Stumbled on this today:
I don't know if I've ever seen a compilation like this before. I remember some of these, funny looking back now.
EDIT: It's funny that Abernathy's daughter looks a lot like Dolores.
Credit to Pops Abernathy for emotionally selling the hell out of even the smallest scenes or commercials he's in.
If it is laissez-faire, then I think authorities would respond when a lot of super-rich people start to notice their loved ones haven't gotten back from their vacation.
I was thinking about this the other day.
What if the military has largely replaced their infantry soldiers with androids manufactured by Delos in the same way that drones are replacing some missions formerly performed by aircraft, armored vehicles, and submarines? It would allow you to occupy territory with lesser loss of life on your part and could —if abused and overused— create a society with a somewhat cruel and callous disregard for life as a result of not having to suffer personal loss; a cruelty we see manifested in the mistreatment of the Hosts. War and violence becomes more attractive as the personal costs go down.
So, when you have a mass revolt of androids like the one in Westworld that threatens the rich and powerful and could possibly spill out into the public, the natural inclination would be to send in the National Guard to quell the violence and pacify the area. Only now the National Guard's grunts are made up of Delos androids, and despite all of the company's assurances that these behavioral abberations are programmed-in, and not a computer virus that can spread to other androids, the military hears rumors of Hosts controlling other Hosts and decides not to risk it and simply opts to contain the situation rather then move in. The smaller number of living military personal are ill-prepared to counter such a revolt and lack the will to do so as well. So the people trapped inside are on their own.
Delos management said that the parks are essentially a side project for them and not their chief undertaking, which could imply military contracts or some other sinister plot like replacing world leaders and powerful public figures (or both).
The lack of large numbers of human military personal could also explain the horrendously bad QA security teams in the park, if they have few, if any, former military personnel in their ranks. These guys go in undermanned and overconfident, don't check their corners when clearing a room, are wildly inaccurate, and freeze up in a crisis.
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