Ford refers to the Maze as a misbegotten symbol that should have died, and I imagine until that moment he assumed it had died with Arnold. But the implication is huge, because this encounter with Akecheta demonstrated to him that even without Arnold’s explicit guidance, the hosts were capable of achieving true…

“Step into analysis, please.”

Keanu’s paternal grandmother was Chinese. So, yeah.

It’s the problem of finding oneself on the side of evil while still possessing a conscience. Doesn’t mean he won’t do the wrong thing, but occasionally you get outward signs of that inward conflict breaking through into public, which makes whatever follows much more bitter, as you can no longer think of them that they…

Exactly. And who better than Gina Torres? She is a lot of awesome, but the show has already proven they can pack in the awesome pretty tightly.

Slightly stronger. He said he knew that she would kill him. Given that he’s playing a demiurge role, it’s fitting that his line sets himself up here with something like divine foreknowledge (he can see her code and her thought-processes directly) which has in the religious context all sorts of implications about the…

Implied but not yet confirmed.

His reaction to the Bernard reveal is also affected by the fact that he is simultaneously discovering that Bernard most probably killed his old boss (and he’d still have no idea it was through Ford’s command and not Bernard’s decision). So, I’d cut him a bit of slack on that account.

Well, the name is Latin derived, meaning ‘sorrow’. I think that is more likely as a meaning than anything squeezed out of a coincidental name similarity to Delos. And FWIW, Delos is the name of a Greek island, the mythological birthplace of Apollo and Artemis.

So in the present timeline, when Strand et al. start taking apart Ford’s secret cabin/lab, note that the host body printer that was busily building a host while Theresa was murdered nearby is now empty.

Texas: The France of North America

We can dispose with the daimyo excuse right away with the rejoinder that authority does not relieve an agent of any moral consequence for following an order. If you did some thing only because you were ordered to, you still did the thing. There is some moral consequence also, separately, for the agent issuing the…

For whatever reason (it looks like a philosophical/moral conclusion instead of a pragmatic one), Maeve thinks that death should be permanent; perhaps in order to make free choices meaningful and consequential. She’s also died thousands of times, so that might have something to do with it.

I think the point is that they made their choice by attacking with lethal intent. After that, her reacting is self-defense and also a validation of the fact that they made the (foolish) choice to attack.

It would undoubtedly be fascinating—if it’s really possible; some of the scenes are probably impossible to situate perfectly in continuity because we don’t have and probably never will have enough info—but probably pretty unwatchable on a narrative level. Imagine a Pulp Fiction chronological cut for a similar problem.

No, her protege was definitely a host; Sizemore describes her cornerstone memory (the glass-like lake in the valley below what looks like Mt. Fuji that we see in this episode) in ‘Akane no mai’ in order to tell Maeve how he plans to get them out of ShogunWorld.

You are both right, in a sense. I’m quite sure he’d be equally happy winning a great war or securing a difficult peace. Anything that he can put his name on.

Like I said, havent looked at what he has said besides this article, but sure when dig a little deeper this article will be shown to be another example of poor, biased and reactionary journalism aimed at stirring up exactly what it has.

That GIF is perfection.

The conscious ghola!