re: Westworld S2 E7: Les Écorchés

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Heres what i dont get- Why is it such big deal when a host dies? Cant they just be brought right back to life?

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Not anymore. The explosion from this episode took out all the “backups” which means when your dead Your dead. Which makes the hosts more real than they’ve ever been

If there system is corrupted enough where they needed a reboot (ie dead), they would have no data to restart the host over again. That’s literallystraitht from the conversation between Delores and Charlotte.

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If there system is corrupted enough where they needed a reboot (ie dead), they would have no data to restart the host over again. That’s literallystraitht from the conversation between Delores and Charlotte.

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Which is why I said "not quite". Being shot in the head would still cause a system failure. But bleeding out from a stab wound in the leg, wouldn't. Both would result in the death of a human but only one would kill a host.

Personally I like Maave as a contrast to Delores

She’s also seemingly the only one whose actually “woke” and choosing her own path

Do they actually know how to drive them?

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Personally I like Maave as a contrast to Delores

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That's a character flaw.

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She’s also seemingly the only one whose actually “woke” and choosing her own path

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You can definitely make a case for this because we saw her break from the "escape" storyline as well as being able to control other hosts. But I have a problem with that, too. First, how is she doing it? Connected to the network like with bluetooth? She can only control ones that are close to her like she's her own "ipad controller"? And is something other hosts can/will do? How is that freedom for them?

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We’ve seen multiple people heal wounds with medical devices that sew up a wound fairly easily (including the MiB himself) so don’t tell me it doesn’t fit in this world they’ve created

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But you notice we only have to suspend disbelief for the primary characters, while secondary characters and extras are getting mowed down left and right. Perhaps the advanced tech just isn't for everyone?

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First, how is she doing it? C

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She has her cognitive abilities turned all the way up. She’s smarter than Delores or any other host outside of maybe Bernard

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Connected to the network like with bluetooth? She can only control ones that are close to her like she's her own "ipad controller"? And is something other hosts can/will do? How is that freedom for them?

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Ford talked about the Mesh network last season. It’s how the hosts are able to react to changes in the narrative. The hosts essentially communicate with each other in this network so they know how to react to the situation

Maave is smart enough to figure out how to hack into the mesh network and commicate freely within it and use it as a control

And yes there is an issue of whether she is giving these host free will, but there’s a difference between what she does in self defense (making the host kill themseves) vs the choice that she gave the Asian version of herself. That choice is to make that host became “awake” and realize the truth of their reality. She hasn’t given every one that choice, but she has given it to the ones she feels worthy of it.

Also it was shown that the mesh network manipulation does not work on hosts who are “woke”.

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Do they actually know how to drive them?

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if they can make the jump from old west firearms to firearms that have top loading, frame mounted, longitudinal magazines, im assuming they can learn how to operate a vehicle

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they can make the jump from old west firearms to firearms that have top loading, frame mounted, longitudinal magazines, im assuming they can learn how to operate a vehicle

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I thought the same thing.

The p90s look amazing though. Want one so bad