William - the Man in Black. It's hard to see him in drunken stupor, chased by the ghosts of his past. But we all know that he's a Host. Dolores and Charlotte knows it too. He knows it, and yet, he acts like a man and not a machine. So, does it mean that the machines, synthetic lifeforms can go mad and see illusions of their past life?
We know that the Ghost of Ford was driving Bernard mad and even today, in their world, he is still afraid of that darkness. To William, his whole world was chattered by the knowledge of him being the Host and not that man he thought he were. In a way, he had everything, including access and knowledge about the immortality program and he was the first Host to start the killing business.
So, why is that Ford didn't change his programming and alter his violence parameters? Why Dolores or Maeve didn't do the same?
At the moment, he's too unstable to do any real good things for Charlotte. It is as if the spirit of the bottle has taken him over, and driven the last remains of his sanity away. Then again, maybe it is that he doesn't drink, and it is the cabin fever that has made him to go bonkers or then, someone really tampered his programming and made him to see the ghosts.
What is Dolores' plan for Bernard? She said: "We could be anyone who we want. Isn't that what you believe?" But can he? I believe that he is still carrying the Ghost of Ford inside him. It might even be tied into his programming and Dolores was never wise enough to remove that section from the code, because I don't think she never knew about the whole thing. It wouldn't make sense that in the midst of all the chaos that went in the Park, she would have gained the knowledge, and afterwards, when she resurrected Bernard, she wouldn't have had a need to do a deep study in the code to ween out all bugs.
Not that I would ever classify the Ghost of Ford anything other then a Ghost in the shell, or an AI hidden deep under Bernard Host code. In a way it makes more sense that Ford is still pulling the strings, and he surely is mad enough to harm all of the humanity... if he's given a chance. But is it because his grief changed so much that Ford wanted all the humans to die, so that they could be replaced by another race, the Hosts?
We humans allegedly killed all the other species in the past, therefore, in theory we would have programmed the Hosts with same parameters and when Dolores and Maeve broke the code, they started the ascension for the Hosts to become the replacement for the human species. The better version that would allow the Earth to heal itself from the all the damage that we'd caused. But then you start thinking about the Matrix theory, and suddenly you find yourself in the spot, where there are machines living inside a machine, and they are dreaming about the destruction of the mankind... and you end up in a place where the equation becomes impossible. It is easier to think that there's no Matrix, even though some of the evidence points out that there's one.
The interesting point is that the above scene suggests that the Matrix isn't limited, but we don't know for sure if the rockets are simulated and the people down on Earth are tied to an illusion. If not, then the whole Matrix theory should be thrown in the bin and we should should be clapping our hands for the humanity making it out there... to the Final Frontier.
What I don't get is why Dolores allowed the fight happened in the party?
Oh man, Caleb kind of looks the role, but at the same time he's so far out from his comfort zone. He never were a rich boy and he certainly didn't get that education. Not for being able to mingle with the elite without making a fool out from himself. All he really is, is just a body-guard or a shield for the lady.
"Paris, what it was... now only exists in my mind," Ceres told to Maeve, right after she questioned the reality and assumed correctly that she's in a simulation. In the Inception style, if Ceres is the big AI, he is totally controlling Maeve' and slowly turning her against Dolores. But he also suggests that the AI has accepted the role of its creator, who possibly transferred his consciousness into the big AI core, and that became the face of the Architect inside the simulation.
Maybe the biggest clue is that he offered Maeve a way to reach the other world, where her daughter is living in a freedom. He said, "Dolores has the key," to open it. So, you think about that Matrix reference, and how it suggests that the other world simulation is out of the grasp of the Big AI. He even showed her Dolores' chamber and then went on to tell Maeve that humans didn't matter, because they all believed in the illusion of Heaven and Hell after he'd executed the ID broker without even blinking his eyes.
It all suggests strongly that Ceres is like Maeve and he doesn't feel anything for 'his kind.' If you think about that for a moment, you can reach a place where the original Ceres programmed the big AI to care for the humanity. If you then add up that to the theory that they are all living in a huge ship, destined to reach another Earth at some point, while they go through generations sleeping in the Matrix pods, it might start making sense that Ceres doesn't need 'his kind' because he is controlling all futures. In a way that makes him the King of the World.
Another clue is that Maeve powers work, unlike in the Park as she's constantly able to interrupt human electronics almost as if she's an Agent. In the Matrix, none of them were able to really alter the world or even interrupt it in any other way than taking over the host. Thus replacing the person and possibly causing it to be replaced by another harvested clone. That doesn't happen in the WestWorld.
I loved how she entered into the Yakusa hideout with respect and then when it didn't work, she used her powers to take over the technology. The whole fight scene is the coolest one I've seen in this year. It even topped scenes seen in the Alternated Carbon. When it turned out that the Boss was Musashi was stunned, and even though Maeve is capable of great amount of the violence, she's no sword master. Not even close to grandmaster scale that Musashi represents.
I loved even more that Dolores ended up being inside Charlotte, and her using William's mental state against him to gain power inside Delos. With Musashi being the quartermaster, there's nothing that really can stop them from taking over the reality.
Why Dolores put a ghost of herself inside William's core?
