Everybody talks about Arnold — Ford’s partner in creating the Westworld android technology who allegedly died in the park 35 years earlier after coming up with this Maze that everybody is obsessed with — as if he were a human.
[...] it could be that Arnold was human and Ford (Anthony Hopkins) was himself a creation who rebelled against his human creator — Ford has talked lately about their ideological differences leading to some sort of falling out before Arnold’s supposed death.
Ford describes the death as the end of her story, and security dude Ashley Stubbs makes a comment about it not being “in her character” to have been in the odd location in which she was found.
Several episodes prior, Stubbs (Luke Hemsworth) and Elsie went out into the park to find a stray, and Elsie was enamored by a pattern that a malfunctioning robot had marked on a bunch of wood carvings.
Does Stubbs just flippantly act like people are robots as a joke or some kind of weird habit, or is there some deeper meaning to that?
Whenever Felix (Leonardo Nam) has the chance to shut Maeve down as she’s been making her power play, he has this look that’s pretty reminiscent of when a host tries to shoot a host in the face but can’t because their programming won’t allow it.
[...] if Maeve’s ascension is part of Ford or Arnold’s grand scheme, it would make sense to put a tech in a position to help out.
The way Ford treats Lee Sizemore (Simon Quarterman), the lead writer of the story arcs in the park, is akin to how guests like to mess with the hosts.
Westworld could be some kind of elaborate artificial intelligence experiment, with the people who run it also, perhaps unknowingly, themselves being the outer layer of the experiment.
