I think they’ve made Maeve too powerful. I can’t understand why she didn’t use her abilities when the shogun’s captain came to town or later when they were playing that elaborate ruse with the shogun himself. If she had just spoken two words at any point to the former, then Hector, Armistice, and Musashi wouldn’t…

She sounded a lot different than in other instances where she spoke Japanese during this episode. I thought she was putting on an accent and faking a stiffness in her pronunciation because she is supposed to be an emissary from China in their ruse.

The laser tripwired explosive death warehouse being so slow to blow up that its victims were able to just *run away* was one of the most idiotic things all season.

Someone (probably Felicity?) brought this up and objected that the “judge” had cleared Oliver, but FBI lady says it’s federal, implying that a different jurisdiction means that it’s not technically the same charge.

I hadn’t heard about Blackthorne and was actually rather shocked by Lance’s death. I really thought that gunshot wouldn’t be a big deal, and he seemed just fine in the hospital while awaiting his surgery. The surprise of his death made for a powerful double-whammy with Oliver’s arrest; he had just had his hands cuffed…

Aly asking, “Babe—why is your crystal out? Were you fighting?!” just slayed me.

Sorrento-Gillis revealing that his big takeaway from Errinwright is that he’s off the hook for the war was chilling. I didn’t realize it until tonight, but he’s every bit as inhuman as his treasonous undersecretary. Poor Anna!

How the FUCK is this show canceled.

Late ‘90s to early ‘00s.  I regularly read about new treatments becoming available, so I’m sure things have gotten better, although I don’t know how widely available a lot of it is.

Why the hell wasn’t the security checkpoint that controlled the anti-meta field INSIDE the anti-meta field???

Not necessarily.  My mother died of MS.  Cases vary widely.

Remember when the last guard tripped on that marble?  I’m pretty sure that was his luck powers.

I might put the pilot next to it (have to go back and rewatch it to check), but otherwise I agree.

I suppose it helps that he just saved her life from crazy Jim’s attack.

How do you know that the you who wakes up is the same you that fell asleep?

Here’s what Jim said to Bernard at the end:

That makes sense. The problem with making Jim may have been trying to copy him perfectly. Biology/hardware implies structure, and you can’t perfectly force the architecture of a host to cognitively function the same way as a human. But if you allow your robot people to be something new, you have a way forward—and…

This hadn’t been the case for a long time, but tonight I finally feel like I’m on Westworld’s wavelength again.

It’s all pretty stunning, but I think I’m most upset about The Mick, which really deserves more time. I’ve become weirdly invested especially in Mickey, Sabrina, and Jimmy as a terrible family of assholes who secretly care a lot about each other, and, man, what a shitty note it’s now ending on.

But chyrons are a kind of cold, inhuman, third-person omniscient computer voice telling us where we are. I would think that they at least would consider the transponder to be hard fact.