Regarding Jon: I feel like somehow, Meera's seemingly inauspicious exit (born from a desire to return home to her family) could be leading to some interesting developments. It's late in the game to introduce new characters (Randyll Tarly here shines as the exception that proves the rule to this theory), but Howland…

Did he say that? Or did he say that he'd known Dolores for 30 years? Because that's two very different things to say.

Did NOBODY here besides me read the Westworld Terms & Conditions, posted on the show's website?

not necessarily: the bullet holes themselves might simply be the hosts' body responding to an event.

NOT NECESSARILY

Why are you so convinced that Ed Harris' Gunslinger is a human being? Granted, the fact that James Marsden's Teddy character was unable to shoot him (as is the case for hosts v humans), might indicate such, is it not also possible that the Gunslinger is a host, himself, somehow able to violate the rules of the park…