Man, what a setup. I was stunned for losing Musashi. Clementine and Hanaryo, what a beautiful couple. Honestly, I don't get how Maeve tracked down Musashi and his team. He should have known about staying low, instead putting himself in the centre of social circles. But no, not like the historical model, who rather chose to remain outcast than danger anything.
I also don't get why he weren't hanging on the swords, or even to a wakasashi as a side-arm then using a machine pistol. He scored on hit on Clementine out of fifty. Honestly, an useless action. It did do nothing, and this man historically won all the battles, even including the Masters of the Ninjutsu. What a shame, but from Maeve's perspective a much needed move against Dolores.
It's just how did she know where to send Clementine and how long the pair has been out doing the work for Ceres? Does the couple even know who is the boss, because it certainly isn't Maeve. Frankly, I'm expecting her to remove Ceres and taking control of whole operation rather than allowing him to use the Hosts as pawns in the game.
It is also maddening to think that the Hosts are fighting each other on who can at the end kill the humans. There was no remorse. No hesitation on any of their actions as they went through Musashi's bodyguards to get the man. In matter of fact, Hanaryo was offended by Musashi's action and she was talking about betrayal, while Dolores has been aiming to get a salvation to her people.
At the moment all we know is that Maeve is in deal with Serac, and she doesn't care who dies and who survives.
So Dolores' plan is to make a nation for her kind and install Caleb as the leader. Really? The mastermind would give the reins to someone who doesn't know if they real humans or something else, which kind of leads back to the Matrix theory. It's just how does Dolores know so much about Caleb's past to suggest him directly about the leadership position.
It's just, she's going to need a lot of Host Cores as a nation without people, is no nation. It's just a group with a bit of land. Nothing else. What Maeve did in the previous season with the Other World is more suitable, because over there, they can be free and not fear prosecution, while in the Old Earth everything is turning chaos. If it's the real place, then the Other World is certainly better choice, as there's no nuclear pollution, weather change, or other catastrophes.
The tale that Caleb told to Dr Green showed that the game that should been encapsulated into the Park had been going for ages outside in the so-called real world, where the Authorities doesn't really care about the human lives. It is as if they were already taking orders from the Big AI or then the memories in Caleb's head are only memories and not a planted conjuration of false images.
But why would they do that? Why to mess with a mind of a single soldier?
Again, in my mind we are going back to the Matrix theory, where the humans couldn't accept ultimate happiness.
"We are too far out," Caleb said.
What? Too far out for .50 cal? A weapon that hasn't even been theorised yet, before it appeared into the small screen. Too far out.
No Jesse. You have again been sleeping during the lessons. A heavy antimaterial rifle, chambered for 12.7x55mm will deliver the goodies beyond three kilometre mark. The problem is on the shooters as ninety five percent of the people doesn't practice shooting on Extreme and on Ultra Long Ranges, where the impact area is calculated within 10 - 15 meter circle.
In theory it is possible at the current technological level to build that gun, hook it to a drone and allow it to mark the targets in the field. The Rate of Fire however suggests that the AM rifle was directly connected to the Smart Targeting Device that then transferred the target coordinates to the Smart Bullets that the Pentagon trialled just three years ago.
I was supremely disappointed on the gun report. It didn't sound at all like a big calibre round, and the impacts weren't high velocity either. Still it's very possible to build such a weapon system today.
The revelation on what was waiting inside the cordoned area floored me. I had no idea that there was second Big AI. But I am glad that Dolores explained that Serec's brother was schizophrenic. It's just how did Serac allow it to happen, when he was always glued to his brother.
I was floored again when Solomon hinted that Caleb was an experiment and then they showed that Man in Black was one as well. But we already know that William is a host, just like Arnold and Hobbs. They were both scanned and replicated by the Park system, but that also suggest that the Park itself might have been connected to the "Crazy AI."
But if you follow down that path, Dolores and Ford ends up being Solomon's creations, and Ceras is the avatar of there other AI. If you apply that to the Matrix theory it seems that there are two competing Prediction Machines, or "Oracles," and in the current timeline Reheboam has been winning.
Almost like the dominating or the prime personality in the schizophrenic cases. So how many U designations there are in the wild, and are they all Hosts?
"The data had to change."
Those are all cryotubes. All storing humans, in deep freeze and in hibernation, as if they are on trip to somewhere. Solomon or rather Serac claimed that things had to change. That the world was on course for termination and they had to intervene. It is the same thing that happened in the Matrix. The people were put on the sleep and in that state, their brain functioned, while their bodies acted as living energy storages. Yet, they never knew what was real and what false.
I also cannot believe that Dolores became Solomon's Champion, while Maeve serves Reheboam's agenda. Frankly, there is no choice in the Big AI's present world. It's all fake. Nobody has a free will. The only free will that exist is in the Rico program that served Solomon's ideas. Neither one of them has the idea that they are the Chosen One. The ultimate expressions of each AI.
So, is it possible that Serac's AI also has people stored away, and the Park was their creation to give humans a chance to act their true nature as predators? If true, then it's again a simulation inside a simulation that are layered together as it was presented in the Inception or in Orwell's 1984.
War is Peace.
Freedom is Slavery.
Ignorance is Strength.
additional lines could be
Love is Hate.
Terror is Happiness.
Lies are the Truth.
Nothing is as it should be. What you see isn't real. There is no time. It's all just as illusion to make the human mind work. But Funny thing is that I said in the beginning of this season is that Caleb's and Dolores' situation resembles Man-with-a-machine-Meets-Machine rather than a Man-meets-a-Machine scenario.
Man-in-White goes outside to see the world been swallowed by the darkness, by the chaotic reality that seemed to shatter people's mind. But that scenario hasn't so far worked for our world. Not for our reality. Look for example the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic. The humans didn't put up a fuzz. We stopped warring and accepted our faith instead of turning into the anarchy, where Toilet Paper acts as currency.
In the Park, humans had no choice. They had nowhere to escape when the Hosts went mad. That wasn't suppose to be the case, when the SHTF happened this time. Why the violence and desperation instead of acceptance and happiness?
We are free, no?
What I don't get is how the Man-in-White and Caleb ended up being humans, with William as savior and Caleb as the devil?
