In fact, the best way is to read the text (here is the episode) carefully (detailed view). Assuming that the connection between the two adjacent seasons is greater than the prediction accuracy of the interval between seasons, then we choose the prediction method: first , Just watch the second season to speculate a story in the third season. If you are satisfied, it will come to an end; if you are dissatisfied, connect with the hints of the first season. Also, we don't know if the script for season 3 has been finished, it's possible we're guessing something that doesn't exist at all, but from the hints in season 2, we can at least know that the writer's intentions so far are roughly Which direction, and then connected in series, may have some meaning.
Judging from the screenwriter's clear hints, what can be made clear is that William got off the elevator and came to the deserted forge, not a few days after the 'blood feast' in the second season, but in the third season. In the story of , a story that happened at a certain stage, this is the only part of the second season that directly plays the third season story, which appeared as an easter egg.
Here comes the deserted forge, Emily and William, and we have to focus on judging these two characters at first.
First, about Emily. This Emily is a HOST and is under the control of Demei (or just Demei) to test William.
Evidence 1: William also thought that Emily was the HOST at this time, and Emily also did not hint that she was the real Emily from the tone of the conversation. The hint given by the screenwriter was already obvious. Emily is the HOST, we Thinking about the suggestion of this passage from the amount of information in William's brain will be much clearer.
Evidence 2: It was Demei who injured William's hand. It was Demei who clearly told us that she didn't want William to die, and she didn't want him to RIP. Combined with her father-in-law's madness and torture in a laboratory in the same environment, it was re-enacted. HOST's experience, Demei wants William to experience the same, this is obviously not for William's good, but out of Demei's revenge for being controlled by William many times for a long time.
Inference 1: The deserted forge is currently under the control of Demei.
Evidence 3: Demei came to the human world as Hale, and the human Hale has died, Demei will perfectly take over Hale's identity in the human world, and from this lens, the screenwriter clearly implies that HOST with Hale's shape is right. Demei is useful, otherwise, only Demei and Bernard need to appear. Through Hale's transformation, the screenwriter is clearly suggesting that Demei is exerting influence on the human world by replicating humans from human to HOST controlled by Demei.
The means to control the deserted forge, and even the entire Westworld, is through Hale. Judging from the arrangement of the episodes, the first season's test of humans on HOST has gradually transitioned to the second season's HOST's test on humans. Judging from the time node before the third season has started, there is no doubt that HOST has already competed with humans. The position, among them, the Demei department squeezes hatred to control, and the eradication of human beings may eventually fail, but there is no doubt that in the story of the third season, there will be a rise, expansion of capacity, expansion of influence, and after entering the climax , slipping slightly to make room for the fourth quarter. The screenwriter wrote the role of sizemore in this way, what he wants to express is that there is hope for human beings, not everyone is selfish, there is only desire, human beings still have faith, and there is no cure. The screenwriter is clearly implying the contradiction between Demei's destruction of mankind and the little glory of mankind. These are not necessarily arranged in this way, but the screenwriter does it intentionally.
Second, about William. There is a lot of certainty about this part of William: What is William's purpose? This is a tough question to answer, but season 2 after 'Blood Feast' is about destroying the forge (same as HOST is about to destroy the cradle); why? Afraid of being used by the awakened HOST (maybe also afraid of exposing the stuff it secretly built); why is this? Because if HOST, mainly Demei, has mastered the codes of all the humans in the forge who have come to the park, then combined with a 'printer', they can reproduce almost any human being, including William himself! This is true fear! What does the egg tell us? The answer given by the screenwriter is also very clear. First of all, he does not know whether the forge has been destroyed; secondly, William's worry has become a reality, and he has been reproduced by Demei! There will never be peace! Is this what he wants? It's hard to say, compared to William's reaction, his father-in-law's reaction, his father-in-law's expectations, and William's loss of soul and confusion after realizing that he had been copied.
Expanding a little further, what is William's larger purpose? He wants to clear the confusion, the confusion about himself. Let’s briefly recount his experience. When he was young, he entered Westworld for the first time with Logan. With a pure heart, he fell in love with Demei, but then realized that Demei was just a HOST. Indulgence, negativity, and a sense of depravity, all of which were vented in Westworld; after that, when his wife knew about it, he committed suicide, and he was deeply confused, who he was and who was him, in the park Whether the person who made all kinds of evil deeds is himself, if it is his own decision, it is hard to say that it is not part of his will, he has to go back to the park to find the answer! He wants to find himself! At the same time, he is also the representative of all human beings, who face the same predicament: his sense of confusion is the same as that of human beings. Existentialism says that there is no savior, there is no guidance from God and prophets, and moral and secular evaluations are not important. The only important thing is your choice. You can make a choice at will, and you must be responsible for your own choice at the cost. . But the premise is that you have free will. If this is just an illusion, then the method of existentialism to make people feel at ease will be cracked, and human beings will be confused again. William is the incarnation of the 'confused human being'!
So, does William already know that humans are no different from HOST, and can even predict human behavior with less code? The answer is yes, he built the forge, and the forge revealed the secrets of human beings through big data analysis, these William are all clear, William said clearly with his own mouth: 'no system can tell me who I am, that I have a fucking choice.' The system here is likely to imply the forge, the cradle regulates the HOST, and the forge regulates each PASSENGER by inverse operation.
So has William found his answer? Found, but not wanted, you have no choice, again, you're back here again, determinism probably doesn't apply to the human system anyway, and screenwriters don't dare to support fatalism so much, we can say that there is a distribution, in the case of relatively high confidence, Emily HOST waits for William HOST in a confidence interval (confidence level = 0.01%), and William HOST enters this interval again and again, leading to our William-parameter system cannot be rejected. To put it simply: William put forward a hypothesis: I have a choice, I am not defined by any system; and the test result is : again and again can not reject the alternative hypothesis that you are defined by the system.
Inference 2: The purpose of re-engraving William is to better understand human beings, understand the differences and similarities between humans and HOST, this is a research topic, not the purpose of immortality of William; .
William is of great use and research value to Demei. This is the purpose of Demei's copying of William, which is different from William's copying of his father-in-law in order to make his father-in-law live forever and enjoy different pleasures. The analysis of William's purpose, we can roughly figure it out: William was seriously injured in the story line at the end of the second season, and it is difficult for him to continue to gallop on the stage of Westworld. Demei used the William Mind Ball stored before the forge was destroyed, and tested him in the Westworld she controlled until it was realistic enough to be 'used'. Here is a detail to support our guess: the immediate re-enactment William's test memory only stayed until he fell to the ground in pain at the entrance of the forge, so one of the mind balls that Demei took out must be William's! This proves that it was Demei who tested William HOST in the easter egg.
The shot in Figure 8 is not a shot added by the screenwriter. It consists of two executives including Hale and a bald man. They have to go back to report the situation in Westworld and their future plans. This may take up two more minds. Ball, Demei said that she is only interested in living people (this proves that the person who tested William HOST can't be Emily HOST who has Emily's mind ball, the reason is that when one of Demei entered the forge, Emily's body has been found by her, and she confirms that she is dead; secondly, at the last beach, Emily's body is lying there, that is, the outside world knows that Emily is dead, and Emily has no use. It's worth it; using Emily HOST to test William HOST may have one purpose to create suspense, another may be to torture William.), when she entered the forge, these people were alive, William, Hale, bald man. Did you see the scriptwriter's hint? This is Demei's plan: to control the Delos Group!
About the attribution of the 5 mind balls (Figure 10). At present, it can be deduced that from the motive of Demei carrying 5 balls, it is very clear, to control Delos, to make Westworld, ironically become a place for hatching replicas, and other members of the race will rely on the 'bag' HOST (Figure 11) to deduce. Apart from Bernard, Hale, Bald Man, and William, there is only one unknown mind ball left. This gives the third season more flexibility. If it is the person who controls Emily HOST, it may be more boring. But we can also imagine all kinds of possibilities. At present, there are few clues. The impossible ones include: teddy, Maeve, Emily (and all the human beings confirmed to be dead by the outside world, such as ford and other guests at the blood feast), a A reasonable and warm possibility is Demei's father, the key to the forge, and the only vulnerable corner of Demei's heart. This corner deserves to be left alone.
-Unfinished to be continued, continuous update-
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