re: Westworld Episode 4: Dissonance Theory

I'm interested to see what McPoyle does too. He obviously has strong morals and if the time comes where he has to side with the hosts vs. humans, don't be surprised if he chooses hosts.

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future bro in law

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Favorite character in the show.

He is the only one who acts like most would in a park like that. McPoyle is a pussy.

isn't that backwards for her character?

like when MIB rapes her, she doesn't have the ability to fight back, etc. plus that's a memory for her when she's with mcpoyle, right?

Minus the bisexual sex with the male hosts

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i did think it was odd that McPoyles future bro in law is egging him on to f*ck Deloris. But then again, is that really cheating?

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As soon as they got off of the train, he told William that his sister (William's fiancee) rode some cowboys when she came to the park.

Plus, you tend to find that when people do "bad" things they want others to do or have done those things so they don't feel like they're the weird one. Seems normal to me.

I thought it was odd when William and his boy were calling the hosts robots in front of their face. Wouldn't that trigger some people like Dolores and Maeve?

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i did think it was odd that McPoyles future bro in law is egging him on to f*ck Deloris. But then again, is that really cheating?

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Not really, Delores ain't human. Ultimate means of getting it out of your system
To the bro-in-law's point of view, this is safe eascapism. You aren't cheating, you aren't killing, you are basically playing a very well made RPG.

I think Bernard is definitely a host, and only Hopkin's character knows it. He's the one Hopkins has pushed into sentience, and he's the one infecting the others. Character has been written with way too much introspection for me to think it otherwise; I think Hopkins created him to think he was aware of hosts, but not that he is one himself. He's the one going down the rabbit hole, and reflecting that on Delores.

Harris is definitely human, he got shot a few times when he shot up the villa. Is he truly up to something, or just playing out his bored, dark fantasy to offset the good things he does in real life?
Maybe he's become aware that he's "infected" with sick and twisted tendencies, due to the complete realism of the park, and the total lack of consequences for anything he does, as long as it's to a host... and his ultimate goal is to break the safeguards, to prevent the continuing immorality it fosters.
*might not be real rape if done against a host, but it could make it easier to get used to doing stuff like that, if the targets are so real, and you don't have any repercussions.

Haven't seen Ep 4 yet, just finished 3rd on demand. But this thread isn't spoiling anything you don't see coming.

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Like when MIB rapes her

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I think you're wrong about this. That scene in the first episode sets him up as the bad guy and sets Ford up as a good guy, I have my questions that either of those guys fit those roles

Also last week during her rebellion of her loop, she remembers the MIB in the barn about to attack her, he brandished a knife, a knife he would use to scalp her looking for the maze like he did with the card dealer. He went through the oldest hosts looking for one with the next clue, likely because someone had told him a previous clue


Also in the original scene between Delores and the MIB, he doesn't pull a knife out with his fight with teddy so it seems to me they put it in there with a purpose, he didn't need a knife to rape Delores if that's what he was after

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Has to be some significance to Delores being the oldest host

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Isn't the significance that she's the only host that is this far along in acting out? She killed the fly, placed the pistol in the barn somehow and is questioning a ton of shite.

Some may say it's Maeve, but she is only this far because of her being exposed to the outside world below the park first hand and seeing it herself.