“What you made me, Delores,” William-as-MIB answers. Motherfucking “Exit Music From a Film.” This show was not subtle in its BIG, FLASHING HINTS, and yet somehow…it worked for me.) “Everything is,” to misquote Bernard/Arnold’s memory of reading to Charlie, “exactly what it is.” Man in Black is William. (Side-note: Someone should really give this show props for being a mystery show that was as satisfying as it was obvious. “What have you become?” Dolores spits at William, who, yup, is the Man in Black. I really believed in that guy! And then he literally turned into a Red Pill activist. Like, can you imagine if the CEO of Six Flags kept skipping board meetings to gut the guy wearing the Porky Pig costume?ĭrew: Seriously though…fuck William. Vinnie: I did kind of love Robert Ford just popping up in a tuxedo to gloat after the Man in Black failed again to find the meaning of life inside this giant cowboy-themed amusement park. Johnson/HBOĭrew : Maybe Ford was just so pissed at William for taking over the park, that his whole new story was about how he’ll never, ever get the girl. And Robert Ford - who if we’re tbh’ing is pretty terrible at writing dialogue for Dolores - well, like you said, it turns out Robert Ford was totally on board with Arnold’s plan, he just needed a little more time for the Hosts to get…stronger? But…he…built…them, so…he’s in charge of how…mentally strong…they are?Įvan Rachel Wood as Dolores and Jeffrey Wright as Arnold. The Man in Black’s journey, for as much time as this show spent setting him up as the Big Bad and “the maze” as the central mystery, ended with him digging up a toy in the ground and being kind of bummed about it. Some of it was great, yeah–naked robot machine gun massacre was great, as well as my new band name–but do you not get the feeling that a lot of this season, maybe most of this season, now looks like a big ol’ waste of time?įor all its trippy time-hopping, Dolores’ journey ends with her finding herself, which…okay.
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I had full confidence that Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy and the other writer robots HBO engineered in a laboratory right next to the werewolf from True Blood would stick the landing, even if they were currently juggling roughly 1,400 balls in the air. I, unlike you, wasn’t even dreading “The Bicameral Mind”. Vinnie: I’m going to have to dial my bulk comment section apperception down on this one, because honestly, truthfully, bicamerally (not a word but I’m on a roll), Drew…I did not love this season finale.
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In summation: If Ford’s grand narrative was to give Hosts free will, the way Arnold wanted to from the beginning, why…didn’t he just do that in the first place? Free will is that thing when you finally get those voices in your head to sound like you. Filled with sociopathic rage? Correct! You now have free will. All they need to do is like, check in with themselves. This will ensure they are properly “woke” and not at all suffering from Robo-PTSD.
But only if our new robo-lords spend several decades in preparation by suffering from horrors beyond the scope of our imaginations, over and over, like some terrible Black Mirror episode. And yes, d’uh, we’ll give them real bullets. Goodbye, 2016! Thank god we’re going to let our iPads have a turn running the world for awhile. Like Ford throwing himself a super-fancy party to celebrate the end of his reign and the rise of the Sentient Host, I made myself two microwaved burritos and drank a liter of Diet Coke to celebrate the end of my giving a shit about the rest of this year. Johnson/HBOĭrew : I was dreading tonight, Vinnie. Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores, James Marsden as Teddy and Anthony Hopkins as Robert Ford.
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