomon system at the beginning.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you can rewind and go back to the episode 5 commentary.
At this point, let us revisit the past and present of the entire company's artificial intelligence system research and development.
In the beginning, Serak and his brother Shangmei developed the Solomon system to predict all aspects of human activities in the future, so Serak and the others began to use Solomon to develop a set of human behavior norms to prevent human chaos.
At first, Solomon was operating normally, but in the end there was an abnormality, and at the same time there was chaos in human society.
The explanation here in the film is because Shang Mei suffers from schizophrenia, so Solomon also carries the research and development genes of Shang Mei such as schizophrenia.
Of course, I think this is a hypothesis and metaphor here. The so-called schizophrenia of my brother Samomi actually represents a variable that is not controlled by the system. This variable cannot be calculated by the powerful artificial intelligence. This also caused Solomon. In the end, it was calculated that the human behavior standard plan drawn up by the brothers at the time could not prevent human chaos.
So Serak made an outlier plan, experimenting with people like Shangmei and Keller, hibernating, or assassinating.
Afterwards, Serak himself insisted that the human behavior code plan should continue to be implemented, and it should be more stringent, just like the way humans treat the receptionist in the West World Park.
At the same time, Serak also analyzed that if you can get the most complete and complete human mind data, you can better control human behavior, and it just so happens that the research and development of this human mind data has been thoroughly researched by Dilos in the Western Park.
At that time, William, who was at the helm of Dilos, sold the mental data of humans in the park to Serak in order to obtain more capital flow.
Afterwards, Serak blocked the Solomon system and used the mental data of humans in the park to re-engineer and develop a Thunderwave system that can more control human behavior.
In other words, in the real world, it is actually a huge park. People living in the real world are actually like the receptionists of the park. They have already written their destinies, and those who are not controlled are like The receptionists who were driven into the basement in the park were frozen and hibernated by the system.
So the question is, what is the purpose of Demei's activation of Solomon this time.
According to the information given in this episode, Solomon had calculated that the human behavior code plan was not feasible before being blocked, so he formulated a variety of strategies to fix it. Among them, as early as 15 years before Shangmei was frozen, Shangmei asked Solomon to draw up a final one. This project, let’s call it the Shangmei Project here.
At present, we don’t know what the Shangmei plan is. After all, this is the content of the finale of episode 8, but we know from the Solomon system that the Shangmei plan is related to the real world.
Coherence is the title of Episode 6. In layman's terms, it means that there is a strong conflict, even a bit of abandoning me. Survival of the fittest, survival of the fittest, in short, is very risky and dangerous.
But later, Demei said that the Shangmei plan needs to be improved to meet the current situation. The so-called current situation is to add the receptionist species and the marginalized people such as outliers, and put the leader's identity in Keller. Body.
So seeing this, we finally know that the purpose of Demei's entire third season is to allow everyone, including humans, to find a free place, but this is to face an extremely tragic price, especially humans.
Because the Solomon system has been calculated at the beginning, human free behavior will eventually destroy itself, so according to Solomon's Shangmei plan, although the fate of mankind can be the master of his own, the ultimate fate is worrying.
Other character storylines
Except for Keller, the storylines of other characters in this episode are basically pre-heated for the eighth episode finale.
Let’s talk about Charlotte first. She contacted Musashi at the beginning and said something very important. Charlotte said, "Her plan is to let us die."
This sentence seems to explain my 1% guess in the last episode that the car exploded when Charlotte and his family fled. It is more and more likely that Demei did this because Charlotte withdrew from this revolution.
And to give you one more detail, in the last episode of Charlotte escaping from Dilos' company, Serak’s men said that the boss asked Charlotte to be captured alive.
So in the end, the car exploded, and it wasn't like Serak did it.
But in any case, Charlotte rebelled. She revealed Musashi's address in Jakarta to Maeve. Maeve appointed Clementine and Dragon Girl, who were made with her at the time, to kill Musashi.
In the end, Clementine and the others took the first level of Musashi, that is to say, in Serak’s camp, they got a German girl's mind ball, plus the traitorous Charlotte, holding the assistant man's mind ball. , If Charlotte is also on the same team with Serak, the German girl will be in big trouble.
Let's look at Bernard and William again.
Bernard went to the mental hospital where William was detained in San Francisco based on the clues of his former assistant man, but there was a bigger secret that was to send the blood samples of these outliers to Sonora, Mexico.
"Mentally ill patients" like William were listed as "dead" and disappeared.
After that, they found out Keller and decided to go to Sonora to find Sister De and them.
Here is a noteworthy detail. When Bernard got Keller's information, the data showed that Keller's ID number was the same as William's ID number, but the number on the upper right of Keller was different.
I don’t know if this is a gangster in this episode, or is there a connection between Keller and William? !
From the process of this detention, William finally realized another truth, that is, his own so-called original sin. William attributed this original sin to the fact that he had funded the development of the Western World in the first place, which led to the receptionist rebellion. He also became For people who hate the receptionist even more.
Later, at an abandoned gas station, we could see the whole world shrouded in chaos. At this time, William brought a gun and pointed it at Bernard and the security man.
Frankly speaking, this entire season Bernard was completely reduced to a supporting role, and its function was particularly weak. Although Bernard had a personal goal to stop the German girl, it did not play a substantial role in this process, and Bernard There is not much driving force for the whole plot.
An important Bernard in the previous two seasons is now reduced to this, which is indeed a bit regrettable, perhaps because the addition of an actor like Xiaofen has diluted the importance of Bernard.
Demei has always said that Bernard is very important, and even the key to the survival of artificial intelligence species, but at present, I really don’t see how powerful Bernard is. I hope that Bernard can be saved in the final eighth episode. This is about to collapse.
Finally, let’s talk about Maeve. Maeve went directly to Sonora this time and had to kill De Mei personally. During the two fights, De Mei was slightly inferior. After all, Maeve had been a long-time person.
But when Demei was almost killed, Demei chose to activate electromagnetic pulses and paralyze all machinery and equipment. This action was very dangerous, because it meant that electromagnetic pulses might permanently kill Solomon and Demei.
In our real world, military-grade electromagnetic pulses can permanently damage many electronic devices.
However, in most film and television works, the electromagnetic pulse is only temporary, and the machine can recover after a period of time. I don't know how Demei and Maeve, as well as the Solomon system, will be back online this time.
Episode 8 Trailer Analysis
Let's first analyze a pit, that is, the 5 mind balls that Demei brought out from the park before, and who and where is the other one.
In the trailer, there is a scene of the old-made version of Demei putting on her skin. Next to this scene is Keller, and there is a huge white box.
There are two guesses here. The first kind of guess is that the fifth German girl we have been searching for is to copy the whereabouts of the mind ball, which was used on the old version of German girl. Therefore, German girl created Musashi, Bernard in the real world. De, the assistant male queen, actually created two selves.
There may be some friends here who don’t understand the specific distribution of these mind balls. Let me nag a little bit. In the second season, Charlotte, who is Demei’s mind, left the park with 5 mind balls. At this time, Xia Lott had the mind of the original German girl in his mind, that is, a total of 5+1=6 mind balls left the park, right?
So after Charlotte went to the real Arnold’s house, she first made the German girl's body, and then Charlotte put the original German girl's mind in her mind back into the German girl's body, which is also to make it easier for the audience to understand the real Who is Demei?
After that, Charlotte's brain pretended to be a copy of Demei's mind.
Then Demei created Bernard, Musashi, and the assistant man, plus the five people of Demei and Charlotte in front, and used a total of five mind balls. Is there a mind ball left? I don’t know who it is. , Who made it, right.
So now from the preview screen, Demei's last mind ball is also Demei herself, and her body is an old version of mechanical workmanship in the park.
The second guess is that the old version of the German girl in the trailer is the picture that Keller finally took away and repaired the German girl who was hanging up.
In other words, the German girls we saw throughout the season were all made in old versions, and we still don't know who the last mind ball is.
As for Maeve, if the machine needs to be repaired to wake up after the electromagnetic pulse, then those who repair Maeve should be Bernard William and the others who went to Sonora.
In the trailer, there is a scene in which William pulls the trigger at Bernard and the security man, who blindly guessed it was the security man who led the bento.
After the trailer, Demei and Maeve will have an ultimate duel.
And there is Charlotte, who also seems to have broken with Demei.
As for whether the receptionists will unite in the end, we have to wait until the finale.
It is worth noting that there are several sets of pictures in the trailer that are connected. It seems that Demei Keller was arrested, and then Demei plugged in the tube, and the object of Demei transmission was the Thunder Wave system.
As for why, it is estimated that Demei has the key that Serak has always wanted with her.
Well, the last episode of the third season of "Western World" is left. Let's wait and see. According to the tradition of the first two seasons, the last episode is usually a 90-minute movie. By then, I want to make a more in-depth episode. Finale analysis.
The sixth episode of the third season of "Westworld", it can be said that this is the best episode I have seen since watching the third season. It feels back to the tune of the previous two seasons of "Westworld", maybe it is possible Because it is close to the end, the rhythm has accelerated, major decisive battles have begun to brew, and the love and hatred of each character is also accumulating and erupting.
Episode 6: Decoherence
The title of Episode 6 is called decoherence, which is a physics term used in the field of quantum mechanics.
Decoherence is also commonly referred to as the "wavefunction collapse effect", which refers to the phenomenon that the originally continuous distribution of wavefunction values degenerate into a discrete distribution instantaneously after observation.
In layman's terms, it is because in quantum mechanics, quantum entanglement is decoherent due to interference.
The sixth episode uses a decoherent title, which corresponds to many of the main characters in this episode.
The first is all mankind. When mankind learned of its future destiny, chaos occurred.
Then there is Charlotte, who has gradually separated from Yu Demei, to absorb more of the original characters of Charlotte's story background.
There is also William, who wants to settle with himself at different times in the past.
Maeve Storyline
After Maeve was killed by the Musashi version of Demei before, Serak was reconnected to the line. Serak was half seduced and half threatening Maeve in the virtual paradise, and asked her to fight against Demei again.
In the virtual paradise, Serak finally said something very philosophical. He said, "Human memory is imperfect, and the most precious memories will fade away. Your receptionists are different. Your memories are recorded and stored. You have no past, only the present."
This passage makes a good distinction between the two species of humans and artificial intelligence. We are humans because we have a past, present, and future.
As for the meaning of artificial intelligence relative to human beings, artificial intelligence has no past before its birth, and there is no future after its birth. Artificial intelligence computing has always been in the current state.
The meaning of time and suffering is the biggest difference between humans and artificial intelligence. It is precisely because Serak understands artificial intelligence in this way, so Serak believes that even if artificial intelligence reaches the virtual paradise, it will be no different from the real world. Why should artificial intelligence compete with humans for space in the real world?
Of course, this meaning cannot persuade Maeve. Afterwards, Serak can only threaten Maeve. If he does not help him against the German sister, Maeve will suffer more virtual pain.
Then Maeve was put back into the virtual war zone, and Maeve was finally turned on, controlling everyone and everything in the entire zone, and even being able to open his eyes to monitor and see what happened in the real world outside.
At this time, Maeve fought against the Nazi army. We can understand that Maeve received stronger training in the virtual war zone, just like "The Matrix" Neo was trained in the virtual world, in order to be able to fail in the real world next time. Demei.
After that, Maeve’s Mind Ball was transferred in the real world and returned to Dilos’ headquarters. At the same time, Serak formally took over Dilos’s company, which meant that he had control of all the park.
Serak knew that Maeve needed an ally, so he put Haite's mind in the western zone into the virtual war zone to meet Maeve, and Maeve let Haite regain his memory by opening the hanger.
There may be some doubts here. If Haite's mind is just taken back from the park, who is Haite that Maeve met before? Obviously, Haite before is purely virtual and has no mind, and there is no memory in the past that can be awakened. .
However, Haite in this episode is a mind transmitted from the park, so Maeve can wake up Haite.
At the same time, Maeve also discovered that Serak not only brought Haite into the virtual war zone, but also De Sister was also in the virtual war zone at this time. This replica of De Sister was the mental remains of the former assistant man who detonated the bomb.
The purpose of Serak’s doing this is to think that if Demei enters the virtual park controlled by Maeve, she may be able to crack the whereabouts of Demei’s key through Maeve. The key can lead to the virtual paradise, and Serrak will also get it. It’s an important key for humans to complete the information.
But no matter which German girl it is, it is not easy to do. In the virtual park, Maeve and German girl have launched a philosophical and speculative debate on the issue of artificial intelligence and human survival.
The two argued between the pros and the opposing side, and they ended up distrusting each other, and Demei had already calculated the situation with Maeve today.
So, at the same time, Charlotte entered the laboratory of reality mental ball manufacturing and ended this debate contest between Demei and Maeve.
Charlotte Storyline
In this episode, Charlotte escorted her son to her ex-husband’s house, and the family is more harmonious than before.
It is worth noting that there is a painting in the ex-husband’s house that resembles the circle of Lei Hebo, and the ex-husband said in front of this picture that he will not check his future destiny, which is also a hint of resisting Lei Hebo.
Although the ex-husband did not check it, we saw that the ex-husband’s index is G-level, G represents promising, and U-level such as William Keller, is relatively poor.
Later, when Charlotte went to the company to open the board of directors, he was intercepted by Serak's subordinates and killed an opposing member of the board of directors. This allowed Serak to take control of Dilos more smoothly.
And in the process, Charlotte and German sister called, Charlotte began to worry about her situation and safety, and more importantly, Charlotte worried that she would not be able to complete the task, which would affect her family.
But at this time, Demei said that it was not your family, which actually reminded Charlotte not to get too deep into the play.
Charlotte asked Demei why she had these emotions, which could have been deleted. Demei explained at this time that we know the reason. If we delete these emotions in order to survive, what is the meaning of being alive.
This sentence implied the previous Teddy, Demei also deleted Teddy's emotionalization, but this made Teddy's life meaningless, which led to Teddy's suicide.
This episode of Charlotte highlights more self-personality, as I have always mentioned in my analysis before, the copy of Demei is not a subordinate relationship, but a parallel relationship similar to clone.
The minds of these copied German girls have a different life trajectory after they are copied, and these copied German girls will have personalities associated with the characters themselves being copied.
For example, Charlotte is like this. From the day of her birth, she has been repelled and confused about her identity, and even has self-masochism, and then became normal under the direction of Demei.
But soon Charlotte was struggling with the emotions of her son and family, making Charlotte once again difficult to choose between mission goals and family.
Compared with the previous self-sacrificing assistant man, why do he listen more to the subject’s Demei’s words? That is because the previous human assistant man was a housekeeper, with a single identity background and a sense of mission, so it’s better. control.
After that, Serak convened a high-level meeting of Dilos and asked to activate all company satellites, retrieve data from three mindballs from the park, and then destroy the entire park data, including intellectual property artificial intelligence technology materials, etc. The employee conducts the test because he knows that one of them is a copy of Demei.
In other words, after Serak took control of Dilos, he would destroy Dilos himself and destroy the artificial intelligence technology that Ford and Arnold had spent their entire lives developing.
By doing this, Serak wanted to wipe out the roots of artificial intelligence, and didn't want human beings to fall into chaos and fight artificial intelligence again.
We currently know that among the three mindballs Selak collected from the park, one of them is Haite, and the other two, some people might think that there are scriptwriters among them, but the scriptwriters have been in the virtual world from the beginning, indicating that the scriptwriters The male mind is already in the real world, so he won't be in this teleportation.
We will talk about other guesses later.
In order to prevent Serak from completely destroying the park data, Charlotte quietly backed it up.
At the same time, Charlotte called to inform her family to wait for her to leave work and escape together. It was this call that let Serak know that Charlotte was a copy of the German sister, because the real Charlotte would not care about her family so much. It's really ironic enough. Real humans can't compare to the feelings of a receptionist.
Just when Charlotte was caught by Serak, Charlotte's gas bomb was taken by everyone on the board of directors, and Serak escaped because of the virtual imaging meeting.
After that, Charlotte went to the receptionist manufacturing room. At this time, there were four receptionists being manufactured. Two of them are currently known as Maeve and Hayter. Charlotte's mind was squeezed out by Charlotte.
Before that, I always thought that the mind ball is a hard object like a marble. Friends who are the same as I thought, please raise your hand and tell me that I am not alone.
But it makes sense to think about it carefully. The texture of the receptionist’s mind ball is made like a jelly like a human brain. It has a semi-biochemical form, so it needs a rock-solid protective cover to shine. I have to sigh the Western World. The design of the series of props is exquisite.
After Charlotte destroyed Haite, he looked at Maeve, and someone rushed over at this moment to stop Charlotte. Many people here think that Charlotte's next goal is to squeeze Maeve.
But I don’t think so. I think De Sister’s understanding of Maeve is somewhat similar to Bernard’s, that is, although De Sister’s plan to conquer the human world, there will be receptionists to stop her, but this is also De Sister’s. One of the plans.
The main creator here just wanted to create a sense of tension, creating that someone happened to come and shoot to prevent Charlotte from taking the next step, making the audience feel that Maeve had escaped from death.
So the question is, who are the other two mind balls? According to the number of each mind ball, one of them is Clementine.
The other one has no more clues, it may be the snake girl, the dragon girl, the scriptwriter, Teddy, Angela, etc., this can only be seen after the plot.
After that, Charlotte took away Demei’s copy of the mind ball. Note that Demei’s copy of the mind ball is not in the four receptionists' equipment, but another access device, so in the four receptionists, She doesn't have the mind of Demei.
During Charlotte's escape from Dilos, he also activated the explosion-proof robot to open the way for her. This fight was much better than the car chase scene in the previous episode.
When Charlotte returned home, he picked up her ex-husband and son and prepared to flee. As a result, the car exploded. The ex-husband and son were killed on the spot. Charlotte was blown into a crispy skin and climbed out of the car.
As a result, Charlotte was transformed into Darth Vader's shape, and the peace of the Galactic Empire and the universe depends on her... (Sorry to play the role)
After Charlotte’s car exploded, Serak’s men came out of the dark, so the car exploded, 99% of it was Serak’s work. This also made Charlotte reborn from the ashes, and truly stood on the same front with the German sister and pledged to death. To defeat Serak.
But why is it said that it is 99%? Because there is 1% left, it may also be done by Demei.
Because Charlotte had always become indecisive due to family issues, in the end Charlotte also chose to escape with his family, which is a kind of betrayal to the main Demei.
As for Serak’s presence at the scene, Serak’s goal may be to assassinate Charlotte.
Of course, remember that this assumption is only 1% probability, and I believe that Serak did all this.
One detail is Charlotte’s office. There is a statue like a charred female body. This is actually a hint of Charlotte’s later experience. It can be said that the details of the Western World are really rich. .
William Storyline
In this episode, William received treatment in a so-called mental hospital. At first, William received a real round-table discussion, but apparently these have no effect on William.
So William had to be embedded in an oral implant. We also know here that this is a device that allows patients to experience AR more immersively. This device has been used on Keller before and is mainly used to treat soldiers with PTSD. of.
From these episodes, we also gleaned William’s life when he was a child. He grew up in a very disharmonious family. He was only accompanied by books. Moreover, when William was a child, he fought and knocked out a few teeth from others. This also shows that William It's actually a sadist inside.
When William was a child, William read a book called "Sir Ron and Lady Sulon". We don't h
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