Were told about one-third of the hosts are virgin like they never held data at all.
And the host backups have all been destroyed.
We figure Dolores is up to something here, but we dont know what yet.
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The QA guy is all: How did all these disparate threads come together to create this nightmare?
If we figure out, well know how this story turns.
Thats a pretty on point comment, to say the least.
Theyre brought to a town thats set up suspiciously like Sweetwater.
So Musashi the Ronin is Hector the bandit.
Akane (Rinko Kikuchi) the geisha is Maeve the madam.
Akanes favorite employee, the young and doomed Sakura, is the young and doomed Clementine.
You try writing 300 stories in three weeks!
Ive often wondered why there was only one of each host.
Wouldnt popular characters like Dolores and Maeve have replacements since theyre constantly being damaged and repaired?
Anyway: The Shogun demands Akene turn over the young Sakura.
Akene is supposed to comply.
Bet you didnt think youd spend half this episode reading, huh?
That night: Ninja attack!
Maeve discovers she can halt the ninjas not just by using voice commands, but by using something unspoken.
Her new voice is tapping into the host wifi mesh connection.
Maeve is now playing on the game on God-mode.
Maeves group joins with Akane to rescue Sakura from the Shogun.
Along the way sneaky Lee steals a walkie-talkie from a dead QA person.
The group head to the Shoguns camp.
This seems like a really short-sighted leadership strategy.
While Maeve uses her Jedi powers to get the Shoguns earless men to kill each other.
Too bad she didnt just do this before Sakura was killed.
We hope this means Akane is joining Maeves adventure full time.
Westworld Park: Dolores and Teddy return to Sweetwater.
Dolores father is being held there and theyre planning what seems like a rescue mission.
Teddy has some time with Dolores.
Hes still hoping to settle down with her somewhere and raise tiny robo-kids.
She tells him a prophetic anecdote about her dads herd was infected by a disease.
That night that have sex.
It looks anything but mechanical.
After, she takes Teddy into the towns supply store.
While shes talking to him she casually picks a can off the ground and puts it on the bar.
This little move, unremarked upon, is my favorite thing in this lavish episode.
Dropping a can in the street of Sweetwater was scripted as part of Dolores mating ritual.
Weve seen her do it so many times and various men pick it up and start chatting.
She has Teddy held while a tech guy gets out a controller pad.
She jacks up his Aggression, Bulk Apperception and Hostility and while decreasing his Compassion to zero.
Of course, Dolores could have done this to Teddy in his sleep.
She didnt have to make it into such a traumatizing show.
This is a really interesting twist and I suspect a controversial one.
Terminator Dolores has generated a lot of conversation this season about whether shes still a sympathetic heroine.
The character was initially bashed for being a passive victim; now shes getting bashed for being the opposite.
Against Teddys will, shes changing the very things that make him who he is.
Still, all that said …
I cant wait to meet Evil Killbot Teddy next week.
