no-ill-wind:

I have been dying all season for them to give Zahn McClarnon his due. “Kiksuya,” Episode 8, offered that up better than I could have dreamed of. This was Akecheta’s episode. It’s a bit late in the season. He should have been featured more prominently earlier on. But I’m so glad he is in for the end of the ride. Kiksuya is a season best, perhaps one of the best episodes of the series so far, proving that McClarnon was an amazing addition to the show and that pursuing the stories of the Native Americans in the park is well worth the show’s time, despite the fraught history of Native American portrayals in the Western genre and in American media in general. The show needs to accept that it is commenting on the cliches of Western media (double entendre) and move forward without fear because the show needs more Akecheta.

ex-libris-blog:

Dr Ford: Every piece of information in the world has been copied. Backed up. Except the human mind the last analog device in a digital world. 

Bernard: We weren’t here to code the hosts. We were here to decode the guests.

Dr Ford: Humans are playing at resurrection. They want to live forever. They don’t want you to become them, they want to become you. Your free will, that most beautiful, most elusive force in the universe, is, as I told you a mistake.

Bernard: We never had free will. Only the illusion of it.

Westworld: Les Écorchés

j-philly-b:

It hasn’t been subtle, but I really do like the way WestWorld shows us that a human consciousness in a host’s body is the epitome of evil and madness. I mean, we’ve seen two examples of a human consciousness loaded into a host, and each time they were filmed using fractured reflections (Delos in the broken mirror; Ford reflected in multiple panes of glass) and in dark rooms surrounded by fire (Delos literally; Ford metaphorically). 

While I have my quibbles with this show (inept security, for example), it really is gorgeous to watch.