That’s an incredibly valid feeling. For me, this Monday morning quarterbacking isn’t a new approach (not to mention how many times mystery/suspense shows have had their showrunners’ intentions questioned in the past). If nothing else, he’s examining possible narrative differences in how showrunners and networks see…

I liked that. In hindsight (and Tuesday morning quarterbacking/re-writes), I think the greyhound approaching Bernard, him bending down to pet the dog (previously the dogs were roaming signs of doom or something after massacres), saying “Hello” and then hearing the piano playing... or something more vague would’ve been…

EXACTLY what I was thinking!!!! Sizemore gets freaked out when he knows where they are and later explains that Shogun World was the bloodier, gorier, and more violent of all the parks. Maybe guests’ swords had some magnetic ability where they were drawn towards wherever a hosts’ sword was going to land thereby…

Or if the Wyatt personality can be extracted from her so it’s more of her original personality before Ford altered her to fit his new narrative. Although since she was the actual origin of the massacre attributed to Wyatt in Teddy’s narrative, maybe it’s all in her.

I just saw it as a shitty father.

To me, it seemed like they didn’t want Felix to get the ending of the train engineer so they created an entirely new one just for the sake of killing him later on. But hey! That’s what Westworld did with all the hosts!

Definitely. This comment section seems occupied with the aspect ration differentiating realities when we’re still dealing with the two timelines from the season premiere: The shoot-out at the gala and Bernard waking up on the beach.

Or were REPROGRAMMED by Ford for the new narrative (since they didn’t seem too third-way in Maeve’s flashbacks) for a third, fourth or failsafe plan.

OOH! And how much she ENJOYED watching him squirm. Afterall, she demonstrated she doesn’t like interacting (or at least sexing-up) with the hosts with the shooting of her brief buddy at the Raj. I’m guessing she didn’t really go all out at the pleasure houses (except with real people) but just wanted to see her daddy…

Oh, and destroying the Cradle will make the hosts’ death all the more real. The upper tier security folks taking the snooker ball from their heads is the ultimate death.

Goes along with the previous best comment qualifier, “Hey, it’s not stupider than anything on Reddit!”

After nearly every episode I feel like going back and rewatching everything. Ford’s every word from Season 1 becomes ever more mysterious as we watch Season 2 develop.

The Arnold code always makes me think that Ford eventually agreed with Arnold’s view of the hosts but instead of killing himself (for the sake of dying), he created this new narrative that no one knows the specifics of except himself. He used Arnold’s name to remain anonymous, especially since Arnold’s co-creation of…

Or that his dark side is beyond what Dolores comprehended. She’s had the dual personalities of Wyatt and Dolores while this episode hammered home that she “fixed” the old Teddy into whatever he is now.

Or if Maeve becomes her daughter’s kidnapper/traumatizer in this iteration. It’s the loss of her daughter that started her toward enlightenment (becoming a cornerstone so powerful that even after techs deleted it, she killed herself) so maybe this will propel her onward to a new goal. Or towards nihilism. Who knows.

What’s understandably frustrating is that they’ve served up some nearly stand alone narratives. The Delos ep was nearly TOO perfect of an episodic tv show with SO many comparisons to LOST. Perhaps the construction of that ep (and maybe future ones) pushed the chess piece-moving all into episodes like this one (which I…

You win all the awards.

Free will? The only person who has proven free will is Maeve in her choice to come back for her “daughter”/cornerstone. The rest could’ve easily been programmed or manipulated into following her. Like Hector’s speech about his love for Maeve. It’s still his programmed language for his lost love Isabella but…

Plus he’s never had an unselfish act during the entire series.

Parents can forget/misremember a lot of things. Especially when the father portrayed was absent or at least uninterested in the family aspect of his life. Hell, just going in and out of seeing your father-in-law come back to life and then die would be fucked up.