After all, it seemed to spread to her father first, whom Harris’ Gunslinger likely talked to before Dolores got to the scene of his murder in the first episode. Yet, it also is worth noting that there’s a popular theory on the internet that Harris’ anti-hero gamer did not assault Dolores at all, and may have actually been the one to plant the germ of an idea of self-awareness in her head. These hosts have lives, and now we are seeing those tropes that they’re built on deepen and break in ways unbeknownst to the programmers. But in the future, Teddy’s main purpose is described as “to keep her here, to ensure the guests find her if they want to best the storied gunslinger and have their way with his girl.”Īnd yet, despite being clear archetypes of Western tradition-the kind John Ford would litter throughout his films-they seem more alive and sincere than the coldness of Ford, the brokenness of Bernard, or the self-admitted sarcastic cynicism found in Elise. After all, when Ford is talking to Teddy before this sequence, he confirms what many socially conscious viewers already feared: she is simply there to be a tool for men who want to sexually assault her with the kind of aggression showcased only by Access Hollywood interviewees nowadays.
We are told later that only some hosts have the coded permission to fire a weapon, but she wants to do so desperately in a sequence that again seems beyond the parameters which Ford has set for both of them. Similarly, in their second conversation after she’s been threatened, Teddy attempts to train her to shoot a gun. Nevertheless, her actually questioning her desire to be free, as she hints of being her utmost wish to Bernard (we’ll get to those scenes at the end of this review), and whether Teddy is the man to take her there, seems beyond the pale of what she is programmed to do. As Ford later admits, this is a vague backstory that they never bothered to flesh out, but Dolores is also knowingly calling Teddy out on it, suggesting that she has learned enough from interacting with humans to understand that “someday” means never, especially when they are meant to die later that night (which they then do). She wants to leave her childhood home, and Teddy dissuades her because he has some reckoning to do. The first is likely a familiar conversation they’ve probably been programmed to have a thousand times. For instance, after Teddy actually gets a few opportunities to be heroic-both taking another female tourist on one of his side stories that doesn’t involve dying, and then again when he actually manages to scare off another guest from harassing Dolores (which makes the newcomer look all sorts of pathetic considering we know that Teddy has more patched up holes in him than Swiss cheese)-we are treated to two scenes between Teddy and Dolores. In the first episode to really give James Marsden more to do other than be shot to hell, their romance is broadened to an extent that is constantly challenging the audience as to whether we’re catching a voyeuristic glimpse into something that’s genuine or engineered. Of course, even before that scene, this is being all sorts of contradicted just by the simple interactions of Dolores and Teddy. There isn’t a thought there that he hasn’t put in place. As Ford hisses, they have no modesty or sense of shame. Also, Ford admonishes one of his subordinates for covering up a robot’s private region. We learn that only select models are given “weapons privileges,” which seems smart considering the recent spate of malfunctions. This material also again highlights that these machines have no real thoughts other than what Ford or his employees have placed in them. This chapter also doubles down on exploring some of the mechanics of the park to illuminating effect. With Westworld, he offers a similar visceral quality for what increasingly appears to be a deliberate narrative divide between the hosts and guests, with the robots looking ever more human and sympathetic than their creators. The episode is directed by Neill Marshall who helmed several of the more cinematic Game of Thrones episodes.
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