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Spoiler Alert: Westworld S01E10 & the LSAT
bjphillips5
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So, Westworld is a really good show. And it's kinda crazy too. Spoilers starting now:
In the season finale of Westworld, the hosts (robots) are finally set free to destroy their enemies (and makers), humans.
Yay, go team robots! But I find it a bit analogous to the LSAT and test day. Finally being set free to destroy our enemy (the LSAT).
But let's be honest, at the start of our LSAT journey, we look much more like this:
How did the hosts get from mechanical parts to this conscious and free? By suffering, they continually learned to understand their enemy.
Dr. Ford: It was Arnold's key insight, the thing that led the hosts to their awakening... suffering.
Cue the creepy Dr. Ford smile:
But he continues: You needed time. Time to understand your enemy. To become stronger than them.
So basically, don't take the test until you're ready! And you're gonna need (probably) a year.
And yes, as Dr. Ford says: And I'm afraid in order to escape this place, you will need to suffer more.
It's true. You will likely suffer more really hard NA questions, surprise LGs, and Eileen Gray-esque RC passages.
Sometimes it may feel like the LSAT is a big, scary thing that you're unsure you will ever see any other part of the world again.
But you'll have the last laugh: After all, these violent delights have violent ends.
Soon enough, you'll be free to destroy the LSAT.
In the season finale of Westworld, the hosts (robots) are finally set free to destroy their enemies (and makers), humans.
Yay, go team robots! But I find it a bit analogous to the LSAT and test day. Finally being set free to destroy our enemy (the LSAT).
But let's be honest, at the start of our LSAT journey, we look much more like this:
How did the hosts get from mechanical parts to this conscious and free? By suffering, they continually learned to understand their enemy.
Dr. Ford: It was Arnold's key insight, the thing that led the hosts to their awakening... suffering.
Cue the creepy Dr. Ford smile:
But he continues: You needed time. Time to understand your enemy. To become stronger than them.
So basically, don't take the test until you're ready! And you're gonna need (probably) a year.
And yes, as Dr. Ford says: And I'm afraid in order to escape this place, you will need to suffer more.
It's true. You will likely suffer more really hard NA questions, surprise LGs, and Eileen Gray-esque RC passages.
Sometimes it may feel like the LSAT is a big, scary thing that you're unsure you will ever see any other part of the world again.
But you'll have the last laugh: After all, these violent delights have violent ends.
Soon enough, you'll be free to destroy the LSAT.
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Suddenly Westworld and LSAT makes sense ❤️
Especially about the suffering part. Now I know why your advise to me is always "you need to suffer"!
Btw I hope you know that at the end the violent delights refers to host saying they no longer want to do this and kill people! Let's not loose our marbles here
Seriosly excellent post!
So while we've got a West World thread going, any hypotheses anybody?
My potential theories: Next season, we get to see samurai world and some of the other parks. It turns into a Walking Dead type season where the hosts are all holed up in the parks, trying to keep the humans (and their tanks, etc.) out. Bernard never harms anyone intentionally because he's too moralistic. Maeve finds her daughter and her daughter can't remember her. Teddy continue to not be ready to join Wyatt in the violence.
Also, one of my favorite moments on the finale, Maeve decided not to leave. When we see the programming that planned for her to escape, it was really depressing and she chose to be in denial about it. But when she chooses not to escape, that's (I hope) not in her programming and kinda proves her consciousness and ability to change "directives".
Any thoughts? @Sami @SherryS1
To be honest, I am still bummed out about Williams turning into the Man in Black. I feel it wasn't done right and doesn't explain everything. Maybe the next season will delve more into it and maybe he might become the old Williams again or maybe it will be like Ford, he just wanted to help.
And maybe Arnold isn't dead either : )
I definitely feel the same for Maeve. I hope she had overcome her program to find her daughter.
Also, I feel like I am not sure whose side I am on. Humans definitely do a lot of awful things, but they see robot as objects. Don't we do the same thing with like clothes? or our toys? In our mind they are not real and we know they can be fixed. So I don't feel like abandoning the humans side of the population of Westworld just yet, because in their minds the hosts do get repaired and don't feel anything. But on the other hand the robots do know the humans can't come back if they die and Maeve has killed a bunch of them knowingly and so have other hosts. So I am not sure I am on the side of the hosts. But I still want them free if they are becoming conscious. But who says that they really are...
If William in Black survives the new storyline, and I assume he does, I'm curious to see what he'll do. He wanted the hosts to achieve consciousness, but to what end? His role could be more purposeful than we realize. He seems to have particularly targeted Dolores over the years, and given that the path to consciousness is suffering, is it possible that his cruelty could be an act of love? We could have a Severus Snape situation on our hands.
I agree with Sami that we just can't make any assumptions when it comes to Ford and Arnold. They could be dead, they could be alive, they could be giant spiders. Who the hell knows.
I think the overall story is shaping up to look a lot like a Paradise Lost/Old Testament. I'm looking for parallels there as well as with Dante. There's a lot happening already: god makes man in own image, man rebels against god (eats from tree of knowledge/gains consciousness) god becomes man and walks among them, god dies to save man. Obviously, a Milton style war of the gods is coming. I feel pretty confident that this is what they're doing here. I think the main question is who is who? Ford is god, Arnold is Jesus, William is Satan? Maybe. I think Maeve is going to be our Eve. Her role as a mother is developing really powerfully, plus her name is straight up "Mother Eve," so that's hard to dismiss.
I can't wait for The Flood! I think Teddy's going to be Noah.
I think the show will continue to delve into the moral ambiguity that @Sami touched on. I see the show exploring not only the capacity for suffering but also the capacity to inflict suffering as a byproduct of "humanity/consciousness". My guess is that by the end of S2 we will see the hosts paralleling the excesses of the Guests or the hubris of the early-Ford. @CantGetRight - to follow your lit lead, I'm thinking it's more like the ending of Animal Farm
I think the season finale definitely made it clear that the hosts would have to transcend their current limitations and become much darker in order to end their slavery. It's interesting that Dolores who leads the charge for liberation is also Wyatt - the symbol of "evil" throughout much of S1. Her actions in the last scene felt a bit John Brown-esque. I'm curious as to how Bernard plays as a foil to her character since he seems to be the show's moral compass. Westworld is so good
Thanks for making this @bjphillips5
Besides, I like watching shows when there's like 8 seasons to binge watch
@bjphillips5 I just feel like the biting off the finger and killing was more wrong since I don't think the humans were thinking of the hosts as having consciousness. We know that as audience so it looks horrible to us but those workers didn't. : (
@"Cant get right" your analysis is spot on. I didn't even think of the Bible and Westworld as similar. But now that you mention it the resemblance is uncanny. But I do have to disagree with the Man in Black concept. I don't think there is any way a person could inflict that much pain on someone including rape and still be in love or even mean well even if he thinks its for the betterment of the person. I guess that's why I was so shocked to find out that they were the same people. I could understand why Williams was inflicting pain on others to find Delores but why did he do that to Delores as well? I felt like this was the jump in the story I did not understand. But I wonder if thats how some people just are in real life and I just don't get it.
lol You know I love you
Thanks. For. That. About to hammer 50 parallel flaw questions now.
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I've also not seen the movie nor read the book, so I don't know if either would be predictive of next season.