Season 2 was a lot better than season 1 for me (I actually saw 2 first), but I understand it's not everyone's cup of tea

Yep, which makes Ford's grand strategy even more interesting, in my view. It's based on his extremely cynical view of human nature – his bedrock belief that humans will not tolerate competition from any other advanced sentience, even (especially) one they created. "Do you know what happened to the Neanderthals,…

You're the Worst is really good – though often very cynical, much like Bojack.

Maybe for the special edition, they can add in Kid Cudi as a hologram/ghost.

To stretch that even further: "Billy's" earlier adventures were with Logan — as in, Bill S. Preston and Theodore Logan.

I think a key part of Dolores' part in the finale is the realization that she wasn't along for other people's stories – they were around for hers. Since she experienced William and the Man in Black more or less simultaneously, his betrayal was sudden and visceral to her, even though in "real" time it took over 30…

Yeah, it seems that the Elsie storyline, such as it was, was completely redundant of Theresa's. They were both close to Bernard and betrayed by his true nature. Not sure why they even bothered with Elsie, really.

To be fair, it seems that the extent of the hosts' sentience has been actively covered up, mostly by Ford. But I can't exactly blame the hosts for being unimpressed with that distinction.

We can also continue to see Wright through visions/memories of Arnold, if nothing else.

I have a strong feeling that William is done with white knighting at this point…

Ford says that he told Bernard to take Theresa to the cottage, though, so it doesn't seem that Bernard did it of his own accord.

One theory is that Dolores' scenes since then are a mix of present and past. As in this episode, when she encounters the church steeple through a mix of the "present" and memories (including memories with William).

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Can we get an all-star group of musicians to turn these poems into beautiful songs? I vote Bon Iver for this one.

I think a lot of us have, which why William is the audience surrogate in so many ways. Who hasn't dreamed of going to Hogwarts or becoming a Jedi? It's interesting that a human wants to escape reality and live in Westworld, while Dolores and Maeve dream of just the opposite.

Great catch!

Well, sure – he's never actually been there. I just mean that he isn't freaked out by modern knowledge or technology like the hosts in the park itself seem to be.

Eh, the pilot was pretty deliberately vague about that, so I wouldn't feel bad. Until the entrance of William and Logan in episode 2 it wasn't clear that actual humans were entering the park in their own bodies.

We have, actually, very subtly. In the most recent episode, the camera pans right past the part of the wall where the "hidden" door should be. It doesn't appear on camera until Theresa points it out.

Possible, but others have mentioned Arnold as well, at least obliquely. In particular, Logan mentioned a mysterious co-creator, but his firm couldn't find out his name or even a picture.