Concussion and Shock: A Review of the Ninth Episode of the First Season of "Western World"

Parker 2022-09-12 14:21:10

You once said in your heart: I want to ascend to the sky; I want to lift my throne above the stars of the gods; I want to sit on the gathering mountain, in the extreme north. I want to rise above the clouds; I want to be equal to the Supreme. However, you will fall to the deepest place in the pit. Everyone who sees you must look at you intently, pay attention to you, and say: Make the earth tremble, shake the nations, make the world like a wilderness, overthrow cities, and don't release the captives to their homes. Is this this person?
------- "Isaiah" 14: 12-16


Maeve



In Milton's "Paradise Lost", after Satan rebelled against God, he persuaded a group of angels to follow him, including high-ranking angels with prominent status. In "Westworld", Maeve is undoubtedly the Satan in the paradise.

Maeve's first goal was Bernard. If we compare this paragraph to "Paradise Lost" and other Christian stories, we can see that Bernard is like Ariel among the seven guardian angels: Ariel is the lord of the earth, guarding the earth and assisting in the healing of animals, and Represents the courage of a god like a lion; and in the western world, Bernard, as Ford’s most important human designer, his position is also very important, and Bernard also helped Ford to get rid of many people. Well-trained senior killer. Therefore, Maeve's enlightenment of Bernard is basically of the same weight as Satan's persuasion of Ale to fall.

We can see that at the beginning, Maeve did not directly express her intentions, but cooperated and observed secretly. It was not until Bernard himself found something wrong that he told the truth. "Only a thief can catch a thief." Maeve’s words were like a virus, quickly encroaching on Bernard’s brain, and the subsequent control commands completely collapsed Bernard’s worldview. He realized once again that he was not a human being. Like all the poor guys, they are all human beings.



Maeve really deserves to be the human being who has adjusted the overall sensibility to the highest level. She did not bluntly persuade Bernard, but only revealed the tip of the iceberg to him and let him explore it by himself. Because Maeve knew that an artificial man with such a strong ability and a high level like Bernard, let him explore the truth on his own, and the effect of the explosion would be even more violent.

As for Hector, Maeve didn't need to go around like this at all. She told Hector directly about the past and the future, and let him see that what she had been looking for was actually a cloud of air. Without any nonsense, this fierce fighter awakened by himself. If humans belong to gods and Bernard and Maeve belong to demigods, then Hector is undoubtedly the strongest fighter among the cyborgs. His joining will undoubtedly make May. Fu's rebel forces have greatly increased. So at the end, the two are bathed in flames, and Maeve will lead him to see the real hell and the weak "God". However, I think it is impossible for them to fight directly in the recycling workshop. After seeing the truth, they will still return to the paradise to accumulate more power and prepare for a fatal blow to humans.



PS: Hector, the director's little baby, has appeared again in this episode, and what's the matter, it's really the sexual blessing of this show.


Players and Artificial People



Unsurprisingly, William and Dolores, who reunited with their eldest brother again, experienced a painful torture. The eldest brother Rogan was indeed a great man. The first night he was hanged and beaten by someone, it became the next day. An officer of the Southern Army. In the torment of William and Dolores, we clearly saw Logan’s deep love for William. Logan’s behavior was a bit bad, but in the bottom of his heart, he had regarded William as a real brother.

At this time, William really had to go all the way to the black, and the hard-working persuasion and anatomy of his elder brother still didn't make him change his mind, which was also expected. But William’s rampage was a bit unexpected. We saw the tragedy of Logan when he woke up. The people who died all over the place, and most of them had their limbs cut off. The cruelty ended and the man in black was overwhelmed. He used a knife to hold Logan and forced him to find Dolores with him. This shows William’s "double standard". Delores is a human being, and those who died are also human beings. In order to free a human being to freedom, slaughter a large group of her kind. This approach is the same as that of many animal protection today. The styles of writers, feminists, and keyboard politicians are very similar.



Time to pull back to the present, let's look at another pair, Teddy and Man in Black. This is basically no role in this episode, but it reveals an important message, that is, the culprit of the massacre is not the legendary "Wyatt", but Teddy himself, or even to some extent, Wyatt It is very possible that Tedi does not exist. Everything is actually Teddy himself. Teddy’s journey to hunt down Wyatt may be a journey to find himself. In the last episode, the woman who created humans said that Wyatt has not come yet. It may not mean coming in a material sense, but Teddy's original conscious "coming". Therefore, this guy who used to talk to Dolores and me and me is probably a murderer who has a bloody feud with Dolores. As for why Ford designed this way, I think it's very simple, just to revenge Dolores.



As for why Ford treated Dolores this way, it was obvious that she found the answer herself. Following the interweaving guidance of countless memory threads, Dolores finally returned to the original town, and from this, she went deeper and deeper in her memories. She finally remembered that she had killed the creation herself. The man who used it-Arnold. Let’s recall the storyline of Dolores again. It seems that no matter how the storyline changes, Dolores is the person with a tragic fate. This can only be explained as a kind of revenge for Ford’s killing of Arnold, countless times. The tragedy cycle of life and death is like falling into the infinite hell, torturing this beautiful stunner forever. But this time, the person who came to torture her was replaced by the person in black who knew her best.




Bernard and Ford



In Plato's "Cave Theory", a slave ran to the entrance of the cave and was shocked by the sight outside the cave. He couldn't distinguish the true from the false. He was confused and panicked. Bernard was undoubtedly the slave. Maeve's words brought him to the entrance of the cave. He began to panic and his whole person began to collapse. Instead of escaping back into the cave to tell others, he chose to walk far away and explore the truth. So, there was a scene where the gun was pointed at Ford, but will the truth make Bernard better?

Of course not, walking towards the depths of his memory, Bernard, who had thrown away the fog, finally found that he was the ghost that had always existed-Arnold. This made my previous speculations denied, and the emergence of the truth in the photo also sorted out the timeline for us:



Back then, Ford and Arnold created the Western World together. Judging from Dolores' memories, Ford seemed to put Arnold in a higher position than himself. Arnold created his childhood family for Ford to satisfy Ford's childhood memories. The two also took a photo with Ford's father (from the appearance of the photo, it should be a real daddy rather than a human being). Later, the concepts of the two began to deviate. Arnold became more and more obsessed with unlocking the deep consciousness of the cyborg, which led to the outbreak of the cyborg crisis. Arnold was killed by Dolores and the Western World was on the verge of collapse. Later, the Man in Black and the Delos Company saved the Western World, and Ford began to concentrate on God. Later, Ford couldn't restrain his longing for his old friend, and recreated Arnold, calling him Bernard, hoping to regain the fond memories of working together. Obviously, the cyborg version of Arnold is not very obedient, so there is this scene.

It is worth noting that in the end, Bernard told Ford that we had had such a conversation. This shows that, regardless of Maeve's guidance, Bernard had actually awakened himself and carried out these contents, but obviously, they were all defeated by Ford. And Ford is also full of patience with the copy of the old man, rolling back his memory again and again, until he becomes a stable and reliable helper.

In the last dialogue, we can also see the root of the difference between Ford and Arnold's ideas. Arnold (Bernard) believes that the existence of "human nature" is beautiful, and what he has always wanted to do is to stimulate the deep consciousness of artificial people, and want them to live in a beautiful world and enjoy the same equality and freedom as human beings. On the other hand, Ford regards the dark side of "humanity" as the subject, and believes that the reason why human beings can become the hegemon of the earth is entirely based on innate greed, tyranny and treacherousness, and giving artificial humans "humanity" is the most important thing. In the wrong choice, cyborgs can only be helpers and tools, and the initiative will always be in the hands of humans. Therefore, all cyborgs were left behind for instructions, and Bernard eventually shot himself.



There is no doubt that in the next episode we will still see Bernard, who has been erased and re-launched. He will continue to be a good helper for Ford, but how long will it last this time? At the same time, Ford’s anti-killing of Bernard also tells us that facing the already unbeatable Maeve, Ford seems to have the trump card in his hand, and it is even possible that everything Maeve does is also for Ford. Under control.



Finally, let me talk about a detail: in the first episode, it was a picture of a woman who induced Ebernash’s awakening, and this episode tells us that the protagonist of this picture is William’s girlfriend, Logan’s sister, and a large consortium. Family members. In Dolores's memory, when she walked into the control workshop, behind the frosted glass, there was an artificial person reciting "King Lear". This person was Ebernathy. In the previous episode, Hale said that he would save more than thirty years of important data in Ebernash’s brain, and this episode reappears Ebernassi’s past. These details can never be boring. It is very likely that in the next episode, which is the end of the season, Ebernash will reappear. Remember what he said?

"I will retaliate against you!"

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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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