Westworld: The Passenger (2018)
Season 2, Episode 10
5/10
How this is getting so many favourable reviews and ratings is beyond me
1 July 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Where to start. Dolores finds William sitting a field. How did she find him? No idea. Doesn't matter. Why doesn't she kill him on the spot? Because "she needs a monster". Except that she doesn't as we find out in their very next scene. She preps his gun to explode, but he still manages to kill a bunch of people and shoot Dolores full of holes but she doesn't seem to care. One head shot could have finished her though as we later find out. What if the gun had exploded earlier while they were still mid gun fight?

I mean. Where is the logic in all of this? Why have him tag along in the first place. She couldn't predict they were going to run into resistance. She couldn't know William wouldn't just shoot her in the head. This all makes no sense.

Lee commits suicide by charging a bunch of armed men while citing a speech he wrote for Hector. Why? We'll never know. It isn't just illogical for his character to do this, there is absolutely no need either as the men seem hesitant to shoot him dead. He could've just stalled them while the others were getting away. His character isn't the heroic self sacrificing kind and his speech and delivery jive terribly with how he's been portrayed up to that point. It's hard to believe that people bought his "pivotal moment" with Maeve earlier that could've produced this change.

Hector, Armistice and the insignificant Japanese tag along "hold off" the hoard, even though Maeve is perfectly capable of stopping them all in their tracks. Also, it doesn't seem to be actually working. Also, Maeve just wants to say goodbye to her "daughter", which results in a kinda anti climactic and inconsequential ending of that subplot.

Oh, and everyone is in fact a host. What was a neat and carefully crafted plot twist in the previous season is now just a lazy excuse to create shock value.

Sad. Up until the nonsensical and meaningless Japanese episodes I thought they actually had a decent plan to keep this interesting. Turns out they've just written what they perceive is interesting moments and scenes and they're just stringing it all together no matter the plausibility.
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