jacy

You're right. Here is the correction I added earlier to the previous post: Edit: On further reflection, it's not correct that MIB said that he was there when Arnold was killed. That happened 5 years before the young William and Dolores timeline. We believe that Dolores will kill Logan in this timeline, because we know from the MIB timeline that 30 years ago, there was a catastrophic event that almost shut down the park.

Excited to see everything coming together. So it appears that MIB (aka old William) planted the NYC photo of his deceased wife (given to him by his brother-in-law Logan) in front of Dolore’s parent’s home around the time he came to drag her by her hair and committed an act of cruelty to wake her up (after her seeing the NYC photo + and hearing the trigger words “These violent delights have violent ends.” MIB's motivation for waking up Dolores to become sentient-Dolores is because when he was young William, he fell in love with Dolores and promised to get her out of the park. Now ~30 years later (and after his wife died), he's back to complete the maze and free Dolores. So them meeting at the church doesn't seem like it's the end of the maze -- it is only meant to look like it by the writers. I believe that the next episode will set up the next season of whatever Arnold's plan was for freeing the robots. My partner’s theory is that Arnold is playing the long game, and had Dolores kill him (as part of his plan after he was done building the maze) with the belief that Ford would eventually make a robot version of him (Bernald), which he believed was needed to allow the robots to become sentient and set them free. We also believe that in the timeline where Dolores is gutted by Logan, she and William will likely run into Arnold and kill him. That is why MIB said that he was there when Arnold was killed. Edit: On further reflection, it's not correct that MIB said that he was there when Arnold was killed. That happened 5 years before the young William and Dolores timeline. We believe that Dolores will kill Logan in this timeline, because we know from the MIB timeline that 30 years ago, there was a catastrophic event that almost shut down the park. Edit 2: 5 timelines: (T = present time) T minus 35 years: Arnold and Dolores According to Arnold’s plan, sentient Dolores goes off-loop on a killing spree in the original town and kills all the hosts and then Arnold and shoots herself in the head. She is probably also Wyatt in the future (T). We believe this is the case, because in Teddy’s flashbacks of Wyatt, Wyatt kills everyone but we believe that he is remembering Dolores as Wyatt. Also, we see the same exact aftermath of the massacre in the same town in a flashback from Dolores (when she’s on the William/young MIB timeline). T minus 30 years: William and Dolores Dolores goes off-loop trying to find the maze. Not sure how she becomes sentient or goes off-loop in this timeline. T minus 29 years: Teddy and Dolores Ford creates Teddy in the likeness of young William to keep Dolores in her loop. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=479hvcCEe0I T minus 1 year: MIB and country Mauve MIB’s wife dies, and he returns to Westpark and does the act of cruelty (killing her and her daughter) that wakes up Mauve for the first time and sees the maze. Starts his obsession with completing the maze, and also finally might have compassion for hosts after seeing how realistic they are when experiencing extreme cruelty. T: MIB and Dolores MIB helps make Dolores sentient again via cruelty and the photo he left behind, and they both independently seek the maze. Teddy gets taken off his loop and onto a new loop related to the new Wyatt storyline. Dolores runs into MIB again at the church. This is the same timeline as Bernard finding out that he’s made in Arnold’s likeness.