After month of both hype and wait , it seemed like the Westworld TV series would have a heavy clip living up to the anticipation . The fact that it deplumate it off is impressive , peculiarly give how many questions the premiere raised . We may not know what ’s going on yet , but we ’re emphatically going to keep watching to witness out — and here are the questions we hope get answered by the stopping point . ( Well , at least some of them . )
1) How does the park’s timeline work?
As the first sequence show us , the “ hosts”—i.e . , the cyborgs that populate Westworld , fulfill roles and interact with the “ guests”—go about a pre - planned day , which exchange based on the how the guests interact with them . However , it seems like after night precipitate , they wake up to re - act out the same day , Groundhog Day - flair , forever .
This make common sense in that it minimizes the meter the innkeeper are traumatize by whatever the guests have unwittingly ( or very deliberately ) done to them or their assigned “ loved one . ” However , it does mean that unless the Edgar Albert Guest only stay for a exclusive day , they too are reliving the same day , although they get to know what ’s going to pass . But if that ’s the shell , why does park storywriter Lee Sizemore ( Simon Quarterman ) go out of his way to “ write ” a mass murder to explain the absence seizure of all those updated hosts ?
2) Are there any rules for the guests?
As we learn throughout the premiere , the guest are allowed to do anything to the host , no matter how red or profane . If you shoot an “ outlaw ” in the back , the next day the same outlaw is on the loose again . If you do something worse — to , say , the show ’s main innkeeper , Dolores — she wakes up the next day with no recollection of whatever she might have receive . But is there anything a guest is n’t allowed to do ? So far , the solution seems like “ no . ”
3) What prevents the guests from hurting each other?
Westworld ’s gunslinger are designed so that they wo n’t fire on living people ( or rather , they go through the semblance of firing , but shoot no bullets ) . In a time to come that can create cyborg that take care so human , it ’s totally plausible to ideate that the guns are programmed to not work when aimed at a living being , meaning if a host sample to scoot another boniface with one , it wo n’t work either , although this technically has not been confirmed . But what if a living being step in front of a host just before he ’s fool away ? What about other accidents ? And the Gunslinger ( Ed Harris ) transmit a very large knife with him . Seems like that could be used to hurt a client very easily .
4) Where is the park located? Addendum: Is it tiny?
The area of nation consecrate to Westworld seems enormous , and seems to extend at least a day ’s ride in all directions from the center of the townspeople . When the camera pan off out from the town , we see several unusual rock formations designate that the kingdom has been terra - formed in some way — not surprising , given how much work has gone into every other aspect of the green .
But the weird part of that jibe is that it pans out of the town into the park ’s operating center , as if Westworld and all its inhabitants were in fact miniaturise , and the park is in fact under ascendance to the petite particular . Now , the Westworld record could just be a super - modern surveillance system , and the pan - out shot a conceitedness of the series to show how the staff loom over the park like Supreme Being . Also , the common staff use the record to whizz in on the planned shootout massacre near the end of the installment , which certainly makes it seem like a screen … although it could also be a close - up overlayer . Most likely , the park is life - sized and located somewhere else , but it ’s not 100 percent obvious .
5) Who is Ed Harris’ Gunslinger, and what is his deal?
One really glorious subversion of the original movie is to take the iconic Gunslinger , played by Yul Brynner there , and turn him from a boniface into a guest . But that leave behind us with the question of who Harris ’ character is outdoors of Westworld . harmonize to executive producer Lisa Joy , the part is “ has been coming to the commons for a long time . He ’s an expert gamer , in the play sense of this world . ”
She also say theHollywood Reporterthat the character has derive back every class and now “ he ’s looking for something bass . What it is he ’s looking for , and why it arrest personal signification to him , is something we ’re going to search over the grade of the serial publication . ” Which is challenging and still does n’t tell us anything concrete . He ’s got to have a giant pile of money though , right ? To open coming to the Mungo Park for days on death every year ? In the first installment , he says he ’s been coming for 30 old age . That ’s a lot of scratch . That would mean he ’s a big hand in the world outside the park , too .
6) What was the “critical failure” that happened at the park 30 years ago?
Bernard Lowe ( Jeffrey Wright , managing to be both a comforting and unsettling presence ) says that the parking lot has n’t had a critical failure in “ over 30 age . ” Given that this is take up in regards to the Host ignoring their scheduling , we can safely bear the robots then had a similar job . However , 30 years is also around the same time Ed Harris ’ Gunslinger says he start out come to the parking lot . Is that a concurrence or something more ?
7) Is the 1973 Westworld movie part of the show’s canon?
The obvious answer is that the vital unsuccessful person back then were the events of the original moving picture . The futuristic background of the movie and the television set show are both purposefully vague , but the meta - reference would be to have the events of the movie occur 43 eld ago , the number of long time between the release of the movie and the premiere of the show . So that does n’t quite match up . However …
Dr. Robert Ford ( Anthony Hopkins ) does say that a “ simple handshake ” would give away the host back then , which is an allusion to the movie . In the movie , the hosts had unearthly - looking hands that distinguished them . So if that was lawful back when thing pass wrong , perhaps Ford ’s line is a clew indicating that the case of the film did happen in the story of this show .
8) Is there a Roman World and a Medieval World?
In the original movie , Westworld was the last of three arena in Delos to go haywire . The other two are Romanic World , which was modeled on Pompeii ( very on the nose ) , and Medieval World , which was essentially an uber - Medieval Times . yield the expense of the show , it seems unbelievable we ’d spend that much time out of the amply appointed Westworld solidifying , but maybe we ’ll get a coy reference to the other world .
9) What are the real plans for the park?
Park storywriter Sizemore says that the corporation who have and runs the common has interest beyond just making better playthings for rich people . And his speculation is confirmed by woman - in - boot Theresa Cullen ( Sidse Babett Knudsen ) , who tells him that the ballpark means “ something completely different to management ” and then say Lee ’s not saucy enough to guess what management ’s “ real ” stake is . Apparently , the mass in charge have something more interesting in mind than just making money . Or even inventing ever safe technology .
10) Is Dr. Ford’s new programming what’s really causing the problems with the hosts?
It could just be that Dr. Ford is played by Anthony Hopkins , but there ’s something really suspicious about him . The sudden outburst of hosts commemorate their prior life / roles , straying outside of their plot line , and questioning realness seems like a passably big aftermath of introducing some young bm quirks to the hosts . If it is because of Ford ’s update , it seems quite plausible that he did it on determination . Given how brilliant Dr. Ford clearly is to have make these incredibly lifelike automaton , it seems … unlikely to us that he made an error of this order of magnitude without ever realizing the potential consequences .
11) Why does the park save the hosts at all?
Inside the car park HQ , there are grade apparently full of retire hosts , just put up around naked , waiting to be fixed , or recycle , or … what ? Why save them ? Why are n’t the broken ones destroy ? Is it really less expensive to keep rebuilding them every time a client ruin one ? Why were they all used in dissimilar role , rather than building a young innkeeper for a newfangled role ? Dr. Ford is ascertain a new host be built at one point , which means the park is still constructing them . But if they ’re so expensive and worthful they have to be reused , why are there suite and rooms full of lashings of them , cling out in storage ?
12) What was the deal with that photo?
Dolores ’ ( legion ) father finds a photo of a woman in a city , half - buried under the dirt by his horse playpen . The city , the car , the cleaning woman , the photo itself — it all seems to set up something off in the robot ’s programming , causing him to discover down , but not before whispering something to his daughter , Dolores , that let her to start to break off her programming by the end of the premiere .
How did that photograph get in Westworld , and how did it get right next to that pen where it would definitely be found ? Was it allow for there intentionally by somebody , and if so , why ? If it was all random , how had it not been found before ? Why does it have such an burden on Dolores ’ dad ? And who is the young woman in the photo ?
13) What did Bernard say to Dolores’ dad before making him walk into the room of broken hosts?
We have no thought .
14) What is the significance of Dolores being the oldest host in the park?
One of the last scene in the first installment notes that Dolores is special because she ’s been rebuilt so many times — because she ’s been there the longest . That stand for she ’s got the theory for the most memories to come up bubbling up , thanks to the new glitch . More importantly , if she ’s been work at the park for all these years , what has she ensure ?
15) What was on the inside host’s scalp?
The premiere cease with Ed Harris ’ Gunslinger having scalp one of the hosts , and cutting out part the top of its skull — which has a unusual design on it . Is it a logo ? A map ? Something else entirely ? And what the hell does the Gunsinger want with it ?
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