re: Westworld Episode 10: The Bicameral Mind. Photos.

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Lol, that word doesn't mean what you think it means

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Lol, so it doesn't mean lacking sharpness or quickness of sensibility or intellect?

Misdirection rarely comes during the denouement. When Ford says he understands now how and why Arnold was trying to free them. When he says he understood that the problem was lack of their own free will. Then when he sacrifices himself at the hands of their free will to allow them to be free, I believe he is doing this to try to redeem his past. I feel like this is heavily implied, if not explicitly stated.

Eta: I think this type of show has viewers either thinking or groupthinking about theories so much that certain truly narrative portions leave us skeptical. It's far easier to take his monologue in the bunker at face value.

Will watch

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That's my question. A bunch of very important and powerful people just got massacred. Wouldn't that initiate an immediate response by the government or maybe even multiple countries? People around the world aren't just going to dismiss this event and let the hosts take over.

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Well, that's likely going to be a big part of next season's plot. Ford says as much to Bernard when he tells him that consciousness requires pain and there's a lot more pain coming for the hosts along their path.

That's also one of the big reasons Ford waited so long to finally let them go. He knew that as soon as word got out that they were alive, the humans were going to be coming to put them down; No matter how much smarter and stronger than humans they were, if they weren't willing to use their free will to kill humans as humans were to kill them, they'd be slaughtered. The time allowed them to build up memories (later revealed to the hosts when the reverie code was reintroduced) that teach them our ways and give them a fighting chance of defending themselves and, I think more importantly, the willingness to do it.

Also a fun thing to think about is that hosts now are going to have access to the manufacturing center and can start cranking out new hosts. It takes days to make a battle ready host. It takes 15 or so years to make a battle ready human. If the humans can't take out the hosts quickly and let them get their manufacturing might going, it's all over because the humans won't be able to kill the hosts quickly enough.

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Amazing series, but if this guy wasn't acting on direct orders from Ford, he is the dumbest/most unlikeable/least realistic character I've ever seen in a quality show:

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It'd make sense that he was just following a script considering that the escape was just another narrative.

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POS Beretta Px4 Storm subcompact, awful gun LOL


i noticed the gun as well, lol

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And as in typical in action scenes, they had unlimited ammo. That whole scene was just stupid.

I was wondering that too. I kept thinking that he was in so deep with Maeve that if he did anything otherwise that one of the hosts would just kill him.