It was hard not to associate it with Hillary when she chose Lena Dunham as her celebrity PR person.

Some of his attitudes are not meant to be awful. I really don't think we weren't supposed to be applauding the Hippie Digger.

I have of course tossed around the idea of Ford being a host (inside my brain, where I talk to myself), but I hadn't thought of the "first sentient host." That would make a lot of sense. It would explain why Hopkins is playing him as a mixture of powerful monster and pathos-laden dude who hangs out with robots. Hmm,…

I completely agree with your reading of what's going on with William and Dolores.

The maze being a literal thing to hosts is the primary basis of my speculation. I see the MIB as (potentially) wanting to experience the game of Westworld as reality, and thus as a host. But I think the literal maze the hosts "know" about is something Ford built into the game to distract them from the real maze, which…

William's decision to take the world of Westworld as reality makes me think that the MIB is kind of a dead-end character who will most likely die at the end of this season. The fact that he takes the Maze literally (when all signs point to it being something to do with robots gaining consciousness), put together with…

Ugh, you're right; that is disappointing.

I know the Board member wasn't talking about a literal "blood sacrifice." That's not what I meant. I guess what I mean is, "test" was an odd word to use.

If Delos is "testing" Ford by sending him a "blood sacrifice" every so often, doesn't that kind of imply that Delos is at least as responsible for the consequences as Ford is? In retrospect, didn't it seem that the young whippersnapper Board member was aware that Theresa was toast? Or am I reading the blood sacrifice…

Oh, ok. Sorry for being snarky. I just assumed the "we" was directed at … well … us. Commenters.

I think there had better be a very good narrative reason why the audience needed to think everything was happening "now."

On my screen the comment right before this one is one of those million mentions.

You might want to at least scan the comments a bit before saying something like this.

Dolores and William's story is starting to have "tragic/romantic dead end" written all over it. The two-timelines theory is getting more valid-seeming every week, so I guess their quest will end in a failure that shows that everything in the park has always been even more controlled than we thought. I'm getting a…

And also when Ford was talking to her last week he sure made it sound like she was "awake" at the time of the rebellion and made a conscious choice not to "destroy" things.

I think that would be cheating on the show's part, because up to now the viewer has been shown what the host can't see.

It was Aristotle, fwiw.

I don't like the two timelines theory, and it may be a deal breaker for me if it pans out, but I'm afraid it will turn out to be the case. Enough episodes have gone by to make it clear that the writers aren't concerned at all to show us the mechanics of when and how the robots interact with the techs behind the…

What I can't buy about this is that the people who designed the park would have known that people who are interested enough in robots to want to work with them are going to be curious like Felix. They would have to have put in all kinds of safeguards against the kind of tampering Felix and Sylvester have been doing,…

When Elsie was talking to Bernard on the phone before she went to the abandoned theater, before she even mentioned the abandoned theatre, I thought, "She's going to get hit over the head from behind in this episode." Everything about that plotline was very hackneyed.