Westworld Season 2 Episode 3 â€å“virtãƒâ¹ E Fortunaã¢â‚¬â Recap Review

Let's talk about that common cold open for a flake, because it was really good.

[Alarm: The post-obit contains spoilers for Westworld flavour two, episode three.]

There was the linking of the park to British colonialism, which was already an agreeable idea, simply and then it ran with the premise to introduce united states to two human characters trying to seduce each other while proving they are, in fact, human. They both ignore other stories to spend time with each other, only it takes a gun to prove without a doubt that they're not hosts.

It's a neat thought experiment. Why go to an artificial paradise to playact a historical state of affairs in which people in the past were already dominant over others, and so ignore the easy pleasures being offered in order to make a connection to another human? Who are these people, and what are they looking for? The idea that yous'd want to escape from your escapism later on a while is a compact one.

So, as we already know, the hosts get rogue, and those answers are going to accept to expect. If they're always going to be provided. Merely we go another peek into why people may want to visit the park, and what pleasures they might seek in that location. This is a big step frontwards from the final episode, which mainly repeated things we already knew.

And then there'southward the power struggle between Hector and Lee. Lee is upset that Hector has broken out of his programming to fall for Maeve, only Hector points out the change that happened when he realized his past was merely programming. That sort of thing changes a person, whether they're constructed or not. Hector so launches into a speech communication that Lee finishes for him ... because of course Lee write it before programming Hector with it. They're bound to each other, for good or ill.

And Maeve sidesteps the whole thing by pointing out Lee had programmed an ex-girlfriend into the game, killed her off then wrote a version of the person he wishes he could be. Someone handsome, who gets what they desire. Your creations tin have a bad habit of seeing through you, information technology seems.

And this theme of characters explaining themselves well continues beyond the storylines. Dolores is even able to make her case to Bernard in a pretty constructive manner. She's seen outside the park, and in her eyes information technology was a earth filled with beings who were fighting not to dice. The hosts tin can't die, or at least they don't have to. They're fighting to live. "In that location is beauty in what we are," she says.

And hey, Ceasefire is back! With a flamethrower! Some of the hosts are having a lot of fun hunting downward the guests, and I guess she's i of them.

Westworld is at its best when it adds a goofy layer on its Black Mirror-lite storylines, and this episode does that quite well. Nosotros know that Peter Abernathy has been turned into something similar a walking USB stick for a huge file, merely the show does that affair where a character says "Oh my god" or "This explains everything" then cuts to some other scene without sharing the reveal with the audience. It's a cheap play a joke on, but it works.

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But the rest of the episode is shakier. Why exercise the humans attack the fort past walking straight into enemy burn down? We know that the rescue squad has to clear the park sector by sector, and Dolores has already tortured her mode to learning where that'due south going to happen, merely the strategy of lining up and attacking an entrenched position straight from the front seems a bit suspect.

The answer to why this plays out this way is, of course, because it makes for a practiced visual and gives the producers an excuse to blow shit upwards. But Charlotte shows us how easy it would have been to sneak in through the sides or dorsum. It doesn't seem like the soldiers would be willing to die for the extraction of a single host, so this battle was a simply a bad plan that Dolores and Charlotte both used to get what they wanted, no matter who else died. Information technology exists because the producers of the show wanted a nice, cinematic battle. Yous can't really recollect near it as well hard, or at all, before it falls apart.

And it sets up some other reveal: Not all hosts are fit to survive in Dolores' mind, and extraction of the information is much more of import than the lives of the human soldiers according to Charlotte. Neither character cares nigh the lives of anyone else when it comes to getting what they desire.

But this attitude leads to discord when Teddy refuses to execute the surviving hosts, a move that Dolores sees and notes. Bernard has been knocked out by Clementine Pennyfeather — still the all-time-named character on the testify — and Peter has been taken by Delos, with Dolores' men in hot pursuit. For now, though, she'southward headed to Sweetwater. At that place's something she needs there.

So this was a better episode in terms of asking interesting questions and moving the story forward, even if aspects of it that were supposed to exist dramatic ofttimes came across as deeply giddy.

The trouble that the show has yet to address is that none of these characters are very sympathetic, so there isn't much in the mode of emotional stakes when they clash. Y'all don't have to present the viewer with characters who are clearly good or bad, but you do have to lay out what each characters wants and make us intendance about whether or not they go it.

And right now Westworld continues to float on momentum. Let's hope the evidence gives us a reason to care, and quickly.

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Source: https://www.polygon.com/2018/5/6/17318926/westworld-season-2-episode-3-recap-virtu-e-fortuna-explained

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