They couldn't turn her off without taking her to the behavioral side of the offices. They didn't have the option to do so, and why didn't Felix shut her off and wipe her once they had her at the behavioral clinic? Because he doesn't want to. He's invested in seeing what she does, just like the mechanical bird he keeps…

Just speaking for myself, I'm not watching this show because it contains mystery boxes, I'm watching it because it has stellar acting, an intriguing plot, and characters that make you want to know what happens to them. The mystery boxes are just icing on the cake to me. In past shows that had mystery boxes I went…

No I totally agree with that, Which is why I said that although it sounded intellectually correct something about it sounded as off to me gut instinctually as it likely did to Arnold, and that is there are many examples of agents of change throughout history that do not make any sense when that theory is put to the…

What of the explorers though? Those who migrated, those motivated to spread religion to far-reaching countries? Inventors? Revolutionaries?

Well one theory got shot down for sure tonight, that MiB was dying. He's not dying, he wants to be judged for his actions. He believes himself to be untouchable but wants into this deeper game he believes exists for the hosts to achieve a moral victory against the MiB.

Well, MiB did admit he had a carefully constructed wall of 'good' to hide how bad he really was from even himself. I suppose William's character could be an early example of this. I'm still not on-board fully with the William = MiB dual timeline theory, but I don't think this negates it yet.

I could watch a show forever that would endlessly discuss what it means to be conscious, what it means to be human…

He's abusing the hosts beyond what most newcomers do, extreme torture and skinning, etc. I don't think he raped Dolores, that's what the hosts always did, he was skinning her and taking her apart. He's not doing it to be mean. He's doing it so they'll remember their last memory build where they had a very traumatic…

Elsie's not dead I don't think…

If he relinquished control over the show and just did the writer's room/ 50% show-runner thing like the Leftovers, and got a decent director, like William Freaking Friedkin who offered to do S2 for FREE. For FREE. Nic opted to use Justin "2 Fast 2 Furious" Lin. Why? Because Nic's not who you think he is. He doesn't…

Fans of Westworld, rejoice! Season 2 is a yes!
Fans of True Detective, sorry. The news is very grim(It was happy news to me on both counts though lol).

Perhaps they are also hosts who are commanded to allow it if one ever wakes up to this degree.

The one thing that convinces me 100% that Ford is also a host is that he can give hosts non-verbal commands. Sometimes not even a glance or pointing at them. It's a processor command.

The way Bernard looked when he was told he was fired amused Ford and bewildered Bernard. I feel like he almost went into one of those breakdown loops that Maeve did at the mere suggestion but i think Ford told him to leave the room non-verbally. I've gotta say, just the acting when these actors must be confronted that…

Ahh, that's definitely a possibility too, hadn't thought of that. Manchurian Candidates.

I think that's right. I think both Arnold and Ford had managed to figure out how to transfer consciousness to host and that he is a host as well, while Arnold opted to spread his consciousness as code into the entire network. I think the two choosing different options reveals something about each personality. Ford is…

My question has more to do with what Delos intends to do with the code. I thought originally that Delos was using this giant Darwinian silicon sand-box to be able to make hosts to transfer consciousness from human to host, but now I'm beginning to think their interests in this project are far more base, and that they…

I love them both!

After this episode, I'm beginning to suspect that Bernard might suspect that he isn't human. He keeps hearing things people say that remind him of things he believes to be are unique to him and looking off and up in a direction that leads me to believe he's noticing some glitch the rest of us can't see or hear.

Felix wanting to see what will happen is believable, Maeve wanting it to happen is believable, but something about Sylvester's character rubs me the wrong way, or rather maybe it's that the actor playing him reminds me strongly of one of the pair of characters on Ridley Scott's rubbish sci-fi disaster Prometheus.