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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 6963380" data-attributes="member: 40176">I found it highly entertaining throughout. Really great performances by just about everybody, and it did a good job of unfolding its mysteries and then answering (most of) them by the end. Some of the twists were predictable, but it also didn't try to hang onto them or treat them as unguessable revelations - it felt like it wanted the audience to puzzle them out.I think he felt that his part in his creations' story was complete, and that it was a fitting way to end it. He also accepted his role in the torments visited upon the Hosts, and that a penance was due.Exactly who programmed Maeve and why is one of the few mysteries that the series is taking into the next season. But I'd like to think that her last-minute change of mind, at least, was her own decision, not part of that design.I thought that was spelled out well enough. He was looking for some sign that it was more than a mere rigged game, that there was something deeper to find, and some form of genuine challenge. He was right, but for the wrong reasons - those answers were never his to seek.Futureworld explores the other dark potential of being able to create completely realistic facsimiles of humans. It sees the proprietors of the Park attempting to gain clandestine influence by replacing key political figures with robotic duplicates. That's a subject that Westworld has so far touched upon and skirted around, particularly with the character Bernard, but it never faced it head-on. After Ford had Theresa killed, I was sure that the work-in-progress Host being built in his private facility would become her clone, but they swerved away from that angle.I expect it's something the series will revisit later on - the concept has too much potential to be ignored entirely. It wouldn't surprise me if that was Delos's ultimate motivation for investing in the park - the reason why they considered it merely a side project, but were averse to any suggestion of dumbing-down the Hosts.</blockquote>

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