Westworld season 2 episode 9 review: Bill & Ted's bogus journey. In the most Nolan-y move ever, Bernard and Dolores are able to ~enter~ the Forge using James Delos' simulation memories, find the "system" (which is inexplicably physically personified by Logan Delos), and learn that humans are essentially nothing more than code. Independent culture newsletter The best in film, music, TV … As you can see, I literally have nothing interesting to say about it. “Get out of my f—ing head!” Bernard cries in a very non-Bernard-like way. Bernard: Elsie demands to know what exactly is going on with crazy-acting Bernard (hey, Elsie, get in line!). That’s a lot of fodder for fan theories, but the one book that really sticks out is Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughter House five, which tells the story of a WW2 veteran named Billy (short for William) who becomes unstuck in time. Ask questions and download or stream the entire soundtrack on Spotify, YouTube, iTunes, & Amazon. How does Akecheta’s journey fit with the timeline of Westworld, and Ford’s plans? Matt Pitts (returning from season 3; co-wrote 3x02). William reveals that Delos (the company behind Westworld) is scanning everyone’s brains using sensors built into the cowboy hats you get while visiting the park. You changed me. In this case, Juliet giving her daughter that profile led to an unforeseeable disaster. Clementine: The tech team has uploaded Maeve’s host-controlling superpower into zombie Clementine. ... Westworld's B = T theory explained. Bernard runs the Westworld version of Norton antivirus to debug himself of Ford. I belong to another world. Spoilers for Westworld Season 2 Episode 9. At least that’s what the episode suggests. From massive spoilers to blink-and-you-miss-it Easter eggs. Yet he decides against shooting a fleeing man in the back, suggesting part of his core personality remains intact despite his girlfriend’s iPad tinkering. She’s called the QA team for extraction from the park. ‎On this weekly podcast, we recap, review, breakdown, and theorize each episode of Westworld after it airs. I feel there’s soooo much going on in this episode that we need a whole other season just to unpack S2E9. But the Man in Black is convinced Emily is a host. Dolores: Dolores the Deathbringer confronts Ghost Nation natives (though not their leader, Akecheta, who we fell in love with last week). Now, earlier, Ford gave William his profile on a gold card which contains his entire in-park history in all its gory detail. Why is that? The fake quote is actually better, which is another reason Hans Gruber is awesome. The mystery of Juliet’s bathtub suicide is slowly revealed. Westworld treated us to a nice Father’s Day episode in which William kills his own daughter. So William not only guns down the arriving QA team, but also shoots his own daughter, murdering the last of his family. Post Your Quick Questions for S2E9 "Vanishing Point" 2x09 Live Episode Discussion. It’s possible that could be a flashback, but it’s also possible that he could have found a way to piggyback in someone else’s brain, just in case Bernard tried to get rid of him. First, Bernard relays what he learned from Ford to Elsie in plain and simple language. After last week’s unexpected dose of straightforward storytelling, Westworld returned to from last night with another complicated episode (Season 2, Episode 9, “Vanishing Point”) that provided way more questions than answers. © Copyright 2021 Meredith Corporation. So what happened to the music box? What is the door? Oh no! Westworld S2E9: "Vanishing Point" Review William is the focus of Westworld's penultimate season two episode. Spread the love with EW's Valentine's Day gift guide. She’s being the mature one, trying to put aside her feelings and blame, trying to salvage their relationship and move forward. Maeve continues to lie all cut open on a table. Join Nick and Ashlee each week as we break down each episode! After all, Ford himself could have sent Emily a copy of his profile if he wanted to mess with him. “I never told anybody about my profile… you gave yourself away.”. The second season comes to an unsatisfying close, in spite of some shocking revelations and heady philosophizing. This was part of trade — William’s Delos corporation wouldn’t mess with Ford’s narratives as long as Ford didn’t interfere with “The Valley Beyond” human-to-host immortality project. Don’t forget that just a few minutes earlier, Delos security showed up with a special device that can check whether anyone is a Host or a human. Dolores has gone down such a dark path, it’s getting hard to embrace her apparent mission to overthrow all of humanity. The penultimate season 2 episode of Westworld was a dark journey into the corrupt heart of the Man in Black, delving into his backstory and giving us a startling and just plain sad twist. Basically, it's the human version of the Cradle, and the key to Delos' plan to clone humans. S1E10- Arnold keeps testing Dolores with the maze to push her to consciousness. And then, in perhaps one of the show’s best examples yet of host freedom and self-determinism — and a great example of why you should either accept your partner or leave, not try to change them — Teddy does the one thing he can think of to reclaim himself. Starting with a definitive timeframe, in S1E5 one of Westworld’s co-creators Dr. Robert Ford asks Dolores when she last contacted Arnold (his now-deceased partner). … Westworld season 2 explained: Deconstructing episode 10 and all of the HBO show's mysteries. The penultimate season 2 episode of Westworld was a dark journey into the corrupt heart of the Man in Black, delving into his backstory and giving us a startling and just plain sad twist. It also clears up another big moment from last night’s episode…. HBO's ambitious science-fiction thriller 'Westworld' is based on the 1973 Michael Crichton film of the same name. “Which is why this is so hard. So is Westworld trying to tell us that Emily really was a Host. Given that Westworld is a puzzlebox TV show, everything should technically make sense, so below I’ve carefully gone through the Westworld Season 2 finale ending to … He makes it clear that The Door is similar to The Cradle, but instead of storing Host backups it has copies of every single human who’s ever visited the park. With “Vanishing Point”, here we are at the ninth episode of Westworld, only 90 minutes left, and it’s been a really solid season so far.I had assumed that after last week’s absolutely magnificent episode that this week’s might feel a little flat in comparison. According to a post from Reddit user /DonHedger, the books on William’s shelf are Moby Dick, Slaughterhouse Five, Jude the Obscure, Plutarch’s Historical Methods, and Plutarch and Rome. Clementine is once again back to being used by the powers that be. By Chris Edwards. And watching William drive his wife to kill herself, and then murder his daughter — who was perhaps the most likable character this whole season — was tragic and sad. It’s a quick, darkly lit shot that makes it difficult to actually identify any of those books, but thankfully Reddit is already on the case. Is William’s theme park sinning a truth that Emily needed to know about her dad? Said code looks like this: Which, FYI, is simila… As Bernard explained to us last week, the Forge did indeed turn out to be a vast server with the guests laid out in code. Offers may be subject to change without notice. Possibly? Emily also reveals that she wants to visit The Door to speak to her mother, who commited suicide in a flashback during that same episode. Then we think maybe her daughter, Emily, accidentally tipped her into a fatal act with a threat to send her back to rehab. William hid the profile card in a book, and Juliet gets up and reads it. Season 2 of Westworld has been a wild ride, delivering some of the best episodes of the show, along with some unnecessarily convoluted side-plots, and … Now there’s only one person on the show who seems to be getting everything he wants, and it’s the same person who was getting everything he wanted last season — and that’s Dr. Ford, who I’m more than ready to see get unplugged. Soon afterward, she changed her mind and went to retrieve it, but the trash had already been taken and it was too late. At first, we think she’s just drunk and unhappy. Oh my God, Teddy killed Teddy! However, the preview for next week’s Westworld Season 2 finale clearly shows Ford back in action. “I read your profile…”, At this, William thinks he’s figured out for sure what’s going on. John P. Johnson/HBO. Page 3 of 5 ... Wasn't (at least in part) the motivation for her suicide finding out about the bad stuff he'd been doing in Westworld? “Vanishing Point” was both an extremely well-made episode of Westworld and a rather depressing one. Season 1 started as a video review series, but Season 2 we're doing it in a longer form podcast style. Then again, William was seriously wounded, and perhaps a bit delirious, so maybe he was out of his mind? If you have a quick question or request, please feel free to leave it in this thread. In Westworld’s Timeline explained we’re taking a look at everything from the park’s creation to Dolores many misadventures, and the eventual host rebellion. The impression I got was that they would scalp themselves, put the maze there, then pat the scalp back down. What does William’s loop say about humanity? However, packed into all the mystery were a few key details that might actually help explain what the heck is going on. That would explain why she misremembered what happened to the music box. Entertainment Weekly is a registered trademark of Meredith Corporation All Rights Reserved. Either way, it looks like we’ll have to wait until the big Season 2 finale next week to find out. This episode comes at an interesting time, in the #MeToo era, when technology is being used to expose private behaviors, some criminal, some merely shameful. The series developed by Jonathan Nolan stars … Credit: Later, Teddy makes a speech to Dolores: “No matter what happens, no matter how much I change or how much you change me, you’re my cornerstone,” he says. (Sidenote: why haven’t they been using these the entire time?) All 4 songs featured in Westworld season 2 episode 9: Vanishing Point, with scene descriptions. ‘Westworld’ Stars Troll Fans With “Never Gonna Give You Up” Rendition: Season 2, Episode 9, “Vanishing Point”. William certainly seems to think so, at least until her notices that data card in her cold dead hands. Bernard tells her about Delos’ secret immortality project and explains that all the human data secretly collected over the years is stored at a place called the Forge (not to be confused with the Cradle, which is where the host backups were stored, and which Dolores blew up). It’s super-sized, 90 minutes long, and we’ll presumably finally get to see the Valley Beyond, The Door, The Forge and all the other exciting high-end new Westworld galleria shopping opportunities. Westworld "Vanishing Point" S2E9 6/17/2018 Discussion in 'Now Playing - TV Show Talk' started by astrohip, Jun 17, 2018. Did you notice in Season 2E9 that the ‘previously one Westworld’ relating to MiB are things that happened DURING the episode!!! Meanwhile, Ford is the devil on Bernard’s shoulder, insisting Elsie is going to betray him and he should just get rid of her already. Bernard doesn’t tell Elsie about Ford’s virtual resurrection, however, which is probably wise, though is admittedly violating their “no secrets” agreement. Sela Ward makes her debut. The simple solution is that Emily’s mom found it in the trash and rescued it, but that’s not particularly interesting. Join the Dollar Shave Club for $5: http://www.dollarshaveclub.com/asxDoes Maeve give hosts a true choice? A quick scan seems to confirm that William is human, but then he quickly shoots the entire security team before they can check Emily’s status. S2E2- Ford and Arnold pitch the idea of westworld to Logan Delos, who Invests on behalf of his dad’s Company S1E9- Arnold’s son Charlie dies. Ford unlocks her “core permissions” (which we assumed were already unlocked, but I guess there’s always another level), and that will presumably help her do something interesting again at some point. Finally, it’s possible that William could be right about his daughter actually being a Host. One of the most interesting things I found this episode was … Explainers, analysis, theories, recaps, character analysis, lore. That she dies while holding that profile card in her hand is both rather narratively convenient yet also gives William (and us viewers) clear proof that he’s made a terrible mistake. William, what did you do? Yes, I noticed. A recap of Westworld’s season two finale, “The Passengers.” So it sounds like there’s some sort of way for humans to interact with the people who’s brains have been copied and stored in the park, similar to how Bernard was able to enter The Cradle earlier this season. Westworld finale recap: Season 1, Episode 10, Westworld recap: Season 1, Episode 7 twist, Westworld recap: Season 1, Episode 6, The Adversary, Westworld recap: Season 1, Episode 5, Contrapasso, Westworld recap: Season 1, Episode 4, Dissonance Theory, Westworld recap: Season 1, Episode 2, Chestnut, Westworld premiere recap: Season 1, Episode 1. Next week is the finale. Postscript: Some are asking why I didn’t discuss William digging something out of his arm. This week, we got two straightforward explanations for exactly what’s happening in that valley. It could be another trick, but I have a feeling that William was actually right in this case. Is it a tracking device of some kind? Just one more of Ford’s robots trying to trick him, to steer him off his mission and remove him from the game. Just when we start to think maybe her death wasn’t provoked by William, he sits by Juliet’s bedside, believing she’s asleep, and answers her earlier plea to tell her one true thing. I don’t belong to you or this world. The actual quote is apparently, “Is it not worthy of tears, that when the number of worlds is infinite, we have not yet become lords of a single one?” You could use both to reflect on the ambitions of Delos. “I’m not a host pretending to be a human, I’m your daughter pretending to give a s— about you,” she declares. Westworld is great at trolling humanity for our imperfections. They test using her to spread a virus command to other hosts. Is William a host? William (Now): “It’s not too late for us,” Emily declares at the outset of their final time together. Unless that bullet somehow missed his Brita filter CPU? Or William could have made a less permanent move and continued on to the Valley without her. So here’s her husband, confessing he doesn’t love her, and then she gets to witness all his season 1-style sadism. S1 had a lot of things going for it-Hopkins, the novelty of the western meets sci-fi setting, and the various compelling mysteries which … Behold Clementine, destroyer of worlds. What we actually got is a really interesting episode that reveals more than its fair share of surprises. You made me into a monster.”. The personality profile include clips of his previous activities? We’re going deep into that, plus touching on a pyrrhic victory for Teddy and more inert table-lying for Maeve. Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy's critically-acclaimed sci-fi series Westworld is finally coming back to HBO for season 2, with plenty of returning characters, and some new cast members as well.Season 2 of Westworld will see the newly-freed hosts explore new horizons - including other parks like Shogun World - while the representatives of Delos Incorporated do their best to take back control. When William hides that card with all the data about the terrible things he’s done in Westworld, he slides it into a book on a shelf in his bedroom. Or Dolores backed him up to a flash drive just in case he tried exactly this? Teddy became so despondent with his new personality that he offed himself. The series developed by Jonathan Nolan stars Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden, Thandie Newton, and more top names. Bernard was largely out of control, per usual. ... Westworld s2e9 trailer teases another cameo the show kept secret. Westworld s2e9 trailer teases another cameo the show kept secret. The people downstairs probably repair them by using the dental curing tool thing to stitch the skin back together, so they don't end up seeing the maze symbol. But in Episode 9, the divide between those lives comes crashing down. Here’s a simple but interesting bit of info. What’s more compelling is the idea that Emily could be purposely lying to The Man in Black to evoke an emotional reaction. Juliet’s death might not have been his fault — at least, insomuch as a person taking their own life harbors the ultimate responsibility for their actions — but his daughter’s death is totally on him. I think that most agree that season one of Westworld was something special, and that something seemed to be lost in seasons two and three. 2018-2022 However, we later learn that Emily’s mother used that same music box to hide a memory card full of data on William so that her adult daughter could find it. They warn her the Valley Beyond is “not meant for you,” a phrase I’ve come to associate with Dr. Ford trying to course-correct players in his world. Hopefully. Let’s break down “Vanishing Point,” beginning with…. A philanthropic family man in real life and a model of depravity within Westworld, he had built a wall to separate his two selves. The host backups were destroyed at the Cradle. This isn’t exactly new information, but until now Westworld only really explained what The Door was through a series of cryptic conversations and Anthony Hopkins monologues. That would be disappointing. Jonathan Nolan. Is Dolores’ violence justified? So he’s presumably gone? HBO's ambitious science-fiction thriller 'Westworld' is based on the 1973 Michael Crichton film of the same name. In the penultimate episode of Westworld season two, we have four main characters diving into the depths of their lonesome journeys, at once outward and ever inward. Uh, maybe? Westworld season 3 trailer sees Aaron Paul and Lena Waithe join cast. At that point, the show seems to suggest that she really was his daughter, but I’m still not convinced. Suzanne Wrubel (also returning from last season, co-wrote 3x06). And it worked! “All this pain,” Ford continues, “so [humans] can patch a hole in their own broken code” — which is a good line. Videos about stories – Game of Thrones, Westworld, Watchmen, The Expanse, and more. Maybe? William (Then): We’re at a flashback party, where William corrects that quote everybody knows from Die Hard about how Alexander the Great was really upset when he realized there were no more worlds left to conquer. Charlotte Hale is quite pleased. I don’t know, guys. Lisa Joy. Near the end of the episode, Ford (currently a program hanging out in Bernard’s robot brain) pressures him to kill Elsie before she can betray them. I figure we’ll all find out the solution to any lingering William mysteries next week. All these secret park location names sound like something from a fancy new open-air shopping galleria. What does it mean? What’s unclear — because on Westworld this is almost always unclear — is whether Teddy is really dead. Westworld is an exclusive theme park where those who can afford a ticket can live without limits. Emily coming out of the sunset to greet her father was one of my favorite shots this year. Partners Arnold Weber and Robert Ford created lifelike robots that pass for humans called hosts. A part of me rebelled against this twist. The Forge is located at the Valley Beyond. How does Bernard achieve consciousness? And the bathtubs that change color. Her dad is wounded, perhaps dying. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. I don’t think it is, though perhaps you feel differently. 'Vanishing Point' is a dark journey into the corrupt heart of the Man in Black, Oh no. Or so it seems. The music box that Emily received as a gift when she was a child might seem insignificant, but there’s a mystery wrapped around it. tunefind So he takes out his gun and shoots himself. From what I could uncover, here's who are part of the show next season. So that explains how they managed to get all that data. William followed the age-old rule of 'if in doubt, commit filicide' Christopher Hooton @christophhooton. In a shocking twist, Westworld saved its biggest reveals until the end. Still: Who would have guessed that Maeve would spend three episodes lying on a table? So Juliet kills herself (this episode is pretty big on suicide), but not before she leaves the gold profile card in Emily’s ballerina box for her to find. Here are five important moments from Westworld Season 2 Episode 9 that are worth revisiting and explaining, whether you’re confused or you just to looked down at your phone at the exact wrong moment and missed them. Would William really kill such a convincing vision of his daughter based on such a flimsy assumption? The Valley Beyond, the purpose of the parks and that mind-blowing finale. Spoilers for Westworld Season 2 Episode 9. During the episode, Emily tells her father a story about how she hated the music box when she first got it and decided to throw it away. The odds of the MiB surviving the season seem rather slim at this point. The Man in Black's backstory is fleshed out. “The Door” officially explained This isn’t exactly new information, but until now Westworld only really explained … Maeve: Poor Bernard is once again being used as Dr. Ford’s avatar. The hosts allow guests to live out their fantasies (without harming humans) in the park. Sound familiar? It’s a creepy sequence as Clementine silently orders hosts to brutally slaughter each other. She orders Teddy to gun them down. I always have…”. Kevin Lau (new to the series, but co-wrote one of my favorite episodes of 2020: Lovecraft Country's 'Meet Me in Daegu'). We meet William’s doomed wife, Juliet, played by Sela Ward (Once and Again, CSI: NY). This post is filled with massive spoilers of S2E9 of Westworld!Continue at your own risk! Teddy, who has been killed over and over and over again on this show, has a final life left to give. Instead, Bernard digs into his own code and removes Ford entirely. We quickly gather that Juliet is an alcoholic married to man with a black heart that’s at least two sizes too small. How does Maeve make her love real? How will Emily hurt William? No clue. He delivers a cruel lowdown: “Everything you fear is true. After a mixed season with some exceptional. Westworld might have become a show where every scene is a Turing test, if it wasn’t already. “Of all the hosts I made, you were my favorite,” Ford kindly tells her, and you can see Maeve silently wanting to scream at him. Entertainment Weekly may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Later on, we get even more info from William (aka The Man in Black) during a conversation with his daughter, Emily.
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