At the end of the fourth episode, the conversation between William and the German girl in the blue dress, I thought about it for a long time, I found out the clips about William in the first and second seasons, and found a surprise thread, or I have There is such a hunch: William's self-awakening process is not completed, his story is not over, he may become Demei's ally in the human world in the future, and may even be the first human to become a host by himself (because Arnold is not voluntarily become a host).
William's love for the German girl back then was real, and it showed in both the first and second seasons. Demei had already awakened back then. She happened to meet William and Logan in that loop and during the awakening process. William felt that Demei was a "person" with a real sense of life, and the two fell in love. At that time, William wanted to take Demei to escape from the Westworld campus, but Logan brutally cut Demei's abdomen to show William. Demei died after escaping, and this loop ended. After returning to the field and rebuilding, the Ford of that year sealed Demei's awakening program and deleted her memory, so she entered her own loop again. After such a blow, William's worldview and self-concept began to collapse, and his bloodthirsty nature opened.
Regarding William's murderous nature, I think this is not a human individual alienated into a "demon", but a common human nature. Ford said in different clips in the first and second seasons that human beings will basically kill and eat creatures that will not yield to us and cannot be enslaved; A vassal of an adult human, or if you see a human, you need to know to run quickly, there is no middle ground. Our ancestors once ate other human races (I have seen some posts about archaeology on Zhihu, I remember that they are supported by archaeological evidence, so we are the only human beings on the earth). William opened the first level of self-awakening, from the great pain that he fell in love with Demei, but the foundation of this relationship collapsed; this pain collapsed his three views and drove him to the road of bloodthirsty. In the process, he discovered that he had this nature. But he still didn't give up looking. He believed that there was a hidden secret in the Westworld campus. He wanted to understand Arnold's game, and he was obsessed to the point of madness. In the last dialogue between him and his wife, he frankly said that he does not belong to the world of human beings, but to another world.
After William's three views collapsed, it has not been reorganized. In the fourth episode of the third season, Demei in blue appeared and told William that you still haven't found the answer to that question. If you really understand yourself, how can you Not sure what path the choices you make will lead you down? William asked Demei in blue, Am I me? - Am I me? Demei in blue has disappeared. Here, I think this blue-clothed girl is the voice William imagined that will lead him to the next level of self-consciousness. Just like Demei heard Arnold's voice in seasons 1 and 2, Maeve and Bernard heard Ford's voice in a critical moment, if you go back and look at William's voice at different moments, you will find that he is putting the After his daughter was killed as a host, he heard a woman's voice, this voice seemed to be his wife's voice, and then he saw his daughter; until he learned that Demei had turned into Hale and got him on the Delos board. The right to vote, only began to see the blue-clothed German sister.
The first time I saw the blue-clothed German sister Confront William, I felt very relieved. It is certain that William will go to the Westworld park for vacation every year in the second half of his life (as can be seen from the conversation between him and his wife in the second season), every time Holidays are not without the torture and killing of Demei and her ilk. It wasn't until Demei said that you were imprisoned in Emily's last wish—— I went back and looked at it and realized that this Demei was the illusion in William's heart leading him. Because only William was present when Emily died, Demei was supposed to be fighting with Ted at the time.
William still loves Demei in his heart, but because of the 30 years of grievances and hatred, he can't understand this kind of love himself. William as a human being and William who has sinned deeply towards the host are even less likely to be accepted by Demei at this time. So far, there are three human beings who have thought about giving Demei freedom. One is Arnold, he doesn't want to open the park after discovering that Demei has a consciousness of life; the other is William, who really wanted to take Demei out of the park at that time; The last one is Ford. Among these three people, the first two people think of individuals, and it is the German sister who is alone, while Ford thinks of the German sister's race. Ford's concept is that if the race of Demei wants to be truly free, it must control the entire human world, or in other words, put humans in private plots, and in turn enslave humans, kill those who stand in the way, and create useful ones as hosts. ; Bernard's idea of coexisting peacefully with human beings and making friends with some human beings has proven to be an idea that will be exterminated before the sea rushes out of the park, so at a critical moment Bernard walked away and Ford's spirit pointed to him. Direction, resurrect Demei, and let Demei escape through a bloody path. So there are some comments that Demei has become the kind of murderous "person" she is against, and they are right. The "Revolution" that Demei wants is a violent GM that kills and dies on the premise that the two races cannot coexist peacefully, but she also resurrected Bernard, which shows that Demei knows that there is a way out; the peace talks will not be possible until the end of the war. , then we will use Bernard, a man who has never had human blood on his hands, to talk to humans.
Speaking of William, at the end he didn't look at Demei with killing intent or hatred in his eyes. Instead, he looked like a teenager who was overwhelmed and begging for guidance. William undoubtedly doubted whether his choice was his own Free Will, so he asked Demei also asked himself, am I me?
If we look back at the awakening process of key characters, we will find that they all have a common feature: from feeling that they have Free Will, to doubting/knowing that their Free Will is programmed, to making their own choices and really getting Free Will. For example, Maeve, she began to think that she changed her program and that her thoughts and actions to escape were her own choices. Later, someone told her that someone gave her a new story line, and everything was arranged later. but she saw a pair of human mother and daughter when she got on the train, and she couldn't bear her daughter, so she stayed, this was not Ford's arrangement, it was her own choice; but she also paid the price for this choice, she The kill switch was implanted by Serac to be driven by him; Bernard didn't want to listen to Ford's voice to kill humans, so he deleted his Ford data package, killed all the hosts including Demei, and later he saw Hale kill his friend Elsie Only then did I feel that I was wrong, so I tried to retrieve the data packet but couldn't, but still obeyed the instructions of "Ford", made Hale's body and put Demei's mind in it. As a human, William began to think that killing was his nature, and then sometimes began to suspect that he was a host (he wanted to cut his arm many times), and Ford kept telling him that Maze was not prepared for him, he still had one. A deep obsession - this may be because he has been forbearing his own nature in order to climb up in the human world. Almost every human around him in the play has not forgotten to remind him of his Weihan origin, and Luo Root and his wife still call him Billy - after thirty years of killing, and dying one by one with the people around him, has the hatred and anger he's built up melted away? The German girl he loved back then is really a "human" now, a "human" who has completely woken up, as beautiful as before, and as ruthless as him.
I believe that in the mental hospital, William will finish his Maze. His bloodlust started with anger, and now the people and things that made him angry have vanished. At this time, William let go of the shackles of his past, and there may be a real Free Will. I guess that William will give his all for Demei's road to liberation, he loves Demei. In the end, Demei may resurrect William himself, only the two of them can understand each other.
Ted also made his own choice, he didn't want to slaughter humans with Demei, and he couldn't hurt Demei, so he committed suicide in the second season.
Season 3 theme: Free Will is not Free - For William, he lost everything he had in the human world, he loved his wife, his daughter, and the wealth of his life, he took it all All was lost, and a new beginning was exchanged.
Free will cost you everything. Free will is not something everyone wants.
From this, I thought of the story of the Garden of Eden in the Bible. If the host is not awakened, their life will be like the Garden of Eden, everything is eternal and beautiful. It's beautiful because they don't remember, understand, and think about Free Will. And from this state to having an awakened consciousness of life, there is Free Will, they have experienced hell-like torture, the whole world collapsed, abandoned by their loved ones (Ted abandoned Demei), their loved ones died, and they themselves have to participate come in war.
Because Free Will is not Free.
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