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10 and easter eggs as we go along starting with number 10 the title of the
episode is genre that's a reference to the club drug that Caleb was on during
the episode that makes him experience life through movie genres through the
episode but the actual beginning of the episode starts with Serac explaining the
rest of his backstory we got a teaser for that in a previous episode we see
him on the outskirts of Paris as it's being hit by a nuclear attack so it just
sort of explains how they came to create the Rehoboam system they get really deep
philosophically about the meaning of God whether or not God ever existed so they
decided that because God needed to save the world
they would have to create a god for themselves and that is the Rehoboam
system or what it would eventually become because they went through several
different beta versions on the way to this current version of it he also
teases the idea of flies in the ointment there are problems that the system can't
detect or account for this is explained in the outliers the agitators that they
talk about later in the episode and how they bring things back around at the end
and how he deals with Liam's father so number nine in present-day Serac
controlling this foreign president is a great example for how he's using the
Rehoboam system to influence the course of human history how to push people
around like chess pieces on the board to do things the way he thinks they need to
be done so that humanity won't kill itself but I like the way they sort of
ease into it here like he's got this foreign president telling you about this
rise in insurgent group they're going to cause problems this is how you deal with
them it's full blown Minority Report this is going to become a problem in the
next couple of weeks if you don't deal with it right now
even 1ups the president saying that oh your intelligence groups only know what
I allow them to know most of you probably sense what their relationship
was when they first started talking about this - he reveals to the president
that he helped get him elected in the first place and if he doesn't do what he
wants him to do stop cutting all those secret deals they within about six weeks
he going to be talking to his replacement
who's that guy right over there with the big mustache one of the same people on
the military staff that the president was so confident was going to defend him
if something bad was going to happen a couple seconds ago how quickly things
turn around and really cool side note even though I'm sure technology has
reached this level all over the place in the jet the Serac is flying on is just a
normal corporate jet it is really really cool-looking so number eight the back
story continues Serac and his brother meet Liam's father and insight and we
get a much deeper dive on his brother who we've only heard about previously
they explained that was actually Liam's father who controlled the insight
company in is the basic Mark Zuckerberg of this equation collected everyone's
data before there were data privacy laws but they needed that data so they could
create a model for human behavior the human mind so that Rehoboam the system
could do what it does predicting the future we learn about the beta versions
it's Saul David than the Solomon version that they were on in this flashback here
before it became Rehoboam so the whole idea is that those are successive Kings
from the Bible David became King after Saul David's son was King Solomon and
then I believe Rehoboam came after King Solomon you could also get really
biblical with the metaphors of what they're doing on the TV show right now
to and present day to try and control the world in the Bible when Rehoboam
became King things became incredibly chaotic which is what happens during
this episode back in present day we get an Easter Egg for the different versions
of Delores when Serac finds out what she's doing communicating with each
other they say the system is detecting an anomaly happening at five different
places all communicating with each other at once those are basically the five
different versions of Delores we know who for them are and one of them
destroyed themselves in this episode but we still don't know who the mystery
fifth version of Delores is seven Liam doses Caleb with the genre club drug so
obviously he starts experiencing life through different movie genres through
the episode it doesn't really affect the plot of the episode it just adds some
extra context and flare to the storytelling the way they talk about the
genres later in the episode it sounds like everyone who takes the drug
experiences the exact same genres it's not unique to each person so he starts
out in the 1940s in a noir genre it sounds like everybody who takes the drug
starts out in that staged the way they cut the scenes is
you only really see the different genres when you're taking Caleb's perspective
so every once in a while you do jump back to Dolores's perspective and
experience things in real time but number sixes is a big one because they
convinced liam to give dolores his access key to the Rehoboam system he
keeps trying to tell them that he doesn't have the level of access that
they want to truly control the system he's not quite sure what they want to do
with probem they haven't told him their whole plan but you remember back in the
first episode he says that Serac when his father died completely cut off his
access to all the really important functions so he really only has the
ability to search people's profiles and just do low level things but that's
really key to what Delores is trying to do in this episode liam spends most of
the episode fighting them on everything and then trying to mock them later in
the episode when they actually do free everyone's data the way they really get
him though is by making him freak out thinking the serac wants to get him
because he's trying to outbid him on Delos not knowing that it was then that
stole the money it is trying to outbid him on Delos so Serac doesn't know quite
everything that's going on he doesn't have full context he just knows that
Liam's money is trying to outbid him on Delos but they haven't really picked up
in that plotline there's only three episodes left so I'm assuming they're
going to bring the del of stuff back next week while they're trying to hack the
system and save themselves they also remind you that insights software
controls almost everything all the robo taxis all this low-level software is
sort of a callback to the beginning of the season in episode 1 showing you how
deeply incites software controls and influences people's lives the Rehoboam
system tells them how to live their lives controls the implants in their
bodies that regulate body functions or medicines that they're taking that also
come back around when we talk about the outliers and the agitators and that
quote unquote secret white facility with all the people with mental health issues
they have a couple really cool chase scene moments here especially with the
smart bullets that Dolores is able to reprogram mid-flight oh no don't worry
you didn't miss just give it a second everyone press F in the chat to pay
respects for Dolores motorcycle it sacrificed itself so that they could
live as lena waithe and Marshawn Lynch come back to help them out and they
escape the next big genre the Caleb experience is kind of like 1960s pop
punk when Iggy Pop starts playing the number-5 back in the past Serac explains
how he knows there used the system to predict the
stock market so in order to get Liam's father to back off they had to show him
how he could make a lot of money so they said they started with something
quote-unquote really simple basic math problems and that was
predicting the stock market they have a bit of a funny moment where he makes a
hundred million dollars on the spot and he's like where did you get this money
from you stole a hundred million dollars from the company know we stole five
million dollars last week it is such a simpleton and so greedy that that's all
they have to do to get him to back off and let them do what they want to do
with the system but nothing good can last forever Serac explains that
eventually they started to see problems in the system the agitators the outliers
the people that the system could not account for that he tried to find a way
to deal with and he implies that most of those people were actually the mentally
ill because that's all the people in that white facility that you see later
he also explains how people started to use the system for really shady purposes
like Liam's father using it to push outcomes to benefit himself make even
more money getting even greedier but he reveals his brother was also trying to
use the system to predict a way that he could get rid of Liam's father so number
four surak's agitators and outliers so they go to that secret white facility
and this sort of ties back around a caleb's storyline they sort of raise a
couple big questions with what's really going on with his character but I think
it's all implied based on this storyline and these moments here you find out this
Iraq put his brother into their testing facility it's kind of a mental
institution but also a facility for them to test how to treat people using the
Rehoboam system I think that has something to do with those biomedical
implants like you see the implant the Caleb had in an earlier episode when the
thugs were trying to torture him they turned it way up on him
whatever they are they secrete whatever kind of medications the person might
need to regulate their mental health functions and as bad as Liam's father
seems during the episode he's one of the people that asked that moral question
wait a minute no you can't edit people like this you can't edit human beings
the way you edit code in a computer so rock doesn't care he feels like he's
helping humanity and doing a good thing for everyone keeping humanity from
destroying itself the way he tells the backstory is that unless he deals with
these outliers and agitators humanity will always lead itself to destruction
like every possible future timeline always leads to
the end of the human race and if you already didn't feel like all this system
controlling people's lives wasn't already sinister he also says the system
tries to get rid of these outliers and agitators by pushing them into the
military into war zones so that they'll get chewed up and spat out all as a way
to get rid of some of those outliers so the system itself isn't killing these
outliers and agitators is just pushing them into situations where they're most
likely to wind up dying just to get rid of them even faster as part of this
storyline him quote-unquote editing people there's an even bigger moment
that they leave the episode on that I'll talk about in a second - he implies that
he has even bigger things in play but then number three Delores hacks the
Rehoboam system sending everyone their full profiles past present and future
and it does exactly what you had expected to do full-blown chaos in the
streets some people actually find out really good things about themselves you
see some of them chilling out running around the streets some people get
really terrible news like there's the businessman that finds out that all of
his co-workers have been trash-talking him this whole time
lean away finds out that something really terrible happens to her brother
she gets bummed out for the rest of the episode for the most part the system
doesn't predict any kind of happy ending for these people mostly horrible
terrible things happened to them and their family members in the future
so while Serac feels like he was using the system to help everyone caleb sort
of balances that in the episode when he tells his backstory about the rats
likening them to society you're giving everyone false hope it's way worse it's
way more torture when they never had a chance to begin with so it was sort of
the balance in the episode like who is the villain in this equation is Delores
the villain because she's trying to give everyone their data and creating all
this chaos or as Serac the villain because he's trying to control everyone
the final genre the caleb experiences as they call it is quote-unquote reality
watch out bro you're experiencing full-on reality now as the shining music
starts playing i love the theme song - it's so sinister like oh this is what
reality is really like then as they take Liam to the beach there's a nice
callback to earlier in the episode something that Caleb said as you see
this dude standing in the beach looking like he's getting ready to kill himself
that's basically what Caleb was telling Liam earlier in the episode you think
I'm going to wind up on the beach putting a gun in my mouth
speaking of which number two Liam tells Caleb he's the one as he's bleeding out
after lena waithe shoots him so while he's experiencing this final
genre he starts having these crazy flashbacks to him being strapped in a
chair looking like something's being done to him and he was part of a group
of people that was killing this guy here and he starts seeing flashes of his
friend played by kid cudi who's one of the other celebrity cameos during the
episode so he starts having all these flashbacks and memories while liam is
telling him you're the one you're the one that did it and I think the
implication is the caleb is the one who actually wound up killing his friend he
just doesn't remember it because they altered his memory and because they're
trying to create this parallel between Caleb and Delores humans being on this
sort of loop trying to throw the loop the way that the host tried to throw
their loop in the first two seasons of Westworld is that maybe what's happening
in these flashbacks has something to do with what serac was talking about and
quote-unquote editing people fixing the quote-unquote agitators the number one
we finally have a face-to-face direct confrontation with Dolores versus
sera cuz they sort of tell each other off the really interesting thing here
too is Serac implies that he's got some final fix in play for Humanity like
people are flawed humans aren't perfect but I can fix that that I think also
ties back around to what's happening with Caleb's character and all these
flashbacks that he's having so hopefully they'll explain that either in next
week's episode or in the next couple of episodes but everyone let me know in the
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