HBO's "Westworld", starring Anthony Hopkins/produced by J.J. Abrams

[Owain Taggart]

Clearly, she will die without intervention. But she's a host, surrounded by people whose job is to repair hosts. She is not dead, she is in Dead Mode.

Oh, she'll be revived, but I doubt it will be without changes. Maybe she'll get repaired and be put back online just in time for her to get her "daughter" back in the Valley. Looks like she could possibly be getting a showdown with the Ghost Nation. After being revived, it would be an interesting twist if she did finally realize it wasn't her daughter, rescue her, and bring her back to the other mother.

 

[Mudd]

It is "her" daughter. Also the other Host's.

They'll patch her up again and she's good to go.

 

[DigificWriter]

In order to head off criticism, I'm apologizing for going overboard with my insistence on Maeve being dead.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

That was a great episode.

And...hey, that's Hanzee under that paint!

 

[Q2UnME]

That was probably one of the best episodes of this season. Really, just a simple love story, but incredibly well done. Amazing character beats and beautiful cinematography. Well, well done.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Yeah, possibly my favourite episode this season. I especially liked how it was all told from one point of view as a continuous story. Interesting backstory to the Ghost Nation. I was afraid that we wouldn't learn much about them, but it ended up being very satisfyingly done. It shed a lot of light on a lot of little things going on. It was quite compelling.

Also, as for Maeve, looks like it could go either way. I'm sure we'll find out soon.

 

[DigificWriter]

Tonight's episode provided answers to some questions/unexplained things that I'm not sure audiences are immediately going to pick up on, which is neat.

 

[Aragorn]

Did anyone else find it funny that during one of Akecheta's massacre loops there were two guests just chilling in the background talking to each other?

 

[auntiehill]

That was probably one of the best episodes of this season. Really, just a simple love story, but incredibly well done. Amazing character beats and beautiful cinematography. Well, well done.

I agree. Possibly the most moving, most intriguing episode they've done so far. I actually started to tear up a little for that character; his story is so incredibly sad, yet fascinating.

 

[crookeddy]

Tonight's episode provided answers to some questions/unexplained things that I'm not sure audiences are immediately going to pick up on, which is neat.

Do you write for this show or have some inside info? If not, sci the hell do you think you are talking like you're better than everyone else?

 

[Mudd]

It was a nice shift in perspective, tying together some bits and pieces throughout the show. Nice to see that Delores and Maeve aren't the only Hosts who've awakened independent of one another. There may be more.

 

[DigificWriter]

Do you write for this show or have some inside info? If not, sci the hell do you think you are talking like you're better than everyone else?

I was making an observation about the subtle way we learned why and how certain things we saw in Season 1 happened; if you want to read condescension into that, that's your issue.

 

[Forbin]

I'm having a little trouble with my suspension of disbelief in one regard: since this is a park meant to entertain visitors, why are entire character narratives, like Ake's life story, playing out when no visitors are around? Seems wasteful of energy and resources. It's like leaving the rides running 24/7 in an amusement park, even after the crowds have gone home.

 

[Mudd]

The Delos parks are preposterous both as amusement parks and as use of technology. Much like the Star Trek universe. Love the shows anyway.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I'm having a little trouble with my suspension of disbelief in one regard: since this is a park meant to entertain visitors, why are entire character narratives, like Ake's life story, playing out when no visitors are around? Seems wasteful of energy and resources. It's like leaving the rides running 24/7 in an amusement park, even after the crowds have gone home.

Nice observation. I'm going to say that it's likely since gaining autonomy that it's playing out wether there are visitors or not, ie he's living out his life the way he sees fit. And it just may be that this is happening during off-hours.And possibly made to echo the living of life of seclusion the way Native Americans have done for centuries. And speaking of hours, I don't think they've ever mentioned hours of operation. Are we suppose to assume it's a 24/7/365 type of thing?

 

[Mudd]

Yes.

 

[Forbin]

I can only assume that leaving a couple thousand robots running around the clock for decades costs absolutely nothing.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Fantastic episode and one of the best of the season. Not just for allowing some of the pieces of the puzzle fall into place (including some from the very beginning) but for the beautiful story about Akecheta's existence and the long and painful journey he has gone through. Further, his path is one that's uniquely different from the awakenings Dolores and Maeve experienced and perhaps he had a hand in Maeve's own awakening thanks to the maze symbol Arnold created for Dolores' journey.

My heart breaks for Akecheta because what happened to Kohana and Etu, although I expect they've been reactivated (and perhaps awakened?) along with the other Hosts that were in cold storage, so perhaps Kohana is out there looking for Akecheta and he doesn't even know it?

I expected Akecheta's awakening to tie in with the drawing of the environmental suit that Maeve found from a Ghost Nation child, but Wichapi implied other Ghost Nation people have seen the other side, too. It's probably for the best that the drawing was left indirectly unexplained. However, I am disappointed that we didn't get an explanation for why Ghost the Nation captured Stubbs.

I worry for Maeve now that she's under Charlotte's clutches and Charlotte understands the full extent of Maeve's capabilities. Perhaps Lee and the others (what happened to Felix and all of them anyways?) will be able to whisk Maeve away before Charlotte does anything nefarious.

Emily shows her true intentions to Akecheta and the best part is she said it right in front of William's face and his own willful ignorance prevented him from knowing.

Yeah, possibly my favourite episode this season. I especially liked how it was all told from one point of view as a continuous story. Interesting backstory to the Ghost Nation. I was afraid that we wouldn't learn much about them, but it ended up being very satisfyingly done. It shed a lot of light on a lot of little things going on. It was quite compelling.

I also worried about how the (real life) writers would handle the Ghost Nation, but I was likewise satisfied with what we got. Nice to see Zahn McClarnon pop up! I wondered if I knew who was behind the make-up.

I wonder what language the Ghost Nation speaks? An existing one (such as Lakota because of McClarnon) or one designed specifically for the show?

 

[Owain Taggart]

Maybe Dothraki! Kidding. Have to admit, that's got me curious too. One of the more fascinating aspects of GoT for me has been the Dothraki language.

Have to add too, that I particularly liked how he knew he had to kill himself to get to the other side. At first, I wondered what he meant by other side, one of a possible belief/religion stemming from the culture, until the next scene when we see him laying down in the facility. I thought that was brilliantly done.

Now after seeing this episode, I only wish more of them this season were of this quality. I feel the narrative has been kind of thin for most of this season, but seeing the episode showed that they had the chops.

 

[Cyrus]

I wonder what language the Ghost Nation speaks? An existing one (such as Lakota because of McClarnon) or one designed specifically for the show?

Closed captioning identifies it as Lakota