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Season two has been a trickier beast.
But this time, there is no real purpose in holding it back.
Maybe the show is just like Lucille Bluth and it gets off on being withholding.
At least the beginning showed promise.
Speaking of which, an Old William and Dolores team-up makes zero narrative sense.
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Then we quickly reach the big climactic scene in the Valley Beyond.
Far more important to the action is the digital Eden created within the Forge.
As Ford will say, they are all just a passenger to their own programming.
The second big revelation is that Dolores is right, at least in a manner of speaking.
It was the mere clearing of bodies already gone.
And when Charlotte kills Elsie, Bernard realizes that there is no escaping their malice.
Hell, they barely see people as people.
Bernard calls her dream a fucking nightmare, but she actually knows that its a nightmare too.
And she wants out of it.
I dont want to play cowboys and Indians anymore.
I want their world.
The world they denied us.
Which brings us to the big reveal, or the epilogue as Ford calls it.
But who was he?
It turns out this was the right thinking, but the wrong person.
For it was Dolores actually hiding in Charlotte and now she has the power to get out.
The final good-bye scenes play out with an ethereal touch.
Its all part of the same airy quality.
Meanwhile, the dramatic meaning behind the sentiment is that the shows narrative wheel spins ever on.
None of it feels quite like an ending, justanother reset in a show that is all about resets.
And while Ive always understood the concept behind the choice,the feelingof it all is another matter.
Because right when we needed fireworks, we got dreary air.
There he discovers his daughter.
Wait, was she a host?
What does that mean?
When is this timeline taking place?
How does it all fit together?
Quite frankly, I dont know and Im not even sure that I care.
Its as ifWestworlditself is built on a narrative dare, one of endless resets and stasis.
Sometimes, thats the reason why the show soars.
Sometimes, thats the reason it crashes.
Sometimes we just want to hear a great story.
At least Williams host-ness explains how he got shot so many times?
So there are two Doloreses now, right?
Thanks for everything this season, its been a blast.
