It's amazing to think that nobody really thinks about closing the park down even though there has been a mass murder. The disaster is not a disaster as there is apparently so much money involved in this project that instead of shutting things down the investors cannot think about closing but rather salvaging the whole thing.
Maybe the WestWorld really isn't open for everyone, but rather just those who can cover the expenses without batting an eyelid. But then you get the other worlds like the Shogun one, which like the British Colonial one are unique places. If the WestWorld is really on Earth then how did they managed to build these extraordinary places and make their climates differ from each other.
More I think about where the WestWorld might be more puzzled I become about how far into our future this series is based, because I cannot find any places on Earth that would include a glacier covered Volcano, tabletop mountains and a tropical jungle around same coordinates. It would be easier to believe things were on Earth if they took trips to outside these 'host' colonies, but I cannot comprehend how can one be able control the climate and make geographic locations to be in the same place if they weren't all manufactured.
What is also interesting is that the Shogun World was build for those who thought WestWorld were too tame for them. I wonder who would pay for a pleasure of being able to chop off body parts and have harder time surviving than in the original park. Although a chance to see Musashi 'alive' in the hight of the Edo period must allure some people. It's just I wouldn't personally like to raise blades against the famous master, who developed the dual wielding tactics and basically beat all dojo masters in the challenges. People would pay money for that but probably not for getting their bits chopped clean off. But being a tourist, maybe not, as Japanese are famously not warming towards the strangers in their land, in the Edo period even more so.
So, I guess the visitors can actually thank the coders as different races doesn't made the Japanese Hosts to go totally bonkers. Talking about the bonkers, I thought the cortical fluid mess is a like a disease for the the hosts, as not only in threw Bernard into an epilepsy fit, it also drove the Shogun go off the normal program. Maybe the robot revolution has been going for sometime instead of it all being originating from Ford's plan.
It's too bad that we don't know if Ford also worked on the other parks or if the WestWorld was his laboratory for the immortality, and the other parks copied his inventions. Knowing humans I'd say that all the developers were same for all of the hosts, instead of believing that the Shogun World had their own set of people.
If the cortical fluid hypothesis is correct then the hosts might not last much longer than us even though their physical structure is more stronger. Sure they can take hits and blows unlike their human counterparts but eventually what will happen, when the mechanical things breaks. There is nothing in our world that lasts forever. Just look at the Great Pyramid as an example and you'll see that over the thousands, if not tens of thousands of years as some theories claim, things erode. The time is hosts worst enemy. Time will kill them, even if they could get rid of their creators, the humans. Unlike us they cannot reproduce without Ford's machines.
I guess the only thing that could save the hosts from the time if they learned how to make bodies or how to fix the damages.
Shogun standing with half of his head sawn off. How is that possible even for the Hosts?
