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I wasn’t exactly shocked that he pulled his gun on Emily even after all her attempts to get through to him, but I will be disappointed if this is really the end of her character, since she had become much more compelling than her dad. It feels like William long ago lost touch with reality-he’s the gamer who can only think of his life as it relates to the game, who can’t even recognize his own family member when she’s staring him in the face. Still, watching the breakdown happen was alternately wrenching and dull. At this stage, getting rid of him might feel pointless-maybe the show creators, Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, want to see what comes out the other side of this final breakdown. William’s amoral capitalist complex is what’s holding up the entire park he’s the show’s chief villain, and having him disintegrate is a big part of Dolores and Ford’s twin rebellions. Even though the man has been shot multiple times and left for dead, has now killed his own daughter, and has contemplated blowing his own brains out, I don’t think the show wants to be rid of him. If this is the start of William’s last hurrah on the show, then I’d be a little more willing to buy into all these flashbacks.
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Did viewers really also need a full explainer on his wife’s suicide, something that’s already been alluded to plenty by other characters? And did it serve much purpose as the penultimate episode of the year? I don’t think so. For one, this season has spent so much time on William-on his experiments on immortality, his ongoing obsession with Dolores, his quest across the park. Every week for the second season of Westworld, three Atlantic staffers will discuss new episodes of HBO’s cerebral sci-fi drama.ĭavid Sims: Well, after last week’s fascinating journey into the psyche and backstory of Akecheta and Ghost Nation, this week we got the same treatment for that dastardly Man in Black himself.