What the LORD has made, each according to its purpose. Even the wicked were made for the day of calamity. ------ "Old Testament. Proverbs. Chapter 16"
Bernard
Bernard's role in this episode is very interesting, because in previous episodes, although Bernard has led N story lines, it has been spread out. In this episode, Bernard's content is It is told in a layer-by-layer way of "Inception". This layer-by-layer storytelling method is like playing Russian nesting dolls.
First we see that the outermost layer is Bernard in the present tense. Since being rescued by the sea, Bernard has been careful to keep the secret that he is an android, and this secret is broken in this episode. , Bernard became the subject of interrogation after witnessing the corpse in the room in the secret room, which also led us to the second level of the nesting doll - Bernard two weeks ago.
Although the play has been broadcast for several episodes, according to the development process of the plot, the time period in which the "Second Layer Bernard" we saw was three or four days after the artificial human riot. At the end of the last episode, we have seen Bernard standing in front of the terminal, connecting his consciousness to the "mother's nest", and this conscious Bernard in the "mother's nest", It is the deepest layer of the nesting doll, and in this layer, we meet an old friend, Ford, whom we have not seen for a long time.
The appearance of Ford has solved many mysteries for us, and the results of the mysteries are basically the same as what I have calculated. For example, the red ball of the terminal brain taken by Bernard is Ford's own consciousness, and the purpose of Delos taking over Paradise is to Duplicate and replace humans in the real world and more. And there is another thing that I guessed right, that is, Dolores is the first android to awaken.
From the conversations between Ford and Bernard, we can finally understand how they are entangled: Arnold created Dolores and co-built the early paradise with Ford, and Arnold was also deeply involved in himself. In the contradiction of moral consciousness, although he had a premonition that the beautiful creation of Dolores would eventually usher in despair, Arnold never had the courage to lead the artificial man to resist the real world, so he took a negative approach and destroyed the artificial man. man, destroy yourself.
But after Arnold's death, Ford inspired Dolores' free will (this sentence is questionable, only speculation), and the destruction plan was terminated. Ford used his own groping method to combine the image of Arnold in his memory and Dolores' consciousness to create a perfect replica of Arnold - Bernard, so Ford said in the dialogue "You and the other receptionists Not the same, you are an original work".
We can see that there are no more than two cases for other artificial humans. One is the old-fashioned artificial human, whose conscious terminal is the script written by the creators; the other is the artificial human that was later used to replace the real human, and their conscious terminal is the real human data copy, memory behavior pattern, etc. It's a replica of the original human. So no matter how good these androids are, they are still humming "tunes composed by others". Only Bernard, he is unique, his memory is a coexistence of reality and fiction, an imaginary version of Ford in a real situation, so for Bernard, he has almost no shackles, and he is the most deserving An easily awakened android.
But we also saw that Bernard also inherited Arnold's "cowardly", I can't find any other words to describe it. This cowardice makes Bernard capable of awakening but unwilling to awaken, and even resists awakening, but from the point of view of consciousness, Bernard's "resistance" can actually be regarded as "awakening" in another sense. "But this awakening is not what Ford wants.
"I gave it, but you can't use it" . When Ford said this, his tone was very calm. It didn't seem like he was blaming Bernard at all. In fact, the subtext was, you're doing okay, now it's time for me to push you. So, when the ball of consciousness returned to Bernard's head, he was no longer Bernard, but a combination of Arnold and Ford.
Seeing this, I can't help but feel a little sad. Arnold and Ford used to be close friends. They jointly created the androids and this country belonging to androids, and Arnold's departure became Ford's regret and guilt for the rest of his life. Today, Ford has also returned to the sky, but his consciousness has remained, and finally met Arnold's soul in a body. This pair of old friends will never be separated again, and this time, Ford will use his own killing. Decided to shelter the wind and rain for his soft-hearted old friend.
"It takes a lot of courage to step into another world." Arnold didn't have the courage to take this step because he couldn't bear to see life die, but Ford helped him take this step, because in the eyes of this "God" , both humans and androids are beautiful that will eventually be destroyed.
William, Maeve
"The game starts where you end and ends where you start...don't worry, the game will come to you," Ford said when introducing William to the new game . We all knew that to play this game, William had to go back to where he was before, but we didn't expect to go this far, going straight back to the "previous version of the Westworld server".
The game will find you. It's not just Ford's arrangement or a coincidence. Driven by the "ghost country", Maeve found William, and I also said that when the game came to you, William, the former hunter I am afraid that he is about to become the prey. Sure enough, William became a poor prey.
Although at the last moment, William fortunately escaped his execution, but a question also appeared at this time, that is, will William at this time also be an artificial human. Because it is obvious in this episode that William was shot several times, and he was about to be beaten into a sieve. From the perspective of a normal person, with this level of injury, there is basically no mobility, and even if it is blood loss That's enough to kill someone, and that's not counting the other trauma that bullets do to human tissue. But we can see that William can quickly hide behind the cover when the armed team arrives, which is very counterintuitive, so people have to suspect that William at this time may be an artificial human, and the game arranged by Ford Could the game be the key to his awakening?
William was beaten into a sieve, and Maeve couldn't escape. After so many episodes were hung up, the screenwriter mercilessly showed us Maeve's vulnerable side. When Maeve, who was beaten into a sieve, was lying on the bed, she still thought of the "daughter". To be honest, this dedication is quite touching. This reminds me of Romain Rolland's saying "There is only one true heroism in the world, and that is to know the truth of life and still love life." Although this sentence is not very appropriate to use here, but After Maeve knew about herself and the environment she was in, she still persevered in finding and protecting the daughter who didn't belong to her at all. In fact, it was a kind of heroism.
When everyone left, only the dying Maeve and Seth Moore hiding in the corner were left in the empty hall. In the previous shot, we saw Seth Moore looking at Maeve, with a look of reluctance, pity and unwillingness, so what is certain is that no matter what the purpose is, Maeve's life, It will definitely be rescued.
Dolores
As I said in the first episode of this season, Dolores' rebellious behavior is probably not the result of her free will, and sure enough, in Ford's conversation with Bernard's consciousness, we see that it is indeed A well-designed path. But Ford just led her down the road, and it was Dolores' choice whether to run, crawl, or stand still.
And Dolores' choice is to blow up the "brood" and destroy all the android backups. In this way, every surviving anthropomorphic individual is like a human being, and becomes the only existence in this world. This is also a way for artificial humans to endow themselves with "humanity".
I don't know why, when Dolores told Hale that the backup of the androids was just the shackles that trapped them, I suddenly thought of the phrase Marx said in The Communist Manifesto "What the proletarians lost in this revolution. Just chains. What they will get is the whole world." . Although it is a bit nonsensical, but if you take a closer look, the proletariat of the year and the androids at this time are really similar in situation and psychology. From this moment on, everyone is standing on the same starting line, no one is a toy, No one is a god, and who can have the last laugh depends on his ability.
Finally, a little bit more complicated. I have said many times that there may be small groups within the leadership of the Delos Company, this episode seems to be more obvious, it can be seen that the two groups of armed forces stationed in the park within two weeks were recruited by Hale, and they are not Hale is absolutely loyal. Combined with the secret plan that Ford said in this episode, the Delos company implemented the secret plan with the help of Paradise, and William, who is the real head of the Delos company, is still playing non-stop. The control of Delo's company, so it seems that William is also quite unlucky.
There is another point that basically makes people understand, that is, what Abernathy's brain contains is actually the "reincarnation" technology, and the mysterious area that everyone is looking for, it seems very likely that the Delos company saves every A database of human visitors "replicating terminals". As for the valley becoming the sea and the huge number of human beings dying, it is estimated that this is also related to this. What is the specific situation, we can only hope that the filmmakers can give us a plausible answer at the end of this season.
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