Eva Kenieva

“When I was first working on your mind, there was a pyramid I thought you needed to scale, so I gave you a voice, my voice to guide you along the way. Memory, improvisation, each step in order to reach the next step, but you never got there. I couldn’t understand what was holding you back. Then, one day, I realized I’d made a mistake. Consciousness isn’t a journey upward, but a journey inward, not a pyramid, but a maze. Every choice will bring you closer to center or send you spiraling to the edges, to madness.”

Decoding Dolores’ Journey on Westworld: From Prey to Predator

Years after their ‘City Slickers’ narrative was retired, Westworld hosts Mitch (Billy Crystal) & Phil (Daniel Stern) are still happily driving cattle, however Mitch has started to malfunction and it’s up to Stubbs (Luke Hemsworth) to analyze why he has gone off his loop.

Great article by Lisa Joy, the co-creator of one of my favorite shows of last year.

Full 1.02 Recap / reddit / patreon / requests for individuals

Humans fancy that there’s something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do, seldom questioning our choices, content, for the most part, to be told what to do next.

The guests don’t return for the obvious things we do, the garish things. They come back because of the subtleties, the details. They come back because they discover something they imagine no one had ever noticed before… something they’ve fallen in love with. They’re not looking for a story that tells them who they are. They already know who they are. They’re here because they want a glimpse of who they could be.

Evan Rachel Wood on “ Why This Westworld Scene Made Evan Rachel Wood Cry”  for Vanity Fair (via curiosityrover)

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At first, I thought you and the others were gods. Then I realized you’re just men. And I know men. You think I’m scared of death? I’ve done it a million times. I’m fucking great at it. How many times have you died? Because if you don’t help me… I’ll kill you.

this was so iconic

You will lie with the rest of your kind in the dirt. Your bones will turn to sand. And upon that sand… a new God will walk. One that will never die.