Facing the sunset, riding horses and whips, galloping on the western plains; bathing in the night moon, swords and swords, indulging in the country camping tents...
If the last episode of "Westworld" showed its confidence in plot design , this episode shows more of its ambition in theme creation . "Shogun's World" not only expands and enriches the world view of the play, but also uses this scene to illustrate the theme in a fresher and more three-dimensional way——
Following the brief encounter between Dolores and Maeve "Double Heroines" in the second episode, this episode has the first official confrontation of their philosophy without the two of them meeting: after all, it is the brave man who breaks his wrist to show his courage , Or is it bold and fearless to move forward with a heavy load?
Rescue of "General World"
Maeve and the others were attacked by Musashi and his party after being attacked by "Squad Leader Sanada" (as expected, Hiroyuki Sanada is still called "Squad Sanada" as the most cordial leader, and his age is revealed--) and became prisoners.
On the way, Silvestre half-joking and half-expecting Felix to persuade the yellow-skinned Japanese receptionists to let them go, but Felix replies: I am from Hong Kong.
It is not difficult to see that the screenwriter of "Westworld" still understands the " territorial stalks " in East Asia. It is hard to say how much he understands, but at least he has more information than many American screenwriters who simply ridicule Asians...
In fact, even if there is a fair duel, Hector, Amesti and others are not necessarily opponents to Musashi, because "Shogun World" is the most difficult paradise, suitable for true killing mad, and the receptionists in it are generally more tough.
In terms of settings, the three theme parks that have appeared so far are arranged in order of difficulty, namely "Indian Raj" (easy) , "Westworld" (normal) , and "General World" (difficult) .
Maeve tried to use administrator privileges to give orders, but it didn't work - these receptionists should have changed their language to English according to the "tourist" language , and apparently, the failure of Westworld also "infected" the general world.
At the very least, Maeve had to change her tongue to speak Japanese in order to give orders.
The group followed Musashi's ronin team into the town, and the more they looked, the more familiar the surrounding environment became. It was not until they repeated the Hector Gang's "tavern robbery" that they realized that the story line had been re-enacted - Heathermore Admitted to plagiarizing some "Westworld" character story settings, but no way, try to write 300 stories in three weeks?
(Suddenly a little sympathy for this brother, he is clearly a hard-working employee who was squeezed by a black-hearted company)
Musashi is a replica of Hector, and the archer with dragon tattoos played by Okamoto Tao is another snake girl bandit Amesti, and Rinko Kikuchi plays the geisha shop owner, Akane, who is naturally equivalent to Maeve's previous role. The bartender is gone.
When Maeve lifted the ban and proposed "civilized dialogue", the rest of the people were still a little bit wary. It was Akane who agreed to the peace talks first, because she discovered the similarities between the two sides before others . It seems that no matter where you are, the "boss lady" is the most powerful character...
From another perspective, only the most "excellent" receptionists can start to awaken and break through themselves first.
Geisha makeup, shamisen, fan dance... When everyone was enjoying the Japanese style, Maeve just wanted to leave quickly to find her daughter, and Hector was also impatient, but he wanted to skin Musashi cramp……
Heathmore exists to answer questions for Maeve (and the audience), Hector is hostile to Musashi because he shouldn't be here to meet his "twin robot", which will disrupt cognition , increases aggression and suspicion, and interferes with feedback loops.
No one knows what will happen - Amesty and the female archer already have a taste of seeing twin mirror images...
Just when they were at a loss, the general's messenger came and called the young dancer Sakura away.
According to common sense, the proprietress Qian had no choice but to hand over Sakura in order not to offend the general... But this time, she directly killed the messenger for her beloved goddaughter.
This behavior is like Maeve doing all kinds of things that go against common sense for her "daughter" - Maeve took the initiative to ask for help, and the primary reason in her heart has changed from taking the opportunity to go to the "Snow Lake" to leave the general world and become a to help Akane.
In the scene of the ninja night attack, Maeve not only foresaw the attack, but the verbal command also worked. What's more, she ordered the ninja to commit suicide with a more advanced "silent voice" when she couldn't speak. .
There's only one person in Westworld so far who's been able to do that: Ford. Relevant ideas will be discussed at the end.
The rest of the ninjas fled after seeing "Witchcraft". Heathmore was shocked again. Ninjas will never appear in this story, and the army will not drive into the town. It seems that the "General World" is all messed up... …
Maeve made a plan to let Musashi, Hector and others go to the front to delay time (they couldn't refuse), and prepare for the counterattack by herself and the rest.
Heathmore turned around and reminded Maeve again that if the general could already command the ninjas and the army at will, then the survival rate of their confrontation would be almost zero. It's the code, why bother?"
You are wrong, I should be selfish, but now I am taking risks for others, who can explain the reason? If you want to go, you have to pay attention to your respect. Anyway, Maeve will help me to the end in this place. (Heathmore's inner OS: But I dare not run alone!)
Among the three fellow humans, Felix is probably the only one who is really willing to help Maeve, Sylvester only complains, and the one who really has the scheming and the ability to do things is Heather...
A group of people found the executed human security forces on the road (the situation was very bad), and Heathmore took advantage of the opportunity to solve the problem .
Maeve was determined to make this trip, and she assured Akane that she would save Sakura, which was "a battle (of) our (mother)".
After disguised as a celestial envoy to the tent, Maeve greeted the general and presented a golden elephant with a heavy gift. It turned out that she was playing in disguise to make a baby...
But Maeve's real plan was to sow discord --in addition to pleasing the generals, she did not prepare gifts for the "respected" daimyos. With the heads of the receptionists who knew their "ceremony", she only needed to make use of their relationship. If there is a contradiction between them, you can wait for an opportunity to fish in troubled waters.
But at this time, Heathmore and Maeve discovered that the general was leaking cortical fluid, rather than "awakening".
If it's a sane person, there's reason to be told, there's a plan to play, and a "madman" will do anything unpredictable. For example, let the subordinates cut off their ears and lose their hearing (don't care about the scientific reality, as long as the receptionists think they can't hear), not to be bewitched by witches - facing such an unreasonable opponent, Maeve's strategy failed.
Akane won't care about this, she's willing to pay any price for Sakura , what 's the harm in dancing another song for the brutal general?
Before the performance, Akane kept comforting the injured Sakura that "the future will be fine", and also said the lines that Maeve had spoken... Maeve kindly invited them to the "New World" and told Akane about everything they had experienced. It's all lies - the divine voice of "dichotomous mentalism" also sounded in Qian's mind... But she was still unable and unwilling to accept such "freedom" for a while.
"Some things are too precious to lose, not even for freedom."
After Maeve recognized this further, she sat at the table calmly. Seeing that the general killed Sakura, the pained Akane calmed down and waited for an opportunity to kill the general while she was dancing alone...
When the two were treated as assassins and were about to die, Maeve admitted that Xi was the real mother.
Maeve had already vaguely felt a new voice before, and her experience during this period allowed her to determine and stand firm on her own "path" . She suddenly learned to use "spells", causing the entire camp to start killing each other. ...
I'm not afraid of the big troops coming. Now that I have found a new voice, I will make good use of it to protect what I hold dear.
"Westworld" broken wrist
Dolores and Teddy took the team back to Sweetwater Town. They had never guessed what she wanted before, but the result was actually very simple - in order to get back her father Peter, Dolores needed a train that could lead to the outside world .
From the corpses scattered all over the train and the streets, it is not difficult to imagine what kind of chaos broke out here before. If you want to start the train, you can't rush it for a while, you must clean it up first.
The most horrifying thing is that even though the town is littered with corpses, a few receptionists, such as the dealers and prostitutes in the tavern, are still " going their own way" , including the new "Clementine" (it can be seen that this batch was plucked out) "Meditation" program, new less intelligent receptionist).
Clementine still can't help but follow the "current" to say the lines of the previous life, this is a microcosm of all the receptionists trapped in the "painful memory" ... Dolores who sees all this will have no nostalgia. Say "this is not home".
Dolores led Teddy to the place where she used to graze, revisited the old place and touched the scene. Teddy remembered that he had made countless "one day" promises - then why don't we leave today?
Teddy repeats the old story again: if "freedom" is true, then we are completely free to leave, and the future "new world" will always have a place for us.
Dolores ignored Teddy's hope and brought up the history of bluetongue disease in cattle. The disease is not transmitted from cattle to cattle, but spread by flies... If it was you, how to stop it?
Teddy can only "follow his nature", build shelter for cows, take care of weak and sick cows, and keep away from flies as much as possible...
His method is similar to stopping the boiling soup, and it may be effective, but the good result depends more on self-comfort and fate.
Oh, you are indeed a kind man.
Do you know what my father did? He burned all sick and weak cows. Although it was unpleasant and the smell was unpleasant, the flies had escaped, and bone scraping had an excellent effect of curing poison - this was the way to draw the bottom line .
The meaning of this conversation could not have been more obvious. Dolores was giving Teddy one last chance to see if his attitude towards the weak among the receptionists was really hopeless.
The train set off tomorrow morning, Angela grabbed another security guard and came back, and learned that the destination of Hale and others was Pingdingshan (Mesa, MESA), and the destination was also there.
By the way, "Pingdingshan" is also the place where Elsie is going to send signals to the outside world at the end of the first episode, which should be similar to the base station/station where "Westworld" communicates with the outside world .
Through the "test" during the day, Dolores has understood Teddy's personality, but she still chooses to spend time with Teddy, probably because of the sentence "I have known you all my life, no matter where we are, we must be together. " It's very touching.
And this time, Dolores just wanted to "test" her feelings for Teddy - yes, I do love you.
You and I have both seen the truest side of each other...but the real you can't live.
A swarm of flies is coming, your "weak cow" will definitely become a "sick cow" after being bitten by flies, I don't want you to drag down the entire "herd"... We want to survive, some people have to be burned to death .
Dolores understands the cruelty of the "war" in the future, and a "weak-minded" like Teddy can easily become a burden, even if it is not his intention.
If it was someone else, Dolores had already solved it with a single shot, but Teddy was her lover after all, so she was determined to "use a dead horse as a living horse doctor" again, and directly let the programmers greatly adjust Teddy's attributes , it would be best if it survived by luck - if it was completely scrapped, it would also be "the suffering of growing up".
The blank of the "human world"
Two weeks later, the human search team continued to "clean up the battlefield," including clearing the main control room, searching for Peter Abernathy, salvaging bodies around the waterfront, draining the valley, and more.
Looking at the scene in the distance of this lake, it is very similar to the place William took Dolores to see , which is the "extreme west land" in the mouth of the receptionist. The clues continue to be slowly merged and organized...
From the point of view of one-third of the receptionists who have recovered so far, Carl and others have gained nothing. Costa said bluntly: the data has been washed, and the core processor has been completely formatted, so clean that it looks like it has never been online.
It is not difficult to do this, and it is not easy to say it is simple, which proves that the initiator has mastered the authority and technical ability at least not lower than that of senior programmers/designers.
What's more terrible is that not only the hard disk has been cleaned up, but even the backup center is empty ...
They couldn't recover anything from the "cradle" and all the receptionist's backup data was destroyed.
In addition, in the first episode, the core processors of the receptionists in the "Land of Ghosts" that they found in the first episode were recorded , and the receptionists who were salvaged and apparently "batch processed" were empty, except for In addition to further proving that the ghost country is a faction , does it also mean that Dolores (or someone else) has mastered that "secret weapon"? Teddy lying in the corpse is the best proof.
This step cannot be achieved by relying only on a control panel. If you understand the ins and outs of this period, you will understand the story of this season. Now it only provides more "cause" and "effect". The most critical "process" in the middle is still lacking. explain.
So, Bernard, please come out and explain.
principles for all the world
There is an interesting scene in this episode that Heathmore said when he was a prisoner: language skills, communication skills, these abilities are hidden in your code (just not all of them can be enabled).
Heather's original intention was to show that all receptionists are multilingual (convenient for tourists), but combined with Maeve's growth history last season... In other words, every receptionist theoretically has a "dragon slayer". technology”, but only a few can break through the barriers set by humans to adjust themselves.
Maeve and Dolores have one thing in common in this episode, they both consciously or unintentionally agree with the fact that "there are weak people in the receptionist", but those who hold a different "receptionist awakening path" philosophy, choose to go very different path.
Of course Dolores loved Teddy, and after spending the night together, she was even more sure of the truth.
But Teddy is indeed the weak in her eyes. The place where the receptionist will go in the future, "there is no room for people like you "... Dolores did not regard the weak Teddy as a "little puppy" out of personal affection Instead, give him an "attribute reset" by putting him to death and then rebirth, even if he is maimed and killed, "In order to grow, we all need to suffer."
Life is sincere and precious, and love is more expensive. If it is freedom, both can be thrown away.
Swap Dolores into Maeve's story, and she will subdue Musashi, who dared to betray the general, and Akane, who has the ability to think and make decisions for herself, and who is daring. For her, Dolores can destroy the army of the Southern Army The generals... But in Dolores' plan, I'm afraid there will be no place for Sakura - and this is also the biggest difference between Maeve and her.
Sakura is just a weak and helpless geisha (a bit like Dolores in the original setting), she is probably nothing without her adoptive mother Akane and the "memory cornerstone" Xuehu. Maeve is willing to help, and more importantly, she wants to help Qian, who has the same fate and pity for each other, doesn't feel much about Sakura, the core of the conflict . This is from her enlightenment that she hopes that the mother and daughter of Qian can also notice one or two when they go with her.
However, Akane's attitude gives Maeve a new understanding of her own words and actions: There are things more precious than "freedom".
If Maeve's help was still "selfish" before, then from this moment, her motives have begun to transcend the category of "selfishness" (noble human beings are just like that).
In Ford's theory, the receptionist's awakening from the outside to the inside includes four stages of memory, improvisation, self-interest and (secret) ultimate core , and Maeve has touched the door of the final stage, so my guess is: Maeve The "New Divine Sound" was bestowed upon her by Ford.
From anticipating ninja attacks, to non-verbal conscious commands, to fully mastering new skills, this is an ultra-high level of authority that Heathmore has never seen or understood, and only Ford had this ability before.
Everyone is in a large-scale survival game designed by Ford, and everyone is looking for "that door". Maeve was the first to complete the "invisible goal task", so Ford happily gave her the biggest gift package (cheat device).
Of course, this is just a guess. Maeve may have achieved the ultimate breakthrough on her own, and Dolores' "domineering" is not necessarily inferior to Maeve's "kingdom" ... It is up to the audience to judge whether it is better or worse.
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