Westworld [HBO, Fall 2016]

Well first, the place is massive and we've only seen a couple places so far. Second, all those resetting stories mean nothing to someone until they interact. Think of playing an open world game like GTA5, Witcher 3, or whatever. You can see tons of NPCs walking around and it seems like they are just filler, just random NPCs doing whatever their programmed to do. But when you interact with some, a quest is unlocked. You wouldn't know there is a quest or something to do until you interact. Same thing here. So when Delores drops her item on the road, whoever picks it up and actually interacts with her would unlock whatever story she has, otherwise you would never know she resets and does the second thing over and over.
There's presumably hundreds, maybe thousands of quests/stories for people to do, besides just getting drunk and fucking Android pussy. It's up to the guest to explore and take on quests if they want.


But yeah, going back to what you said earlier, there are something like a thousand or fourteen hundred I believe was the exact number of guests. If you look at the Westworld map on their website it looks pretty massive so presumably this 1400 is spread accross a huge amount of land with many more taverns, hotels, etc.

As for how guests know, that's a good question, same thing I thought about and something they haven't really explained. Perhaps there are safety measures, maybe the guns or bullets somehow don't work on humans or some other kind of fail safes. I would imagine just the chance of stray bullets would be extremely dangerous with that many guests around, not to mention drunk people firing their guns in any which direction. There must be something to protect the guests.

Most of the evidence points to him being human, I just have a suspicion it's misdirection by the show and they want us to believe he's a guest. But you're right, at this point we should believe he's human and he very well could be.

Maybe he's Arnold or at least his consciousness? Idk just finished the last episode and tons of stuff happened, lots of thoughts.

I liked how that camp of Androids were stuck in a loop because none of them were programmed to chop wood lol. Males you think of how many small details can cause fuck ups like that.

Something else I was thinking about at the end where Teddy is surrounded by bad guys. He blasts them all point blank but they aren't even phased. So obviously these are some highly badass Androids, like final boss shot where they are programmed to be difficult as fuck to kill OR maybe it's a group of crazy guests. Probably not the latter but makes u wonder.

Right, exactly. I also assume some reset faster or longer than others, just as some quests you unlock can be very minor and quick while some could take many hours, perhaps even days. We seem to have received insight to this a couple of times when Guests have said something along the lines of "nah don't do this one, it's for beginners" or its too easy, I'm waiting for a more serious "quest". So that seems to imply there are weaker leveled quests and more advanced quests. So maybe you interact with a host and depending on their "level of quest" you unlock, it could be something very simple, maybe only takes a few minutes or so, to more advanced quests like hunting down a bounty which presumably could takes days tracking them down in the mountains.

But yeah, I assume that means the hosts won't reset unless they are in their loop. If they are taken out of their loop by a guest, they won't reset until they finish the quest or die.

Back to last episode, the reveal that Anthony Hopkins had a partner, Arnold, and all of his history was pretty significant to the plot. His goal of creating true consciousness, and in order to do that, have memories, pretty much explains everything. We just don't know why that suddenly matters now (someone manipulating the Androids). The Bernard Lowe character, who also had a terrible tragedy with his son dying that he's clearly not over, seems to mirror that of Arnold. Seems to hint he will go down the same path of Arnold. I read an interesting theory on Reddit about Bernard and Arnold:


Interesting. The post goes deeper if anyone wants to check it out.

The big question i have is the start Android at the end, when he banged the rock over his head. Did he do that Bec of the conflict of hurting a human, which may have been his original intention, or did he do it to damage a chip in his brain?