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The park's human guests and employees are cruel, self-interested, or willfully blind toward the horrors Westworld is built on.Īt the very least, the disingenuous distinction the Man in Black is attempting to make between reality and fantasy didn't fool his own wife or daughter.

Westworld season 1 episode 8 watch online full#

And when you decide to murder a girl in front of her mother just to see how it feels, you're a psychopathic asshole, full stop.įrom the very beginning, Westworld has worked to ensure that our sympathies lie with the hosts.

In short: In Westworld as in life, you are what you do. Westworld may be an amusement park designed to support the perversions of rich assholes, but a player as experienced as the Man in Black is sharp enough to understand that the hosts experience every horrific moment as reality. The Man in Black swears he's as much a hero outside the park as he is a villain while inside the park-but accepting that premise requires you to accept that there’s actually a meaningful difference between the two. Here, again, you'd probably get some pushback from the man himself. How is Westworld-which allows him to indulge in his darkest whims without any consequences, let alone danger-any more than another expensive and self-indulgent excuse to play God? But the lines between the Man in Black's real life and his savage quest through Westworld are growing blurrier than he cares to admit. When the Man in Black describes himself as God, he's specifically explaining how he feels in his life outside Westworld. We've had several hints that the Man in Black is a pretty big deal outside the park, but "God" is as ludicrously grandiose as it gets. Ford personally ordered it-so Bernard can be "at peace." Ford explains it, he simply wants to "free" Bernard from the memory of killing Theresa-which, lest we forget, was a murder that only happened because Dr. Ford would probably argue that his callousness about Bernard's pain is actually benevolence. Ford was talking about himself? This is a man, after all, who can’t resist the opportunity to manipulate and even torment Bernard-his closest ally and greatest creation.

Ford, shutting down Bernard's wild burst of emotion as effortlessly as you would flip a light switch.īut devoid of context for the whole "turning off your emotions" thing, how easy would it be to assume Dr. "As exquisite as this array of emotions is, even more important is the ability to turn it off," says Dr. When we rejoin Bernard at the beginning of this week's "Trace Decay," he's in the midst of a very understandable emotional breakdown-until he suddenly freezes at a word from Dr. It's been a particularly rough day for Bernard Lowe, who discovered he was a robot and murdered Theresa Cullen-unwillingly, on the inviolable orders of Dr.