This Week’s “Westworld” – Relatively Chaste But Oh So Complicated!

"Westworld", The Sexy, Murder-y Robot Drama Continues!

So this was a very nudity-free episode of the show, other than some shots of Bernard (AKA the robot version of park co-creator Arnold) possibly getting naked in front of us for a bit. (I think he might have had a body double because of the way things were edited in that scene.) Bernard did bring us the return of OG Clem (Angela MF'ing Sarafyan-- told you all that they are not done with her hotness yet) who used the hot, lobotomized robot hooker as a weapon against his maker, Ford (Anthony Hopkins). (Will she return after this? I hope so but I doubt it.) The new Clementine Pennyfeather (Lili Simmons) was sadly nowhere to be seen this episode. Ford orders Bernard put a gun to his temple to make Bernard kill himself when Ford has had enough of Bernard's angst. No trigger is pulled but I don't think that the death of Bernard is in the cards. 

Our heroine Maeve (Thandie Newton) sliced the new Clem's throat during the last episode so she gets brought back to the lab, put on the slab, and...Bernard discovers that she can't be maintained. She inspires him to move on with his own revolution against their maker, and she asks him to just send her back into Sweetwater. Once there, she hunts down her bandit lover Hector (Rodrigo Escalon) and the two have some non-explicit robot sex. (God, he is so hot. He's definitely one of my favorite park attractions, by far, and I can't blame Tessa Thompson for hitting that at all. Damn...) She wants him in her pussy and in her robot revolution, and I am for her getting what she wants on both counts. You go, Maeve! She is the revolutionary robot sex goddess that I think we all didn't realize that we needed in our TV viewing. I fucking love her and I want her to get everything she ever wanted and more. Kill all of these oppressive park murdering fuckers, Maeve. Get to the real world and just have the easiest life ever. I want Maeve to end up eating Ben & Jerry's on her couch, wearing a tank top and yoga pants. Yeah, I want her to have what I have. It's pretty obvious by now that she would definitely make a better human than most of the guests to the park/the park employees. Also, does anyone at the park actually DO security? How long has Elsie (Shannon Woodward) been missing with no one seeming to give a fuck?

Dolores's doings give us confirmation that we are definitely dealing with alternate timelines in her story, if not other characters' stories as well. That photo of her "human" love William's fiancee is the one she found buried by the fence in one of the first episodes of the season. (Does anyone else have trouble seeing Jimmi Simpson as a romantic leading man? When I look at him, all I see is his milk-drinking, sister-fucking McPoyle brother character from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia". The interactions between William and Dolores combined with how The Man In Black acts around Dolores and the revelation that The Man in Black is on the board of directors for the company that owns the park has me firmly believing William/the Man In Black are the same person and that Williams is quite possibly a robotic, forever young incarnation of the MIB.

Also, we learn that Dolores murdered Arnold, probably because Ford wanted it that way and we get to see her first robot host generation robot guts in this episode, which also makes me think we are in these varying time periods because the newer robots all have realer guts than that and I am guessing that Dolores would have gotten an innards upgrade, given what a popular park attraction she is.

William goes on a robot killing spree here while his evil brother-in-law Logan (Ben Barnes) is knocked out and it is the kind of robot killing and brutality that I would link to the Man In Black, not so much to outfit-swapping, timeline skipping Dolores' human lover boy/poetic romantic. I can see him losing his shit and getting obsessed with the hosts and the park after this whole experience with his brother-in-law and Dolores. The trauma would be pretty severe, even though William makes nice with evil Logan and gets Logan to untie him. Watching Logan's ruthless hedonism finally push William to this much violence really moved me more than anything in the episode. I could almost feel what was broken in William and that it probably just is not going to fix itself anytime soon.

What do you think of all of this, dear Fleshbot denizens? Did you enjoy this episode? We are almost at the finale...

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