I so super stupid. I'm a fan of all three of those animated shows and NEVER picked up it was the same voice actor.

Gah, my muted rage over that last season.

Hector. He's essentially a recording device with benefits. Anywhere there is a host, there is Ford.
So, it's unlikely she's a host (for now).

I won't jump on you like everyone else, but let me suggest that maybe the actual issue you are having isn't with what is a fairly standard evil tv exec trope. I suspect you don't buy the actress. I certainly don't. She's too young and beautiful. She seems like she's on the wrong show. She certainly doesn't seem like…

An overlooked connection is that he was on Person of Interest which may have yielded an interesting comment on how he sees the differing conceptions of AI

My impression of this show is late-era Family Guy had a baby with middle-era Adult Swim.

Except, this is obviously a show that has established it will be obfuscating certain things to forestall showing their narrative hand. Obviously. And your protest is a little different. Is it a plot hole or not? You don't know do you? Now, can you argue that they didn't do enough? Maybe you can. Eventually. Obviously.

I'm wondering if she gets replaced with a replicant. Whoever snatched her can't just disappear her without attracting a lot more attention.

I like that observation! It plays into what I think was the key line of the episode - MiB saying "you think you know somebody". The entire episode is about characters and the audience learning new things about people they thought they knew, trusted or at least had a handle on.

Elsie's actions are right in line with what has been established for her personality. Her key drive is ambition. She is arrogant, incautious, intelligent but dismissive of others and blithely unaware of her shortcomings.
What is interesting to me is, her absence absolutely cannot be explained in any way. Clearly,…

You could also just realize that if it's an obvious hole, they've spent hours discussing it and there's an angle you can't yet see that will address it. Your crit would have more weight if we were at season end with no additional context having been offered.

You got robot fever, boy!

aside from your weird objection to the relationship as a lesbian angle, I think you're onto something. Or more specifically, I think you're embracing Kelly's argument: this is a graveyard and eventually the unceasing thread pull of digital time will unravel a person's humanity, leaving them desperate for connection to…

God damn it, Black Mirror.

I'm fine with placing a question mark next to that, it's not a key point.

Right, and people have been pushing the "William goes dark" idea but I can't see William ever getting so dark he's a rapist. But Logan, he's shown he doesn't see the androids as anything but automatons and is willing to indulge all of his appetites using them.
William can't be the MiB because that character remembers…

I don't know if anyone has put this theory forth but I would like to propose a variation on the timeline theory:
The Man in Black is actually Logan. That Billy somehow meets his demise during The Incident in the park, deeply affecting the jaded Logan, who changes his life in the outside world. But he's obsessed with…

Honestly, yes.

indeed. So hopefully, WestWorld sees what happened with that predecessor and doesn't linger.

You'd think so, since HBO doesn't even have a page for it anymore on their site but yes, a real show.
A timeless multi-generational struggle between good and evil unfolds against the backdrop of the Great Depression in the dustbowl of America's heartland. In a traveling freakshow.
Google images of HBO's Carnivale.
Then…