Season 2 suddenly looking a lot more promising. Bernard and the Man in Black really are the best characters, Dolores was good in S1 but most of that came from wondering what exactly was going on with her with all the time-jumps and the Arnold backstory. It's weird to think that she was more interesting as an android than as a sentient being, but imo that's the case.
Totally called the
reveal of Raj lady being Man in Black's daughter, really want to see how that pans out.
I started to think Ford's game for William was to teach him to empathise with the hosts, but what's said at the end doesn't seem to fit with that - Ford seems to think he's irredeemable from the sound of it.
The Bernard scenes strawberry floating killed it this week, finally starting to properly address him coming to terms with being a host (I liked the parallels with Dolores when he said he could finally decide who he wanted to be for himself) and bringing some mystery back into proceedings with his jumbled memories. The whole thing seems to be foreshadowing
Ford getting resurrected, especially since the opening recap makes a point of ending on
Ford himself casually mentioning how one day we might be able to cheat death, but that seems far too obvious so I'm expecting there to be a bait-and-switch in the works.
My other theory is that as well as the data package that Delos is after, Abernathy's being used to store some coding or whatever which is essential for refining the mind-uploading process which is why he's so janky and didn't get on the train like he should have. When Bernard cracked the encryption it said he'd been given a one time key; reckon it'll end up at the end of the series with someone on the brink of death and someone else will have the choice of using the code to upload whoever's brain it was meant for originally, or using it to upload the dying person's mind instead.Ad7 wrote:Thoughts on tonight's episode and my theory of what's going on: