It is a paradox, in that the ship is the same ship, yet it is literally not the same ship. Paradoxes are commonly used in philosophy to stimulate thought, as with, oh, Zeno's paradoxes. Are you trying to prove something here?

That has bothered me for YEARS, I was so happy

That was my biggest laugh of the episode.

I know it as Theseus' Paradox, but yes, that is indeed what I was talking about.

You mean that the young boy was a robot?

Yup :(

I didn't mean to imply that offering a full gooey experience means they're identical in their interiors, though I can see how it read that way. Human scalps don't, to my knowledge, have mazes etched on their undersides. Nor do they walk around leaking milk from holes in their abdomens like an eldritch cartoon.

Not gonna lie dude, it did not for one second occur to me there was a grooming thing going on here. It seemed to me it was all about Ford and the kid mirroring each other about feeling alienated from those close to them—and before you start, without that alienation being exploited as an avenue for inappropriate…

Well, the hosts bleed when cut. Presumably if a guest wants to have the full sadist experience, the hosts should have the necessary interiors. Who wants to "go full evil" on vacay and cut someone/thing open only to find nothing gooey inside?

90% of the time, even when the tech is incredible, the problem is human error.

See, I'm the chump who'd just think, "In general I prefer black clothes, black hat for me" and not even think of the implications.

I feel strongly that Thandie Newton's storyline goes beyond "she's a good actress, so we should give her something to do." What I saw in this episode was a quiet commentary on how black women are treated in film and television. She's introduced as a sex worker, explicitly robotic, with no interior life or ability to…

If you keep your eyes peeled it's everywhere!

Amy had a line at the end about how they found her and she's safe. Whether there'll be any sort of tag on her character remains to be seen.

If it had been, I guarantee people would be complaining about how it could and should have been fit in to 3 tops, maybe 2.

I figured it was Haas's, since when they first talked to him on the phone they were trying to call her.

I got some pretty good Rosa/Gina material out of the last one, when Gina said she's a new Gina who puts others before herself…and looked at Rosa while she said it.

I don't know if anyone already offered a translation of what the cab driver was saying, but it was just the typical grumbling of a NY cabbie who has no patience for nonsense from a passenger, but rendered in Egyptian Arabic. (I assume this was a little easter egg to Esmail's and Malek's heritage.) One of the lines was…

This doesn't surprise me. Many of the young activists I know from Egypt, Syria, etc. (and Esmail has talked about the Arab Spring's influence on the show) are utterly burned out and hopeless. One guy I know who used to work for UNDP in Egypt gave up, moved to the US, and is now a bartender. He has no particular agenda…

Yeah, that was bothering me when she was sitting in her office transferring the various pieces of information between USBs. She kept stopping and looking around when anyone passed. Girl, you're sitting somewhere you're supposed to be, no one is behind you to see your screen, just keep going about your business like…