“This season will probably play better on the rewatch.”

Agreed.

“We’re expected to believe that an AI that gains sentience would still care for a made up background story about a fake daughter?”

“That was a great episode and all, but shit like Lee’s going-out-in-a-blaze-of-glory scene was a straight cheese fest.”

But that’s completely true to his character. As he said, “it’s my fucking speech.”

“Free will is an illusion humans invented to make ourselves feel better—in reality, we’re all just passengers, moving from point to point until we die.”

As a counter-argument, I’ve always enjoyed episodes which expand beyond a core group of “main characters.” I understand that the economics of TV production require a similar “economy of narrative” limiting most stories to the core group. But when a series encompasses world-changing events (e.g. Fringe and Westworld),…

First of all this is a TV show, its main goal is to entertain. It seems as if you are looking for an actual real-life display of AI\ sentience, which this show is not about i.e. it’s all make believe. I know that may come as a surprise to you. But it’s about storytelling, this isn’t a documentary. So basically your…

literally everyone noticed that. you know, since it was used in every damn teaser and trailer for the season.

I don’t think it flies in the face of anything. If you can trust the hosts in a violent real life video game with complete strangers... why can’t you trust one to go from point A to point B in your lab? Or fetch a cup of coffee? If anything, the worry with Maeve would be her going “off script”. She didn’t, and they…

You call it lazy writing, I call it lazy watching. He hasn’t been updated in years, there’s nothing to suggest they were able to locate hosts running on earlier builds, so that can easily explain why they never detected him out of his loop. It can also explain why they were able to detect Koha way out near the “door”,…

I think you may have glossed over some key clues in last night’s episode.

I take it as... if you saw a host walking by itself... why would you care? As far as the staff in the show is concerned, hosts only do what they’re told or programmed to do. So if a host is walking around the facility, someone must have told it to do some task. A host walking around by itself would be like me…

I’m thinking either it’s because he was an Alpha model, perhaps they didn’t have the GPS built in yet. Or perhaps Ford’s been masking his travels. Remember Ford said he has been watching Akecheta and vice versa.

I see the incompetence park management like the apparent incompetence of management where I work. I thought they were idiots until I realized their goals weren’t actually their stated goals of profit and success. It fits so perfectly with Westworld. The park isn’t the product, the surveillance of the guests is. So…

Knowing how security cameras are usually used IRL, if nobody knows anything is wrong, nobody is really paying that close attention to the cameras, much less looking at archived footage.

It was lampshaded previously: no one cares about the native American narratives. He was in a peripheral narrative; the updates happened when the hosts were killed, and the stories that would have led him to be killed were explored so infrequently that he went nine years without dying.

Thank you. Despite the tone of my comment below, I suspected there was an in-story clue to how Ake’s wanderings were even possible.

Yes, nit-picking at fiction does tend to “strain credibility.” Try “suspending disbelief” next time.

Westworld security is terrible - Maeve took a similar wander last season - but I guess it’s just because they don’t know that hosts can do this?

Over and over again Ford has been telling William that “the maze wasn’t meant for you.” And over and over again, we see that William’s bulletproof arrogance that EVERYTHING in the park is meant for him shields him from the truth.
The maze began with Arnold and Dolores, and we now see spread throughout the park…