This episode is not particularly complicated and incomprehensible, and it no longer adopts the multi-line narrative method of multiple characters in the past. It just tells the power train, the leader of the "Land of Ghosts", oh no, the past and present of Akochita, At the same time, several important story nodes in the first season are connected in series. Just like the official title of this episode (Kiksuya), it is the most unpretentious emotion that makes it even more memorable.
The eighth episode of the second season currently has a rating of 9.3 on IMDB, which is the highest rating of any episode of the show so far. Ako's love story coupled with the soul-stirring BGM makes people sigh, and the delicate emotional expression in this episode also deserves this score.
I personally liked this episode very much, and instantly became a fan of Akelu. Arco, Maeve, and Demei are the three most powerful receptionists so far (considering Bernard's uncertainty and are still in a state of confusion), and their behaviors represent their own different ideas: Demei More radical, use violence to control violence; Maeve is more rational, focusing on the small world of herself and her daughter; Ake's consciousness is obviously higher than that of Maeve and Demei, rising to the height of liberating the whole family and even the entire park, he did not force orders Instead, they passed the labyrinth symbols to lead them to awakening.
This also explains why this group of Indians in the "Land of Ghosts" was so independent, not subject to any manipulation by Maeve or even the system, and did not wantonly slaughter humans like other receptionists, on the contrary, they would even save humans . After seeing the last scene of this episode, maybe I understand what Arco said to Maeve in the S02E06 episode.
Demei, Maeve, and Akko have all experienced emotional fetters. They have loved ones they care about, and the pain of losing a loved one has prompted them to awaken.
Compared with Maeve and her daughter, Ako and her lover, the emotional story that Demei experienced is more tortuous: one is the confidant love with the founder Arnold that is better than father and daughter, and the other is the father and daughter with Abernathy. Love; the other is the heart-wrenching love and killing of William, and the silent company of the little milk dog Teddy (seeing that this configuration of German sister is simply the founder's daughter).
Isn't it a profound irony when robots have emotions like humans, and even more pure emotions? Which one is more advanced, human or robot?
Humans are far from being so evil that there is no cure. The transformation of the screenwriter of the park, Lee Heathmore, made people's eyes shine. I turned him from black to black and then to fans. It can be described as a roller coaster turn. , I have to say, this humble little character is quite successful.
In the episode of S01E02, he confidently displayed his seemingly gimmicky storyline, but was taught an educational class by Ford.
As the screenwriter of the park, how arrogant and arrogant he used to be. At that time, these receptionists were just insignificant objects in his eyes. He never imagined that one day he would develop feelings for his works, or even to himself. regretted what he did.
[ Warm reminder: There are a lot of spoilers below! If you don't like this kind of interpretation with a lot of pictures + plot elaboration, please detour. Due to my limited level, I can only try not to write it as a running account. This episode doesn't feel very good to write. I'm sorry to say that I personally feel that the following is not very well written, please forgive me. 】
In fact, like many people, I can understand what this drama is about, and it's not bad. I basically have to watch each episode two or three times. When I saw Ako's subordinates looking at the maze pattern, I couldn't help adding a barrage to the picture below. This expression is a true portrayal of me as an ordinary audience chasing dramas!
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As the first batch of receptionists in the park, Arko can be regarded as a veteran. He is a witness to almost every major event in the park. In fact, Abernathy wasn't the first receptionist to wake up, Arco was.
In the episode of S02E02, it was mentioned that about 35 years ago (or possibly earlier), Arco met with Angela as the representative of investment promotion and met the gold owner Logan. It was supposed to be Demei and Ake who went together, but Arnold was very protective of the calf, so Ford replaced Demei with Angela.
At the beginning, Arco was only set up as native Indians and lived a carefree life with his lover. They had an unspoken exclusive oath to each other: "Take my heart when you go. Take mine in its place." At this time, the park has not yet opened.
34 years ago, Arco accidentally came to the scene of a massacre directed by Arnold and found a maze toy.
The same was the first batch of receptionists, but Arco was not within the scope of Arnold's slaughter target. Perhaps he was in a remote location in the park and seemed to have no impact on the overall situation. It was also possible that Arco was a receptionist created by Ford. Arnold At that time, only Demei was allowed to kill the receptionist she made.
Akko's own curiosity prompted him to carve maze patterns all the time and think about the meaning of the symbols. Like Demei, a voice appeared in his mind and he began to slowly embark on the road of awakening.
On the eve of the opening of the park more than 30 years ago, Arco was recalled by the staff before he could understand everything, because Ford created a new story line for the opening of the park and needed to reset the attributes of these Indian natives in order to cater to tourists. demand, attracting investors to join. In fact, the young Ford at the time, like the screenwriter Lee Heathmore 30 years later, set up a story line to make tourists seek that kind of cheap thrill.
It took several years of thinking for Ford to truly understand the meaning of the park and the original intention of his partner Arnold. That's why he taught Lee Heathmore so confidently.
At that time, the control center was understaffed, and the staff simply changed Ako's attributes and increased his aggression, which also made Ako's combat effectiveness soar and gain a new lease of life.
Due to the revision of Akko's story line, he no longer belongs to the original group, but became a barbarian leader who burned, killed and looted, but Akko did not give up his exploration of the labyrinth.
Once Arco walked to the edge of the park, he bumped into Logan who was exiled by William.
Logan asked where the door to the real world was, and he said something that inspired Arco: "It's the wrong world . " At this point, Arco was able to distinguish between the new inhabitants represented by tourists and the aborigines represented by receptionists.
Later, Ako had deep thinking and wanted to ask Logan again about the passage to the outside world, but he did not find Logan, but unexpectedly came to the Land of Glory (Valley outside the World), which is the episode of William in S02E02. The place where Demei went.
This is the origin of the "door". The "door" is not a patent of Ford, but comes from Arco's mind. To be precise, it actually comes from what Logan said when he collapsed. From the picture, this is something like a device that leads to the outside of the park.
Later, when Arco brought his lover here again, the door had disappeared. At that time, the device should have been completed and completely hidden underground.
Ake finally made his lover remember the oath and restore the memory of the past. The two escaped from the original story line and flew together, but the lover was taken away by the staff.
Arco traveled all over the world, just to find the love in his heart. He couldn't afford to die, because if he died he might lose all memory of her, but in the end he found that only death he had not tried, and only death could go into the basement where the abandoned receptionist was placed in the control center and find him 's lover.
Arko finds his grief seem so insignificant because there are other people who have suffered the same loss as him, and they haven't even reached the same level of awakening as he.
Arco may not have the talent and intelligence of Maeve, nor the top-level luxury configuration of Demei. He was stunned to achieve self-awareness with his own curiosity and hard research, and has risen from the "small self" to the "big self". .
Ford commented that Arco is a flower that grows in the dark, and Arco twice witnessed the scene after the death messenger (Demei) killed the creator (Arnold, Ford).
Everything Arco is doing at this moment is to find that door and lead the people (and perhaps some humans) to the new world. In the future, they will have a war with the Death Messenger, which is the collision of two different ideas.
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Arco spends most of the episode communicating with Maeve in Indian language, and he mainly tells Maeve about his experiences and original intentions. If I remember correctly, Arco had about three sentences in English expressing his gratitude to Maeve's daughter.
It was Maeve's daughter's cup of life-saving water that became the spiritual food that supported Akko through that desperate time. Arko himself has tenacious vitality, and he has not been recovered by the control center for nearly ten years.
We all misunderstood Ako. It turned out that he was not chasing Maeve mother and daughter a year ago, but trying to warn them, which also tells us to eliminate our subjective prejudice and stereotypes, appearance does not mean evil or good.
In order to awaken them, Ako even took pains to draw a maze pattern in front of the door, which also explained why Maeve fell in the maze in the first season. The maze pattern was not automatically generated.
Arko devoted his life to conveying the symbol of the labyrinth, aiming to help more people of the same kind to awaken.
As William the Man in Black saw in the episode of S01E01, the maze pattern was carved into the scalp of each Indian, and it became the reason why William embarked on a journey of exploration in the first season.
On the eve of the slaughter dinner, Ford couldn't help but personally scalped one by one to verify it (every time I watched this episode, I laughed ill-intentionally, it was so joyful). Although Ford has been secretly watching Arco's growth, the speed of Arco's own savage growth really surprised Ford.
Ford named the new game "Door," somewhat inspired by Arco. Arko said, "There is not only one world, there are many worlds ... The door to the new world is hidden in this place, and that world has everything we have lost." The words lost will be in the new world. Let me start to speculate about the possibility of the existence of the undead world, and there are many viewers who have made this speculation. I now suspect that the new world they go to is not the real world where humans live, but the undead world where everyone who dies in Westworld will go.
Maeve has administrator privileges and can transmit commands to other receptionists, and Akko has the same privileges, which led to the two people's air-to-air dialogue in this episode.
Maeve uttered the oath made by Akko and his wife, which was a response to Akko, indicating that they had reached a tacit understanding.
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It can be seen from the preview of the next episode that the emotional entanglement between William and his wife and daughter will be the biggest highlight of the next episode.
It seems that the real purpose of William's daughter Emily (Grace) coming to the park is not as simple as she said in the episode of S02E06, not just caring about William's personal safety and bringing her father home.
Emily and Arco seemed to agree on what to do with William: he must not be allowed to die so easily, it would be a bargain for him.
How Emily intends to psychologically torture William and make him feel guilty will probably be revealed in the next episode.
Arco mentioned that William did something to spread a disease, and I personally feel it should be referring to the various evils he committed in the park, such as slaughtering the receptionist and building the place of glory.
In the S02E04 episode, Arco says, "As long as the last person who remembers you forgets you, you're dead." William doesn't really die, because there are people in this world who remember him, which will wake him up The last bit of humanity.
"Westworld" Season 1 Episode 10 Plot Analysis
Westworld S02E01: Journey into the Dark
"Westworld" S02E02: It turns out that all encounters are reunions after a long absence
Westworld S02E03: Virtue and Wealth
"Westworld" S02E04: A person's life is the process of pursuing oneself
"Westworld" S02E05: "In order to grow, we must suffer"
"Westworld" S02E06: We all have the right to choose our own destiny
Plot analysis of the seventh episode of the second season of "Westworld" (with a timeline) - the fun of reading the story is to discover the ending by yourself
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