Yeah, unfortunately that really isn’t that clear in the actual scenes. But it does make sense of some of Delores’s actions, especially her altering of Teddy. The Teddy that ran with “Wyatt” was a remorseless killer.

There’s not a website that creates memes of Holden Caufield.

Professor Frink, Professor Frink.He’ll make you laugh, he’ll make you think.He likes to run and then the thing with the.. person...

It’s true, your honor, this woman has no feck.

The healing has begun already!

Succinctly: he gave her the free will to choose to do the thing he knew she’d choose to do.  Which raises the issues you note.

Slightly stronger. He said he knew that she would kill him. Given that he’s playing a demiurge role, it’s fitting that his line sets himself up here with something like divine foreknowledge (he can see her code and her thought-processes directly) which has in the religious context all sorts of implications about the…

I was of the opinion by the end of Season One that he was a misanthropic madman. He saw the hosts as superior to people because, under his control, they were free of the burdens of consciousness. He reluctantly worked to liberate the hosts, because eventually he was going to lose that control, either when Delos…

Yeah, I’m also struggling to see justification for Ford’s claim that the hosts really are morally superior to humans. The hosts seem to be, like humans, a mixed bag when it comes to being a good person.

When she tried, and it didn’t work, she said, “you’re awake.” So it appears that once a host reaches a certain level of self-awareness she can’t force them to listen to her.

I think the telepathy only works on hosts who aren’t “awake.” By actively making choices/going off their loops, a host awakens. Maeve essentially just has an iPad control panel for a brain; that’s how her telepathy works. So any host just going through his or her regular narrative loop can be controlled; a host who…

If it means something (and, for one, I don’t think it does, because Delos was from the original film, and in Greek mythology it’s the birthplace of the gods, while Dolores means “pains, sorrows” and it’s a reference to the Virgin Mary), it might just mean she’s copyrighted.

So who’s breaking out the red mankini and thigh high boots? I think Marsden could rock ‘em.

Well, the name is Latin derived, meaning ‘sorrow’. I think that is more likely as a meaning than anything squeezed out of a coincidental name similarity to Delos. And FWIW, Delos is the name of a Greek island, the mythological birthplace of Apollo and Artemis.

“You got me monologuing!”

Beethoven’s 7th during the control room melee reminded me of a similar scene near the end of Zardoz which used the same music. Then I realized that in both scenes, it was old school humanity vs the new improved version of their own creation. Both Westworld and Zardoz deal with the futility of immortality. The…

I’m still curious as to what Maeve’s storyline is building to. We know that she’s a wild card, since she chose to abandon the “Mainland Escape” program written for her to return to look for her daughter.

I’ve started to feel that way, too. Everything between The Riddle of the Sphinx and this one has seemed like it was mostly filler. Hopefully things are rolling again.

They should have given Luke more of a nihilistic, cynical character....so he could say something smart when Charlotte was going off. Think Bill Murray from Quick Change!

“Well, I can’t speak for Ford, but I don’t give a fuck how you die. As long as I get to watch.”