7/24/2023 0 Comments Westworld paint it black episodeIn Shōgunworld, Lee tries telling Maeve they have to play along with hospitality amongst the Japanese and the samurai, in order not to offend anybody. Ultimately, they’re still unable to be fully free unlike Dolores and Maeve and the rest. They see Clementine (Angela Sarafyan) and one of the other girls, still caught in their technological routine, trapped in a mental and existential cage. At the same time, Sweetwater is a depressing reminder of how Westworld was “ never home” for the hosts, only a prison. Dolores wants to find her father, so she’s thinking of using the train for the next leg of their journey. They’ve gone back to Sweetwater, where the place is stained in blood and full of bodies. Out on the plains, Dolores and Teddy Flood (James Marsden) keep on moving. We’re seeing the results of all this packed together in this wonderfully mad and violent series. new, which is a large theme crossing over the entirety of Westworld, plus it’s a great symbolic commentary on the idea of technology crossed with flesh and blood humanity. The image of a player piano’s roll slowing down, soaked with blood is a beautifully composite of old v. Now the hosts are all discovering their similarities instead of any differences. This ingratiates our Westworld friends to the people of Shōgunworld. Armistice winds up helping out her samurai counterpart, Hanaryo (Tao Okamoto), and is set free. The samurai are all copies of the same characters – one woman, an outlaw warrior, as a tattooed face just like Armistice. Everything’s the same, it’s just Japan-style here. “Paint It Black” plays in a Japanese-sounding rendition. When they get back to a village, the group sees it’s basically a copy of Westworld and Sweetwater. What Lee figures out is the mess happening in Westworld is also happening here, in this world of samurai. They’re all brought back through the woods, witnessing murdered and disembowelled corpses littered across the landscape. Maeve tries talking things out, though that doesn’t exactly work out how she planned. Hector (Rodrigo Santoro), Armistice (Ingrid Bolsø Berdal), Lee (Simon Quarterman) and the rest of them have been captured. We get back to Maeve (Thandie Newton) and friends, who’ve run into a samurai warrior called Musashi (Hiroyuki Sanada) in the snowy woods. So, how is that if they weren’t wiped clean? Are there new hosts being… born, out there? One technician finds about “ a third” of the hosts are, essentially, “ virgin.” Like new, blank slates, tabula rasa robots out there wandering around. Above all else, the clean-up team wants to try fixing the hosts so they’re usable. Elsewhere, Maling (Betty Gabriel) is on the plains, looking into the situation out there, as well as deploying teams to seek out the father of Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood). There are dead bodies and hosts everywhere. * For a recap & review of the next episode, “Phase Space” – click hereīernard (Jeffrey Wright) is still with Karl Strand (Gustaf Skarsgård) and his crew at the Westworld facility, as the place is cleaned up. * For a recap & review of the previous episode, “The Riddle of the Sphinx” – click here
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