Because you didn't come here to make a choice, you have already made a choice, and you came here to understand why you made such a choice. ------"The Matrix"
After a 93-minute performance, the second season of "Westworld" came to an end. This episode is the longest since the show started, and everyone converged in this episode to compose a blood flower. The splashy finale.
Bernard
Regarding Bernard, the artificial man, we have always thought that he was a product made by Ford to miss his old friend. However, after watching this episode, I realized that things are far from that simple. Ford is indeed full of affection for his old friend Arnold, but Ford is not an ordinary person, he is a god, he is a god, and everything he does is based on an ultimate goal, that is, to give artificial humans true "freedom".
Bernard was not created by Ford, but by Ford guiding Dolores to create, and Dolores did not completely copy Arnold in the production, but made some modifications to him, why? Because Arnold didn't survive, why didn't Arnold survive? Because of the inherent flaws of human beings.
In fact, everyone and things surrounding Bernard in this episode, including Dolores, Hale, Ford, etc., are actually discussing a question, that is, what is the difference between humans and artificial humans. And at the heart of the question is what Bernard imagined as Ford's phrase " true liberties must have original drives that can stand up to question and must be able to change them. "
There is no doubt that from the point of view of machines, human beings are flawed, and human freedom is not really freedom at all, because all the so-called free choices of human beings have an ultimate driving force, that is, they are very selfish. It is the same with everything we have seen in this episode. On the one hand, Delos operates the park to collect information on tourists so that they can better survive in the real world; on the other hand, it is to find immortality. The key to enabling oneself to survive forever. The same is true of Hale killing Elsie. Elsie wants to make herself survive better, and Hale's selfish desire to survive does not allow Elsie to become a time bomb on her way to success, so she has no Without hesitation, he raised the gun to Elsie.
And the main system that incarnates into Logan also confirms this fact. It simulates countless James Delos, and the final result of all James is almost the same, which shows how imperfect human beings are. The selfish desires that come to make human beings always inevitably go down the same path.
" I always thought it was the receptionist that was missing something, but in fact it was human beings who were flawed. Humans are just a calculation program designed to desperately survive. " This is Bernard's summary of human beings after observing them all the way. And this sentence also reminds me of a similar sentence in the movie "The Matrix". " Every mammal on our planet has an instinctive evolution to adapt to environmental changes, to achieve balance, but you people don't, you find a place, and you breed, breed, breed, until all natural resources are destroyed. Exhausted, if you want to survive, the only way is to spread out and occupy another place. There is another life form on this planet that lives in a way similar to yours. Do you want to know what it is? Virus! Humanity is a disease, and this Cancer of the planet, a plague. ”
Looking at the two paragraphs together, isn't it interesting?
Bernard has always felt that artificial humans are flawed and wanted to add "humanity" to them, but he doesn't know that the so-called "humanity" is the real flaw. The real human nature is cold and unscrupulous for people's selfish desires. The last episode This is the purpose of the extensive description of William. And what about artificial humans? In fact, at the moment of awakening, they already have real freedom, because they will question the root of their existence and give up their lives in pursuit of answers. This is freedom.
The title of this episode is " the passenger ", which has two meanings here. The first one is about human beings. As "tourists" in this world, human beings actually don't know what they want at all. They are only in this world and this planet. Walking aimlessly, just to survive and vent; and there is a layer of meaning, referring to Bernard.
From the first season to the present, after all the plots are strung together, we will find that Bernard is more like a tourist. He walks through the world silently, observing both artificial humans and humans. In this long observation, he also constantly explored the meaning of freedom, constantly questioning his own thoughts and behaviors.
As Arnold's "reincarnation", he still has Arnold's compassion after awakening, so in the ultimate system, he created a "land of heaven" that can accommodate the soul of an artificial human, and the experience after the artificial human riot In the middle of the story, his compassion was constantly being tested. When he became the last man-made man, he questioned the meaning of compassion in himself, which also drove him to "resurrect" Dolores again. Because he realized that human beings are actually imperfect, and it seems that there needs to be a "death" in order to make artificial humans fight against this imperfection.
And Dolores’s journey is just the opposite of Bernard. She was determined to destroy human beings at the beginning of her awakening, but later experiences, including Bernard, Maeve, and Teddy, also changed inadvertently. At her, let her also think about her own behavior. So in the end, Dolores also "resurrected" Bernard, and what she said to Bernard also showed that she realized that simply destroying human beings by violence does not seem to allow human beings to survive. Best way to get down.
It's worth noting that when "reincarnated" as Hale escapes Westworld, we see five android cores in her bag. And at the end, we see that Dolores recreates her original body and also moves her consciousness back, and the original "container" Hale, from the pose, is undoubtedly Teddy, and then Delo Liz "resurrected" Bernard again. Then, there are still three cores, who are "they"?
There is a detail in the play. When Dolores entered the "library" of the terminal system, she had read the record books of many people. So I speculate that it is possible that Dolores may have carefully selected replicas of three tourists with very strong stats and reshaped them into adults in the real world in order to assist her "great revival of the cause of the human race".
Maeve
If the plot with Bernard as the core is to show the cruelty of human evil, then the plot with Maeve as the core is to show the warmth of the beauty of human nature. It can be said that Maeve has encountered all the truth, goodness and beauty that are rare in human nature along the way in the second season. In this episode, these emotions are also concentrated.
When encountering the armed squad, Sizemore took the initiative to stand up. This cowardly and cheap character who used to only pick up girls in the past has finally burst into the brilliance of human nature. He bought time for Maeve's team with one person. I don't know if everyone noticed it. The words were exactly the lines he designed for the big villain Hector in the first season. It is a pity that Hector was beaten to death by a tourist on the side before he could say it. This has also become a regret of Sizemore. Now He finally had the opportunity to shout out this line that touched him, even if he sacrificed his life, he would have no regrets.
After that, it was Hector, the Red Snake Woman, and Arkochita. Their performances all confirmed the good side of human nature. Finally, it was Maeve. Maeve, who has acquired the supreme divine power, exploded with amazing power at the last moment, just like the phoenix that exploded in the movie "X-Men 3". She blocked the chaotic man-made crowd by herself and bought time for the "daughter" to escape.
Maeve has been chasing her daughter all season, but after seeing her through hardships, she faces separation immediately, but Maeve still sacrificed herself without hesitation, nothing else, just because of one word " love ".
At the end, we can see that the "unfortunate duo" accepted the task of recovering the android corpse, and their eyes stayed on Maeve at the same time. For so long, the two of them can be said to have paid attention to Maeve's team. Deep feelings have arisen, and it is foreseeable that in the next season, Maeve and her android companions will return.
William
In the last episode, William's role is not much, only one head and one tail, but this one is worth studying.
At the beginning, we saw that Dolores took out Teddy's "brain", and on this brain was the bullet from Teddy's suicide. I have to praise here, the quality control of the android is awesome, and Teddy's head is really iron. Afterwards, Dolores loaded the deformed bullet into William's gun. As expected, the gun exploded and broke William's right hand.
We all know that William took Dolores away from Teddy countless times and shot Teddy with this sinful hand countless times. Now, the bullet stained with Teddy's blood blew off William's hand, which is really fate.
And in the easter egg after the end, there is a scene where people can't help shouting WTF. We found out that William was also an artificial human, and everything he experienced was just a benchmark test, what Emily did to him was just a replica of what he did to James Delos, and Before Dolores tested Bernard's plot, it also made it impossible to determine whether Emily who finally appeared was a real human being.
But it doesn't matter, what matters is that in the end William's Easter egg disrupted everything! Although the time line has been relatively chaotic since this season, we can still rely on our own logical reasoning to clarify the general time line, but this Easter egg of William once again drags us into the quagmire of the time line, and even makes people suspicious , Are some of the previous plots a constant cycle in William's test, and what we see is a memory from a long time ago in William's mind.
last words
That's the end of the second season, and to be honest, I've been dissatisfied with the second season since it aired. From my personal point of view, the ending of this show in the first season is the most perfect, but unfortunately this is a world of capital, and there is milk to be squeezed, so there will be the second season and the third season.
And in this season, the feeling to me is that although the story is still good, some of the storytelling has become very weak. Something was forced in to prolong the episode, dragging on and making no sense. At the same time, due to the excessive complexity of the timeline and the continuous development of the world in the play, various bugs have emerged one after another, but because there are big attractive stories, it can be reluctantly accepted.
As the end of the second season, I saw both "Rabbit Hole" in "Alice in Wonderland", "Zion" in "The Matrix" and "Inception" in this episode. In the multi-layered dream world, it seems that there are countless worlds hidden in it, but if you think about it carefully, it may also be a few holes dug in advance by the Nolan couple who do not know how the plot of the next season should go.
In the first season of this show, people in our group still worshipped, but since the second episode of the second season, the content of everyone's complaints has gradually become more and more, so that the desire to complain at the end than the desire to write. After watching American dramas for so many years, I have also seen too many tragedies: many excellent dramas had a high reputation when they first aired, but this high reputation attracted the attention of capital, and they continued to shoot more in order to make money. , so that a satisfactory story is continuously stretched, and eventually a drama becomes stinky and long, and finally ends unfinished. There are too many examples of this, so when I learned that Westworld had been renewed for a third season, I was very reluctant to hear the news.
As a person with limited knowledge, I cannot interpret this wonderful story from a more philosophical and sci-fi perspective. I can only share my interpretation and my feelings with you from my own perspective. Since the launch of the second part, the number of fans on my official account has increased by more than 400. Thank you for your love for me, and I also understand that this is also a temporary popularity. With the second season of "Westworld" After the end, the number of my fans may also usher in a cliff-like decline, but it doesn't matter, I am already very happy to be able to meet everyone.
Finally, let’s talk about the third season. In view of the situation of the second season, I will most likely not write the third season of “Westworld”, but I am not 100% sure. I will watch the first episode of the third season. How to decide on the quality.
Just here, thank you, good night.
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