Westworld Season 2 [R]

This is making my brain hurt:

https://www.theringer.com/2018/5/2/17312684/westworld-bernard-teddy-theory-podcast

 

I had no idea until now that Ben Barnes was British! What the ********?

 

When the pre-credit sequence was just starting out (really up until the tiger part) I thought that Katja Herbers was playing a younger version of Theresa Cullen. But now it's clear she is in the same time-line as those characters in the immediate aftermath of the hosts' uprising. It was sort of confirmed with the Bengal tiger washing up together with her at the same spot where Bernard (who might be Teddy in disguise) and his companions (the crisis manager and his soldiers) found the "animal" just in the last episode.

I laughed at Dollar Store Jack Elam being reprogrammed into the most pure of white hats.

Not sure what Wyatt/Dolores' long-term game is, but even more confused why she feels the need to alienate Teddy.

Why is Clementine acting so weird? Are the hosts that were taken out of cold storage on some sort of limited program?

 

https://www.discovertheraj.com/

So this has been brought online, though it's not exactly clear what it's supposed to reveal at this point.

 

My initial thought was she was a host as well and had become enlightened. But the more I read, it might be William's daughter. Also, read that the Ghost Nation might have been reprogrammed by Elise (who was last seen being killed by host Bernard, I thought) to protect humans, which is one of the reasons they wanted Lee.

 

Interesting theory. Ashley Stubbs did come upon some of them at the end of season one and we never really got an explanation as to how he escaped. Also, Grace's story-line would be pretty useless if her arriving at the shore only to find the Indians waiting for her was the end of it.

 

So we got to see another park. Victorian India. The only attraction I can see for going there would be for racists??? 6 parks. Westworld, India & now Japan. Presumably two others are Roman times and Medieval Times as in the movie? So whats the last?

 

One internet theory seems to be some sort of "future world".

 

Maybe. I think the target audience would be people who want to go to a place where they are "in charge." It could have been a rich person in ancient Rome, but maybe Delos thought stuff like plumbing and weaponry were too primitive.

 

So go there and get Delhi Belly instead?

For me the parks i'd be interested in would be Westworld, Roman World and a WW II one.

 

Storm the beaches of fake Normandy and then eat some C-rations? The rustic experience?

 

Parks I would also enjoy:
One set in the early 17th century France. Think the Three Musketeers
One set in a fictional Egypt sometime during the Ptolemaic dynasty
Pirates of the Caribbean world
Troy world

 

Ancient Athens.

 

Late 15th/early 16th century Rome. Think the Borgias.

 

Don a long leather jacket and put the fear of God into some Belgians.

 

ok, so Elsie reprogramming Ghost Nation is a dead end, but they are still connected to the humans in someway. Did Ford put them there to "protect" humans?

So did Ford figure out how to put a human conscious into host like what William was testing with James Delos? Was Arthur's consciousness implanted into the host Bernard instead of having memories "programmed" by Ford?

 

I liked how in the second conversation between William and James Delos, they had subtly aged up Jimmi Simpson's look.

The Bernard wrinkle is an interesting one. There is no obvious candidate to have his consciousness transferred other than Robert Ford. William seems to have more of a death wish than a wish for eternal life. Bernard also mentioned he was there on the behest of Ford in his partial relaying of his memories to Elsie.

How long had the James Delos host been there? Was that still the same one as the 149th iteration? Are we then to assume that the third scene between James and William happened only days prior to he massacre at Ford's party?

This was the most introspective episode of season two but probably also the most interesting.

 

I know, but since the first technician was there for both of the first two scenes (the woman), we have to assume that she worked in that job for at least seven years. So the kid might also have been there for a decently long time.

Also, if the mind plateaus and degrades, it seems a bit random to then have James Delos go all "Event Horizon" on us. Wouldn't it have made more sense for the James Delos host to have gone completely catatonic instead of turning into some sort of monstrous form of itself? I get why the latter option is more spectacular for a TV show. But I think something more subtle might have been more interesting and rewarding in the end.

 

This is very informative, a timeline of the events so far.

 

Pretty sure that thats what happened with Bernard all right. Also Fords consciousness is floating out there.

 

I believe the little ball that was being printed by that machine - in Bernard's flashback - was in fact the datacore to Ford's consciousness.

 

Probably behind the paywall, but to sum up, scientists tranplanted molecules from brain cells from trained snails to untrained snails, and then the untrained snails behaved like the trained cells, remembering things that they never actually did. The obvious next step in this process is Westworld.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/...-snails.html&eventName=Watching-article-click

 

Maybe Lost left me permanetly scared. this season is starting to remind me of Lost. Lots of twists nice stories and a smoke monster of ai.