"But I do have sort of the same issue that the parks guests do, as exemplified by William. It is hard to get too invested when there's very little danger, since guests can't be killed and hosts just get reset."

Maybe her code was copied or transferred into a spare copy of her body?

The scene at the restaurant reminded me of Prospero's speech that begins "All our revels now are ended" - when he snaps his fingers and the illusionary party disappears.

I wondered a lot about that line. He might have been being a bit sarcastic - as in, Westworld is on another planet (hard to get communication out here) and that the "neighbors" are countless miles of empty planet in all directions.

"Newton is secretly winning the show for me every week."

His talk about the "Easter Egg" made me think that maybe there is a Westworld version of GameFAQs, a wiki, or some such and Logan has been reading up on secrets.

I guess it is possible to suffer temporary setbacks - the guests can "lose" to a certain degree. Take, for example, William's shootout. Clearly he and his in-law weren't going to actually die, but "winning" that particular scenario (quest?) was probably based on saving the host family.

The World of Warcraft player in me got a laugh at that. That being said, I didn't get a good look at the guns. I wonder if the second one was an actual upgrade in real world terms.

Their strangely mirrored reaction to each other makes me think they were both hosts. It's like they both loaded basic_brawling.exe and each instance of the program selected the same opening move.

I'm starting to think that the bullets use some kind of amazingly sci-fi smart bullet technology. Maybe the molecules of the bullet are held together densely enough to penetrate objects (like the stone wall the Man in Black shot through with his LeMat's shotgun barrel) but, upon detecting a guest, they lose their…

Yes, yes, yes! The scalping thing threw me right into "Blood Meridian".

Reverie means something to the effect of being pleasantly lost in thought. The update simulates human reverie by having the hosts drift off a bit while remembering things from the past. The problem seems to be that they now have access to their old memory - Dolores' dad all of a sudden remembering every time his…