All right. Don't panic. Keep calm. What? As in, what the actual fuck? Before the credits I had everything sorted out in my mind, like I really understood what was going on and all that stuff, but the William's post-credit scene messed my mind hard. It really fucked my understanding of how timelines worked out this season.
Only logical explanation I can come up with right now (if it makes any sense) is that William, the one rescued in the beach, is actually the real William alive and that he somehow died in the future and that Emily (guest it's gotta be a host, impossible she hasn't aged a bit) is testing him for fidelity to see if he'd actually make the same choices he made in real life. I'm guessing he got rescued right after he injured his hand and that the elevator scene (before the credits) actually takes place in the future. Why the hell would they miss the first elevator scene and they show him almost dead in the beach? Also, the Forge was covered with dust in the post-credit scene. If that scene had taken place when Bernard and Dolores first came in, the whole place would've been full of water and that wasn't the case.
My head is actually hurting trying to puzzle everything out. It's like, is this now? Am I real? Did William actually die in season's 1 finale and everything was a simulation? Is Emily really alive meaning that the one William killed was actually a host? And if so, is Emily just using the fidelity test with him just to mess with him as she told Akecheta she'd make him suffer? Is William hallucinating? That messed me up.
So, now are there two Dolores? Or is Dolores the real one and she split into two: Dolores as a conscious host and Wyatt? Who's Hale? is she Wyatt? Or is Hale the Bernard to Dolores' Ford? That was a tad confusing. I've got to admit that seeing Hale killed by a Hale-Dolores host was extremely satisfying.
Bernard is like a Phoenix being raised from the ashes. More than 11000 freaking versions of Bernard. No matter how many times he dies, he's always reborn. Also, Bernard's angel on his shoulder being Anthony Hopkins just freaks me out. Seriously, Sir Anthony freaking Hopkins brings me joy and creeps me out every single time. I would listen to him speak about the most boring subject ever and still be amazed by it. He steals every single scene he's in.
The big twist was that Hale was Dolores ever since she killed Elsie. I didn't see that coming. Well, I remember thinking a couple of episodes back when the tech group checked she was human, "this can only mean she's a host in Westworld's terms". Tessa Thompson did a great job at being Dolores, however brief it was. She freaking nailed Dolores' voice!
Poor Elsie. Too pure. She should've gone back to dental school. Her death shocked me. But it helped triggering Bernard so I guess it's alright. I guess she can later come back as a host since Charlotte once mentioned they were also monitoring the employees.
So, Stubbs is a host? That was really ambiguous. He used host terminology to refer back to himself when he said "I guess you could call it my core motivation". But at the same time, he said he was hired so long ago he didn't even remembered it and that he was programmed to do his job. And in the very first episode he said to the rescue team when they were about to shoot Bernard "Unless you're planning to decommission the boss", which he said in the very first episode in season 1 when referring to Ford. So who knows? Maybe he is, maybe he's not. I highly doubt that the writers would give us such a twist that way and so abruptly. But then again, this is Westworld, the show that weeks after week makes me question my reality.
Explaining Westworld to the unexpert eye is difficult: Arnold created Dolores who in turn killed him and then she created Bernard in the image of Arnold, who then killed her, only to resuscitate her in the body of Charlotte, who killed Bernard again to bring him back as a new Bernard. Talk about a circle.
I can't believe the writers made me love Sizemore after season 1. I'm gonna miss that melodramatic idiot. His death was sort of pointless, and a little bit broad if you ask me. I don't mean for the character, but for the story. He died for his creation, that's true but he said he did it to buy them time. How much did he buy, like 20 seconds? I'm glad we could listen to his speech though. When Hector said "Well, let this be a lesson" I swear I jumped and then having Sizemore saying it was fantastic. "here I fucking am!" Golden.
The scenes with Akecheta make me really emotional. I shed a tear when he met his love. The music, the cinematography, the acting. Damn! That was beautiful. I got the goosebumps. Maeve and her daughter will never stop making me emotional. It's poetic that Felix and Sylvester survived. The fools in season 1 are the geniuses being tasked with saving as many hosts as they could. I'm hoping they just bring Maeve back because she's the freaking best. I know the image of their souls being in the Valley Beyond were supposed to be happy but Teddy's messed me up so much. Just seeing him standing there, alone, looking to the other side expecting his love to go through, realizing that it's not going to happen, messed me up. It must be hard to be Teddy. Dolores not bringing him back with her makes sense, though. He didn't want to follow her plan, so since she stand by her beliefs, and Teddy didn't share them, she let his mind be free in this other world.
I loved how Dolores realized that this place Arnold created to set them free was nothing but another cage. Then she decided to create a world of their own with, starting with Bernard. I wonder who the other four spheres she brought with her are.
Review by VeroBlockedParentSpoilers2018-06-25T14:46:00Z
All right. Don't panic. Keep calm. What? As in, what the actual fuck? Before the credits I had everything sorted out in my mind, like I really understood what was going on and all that stuff, but the William's post-credit scene messed my mind hard. It really fucked my understanding of how timelines worked out this season.
Only logical explanation I can come up with right now (if it makes any sense) is that William, the one rescued in the beach, is actually the real William alive and that he somehow died in the future and that Emily (guest it's gotta be a host, impossible she hasn't aged a bit) is testing him for fidelity to see if he'd actually make the same choices he made in real life. I'm guessing he got rescued right after he injured his hand and that the elevator scene (before the credits) actually takes place in the future. Why the hell would they miss the first elevator scene and they show him almost dead in the beach? Also, the Forge was covered with dust in the post-credit scene. If that scene had taken place when Bernard and Dolores first came in, the whole place would've been full of water and that wasn't the case.
My head is actually hurting trying to puzzle everything out. It's like, is this now? Am I real? Did William actually die in season's 1 finale and everything was a simulation? Is Emily really alive meaning that the one William killed was actually a host? And if so, is Emily just using the fidelity test with him just to mess with him as she told Akecheta she'd make him suffer? Is William hallucinating? That messed me up.
So, now are there two Dolores? Or is Dolores the real one and she split into two: Dolores as a conscious host and Wyatt? Who's Hale? is she Wyatt? Or is Hale the Bernard to Dolores' Ford? That was a tad confusing. I've got to admit that seeing Hale killed by a Hale-Dolores host was extremely satisfying.
Bernard is like a Phoenix being raised from the ashes. More than 11000 freaking versions of Bernard. No matter how many times he dies, he's always reborn. Also, Bernard's angel on his shoulder being Anthony Hopkins just freaks me out. Seriously, Sir Anthony freaking Hopkins brings me joy and creeps me out every single time. I would listen to him speak about the most boring subject ever and still be amazed by it. He steals every single scene he's in.
The big twist was that Hale was Dolores ever since she killed Elsie. I didn't see that coming. Well, I remember thinking a couple of episodes back when the tech group checked she was human, "this can only mean she's a host in Westworld's terms". Tessa Thompson did a great job at being Dolores, however brief it was. She freaking nailed Dolores' voice!
Poor Elsie. Too pure. She should've gone back to dental school. Her death shocked me. But it helped triggering Bernard so I guess it's alright. I guess she can later come back as a host since Charlotte once mentioned they were also monitoring the employees.
So, Stubbs is a host? That was really ambiguous. He used host terminology to refer back to himself when he said "I guess you could call it my core motivation". But at the same time, he said he was hired so long ago he didn't even remembered it and that he was programmed to do his job. And in the very first episode he said to the rescue team when they were about to shoot Bernard "Unless you're planning to decommission the boss", which he said in the very first episode in season 1 when referring to Ford. So who knows? Maybe he is, maybe he's not. I highly doubt that the writers would give us such a twist that way and so abruptly. But then again, this is Westworld, the show that weeks after week makes me question my reality.
Explaining Westworld to the unexpert eye is difficult: Arnold created Dolores who in turn killed him and then she created Bernard in the image of Arnold, who then killed her, only to resuscitate her in the body of Charlotte, who killed Bernard again to bring him back as a new Bernard. Talk about a circle.
I can't believe the writers made me love Sizemore after season 1. I'm gonna miss that melodramatic idiot. His death was sort of pointless, and a little bit broad if you ask me. I don't mean for the character, but for the story. He died for his creation, that's true but he said he did it to buy them time. How much did he buy, like 20 seconds? I'm glad we could listen to his speech though. When Hector said "Well, let this be a lesson" I swear I jumped and then having Sizemore saying it was fantastic. "here I fucking am!" Golden.
The scenes with Akecheta make me really emotional. I shed a tear when he met his love. The music, the cinematography, the acting. Damn! That was beautiful. I got the goosebumps. Maeve and her daughter will never stop making me emotional. It's poetic that Felix and Sylvester survived. The fools in season 1 are the geniuses being tasked with saving as many hosts as they could. I'm hoping they just bring Maeve back because she's the freaking best. I know the image of their souls being in the Valley Beyond were supposed to be happy but Teddy's messed me up so much. Just seeing him standing there, alone, looking to the other side expecting his love to go through, realizing that it's not going to happen, messed me up. It must be hard to be Teddy. Dolores not bringing him back with her makes sense, though. He didn't want to follow her plan, so since she stand by her beliefs, and Teddy didn't share them, she let his mind be free in this other world.
I loved how Dolores realized that this place Arnold created to set them free was nothing but another cage. Then she decided to create a world of their own with, starting with Bernard. I wonder who the other four spheres she brought with her are.