I'm sorry, last week was so busy that I had to stop for a week. (Backstage pros, you guys are awesome!) Because I stayed up late to write this article I managed to survive to 2 o'clock england ⚽️ matches! Good to win ✌️)
Last week's eighth episode was not very informative:
The main thing is to talk about the first half of the life of Akchita, the leader of the Ghost Legion. Because his lover was taken away, he was also one of the first hosts to awaken. He has been protecting and reminding Maeve's mother and daughter, and he is also using the "labyrinth" to lead other hosts to awaken and find the door to go out.
There's only one episode left until the finale! Episode 9 is really full of dry goods!
There are pits and explanations, metaphors that mirror each other, and full of tragic meanings. No wonder this episode of "Vanishing Point" is currently the highest score on IMDB.
This episode was broadcast on Father's Day in the United States, so let's start with the two fathers in this episode...
01
Father Doctor
Doctor, doctor, it turns out that you are also a father.
In the ninth episode, in the face of Maeve, who was "disemboweled", the doctor of "Cloud Online" finally revealed his heart: Arnold's favorite is De mei, and I, see you as my own.
This conversation between the Doctor and Maeve clarifies two questions:
1. What is the Doctor's position?
2. Has Maeve really awakened?
The first question is now clear. The Doctor has always been a pessimist who believes that "human nature is inherently evil".
In the first season, he repeatedly warned Bernard: "Don't believe us, after all, we are just human beings, and we will inevitably let you down." ”
This is also the most poignant line I think in the first season.
In the ninth episode of the second season, the Doctor tells his favorite Maeve that humans are somewhere between gods and beasts, but now they inevitably fall.
Not wanting his favorite receptionist to be with a fallen human, the Doctor wanted to give Maeve a way to live.
This also answers the second question: although the Doctor has always had control over Maeve, what he has designed for her is an "escape story line"
That is to say, in the final episode of the first season, Maeve, who chose to return to Westworld to find her daughter, has truly awakened.
In search of her daughter, Maeve returns to the beastly man-eating Westworld.
This love makes the doctor overshadowed and makes the doctor proud. Even if Maeve had been tortured into this picture.
So, the grieving Creator, with a kiss open hanging, gave his daughter the highest permission: unlock the core permission!
From the episode 10 trailer, you can see how fierce Maeve after Nirvana is.
In this rotten world, you should meet God and kill God, and meet Buddha to kill Buddha!
02
Father William
The same father, William, spent the most brutal Father's Day.
After being rescued from the Phantom Legion by his daughter Emily, William remains suspicious:
The park is so big, how did you just find me?
say! Is my daughter already dead and you're just a replica?
Did you send it from Ford?!
Many people have such doubts. So, this one also answers three key questions:
1. How does Westworld record the awareness of its guests?
2) Is Emily a human or a host?
3. Why did William's wife commit suicide?
The third question we will explain later, let's talk about the first two.
Through the previous episodes we have learned that delos Group, through Westworld, has been recording VIP guest information and logical data on their behavior. Want to replicate tourists through this.
But how do human consciousness changes record and scan them?
The answer turned out to be: hats!
Contract the man in black this little expression that is a little dragged and a little contemptuous
Remember when every guest was asked to choose a white hat or a black hat before they went into Westworld?
Oh, the routine! No matter which one you choose, you will never go back.
Frightened Emily took off her hat for a second, but it was too late.
Interlude a tidbit, one of the previous producers/screenwriters, Nolan's brother's wife Lisa, when reddit answered fans' questions, she chose to wear black hats and white hats and said: I will be careful of those hats!
Hahaha, now that I think about it, this is really a sneaky poke and a spoiler!
And Emily, who is deeply trapped in the guilt of killing her mother's suicide, her purpose is always not to reconcile with her father, but to expose these unsavory deeds of her father.
Unfortunately, William, who is too deep into the play, believes that this emily is a fake, and the doctor sent to interfere with him. I didn't hesitate to shoot at the girl...
However, the profile card he thought was a bug (this profile card is said later), but emily is the ironclad proof that emily is his daughter-in-law!
Is it William's tragedy or retribution for the father to kill his daughter?
03
The Wicked Man in Black
In summary, the Doctor and William are two very different fathers.
The former gives tough love, with continuous tempering, stimulating the growth/awakening of children, and giving selfless help at critical moments;
The latter, who seems to have given everything, money, status, and privileges, did not give Emily real understanding and companionship, and finally ended in tragedy.
In the ninth episode, as soon as the two gods meet, they turn on the taunt mode for each other. The time point was the night that Mrs. William committed suicide.
The conversation also showed that they were both dissatisfied with each other's actions. William's dark minions conduct experiments to replicate consciousness, and the Doctor is not to be outdone, and prepares a storyline for him.
The Doctor gave William a profile card documenting William's "evil deeds" in Westworld.
Looking at the close-up of William's face at this time, it is really fierce.
It can be said that The Doctor and William, because of their different worldviews, are natural enemies.
The memories of this night also reveal the mystery of Mrs. William's suicide.
Mrs. Was the only one who could see through William's undertones: black.
The tragedy of the wife is that when I first met, I thought you were the only real person, and now I know that you are just more than anyone else!
Let's look at the book William read. Extranet netizens were sharp-eyed and found these: "Moby Dick", "The Fifth Slaughterhouse", "Nameless Jude", "Plutarch's Method of Historiography", "Plutarch and Rome".
There are no useless details in Westworld. Interested students can check these books for themselves. Whether they were another proof of William's ➡️ transformation in black. There is a character in "The Fifth Slaughterhouse" called Bill, is his character similar to William? And the wife had said that William hated it the most when people called him bill.
And William's final confession became the last straw that crushed his wife.
The wife was struck by this truth and saw William's profile card again.
The profile card is full of evils that William did in Westworld. (Killing, banishing brother-in-law, raping and killing Dejie)
The number is 002, maybe my father-in-law delos is 001. William was also labeled as a victim, delusional, paranoid, etc. personality labels – this is the real him, dark, black to the end.
Unable to accept that life was a lie, the wife put the profile card into the music box she had originally given to her daughter (so Emily would see it later) and chose to commit suicide.
Here it is even more proof of the darkness in William's nature, in fact, he knows in his heart that the culprit of his wife's suicide is himself, but when his daughter blames herself for killing her mother, she does not tell the truth, does not say anything to comfort.
As a father, the doctor repeatedly guides and reminds his children (receptionists) to face the darkest reality.
Even if Bernard clears him from his mind, the Doctor gives him the right to choose freely.
The Doctor kisses Maeve, who gains her ultimate powers; William kisses his wife, who commits suicide.
A kiss to heaven, a kiss to hell. The Doctor and the Man in Black fought, and the Man in Black lost.
04
Wicked De Sister chapter
In this intention of the father, the doctor and William correspond to each other.
In terms of the "wicked", De Mei and the Man in Black are also mirror images of each other.
Remember what William said to the naked sister at the end of the second episode?
How similar are Demei and William!
When they first appeared, they were harmless and cautious;
Later, they met each other and discovered their dark side;
Then, William became the Man in Black, and the little white rabbit became Wyatt;
When the fire is full, they show no mercy to the people around them and to everything that stands in their way.
How similar are Teddy and William's wife!
Mrs. William discovers William's dark side and commits suicide by not accepting the truth of the facts;
Teddy finally awakens and discovers that Demei has modified her settings and turned herself into a demon, and has chosen to commit suicide.
Here to blow a wave of sister acting skills, this almost robot of disbelief and mourning, domestic actresses learn to learn it!
The love for Demei is the cornerstone of Teddy.
Therefore, his questioning is also particularly powerful.
When De mei prides herself on being "the first creature in the world to make a real choice", the kind teddy utters a slanderous remark: "Become as bad as those people, what is the use of living!" ”
And judging from the preview, next week's second season final episode, everyone has gathered!
There is also this strange thing like a tornado, could it be a "door"?
From the timeline, in fact, all this happened before Bernard woke up on the beach in the first episode...
That is to say, the whole story of the second season is also the end at the beginning. Mr. and Mrs. Nolan will really dig a hole for the third season.
For the end of the season, continue dating next Tuesday!