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I think it just put her journey on hold for 30 years. It's plausible that when we see her without William, we're seeing present-Dolores retrace her journey.

Will it make it harder for them to resist eating real meat in the future? I say: Of course! Any vegetarians want to chime in? Of course, lacking the hypothetical perfect simulated steak, we'll have to stick to speculation. Edited to add: also, isn't your hypothetical about people who really *want* to eat meat?

Empathy. Being able to do horrible, consequence-free things to something that, to all of your senses and your hindbrain, is indistingishable from an innocent fellow human being, would damage (or indicate a deficit in) your empathy towards actual innocent fellow human beings. "Knowing" that they aren't real people wouldn't stop that. I'd even be concerned that that would serve as practice for "knowing" the same thing about other people or groups. Reasonable people can disagree about whether, or to what extent, a similar lesser effect applies to less-perfect, less-immersive simulations; but if there is a threshold past which the effect exists, Westworld is certainly beyond it.

I presume that most people don't shoot at targets because they really want to shoot other people, but can't. And I presume that most people don't seek out ultra-realistic targets to shoot with the goal of being able to emotionally, if not intellectually, fool themselves that they're really shooting other people. I don't necessarily make similar presumptions about characters who go to Westworld to simulate murder. And I presume the opposite about those who go there to simulate rape. And that's without getting into the question of robot sentience at all.

That's certainly what we're meant to believe. ;) Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think we know for sure that Dolores-with-William is away from her usual loop for the same reason that Dolores-whom-Bernard-interviews is. *Something* went wrong 30 years ago, after all. And it seems unlikely (though possible) that Bernard is whisking Dolores out of William's camp in the middle of the night to interview her.

But they didn't say that the park has only been in operation for 30 years. In fact, Jonathan Nolan said that "Dolores has been the girl next door with aspirations to travel and see the world and escape her modest little loop for going on 35 years," so Westworld must have been open for at least that long. Unless that's counting the 3+ years of pre-opening development? Hmm. Though Dolores (in an earlier incarnation) isn't necessarily one of the *first* hosts, just the oldest one still in service.

"These violent delights have violent ends". Abernathy said it to Dolores, who said it to Maeve. Presumably, some Trojan-horse voice-control meme that Arnold left buried in the programming. How/why Abernathy accessed it after seeing that photo is, so far, a mystery.

*Unless* the supervisor (who's also the head of Security, at least in the present?) is an android, and thus doesn't age. Others have already suggested he might be an android, based on the previous episode. Would making an android your chief of security be a terrible idea? Probably; but as with the similar theory about Bernard, above, I could see Ford doing it. Is all this pointlessly complex? Not if temporarily misleading the viewer is, in fact, the point.

Ford has already explicitly deprecated the applicability of Occam's Razor to WestWorld. ;) But it's also not that useful a tool for analyzing TV shows that are deliberately trying to be complicated. Bernard's wife would be easy to explain away. We never even saw her in person. Host, actress, CGI, etc. I agree that it seems like a bad idea to have an android in charge of the android's code. However, as presented, Ford seems easily capable of having such an idea. Snake Tattoo Girl *is* Hector's blonde-Annie-Oakley-type sidekick. That's why she wanted him out of prison. The black deputy said that he was going to take Lady-Loving Riflewoman Guest back to town while Teddy held off the mob. We later see the deputy talking to Delores in town, so presumably they made it back okay.

Bullets: I can believe in guns which fire fake bullets, which trigger real wounds in hosts, more easily than I can believe in guns which fire real bullets, with the bullets themselves being smart (and 100% reliable) enough to ALWAYS self-destruct just before hitting a guest. Though I admit that real bullets would make it easier to shoot up random bits of scenery. Native Americans: My assumption is that the Magical-Native stuff is part of Ford's new scenario, and didn't exist in-show until this week. It has to be part of *some* scenario or general background, and not just emergent behavior, since other characters are aware of the mythology. Which does raise the question of why the hell Ford is getting so meta, since the show otherwise seems to have pivoted away from the suggestion that he's deliberately trying to nudge the hosts to self-awareness.

The black deputy took Teddy's guest partner back to town. The WiMIB theory isn't looking good... Unless Security-chief Thor is a host. Which is a preexisting theory, though it seems like a bad idea in-world.

It's Old Man Brynner!

"Henry"? I think you mean "Teddy." Also: I agree that Maeve is awesome, but given how WW guns seem to work, I'm having trouble figuring out how she can have an actual solid bullet inside her. Unless it was put there as part of the new secret storyline?

This is one thing that's still keeping the William-is-young-MIB theory (barely) plausible for me. Yes, Delores-with-William has what seems to be the same gun that we saw her use in the "main" storyline; but it looked shiny and new to me, not like when she dug it up.

Unless Logan was talking about a different sister, we know that William's fiance "rode her share of cowboys" on her own visit. They might not have been engaged yet then, of course. In any case, I think we're expected to care about William's (and Delores') emotional state, not the fiancé's.

What happens when more than one guest is competing for the same storyline role, or when one guest's storyline conflicts with another? Say, William wants to help/romance Dolores and Logan wants to rape/kill her?

It's not looking good for the theory, but I'm still rationalizing excuses. We don't yet know for sure that Delores runs into William's camp after the shooting we saw; this could still be a separate incident 30 years previously. We'll probably know for sure (?) tomorrow night.

Well, there was that time that Sam leaped into young-soldier Al and accidentally changed things so that he (Al) was certain to be executed... and Old-Al was instantly replaced by Roddy McDowall! And I liked that fact that the "mission control" people did not, in fact, know that anything had changed.

I liked it, with one exception. Unrealistic or not, I enjoyed the snappy pace, I'm satisfied so far with the timey-wimey stuff and plot twists, and I liked how the characters were all competent in their fields and quick on the uptake. Except for the bit with the bomb. Oh no, the Hindenburg has taken off and is flying over an unoccupied field, and you've found a bomb in the kitchen, set to go off within minutes! If only the kitchen had windows, similar to the ones we later see the characters easily breaking, both with heavy objects and with their feet! Oh, wait. That kept me griping to my wife for the rest of the episode.

And doesn't DC have only one (non-voting) rep anyway, which would imply one district? Maybe in this reality, DC is still part of Maryland? More likely, it was supposed to be Maryland districts, but someone decided after filming had started that they wanted to draw on the DC map instead. Also available for free on Amazon Video if you have Prime, though ep 6 isn't there yet.

House Bolton was both rated *and* appeared in the Unrated list.

I guess this goes here, though I'm still trying to decipher which "uncle" is being referred to: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/romney-loyalists-divisions-over-trump-spill-out-into-the-open-at-utah-summit/2016/06/11/700ab4a4-3000-11e6-9b37-42985f6a265c_story.html

Plus, she needs to warm up for Daenarys. ?

Being sucked is literally what tits are for. (As Robin Arryn showed us in Season 1, by the way.) Granted, Yara didn't seem to be getting much nutrition out of these particular tits, but she, and their owner, looked like they were genuinely having fun, which redeems the scene somewhat.

It has to not really be Arya. Body language, hairstyle, actions, theme music; it's A Man, not A Girl. Don't know how he managed it.