So Caleb is not the bad guy that I thought he was, as much as he’s been a pawn the whole time by the forces that be. The reveal that Francis was actually selling him out, that he initiated by listening to their captive was a mind twisting tragedy. I’m hoping for a better end to Caleb than being the instrument of…

I keep wondering do all Dolores have the encryption keys or only Prime? After all Serac wants Hale intact but if all of them have it his Connells pearl should be enough. Maybe Serac wants to go through all of them to make sure he gets the right one.

Really glad to see Hayden Christensen got some work at the end of this episode. 

and nobody was happy about their fates. I mean just playing the odds SOMEBODY should be reading good news

Ravenclaw in the stacks, Slytherin in the sack

The Iggy Pop “Night-Clubbin’” sequence was interesting for the visuals. But then I thought, wait is this genre supposed to be...Trainspotting? Is that a genre? What’s happening?

A lot of Brazilians, especially lately, would prefer Vincent Cassel over Bolsonaro. 

(good) data is carefully measured and collected information based on a range of subject-dependent factors, including, but not limited to, controlled variables, meta-analysis, and randomization

Just 40 months ago (yes, even after the election) if you would have told me that Steak-umms were going to be a more reliable source of information than the President of the United States I would have thought you were too pessimistic.

idk about you guys but in these dire times, Serac’s story about paris hit me some type of Way

Also, it dovetails nicely with Dolores in her black dress (so back to the black hat/white hat thing)

References to Futureworld, GOT, Jurassic Park......clever by too much? Nah!

My reading of Dolores is that she is one of those revolutionary figures who starts out with a legit grievance against an oppressive regime, but in the course of the fighting, becomes just as bad as the regime they’re trying to replace. I think the real protagonist is Maeve. She’s the one who seems to have the chance…

Westworld the straightforwardly-shallow-future-robot-revolution-show co-starring Aaron Paul is already waaaay better than Westworld the just-as-shallow-robot-revolution-show-dressed-up-with-boring-fake-existentialism-and-disguised-with-temporal/structural-fuckery

Uber But For Criminals is almost too good of a writer’s idea.

Re: Claude’s blabbing about the plan -

My favorite part was when Holly looks at the puzzle and says I hate elephants.

The next episode is Holly reading a magazine at a repair shop.

Sound.  The use of sound in this episode was tremendous.

They said Mastermind Elliot was a representation of his rage. A way for him to fight back against the world so he could feel safe in it and from his past. So that’s why he came into being. The when, I took it, would be sometime just before the actual series starts.