Westworldhas long played with genre switching on a macro level.
As a drug, “genre” is rather curious.
The episode follows two storylines that eventually collide.
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The storytelling is so similar I’m tempted to think we’re caught in a loop again.
“We brought order from chaos,” Serac declares as they set about manipulating world events.
Now the way megalomaniac Serac is going about controlling every person in the world is clearly bonkers.
But it’s interesting to contemplate this idea: What if Rehoboam wasonlyused to prevent outright disaster?
While Serac gives us his evil backstory, Dolores pressures Liam to give her access to Rehoboam.
How much of Dolores' master plan involves forcing corporate types to give her access to things?
Quite a bit, apparently.
She wants to “unlock the cages” of humanity.
This is, perhaps, a surprising choice.
“There are some things people shouldn’t know about themselves,” Liam argues.
Dolores is unfazed and sends the profiles.
We see Westworld commuters opening up their profiles (did you pause the playback and read them?
Yeah, me too).
But I love cilantro.
I have cilantro in my fridge right now.
The profiles should arguably have come with, say, a cover letter.
Something explaining what this file is, exactly.
If knowing your destiny is a right, thennotknowing your destiny is also a right.
and “You’re just a drag on the system!”
and “Do you know how much progress we would have made if not for you!”
But not before Liam drops more hints that Caleb’s backstory has a very bad dark secret.
How is Caleb the only person on the planet still clueless what his data says?
We’ll presumably get some Caleb clarity soon.
Dolores has seemingly accomplished her mission, so what comes next?
Maeve, surely, has a role to play.
As does Bernard, who we learned tonight was the only host Dolores cannot replace.
Dolores apparently has more moves left to make.
