Trace Decay

Short and Simple Review by WubsTheFadger

Once again, Westworld delivers a great episode. Thandie Newton, Anthony Hopkins, James Marsden, and Evan Rachel Wood all perform perfectly.

The pacing is a little slow but this episode furthers Maeve's story line even further. Ed Harris' character also gets more screen time which is awesome.

Pros: Great acting, Maeve's story line and Ed Harris' story line

Cons: Slower pacing

Overall Rating: 9.0/10

Bernard discusses with Dr. Ford asking why he forced him to kill his beloved Theresa. Later her body is found as if she had had an accident and Dr. Ford confronts Charlotte, telling that Theresa and a technician had altered Clementine´s code and Bernard assumes an important position in Westworld. Dolores and William arrive at a town where she has strange daydreams. He decides to take her back to Sweetwater but they stumble upon Logan and a group of Confederate soldiers. Meanwhile Teddy and the Man in Black continue their dangerous search for Wyatt.

"Trace Decay" is an episode with less action than usual, but still it is great. Dr. Ford is a manipulative and dangerous man. Dolores raises more questions with her intriguing moments. Where the journey of Teddy and the Man in Black will lead them? My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Trace Decay"

Maeve's self-discovery continues, and Ed Harris vs. Anthony Hopkins helps make this so exciting as you can tell with this being the last of three episodes in the first season it is starting to HEAT UP! You can tell is starting to build to a crescendo or climax, and I doubt anyone binge watching at this point would be able to stop until the end of season one!!! I sure was not able!

One of the things I have really liked about Westworld is it gives you this complex system and a bunch of possibilities and lets you do the world of figuring out what's going on and what the author's intent is. Very little was made explicit.

That changed with this episode. There's a very specific discussion of the nature of consciousness and Ford's views, and the Man in Black tells his story.

For some people, it's probably nice to get some answers, but for me there were too many answers too quickly. Yes, there are still puzzling things, we still don't know what the maze is, Dolores seems to be going off the deep end and Maeve has a moment of glory.

So there was a lot of good in the episode, but for me it was less satisfying because too much was freely given, making it the least challenging episode of the season.

If the majority voted the episodes with 10(exellent) how could those who voted 1(awful) be taken seriously. It's obviously they have some other reason rather than be objective about the Westworld episodes. I would understand if the average grade is between 3 or 4 but this isn't the case here. We are talking one of the best series EVER. Awful(1) voters are simply haters which votes should be deleted. Do someone honestly believe the Westworld series is awful. I don't think so. I never voted any movie or episode as awful. Is there any series at all with the majority of awful(1) votes? I thought so. Send this haters home. They don't belong here.