Why does everyone assume Logan dropped the picture? If William is the Man in Black, then it makes a lot more sense for him to be carrying a photo of the wife he is mourning. Logan tried to give him the photo. It seems reasonable to me to think that he had it with him 30 years later, when he was in the park while…

Or, if the two timelines theory is correct, the Man in Black could have dropped the photo very recently. After all, it’s a picture of the wife he is mourning. He may have placed it there specifically to trigger something in Abernathy, or may have dropped it by accident, but either way, it didn’t seem to be under 30…

The two techs Maeve keeps manipulating tell her that she can’t leave the park because every host has explosives in their spinal column that go off if they leave.

The humanoid form is how evolution developed answers to the problem of living in the set of conditions that exist on Earth. It’s reasonable to assume some other planets that host life offer similar conditions. It may not be reasonable to assume they all do.

The show used the pyramid from Julian Jaynes’ book The Origin of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind. But when Ford showed its pyramid of traits that, it argues, lead to consciousness, he left the top level blank and told Bernard “we never got there.”

If you read them in a certain way, Ford’s supposed abuses of the hosts could actually be further evidence that he reveres them. He says that they don’t feel shame or pain, but it’s not clear that he sees those as negative things at all.

Nope, you’re not alone. And I hope the creators are immensely amused that a theory they *didn’t* see coming has developed.

No one has been reprogramming Maeve. Maeve has achieved actual sentience, and is simply evolving. The technology can’t comprehend that, so it appears as though the changes were externally ordered.

Your comment combined with your username made me cry and laugh together, which is pretty much the best reaction I can have to this world, so thanks. And I’m glad you’re finding some happiness along with the grief. Nothing ever really cancels anything out, I know. But I’m glad you have what you have today. And a…

Fair point. I wrote this before seeing episode 5, and now that I’ve seen it, I believe Ford confirmed this. But you’re right that what they’re doing is not transferring consciousness so much as replicating it.

The larger agenda of Delos is fairly simple. I think it was actually given away by the music in episode one.

It will have to be. Chieng’s story uses learning the alien languages as a frame that commentates on the other story the narrator tells (her daughter), and that second story seems completely absent from the trailers. So the story and the film are not doing the same thing. The closest the film can come is just to borrow…

Fair enough. I even read an article recently where Cheo Coker, Luke Cage showrunner, argued that superhero stories ARE westerns. He said he can see the first few episodes of his own show as a remake of Unforgiven. With that in mind, I think you can argue that we’re already telling ourselves the same stories westerns…

We’ve all see this a billion times. He wears ties from the Big and Tall store, and they don’t have the heart to tell him.

Yes, and I think it’s psychological. Those ties dragging on the floor? That happens if you buy the longer tie made for taller guys and you don’t need it. He’s shopping as if he’s larger than he is, because that’s how he sees himself, and he ends up looking like a kid in his dad’s suit because nothing he owns fits.

Source: A decade ago, I was a reporter covering Native American issues. I moved on to other beats and haven’t engaged seriously on that in a decade, so some of my knowledge is undoubtedly out-of-date. But land use law changes slowly, so I’m pretty confident most of this still applies.

There aren’t really book spoilers left. There is one maester of significance at The Citadel who hasn’t appeared yet (a sort of black sheep of Citadel leadership known for dabbling in magic), and it’s possible that Broadbent could be playing him. But even book readers don’t yet know if that character matters much, and…

I don’t know about the comics, but in the Netflix version, *very slight spoiler* Luke Cage is vulnerable through the eyes.

I suspect that is largely true. But it assumes nuclear weapons are in the hands of states, which will tend to act rationally in relation to their interests. So we may have moved into a period when the danger is nuclear weapons falling into the hands of groups that don’t fit that definition. Of which we have many.

I thought he was R2D2