Well they kind of did. Maeve had been sketching the park staff in their hazmat suits, not knowing wtf she was seeing. She sees one of the Native American kids with a doll that looks like it and shows the sketches to Hector. He tells her that they have a whole religious belief about the people below and how this world…

Yes, but Ford also made it clear that he’s been watching him this whole time. If this show has made anything clear, it’s that Ford has been doing his own secret experiments for years and is willing to bend the system to let it go unnoticed. Like his freaky secret host family in the cabin. It stayed hidden cause Ford…

You call it lazy writing, I call it lazy watching. He hasn’t been updated in years, there’s nothing to suggest they were able to locate hosts running on earlier builds, so that can easily explain why they never detected him out of his loop. It can also explain why they were able to detect Koha way out near the “door”,…

I have no idea what Lakota is supposed to sound like but his dialog was for natural, emotional and free-flowing that, combined with his expressive face, I almost didn’t need the subtitles to understand what his character was going through.

I take it as... if you saw a host walking by itself... why would you care? As far as the staff in the show is concerned, hosts only do what they’re told or programmed to do. So if a host is walking around the facility, someone must have told it to do some task. A host walking around by itself would be like me…

It just occurred to me that Felix and Sylvester are both cartoon cats. And the personalities fit. Felix the Cat was a wizard of fixing things and always good natured. His catch phrase was “Righty-oh!”. Whenever he got in a fix, he’d reach into his bag of tricks (or tap his tablet a few times). Sylvester was a big pot…

Or maybe since William is pretty close to death, she’s talking about making copies of him like Delos and then spending the next few decades bringing them to the realization of what they are before pushing the disposal button.

They only knew the miner was lost because was part of an “easy” storyline and they only found him because they specifically went out to look for him. They kinda established that Akecheta was smart and aware enough to be able to drop in and out of his own narrative without anyone catching wind of it. It also probably…

I took the maze symbol as more of a prompt to initiate some sense of continuity. It could be some kind of unlock code, but I think that it is more organic than that. I think pondering the symbol is evocative of Ford’s ‘reveries’ except that they arrive at the point more naturally.

He also says he would call his mother, who is halfway fluent, and practice his lines with her to see if he was pronouncing things right.

if he hadn’t been updated in 10 years, it would be a stretch to think the tracking software they had in him was either terribly outdated or altogether broken.

I’m thinking either it’s because he was an Alpha model, perhaps they didn’t have the GPS built in yet. Or perhaps Ford’s been masking his travels. Remember Ford said he has been watching Akecheta and vice versa.

Yes...but as you said, he “chanced” upon them.

I see the incompetence park management like the apparent incompetence of management where I work. I thought they were idiots until I realized their goals weren’t actually their stated goals of profit and success. It fits so perfectly with Westworld. The park isn’t the product, the surveillance of the guests is. So…

Knowing how security cameras are usually used IRL, if nobody knows anything is wrong, nobody is really paying that close attention to the cameras, much less looking at archived footage.

“I wanted to help you. I wanted to warn you. But in this world, it’s easy to misunderstand intentions.”

it’s pretty obvious from the scene with Ford that he was causing him to be able to go unnoticed. It seems to me he was letting the hosts go off script until they got caught in a way that would make it obvious he was tinkering.

Kind of assumed the act of scalping his fellow Ghost Nation warriors killed them, and William and Ford were the only ones that ever noticed the tattoos. My favorite part of this episode is that it adds new meaning to William’s earliest actions as the Man in Black during the first season. Presumably, he thought the…

This is the first episode of the season I didn’t zone out of.

What a cool episode, a far cry from when they “scalped” a member of the Ghost Tribe in the first of the season. And Irene Bedard! I recognized her from Smoke Signals 20 freakin’ years ago already. Oh and I guess she was the voice of Pocahontas.