re: Westworld S2 E8: Kiksuya. Ghost Nation stands up.

Same here.

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The actor who played Akecheta is awesome

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He’s pretty badass in the second season of Fargo too

Great episode

people just want action non stop but this episode did a fantastic job filling a back story

Very suprised this board like the episode

I think Kohana is the girl who played Pocahontas in The New World, she's really pretty. I enjoyed the episode for what it was. It had a lot of deeper, more philosophical themes to it. This may not drive the plot in the normal sense, but I think it reaches the audience in that deeper sense I was speaking of, these philosophical themes the show was built on.

And once again, I point out that every single episode can't be a 10/10, for it destroys the emotional impact of the truly amazing episodes. Cue the whole "can't enjoy the sun without a few cloudy days".

Final note that hit me: Akechita was speaking to Maeve the entire episode, not her daughter. I think the techs made that clear when they mentioned she had been communicating through the mesh.

EDIT: I think Akechita was talking to Maeve and her daughter during the episode. When he spoke in English, he was speaking to her daughter. When he was speaking Lakota, he was speaking to Maeve. If you watch his dialogue he switches between English and Lakota back and forth.

Also another episode showcasing how Delos has shitty security. He walked through the whole place without anyone seeing him.

I was glad they got back to some of the Bicameral Mind theory that they'd teased last season. I think Jaynes argued that early humans were essentially instinctive animals, who literally heard the voices of god(s) talking to them as their own subconscious instincts telling them what to do or not to do.

But they developed religion as they came "awake" and still had some memories of the earlier years when they could hear their instincts talking to them.

As they showed Akecheta walking around and sharing what he had learned, I could kind of see that as one interpretation of early stone age or bronze age men trying to remember, and developing new ideas as they travelled around and encountered different cultures.

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The actor who played Akecheta is awesome.

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Check out Fargo Season 2 when you get a chance. He's brilliant on there as well.

I was not looking forward to tonights episode. I thought it would be filler and I couldn't give a rats arse about ghost nation......boy I am so glad to be wrong.

Not only was tonight an amazing episode, but Akecheta is now one of my favprite characters. The way the episode told us that Akecheta was the first "woke" host is great storytelling. We have a character that has been aware of what he is for decades and has chosen the peaceful way to leave Westworld behind, the ying to Dolores/Teddy's yang.