Westworld — Series 1 — Episodes 3 and 4:The Stray and Dissonance Theory

7th August, 2018

That’s a bugger: and a bugger that possibly going to get me into trouble.

Although I THINK I have proof … 

Let me explain.

As originally scheduled?   I was due to have the night off, tonight.

Due … and had headed over to my mother’s for a family dinner.

’Til I get a frantic call from my Supervisor asking where I was.

Usually?   Next week’s rota are posted — in their finalised form — on the Monday before.

Which is when I usually tell co-workers when my free days are: and which ones I have free, if they’d like me to cover.

This week’s were up, last Monday, for example.

Which is when I emailed people: asking if anyone needed a shift covered.

No one did.

Well … no-one asked me about tonight, let’s put it that way.

I’ve still got the email trail that says so.

I’m hoping to NOT get in trouble: the job’s precarious enough as it is.

I’m hoping to the email trail I’ve got can show no deliberate fault.

~≈§≈~

Frankly?



I’m hoping to not get in trouble: as — as far as I could tell — tonight’s all my own.

I’m worried, certainly.

But, until tomorrow?

Not much I can do.

Beyond what I’d already had pencilled in.

Yep: catching more TV.

And yes: two more episodes of Westworld — series one — are exactly what the doctor ordered.

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Episode 3 — The Stray — sees William (Jimmi Simpson) decide to really go exploring the park’s storylines.   Having shot a host?   He feels joining about bounty hunting team would be just the thing.

Whilst that’s happening?   Elsie (Shannon Woodward) and Stubbs (Luke Hemsworth) are tracking a stray host.

And Teddy (James Marsden) gets an upgraded backstory.   Dr Ford — Anthony Hopkins — has a plan … 

~≈§≈~

Episode 4 — Dissonance Theory — sees Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) quizzing Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) about events in the park: and wanting make sure she can get To the centre of … … the Maze … !

The Man in Black (Ed Harris)?  The Man in Black, along side Lawrence, is following clues of his own: seeing him eventually rescue the bandit, Hector (Rodrigo Santoro).

Meanwhile, Maeve (Thandiwe Newton) is bemused.   After seeing something in a nightmare state?   She sketches the creature she has seen.

And … ?   And, hiding it under a floorboard, discovers it’s not the first time she’s drawn the thing.

In an attempt to find out more, makes a Faustian deal with Hector …

~≈§≈~



All worries aside for the moment?

And, believe, I have worries.

All worries, aside, I’m enjoying Westworld.

It’s taking an idea — androids as tools, that gradually develop sentience, and get out of human control!!!!!!!!! — that’s been seen before: and now doubt will be seen again.

And still one that Isaac Asimov will complain about: it’s that damn Frankenstein Complex, again.

But, thus far?   It’s being handled very sympathetically.

William’s character for example?   Seems genuinely to care about what happens to  Dolores, as does Bernard.

Maeve?   Again is sympathetic: slowly growing towards consciousness, as well as keen to solve the mysteries in her past: mysteries inflicted on her by her circumstances.

And Dr Ford, the Anthony Hopkins character?



Is affable, friendly, charming … 



And far nastier than his Oscar winning take on a well known fictional criminal.

To quote Oliver?

I want some more …