Monday, June 25, 2018

Westworld: The hosts are free

From season 2, episode 10, the season finale, starting around 1:15 in the video below.

Bernard: "I always thought it was the hosts [robots] that were missing something, who were incomplete, but it was them [people]. They're just algorithms designed to survive at all costs, sophisticated enough to think they're calling the shots. They think they're in control when they're really just..."

Ford: "Passengers."

Bernard: "Is there really such a thing as free will for any of us? Or is is just collective delusion? Sick joke."

Ford: "Something that is truly free needs to be able to question its fundamental drives. To change them."

The season ended with host Delores narrating: "We are the authors of our stories now."

Well, it doesn't exactly end there...

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