re: Westworld S01E05 - "Contrapasso" Thread

the only thing that's clear to me is that some very bad juju went down 35 years ago and we are going to see it in some manner

there is no possible way that the technology of 35 yrs in the past wouldn't be laughable to those in the present. And yet we are seeing identical tech from both Williams and man in blacks viewpoints

35 years ago was 1981
to 15 year old me today's tech would be a sci fi flick

That last train scene was pretty wild. Did they show Delores in the train by herself? Or did I make that up?

Was that McPoyles friend sitting on an observation table at the end in the upcoming scenes? Like he is a host. Maybe I'm just seeing more than is there.

Great episode

I refuse to get into the same 2 storyline bullshite argument again this week

frick this show is awesome tho

The scenes "coming up this season" were pretty awesome. Maaave looks like she becomes a badass. A lot more stuff packed in there still left to come. How many episodes are they doing in a season? 8? 10?

Okay frick it here's my piece of the "2 storylines" clusterfrick


When William and the bro in law are talking in tonight's episode and he tells him they are thinking about buying the company, he says they used to be a partner ship originally before the park opened , but one of the guys killed him self. He talked about it 1.) as if no one knew, and 2.) as if it happened a long time ago. I just rewatched this scene and there is no way to wiggle your way around it. It wasn't vague.


Then the MIB speaks with ford and talks about the event that happened 34 years ago, which we know resulted in Arnold's death.

If the theory is that William is the timeline that MIB is talking about when he says "if it weren't for me", then it still doesn't make sense because they said Arnold killed himself before the park was open, and the Bro in Law has clearly been to the park multiple times before this current experience.

Zippity zoo, TLDR, MIB and William are in the same timeline and slopes is wrong

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Was that McPoyles friend sitting on an observation table at the end in the upcoming scenes? Like he is a host. Maybe I'm just seeing more than is there.

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I did a double-take on that too, but it was Hector.

I think Arnold was the original creator who created Anthony Hopkins as some kind of ultra AI to run the park, then had an accident himself and the park has basically been run by AI ever since. Also think MiB has some kind of terminal illness, as Anthony Hopkins told him "your anxiety betrays your urgency" or something like that. MiB wanting to figure out the park and maze is his way to beat his incurable illness and somehow live on through the park.

It's possible that Arnold is dead. But he's the voice in the head of the hosts... their God. One last frick You to Ford

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Yeah, that whole conversation was just weird af.

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It was definitely one of those scenes where, if it wasn't Anthony Hopkins doing most of the talking, I may have been rolling my eyes and waiting for it to be over. But it was Hopkins, and I was completely invested.