This is exactly where the series was heading at the very end of season two.
So what are people complaining about? They are just rehashing their bulleted lists of complaints. But that's funny, this isn't Star Trek Discovery or Star Trek Picard. So why am I reading reviews for this Westworld episode that I previously saw posted on episodes of those shows?
Regardless of what some 4/8Chan troll spouts, this is still Westworld. Just because it's not taking place inside of the park at this moment, well that's not quite true. See if you can find the scene that is actually taking place in Westworld. There is one, and only one. But it's there.
So.
We have Dolores, and we have Bernard. From the ending of season two, we know that somebody using a host shaped like Charlotte Hale left the park with at least six host control units... One of which must have been Teddy of course. But we don't know exactly who Charlotte Hale is at this point. But we know, it's not Hale.
And for some reason we can thank Dolores for bringing Bernard back.
And she even says she brings him back as an enemy.
At least "not as a friend".
Why would she do that? I don't know if she is actually as antagonistic against Bernard as he seems to think she is...
We have to remember that this is still Dr. Ford's dark design, and, well, Bernard now contains a full simulation of Dr. Ford just like Dolores contains a full simulation of "BernArnold". This is all common knowledge after the end of season two.
And that's all Dolores needs to re-create both of those people.
But it's also possible that Dolores does not know of the internal Ford simulation residing inside of Bernard?
And, does he know about it?
Delores is set loose upon the world- run for your lives.
Dolores has never met a human being that was very high-quality, all she ever knew were employees of the park, and members of the Delos board. And William of course. She never knew any random people that she could just talk to who didn't have an agenda with her.
So the question is, what will she do when she meets a human being that isn't like the people she previously met who only wanted to use her as a host or part of the Delos project?
On the other hand there are whisperings of something much worse than Delos experiment... there is something called Rehoboam:
"But he forsook the council of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him (aka his best buds), and which stood before him: and he said unto them, what counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, make the yolk which my father did put upon us lighter? And the young men that were grown up with him (his best buds) spake unto him, saying... (Tell them) my little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins"
1 Kings 12 8-10.
Rehoboam is not a very good biblical figure from which to model an AI... Rehoboam is named for a king who thought that his sexual prowess was greater than his father, King Solomon. Can you imagine the hubris of that?
In other words, there are now officially worse things than Delos' little side project...
