A "car" can be a locomotive car, as in "Which car will the sheriff and his prisoner be sitting in?"

Arnold is already dead for five years at the time of the incident.

There are no hard and fast rules with this; it's on a per-negotiation basis. But generally, it's because there is a well-regarded cast member, someone who has some kind of negotiation advantage over other people in the cast, but they are not the putative 'star' of the show. Like if Tom Hanks suddenly joined the cast…

Don't be. It happened. I'd describe it as something between a power play, and just the natural inclination of a person without a lot of body modesty. And it wasn't post-coital, which may invalidate it from this discussion entirely. But it was a business relationship, it was someone coming by a hotel room for a…

I think that Bernard's programming in that regard is more complex than the other hosts', as a consequence of his cover and his job. If Dolores were in that cabin, she'd probably go down to that lab with Bernard and Theresa and say "This doesn't look like anything at all to me." But Bernard has to be able to function…

The "and So-and-So" and "with So-and-So" as the last on-screen talent credits are considered desirable, places of prominence. Actors' agents negotiate for that placement.

I just rewatched the first episode for the third time, and may have caught another. When Bernard follows Stubbs and his team to deal with the livestock alert, and they find Ford having a drink with Old Bill, Ford realizes he's not alone and shuts Old Bill down with the keyphrase: "Why don't we instead drink to…a deep…

Watch that scene again after you've watched subsequent episodes: that guy in the photo with young Ford is the host version of his father. And the right side of the photo is comspicuously empty, like either its's a terribly composed photo, or…Bernard can't see the person standing on that side.

No details or names, but…I know someone who actually did this. I'm 100% certain this kind of thing happens.

Interesting. And thanks, I've really been enjoying your analyses here in the comments, so it's nice to get some input from you on what I've been thinking.

I think they're talking about the real-world production retooling of HBO's show Westworld; not the retooling of Ford's/Sizemore's in-universe park narrative.

I have a thought for everyone who has the complaint that the two timeframes theory ruins Dolores's whole narrative arc (because we are cheering her progress in the earlier one and for some reason many of you think that's futile if she has to go through it all again). I didn't think much about it as I read messages…

All of them.

Call me a pessimist, but that's exactly what I'm expecting. Although I hope it's something more interesting and less predictable.

Whoa. That's quite interesting. I've definitely noted the striking physical similarity between Logan and Hector, but never thought about the temperamental similarity between William and Teddy.

And the misspelling of Delos (which I see has been corrected). I mean, even if you haven't visited HBO's cool park website — and it makes me sad that the AV Club's guy on this show maybe hasn't done that — haven't they shown the spelling on screen at some point?

I'm not sold on this. The father-bot was built as a kind of private present for Ford, and he seems to be restrained to the area around the cottage. That photo shows him quite obviously in Sweetwater. And I also think that the extremely belligerent host version of the Dad wouldn't be pleasantly posing for photos with…

Wow, amazingly good spotting — I didn't notice that it was Alastair Duncan in that photo! Certainly didn't make the connection when we saw the photo several episodes before we saw the creepy host-family. So we were looking at Ford, Ford's dad, and the blank space that was Arnold. You're right. That's a really subtle…

Why do you say "Ford's father"? When Ford shows Bernard the pic, he says "For three years, we lived here in the park, refining the hosts. Myself, a team of engineers, and my partner. His name was Arnold." There's no reference to any father, and no hint from Ford that there is supposed to be a third person in that…

I assume hidden, but what I meant was that it *seemed* that Bernard was going to be the only one looking for her, but now? Who knows.