That's a shame! It's not my favorite, but I really enjoyed it. I think they dropped the ball a bit on the visual effects for genre during Caleb's trip. The visual enhancements and effects weren't as wild as I'd like them to have been, I wonder if it was a budget thing, or something just got lost in production, because I bet on paper those scenes were supposed to be wild and crazy.
I have... a lot of thoughts!
Loved all the backstory with Serac; I think we can rule out that he's a projection of Rehoboam after seeing what he did to Liam Dempsey, Sr. Holograms can't bash people's heads against other objects. (And man, he really let him have it. 3 times, was it?) Did anybody catch in the scene when he sat down in his office that the Rehoboam halo/coffee stain-esque image fit around his head perfectly, like a dark halo? Westworld loves to play with Biblical themes - heaven/hell, God/Satan, even the obvious naming of the Rehoboam prototypes as kings of Israel. Saul, David, Solomon, Rehoboam - Adami, isn't this one of your areas of expertise? Do you glean anything from this? My knowledge in this area is sorely lacking.
So Liam Dempsey, Jr. is out of the picture in arguably one of the most pointless character arcs in Westworld, but it was short-lived so I'm not that salty about it. He said Caleb is the 'worst of them all' and that he 'doesn't know who he is.' Do you think Caleb killed Francis? Was Caleb's mind altered? Why does his mom say he's not her son?
I hope William comes back in the next episode. We haven't seen much of him, but he's one of the most fascinating characters on the show and I hope they have big plans for him by season's end/through season 4.
All in all I really enjoyed this episode. Some more thoughts after chewing on it all day yesterday:
1) RIP Tommy Flanagan. Was hoping he'd stick around and be a regular, but his (her? its?) job is done, I suppose. Love how Bernard seemed to make him question his role in all this just earlier, however.
2) Caleb staring at Dolores during the Love Story theme made me LOL
3) RIP Pom Klementieff
4) I cannot get enough of the visual representation of Rehoboam and how Serac even uses it as his watch. As Decoding Westworld pointed out for me, he doesn't have a regular watch because he's not interested in what's going on right now; his watch is Rehoboam because Serac's focus is on the future at all times and this way he can track it wherever he is.
5) The close-up on Serac's face during his initial reaction after Dolores leaks the data and causes Rehoboam's eclipse-brain display grows ever blacker on the left gave me chills. Vincent Cassel's acting is remarkable!
6) I hope Caleb and Dolores have a conversation soon about who Dolores is. Caleb was still tripping a bit when Dolores took those bullets for him, but he's gotta know something wild is going on with her.
7) Leaking all of that data to everyone in the world is going to be 'the moment' that changes the series going forward. While I think they could've done a better job this season of showing how the lower class has become dependent and completely victimized by Incite and Rehoboam, I don't think they've been ineffective at communicating the themes they're going for. I do think the initial reaction to everyone discovering the data was a bit corny (the outright violence and chaos that immediately seemed to spark was just a little cheesy, not in the same fascinating way the Escalante massacre went down), but overall, I think when the series wraps up years from now, we'll be able to look back to this as the definitive breaking point. I think things are going to get
much worse from here on out. I think Dolores has opened Pandora's box. I think she intended to do that - but I think she's going to vastly underestimate the consequences. Of course, it's Westworld, anything can happen...
8) How did Stubbs just walk into that facility? For a world with so much surveillance he seemed to have no trouble getting in there.
9) WTF is Bernard's role in all this? I know he's important, and Dolores wouldn't have brought him back for no reason. Something's up...
Whew. Is the week over with yet?
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