Shhh! That's supposed to be a secret-secret.

Oh, about 120 pounds.

That's just the thing, Zach is very clearly upset at TWD "for not being what the reviewer want[s] a show to be." I have a feeling that the highest-rated show on television might have at least one fan who can write a reasonable review.

Not so rare in Georgia, I guess. One of the disposable children from the prison was named Molly, as well as the old lady Savior who held Maggie and Carol prisoner. I like your headcanon, though! :)

Agreed on your first two paragraphs, but I really don't get the third point. This is one area where we don't need to imagine at all, mad men seize power and wield it jealously and with great cruelty all over the world.

No flashback scene that I recall, but "Arrow on the Doorpost" gives us The Governor's retelling of his pre-warlord life. If you want more background, read the novel Rise of the Governor, but remember that's within the comic book canon.

Thank you! I'm tired of reading reviews by people who can't get over the fundamental thesis of the show.

Oh damn, I'm red-green colorblind; this will never be helpful to me! :)

It's hard to pin any time period down with all the anachronisms built-in. Ford's virtual homestead looked like a 1950's English residence ( to me, I'm no historian), but it seems unlikely that timing would be feasible. I'm not even sure that we have an indication what planet we're on.

Since I wasn't familiar with the song or lyrics beforehand, this was a nice Easter Egg to me. At least he's not the 25th person to wonder if anyone noticed The Gunslinger in the background. ;)

I would think that's already in place long before Westworld could open. They'd have a bunch of unskinned Terminator bots digging minerals out of asteroids long before they figured out how to pass a Turing Test with one of them. Perhaps the company made their mint on that in the first place before branching out into…

They were out of that model at Sears… :(

Wasn't that after Sylvester discovered them? I noticed it, and figured they denuded her to reduce suspicion, since it was clearly out-of-the-ordinary for "butchers" to be talking to clothed Hosts.

Especially if there was no longer the need for a huge android factory, once the Hosts became flesh-printed simulacra.

But then we can't build a whole mind-canon around it and bitch when it turns out in the end it was nothing but a callback. ;)

We've seen the modern Hosts being manufactured in what appears to be a 3D-printer/CNC-type machine, but we know the earlier Hosts were pure androids with millions of mechanical parts. Perhaps the sublevels became disused as the manufacturing process moved from an assembly-line factory to a custom-machined process?

I won't pretend I know the creator's minds, but I love how it reminds us of the artificiality of the park. The covers are beautifully-done in any case, and I find it a lot more compelling than if they just had public domain saloon music.

See also, Ford's virtual family. Bernard almost got a Host-beatdown for waltzing into the family estate. Not that Sylvester knew that, but we've established that we're not exactly dealing with Asimov's three laws here.

He's been moonlighting on his little birdie side-project, with hopes to be promoted to Behavior, so I agree the prospect of a self-aware Host that he can study must be fascinating.