I think it’s sort of perfect—ultimately, he’s a total m’lady who falls in love with a damsel. It’s a narrative that he likes because it makes him Good. And we learn, in bits and pieces throughout the season, that he’s fascinated with the robots because he too has always felt less than human. Even as young William he’s…

I think that’s giving him much too much credit. He literally says last night that he killed the little girl “...to see if I could.” or something along those lines. In an overly generous interpretation, that was why he was hitting Dolores, but he never thought the maze was for anyone but himself. It doesn’t make sense…

Good point, I wasn’t thinking of the real world complications of keeping him around.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Ford is gone for more practical reasons. It was quite coup to snag one of the greatest living actors for a TV show, albeit in a really meaty role. Is it realistic to expect Sir Anthony to return for another season?

He talked in earlier episodes about how suffering makes them more human, he seemed to know the answer to the maze without realizing it. All of his evil work was toward a goal of giving the hosts consciousness so they could fight back against him and the other guests.

I don’t know, it was a great self contained season which is a good call if you’re not sure you’re getting renewed but I trust them to bring us more.

Just for curiosity’s sake, is misspelling Dolores’s name a meme or something? That’s pretty much the only reason I’ve been able to come up with to explain how many goddamn versions of her name people’ve been using.

The last we see of Felix is him opening up cold storage to let out the hosts who ambush the board’a party. The implication seemed clear to me: Felix was instrumental to implementing Ford’s plans, and he was working with Ford all along.

Maeve’s breakout was programmed to get the data out of the park. She rejected it at the end to go find her daughter, which was Ford screwing over the Delos board. It wasn’t her breaking from her programming.

None of what was hinted at? They’re tropey stereotypical lab geeks stuck in a basement all the time butchering robots, you don’t need much in terms of hinting to know that the’re going to get invested, they’re not very independent minded, and they’ll do whatever people will yell at them to do.

I liked MIB/Billy storyline more than not just because of how impotent it/he ended up being. He was an obnoxious character as MIB, and I found him worse as Billy since I’m absolutely tired of the whole “dude finding himself” narrative (heh, meta). I like how they subverted it, I like how he was never really the real…

I confess I didn’t. I was too horrified about the defacing of the table in the library. I suck at “awareness,” I guess.

I mean what he’s basically saying is “I didn’t want to make a movie and with actors and stuff, just a snuff film.”

I’d draw a distinction between what Scott did in Alien (scared the crap out of his actors with unexpected gross special effects) and what Kubrick did to Duvall and Bertolucci here. The first example might be a little mean but is ultimately pretty harmless. The latter two were psychological, emotional, and physical…

Ha! That’s what Laurence Olivier suggested to Dustin Hoffman,” My dear boy, why don’t you just try acting?”.

How much more authentic John Snow getting stabbed would have been if he had really been stabbed!

I mean, I think the world is also different in 2016 than it was in 1972 for women coming forward with these kinds of stories. (Still not great, but better, generally speaking.) I don’t think it’s simply an issue of men corroborating a woman’s story and then all of a sudden everyone cares, though that’s certainly part…

I didn’t want Maria to act her humiliation, her rage. I wanted Maria to feel, not to act, the rage and humiliation.

The whole fucking world is moving to the right, but who is remaining beacons of liberalism? Germany and Austria.

The ABC interview gave equal amounts of internal and external screaming.