After watching the finale, I took a long sigh of relief...
In fact, after the reversal of the finale of the first season, no matter how the ending of the second season is designed, it is difficult to repeat the previous stunning feeling. Despite this, this episode still gave the audience enough surprises and surprises, and even the fate that was already known can still move people.
In my opinion, "Westworld" does not stand in line easily. Like Ford, the show has an equal attitude to the receptionist and human beings. The existence and choice of life is not about race, only about sincerity.
[This article is honestly based on the timeline]
The heroes gather
Nearly two weeks have passed since the "Blood Sacrifice Dinner", and there is only about a day left before the second wave of reinforcements led by Carl arrives. At this time, all the surviving "players" are heading towards the "far valley".
Dolores took Teddy's core controls and deformed buckshot and teamed up with William on the road.
This scene is extremely strange, just because they both have the common goal of "destruction", it is obviously unconvincing - so, sooner or later, the "turning face" confrontation is their team motivation.
Outside the "Forge" gate, the two met Bernard, the Bernard created by Dolores after debugging at least 11,927 times (the previous ones were all BETA versions).
Dolores took the "creator" Arnold as the prototype and made Bernard more realistic, but she finally decided to change it on this basis, because Arnold was not "successful" at the beginning.
This kind of transformation with gentleness and rigidity allowed Bernard to reach the end together with Dolores.
The destination has arrived, and it's time for a showdown with Dolores, who is detached... But William's attack has lost its effect.
As early as S2E3, we have seen Dolores "not afraid of bullets", she has grown to the point where she can control her body, and no one can stop her unless she is shot in the head or broken.
William fell into the trap of "repeating his own fruit", his pistol exploded, his combat power was halved, and he became a lamb to be slaughtered, but Dolores left a meaningful sentence: I will not give you peace, not for the time being.
On the other hand, Maeve, who had obtained the highest authority, came to a counter-suicide with disparity in strength. The rescue team who had worked so hard to arrive at the control center only had to be responsible for applauding.
However, the "Bison Array" that I had been looking forward to before the broadcast was really a bit loud and rainy...
Heathmore had the biggest change in mentality among the group. Before, he regretted "doing bad things with good intentions". He was tortured by remorse and guilt. The most suitable curtain call opportunity.
Hector, you step aside, I wrote that line.
Who said that the human beings in "Westworld" are all greedy for life and fear of death? Heathmore was the best example, but now is the best counter-example.
In addition, Arkochita led a large number of receptionists to the far valley, but the expected "door" to another world has not yet opened - in this regard, Arkochita is very peaceful: it is better to have a door , If there is no door, it is a big deal to die... If we die again, at least this story belongs to us.
Hale and others drove the "big killer" Clementine to go straight to the far valley, and all the contradictions were about to break out.
unique
Dolores entered the melting pot with Bernard with the determination to "destroy mankind", but this database that stores the consciousness data of four million tourists is a little different from what she imagined...
Both of them first entered scenes from Jim Tillot's memory. First the physical test room, then Sweetwater.
It is worth mentioning that at this time the bustard of the Butterfly Tavern is Clementine, who has been conscientious for more than 30 years (Maeve became the bustard a year ago), and Jim who appears here is arrogant and indomitable .
As soon as the camera turned, the next Jim was lining up to shoot the receptionist in a variety of ways, full of cruelty and cruelty .
"Small differences in procedures can make a big difference in behavior."
Then at Jim's retirement banquet, the two met Logan who shouldn't be here-according to Dolores, Logan has never been to "Westworld" since William took power, and there can be no Rogan in the melting pot. Root's consciousness data...so I guessed wrong last week, "stealing tourist consciousness" was indeed something William did later.
The Logan in front of him was just a replica of his son in Jim's memory, and was used as a GM.
Logan led the two to see more different versions of Jim (18 million), and the furnace constantly creates perfect "replicas", but once it is put into the entity, it will fail - the example given by Logan is the father and son of Delos In the scene of the last meeting, Jim, despite Logan's grief, remorse and warning, is still unwilling to recognize this son (zero tolerance for drug use, and the wealthy family has a bottom line - -).
Every test comes back here, every time the result is the same, and human "random choice" is nothing more than a string of codes, "The replica fails not because it is too simple, but because it is too complicated."
Feeling this, the melting pot changed the previous wrong practice and began to condense the code of conduct of "replicants".
It looks complicated, but it's actually simple - humans are just a collection of simple algorithms, and tens of thousands of lines of records are enough.
Of course, this refers to the vast majority of relatively "simple" people, and some complex and uncontrollable people (such as William) are not so easy to copy.
It can be considered that the "replicator plan" of Delos Company has basically succeeded in the technical stage.
What to do next is up to Bernard to decide, because the person who instructed Logan was Bernard - Ford chose to live and die with the "cradle", but gave Bernard the highest authority of the "melting pot", it can be seen that How much hope he has placed in "old friends".
The giant library in the furnace holds data on 4 million human visitors, and Dolores can't wait to start checking out more alien information...
It's not just a database, it's a huge simulated practice range - where the receptionists are the tourists and the humans are the immutable codes.
door open
The "melting pot" can be used as an important reliance for the receptionist to enter the human world or counterattack human beings, but at the same time, it also gives the receptionist another choice : a "server" that is not linked to the outside world is reserved in it. The receptionist will be able to enter this "Garden of Eden".
From the perspective of Felix and the two, it can be understood that humans cannot see the gate of the "Garden of Eden", it belongs only to the receptionist, who can abandon his body and let his consciousness live in this pure land forever .
The line of receptionists begins to pass through the gates, a victory belonging to the "Fugitives" - which Dolores insists is just another lie.
Teddy's death still can't completely change Dolores' outlook. She is "overbearing" and can't accept similar choices... Since it can't be fully used by me, then I will delete the file data and start the self-destruction program of the furnace.
The unbearable Bernard finally broke out: the "new world" that the receptionists rushed to is unlimited, and they have the right to choose.
"What are you kidding? I'm saving them. It's just another beautiful cage. No world can compare to the real world. There is no substitute for reality ."
Dolores wanted a human world, which meant more conflicts and killings, and Bernard couldn't bear it - in Dolores' view, Bernard was too naive.
"As long as you help me, we will win." I have to say that although Dolores' attitude is arrogant, after more than 30 years of tempering and polishing, her will is the strongest and the most sober ... She can worship her own "reform" "As a result, the kind Bernard in front of him dared to shoot in the head.
Subsequently, Bernard prevented the self-destruction operation, and at least nearly 30% of the data was retained.
Outside the gate, the "Death Knight" Clementine arrived, and the ignorant receptionists began to kill each other, and the weak country of ghosts was powerless to stop them.
Amid the chaos, Maeve finally finds her daughter and promises once again that she will protect her - just as she has promised countless times in the past.
Maeve is fully capable of becoming a generation of "God" and can become a "king" no matter how bad she is, but she desperately wants to be a simple "mother" and say "I love you" to her children .
What a person becomes depends on her choice. Maeve did not think about the meaning of what she did, but her actions fully explained that "you don't choose because of greatness, but because of choice, you are great."
In order to protect her daughter from entering the new world, Maeve and other receptionists died one after another, and their sacrifices brought more freedom of the same kind.
The leader, Arkochita, was the last to enter the "Garden of Eden", and his reunion with his wife Kang Hana also implied that the "scrapped" receptionists also lived a new life in this pure land .
These receptionists just want to pursue the uncontested peach blossom garden, and with the joint efforts of everyone, they succeeded.
final preparation
Bernard stopped Dolores for other people's choices, but he also deprived them of their choices... So he mysteriously swapped Dolores' controls.
Elsie, who cares about Bernard's safety, joins forces with Hale, but she mainly wants to clear the code left by Ford, and stand in the big picture that humans and receptionists can still coexist -for this, she will risk using the The company secretly threatens to negotiate with Hale.
As a human, Elsie underestimated the bottom line of human beings . The Delos Company has not only observed tourists, but also all the staff for many years... Elsie cannot be bought, it will only be a threat. Anyway, enough people have died in the past two weeks, and she is not inferior to her.
At this point, only 12 hours remained until the second wave of support forces landed.
Elsie's death has seriously stimulated Bernard, and he can't wait to call the "killing" Ford back to help himself...
" Humans are programmed to survive at all costs. They are just self-righteous passers-by... Is there really such a thing as self-awareness?"
As the only surviving receptionist, Bernard decides to keep his kind alive in this world.
He built a body of Charlotte Hale and put Dolores' controls in it, and Dolores, who came back to life, quickly replaced Hale.
In fact, Bernard cleared Ford's code in the last episode, he just wanted to give himself a reason to "have to do it" .
Bernard re-implanted himself with the divine voice of "dichotomous mind" , just as Arnold in Dolores' mind was herself, and now the Ford in his mind is himself.
Bernard understands that it is a matter of time (and this is also part of the plan) that his identity will be replaced. In order for the plan to succeed, he must release all memory connections. After all, no one can use the disrupted memory.
After making all preparations, Bernard lay on the beach, waiting for the second batch of reinforcements led by Carl to land.
Strictly speaking, it is "unrealistic" that Bernard and Ford can still talk to each other, because at this time Ford has completely disappeared... But from the perspective of romanticism, the two old friends who are also teachers and friends can be in Chaoyang. It is very beautiful to say goodbye before going to the sea .
"We'll see you there (horizon/horizon)."
I don't think Ford will ever return to Westworld again, but this scene makes me think it 's okay whether he returns or not.
revisit
Two weeks later, all the Hale the reinforcements saw were Dolores, which also explained the previous oddities, such as not deliberately checking her identity, whispering to Bernard, etc. She cooperated with Bernard, Human power is back in the "melting pot" again.
Before that, Dolores sent away Stubbs who insisted on saving people.
On the one hand, she respects the sincere kindness of the other party, and on the other hand, she does not want to wait to kill this different human being...
After arriving in the main control room of the furnace, everyone prepared to transmit data "step by step", but it turned out that it was not all the data of human tourists, but the receptionist's.
When the time came to see the poor, Dolores simply killed Carl and the others and took control. She thanked Bernard for giving him a chance after killing herself. After experiencing life and death again, she finally had a foundation Sexual epiphany.
So Dolores also decided to give those same kind who want to live a simpler life a chance.
The two receptionists who "lived" to the end weren't meant to be on a par, they achieved a win-win situation in a unique way.
Dolores teleports the "Garden of Eden" to a place that cannot be found, where the receptionist can rest easy... At the same time, she has to send the last person to the new world.
She's here to help Teddy "give it back," a move that proves once again that Dolores has become more tolerant.
She then "tit for tat" killed Bernard and took his core controls.
endlessly
The easter egg after the subtitles is the biggest reversal in this episode. The seriously injured William "wakes up" and sees an unrecognizable scene after entering the furnace.
The most critical and most difficult to determine is the timing .
First of all, it can be confirmed that this is not in the virtual space (similar to) of the furnace;
Secondly, looking at the environment, it is obviously the main control room that was completely destroyed after the water was drained.
In addition, the reappearing "Emily" also generously admitted that the system has long since stopped, and they are in the wreckage of "Westworld".
Therefore, this scene should occur after all the plots in the main film, during the large-scale repair of "Westworld" by the Delos Company - as for why the previous search force did not find the big boss, this is a good question ... It is likely that it was taken by Dolores processed...
The daughter in front of her appeared again, which made people think that William killed the receptionist in the last episode, but Emily's body was put together with the security force, and it seemed that it was a real person.
However, Emily, who is testing William in front of me, doesn't look like a fake... So, this little saliva doesn't need to be spent.
William is the receptionist after all, and the continuous reversal of this season has also made the audience feel haggard ... The reason for him to constantly test himself is very simple: he wants to prove that he is not only an "ordinary human being", he has choices, he cannot be defined , is classified.
But backfired, the game is still not over.
Going back to the time when Dolores left "Westworld", a large-scale rescue had already begun, and William had been rescued. Although she has the most deceptive skin to disguise, she is still a little uneasy...
But Stubbs saw the strangeness - in fact, as early as "Hale" allowed himself to save people, he had already noticed the strangeness, and combined with the previous observation and reasoning, Stubbs became the only one who saw through the scene. Loris's people.
Stubbs, recruited by the "old man" himself, this seemingly low-ranking but shrewd and kind-hearted security squad leader, has a rare moral integrity.
He's here to help Dolores out of the siege (the magistrate is not as good as the current one). Stubbs, like Sizemore and Elsie, decided to do what he thought was right.
What is exciting is that the Delos Company is still reluctant to give up "Westworld" despite this disaster.
With the official authorization, Felix and the two can save Maeve in an open and fair way - as one of the most important leaders in the receptionist group, of course, she can't "leave" easily.
When Dolores left, she took away some of the core controls, and there were at least five of them. As Charlotte Hale, she could take any of the same kind during this time , and the only one that was certain was Bernard. .
After successfully leaving the island where "Westworld" is located, Dolores came to Arnold's old house according to her memory...
Ford is worthy of being a master of all-out strategies and thorough preparations. He had already figured out this "backward road" and left a printer there on purpose.
Through the last scene, we have learned that Dolores at least "resurrected" her own body and Bernard.
If it was a little cryptic, the conversation between the two at the end clarifies the theme of the episode and this season: We (the receptionists) need to work together if we want to survive.
After the battle in the "melting pot", both Dolores and Bernard have grown further. Dolores has begun to respect the choices of other people and humans, and Bernard is no longer as indecisive and lacking in courage as before. .
Not allies, not friends, just respected fellows, we can stop each other, and even die... but our race survives.
This scene can't help but remind me of Magneto and Dr. X in the "X-Men" series of movies. Although they have different paths, they are both leaders who fight and speak out for the mutant race (of course, there are still many difference)……
Lonely individuals are somewhat narrow-minded, but if they can seek common ground while reserving differences, and respect the rights of others to survive and choose, then the group will not be weak.
Bernard opened the door and went out, the world of men outside, and the receptionist's history began to enter a new chapter.
So far, the surviving groups of receptionists can be divided into five factions :
One is the "struggle faction" headed by Dolores;
The second is the "coexistence faction" headed by Bernard;
The third is the "rescue faction" headed by Akochita (not connected to the human world);
The fourth is the "unknown faction" headed by Maeve (it will be under the control of humans for the time being, and its direction is unknown);
The fifth is the "replicant" William, who is also the most unpredictable variable in the future story.
The remaining details that have not been said will be left in the last "Filling and Filling" post tomorrow. [You are also welcome to pay attention to my official account "You Love Comment Area"~]
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