Precisely. From SpaceX’s viewpoint, the passengers do not need to be qualified as astronauts. They are cargo.

Fair enough. Also seems like B could be true without A.

I was trying to imagine what happens when two guys pull that move on each other. I think it ends in a headbutt.

Yeah, but he buys suits as though he’s not as big as he thinks he is. It makes perfect sense. In his imagination, he needs the big and tall store.

I did not know I wanted this and now it’s all I want. She’d be amazing.

And I can’t help but think that there is a very different challenge in doing Tarkin, a character we’re SUPPOSED to find off-putting, through CGI, and doing one we love.

It’s asking a LOT of Adam Driver, and I’m not sure he has the chops. But, yeah. If I were writing that script, I’d HAVE to take a couple of passes at writing a scene where Kylo wants to confront his mother, and she’s gone. It might not work, and I’m not opposed to recasting if it’s done gracefully. But from a…

Cancel now, renew when this starts. Saves you money and tells CBS precisely why you are renewing.

It wasn’t answered. One theory is that Elsie *is* alive, figured out something was up, and programmed the Ghost Nation warriors to bring her Stubbs. The writers probably didn’t give us all that banter between them just to kill them both off. They may have a role to play in season 2.

Yeah. They didn’t cover it, but with 30 years of running a park full of liquor where people pay for some emotionally extreme and physically violent experiences, I have to think there’s been some guest violence that required real security at some point.

Other way around. Red-marked guns are real bullets. Guns without red marks are the park’s special harmless-to-human guns. Those need to look real for guest immersion, so in Westworld, it’s real guns that are marked like toys

If we have convincingly learned anything from the last 50 years of military history, it’s that vast superiority in numbers, technology and resources only ensures you can win a conventional war. I think it is unlikely he that the hosts would jack up their own intelligence, look at their situation, and decide to try…

All true, but it would contradict the story quite a bit to bring him back. Season one makes sense as a long, extended suicide and making of amends by Ford. Yes, it ends with him very full of himself (3.5 Oppenheimers, as he quantified it). But he realized he was wrong years ago, saw the horror of what he’d done, set…

Ah, thank you.

Possibly. I think Abernathy saw the photo 30 years ago, and again recently.

If they were acting on their own. My theory there is that Elsie is alive, somehow survived Bernard’s attack and put 2+2 together to realize he is a host, then reprogrammed the Ghost Nation group to bring her Stubbs, because she trusts him.

So those warriors may have been invisible to the control center, because Elsie,…

Can I offer you another? When Delores is remembering wandering through the basement facility and hearing Ford and Arnold argue, you can briefly hear the voice of her original father in the background practicing a monologue from King Lear.

> Speaking of which, what is Delos’ motivations for wanting the code so badly. Even in the quasi-utopian future of the show, it’s apparent that people still do get old and die. So why not just wait Ford out? Why not just kill him? Why the urgency to get at the code right now? They’re already making money…

Looking for a screenshot, but I remember them having metal joints sticking out, not bones.

I’m thinking she’s alive. That’s why the Ghost Nation took Stubbs — she reprogrammed them to bring him to her, because, for all their quarreling, she trusts him. Besides, from a storytelling standpoint, he’s the right one for her to go to with “Bernard is a host,” because he is puzzled by his weird interaction with…