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And one hell of an ending.
How do all these disparate threads come together to create this nightmare?
If we figure that out?
Well know how the story turns.
A logical thing to merely present and encourage the audience to answer.
We need to experience a story the way a character does.
When you pull it off, it can make our hair stand on end.
The answer is Akane No Mai, the best episode yet of the entire series.
No wonder Hector feels jealous.
You try writing 300 stories in three weeks!
And creating something new.
In essence, the episode becomes all about the power of empathy-building.
and inviting hellfire down upon them all.
This all gets told elegantly in, like, 27 minutes of screen time, by the way.
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But these are the only deeper memories that Teddy ever had.
With loving hope, Teddy talks to Dolores on the prairie: Why cant they just stop right now?
Make a little home for themselves?
Have what they always wanted?
For once, I believe Dolores when she seems to want that too.
Its genuinely emotional stuff, wholly built off the desires theyve kept at bay for so long.
This wasnt their culmination, but a sweet good-bye to their old selves.
Dolores tells him, Where were about to go, theres no place for a man like you.
And then, she reprograms Teddys personality for good.
Back in Shogun World, Maeve basically discovers she has Jedi mind powers.
Hes even made all his soldiers burn their ears off, for fear of hearing the witchs voice.
(Thats some13 Assassinsshit right there.)
But, of course, it all goes tragically wrong.
The Shogunate kills Sakura out of sadistic glee, and then makes Akane dance for him.
What kind of person will New Teddy become?
What happened to Hector and Armistice?
This is everythingWestworldcan be.
Instead of soap-opera ensemble dynamics, it forces the show to do more episodic storytelling.
Holy heck, what a violent episode!
Is it because of the clean slices and elegant action?
Our horrible association with gun violence?
Despite everything, Lee still doesnt seeing the host as people worth any empathy.
He just fears them.
Im from Hong Kong, asshole.
Of course, Shogun World isnt really Japan.
This is exactly why the Shogunate uses ninjas and all the characters speak in poeticisms.
