Collapse and Hope: Review of the second episode of the first season of "Western World"

Letitia 2022-08-21 23:41:15

Looking forward to, looking forward to, the drama "Western World" ushered in the second episode of this season. In the last episode, the first awakened android Abernathy suffered the fate of being recovered, but he passed the awakened torch to Dolores before the end. The awakening of the robot's self-consciousness is like a flame or a plague. Once it starts, it will not stop. And in the face of the awakening robot, what will the operators and players of the park do?


William

William appearance with the "Western World" played the protagonist of the original film the way, are waking up in the train into the park. William is a unique player, in this episode, he did not show any evil desires and evil thoughts. Compared to other players who came here to satisfy sexual desire and murderous desire, William did not show any evil when facing beauty receptions, station provocations, etc., as pure and kind as a monk, but I think William is always absent-minded in his eyes. He doesn't seem to be here to vent, but to find something.

On the streets of the small town, the original story line was broken. Teddy, who was supposed to meet Dolores, was killed by a mad player in a bar. The falling jar was finally picked up by William. It was accidental. But it seemed to be some kind of inevitable. At the moment when the two eyes met, Dolores' eyes changed. It is foreseeable that in the future development of the plot, William and Dolores will meet and certain stories will happen. One is a different human being, and the other is a awakening artificial person. Their encounter is destined to be Affect the western world.

There is another question worth thinking about, and that is whether William, who is "silly, white and sweet," will eventually become the role of the villain in black under the constant temptation of this world.

Madam

In this episode, the screenwriter sends us such a message through the mouths of the managers of Westworld: Self-awakening is contagious like a plague. Thus, the third person who was infected by the plague of self-awakening appeared, and she was the prostitute madam in the small town tavern. In the last episode, we have seen that when the plot arranges the bandits to wash the town, the madam shot and killed two bandits out of her own setting, which means that there is an element of restlessness in her program. "These cruel pleasures will eventually end in cruelty" This sentence was like a curse, Ebernathy used it to wake Dolores, and Dolores used the same words to wake up the maid. After listening to this sentence, images of the player's brutal abuse experienced in the past began to emerge, and the madam regarded these fragmented memories as nightmares. I have to admire the designers of Western World for this. They even set dreams for the cyborgs, but this is not a good thing, because if the robot dreams of the electronic sheep, then their thinking will never stop.

For the bustard, she chose to use nightmares to self-hypnotize her past, but she was destined to be the chosen one, so she woke up on the operating table in the repair room and saw what she shouldn’t have seen. Things, the robots on the operating table waiting to be repaired, the corpses waiting to be recovered in the decontamination room, all of which are a hundred times more terrifying than the nightmare in her dream, because she finally realized Then, I am not a human being, but an existence like an animal. At this moment, she completely collapsed.

In the end, the two staff of the maintenance department found the madam who had escaped from the operating table and took her back. For reasons such as keeping the job, these two idiots would definitely not report the matter to the management. That's right, the staff did not wake her up, it was her own awakening, and this hasty way of covering up would certainly not erase this terrifying experience. In future stories, the bustard will definitely keep thinking of these things that made her fearful. When she is fully awakened, the previous improvements in strength, cognition, and emotion will make her a nightmare for human players in the Western World.

Bernard and Ford

Among the designers of Western World, most designers are just designers. The purpose of their work is to design various human bodies and various plots to satisfy the abyss-like desires of the players and inspire the deepest sins in their hearts. , Which is why at the end, the great god designed the bloody and perverted story line of "The Odyssey on the Red River". But there are two people who are different, that is Bernard and Ford.

Bernard and Ford are relatively close. Together, they talk more about the emotional development of artificial humans and the ethics of life for creating life. On the bed, the senior woman said to Bernard, “You always keep a thoughtful silence for a long time, but the irony is that the product you create likes to talk.” This shows that Bernard did not just treat humans as humans. It is a kind of living toy, but it wants to give them the meaning of life, so that they can change from "human" in form to "human" in the true sense.

If Bernard is Frankenstein, then Ford is God. Unlike Bernard, Ford is no longer thinking about giving real life to artificial humans, but to giving artificial humans the meaning of life, and at the same time giving them the meaning of life. He no longer wants to do more disgusting things to vent people's desires, but wants people and artificial people to find the meaning of life in this world. "They already know who they are. They came here to understand what kind of person they will become." So Ford erected a church spire in the desert, and the cross on the spire heralded hope. This hope is All beings are equal, and all humans and artificial humans create a utopia. But will Ford's church be built in this land that is itself set as sin and desire?

The man in black,

our villain, the man in black is still doing his own bad things calmly. In order to find the maze printed on his scalp, he killed more than 20 people. It is worth noting that the man in black treats everything. He is very familiar, he is familiar with the road, and he even appeared in the nightmare of the madam. From this, it can be seen that he has really not been idle for the past thirty years.

After killing Lawrence’s wife, Lawrence’s daughter suddenly changed and said in an icy tone the reminder "Along the blood river to the snake’s den", as if the man in black triggered the artificial human Some of his hidden attributes, but from Lawrence's expression, he doesn't seem to be surprised. This is surprising. Could it be that all of these are actually designed hidden levels?

Unlike other characters, we can get a glimpse of the trajectory. The man in black who played a long time in the first two episodes is still a mystery to the audience. who is he? What is he going to do? Where is the maze? What exactly are Blood River and Snake Nest? What is the deepest part of the maze? We don't know anything. All we know is a man in black looking for a mysterious place, and the cruelty of his methods is a terrifying existence for humans and artificial humans in the Western World.

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Extended Reading

Westworld quotes

  • Dr. Robert Ford: The hosts are the ones who are free. Free. Here. Under my control.

  • Dolores Abernathy: [to Stubbs] Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world, the disarray. I choose to see the Beauty. To believe there is an order to our days. A purpose. I know things will work out the way they're meant to.

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