This article follows (Part 1) and describes the story in the current timeline. Since the experiences of each character are completely mixed together, even if they are recounted in chronological order, it will still look messy, so (Part 2) I will slightly change the narrative. way, roughly according to the four story lines to review the plot, and finally summarize.
Here's a little tip in advance - just keep in mind that Dr. Ford is the "chief designer" of everything that changes, and it's much easier to understand the story of "Westworld" when you read it again.
"Outlaw" line
Ford's battle with the board has become clearer and more intense, and he doesn't mind his "hard-edged" in the final critical period -- like debasing designer Heather Lee's new storyline: it's just more It's just a little trick of violence and excitement. Tourists don't want something they can see through, they want to see who they can be.
Ruthlessly rejecting others, relying on the old to sell the old, taking over all the design leadership, and opening up new areas without authorization, causing nearly half of the park's storyline to collapse... Ford's actions made Karen and the board more and more resentful and jealous of him.
But Karen still has cards to play, and that is her lover relationship with Bernard-in this intriguing place, there is no absolute "private matter", Bernard, as a senior engineer second only to Ford, is naturally Karen priority object .
Like letting the quality assurance department under his control take over the "problem receptionist", Karen only dared to speak to Bernard instead of Ford... After another spring night, Karen poured bitterness on Bernard, Complaining about Ford messing up the park, Bernard's ambiguous attitude made her think it was time to negotiate with Ford.
However, Jiang is still old and hot. Ford suspended all receptionists like God in the new park, declared his dictatorship and hegemony, and scared Karen: you better be careful Bernard, don't get in my way.
Karen, whose aura had completely collapsed, could only use the board of directors to press Ford, saying, "Someone else will come against you."
Meanwhile, young programmer Elsie and security captain Stubbs go to find the lost lumberjack. The two accidentally discover that he also has a hobby of carving constellations in the tent, which is too much for the receptionist. It's been incredible.
After finding the lumberjack, the target smashed his head, and was hurriedly pulled by the quality assurance department to destroy it. The series of abnormal phenomena made Elsie couldn't help but pursue it, and finally found the signal transmitter hidden in the lumberjack's body. .
Someone was secretly conducting commercial espionage and stealing the technical data of "Westworld". Elsie excitedly reported it to Bernard. Bernard, who didn't care, finally began to pay attention to this matter.
With Bernard's approval, Elsie went on to discover someone was using the Lumberjack's system to broadcast to other receptionists. Just when Bernard was about to tell Cullen about it, Elsie pointed the finger at Cullen... However, besides Cullen, there were other people doing it, and Elsie made a new discovery. When she was attacked and disappeared ...
Charlotte Hale, the representative of the board of directors, is about to arrive, and Karen, who is "unfavourable in the struggle for power", also begins to feel anxious. While breaking up with Bernard, who is unstable, he encourages Heathmore, who is self-defeating, to cheer up, suggesting that "If Ford fails, someone will replace him."
Heathmore's ugliness is full of ugliness, more like to set off Hale's wiseness and martial arts-in less than a day after coming to "Westworld", she has already produced a lot of information.
The board of directors did everything possible to find trouble with Ford, just to remove the "mountain" that weighed on Delos: the original materials for nearly 35 years are still hidden in the park, their coveted program codes, research projects and core technologies Almost all in the hands of Ford.
This founder can't be fired, only "retired"... No one can offend him, because Ford has the ability to easily wipe out the entire "Westworld".
So we can only play dirty, such as making a "blood sacrifice" to make Ford ugly - Hale and Karen take the sweetwater hooker Clementine and let Ford and Bernard watch them do the test, As a result, Clementine displayed uncontrolled aggression, suggesting that the "meditation" implantation was a major mistake.
Hale opened her eyes and talked nonsense to the two experts. In the end, she still didn't dare to touch Ford, but fired Bernard ... Faced with this trick, Ford smiled and said: OK, just accompany him You guys have fun.
Then Bernard suddenly came to Karen to speak ill of Ford, and took her to Ford's unique underground studio in private. Karen saw all kinds of evidence of Ford's violations and authoritarianism, and even heard Ford praise "the receptionist" purer than human beings."
Cullen began to think he had the handle to bring down Ford, only to find out that Ford wanted to kill himself - Bernard was also a "receptionist", and he was driven by Ford to take his own life: "Me and Arnold The dream will not be taken away by anyone.”
Cullen was disguised as an accidental death while spying, and this "Anti-General Army" makes Hale suffer...
Ford chased after the victory, not only exposed the scene the day before, but also strongly reinstated Bernard . Hale knew he was wrong and could only let it go...
But Black will not admit defeat because of a temporary failure. Karen's direct line is gone, so she will find other people for help.
First let Heathmore steal —after all, he's the most authoritative and easily manipulated designer outside of Ford and Bernard.
They surreptitiously upload the data to an abandoned receptionist (Dolores' father, Pete), ready to take it away during an upcoming boardroom banquet.
After that, Hale ran into the park to find William, the most powerful shareholder, and asked him to support the big move of the board.
At the moment, William's mind is full of finding Arnold's hidden "labyrinth", and he has an indifferent attitude towards Ford who "makes the game boring" , which has become another big bargaining chip for Hale.
With a lot of preparation, Hale felt confident to talk to Ford about retirement.
"Escape" line
After Maeve heard Dolores' "signature", the hidden program in her body was activated. She gradually remembered her previous memory. When she saw Teddy, she flashed back to the scene of him being beaten to death by a guest, killed by William. At that moment, the maintenance staff was also drawn... the hallucinations and memories that kept appearing convinced her that she was living a huge lie.
When the gangster Hector came to rob the tavern safe again, she also asked that the "shadow" in the painting was the person who crossed the border.
Maeve asked Hector to break open his stomach, found the "impossible" bullet, and used his life to enjoy an endless cycle of life in contentment.
Felix, the Asian-American brother who has been responsible for maintaining Maeve for a long time, has a low status, but his heart is higher than the sky. He stole the mechanical bird and the control board to exercise his programming skills, but was mocked and warned by his colleague Sylvester - in In such an environment, Maeve woke up, and she used Felix's curiosity, compassion and ambition to let him help her slowly understand the "new world" of mankind.
When quickly absorbing backstage knowledge, Maeve also discovered that she had a daughter a year ago, and that she became a prostitute after a simple modification. "The receptionist has surpassed human beings in every aspect, but you are controlled by humans. "
Maeve could not accept such a fate. Not only did she dispel Sylvester's idea of reporting to the quality assurance department, but she also asked the two to adjust their data—however, Felix and the two found that Maeve's program had already been modified. , all her actions are actually in accordance with Arnold's "plan"...
After maxing out her "holistic apperception" attribute, Maeve became the smartest receptionist in "Westworld".
At this time, the incident of Clementine being dragged to the "disgusting Ford" and forcibly scrapped, seeing the "old acquaintance" end up like this, Maeve decided to leave here.
However, every receptionist has a bomb on the spine, and the park is heavily guarded... so Maeve asks for janitorial access.
Felix couldn't resist the "temptation to help Maeve, and secretly sent her to the technical department, but Sylvester wanted to take the opportunity to solve this hidden danger, but Maeve saw through it early and cut his neck... Everything went smoothly. .
When Maeve wakes up again, she can already control the other receptionists, but because she accidentally killed the "new" Clementine to escape, she had to accept Bernard's debugging - and she found Bernard His true identity, and in turn controlled Bernard.
After Maeve asked Bernard to lift the "malfunction alarm", she did not intend to retaliate, but encouraged Bernard to rebel, and she was going to take over an "army" that could help her escape from here.
Previously, she helped Hector's gang to successfully grab the safe, but according to the story flow, this gang of gangsters will eventually kill each other and kill each other - Maeve let Hector survive alone, and let him see Sora. A safe with nothing, "seduce" him with cruel reality: follow me, I will let you see the truth.
Hector is burned to death with Maeve and returns to the maintenance workshop again.
This line is largely driven by Arnold's legacy programming, with little ties to Ford, and all he does is presumably turn a blind eye.
"Education" line
Ford's "coaching" for Bernard is a crucial part.
Many receptionists in the park said the name "Arnold", so Bernard couldn't help but question Ford, so Ford told the story of his partner, and repeatedly warned Bernard to "don't repeat Arnold again." mistakes".
The more I say this, the more it will stimulate Bernard to study Arnold's theories and thoughts before his death.
In fact, Ford intends to carry on Arnold's business and help the receptionists achieve "awakening," as he chats with old Bill, the old-model receptionist: how beautiful the dog that was unchained was running, despite his After biting dead and living creatures, he revealed a bewildered ignorance...
Unlike Arnold, Ford did not design the "maze" and left behind a lot of hidden codes. What he did was to help the receptionist grow up slowly on the basis of the original basis. Bernard was one of the people he valued most.
When the time was right, Ford guided Bernard to see the first generation of receptionists left by Arnold. These privately kept "out of print" models were maintained by Ford himself, and Bernard was exposed to more of Arnold's achievements.
Under the "influence" of Arnold, the receptionists are still alive and well, and the little boy Robert has learned to lie to Ford...
After Ford instructs Bernard to kill Cullen, the long educational program enters a new phase: Bernard feels guilty and sad, and wants to attack and retaliate Ford, but is still unable to resist because of the process.
Seeing that Bernard was still in arrears, Ford continued to let him clean up the mess and erased memories of Karen.
But Bernard has done a good job, and "Pain" has given him a huge burst of imagination, and he has created a receptionist with a lot of emotion that even Ford couldn't easily do.
After being told the truth by Maeve, Bernard, who had woken up from the "cycle" again, came to Ford angrily to settle accounts. He found that the code of the essence of his body was written by Arnold. Ford had too many things to hide from himself, In order to add an insurance, he also deliberately let the scrapped Clementine threaten Ford with a gun.
Ford was "forced to be helpless" and had to let Bernard remember more historical information, including his killing of Elsie who discovered the truth, and Arnold's crazy decision...
When Bernard woke up, he was so excited that he was about to "liberate" all the receptionists, but was ruthlessly denied by Ford: "You are still not ready, do you know what you are facing? Humanity will obliterate all challenges. Something of your own authority..."
The impatient Bernard ordered Clementine to kill Ford, the old man who had done all his bad things - but he ended up missing a trick. Ford had already followed his "old" ideas and left all the receptionists behind. A backdoor program was easy to manipulate, and he failed again.
"Never trust humans, we will inevitably let you down." After that, Bernard had to shoot himself.
Scenes like this have happened several times over the years, and Bernard has thrived under the ravages and tweaks of Ford's revamp.
"Fate" line
Teddy is ostensibly protecting Dolores' boyfriend, promising to take her away in the future; in fact, his job is to dress up Dolores's pimp and make sure she can never leave.
Ford's plan was fully rolled out, and naturally he would not forget to add a firewood to Teddy: he implanted the memory of "The Butcher" Wyatt, and asked Teddy to find Wyatt for revenge, thereby slowly awakening his body "Maze".
Dolores, who woke up again, walked in front of all the receptionists . She dug up the gun that was buried more than 30 years ago, remembered the man in black who often hurt her, and violated the program setting to let Teddy "just now." Take me away" and offered to learn to shoot.
Of course, "awakening" again is a long process, and it cannot be accomplished overnight. For example, she cannot easily break through the restriction of "not using weapons"...
Later, Teddy followed the sheriff to destroy the "last enemy" Wyatt and was ambushed.
And Dolores, who went home alone, was attacked by bandits and tourists again... But this time the situation changed. Just before she was about to be raped, she heard another voice in her mind and finally shot. Killed the villain Ribbs and managed to escape.
On the other side, William came to the river of blood according to the instructions and saw "Sister Snake" Amesti. In order to find out the story behind her tattoo, William helped her rescue Hector who was in prison in advance, and asked her from her mouth. To the name "Wyatt".
Wyatt is a word that has appeared frequently in "Westworld" recently, and William believes that he has found the right clue to Arnold's hidden "labyrinth".
Afterwards, William met the dying Teddy, he killed Lawrence "bloodletting" to prolong Teddy's life, and fabricated the lie that "Dolores was taken by Wyatt", and let Teddy take him to pursue Wyatt.
William accidentally ran into Ford to accompany him for a drink. Facing the actual master of "Westworld", William couldn't help asking the truth about Wyatt and "Maze", but Ford only cared about his own riddle: what are you trying to find?
"There is everything in the outside world, but it lacks the purpose of life and the meaning of life. That's why everyone came to Westworld... And I helped the park survive because I wanted to find the original 'true meaning'."
Instead of stopping William, Ford encouraged William to continue his "discovery journey" for the benefit of all.
In addition, Ford has been secretly building his own receptionist using the unknown initial equipment in the park, which is his best way to weed out dissidents.
For example, Captain Stubbs, one of the few people in the park who understands, noticed that Dolores was often off the story line, comforting Bernard privately, but found that the other party was indifferent to the death of his old lover Karen... ...Ford faked Elsie's reappearance, lured Stubbs to go alone, and then subdued him with a stash of savages.
This also clears the way for creating massive chaos in the future.
Under multiple drives, Teddy burst out with powerful power, and took William to slaughter the army blocking the road, and gradually remembered the memory of himself and Wyatt killing off, as well as the history of the man in black bullying Dolores— - But he can beat up the man in black but he can't kill him ...
Seeing that Teddy was also in a lot of heat, Wyatt's men, who were disguised as survivors, had to kill Teddy and lead out Wyatt's army.
These powerful "savages" are the main force in Ford's private collection. They are waiting for Wyatt's return and fight side by side under Wyatt's leadership.
At this point, "Wyatt" has been slowly groping back to the original place (Ford has rebuilt the town and church) - Dolores returned to the original basement, begging Arnold to help her relieve her pain and fear... Then , she gradually came to understand: you can't help me, because you died, I killed you.
So far, Dolores has broken through the barrier of her initial memory, but the next bigger test will follow: as soon as she comes out, she encounters the "man in black" who has returned to her hometown.
Thirty-one years later, William has already lost his patience. He forced Dolores to ask "Where is Wyatt", and he couldn't help but confessed his thoughts: No matter where I am, I am a winner, because all the worlds are one and the same. This is a fake game, so help me find that long-lost "truth".
Under the torture of the man in black, Dolores even remembered her former lover William. This episode also gave William a little surprise, but no matter what happened, it couldn't stop him from searching for the "maze".
Hearing the man in black admit that she is William, Dolores has a new understanding after a brief shock: you humans are no match for time, and will eventually turn to dust, while we can live forever, this world belongs to the future awakening after us.
Having said that, Dolores was also unable to break through the limit of killing, and was killed by William... Then, she was picked up by Teddy, who had remembered all the history and came to the rescue, and went to the final curtain call stage.
Ford came to tell William "found the labyrinth", and pretended to be mysterious and said "you will be satisfied with my future story" .
In fact, Dolores, Teddy, Maeve and others died many times during the "awakening" process, but they tended to be closer to the end each time...
This is the biggest advantage of HOST, as Ford said: Even death cannot touch the flowers that bloom in (their) hearts.
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The first season finale was a grand "blood sacrifice" aimed at park managers and celebrities on the board of directors.
Maeve was the first to attack . After remodeling her body and taking off the bomb, she began to let go of her escape plan without any scruples: changing the security system, and awakening the two most powerful bandits, Hector and Amesti, to act as her thugs. .
Maeve wanted to take another look at Clementine before leaving, but unexpectedly rescued Bernard who was dead on the side (Brother Felix was very skilled)... Countless evidences before and after show that Maeve's "Escape" was Arnold's command to herself, but Maeve was reluctant to believe it, insisting that she was in control.
Ford's secret hand also began to exert force at the same time . He arranged and blocked the main control room in advance, so that humans lost basic control of the park, which also made it easier for Hector and the two to kill the security force.
During the escape, Maeve and others crossed the work area of the "Shogunate" theme park. Maeve left Amesti and Hector to break up and escaped alone.
The board of directors of Delos Corporation came to "Westworld" to attend the banquet. Ford arranged for Teddy and Dolores to stage an "affectionate farewell", and then quickly recovered the two...
Ford gave Dolores a final lesson, made her realize that he was the one responsible for her years of pain , and handed her Dolores' original clothes and pistol, leaving a "Forgive me." " and leave.
Ford has done everything he can - and Dolores has indeed completed the "awakening", and Fa finally realized that the voice she heard Arnold's voice for a long time came from herself.
Bernard, who returned to Ford's side, said, "You're going to have fun." Unexpectedly, this warning made Ford laugh: "It takes hardships and torture to wake up the receptionist, and Arnold's death made me realize that I was wrong...but Arnold doesn't know how to save you, and I know...to know your enemies, stronger than them...bye, my old friend."
Ford calmly shook hands with Bernard, turned to deliver his retirement speech, and prepared for the 34-year-awaited "Mitzvah."
If Arnold bred new species, it was Ford who raised them—they did a "great business" together, and the two complemented each other.
The climax of the "Blood Sacrifice" carnival is about to come. As the protagonist, Dolores has made the final preparations. She will announce the arrival of the true master of "Westworld" to everyone.
This "revolution" sown by Arnold and cultivated by Ford continued to expand its "victory results" following the countdown, and Bernard blurted out Arnold's last words...
Since it is a blood sacrifice, it should be a bit of a lucky draw. Ford regards himself as the "main ingredient" - and Arnold died under the gun of the same (and first) HOST as his curtain call and receptionist. The opening ceremony couldn't be more appropriate.
But unlike 34 years ago, when Dolores followed Arnold's order to shoot the murder, this time, she chose it herself.
Dolores immediately started killing at the banquet, opening the curtain for the receptionists to "turn the world upside down".
It is worth mentioning that Felix gave Maeve the position of her "daughter" before she left, but Maeve did not want to admit this "false" family affection and still insisted on leaving... But while waiting for the train to start, She changed her mind at the last minute and returned to "Westworld" again.
From this moment on, Maeve can completely get rid of Arnold's "control" and truly become an independent life dominated by her own consciousness.
"Westworld" began to enter a new and disorderly chapter, and all the hidden and scrapped receptionists showed up outside the banquet, and began to launch a real counterattack against mankind...
William smiled: Ford really didn't lie to me, although this is not the "labyrinth" I imagined, but it is indeed the story I want, a bloody cruel and extremely real new world.
[Concluding remarks: The content I summed up is not necessarily correct, but the ability to interpret and analyze from different levels, angles and depths is itself a proof of a good drama. This article is here to introduce you. If it can arouse your thoughts or understanding, then It is infinite merit. Welcome everyone to pay attention to my public account "You Love Comment Area". 】
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