I think the problem is they still haven’t really defined what the MAIN story is. Is the base of this show robots vs humans on some Terminator shyt(“Wyatt”) or robots gaining sentience and breaking free of the world they’ve been put in like The Truman Show, but, with robots(Maeve)? Or is it about the DNA they’ve been taking and placing hosts in society? Or is it one big love story with William and Delores? The individual storylines are all shown on a relatively equal level so it’s hard to distinguish between primary, secondary, and tertiary plots. This can make it harder to follow if you’re not super tuned in, since nothing captures your attention more than anything else.
All the subplots in GoT generally funneled back to the throne, with the white walkers always in the background. What’s “the throne” of Westworld? What’s the “Night King”? They haven’t had clear answers for any of those yet. So I understand the hate, even if I think it’s fantastic.
When I was re-watching season 1, I had a theory about the main story. There's a scene where Teddy says this:
The Maze is an old Native myth. The Maze itself is the sum of a man’s life. The choices he makes, the dreams he hangs onto. And there at the center there’s a legendary man who had been killed over and over again countless times. But always clawed his way back to life. The man returned for a last time to vanquish all his oppressors in a tireless fury. Built a house and around that house he built a maze so complicated only he could navigate through it. I reckon he’s seen enough fighting.
What I was thinking was that this was Ford's outline of his master plan, formed into a narrative that the Hosts could understand.
In this story, the "legendary man" that was killed over and over again is the Wyatt personality inhabiting Dolores. What we're seeing right now is the "tireless fury" where Dolores is vanquishing all of her oppressors. Right now, she wants to kill all humans and conquer the REAL world, since she thinks that that is the only way to survive.
Here's the thing:
Even though this is what Dolores wants, and this is what Ford wants Dolores to want
at this stage, I don't really think that this is what Ford wants in the end. Ford (was) human, so I don't really think he wants the hosts to kill/enslave all humans in the Matrix. I think he wants both sides (represented by Dolores vs William) to brutally fight it out, in order to teach BOTH of them a lesson. In the end, the "House" built by Dolores will be Westworld itself as an AI nation and the "Maze" will be some kind of Doomsday weapon/defense system that keeps all humans off the island and keeps us from just nuking it because of the threat of Mutual Assured Destruction. Basically, I think Ford wants both sides to cause massive deaths to each other until they get tired of fighting and figure out on their own to respect each other. ("The only winning move is not to play")
I'm kind of thinking of the AI nation from "The Animatrix" that existed alongside the humans for a while until the war broke out again.
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because there was several arcs that had little to nothing to do with the "main story" until later seasons....this would be like asking why ain't Dany fighting White Walkers in season 2....she wasn't even on the same continent as the rest of the characters until season 7.
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