105 - "Contrapasso"
Directed by: Jonny Campbell
Story by: Lisa Joy & Dominic Mitchell
Teleplay by: Lisa Joy
Story by: Lisa Joy & Dominic Mitchell
Teleplay by: Lisa Joy
Contrapasso , from the Latin contra and patior, "suffer the opposite": refers to the punishment of souls in Dante's Inferno, "by a process either resembling or contrasting with the sin itself."
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This episode was the first that felt kind of mediocre to me, and has kind of limited my expectations moving forward. There were a few winning scenes with Elsie, but the outcome of that felt underwhelming. The conversation between MiB and Ford was nice, but came out of nowhere, and lost a little impact as a result. William's character, with his added backstory, became kind of incomprehensible to me, like I don't understand his motivation or actions at this point. Bernie was useless this week, and is Teresa dead? Where did she go?
A closed platform, walled garden or closed ecosystem[1][2] is a software system where the carrier or service provider has control over applications, content, and media, and restricts convenient access to non-approved applications or content. This is in contrast to an open platform, where consumers generally have unrestricted access to applications, content, and much more.
I think a lot of those flashes Dolores had were her writing a new story. There could be past memories but I don't think it's anything William was involved with. I mean, it's one thing to put her on a cycle of misery for thirty years but she has to wear the same clothes that whole time? That's a bummer.
Any thoughts on what is up with the lazer pointer inside the stray? Maybe that's what Ford was talking about to Cullen last week about The Board sending someone to keep an eye on things and that's why we potentially haven't met them yet. They just had a host do it for them. Could be unrelated but just a thought I kept going back to.
It was a satellite uplink module (which are often depicted with "laser pointer". The "Orion" was basically the "map" to find the satellite to update data to. This was happening as far as they know outside of the prevue of everyone and obviously they need to know what data is being uploaded outside of the park.
As far as previews, take them with large amounts of salt. They are often purposefully misleading.
So, was Maeve fully Arnold at the end?
Also, whoever is crafting those hosts sure has a thing for giant bush! Ha! I feel like some of those pubes were unnaturally large.
I usually watch the preview but I switched over to Walking Dead when the credits started. Maybe I won't go back to watch it.
2) what's "fully Arnold", she's awake much like Delores is wake. They are both playing possum (Delores with Ford, Maeve with the "cleaning team").
3) Merkin (most are fake) it's one of the "rules"...Also, while I am sure grooming was around back then, they are "authentic" as possible.
Lawerence has different roles when he was with the MIB and William/Delores. Delores is one of the hosts that has been there to "span" the timeline as she is one of if not the oldest host still in use. Her flashbacks are her own past (within the same timeline).
I can't wait to see what happens with Maeve & Felix, and I can't wait to see what happens next with Delores & William.
And Anthony Hopkins is just awesome. He could read a phone book and it's be great!
I think at this point it's 99% certain we are seeing glimpses of when Arnold died. Ford pretty much nailed that for us this episode since he confirmed Delores is the only Host active left that knew Arnold.
The bigger mystery to me is who exactly is smuggling data. In wondering if the big twist in this is going to be one of the other engineers, maybe even Bernard, are working for a rival firm and will use the bots to take Ford out.
You would have to do something drastic because I'm pretty sure Ford is untouchable within the park itself. The Hosts seem hard wired to obey and protect him.