With the return of Mr. Ford, the texture of "Westworld" immediately improved by a small grade. If nothing else, just the lines and accents are very comfortable to listen to.
It's interesting to say that "Westworld" was originally a testing ground for the Delos Company to copy the human brain, but now it has become the cradle of the receptionist's awakening...
After the seventh episode, most of the content of this season's story has been explained (Bernard's flashbacks in the first episode were also used), but the most important doubts and endings are still half-covered, which is the charm of the unknown and the search. Well, as Ford said, "Isn't the joy of reading a story the one who discovers the ending for yourself?"
worry about everything
Bernard had a slew of questions to ask after meeting Ford (as did the audience), and Ford simply attributed his "survival" to one of the many intentions of the Delos investment.
At this point Bernard thought the core handling controls he had printed earlier were for Ford.
The "red ball" hole is basically filled here... But what I care about is that Ford neither admitted nor denied it, but avoided this problem... Maybe, this control is prepared for the two of them. Yes.
As Bernard's mentor, Ford continued to persuade him to understand the nature of "Westworld".
(Although it can't compare to Thanos, I can erase the entire "Westworld" with a snap of my fingers)
Following Ford's words, Bernard realized that "the park is the laboratory, the tourists are the variables, the receptionist is the reference standard (constant), and the goal of the Delos Corporation is to replicate the human being."
"Westworld" fills the void where the human brain doesn't have a backup - but humans don't want the receptionist to become them, but rather to become the (better) receptionist themselves.
The receptionist's awakening was a "mistake" (combined with Ford's rhetoric about mistakes and evolution in S1E1, it's clear which side he's on), but a beautiful mistake.
According to the tonality and principles of the first season, Ford will not lie, but a lot of times the language is mysterious and people can't understand... But the fact that he did not force Dolores to kill himself is now clear.
"You (receptionists) are all free."
Ford admitted that the "replicant" experiment has not yet succeeded. Although the existing technology can replicate the human brain, the artificial human is still stupid, only repeating but not thinking - this is why he prefers to stay in the "cradle". , because here his mind does not degenerate with the body/organism.
Regarding the final intention, Ford only said that it was a chance to "give Bernard a fight."
This is obviously a riddle, after all, in Bernard's cognition, no receptionist can escape "Westworld", and Ford is reluctant to say what the "Valley Beyond" is .
Jumping to the ending is the job of someone who can't tell a story. Ford obviously won't lose any details, so he took Bernard back to the "house" and told it step by step.
When Arnold died, the Delos Company had not yet entered into the "Westworld" project. At that time, Ford only had Arnold's memory of himself and Dolores in hand, and wanted to bring Arnold back, Dolores became the only option.
It's clear from Ford's words that he experimented with "cyborgs" before the Delos (perhaps that's why they set their sights on Westworld), and he's been testing Bernard and Dolores in their cradles for many years .
Moreover, this test should be two-way - that is, the two key receptionists rely on their own original memories to adjust and grow each other.
Ford's motive has now been further confirmed, that is, to use "resurrection" to help his old friend Arnold fulfill his long-cherished wish... The problem is, Bernard is a pure-hearted "initial work", 34 years ago, Arnold knew that he could not fight The "general trend" finally obstructed by destroying and committing suicide. Even if he was resurrected, he still lacked the ability to fight and survive.
Ford believes that humans only want the most brutal and true "self-portraits", so simple Bernard cannot be spared and is destined to be swallowed...
Unless you open the "door" yourself. This also echoes the theme of the second season of "Westworld", the door of Ford is for those who find the end of the "labyrinth". Now, it's time to leave the "cradle".
This also exposes Ford's "view of freedom". Bernard's so-called free will is only a relative existence. Unless Ford withdraws, Bernard alone will not be used at all...
Perhaps in Ford's eyes, only when the two of them are combined and complementary can they be qualified to talk about the freedom of the receptionist.
true freedom
After Dolores led her troops into Pingding Mountain (Mesa), Hale finally couldn't sit still. She realized that the reinforcements of Keflin might not be able to protect herself and her data...
So while the receptionists were killing, she was about to cut open Peter Abernathy to take the core controls.
Stubbs originally wanted to go to the front line to charge, but was kept by Hale's side by Keflin. This episode made him see Hale's words and deeds, and became more suspicious.
I said before that Stubbs was kind and soft-hearted, and he was reluctant to work for conspiracy and ambition. Now, after being pressed by Hale, he finally began to "bite": he drew a gun and demanded to know the truth.
This little infighting ended Dolores, who came to the scene. After taking over the situation, she learned that Peter was wearing a "fail-safe" decryption key, and even better, she knew how to use it.
This time, it was Hale's turn to be sloppy and shocked, because Dolores knew far more than a "disturbing receptionist" - the ridiculous "delusion of immortality" of human beings will die in the "Far Valley".
After the receptionist assault team entered the Pingding Mountain, the troops were divided into two groups. Dolores and Teddy came to Peter, and Angela led the team to the cradle.
Everyone thought that the receptionist was here to "snatch the backup", so the main force of the human security force was blocking the latter. Clementine died in the fight to cover Angela, and the injured Angela finally arrived at the destination...
Hale believes that the receptionist robbed the "cradle" in order to gain the ability to "regenerate" and thus control his own destiny, but Dolores' answer once again surprised her: backup is not our way back, but captivity our shackles.
Destroy it and the receptionist has real freedom.
Like humans, each receptionist now has only one life left.
Dolores wanted to cut off Hale's head, but was interrupted one after another, and Stubbs escaped with Hale - Peter regained his sanity briefly, and Dolores was no longer in the mood to chase the poor... …
Dolores still loves her "father" deeply...but she understands that in every sense, she should say goodbye to this "relationship".
After taking the controls out of Peter's head, Dolores became a truly carefree person.
Enemy road is narrow
At the same time, the two who were evading the pursuit of the ghost country met again in a hut that seemed familiar to each other.
Maeve's "daughter" maintains the original character, innocent and frightened, Maeve naturally has to give her the greatest comfort, "If you are taken away, I promise to find you back."
Just after boasting about Haikou, Maeve's biggest "dream" appeared.
There is no need to look back on the grudge between William and Maeve, not to mention that Maeve was a little frightened, William himself was in a trance: Dare you to make so many things, Ford, just to make such a bad joke with me here?
But this time, Maeve was no longer a weak woman who was powerless to fight back. She attacked before William recovered, proving that she was "different".
In the midst of the scuffle, William's attitude was suspicious: he always believed that Ford would only try to stop himself without actually killing himself.
This shows that there must be some unwritten rules or restrictions between William and Ford, otherwise William would not be a big caretaker along the way - only to prevent the ordinary messing up the receptionist, but not to prevent (think it is) Ford's arrangement.
William paid the price for his carelessness, and the "awakened" Lawrence became his only life-saving straw.
Maeve found that she couldn't control Lawrence, and she was amazed that another "enlightened" kind appeared, but she could only change her words and let Lawrence recall by himself, to induce him to reflect on whether he should help William.
I have to complain a bit, Maeve made Lawrence stare at a shot of William, which looks like Peter Abernathy...
Really don't want to believe it's just a "face hit" coincidence, but the explanation is the simplest...
After Lawrence remembered William's "dark history", he turned his gun to take revenge on him. At a critical moment, Heathmore brought the security forces to the scene, Lawrence was knocked down, and "daughter" was kidnapped by the country of ghosts. Maeve He has once again become Heathmore's "trophy".
But at this time, Heather obviously didn't treat Maeve as an ordinary receptionist any more - he stood on the human side, hoping to find a way to get along with the receptionist in peace and stability.
The seriously injured William became a loner again... After being shot four times in a row, he was only seriously injured, William, do you really have any "halo"?
who is who variable
Ford had a plan. He had counted countless times about the possible scenarios, so after leaving the cradle with Bernard, he stopped fighting the "antivirus" and automatically cleared the fault, returning all systems to normal.
I believe that after the cradle was blown up, the "projection of consciousness" in Bernard's mind was Ford's last personality, and the next thing he could do through Bernard.
After using half-truths to tell Elsie, Bernard went to the main control room battlefield, and he wanted to burn "Westworld" in a real sense: completely abolish the control system.
In this case, the murderous Dolores will no longer be restrained, and everything will be irreversible. Bernard hesitates, and it is Ford who gave him "the courage to alternate between the old and the new".
From then on, the receptionist finally stood at the same starting point as humans on the basic board.
After achieving all the strategic goals, Dolores met Maeve who was injured and trapped before leaving. She was very puzzled about this: You are as strong as you, why did you end up here?
When she heard that it was "for her daughter", Dolores was relieved. It turned out that you still have such obvious weaknesses. Family and feelings are just another rope that humans use to bind us. Why be so stupid?
Faced with such an obvious choking noise, Maeve was unhappy, and it happened that she saw Teddy, who was decisive and unrecognizable - the man who had just killed Keflin's team not long ago - and the gentle, soft-eyed man who was sentenced to death. If two people, this became her best reason to refute Dolores.
Maeve said that Dolores was lost in the darkness, but the latter said that she could see the road after walking a lot at night... For everyone's sake, she didn't mind giving Maeve a good time.
This is the third confrontation between the "two female protagonists" in this season. Although they are still tit-for-tat on the surface, in fact, on the basis of sticking to their own opinions, the two sides have subtly made compromises with each other - Maeve in order to save her daughter's selfish desires , forced many of her kind to do reluctant things and die, and Dolores eventually decided to let Maeve walk the rest of the way on her own.
Hale, Keflin, Carl just want to take away the key control, their words and deeds can be predicted, Dolores, Maeve, Bernard and others become unpredictable.
The original intention of "Westworld" was to use the same receptionist to understand and copy the changing human beings; now human beings have become a "constant" with a fixed behavior pattern, while the receptionist is a "variable" with infinite possibilities.
Here I have to mention Hissmore.
When "recycling" Maeve, he wanted to guard; when he was dropped by the security forces, he wanted to wait; when the receptionist attacked, he wanted to save his life; when only himself and Maeve were left at the scene, he wanted to wait again. How to do it? Full of tangle and unknown, Heathmore is becoming more and more (Westworld-like) "human".
Dolores leads the rest towards the Far Valley, and Bernard and Ford also have work to do.
Before that happens, Bernard must take down the security guards blocking the road— not so much a must-kill as a test and education opportunity for Bernard by Ford.
The soft-hearted Bernard did not want to kill again, just like Arnold back then, he only dared to kill the receptionist and himself, but did not dare to lead the creation to declare war on the future... This time, Ford will not allow Bernard to be willful again...
The combination of Arnold's ideas and Ford's execution has exploded with astonishing power. Does this also imply that Dolores and Maeve have reached a consensus and joined forces to be the real "way out" for the receptionist family?
close to the truth
Time has come to two weeks later, and one week has passed since the main story of this episode.
Stubbs secretly went to Bernard and made it clear that he had doubts about the reinforcements: Carl's group, like the Coughlin gang a week ago, didn't come to save people at all, but to recover what they wanted, for the project. They can sacrifice everything, and we're probably not in a good position.
The logic of Stubbs’ words and deeds can basically be connected. He continued to assist the Delos Company in order to find an opportunity to inform the outside world and ask Bernard for help. Using the satellite phone that Teresa left behind was an excellent method.
But before Bernard made his statement, the two were taken as suspects, and Karl was escorted to the scene of Teresa Cullen's death to confront him. It seems that Hale really found a lot of things this week...
In Ford's abandoned basement, Bernard's avatars are found (many appear to have been scrapped) and their identities revealed.
What followed was a seemingly long but short interrogation time. Arnold and his own memories flashed in Bernard's mind. At Hale's request, he told what happened a week ago.
However, whispering in front of Carl, Stubbs and others is obviously not a purposeless move - there is a smell of lies here.
Perhaps, Bernard already has the ability to lie when his "brain is in chaos", or maybe he followed Hale's idea and lied, and maybe both of them are acting...
But the result is the same, the large force will turn back to the "Far Valley" to retrieve Peter Abernathy's core controls.
Carl's plan is to send things out as soon as they get them, which is different from what Hale wanted to take out in person. Although it may only be the second batch of reinforcements that brought better transmission technology, it has to be considered. There are many factors in the Delos Company - the drama of human infighting is not uncommon, and Hale is not necessarily with Carl, just like Stubbs has his own thoughts.
In addition, in the "two weeks later" timeline, Dolores, Maeve, Heather, Elsie, and even Ford, who should have been in Bernard's mind, have not appeared. It can be seen that Bernard still has A lot of things have not been said... Maybe, the rest of the people are waiting for them somewhere in the "far valley".
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