The film titled "Winterline" in the second episode of the third season of "Westworld" originally referred to a series of fortifications built by the German Nazis in Italy during World War II. "War Zone".
There are two main story lines in this episode: Maeve's resistance in the "War Park" occupies the main part, and with Bernard's return to the West Park, the audience has guessed for a long time and finally has the exact answer... ...
The linkage between this episode of "Westworld" and "Game of Thrones" has brought unexpected surprises to audiences (or maybe frightened them), and may also improve the sluggish ratings of the first episode.
I think the biggest winner of this episode is not only HBO but also the three writers on the show (2DB and Lee Heathmore)...
[Warm reminder: The following contains spoilers]
Bernard returning to the park
After Bernard returned to the western campus, he accidentally found the security brother Stubbs, and thus discovered his identity as a receptionist.
After completing the mission, Stubbs originally planned to commit suicide, but finally survived because he missed the bomb on the cervical spine.
Many viewers had already speculated that he was the receptionist in the second season, especially when the German sister fled the park in Charlotte's face at the end of last season, what Stubbs said seemed to reveal his status as the receptionist.
As Bernard thinks, the reason why Demei resurrected him was for the longer term. Her goal is not just to conquer the human race, but to try to make the receptionist a new species.
At the same time, she also needs to be able to check and balance her own power, so as to avoid falling into an extremely out of control state, and to find another possibility for the receptionist group to develop.
Bernard alone can't stop Desiree, so he and Stubbs go to find Maeve's whereabouts.
However, they were still late, and Maeve's consciousness ball had already been taken away.
Then in the control center of the fourth park, the familiar 2DB [the two main creators of "Game of Thrones", David Benioff and DB Weiss] appeared.
They made cameo appearances as technicians in the park, and discussed selling the dragon to a startup company in Costa Rica. What's more cruel is that they also planned to disassemble the dragon and bring it there...
I once linked "Westworld" and "Game of Thrones" in the article in the third episode of the second season, but I didn't expect to see the linkage between the two in this episode.
It turns out that the dragon Drogon came to Westworld after burning the Iron Throne. "Game of Thrones" may be just a theme park in "Westworld" after a long time?
So, are you willing to accept this open-minded setting? You must know that the unfinished end of the eighth season of "Game of Thrones" has still left many viewers uneasy.
The fourth area seems to be themed around the Middle Ages. The bard sings the theme song of "Westworld". The aristocratic receptionist sitting in front of him looks quite like an old rose in High Court from the side.
During Bernard's self-examination with the campus equipment, he discovered that Demei was intentionally hiding part of his memory.
He remembered that Demei looked through the information of a visitor in the park in the melting pot. This tourist was the target of Demei's intention to approach in the last episode - Leah, the son of the founder of the "Incite" technology company um.
Bernard gave the security brother an order, and Stubbs would continue to act as the protector. They are going to leave the park together and go to the human world where Demei lives.
Maeve and her men
Maeve, who wakes up in the "war zone", meets her old lover, Hector.
However, it didn't take long for Maeve to discover that Hector hadn't realized his self-awakening, and he had forgotten the previous experience of sharing adversity.
Hector is the partisan Ettore at this time, and he regards Maeve as his lover Isabella.
The name Isabella appeared in the third episode of the second season, when Hector and Maeve were constantly throwing dog food. Here, Hector Ming Caritas is Isabella.
Hector decisively expressed his dissatisfaction with this form of arrangement. He believed that Lee Heathmore knew nothing about himself and was not qualified to make decisions for him.
But Hector was slapped in the face in the next second. Lee Heathmore obviously knew the character very well, and even the lines Hector wanted to say were very clear...
In addition to Hector's changes, Maeve also found other anomalous things in the "war zone", such as where she had lost control of the receptionist and couldn't make things go the way she expected .
Maeve, who returned to the control center, also found that the two technicians who helped her at the time did not know her anymore.
After Sylvester saw Maeve, he even called for the security personnel.
What happened next took Maeve by surprise, not expecting that Lee Heathmore would appear in time to defuse the crisis for her.
You must know that Lee Heathmore tried to cover Maeve and his party last season, but there was almost no chance of surviving after being shot several times.
Maeve soon discovered that the one in front of her was not the real Lee Heather, and that the "war zone" she was in was actually a simulated world. Therefore, the "War Park" may just be a fictional existence, and it is not certain that it is the theme park owned by the Delos Company.
It was Lee Heathmore's inner drive that drove Maeve to discover the truth.
The reason why he chose to come forward was because of the residual sense of justice in his heart, and he thought he was doing the right thing. Everything he did was not out of his own personal feelings.
However, the fake Lee Heathmore in front of him did not hide his love for Maeve at all.
With the unveiling of the simulated world, the footage has also undergone subtle changes. This way of widening the frame and adding black frames up and down also appeared in the last season when Demei tested Bernard.
Let Maeve come to the simulation world not only to test her ability, but also to get the coordinates of the virtual new world from Maeve.
They didn't know it was Demei who uploaded some of the receptionists there, and thought it was Maeve who did it.
Although Lee Heathmore is no longer the man he used to be, he still retains his character, which contributes to a lot of laughs in this episode.
The wretched and cute screenwriter is back, not only was he slapped because of his big mouth, but also the appearance of being greedy for life and fear of death in the face of bullets is not too real...
Maeve, who has an insight into human nature, used the loopholes in the simulated world to cause the receptionist's card machine and cause the system to completely collapse.
Then she controlled the robot in the real world and successfully got her own consciousness ball.
However, her arms were still unable to twist her thighs, and she was finally surrounded by guards and fell under gunfire. This scene was quite tragic.
Maeve, who woke up from her nightmare again, this time met the behind-the-scenes boss, Ingrad Serak, who was the man who controlled the Rehoboan system that Demei had been looking for in the last episode. Serak wanted to convince Maeve to act as his helper to complete the task of killing Demei.
Maeve tries to resist, only to be controlled by Serak instead. As the king of receptionists, Maeve's performance in the park is amazing enough. However, it is terrifying that no matter how smart the receptionist is, it is still difficult to resist the powerful force. The future of receptionists is unclear.
Serac is indeed a formidable enemy. The bold idea of "creating a simulation in a simulation" that the little brother in the last episode said was actually realized by Serac. Maeve's struggle in the simulated world is a typical case.
The guy at the party is probably the most sober person, he thinks that everything is not real and everyone lives in a simulation.
Perhaps the humans in the play, like the receptionists, live in a huge virtual world constructed by an AI system, and what they see may not necessarily be the real world.
Analysis of the finale of the second season of "Westworld", let's sort out the timeline of the two seasons
"Westworld" S01E01: A world kidnapped by artificial intelligence (with a summary of the first two seasons)
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