206 - Phase Space
A_Ron_Hubbard
Cincinnati, OH
Director: Tarik Saleh
Writer: Carly Wray
Writer: Carly Wray
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Thought it was a pretty enjoyable episode, glad to see Teddy seems to not have totally lost his self identity. Will be fun to see how that plays out.
They mentioned this on Reddit, think it was just as mistake and was explained there.
The only familiar people whose whereabouts we know in that current timeline are Bernard and Hale and Stubbs.
i had already forgotten the video pulled from the Native American host where Dolores shoots him, which might be the most recent thing from the two weeks ago timeline.
We also see Skarsgard and Bernard walk into the Mesa facility via the train entrance, which oddly seems to still be smoking a little.
I think we’re meant to assume the Scottish commander with the mustache is in charge of all the forces escorting Skarsgard, but I’m not sure.
So same force i suppose, but different leadership. And of course Abernathy is gone after Hale telling Scottish guy that he’s not going anywhere.
It would be kind of great if hardass Scottish guy goes down like a chump.
I agree that they are a bit too negative sometimes. I think it's because these latest episodes have been really hard to do an instant take on. This episode had 5 separate story lines (Charlotte/Stubbs, Bernard/Elsie, MIB, Dolores, Maeve). That's a lot to keep track of.
I think Bernard's chestnut was pulled out of his cupcake. I'm pretty sure they're two pieces that fit together.
It's interesting how everyone talks non-stop about being bored with the Dolores plot, I've been really interested in it but a little frustrated with the slow plot development. These last two episodes have finally given us much more and and I'm all the more into it, whereas I was extremely bored with the Maeve scenes this episode, except for the sword fight, that was cool and had a badass seppuku ending.
Shogun World has been superficially making the Maeve plot more interesting when in reality it's far less so to me, I just don't find the hosts learning cheatcode wireless override commands interesting at all, and it flirts with lazy writing. And is there a single viewer that didn't see the replacement mother coming from the very beginning? That scene was agonizing to me because we were apparently supposed to empathize but to me it was just boring af exacerbated by my really wanting to get back to Bernard/Elsie and Dolores/Teddy.
I loved the merc douchebag in a Die Hard agent Johnson way; they're fun because they're obviously dipshit characters that are going to kill themselves with their own hubris.
If the Man in Black left Emily at the campsite because he thinks she's a host, does it mean he's not the deadbeat husband/father/human being we've been led to believe? Or, to put it another way, if that narrative about MIB is a false flag from Ford, what does it point to in figuring out MIB's ultimate goal?
So, she's testing that his persona displays a high level of realism, to be able to pass for human in the real world? But, Bernard had always been able to pass for human in season 1. So, this must be something more. Like James Delos, who William was testing for fidelity, maybe this is a human consciousness in a host body. So, is it Arnold? Like, REAL Arnold? And when in the timeline is this?
Then later, when he walks into the saloon and sees Ford playing the piano. Ford says "Hello old friend." I suppose that he might say that to Arnold OR Bernard. So, not sure if that's evidence for either. And the fact that Barnard has been an unreliable narrator, and that Ford is just a reflection in a dingy mirror, both might suggest that this Ford appearance is not all that it seems.
Anyway, I wonder what Dolores plans to do with him. Is this her weapon? How will she use it? Or, is she still just doing Ford's bidding?