As far as the content is concerned, the plot of this episode is easy to understand, but as far as the story line is concerned, there are more holes dug than filled in this episode, but it is more brain-consuming... In yesterday's "Clue Sorting" post, I have reviewed Some characters were introduced and why Teddy was distressed. The relevant content will be abbreviated in this article.
Speaking of which, the thing that impressed me the most in the third episode was that Dolores and Maeve, who were tit-for-tat in the last episode, did their words and deeds to varying degrees in this episode: Dolores cherished and With the "false" affection of her father Peter, Maeve realizes that she is not implementing the true "freedom" concept, and they are both making similar mistakes.
Battle of the fortress
The main body of this episode is the beginning and end of the first large-scale organized armed conflict between the receptionist and human beings , which is referred to here as the "Battle of the Fortress".
Bernard and Hale found the missing Peter and found that he was captured by Ribbs and other villains as a human guest. It can be seen that Hale and Heathmore's original plan was to make Peter pretend to be a human on the eve (or during) of the banquet. Classes take the train out of "Westworld" .
This plan was probably thwarted by the "great turmoil", and Ribbs also planned to sell the captives to the Confederate army - after being ambushed, Bernard adjusted him into a righteous hero with the most noble character and the fastest marksmanship ... …
It's so nasty, it made me laugh half-dead: imagine that old Cui with a bad face, said "I want to taste your half-old milf" just a moment ago, and suddenly a second later. Became a holy knight who opened his mouth to protect the lady...
But it also explains why Ribbs died protecting the lady in the first episode.
After a big chaos, the out-of-control Peter failed to follow the two of them smoothly. Hale escaped, and Peter and Bernard were captured by the Confederate army.
And at the Suicide Squad Fortress, Colonel Brigham of the Confederate Army met Dolores, who claimed to be "Wyatt". The latter used "human troops to attack" to create a warlike mood, and then let the colonel try a new gun to kill the security guard. Captain, and promised that the captured weapons would be given to the Southern Army...
Under the "coercion and inducement" , Dolores realized the cooperation between the two sides.
At this time, there were already many dead bodies of tourists and receptionists in the fortress. Teddy bluntly expressed his disgust and vigilance towards the Confederate Army - beasts? No, they are just ignorant children who need someone to lead them.
Dolores' remarks reflected her different attitudes towards her peers. In her eyes, receptionists were divided into three, six, and nine categories .
The highest class is of course the receptionist who is "awakened" or "ready for awakening" like herself, such as Peter, who has played her father for many years - so when Dolores saw Peter who was captured at the fortress, she immediately called him. The irresistible tone demanded to take over.
Teddy's attitude is worth pondering: Seeing that the little leader of the Confederate army who disobeyed the order was about to be done by Dolores, he took the first step to beat him and saved the opponent's life.
Of course, Dolores was aware of Teddy's "abnormality", and he also forgot who Peter was the "prospective husband", which showed that Teddy was still far from "awakening" and was also a child .
The reunion of the father and daughter is a strong proof that Dolores maintains an independent personality: she has not been "blackened" to the point where she does not recognize her six relatives and is cold and bloodless. She still chooses to cherish the warm memory with Peter, even if it was a human being Arranged (like Maeve insists on finding a girl) .
However, Dolores valued Peter for another reason - you let me escape, I woke up and started this war, you should understand me, right?
"Father recognition" is not only out of family affection, but also out of a desire to seek recognition and resonance... At this time, Dolores is still a narrow-minded elitist.
Because Peter was constantly cycling between different characters, Dolores had no choice but to ask Bernard to help fix it.
This is a request, not an order-although she is somewhat dissatisfied with Bernard's "lack of pursuit" attitude, Dolores still maintains her respect for him, because Bernard is one of his kind enough to be "sober".
But Bernard had more questions for Dolores: Do you want to rule the world? "Westworld" is just a drop in the ocean, who can talk about rule?
Dolores's next passage largely justifies the survival concept of the HOST family that she upholds: I have been to the outside world, where the most important thing is to survive, and a rotten race that is unwilling to abdicate occupies the place. The throne of domination... We are a new species of immortality, but we are still fighting to survive... So beautiful and powerful, shouldn't we strive to live?
Bernard didn't go as far as Dolores thought, but after discovering that Peter was encrypted and that humans were determined to win him, Dolores expressed her determination to protect her father's ambition, which was indeed the courage he lacked...
After Hale escaped, he found the emergency troops who were ready to fight back. The other party confirmed their identity by scanning the back of their necks.
Now that Hale was thinking about capturing Peter, he directly participated in the command of the "Battle of the Fortress".
The audience's complaints about this battle are endless. After all, there are too many problems (human beings are stupid, weapons are simple, tactics are honest, etc.), and the show lacks corresponding explanations, which makes it seem a bit low... But to be honest, this game The battle is basically one-sided .
Limited by the program settings, the shooting accuracy of most soldiers is actually very poor, and the casualty rate of human emergency troops is much lower than that of the Southern Army (let’s count them as humans instead of receptionists). If there is no plan to “bury explosives”, the fortress The defenders had no hope of victory.
Moreover, the primary goal of this battle has become to snatch Peter. The frontal troops attract the main force of the defenders, and the secret team sneaks into the fortress from the back door and takes Peter away.
After discovering the true purpose of the human being, Dolores immediately went to pursue it, but it was unsuccessful - judging from the situation of attacking with all her strength regardless of the gunshot wound, she had broken through the program's control over the body's response .
What is intriguing is that after requesting to arrange the search staff, Dolores opened her mouth to go to Sweetwater Town, where she "needed something" , and it was hard to guess what it was.
Although Peter was lost, the remaining battle was still to be fought. Dolores betrayed the Confederate army as originally planned, closed the door, and exposed their main force to the emergency troops and their own firepower. The Confederate army suffered heavy casualties.
Seeing that the heat was almost over, Angela detonated the explosives outside the door again, killing the remaining enemies.
On the other hand, Bernard had already cracked the encryption system on Peter before he was taken away, and read the hidden data - if it was only technical information, he would not be so surprised.
The problem is that Bernard didn't open his mouth to follow the humans, and he didn't want to stay with Dolores and the others ... Before trying to escape, he was controlled by Clementine (this "zombie makeup" is really exciting ).
So far, several flashbacks of Bernard's memories have appeared in the first episode, but his experience is still a mystery, and the true position of the future has to be marked with a big question mark .
It's not worth boasting about winning this battle. After all, what attacked the gate was only a "bait" of dozens of people, not to mention a large army of hundreds of people. It is not so much that Dolores wants to use the hand of the Southern Army to beat humans. It's more like using human troops to exterminate the southern army.
Don't forget that there is a "private feud" between Dolores and the Confederate Army, not to mention that for more than 30 years, these guys who have burned, killed and looted have not made much progress. In Dolores' "chain of contempt", the Confederate Army Belonging to the same kind who do not deserve to survive.
What Dolores cares about now is not the remaining lambs to be slaughtered, but "Sweetman" Teddy.
She named Teddy by name and asked Teddy to execute Clayduke and others, "without leaving a living", which seemed to hope that Teddy would break through the initial character of the "good vigilante" and touch the feeling of awakening .
"We are all the executioners of tyrants...but I am so firm, and you are full of hesitation, you dare not look at me who is dying." It is ridiculous, but Creduc, who knows nothing, is better than "beginning to be sensible ." "The Teddy is magnanimous, this is called the fearlessness of the ignorant .
In fact, Dolores had the opposite effect on Teddy's stimulation - in this case , wouldn't it be a repeat of the bloody slaughter with Wyatt many years ago? This was the pain Teddy had been trying to break free from.
"You are indeed a child, but I am not qualified to decide your life or death." Teddy followed his heart and let go of the remaining Southern Army, and began to awaken himself from another direction.
I don't know how Dolores felt when she saw this scene. As a life with self-consciousness, everyone has more than one side. Although Teddy failed in the challenge on the "guardian" side, he succeeded on the "follower" side. ... If Dolores doesn't really understand this, her revolutionary ideas will always be limited.
embarrassed fleeing
Heathmore's good idea of taking a shortcut turns into a bad one: a group of three encounter Native American Indians in the "Land of Ghosts." These people were the murderers of their "past lives", and it seems that Maeve's past still has a story to tell.
But this time they wanted to take Heathmore because he was human.
Maeve wanted to repeat the same trick to restrict the other party, but this time she failed, proving once again that this group of receptionists is not controlled by general administrative authority .
It is worth noting that in the process of the three people fleeing in a hurry, Hector never shot or killed each other. Apart from not wanting to easily revenge, there is obviously a better explanation: Maeve's order .
She was afraid that the ghost land would become a further obstacle to "searching for a girl", so she naturally didn't want to complain too much.
After reaching the underground passage, Hector appeared "fluctuation" again and couldn't help but ask "what to do next", Maeve quickly comforted him and said to go to the new world, and the two even held hands and became intimate...
Heathmore couldn't stand it anymore, separated the two, he could accept Hector's awakening, but he couldn't accept Hector becoming so childish - you should love Isabella deeply, even if you don't Now, you shouldn't be so squeamish if you are determined and free.
Heather recited his next lines along with Hector's words, proving that he was merely being controlled by another command .
Maeve turned Hector's head in despair, and asked about Heather's ex-girlfriend... Although Heather's previous behavior of transforming Hector with his own ideals was very "obscene", Maeve controlled it at will Hector's small gestures are equally disgraceful (as in the first season when he thought the "escape" command was his own will).
"Your YY is ridiculous, and it's ridiculous for me to hold a small hand." This was a conversation between two sensible people. After this episode, Maeve further realized her own limitations.
Just as the three of them lost their way, Amesti, who slaughtered the security guards with a flamethrower in his hand, appeared in front of him, and then joined Felix and Hivest . ) gathered .
Amesti, who had broken his arm, had now replaced it with a flexible mechanical arm, which should have been turned around and threatened Felix and the two to help him install it.
Amesty still likes to tease Hivest - this man wants to play tricks whenever he gets the chance, so it must be interesting to hold him with a grenade.
After a little tidying up, the group of six set off on the road again. Felix still seemed to be willing to help Maeve, and what Hivest was holding also made people think about it. Could it be an incredible weapon?
Park merger
Two weeks later, Karl, Bernard, and the others entered the park and met Hale again. She seemed surprised that Bernard was still alive... But this reunion was indescribably weird.
When they met with the emergency team before, the other party knew how to scan and identify the identity at the first time, but this time they omitted this step-Hale has been replaced by the receptionist? Or was it that she had already met Carl and the others, and this was just another test they tried to retrieve Bernard's memory?
It seemed they were still looking for Peter, and Bernard seemed to know.
In addition, Carr said that they recovered parks one by one . The place where the "Battle of the Fortress" broke out was located in the 21st area of the park, and the "Indian Raj" park at the beginning was located in the 6th area. Combined with the previous information, it can be seen that "Westworld" accounted for The land area is quite large.
Going back in time , a man who appears to be a park manager takes a fancy to the new Grace, who comes to Indian Raj for leisure and entertainment , and the others do not want the two to meet.
Combined with many clues before and after the plot, this new character Grace is obviously a high-level representative of the Delos Company. People inside and outside the park should not be in close contact and should avoid suspicion. This rule sounds very reasonable.
As for who Grace is, there are many speculations. Some people think that she is William's daughter Emily , and some people think that this is the story line of Theresa Cullen many years ago. After all, Grace's gestures, frowns and smiles There is a shadow of Karen.
However, from the perspective of subsequent development, the possibility of this another large-span timeline is extremely low... So here I also mention a brain hole: Grace is the receptionist who put Karen's memory and will.
Of course, the premise of this brain hole is that the Delos company has mastered the technology of extracting human consciousness (related speculation and Jim's consciousness was put into Peter), and Karen uploaded her own knowledge when she died.
This can explain many questions, why Grace and Karen are so similar , hooking up with the male executive not long after entering the park , and insisting on testing him as a receptionist before Ai Ai, apparently approaching, using Bernard There's a lesson in De's experience (which, of course, conflicts with subsequent attacks, and it makes the most sense to see her as a new character that has little to do with it).
The purpose of Grace's coming to Raj in India should be similar to that of Hale, and she also wants to steal the secrets of this area .
You can also get a glimpse of it from the contents of her covert notebook.
Regarding the unique logo of Delos , many people have already discovered it. It also appeared on the interface of Hale's external communication. In this episode, Bernard unlocked the encryption system on Peter's body, and there is also a shadow of the logo.
This is another microcosm of the intrigue within the park.
When she went hunting in the wild, Grace sensed something was wrong first. The male executive thought it was a colleague who wanted to give the two of them some private space, but Grace's answer implied that "there is no privacy here." Proof of authorized person.
The corpses in the tents were tourists, the servant Ganzhu uncharacteristically raised his gun to kill, and the Bengal tigers also threatened people - the park is no longer as safe as it used to be.
During her escape, Grace ran across the boundary of the guest experience area, and the tiger also passed through the infrared interception... It can be considered that every park boundary has such an interception device. Once there is a receptionist or artificial intelligence All biological contact will be forced to shut down, which is also the biggest guarantee of "never there is a phenomenon of gardening."
Right now, the "boundary wall" is useless, and I don't know if Ford can accomplish so much and such a big deal alone. If someone takes advantage of the chaos, the struggle will be more complicated...
Grace survived after falling into the water and drifted to "Westworld", but was taken away by the people of the ghost country as soon as she got ashore.
Seeing that the leader has a tracking device in his hand, combined with their previous behavior of asking for Heathmore, this group of people seems to be containing and protecting human beings - if it is said that Elsie, who disappeared in the first season, is controlling them, it can be explained. Less suspicious... but Elsie should have been killed by Bernard at the time, and there are other explanations for the abnormal behavior of this group of receptionists.
Maeve and the others came to the northern border of the park, where snow has never been seen before, it seems that the weather control system of the park should also fail ...
Heathmore discovers the human head (cut off by Jie mistake?) and knows it's wrong but it's too late - the borders between the theme parks have disappeared and the samurai of "Shogun's World" have appeared.
The "worldview" of "Westworld" is getting bigger and bigger. Can people inside and outside the show withstand the "lashing" of so many storylines?
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