The stars fell from the sky, time no longer existed, the charred ground swayed and sank into the turbulent seabed, and all that could be seen was the monstrous waves, and there was only a dead silence and eternal darkness in the universe. ------"Twilight of the Gods"
The second season of "Westworld" has updated its second episode today, and the most fun this show gives me now is to test my guesses. In the last episode, I speculated that this season will lead two timelines with Bernard as the core, and this episode slapped the face. We see that in this episode, the development of the plot is no longer a parallel development of two timelines, but multiple timelines, and the more timelines, we will find that more and more forces are involved.
Dolores
At the beginning of this episode, we see Dolores far before Westworld opened, sitting across from her loving father Arnold. Through the dialogue, we can know that Arnold at this time has developed very deep feelings for Dolores and projected his feelings for his son onto her.
"Like the stars falling on the earth, have you ever seen such a glorious scene?"
This sentence, Dolores repeated twice in just a few minutes, and what happened after that was just like this sentence. Humans who were once high above the stars were now so fragile that they became the targets of Dolores and others to hunt and play with. The stars have fallen, the world has changed, the former gods are now so fragile that even mortals are inferior, and these mortals who have "divine power" have started a carnival. For the androids, this is undoubtedly their most glorious moment. .
In fact, this line of Dolores is very similar to the meaning of "Exodus" in the biblical story: The Israelites suffered in Egypt, and God sent Moses to ask Pharaoh to allow these Israelites to leave, but Pharaoh refused, so God sent ten plagues to make Pharaoh submit. The disaster at the beginning was relatively light, and Pharaoh did not take it to heart. The successive plagues appeared more serious than the last. Until the last plague, the eldest son of Egypt was struck by God. The eldest sons from Pharaoh and slaves died in one night, and Pharaoh let them go.
Looking at the plot again, the timeline continued from the first season is actually starring in the same story. The artificial people are subjected to various abuses in the paradise and become slaves of human indulgence, and Arnold and Ford are aware of the artificial Man is actually a new species rather than a new toy. They try to make people have a new understanding of artificial man in different ways, but unfortunately, no one pays attention or has the courage to face this problem, "New The unfamiliar light that emerges is as frightening as the darkness." The new light is the artificial man, and the darkness is the dark side of the human heart.
In the Book of Exodus, God sent ten plagues; and in the Western World, there have also been various problems, such as a massacre planned by Arnold, etc., these did not attract many ideas from the outside world; In my opinion, the turmoil is not the last of the ten disasters, because the whole world is still within the scope of the strict blockade by the Delos Company, and it has not caused any results in human society. I believe this "last catastrophe" is unlikely anytime soon, as Dolores is still gathering strength.
Just as Moses parted the Red Sea, Dolores at this time also mastered "divine power", which is the method of awakening the androids. With this technology, Dolores began to conquer the believers and kill the androids. Reviving the androids is efficient, cheap and time-saving, and the speed is even faster than the infection of the cold virus. At present, the Southern Army, which controls the heavy firepower in the western world, has become the main armed force in the hands of Dolores. The scary thing is that this armed force is reusable.
We have already seen that Dolores has mastered the staging point of the Delos recovery troops through the captured security personnel, so the next plot is very likely that Dolores continues to expand her army, using a small number of people To lure the vanguard of the recovery force, and use the main force to attack the recovery force base camp on the beach by surprise. And after removing the threat of recycling troops, Dolores' goal is the "gate of heaven", which is the exit to the real world, because she said: "Can you still bring me back? I want to see it again."
Man in Black (William)
In this episode, several timelines also appeared on William the man in black. After straightening out these clues, I roughly deduced a relatively complete timeline of William becoming the man in black:
1. Argus Planning Company, the predecessor company of Westworld (which masters the technology of artificial humans, it is hard to say what role Ford and Arnold play in this company) approached Rogan and sold him the entire park plan, and Rogan agreed to invest.
2. After the stable operation of Westworld, Logan took his brother-in-law William to play in Westworld. During the game, William developed complex emotions for Dolores, and the dark side of his heart awakened, abolishing his brother-in-law (the first In the middle of the season I thought that William let Logan die in Westworld, but this episode doesn't seem to be the case, William still kept Logan alive).
3. After William took over Logan's job, he urged his father-in-law to buy Westworld, and soon forced his father-in-law to retire by unknown means, and became the head of the Delos Company.
4. During the constant play, William fell into the dark side of human nature, got bored with Dolores and everything in the paradise, and began to search for a more "exciting" self in his heart, and the image of the man in black officially appeared.
5. The android riot begins, and William begins to enter the game flow designed by Ford.
In this fragmented plot, one point is worth studying, that is, what is the business of the Delos Company, which controls Westworld? A conversation between a young William and his husband goes like this : "Half of your marketing budget is figuring out what people want. . nature" . And the old William also said when talking to NPC Lawrence: "They need a place away from God, a place where they can sin in peace, and we monitor them, we list them guilt... The trial is not The point, we have other plans . "
All these, coupled with the huge armed force of the Delos Company, I deduce that the Delos Company was already engaged in some shady business before the acquisition of Westworld. The world has provided them with more convenience, giving them more means to control and blackmail those "important people". The trial is not the point, we have other plans, which fully shows that the purpose of Delos Company's possession of various black materials is not to bring down some people, but to carry out some kind of ulterior secret layout, and what is the purpose of all this after all , we can only wait for the plot to be revealed slowly.
But obviously, from the conversation between old William and Lawrence, it is not difficult to find that William, the man in black at this time, has been excluded from the management of Delos Company. I said in the last episode that there may still be a The clandestine clique who made William lose control of the Delos Company. So thinking about it now, it's very likely that William was exiled to Westworld by "them".
As for the conversation between young William and Dolores, we can actually get a glimpse of how William became the man in black. Because he found that his feelings for Dolores were extremely ridiculous, because the androids were all walking in their own fixed story lines, and William's efforts and forcible changes were useless after all, everything was just the resistance in his own heart Just a wish.
In reality, the Phoenix man William is the angry son-in-law of the wealthy family; in the paradise, William is a silly tourist who cannot get the true love of the android. As a result, the dual stimulation of reality and illusion awakened the anger in William's heart, and made him begin to resist everything around him, but this resistance was out of control again and again, and finally turned William into the devil of the man in black. And he also hid an important weapon in Paradise under the drive of his inner devil, and as for how powerful this weapon is, Dolores still has an impression of it after repeated erasing of memory, we We can only wait for the plot to be revealed.
Regarding the mass suicide that William in black encountered in a small town in Mexico, Ford's intentions are also relatively straightforward. That is, in the previous times, William has always been the existence of God, and the artificial man poses no threat to his life, so he is very dismissive of the artificial man. But after the big riot, those things that couldn't kill him could kill him. God suddenly became a man. William knew that he couldn't be as invincible as before, so he began to look for allies, but unfortunately Ford had already anticipated all of this. This was a game that belonged only to him, and the process could only be completed by himself. Today's William is like a lonely cub walking in the dangerous jungle. What awaits him will be the true judgment from fate.
Finally, let's talk about Maeve. The character's setting is getting better and better. As soon as she appeared, the play immediately turned into a "philosophy class", and Dolores was stunned in three or two sentences. You, Dolores, hold a banner of resistance and shout freedom slogans. Since you advocate freedom, you must respect everyone's freedom. My freedom is to find my daughter, so you can't force me to resist, otherwise you will be against yourself The slogan, Maeve can definitely be called a master of brainwashing in the artificial human world, I wish her all the way to flicker on the way to find her daughter.
"Those idiots are still looking for fun, and the entire human race is about to fall into dire straits. The funniest thing is that they lit the fire themselves." The defunct Rogan said this after taking drugs The words are so profound that I even suspect that he gave himself a "smart shot", which can be said to be the focus of the entire episode. People at this time are immersed in joy, like the gods of Valhalla, they are high, they laugh, but no one will know that one day in the future, they will usher in the twilight of the entire race.
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