Oh, goodie, Sizemore is teaming up with Tessa Thompson's corporate saboteur chick. Now the two anchor-weight cartoons whom I can't stand in that half of the narrative are working together.
Yaaaaaay.
I'm also disappointed Ford just let Theresa's death be discovered as an "accident," because the idea of him replacing her with a host was so tantalizing from a storytelling potential perspective. You can wring dozens of ideas out of the crazy old guy slowly killing and replacing those who try to double-cross or undermine him. The "accidental death wasn't really accidental" trope can only lead to the relevant parties confirming the suspicion that she was murdered. It's pretty much a narrative dead end. Maybe if the mid-assembly host is really Elsie, we can wring something good out of it, but Theresa had more sway and relevance.
Other than that, the continued sort-of-wheel-spinning doesn't bother me much. Dolores and William's storyline is sagging and dragging as per usual (JUST CONFIRM THAT WE'RE WATCHING TWO TIMELINES ALREADY), but otherwise, we're slowly moving into a good position for the future.
Maeve is Robot Kilgrave now, and unlike when that happened with Fish on
Gotham, I actually really, really love it. Hopefully it continues to be used in fun ways.
It was good to hear more about MIB's past and motivations, and the fact that he was married for 30 years (the same time frame he's been coming to the park) firmly solidifies the theory as if the past dozen clues hadn't. And I didn't catch that the scraggly-haired woman was the sexy Brit who welcomed him in way back when, so good catch, Masonator. Although I've just had a thought about it: the fact that the marriage successfully held up for so long probably indicates that Logan manages to get out of the park alive, however tragic that may be, because I don't imagine a potential bride being very pleased or accepting of the idea that her brother just went missing or accidentally died on a trip with her fiance.
Masonator wrote:However, this episode also introduced a flaw in that theory, since MiB tells Teddy he discovered the maze after killing Maeve and her daughter, when we know that William discovered the maze through Dolores. So for the theory to hold up, MiB is either an unreliable narrator, or William just doesn't quite recognize the true significance of the maze until much later. I also don't know why the MiB seems so sure that solving the maze will free the hosts. He obviously saw that the hosts have the potential to override the three laws of robotics, since Maeve sliced his neck after he killed her daughter. How that leads to the conclusion that solving the maze frees the hosts remains a mystery to me.
My thinking is that William was always interested in the maze as a concept / game from seeing the clues pop up during his time with Dolores, but it wasn't until he saw it again all those years later after gutting Maeve that he got ideas about its significance and became obsessed with it. The guy did just lose his wife and voluntarily murdered a woman and child, after all; he'd be willing to latch onto anything for meaning, whether it's actually important or really just a storyline screwing with him. Same goes for his "freeing the hosts" idea -- just him desperately giving weight and meaning to something that probably won't have any, to mask his real goal of finding something in the park that can kill him so he can die in the place he feels like his true self in.
Masonator wrote:Other than that, I hate to venture into "Character x is really a robot" territory again, but I feel compelled once more. The Asian engineer, come on. He altered Maeve's core code, didn't tell his partner and apparently had some side agreement with Maeve that she wouldn't kill him when she decided to take him out of commission. He also seemed in no rush to save that guy's life after Maeve cut his throat open. These are not the actions of a normal person in his situation. Maeve already demonstrated an ability to control other hosts, so is this guy being controlled by her? And did she potentially expose herself in her final scene this episode, by not responding to shut down orders in the saloon and then influencing the outcome of several gun fights?
I'm not convinced. Bernard being a host made internal sense, because he's in an influential enough position that he'd be useful and interesting to Ford. I can't see a random disposal fucker being one unless it was by sheer accident and nobody knows. Asian Engineer still just strikes me as someone who is obsessing over the idea of new life being created from machinery, irrationally moral about helping her and the other hosts (her "army") be free, and blinded by his attraction to her; all to the point that he's finding himself doing increasingly amoral things in the name of pleasing her. He was in no rush to help Non-Asian Engineer, but he didn't seem exactly pleased to watch him bleed out, either; the scene gave me strong "Walter White watching the chick choke on vomit" vibes, in that I believe he was distantly weighing his options on whether saving the jerkass who wanted to interfere with Maeve's plan or letting him die would be more beneficial.