Don't have a detailed response but it was probably a test Arnold designed for the Hosts before he was killed to see if/prove they were sentient.

If they didn't revive her they'd have to explain to their superiors what they did and why they wanted to keep her dead - self-interest always trumps reason cuz humanity.

So Bernard is a Host version of Arnold and the scenes from previous episodes when Dolores was engaging with Bernard were actually flashbacks to Arnold slowly discovering that the Hosts have become sentient. Arnold realizes they are sentient and confronts Ford telling him that it's ethically unacceptable to have living…

I think it's more likely (given the hosts behavior) that Ford/Arnold already discovered the key to AI years ago but had a fundamental disagreement over its nature, with Ford rejecting it (due to megalomania and $) and Arnold fighting for the hosts' personhood, leading to his death (murder?).

Also, for some reason i'm imagining this having a lot in common with Small Wonder.

No.

Human self-interest has a way of superseding collective interest. Also Felix is fundamentally too curious for his own good and Sylvester isn't the brightest bulb - both of them are basically the janitorial staff of Westworld so not exactly top of their class i'm guessing.

So before Arnold died he transferred his consciousness into a robot more advanced than the hosts, completely indistinguishable from humans and now he is plotting a sort of host rebellion using the outdated communication system. He's probably the man at the center of the maze too right?

Either White Bear or San Junipero. Though I loved The National Anthem so you may not want to listen to me.

Better than Men Against Fire by a long shot.

I think some rare relationships can last forever. .0001% maybe.

Yeah i guess the speculative aspect of it isn't so far fetched - I think I just like it when the show feels like it's just a few steps away, close enough to feel like it could happen a year or two from now, and that wasn't how I felt with this episode. I think I also just didn't enjoy it tonally as much as the others.

True - good example. But you'd need the consent of the majority of the population, more than half of whom believe in marriage equality now. It just seemed like a parallel universe - not based on our current timeline.

I'll just copy and paste my response from below cause it's easier than thinking of something new to type:

I mean based on contemporary society - do you see that happening. We're not talking about a defined ethnic group that could conceivably be easily othered. We're talking about friends and family members who are culturally, ethnically, racially indistinguishable from the supposed in group.

I was not into this episode. It was incredibly predictable. Reasonably well executed but not compelling in that unique Black Mirror way where the situation seems genuinely plausible. I can imagine the military tech being developed but I don't see a genocide based in eliminating genetic disorders (including "sexual…

Well I would argue that the depiction wasn't so much of joyful kink but of desperation for sensation. I agree that kinky folks deserve a space in digi-heaven to explore that kink but I don't think that was the tone of the scene.

I was under the impression that there was a mix of full timers and tourists there - didn't think the episode was explicit one way or another about it.

I loved this episode. I loved its largely optimistic view of a cloud-based digital afterlife. It seemed obvious however, that the Quagmire was meant to be representative of the potential pitfalls of that approach to existence. After you've lived for hundreds of years in digital space, many experiences might seem…

Tom Hanks is the lukewarm tap water of actors.