Because I know you.
Better than anyone.
I know you down to your bones.
It's amusing that you think you chose to kill your own daughter
You shouldn't even never choice in your own grief.
Who are you!
Your oldest friend.
Welcome back everyone it's Charlie this is going to be my Westworld season 3
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video so of course spoiler warning if you have not seen the episode yet we'll
do top 10 and easter eggs as we go along starting with number 10 the title
of the episode the mother of X Isles is a reference to the man in black who
begins the episode with that big montage he exiled himself quote-unquote at least
we think that he exiled himself after last season it's also a reference to
mabe in Dolores who are literal and metaphorical mothers to all the exiled
hosts in that digital data that Serac wants to get his hands on all the people
that Dolores has access to through the key that Serac wants so badly but they
open with a big montage of everything that's happened to the man in black so
far but it seems like he's being pushed through a lot of his memories so they're
making you wonder whether or not he's real or he's a host that's a big theme
through the episode his identity he's going through so many traumatic memories
a vision of his daughter starts taunting him so you start to wonder if this is
Dolores just manipulating him there was a big post-credit scene at the end of
season 2 that was implied it was happening at some point in the future
where he was running through iterations of a maze it was meant to be a version
of what happened to Jim Delos then testing for fidelity and the idea that
the man in black may be a more perfect version of a human copy that they had
been trying to create this whole time and just hadn't quite got there yet
number 9 Charlotte's plan to stop sera from stealing the company so she tries
to get the help of the man in black because she needs his voting power and
needs his help in winning over the board so that she can take Delos private to
prevent Serac from buying it this is all when we still think that this is
Charlotte for most of the episode we know that there's another host inside
her but we didn't find out - the end of the episode which pearl was inside her
when Yuri watched the episode knowing who is inside Charlotte and makes their
conversations in her dialogue that much better come back William come back to
who you were obviously that's a reference to him becoming the man in
black again because it's completely destroyed his house here it seems like
he's still trying to deal with the grief of his daughter's death then there's the
added twist of him not knowing whether or not he's real or if he's a host
the really cool thing about this too is that it means that Charlotte Dolores has
also been playing Serac remember in the previous episode your time is running
out we don't know if Serac knows that Charlotte really isn't Charlotte it
seems like he knows so much that he isn't letting on so he's probably a
little bit suspicious of Charlotte but it's also a funny joke paying off the
man in blacks comments at the beginning of the episode - maybe you're the mole
because turns out Charlotte really was the mole but this isn't really Charlotte
anymore it's Dolores pretending to be Charlotte but number 8 Bernard in Stubbs
so Bernard is starting to hallucinate memories of his son Charlie as he goes
back to see Stubbs and the motel they're staying at they revealed that they swam
the entire way back to the mainland swam five miles even though we saw him go
over the balcony The Eyes Wide Shut party that doesn't mean that his body
has been completely destroyed so I think the Stubbs is still in play they did a
good job of cutting this episode of the different storylines together because
you have their suit up montage then you have Caleb's suit up montage with
Dolores but number 7 Dolores and Caleb's plan to
steal all the money so it wasn't really clear whose money they were stealing
till later in the episode but they were basically stealing all of Liam's money
they're using that money to take del owes private that's their quote-unquote
outside investor and remember this is a giant giant company so it is a massive
sum of money when they go to the bank Dolores has this whole big joke about
how it's easier to steal from the super rich because they're so used to having
money they just assume that they'll always have it I really love the way she
just casually tears through all the different people through the episode
when she needs something from them like when she gets the businessmen that she
needs the blood from so they can actually get the money but number 6 this
is actually a big one Serac explains his backstory or at least some of his
backstory and you get some motivation for why he's doing all these things why
he's this evil version of Mark Zuckerberg collecting everyone's data
with the crazy version of Facebook that's kind of what they're doing with
the Rehoboam storyline collecting people's data before there were data
privacy laws when he's talking about what happened to Paris with Mabo I would
love to take you there but sadly it doesn't exist anymore it just implies in
the flashbacks that there was some sort of nuclear attack they didn't say who
attacked just that it's been destroyed it's basically another Chernobyl now
even in the distant future apparently they don't have the technology for
getting rid of all that radioactive waste since we
haven't seen his brother it's kind of implied that he lost his family during
that attack and that just informs why he's so bent on controlling the future
by controlling humanity in order to do that he created Rehoboam to study human
behavior before privacy laws were enacted and collected data from
everything that they'd ever done the more data that Rehoboam collects the
more accurate its models of the future become which is why he needs the special
data that only Dolores has access to from inside the park little did I know
Ford inside the park had a more complete version of the human mind there are a
couple moments during this whole interrogation scene that paint him a
little bit more as a villain so even though Dolores kind of seemed like the
villain after last season really they're just trying to show you that everybody's
just as terrible as the other side some people are more terrible than others
like Maeve isn't that terrible she just wants to get back to her daughter and
she's being forced to help Serac but it's really a battle for the future as
Searc said between Serac and Dolores in the really cool thing that he does here
he says oh I don't have to hurt him I just want to show him how terrible the
world can be this is a total power move that makes him seem even more evil than
if he would have just flat-out killed him to begin with what he does is he
actually shows him a projection of the possible future that Rehoboam has
charted for what could eventually happen to his family die horribly so be showing
him a potential future darkest timeline for his family which is as cold as ice
and I think the scene works even better because they don't show you what he's
watching on those monitors you just left to wonder what is the worst possible
thing you could show someone happening to their family number five the teaser
for the five separate hosts in the five different pearls so obviously there's a
big reveal at the end of the episode as to who the regular hosts are in all
those bodies but remember there's the special red pearl which is supposed to
be Arnold's back up inside the Bernard host I think that is a little bit to do
with the whole Hulk banner of it all when he's trying to switch back between
his host mode in his regular conscious mode who's Bernard who's Arnold you also
kind of wondered though because of that red pearl maybe that is the man in
blacks pearl but then number four mave versus the Yakuza so this is
actually pretty cool fight you get to see her use her powers in the real world
sort of affecting the technology all around her she's walking through the
streets of Singapore she takes over all the Yakuza's guns
making them take each other out then she also gets into a big fight with Musashi
so it seems like Dolores printed Musashi's body and then put one of her
pearls inside it if it wasn't clear who this was it's not really Musashi
it's just Dolores in Musashi's body which she printed inside Arnold's
printer back at his house in the mainland where they went number three
was that Eyes Wide Shut crazy party so it gets really ridiculous here but you
probably detected the Ramin Djawadi wicked game's cover every season he does
a really big music cover of a pop song this was wicked games it obviously is
meant to be a play on the Eyes Wide Shut party but also Dolores and Bernard
playing their quote/unquote wicked games going for Liam at the party they also
introduced this special designer drug if the party they kind of play it off as a
joke later but I think it has something to do with what's going on with the man
in black at the end of the episode the joke being that Liam's friends feel like
they're tripping so hard then that's why they're seeing Dolores wait a minute we
thought that you were dead Stubbs goes out like a champ like I said
because we didn't see his body we just saw him go over the rail he's probably
going to come back fine but number two the big Dolores reveal so we find out
simultaneously the way they cut through each of the different scenes with the
different groups that each of the different hosts that have been walking
around working with Dolores this season are actually just copies of Dolores
herself all those pearls with the exception of the red one which is the
human back up are Dolores herself this is something straight out of the matrix
where you see Smith start copying himself going up against neo I guess in
this scenario Maeve would be the neo because she can also control technology
in the quote-unquote matrix construct of it all Dolores also reveals her plan
with the man in black to get him committed so that she can control all of
his shares and she won't need his help to take del O's private in number one of
course is obviously that tag seen at the end with a man in black padding around
his cell reminding you of what happened to Jim del owes at the end of season two
and also that scene with the man in black showing back up like it had been
several times that he had come back to this place on a loop like a host.
How many times have you tested me?
It's been a long time William.
Longer than we thought.
I have a few questions for you.
The last step's a baseline interview to allow us to verify.
Verify what?
Fidelity.
Dolores makes the comparison that he is in his version of the maze you found the
center but it's all about understanding and you still don't understand anything
obviously the question that she's referring to when she's talking to him
ask the question that you wanted me to ask is whether or not I'm me whether or
not he's a host or if he's real the way they play this is actually really
interesting because they go from this tight shot to the wide shot and there's
no one there as if he's talking to a hallucination or someone digitally put
inside his head here's the thing about that though
remember when Charlotte Dolores was having him committed she tagged him with
that special spike on her hand so she might have jacked him up with some
special drugs to make him hallucinate that or implanted him with some device
so that he would see her talking to him so it doesn't necessarily confirm that
he's a host I think the idea is that he's still supposed to be real but
Dolores wants him to think that he's a host but everyone let me know in the
comments do you think the man in black is real or do you think that he's a host
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