This Westworld review contains spoilers.
Westworld Episode 3
When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
Yet, it may go further still.
Lifeless beings who he shows complete apathy toward and for whom chasing genuine sentient self-awareness is a fools errand.
And such illusions are beginning to fall apart in The Stray,Westworlds best episode yet.
This chapter also doubles down on exploring some of the mechanics of the park to illuminating effect.
Also, Ford admonishes one of his subordinates for covering up a robots private region.
As Ford hisses, they have no modesty or sense of shame.
There isnt a thought there that he hasnt put in place.
The first is likely a familiar conversation theyve probably been programmed to have a thousand times.
She wants to leave her childhood home, and Teddy dissuades her because he has some reckoning to do.
And those are what forces her to eventually pick up a gun and disobey her programming.
At least not fully.
Still, I will posit another theory: what if he is tracing Arnolds footsteps through the oldest models?
From Peter Abernathy to his daughter, and most recently to Maeve.
It is definitely something to consider as the series progresses.
For the moment, Robert Ford seems obsessed with completing his new storyline.
Indeed, much of this is confirmed when Bernard and Ford begin discussing Arnolds role in the park.
But there was something more profound going on.
In Fords words, Arnold built a version of their cognition where hosts heard their code as an inner-monologue.
For what else is a man who claims to hear the voice of God in his head?
Many of these robots went crazy and were scrapped, and soon after Arnold died in the park.
We called it an accident, but I knew Arnold, Sir Anthony smiles.
He was very, very careful.
Stop and dont end up like my other partner who nobody remembers.
What if she, as the sentimental favorite host, did become self-aware before having her memories scrapped?
Likewise, Hopkins own Robert Ford saw his prospects improve upon the death of a colleague.
Bernard astutely replies, This pain is all I have left of him.
Bernard sees everyday what erasing ones memories does.
It forces his hosts to live a lie.
Rather, he is taking on a paternal relationship with her that might nonetheless prove damning.
Westworld itself is a story the park tells the guests for $40,000 a day.
But Dolores is actually, in small increments, trying to change herself in legitimate ways.
It is also why Dolores does not wish to erase memories of their meetings.
She knows, unlike the theory of the Bicameral Man, she is one being with one consciousness.
And once she realizes how to use it, Ill be free.
We catch a glimpse of that freedom at the end of the episode.
And in Logans defense, there is little duller inRed Dead Redemptionthan the bounty side missions.
Rating:
5 out of 5
